Posted on 11/23/2010 4:33:44 PM PST by Ari Bussel
In a War by Ari Bussel
In a war, one must fight to survive, and to win. Israel is in a war, although the missiles are not yet raining over Tel Aviv and the center of Israel.
The geographic war over this tiny peace of land along the shores of the Mediterranean will be fateful, one in which soldiers will sacrifice their lives and innocent people will die. The war would decide either the extinction of the Jewish People or the continuation of the existence of Jews around the world; but winning it is not a sufficient condition.
A physical war may not even materialize, on land, in space, in the air or seas.
Another war is already raging in the arena of public opinion, and the courts are in London, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Stockholm, Johannesburg, Melbourne and all points around the world.
This is a war of “delegitimization.”
The very existence of the Jewish state hangs in the balance. The very right of the Jewish people to have a country of their own is being questioned, ridiculed and used as an excuse to hate Jews even more.
This is the war that is necessary to be won.
Jews and others used to dismiss criticism against Israel as legitimate, but soon discovered that protecting the “right” of others to criticize the Jewish state opened the floodgates for global anti-Semitism of new methods and proportions not seen before.
This is a most sophisticated war, in which poison drips slowly but constantly into an intravenous line that affects the mindset of billions. Most hate the Jews and the Israelis without ever meeting one. Many equate the Jews to apes, pigs and snakes; others to the devil.
Israel is demonized as an evil oppressor, a colonizing force, a killing machine, and an extremist-led country whose only mission is to keep the poor Palestinians from their rightful homes and prevent them from their right to return to their homeland and the capital of their dreams, Jerusalem.
What does one expect to gain from an ongoing effort to delegitimize Israel? Simply put, to destroy her very being.
Hamas and Hizbollah are trying to do so using advanced military technologies and know-how, missiles, nuclear weapons, radiological and biological agents and any means at their disposal.
Muslims across the planet are making it acceptable to harm Israel, claiming Israel is the cause of all the world’s problems.
Famine, starvation, disasters, poverty, AIDS, terrorism attacks, loss of jobs, a bacterial or viral spread of a disease—blame the Jews.
After all have we not heard they control the media, banking, financial sector and most other industries? They control the US Government. They caused America to go to war to oust Saddam Hussein.
They have military power second almost to none, and they do not hesitate to use it against the Palestinian population they are holding hostage in ghettos and prisons, under siege and blockade.
Jews are evil. They murder young Palestinian males to harvest their organs. They kill young, innocent children for their blood.
Rid the world of the Jews, and the world will be a Utopia, no longer infested with ailments, neither man- nor nature-made.
Slowly the poison drips, the body becomes weaker, and the will to fight is diminished, to a point of no return. All along, the body Israel is surrounded by so-called well-wishing, concerned Jews (predominantly American Jews) and Israelis who are, for lack of any other way to describe their behavior, self-haters.
They sit around the bed and pray out loud for the speedy recovery of the patient, yet encourage those closest to the drip to turn it up a notch, to ensure a most steady flow, a faster death.
They stand up and claim the Holocaust is a figment of imagination designed to capture land from the Palestinians. They add that the September 11th attacks against the USA were the work of the Mossad. They cry foul when Israel builds a wall that reduces the number of daily terrorist attacks to close to none. They demonstrate and claim Israeli brutality even when a barrage of deadly missiles attacks Israel.
When soldiers stop cars for a check – designed to minimize or prevent terrorists roaming the roads freely and unchecked – they cry foul, “the damn Zionists are at it again: CHECKPOINTS! How dare they?” [How would the same argument work at spot checks at the entrances to LAX? “Damn our government?” “Islamophobia,” “unreasonable stop and search?”]
When a foreign visitor to Israel is profiled and goes via an extensive security check, they highlight the fact that Muslims are being treated unfairly, and raise the flame of hatred toward this unjustified behavior by the Jews.
Some, those closer to the drip, participate more heavily: They aid terrorists who disguise themselves as Jews and pass them in their cars into Israel from Palestinian-controlled territories into Israel. Others engage in undercover acts to put the blame on Jews, they dress up as religious Jews and uproot olive trees and spray hateful graffiti on walls. They set houses and places of worship on fire, desecrating holy books.
Yet others knowingly break the law, photograph military installations, cross the border to areas they are prohibited from entering, and the list goes on and on.
At universities in Israel and throughout the world, they boycott the Apartheid State of Israel, encourage others to divest any monies away from Israel and to sanction Israeli professional and Israeli products.
They publish articles and books and make movies, in which the fact they are Israeli and Jews is a preface to justify what is about to come next. We, good and loyal Israelis, people of Jewish descent, know and present the following facts: and it matters not that the facts are vicious lies, exact opposites from reality.
Israel thus finds herself attacked on multiple fronts. She must rise, gather her last drops of strength and attack. Beaten, bloodied and fatigued from treatment, there she lies, and she does not yet fight back.
### The series “Postcards from America—Postcards from Israel” by Ari Bussel and Norma Zager is a compilation of articles capturing the essence of life in America and Israel during the first two decades of the 21st Century.
The writers invite readers to view and experience an Israel and her politics through their eyes, Israel visitors rarely discover.
This point—and often—counter-point presentation is sprinkled with humor and sadness and attempts to tackle serious and relevant issues of the day. The series began in 2008, appears both in print in the USA and on numerous websites and is followed regularly by readership from around the world.
© “Postcards from Israel—Postcards from America,” November, 2010 Contact: aribussel@gmail.com
First Published November 20, 2010
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