Posted on 07/28/2006 10:24:18 AM PDT by BrandtMichaels
A world without Israel
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: July 28, 2006 1:00 a.m. Eastern
The world is full of Israel-haters.
I don't know why. It probably has something to do with anti-Semitism – and even more to do with lack of knowledge and understanding about the Middle East.
So, I thought it might be a good exercise to consider what the world would be like if Israel had never been reborn in 1948.
Let's suppose that United Nations vote to partition the Palestinian region into two – one Arab and one Jewish – went differently. Let's imagine the Soviet Union or some other nation that supported the Jewish state voted the other way. What would the Middle East be like today? What would the world be like?
Well, for starters, the blame-Israel-first crowd needs to remember that the bloodiest conflicts in the Middle East in the last 60 years would still have taken place – because they had nothing to do with the state of Israel.
For instance, does anyone doubt that the Iran-Iraq war, which killed more than 1 million people and featured the widespread use of chemical weapons, would still have taken place – even without an Israel on the map?
Not even Saddam Hussein or the Ayatollah Khomeini could suggest that Jews had anything to do with that little dust-up. It was simply the latest round in fighting between ancient enemies, a turf war between a Sunni Muslim dictator and a Shiite Muslim dictator.
But what might have happened to nearly 1 million Jews in Arab lands who found a home in Israel after 1948? Those million refugees often left hostile Arab lands with little more than the clothes on their back. They often risked their lives to flee. Today, those Jews, if they were lucky, would still be living under the yoke of Muslim tyranny, living in "dhimmi" status. Surely many would have been murdered in the kinds of pogroms that regularly occurred in Arab and Muslim countries while they still maintained Jewish communities.
We hear so much about the "Arab refugee crisis" that was created by the 1948 war between Israel and its Arab neighbors. The highest estimates of Arabs who fled Israel during that war are put at 500,000. They fled, most often, because they were instructed to do so by the Arab leaders who declared war on Israel at its very birth. Yet, nearly 60 years later, this refugee population hasn't decreased, it has increased exponentially!
Why?
Not because Israel has created any new Arab refugees. It is because the Arab nations have refused to settle the original refugees they encouraged into refugee status. They see them as critical pawns in their asymmetrical conflict with Israel.
One thing is certain. Without Israel, there would have been no Palestinian national movement. There would be no Palestinian Authority. There would be no future Palestinian state.
Why?
Because prior to the 1967 Six-Day War, when Israel conquered what we call the West Bank and East Jerusalem, there was no such movement. Even though there was no Palestinian Arab state and never had been, no one had ever promoted one. When Jordan controlled the West Bank, the so-called "Palestinians" were not agitating for a homeland. They'd never had a country of their own and apparently never wanted one. Suddenly, when Israel captured the ancient Jewish lands of Judea and Samaria, the Arabs discovered their sense of Palestinian nationalism for the first time ever.
I can also promise you that if Israel had not unified Jerusalem and declared it the eternal capital of the Jewish state, it would not be considered the third-holiest site in Islam.
How do I know this?
Because during the time that East Jerusalem was under the administration of King Hussein of Jordan, prior to June 1967, not a single Arab leader ever visited – including the king himself. It would seem that if Jerusalem had always been so important to the Muslims, their leaders would have expressed some interest in it before Israel captured the city in war.
The modern Islamic jihad movement is thought to have been launched in earnest in 1979, when the Ayatollah Khomeini assumed power from the overthrown shah. At the time, Khomeini made clear that the real enemy – "the Great Satan," as he called it – was the United States of America, not Israel.
No one, of course, knows what might have happened or not happened if Israel had never been reborn. But it does seem clear that most of the bad things that happened in the Middle East in the last 60 years would have happened anyway. Could it be that, if the Jewish state had never been, many more horrible things might have happened?
Personally, I suspect so.
Even if you got rid of Israel, the fighting with Islam would not stop. It would just move to another battlefield, closer to home.
I notice Hezbollah and pals are now talking openly about the reestablishment of the old Caliphate, including, of course, taking over Spain. Oddly, not a peep out of Spain at the prospect of total Islamification. Maybe they think it will just go away if they keep their heads down. Afraid not.
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Here is why:
God (the real one) loves Israel and has blessed this nation and her people. Therefore, all those who hate God (the real one) are far from Him, and are therefore pawns of Satan who seeks to destroy Israel.
It is really that simple.
Prepare yourselves for the Serbification of Israel.
I figured out back in the 1980s that if they ever did destroy Israel, then next step would be to try to conquer all the world for their garbage "religion". Lest I be thought to try to lay claim to psychic ability, I figured that would be a problem for people 300-400 years from now, after the inevitable nuclear war. If I could figure that out as a teenager in college (I wasn't yet 20), why do so many journalists and "world leaders" still cling to the idea that the middle east problem is only about land and dispossession? Or not so silently believe that if Israel vanished, then moslems would become good neighbors with the rest of the world? I took the Ayatollah Khomeini at his word when he made his remark about the green flag of islam flying over every household-why do so many so-called thinkers insist of seeing moslems through the prism of their own culture's obsession with money and sex , instead of taking them at their word-that they kill to spread their loathsome "religion"?
Can you imagine what world power Spain will come running to when this happens? Will it be the "It-takes-sixteen-resolutions-against-Iraq-and-we-still-do-nothing" UN?
Spanish company: Grupo Ferrovial SA, is slowly taking over our US highways and management of our airports. So, they are already running over here. Looks like found another way to get our money other then oil.
The koran contains a ridiculous story about mohammed flying on a white creature one night to "the farthest (i.e. al aqsa) mosque."
When the muslims conquer a land, they have a nasty habit of turning all the religious sites - temples, shrines, churches - into mosques. So, when the muslims conquered Jerusalem, they built a mosque on the Jewish temple mount, and called it "the farthest mosque", or al aqsa.
As if by magic, or some kind of prophetic mystery - or convoluted muslim logic - Jerusalem was now in the koran.
In the end they will be a Finland..
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