Dennis Prager: Iran Clarifies the Middle East

Town Hall ^ | December 30, 2003 | Dennis Prager

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If you want to understand the Middle East conflict, Iran has just provided all you need to know.   A massive earthquake kills between 20,000 and 40,000 Iranians, and the government of Iran announces that help is welcome from every country in the world … except Israel.

 This little-reported news item is of great significance. It begs commentary.

 Israel not only has the world's most experienced crews in quickly finding survivors in bombed out buildings, it is also a mere two-hour flight from Iran. In other words, no country in the world would come close to Israel in its ability to save Iranian lives quickly.

 But none of this means anything to the rulers of Iran. The Islamic government of Iran has announced to the world that it is better for fellow countrymen and fellow Muslims — men, women and children — to die buried under rubble than to be saved by a Jew from Israel.

 That is how deep the hatred of Israel and Jews is in much of the Muslim world.

 Hundreds of millions of Muslims — Arab and non-Arab, Sunni and Shi'a — hate Israel more than they love life. Leaders of the Palestinian terror organization Hamas repeatedly state, "We love death more than the Jews love life." And now, Iran announces that it is better for a Muslim to asphyxiate under the earth than be rescued by a Jew from Israel.

 Naive Westerners — which includes most academics, intellectuals, members of the international news media, and nearly all others on the Left — refuse to acknowledge the uniqueness of the Arab/Muslim hatred of Israel and Jews. Yet, there is no hatred in the world analogous to it. Not since the Nazi hatred of Jews has humanity witnessed such hate.

 That is why finding survivors from earthquakes, creating a Palestinian state and life itself are all far less important in much of the Islamic and Arab worlds than killing Jews and destroying the little Jewish state.

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[Pan_Yans Wife]

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[bondserv]

Prager nails it again!!

[Mr. Mojo]

Israel not only has the world's most experienced crews in quickly finding survivors in bombed out buildings, it is also a mere two-hour flight from Iran.

Less than that in F-16's, as the Mullahs will be finding out shortly.

[jwh_Denver]

Iran is saying to some of it's people: rot under the rubble even though a Jew might save you. So beggars can be choosy. Just save the infrastructure or we might have to rebuild it. Help is on the way Iran, then maybe a few Moab's to help you see the light.

[truth_seeker]

Perhaps the Iranian freedom movement will make mention that the mullah government cost human lives, by refusing Israel's help.

That is if they too, don't hate Israel. Some I suspect DO hate Israel. And some do NOT.

I have met Iranian Jews, Christians and Bahai that fled Iran to escape persecution, my the muslim run government thugs.

[SevenDaysInMay]

Iran's "ledership" does as is commanded by their koran, "Kill the Jews wherever you find them."

Read islam's grand, bloodthirsty holy scriptures.

Until the majority of Aericans understand that islam is a cult run by sociopaths founded in the name of a "Medina" psychopath. Mo'ham's gang of desert raiding murdering thieves quit stealing from each other to invade the more productive, wealthy societies to the north: Jews, the literate tribes who misunderstood the mortal threat from the profeteering desert Mo'hamotrash. Jews were a good start for muslims.

The penalty of swaying from being submissive muslims is often death, a death penalty for converting from, marrying from, questioning the dogmas of the written dogmas of islam.

Selling this Death Cult is done under penalty of death with the soft soap side of the koran, forgetting the Haddith, islam's battle plan.

Israel sits in violation of the command of "dar al-islam", once conquored by islamic treachery, always ruled by islam's sword, and its ruthless treachery.

Iran cannot forget that, nor will they let anyone else.

The ruling class of islamofacism in Iran cannot give up on their gangland hold on Iran, or risk being Saddamnized.

As enforced by muslim nations' rulers through their proxies, islam will again try to conquor the world.

[polemikos]

Naive Westerners — which includes most academics, intellectuals, members of the international news media, and nearly all others on the Left

Naive? DP pulled his punch here.
Their's is a willful ignorance ... they want power more than truth.

[DonnaXO]

Excellent article!!

[Khashayar]

Good post!

[Tolik]

Can't say it any better:

Western naifs like to believe platitudes such as "Deep down, all people are really the same," "All people want peace," and the great untruth of multiculturalism that no culture is morally superior to another. That is why they choose not to face the truth about the Nazi-like hatred that permeates the Arab/Muslim world and the consequent moral gulf that exists between it and Israel. It shatters too many of their illusions.

 Surely the Iranian refusal of rescuers from the Jewish state ought to help all these people acknowledge the unique hatred that is at the root of the Arab-Israeli dispute and recognize that it is therefore a conflict unlike any other on earth.

 So, too, the immediate and sincere Israeli offer of rescuers to Iran should make the moral gulf between Israel and its enemies as clear as day. Despite the fact that Iran is the greatest backer of anti-Israel (and anti-American) terror and despite the fact that Iran repeatedly declares that Israel must be annihilated (in other words, seeks a second Jewish Holocaust), Israel offered to send its people to save Iranian lives.

 The two reactions -- Iran's preference for Iranian deaths to Israeli help and the Jewish state's instinctive offer to help save Iranian lives -- ought to be enough anyone needs to understand the source of the Middle East conflict. But they won't. Because those who are anti-Israel or "evenhanded" are not so because of the facts, but despite them.

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[TexasRepublic]

And now, Iran announces that it is better for a Muslim to asphyxiate under the earth than be rescued by a Jew from Israel.

Hey, if this suits the muslims, I'm just fine with it!

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[Alouette]

I was just listening to Savage. He was screaming at some liberal jewsie (ooh ooh ooh please stop humiliating the poor helpless palestinians): "You moron! You blithering idiot! If these people were in charge 60 years years ago, you would be a bar of soap!"

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