Posted on 01/26/2006 4:04:38 PM PST by Alouette
Perhaps the best indication of the extent to which the world has been Orwellized is the toady news coverage of the Palestinian "election", including in the Israeli media, itself largely the occupied territory of the far-left.
For months, the media were all in suspense over whether the victors in the "election" would be the Hamas terrorists or the PLO terrorists. As it turned out, Hamas evidently won the "election" by a huge majority.
The first part of the absurdity in the message daily inculcated by the Israeli political elite is that there is any significant difference between the PLO and Hamas. There is not. Both are equally dedicated to unlimited terror and violence, to genocide and the eradication of Israel in any form and in any borders. Both have conducted suicide bombings and in fact, if I am not mistaken, the PLO's terror brigades carried out more such attacks than Hamas did over the past two years. The Kassam rockets are at least as much the initiative of the PLO as they are that of Hamas. The PLO proliferates anti-Semitic propaganda as much as Hamas and is just as allied with the Hizbullah, Syria and Osama Bin-Laden.
But the Israeli establishment has been repeating the empty "we have a peace partner in the PLO" mantra for so many years that they managed to fabricate artificial suspense over the Palestinian "election". If the PLO were to win, then "Palestine" would be ruled by moderates, people with whom Israel could strike a deal, could do business - the pragmatists. Nice Nazis. Israel has been awash in speeches by politicians and mindless bumper stickers proclaiming: "We have a peace partner."
Now, this may strike you as bizarre, but I have been arguing that the best thing that could happen in the Palestinian Authority "election" would be a strong Hamas victory. Let me explain.
A strong Hamas victory is the only thing that stands a chance of forcing Israelis to open their eyes and wake up. As long as the PLO is in charge, the gigantic game of make-pretend continues. When the Hamas is marching about with costumes of suicide bombers and with its swastikas and other paraphernalia, then there can be no delusions about the Nazification of the Palestinians. It is not that the Palestinians would really be any less Nazified with the PLO in charge. It is just that the Abu Mazen-type representatives at the Potemkin negotiations, and the make-pretend respectability of the PLO hoodlum chiefs, allow the politicians and the media to continue acting as if there is a peace process.
The Hamas victory - and I wish it had been stronger - puts the lie to the game of make-pretend. No longer can any intelligent Israeli pretend that there is any way to deal with the Palestinians other than war. The only way to stop the Kassams and suicide bombers is R&D - Re-Occupation and De-Nazification. And with the Hamas in charge, everyone in Israel is forced to acknowledge this.
Well, almost everyone. Haaretz and the far-left have actually been preparing the Israeli public for a Hamas victory in recent months, and they are spreading the new epistle: "We can do business with Hamas."
Leftist after leftist proclaims that the solution is to negotiate with Hamas. After all, Hamas is as "genuine" and "representative" of Palestinians as the PLO, and it even wins "elections". Some Hamas officials are encouraging the trend of self-annihilation in Israel by putting out duplicitous statements about how Hamas acknowledges that Israel exists (as an empirical reality that needs to be corrected, that is). Such statements recall Yasser Arafat's duplicitous words.
So, get ready for new calls to enter into negotiations with Hamas. We can try to persuade them to have a salad bar on the cattle cars transporting Israeli Jews, and perhaps institute recycling and free tuition at the concentration camps Hamas is seeking to build. Israeli professors will soon be wearing their Hamas lapel pins. Hamas poetry will soon be taught to Israeli schoolchildren. Israeli schools will be screening films celebrating the heroism of Palestinian suicide bombers (like the University of Haifa screened Paradise Now this week).
And Second Shoah Now will be the fastest growing movement in Israeli society, holding mass demonstrations for peace in Rabin Square.
Warning! This is a high-volume ping list.
The Hamas victory is a good thing for a completely different reason. They will have to moderate considerably or most foreign assistance to the PA will disappear.
Maybe Israel will commit suicide for world peace.
Gosh, could the good news from the middle east get any better?
A (the?) Hamas victory helps ensure Israel knows what it is dealing with: and implacable enemy. Set up borders, and any incursion across those borders begets total war and permanent exile.
Just how I see it.
"Maybe Israel will commit suicide for world peace."
LOL!!!
I know you're just kidding but others might take this seriously. Some exclude Israel on their maps and history books.
Not today. When was the last time you heard him say that?
I hope and trust that all US aid to the Palestinkians (including that in the pipeline) will cease immediately, to be restored only in the event that Hamas renounces violence and its commitment to the destruction of Israel. Out tax dollars will be safe.
Dennis Prager echoed this. He said it's a good thing for clarity's sake. Now everyone knows who's running the PA, and what will be the agenda.
On a sadder note, this makes me a bit more fearful for Iraq. The leaders in the middle east are still muslim, no matter which flavor. The people are unsophisticated, and saddled with their muslim indoctrination. Iraq is headed to be a muslim theocracy. I see nothing good in that.
This just proves that a majority of the Palestinians aren't interested in peace. I hope this wakes up the Israeli voters AND the rest of the world who have been supporting the idea of a Palestinian state. Look for Netanyahu to be the next PM.
If the Palestinians want a state, they should take over Jordan.
What a lot of bloodthirsty savages......
It hasn't been announced, and it can't be until the vote is finally certified, but I have no doubt that all aid to the PA is on hold and will be permanently unless Hamas accepts the principle of a two nation solution.
This administration is not going to fund a terrorist organization that gained political power. I doubt much of Europe will, either.
I'd love to see him, Netanyahu be the next PM. He's sharp, sees what to do and firm.
Great article!
Brilliant observation.
Now they are visible.
Heard from an Israli officer behind the rocket with the nuke: "21 degrees to the right, extend loft to 19.3 minutes".
But..But...then all the Pally-Americans and Pally/American brotherhood associations that are raking a pile off the top to administer the aid will be hurt.
What a crock Pally aid is. Buys all guns and no butter...when it hasn't gone into sombody's private account.
Jordan would resist. In fact, the last time the Pallys tried it, Jordan outsourced their destruction to the Paki Air Force.
Great fun in DC when you're at a party with a couple Pallys and a Paki Air Force General shows up because the hosts think they're all the same. HeHe
Every single point exactly right.
But now I expect the following from Olbert and Co.
"We have no peace partner so we will show them by surrendering further all on our own".
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