Posted on 08/07/2007 11:53:27 AM PDT by Posting
The Radical Evil Of The Palestinian Arab Population
By Ben Shapiro
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
The battle over the Palestinian Arab territory in the Gaza Strip is a battle between extremists and more radical extremists. Last week, the extremists, led by Holocaust denier and Fatah strongman Mahmoud Abbas, were ousted in a bloody coup by the radical extremists, Islamist terrorist group Hamas.
Yet, instead of allowing Fatah and Hamas to slug it out, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice informed newly appointed Abbas frontman Prime Minister Salam Fayyad that America would resume aid to the Palestinian Authority. "I told the prime minister that we want to work with his government and support his efforts to enforce the rule of law and to ensure a better life for the Palestinian people," Rice told the media.
Ah, the fabled Palestinian people. The Palestinian people, who simply want "a better life." The Palestinian people, who, President George W. Bush has repeatedly informed us, "long for a society in which they can raise their children in peace and hope."
The Palestinian people, who support, fund and execute suicide bombings. The Palestinian people, who dress their toddlers in bomb belts and then take family snapshots. The Palestinian people, who cheered on September 11 as the World Trade Center towers fell. The Palestinian people, who followed terrorist extraordinaire Yasser Arafat, supported Saddam Hussein, shredded the blooming rose that was once Christian Lebanon, and almost toppled the Western-friendly Jordanian monarchy. The Palestinian people, who destroy relics on the Temple Mount, openly call for the destruction of the state of Israel, ally with Syria and Iran, and elect Hamas. The Palestinian people, who teach their children that the Holocaust is a fairy tale, and that Jews routinely poison Palestinian candy. The Palestinian people, who stage injuries in order to solicit Western media sympathy, and then roar madly as they hold up their hands, red with the blood of murdered Israeli soldiers.
The idea of an entire population corrupted by bloodthirsty anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism violates modern ideas of politics. According to the Bush administration, the problem with the Palestinian Arabs isn't the Palestinian Arabs -- it's their leadership. During Yasser Arafat's tenure, the problem was Yasser Arafat, not the hundreds of thousands who followed him. Now the problem is Hamas, not the hundreds of thousands who supported and elected them.
The problem runs deeper than a few figureheads. The Palestinian Arab population is rotten to the core. There are many to be blamed: Yasser Arafat, who lined his pockets with cash and subsidized murder while playing the victim of oppression. An Arab world that refused to absorb the Palestinian population, preferring to use it as a political pawn against Israel. The United Nations, which suckled the Palestinian Arab population into dependency at the international teat. Israel, for emboldening the Palestinian Arabs by conceding to them.
But in the end, the blame must lie with the Palestinian Arabs themselves. They have accepted their role with relish. They are as responsible for their government's longstanding evil as the Germans were for the Nazis'.
It is far more convenient, however, for the Bush administration and the international community to treat the Palestinian Arabs' thoroughgoing radicalism as a top-down problem. Throw a bit of money at the Holocaust denier, pressure Israel into concessions and hope that the Palestinian Arabs will abandon their attachment to Islamofascism, the logic runs.
Such policy demonstrates an adolescent understanding of Palestinian Arab motivation. Palestinian Arabs will not be bribed: The West has bribed them for decades, and the Palestinian Arabs have demonstrated their preference for suicide bombing over working toilets. Palestinian Arabs will not be moderated: Israel has ceded land continuously since 1993, and the Palestinian Arabs have demonstrated their preference for murder over peace. Palestinian Arabs must be fought on their own terms: as a people dedicated to an evil cause.
So far, Israel and America have willfully blinded themselves to the harsh reality of popular evil. They have refused to come to terms with the harsh fact that collective choices require collective treatment.
Treating collective problems as problems of individuals is a vacuous panacea. Waiting for Arafat to die of old age did not moderate the Palestinian Arabs; supporting one radical over another will not moderate them, either. The Palestinian Arab population breeds terrorism, anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism. If Israel and America refuse to recognize that simple truth, they will continue to pay the price in blood and treasure.
Ben Shapiro is a regular guest on dozens of radio shows around the United States and Canada and author of Brainwashed: How Universities Indoctrinate America's Youth.
But, but, but..... it’s all the fault of the Jooos.
I know because I read it in the New York Times.
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First 12 days: loudly and repeatedly proclaim that only Palestinians should remain in the Pali-controlled areas. There will be multiple suicide bombings, etc. during this time period.
Day 13: carpet bomb Pali-controlled areas, followed by big Caterpillar bulldozers, leveling everything they come across.
Day 14: declare anew, Israel's right of conquest over the land that has repeatedly attacked them. And the Palestinians will be nothing but a bad memory.
“...collective choices require collective treatment.”
Herein lies both the problem and the solution.
You mean the anti Israel newspaers that are still (ironically) being slammed by Islamofascists for being "controlled by the jooos"?
Friggin’ Bush & Rice...wake up yo fools and quit wasting time & our $ on these iredeemable terrorist...
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A capsule of exaclty what the “Palestians” are about!
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A capsule of exaclty what the “Palestinians” are about!
The only solution, as I've always maintained, is mass transfer of the entire Palestinian Arab squatter population out of the currently disputed territories. Doesn't matter how it's done -- the details can be worked out.
The idea of an entire population corrupted by bloodthirsty anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism violates modern ideas of politics. According to the Bush administration, the problem with the Palestinian Arabs isn't the Palestinian Arabs -- it's their leadership.
The Bush admin, the Israelis too, are granting the mortal enemies of Israel a dignity they do not deserve, and validating them. And we are doing the same thing with regard to Islam. ("It's not everyone, it's just the radicals.")
It's like letting oneself be mugged and beaten to death, while insisting to one's assailant, "It's not your fault, it's the voices in your head." Who then is the crazy one?
We believe more in their goodness than they believe in our wickedness. And the odds on the outcome of that mortal combat?
I don’t believe Bush and Rice or the Israelis are that stupid. They know this latest gambit is doomed to fail. It’s a public relations gimmick (albeit an expensive one) designed to repair our tattered image in the Middle East and Europe. They know the Palis will never accept the two-state solution or behave by Western standards. In the face of what’s gone wrong in Iraq, Bush can face the Euroweenies and say, “Look, I’ve done everything I can to settle this conflict. See, I’m not all that bad.”
There are no people on the face of the Earth less deserving of their own Nation than the Palestinians.
BLOODY SAVAGES, EVERY DAMNED ONE OF THEM!!
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Amazing how the State Dept., the NY Slimes and the lackeys of the Islamofascists treat the Pallies like children who have no responsibility for their own behaviour.
these people are sick: their culture, their religion, everything they touch they destroy.
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