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To my Arab brothers: The War with Israel Is Over — and they won. Now let's finally move forward
http://jewishworldreview.com/0706/ibrahim.php3 ^ | Youssef M. Ibrahim

Posted on 07/12/2006 2:01:32 AM PDT by croak

Dear Palestinian Arab brethren:

The war with Israel is over.

You have lost. Surrender and negotiate to secure a future for your children.

We, your Arab brothers, may say until we are blue in the face that we stand by you, but the wise among you and most of us know that we are moving on, away from the tired old idea of the Palestinian Arab cause and the "eternal struggle" with Israel.

Dear friends, you and your leaders have wasted three generations trying to fight for Palestine, but the truth is the Palestine you could have had in 1948 is much bigger than the one you could have had in 1967, which in turn is much bigger than what you may have to settle for now or in another 10 years. Struggle means less land and more misery and utter loneliness.

At the moment, brothers, you would be lucky to secure a semblance of a state in that Gaza Strip into which you have all crowded, and a small part of the West Bank of the Jordan. It isn't going to get better. Time is running out even for this much land, so here are some facts, figures, and sound advice, friends.

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With Israel entering its fourth week of an incursion into the same Gaza Strip it voluntarily evacuated a few months ago, a sense of reality among Arabs is spreading through commentary by Arab pundits, letters to the editor, and political talk shows on Arabic-language TV networks. The new views are stunning both in their maturity and in their realism. The best way I can think of to convey them is in the form of a letter to the Palestinian Arabs from their Arab friends:

Dear Palestinian Arab brethren:

The war with Israel is over.

You have lost. Surrender and negotiate to secure a future for your children.

We, your Arab brothers, may say until we are blue in the face that we stand by you, but the wise among you and most of us know that we are moving on, away from the tired old idea of the Palestinian Arab cause and the "eternal struggle" with Israel.

Dear friends, you and your leaders have wasted three generations trying to fight for Palestine, but the truth is the Palestine you could have had in 1948 is much bigger than the one you could have had in 1967, which in turn is much bigger than what you may have to settle for now or in another 10 years. Struggle means less land and more misery and utter loneliness.

At the moment, brothers, you would be lucky to secure a semblance of a state in that Gaza Strip into which you have all crowded, and a small part of the West Bank of the Jordan. It isn't going to get better. Time is running out even for this much land, so here are some facts, figures, and sound advice, friends.

You hold keys, which you drag out for television interviews, to houses that do not exist or are inhabited by Israelis who have no intention of leaving Jaffa, Haifa, Tel Aviv, or West Jerusalem. You shoot old guns at modern Israeli tanks and American-made fighter jets, doing virtually no harm to Israel while bringing the wrath of its mighty army down upon you. You fire ridiculously inept Kassam rockets that cause little destruction and delude yourselves into thinking this is a war of liberation. Your government, your social institutions, your schools, and your economy are all in ruins.

Your young people are growing up illiterate, ill, and bent on rites of death and suicide, while you, in effect, are living on the kindness of foreigners, including America and the United Nations. Every day your officials must beg for your daily bread, dependent on relief trucks that carry food and medicine into the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, while your criminal Muslim fundamentalist Hamas government continues to fan the flames of a war it can neither fight nor hope to win.

In other words, brothers, you are down, out, and alone in a burnt-out landscape that is shrinking by the day.

What kind of struggle is this? Is it worth waging at all? More important, what kind of miserable future does it portend for your children, the fourth or fifth generation of the Arab world's have-nots?

We, your Arab brothers, have moved on.

Those of us who have oil money are busy accumulating wealth and building housing, luxury developments, state-of-the-art universities and schools, and new highways and byways. Those of us who share borders with Israel, such as Egypt and Jordan, have signed a peace treaty with it and are not going to war for you any time soon. Those of us who are far away, in places like North Africa and Iraq, frankly could not care less about what happens to you.

Only Syria continues to feed your fantasies that someday it will join you in liberating Palestine, even though a huge chunk of its territory, the entire Golan Heights, was taken by Israel in 1967 and annexed. The Syrians, my friends, will gladly fight down to the last Palestinian Arab.

Before you got stuck with this Hamas crowd, another cheating, conniving, leader of yours, Yasser Arafat, sold you a rotten bill of goods — more pain, greater corruption, and millions stolen by his relatives — while your children played in the sewers of Gaza.

The war is over. Why not let a new future begin?

1 posted on 07/12/2006 2:01:35 AM PDT by croak
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To: croak

As long as they have the democrats on their side, they'll keep murdering.


2 posted on 07/12/2006 2:19:08 AM PDT by Bonaparte
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To: croak; Admin Moderator
The good Rabbi has requested that we post only excerpts of articles on his site in the past. I believe that is still in effect.

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3 posted on 07/12/2006 2:20:27 AM PDT by Lurker (2 months and still no Bill from Congressman Pence. What is he milking squids for the ink?)
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To: croak
The war with Israel is over. You have lost. Surrender and negotiate to secure a future for your children.

If the Arab nations hadn't raised their children to hate Israel and spent every second of schooling indoctrinating them with reasons why Israel should be bestroyed, I might have hope for this statement.

But I don't. Generations of these animals have been bred on the thought that Israel and America are the cause of all evil on Earth and must be destroyed. They don't care much for us Americans, either and seem to dislike multi-storied buildings, too boot.

I doubt there is anything short of extermination that will change their mind. A choice must be made, and if if does come down to extermination, we must side with Israel and against those who feast on hate and bath in blood.

4 posted on 07/12/2006 2:22:01 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: croak

This is great! Thanks for posting.

It would be great to see more of this type of dialogue rather than the current insanity.

Of course one is about embracing modernity the other is about the past. The religious leaders will lose their power in the former, but gain power with the latter.

They've created quite a lovely death cult in the process.


5 posted on 07/12/2006 2:23:51 AM PDT by Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit ("my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side" - Lincoln)
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To: croak

I hope this author is prepared to go into hiding. He most certainly will receive death threats for writing this.


6 posted on 07/12/2006 2:25:22 AM PDT by austinaero
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To: Caipirabob
I doubt there is anything short of extermination that will change their mind. A choice must be made, and if if does come down to extermination, we must side with Israel and against those who feast on hate and bath in blood.

So I take it that this is your final solution to the Palestinian question?

7 posted on 07/12/2006 2:26:38 AM PDT by Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit ("my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side" - Lincoln)
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To: croak

You think an editorial in Jewish World Review will carry weight in the slums of the arab world ?


8 posted on 07/12/2006 2:30:51 AM PDT by tlb
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To: Bonaparte

thats Murthaing...


9 posted on 07/12/2006 2:34:15 AM PDT by wildcatf4f3 (high compression hothead here)
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To: Caipirabob
re :I doubt there is anything short of extermination that will change their mind. A choice must be made, and if if does come down to extermination.

It will never happen, I am not sure how many serving or ex IDF you have met, but I have met quite a few.

They will fight the terrorists they will fight any Arab nations that invade or threaten them, but you tell them to exterminate a group of people they will turn round and tell you to...

10 posted on 07/12/2006 2:35:46 AM PDT by tonycavanagh
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To: Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit
So I take it that this is your final solution to the Palestinian question?

I'd love to hear a viable alternative. The only thing a truce or peace negotiations do is give them time to strap more bombs to their children so they can slaughter more innocents.

This hardly resembles the Nazi arguement, even indirectly. The relationship between the Jews in Germany and those who considered themselves to be "pure German" was not anything like this.

How do you deal with an entire people who's only "culture" is the destruction of your nation? It's a question that's being answered through military action in Gaza right now. I believe it is the only response that can lend itself to that "final solution".

My response would be to continue military action until they stop committing terrorists acts. If they continue said acts unto the last man, woman and child, so be it.

11 posted on 07/12/2006 2:38:30 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: tonycavanagh; Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit
They will fight the terrorists they will fight any Arab nations that invade or threaten them, but you tell them to exterminate a group of people they will turn round and tell you to...

Agreed. They would certainly be more prone to tell me to stuff it. I'm being extremely harsh in my judgement, but I'm speaking the dark truth about the problem we're seeing here.

I'd love to hear a viable solution. I know they would as well.

Suffice to say I heartily support their actions in their defense.

I will say in conclusion that by making it clear that continued misbehavior will result in whatever military actions are required in order to stop such attacks, one would hope that the enemy would figure it out.

It hasn't happened. I doubt it ever will while the enemy still has a hand to pick up a gun.

12 posted on 07/12/2006 2:42:49 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: tonycavanagh
They will fight the terrorists they will fight any Arab nations that invade or threaten them, but you tell them to exterminate a group of people they will turn round and tell you to...

Thank God. This is why their are part of the civilized world.

13 posted on 07/12/2006 2:51:30 AM PDT by Atlantic Bridge (De omnibus dubitandum.)
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To: croak
I love the smell of Fatwa in the morning.

It smells like victory.

How long does this Arab have to live?

14 posted on 07/12/2006 2:52:17 AM PDT by Pontiac (All are worthy of freedom, none are incapable.)
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To: tlb

Certainly not, the majority of them can't read, just like Mohammad. Amen.


15 posted on 07/12/2006 3:03:10 AM PDT by gakrak ("A wise man's heart is his right hand, But a fool's heart is at his left" Eccl 10:2)
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To: Caipirabob
The viable alternative is stop feeding the monster.

Stop sending them money and food.

Let them work for self sufficiency or starve. They've become totally dependent and don't know how to do anything productive. I little hunger will go a long way to changing that. It will also give them something to lose when they learn to feed themselves.
16 posted on 07/12/2006 3:10:50 AM PDT by DB (©)
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To: DB; tonycavanagh; Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit; Atlantic Bridge

I've thought about my statements and feel ashamed I posted such harsh rhetoric. I think I'll stay off the boards for a while. I get frustrated seeing all the evil that takes place in the world, and vent it, but I shouldn't be putting this stuff on the web. Sorry guys, see you around.


17 posted on 07/12/2006 3:15:10 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Caipirabob

Now that is something I can respect.


18 posted on 07/12/2006 3:17:45 AM PDT by Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit ("my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side" - Lincoln)
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To: croak
Nice sentiments by the author, but this won't ever happen.

I believe the prophecies laid in the book of Revelation. A false "peace" will be made with Israel through the anti-Christ, and then he and the Muslims will break it and go to war with Israel.

And that will be the last battle.

19 posted on 07/12/2006 3:22:08 AM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: Caipirabob
No need to go.

I've certainly thought the same thoughts from time to time... It is hard not to. In your heart you obviously know the truth or you wouldn't be ashamed.

The bottom line is that is why we are not them.
20 posted on 07/12/2006 3:22:16 AM PDT by DB (©)
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