Posted on 08/13/2014 7:06:58 AM PDT by SJackson
Along with destroying much of Hamas’ infrastructure, the fighting in Gaza has laid waste to any semblance of a foreign policy from the Obama Administration. The latest bout between Israel and the Palestinians was preceded by the Administration’s lame-duck peace push that, while predictably ineffective, publicly lent moral weight to Hamas’s tactics. Morality may be the most precious commodity in the region now – more valuable than water, oil, or land – because it is the one issue on which the Palestinians believe they can win.
For years the Middle East conflict has been defined by asymmetries. Israel has a modern-day functioning society with robust markets, industrial infrastructure, and a world-class military. It is also governed by the rule of law. In fact, one of Israel’s less flattering features is just how progressive certain aspects of its legal system are. Its military, for instance, must often seek judicial approval prior to making combat decisions, something we would find unthinkable in the U.S.
The Palestinians, on the other hand, have struggled to implement the fundamentals of a 21st century society. Yet one thing they have been shockingly successful at doing is fighting for moral currency. The Hamas leadership, which formed a unified Palestinian government with Fatah earlier this year, deliberately embeds its military operations within the civilian population, often conducting operations from schools and hospitals. When it goes to battle, it intends to kill both Israelis and Palestinians, because while dead Israelis may boost Palestinian morale, dead Palestinians equate to moral points in the eyes of the international community.
That has become the true prize for the Palestinians, whose culture is pathologically about victimhood. Their leadership’s approach, like any oppressive society’s, is designed to maximize internal suffering. Totalitarianism needs a scapegoat to survive and grow, just like a virus-carrying cell needs oxygen, and Israel, with its superior military and prosperity, is a convenient one.
And that is why the whole notion of the peace process is so utterly absurd. Even the term itself – “process” – is revealing. Process for what end and to what result? It certainly has ceased to be about statehood for the Palestinians. That could have been a reality long ago, going back to 1947, in fact, and many days since. The reason there is no Palestinian state is remarkably simple. The Palestinians refuse to recognize a Jewish State of Israel. They are less interested in their own homeland than they there are in disowning somebody else’s.
In the nearly 70 years since the United Nation’s partition plan, the Palestinians have not moved past that same basic problem. Literally zero progress.
Instead, the Palestinian leadership knows that it can exploit the sensitivities of democracies around the world to gain moral ground on the Israelis. It uses institutions like the International Criminal Court and the United Nations, which are the foolhardy product of good intentions, to wage a different kind of war, a war in which the West has failed in its responsibility to be unequivocally partial. This is a battle not about land, over which you can negotiate, but about the ethos of civilizations, which cannot be subject to negotiation and which certainly shouldn’t invite evenhandedness.
The Palestinian leadership has long ago recognized that suffering and oppression among its own people equate to power and longevity. Freedom, on the other hand, depends on choices. We choose to be prosperous; we choose to be productive; and we choose to vote from office those who fail us. The residents of Gaza should take an inventory of their burned-out landscape and their shattered dreams and ask themselves whether their leaders have succeeded or failed. The answer is obvious. Unfortunately for the Palestinians and apparently most of the international community, the question remains elusive.
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It is about bringing back a long-lost caliphate.
AND ISIS shows what the caliphate of Satan will look like, hallmarked with slaughtering anyone who does not bow to the allah image of Satan living in Islam.
BINGO! We have a winner!
>> Administration’s lame-duck peace push that, while predictably ineffective, publicly lent moral weight to Hamas’s tactics.
Hamas has no moral weight.
Besides, Hamas picks a fight and then complain when they are beaten.
I don’ know. Was it EVER about land?
No. Never about land.
Golda Meir said that there will be peace between the Arabs and the Jews when the Arabs love their children more than they hate the Jews.
Clearly, we are even further from that point now than we were in her day. Denying something to someone else is far more important to these Koranimals than getting something good for themselves (like even a semi-functional society). The ultimate victim - they want everyone else to fail because they know that they cannot succeed...and anyone who points that out, by word or deed, has to die (including their children). The Paleostinians in particular, and the Koranimals in general, are a SICK society.
the whole notion of the peace process is so utterly absurd. Even the term itself – “process” – is revealing. Process for what end and to what result? It certainly has ceased to be about statehood for the Palestinians. That could have been a reality long ago, going back to 1947, in fact, and many days since. The reason there is no Palestinian state is remarkably simple. The Palestinians refuse to recognize a Jewish State of Israel. They are less interested in their own homeland than they there are in disowning [destroying] somebody else’s.
Never, not once, ever in all of human history, has a culture or group lost three wars and insisted on enjoying the "rewards" of victory. The fact that a culture of primitive morons insist on making it happen in the 21st century is quaint, curious, culturally suicidal, and best that can happen is to allow nature to take its inevitable course.
And the equally moronic Europeans and what remains of the umma can just enjoy what they presently have and leave the rest of the world alone!
The next rout of islam like the seige of Vienna (1683) and the battle of Lepanto (1571) ONCE AND FOR ALL MUST BE THE FINAL ONE!
Yes...yes it is.
It has always been about land and will always be about land.
God's holy land of Israel.
The A-rabs hate the Jews and hate them because of their (our) God. They hate everything about Israel, because of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. God of the house of David, Father to our Messiah Jesus.
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