Posted on 04/06/2002 1:58:55 AM PST by JohnHuang2
When you come to think of it, there is much that Yasser Arafat has in common with Adolf Hitler.
The German dictator was determined to exterminate the Jews of Europe, and he used his Hitler Youth organization to indoctrinate German youth to hate and kill Jews. So that when he overran the countries of Europe, he had a ready army of killers willing and able to carry out his plan. And he went so far as to devote an enormous amount of construction and rail transport to carry out his plan, even though it meant depriving German soldiers supplies needed at the front.
He managed to kill about 6 million Jews and in the process brought total ruin to Germany. He committed suicide in a bunker in Berlin as the Red Army closed in around him. With his death, the whole Nazi machine of terror came crashing down in ruins.
Yasser Arafat has devoted his entire political career to one goal only: the destruction of Israel. When the Israelis foolishly brought him from Tunis, installed him as leader of the Palestinian Authority and armed his police force, it was tantamount to bringing a deadly cobra into one's home.
In complete violation of the Oslo Accords, Arafat proceeded to indoctrinate Palestinian children to hate Israel and kill Jews. He managed to conceal from the Israelis his ultimate aim to destroy them. Even when he rejected the incredibly generous offer made by Prime Minister Ehud Barak at Camp David, Israelis still could not believe that the ultimate aim of the Palestinian Authority was the destruction of the Jewish state.
Hitler had explained exactly what he intended to do in "Mein Kampf." And Arafat made it clear what his goal was in what he told Palestinians in Arabic and the messages he conveyed to children in their textbooks. If the Israelis had read them, they would have realized that Arafat was training his own version of Hitler Youth to kill them.
The suicide bombers are Arafat's Hitler Youth in action. They have finally awakened the Israelis to their peril. And the Israelis are beginning to act. They must destroy the terrorist infrastructure which Arafat and his Palestinian Nazis have created. That will require removing the PA leaders, destroying their buildings and arresting all known and suspected terrorists. Israel cannot do less and survive the terrorist onslaught.
Like Hitler, Arafat is now holed up in his own bunker, waiting for the end. The Israelis have said they don't want to kill him. Hitler committed suicide. But suicide is not Arafat's style.
He is bringing total ruin to the Palestinian entity, but that doesn't seem to bother him. He sent children strapped with bombs to do his dirty work. And they've done it. These gullible children were promised heaven, but they've gone to hell for violating God's Commandment: "Thou shalt not kill."
Once the Israelis take over the Palestinian entity, they must find individuals willing to create a new government that will accept a peace with Israel. And if that is done, the Israelis must then insist that Arab children be educated to love their neighbors and to shun terrorism.
Another similarity between Arafat and Hitler is that both men needed war in order to carry out their plans. Hitler started World War II, during which he was able to exterminate Jews throughout Europe, and Arafat needs a war against Israel by the other Arab states in order to obliterate Israel. He knows that the Palestinians cannot destroy Israel alone, and he expected that an Israeli attack against him would provoke Arab nations to retaliate. But, to date, that strategy hasn't worked.
Arafat has always believed that he held the trump cards against Israel: the world liberal media, which is sympathetic to the plight of the Palestinians; anti-Israel demonstrations in the world's capitals; and the threat of a wider war against Israel waged by a united Arab front. But because of Sept. 11, he can no longer count even on Saddam Hussein coming to his rescue, because should Saddam lob a single missile against Israel, that would give George Bush the green light to obliterate Saddam. Checkmate!
But the latest news is that President Bush is trying to rescue Arafat from oblivion. Why? To appease the Arab states. As a terrorist, Arafat can hardly be a partner for peace. So the conflict will continue until there is a change of leadership among the Palestinians.
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Agreed.
Here's a happy thought from Middle East expert Daniel Pipes:
Islamists constitute a small but significant minority of Muslims, perhaps 10 to 15 per cent of the population. Many of them are peaceable in apearance, but they all must be considered potential killers.
How does 400,000 to 800,000 -- in our country -- potential killers sound?
America's Fifth Column ... watch PBS documentary JIHAD! In America
Download 8 Mb zip file here (60 minute video)
Lazy editorialist of American foreign policy pull the Hitler analogy so often we should be ashamed for giving such intellectual tripe any bandwidth.
"America goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own."
--John Quincy Adams
"[America] well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standards of freedom. The fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to force."
--John Quincy Adams
"But if we should involve ourselves in the web of European politics, in a war which could effect nothing ... where, then, would be the last hope of the friends of freedom throughout the world? Far better it is ... that, adhering to our wise pacific system, and avoiding the distant wars of Europe, we should keep our own lamp burning brightly on this western shore, as a light to all nations, than to hazard its utter extinction amidst the ruins of fallen and falling republics in Europe."
--Henry Clay
"Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none."
--Thomas Jefferson
"Our own share of miseries is sufficient: Why enter then as volunteers into those of another?"
--Thomas Jefferson
"Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few."
--James Madison
And America will be next in line. Right now, Israel is a buffer zone tying up the Muslim murderers. They are on the front line much as England was on the front line in WW2.
The Muslim foe is every bit as bad as Hitler and his SS. We either give our support to Israel, or we will be the next to go down.
Just what kind of mentality were the forefathers warning against in your opinion? Or could the forefathers not have anticipated a time like this?
My great-great-great-great-great grandfather fought under your namesake, so I mean no disrepsect.
No. I don't believe the father of our Constitution had any idea of what America would be facing in 2002 from the Muslim threat. This marvelous document, that has withstood the trials of 200 years, is very close to being wiped from the face of this earth by these evil men.
I believe our fight to preserve our Constitution and our way of life begins in giving our support to Israel. You may believe differently, that is your right.
So the forefathers thoughts on foreign policy are incorrect?
Do you have an argument to counter the intentions of the forefathers?
Your point of view is completely reasonable, I just find it funny that so many people, including yourself, think Pax Americana has its roots in Conservatism or the forefathers.
George Washington's Farewell Address
Was George Washington way off base or what?
The enemy is not Islam, but Arab Fascism.
The poster of this thread is correct in every particular. You dismiss the parallels between arafat and hitler, if I read you correctly, not because the intellectual premise is flawed, but because you abhor the notion of US troops going to the aid of Israel. Your fear is well founded, but ill placed.
It is not intellectually sound to wave your hands and dismiss the self evident truth that arafat is a tyrranical mass murderer. Hitler is a hero to arafat and his ilk, they are his ideological children. We know them as such by their idolizing of hitler and by their perfect conformance to every nazi outrage in their current pattern and practice.
The subtext of your rejection of obvious truth is an ardent desire to avoid war.
As disturbing as the perfect fidelity of the comparison of hitler and arafat is, it is even more disturbing to note how widespread and pervasive denial of this reality is in the world, and in American popular opinion.
This, too is eerily reminiscent of the rise of naziism and the utter failure of the free world to confront hitler when we had the chance to.
Instead, free peoples, being averse, understandably, to war, chose to intellectualize about hitler's grievances, and strove to forestall the gathering winds of war by placating the Beast.
But the Chamberlains of the world, history adamantly concludes, merely encouraged the spread of virulent evil. History teaches with no ambiguity whatsoever that failure to confront evil is incalculably more costly in terms of the destruction of human lives than confronting evil head on.
Your arguments conjur an image of Colin Powell returning from Israel waving a sheet of paper about, crowing that he has secured "peace in our time".
Oh, really?
I think the fathers spoke as they did because at that time America was a weak nation. They had just come from a corrupted Europe where none of the patriots cared to become involved in those unsavory battles. Also countries were governed by monarchs, that is something we in the 20th century have not seen. That may have played a part too.
Also just coming from a bloody war against England, they probably thought Americans would want to remain here and not become involved ever again. (Although they did send emisairies to Europe to become involved with certain treaties.)
I believe had Washington known either Hitler or Osama bin Laden, and known of the crimes they commited, he would have killed them personally -- or sent the Army to do the job.
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