Posted on 03/09/2008 9:19:57 AM PDT by knighthawk
The pictures from Jerusalem were horrifying: Dead and injured students being wheeled out of a Jewish religious school after an Arab gunman went on a rampage. Other images were disturbing in a different way: These were the pictures of Palestinians celebrating the massacre.
They shouted jubilantly from cars and danced in the streets of Gaza. Men fired bursts of automatic weapons skyward. Some kneeled on the ground to pray. In Lebanon, crowds of Palestinians also rejoiced, with a Reuters photo showing a man holding a startled looking child in one hand and a pistol in the other.
We have gotten so numbed to the endless violence in the Mideast that we often close our minds as well as our eyes. If we have any response at all, it is something like, "Why can't those people just get along?"
The answer lies in the sickening contrast of Thursday's massacre and celebration. They can't get along because too many Palestinians embrace a culture of death. It is a culture stuck in the Dark Ages of ancient hatreds and unspeakable violence.
The evidence lies in missing pictures. Why no photos of Palestinians marching to condemn the massacre? Where are the Palestinian young people sympathizing with dead and maimed students their own age? Where are the Palestinian parents grieving for the Israeli parents who lost their children?
Unfortunately, those are the easiest questions to answer: There were no pictures of sad Palestinians because there were no marches or wide expressions of sympathy.
Apart from the obligatory disapproval mumbled by the government, there was no condemnation. More typical was a message from Hamas, the terror group: "We bless the operation. It will not be the last."
Every society has its madmen, its gangsters and killers. But in functioning societies, they are shunned and punished as an example of how not to behave.
Not so in Palestinian society or in too much of the Muslim world. Celebrations of death, as they did Thursday, soon become odes to martyrs. In less than a day, pictures of the lone gunman in the massacre appeared on posters glorifying his death. Behind his clean-shaven, ordinary face were a mosque and messages of heroic defiance.
In fairness as well as fact, most Palestinians were not in the streets celebrating. They were silent. Perhaps these "good" Palestinians are too frightened to express their disapproval of the terrorists. Or perhaps even they secretly approve of such heinous acts in the bizarre hope that they will somehow lead to peace.
Either way, how is Israel supposed to make peace with them? This is, after all, a society that perverts Mickey Mouse into a hate-spewing children's character. It turned a cuddly rabbit character into a monster who says he will "eat the Jews."
Both of those images were broadcast recently on mainstream Palestinian television. Other shows glorify songs and dance about jihad and martyrdom. Children are taught that it is their religious duty to kill themselves and as many Jews and other "infidels" as possible.
You can't really make peace with that culture. You can, as the Israelis and Americans have and must, try to broker a deal with those who nominally renounce violence and who profess a desire to live in mutual peace. It is an effort embodied in the road map and the American policy over several administrations to create a Palestinian state.
You try to forge that state, if you are the Israeli and American governments, despite the civil war between Islamic extremists and the more secular Palestinians. You try despite the barrage of rockets that come from Gaza and slam into Israeli border towns every day. You try even when the rockets get larger and slam into major Israeli cities, a literal rain of terror on civilians.
You understand the Israelis must retaliate, using their air force and superior firepower to demolish buildings where the terrorists hide among women and children. And you grieve when some of those innocents are caught in the line of fire.
Above all, as an American and an Israeli of good will, you never give up and you never give in. Because to do so is to turn the world over to those who would destroy it. That much you know.
But on days like Thursday, peace seems hopeless. For try as you can, you can never understand a culture that celebrates death.
We've all been hearing the same nonsense aboout "the peace process" for many decades, and although the characters change, the B.S. stinks just the same.
Israel had the perfect chance to solve the problem back in '67 right after the 6-day war, but rather than forcibly remove every last Arab squatter out of Gaza and the W. Bank and move them to (defeated foes) Egypt and Jordan they chose instead to police the situation -- worst (and most shortsighted) move in their history.
Now there's not much that can be done, especially since the enemy has increased their population 20-fold since that time and most of the world now views them as "victims of Israeli aggression." Both the public relations and the demographics battles have been lost.
As it stands, the choice is between all-out war and the (eventual) dissolution of Israel.
Either way, how is Israel supposed to make peace with them? This is, after all, a society that perverts Mickey Mouse into a hate-spewing children's character. It turned a cuddly rabbit character into a monster who says he will "eat the Jews."
Both of those images were broadcast recently on mainstream Palestinian television. Other shows glorify songs and dance about jihad and martyrdom. Children are taught that it is their religious duty to kill themselves and as many Jews and other "infidels" as possible.
You can't really make peace with that culture.
From Zeugma's Freeper Homepage...
The term Varelse comes from a series of books by Orson Scott Card. It is mentioned in "Ender's Game" and expanded upon greatly in "Speaker For the Dead". According to some stuff I've read it, and the other terms described below have Norse roots, though I do not believe they align completely (for obvious reasons) with any actual word. The reason I wanted to post this here is that I think the terminology that Mr. Card has come up with is descriptive and useful.
I believe that words mean things. Sometimes the English language lacks the words to describe something that is important enough that it really should be decribed. Unlike some other cultures, we speakers of english aren't so pround that we won't borrow a phrase, or word from another language that we find to be more useful or descriptive than what we currently have in use. We'll even make up new words to describe new things or concepts that we'd previously not been exposed to. This is one of the great strengths of our native tounge. As a professional computer nerd, I see this happen all the time. Sometimes it is for the good, sometimes not. Obviously, in this case, I think the terms put forth by Mr. Card are useful, which has led me to expand upon my usage of them on Free Republic here.
In the book, Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card put forward a series of classifications for what is in the book, alien races, but is adaptable to our single planet as well.
There are four different classifications of "people". You'll need to remember that with each of these terms, they are mutual. If group A and B are Framling to each other, the A considers B to be Framling, and B considers A to be Framling.
Utlanning- A human we recognize as part of our same world and species, yet from another town or country.
Americans are generally Utlanning to each other. We relate and share more or less the same basic culture. The British would probably also be Utlanning.
Framling- A human we recognize as part of our same species, yet from another world or planet.
Most of Europe and possibly central america is more or less Framling as far as Americans are concerned. Communication and peace between Framling is possible.
Ramen- When a lifeform is considered human, but is of another species. Being able to think and behave at a human level and act civilized.
We would generally consider far eastern nations as being Ramen. Dissimilarity of history and culture between, say Japan and the United States is great. Nonetheless, peace and communication is possible because we are each Ramen to each other.
Varelse- A creature with whom communication is impossible. If such a creature is belligerent, then it is the only time when war is truly unavoidable and necessary.
This system is largely non-judgemental in that if group A and group B are Varelse, there can be no meaningful communications between each other. If they are not hostile, they can live in peace even though they cannot communicate. If one of them is hostile, then war is inevitable. Any war waged must be total war. You cannot stop until the other side has been completely anihilated, because they can't be reasoned with. They will keep coming because they see no value in you, your beliefs, your culture, or even you as a living being.
Look around the world. In every culture they exist, muslims are a violent and dangerouis force. They enslave entire peoples, and destroy any remnant of foreign cultures they come into contact with. (See the Buddas blown up by the Taliban.) In India, they kill Hindus. In Bosnia, they kill Christians. In Isreal, they kill Jews, of course. In the Philipines, they kill Christians, and pretty much anyone else that moves. When they don't have other people to kill, they turn on themselves and start killing each other depending upon which particular sect of Islam they happen to be a part of. More than anything else, they seem to worship death and destruction. This is not something one can just say "live and let live" to, because they just plain do not want to let you live.
Perhaps they are Ramen, and the lunatic fringe among them can be weeded out so that they may find some way to exist with. I am not entirely sure. Muslims seem to have been on this violent course for centuries now. The modern world appears to be an anathema to them, and their ideology seems, to me anyway, to be too easily twisted into a murderous one. The folks who blew up the London subway stations were British. From what I understand, they grew up there, yet their rage at those different from themselves was such that death and carnage was the only way they felt they could adequately express themselves.
I hope to G-d I'm wrong about that, because if I'm not, this next century may be even bloodier than the last, and that's saying a lot
Sources: Fatah activist planned Jerusalem massacre [Palestinian “moderate” terror]
World Net Daily | March 7, 2008 | By Aaron Klein
Posted on 03/09/2008 8:02:37 PM EDT by PRePublic
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1983035/posts
Hamas: Iranian-backed, mullah approved
Hot Air | March 09, 2008 | by Ed Morrissey
Posted on 03/09/2008 4:48:18 PM EDT by jdm
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1982983/posts
Hamas says its fighters train in Iran
ynetnews | Mar. 9, 2008
Posted on 03/09/2008 11:06:59 PM EDT by nuconvert
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1983088/posts
Yet Another Reason to Bomb Iran
Right On the Right | March 09, 2008 | by Justin Higgins
Posted on 03/09/2008 8:51:38 PM EDT by jdm
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1983046/posts
and:
State orders IDF to curb strikes against Hamas
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/962403.html
Posted on 03/09/2008 9:55:26 PM EDT by jhpigott
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1983067/posts
cartoon-related:
Hamas Children TV Bunny Assud Urges Boycott of Danish Goods, Threatens to Kill Danes
MEMRI | Februari 25 2008
Posted on 02/25/2008 4:50:51 PM EST by knighthawk
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1976101/posts
Hamas Kids’ TV Rabbit: We Will Kill the Danes—I will bite them and eat them!
Arutz Sheva | 2-27-08
Posted on 02/27/2008 8:31:24 AM EST by SJackson
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1976998/posts
more about the cartoons:
Jordan Islamists torch Danish flag over cartoon
Reuters on Yahoo | 2/25/08 | Suleiman al-Khalidi
Posted on 02/25/2008 12:32:44 PM EST by NormsRevenge
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1975994/posts
Islam’s Universal Blasphemy Fatwa
FrontPageMagazine.com | 2/25/2008 | Andrew G. Bostom
Posted on 02/25/2008 7:03:35 PM EST by Free ThinkerNY
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1976172/posts
Cartoons, New Film Target Muslims
Middle East Times | February 29, 2008 | By Joseph Mayton
Posted on 03/01/2008 11:40:59 AM EST by Fennie
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1978830/posts
Afghans Protest At Danish Cartoons
NY Times | March 2, 2008 | REUTERS
Posted on 03/02/2008 7:26:56 PM EST by forkinsocket
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1979338/posts
Afghans protest against cartoons
BBC | 08 Mar 2008 | BBC
Posted on 03/08/2008 3:29:20 PM EST by BGHater
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1982577/posts
related:
Iran Demands UN Take Action against Israel, Denmark
AZCONSERVATIVE | 23 Feb 2008 | John Semmens
Posted on 02/26/2008 5:27:09 PM EST by John Semmens
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1976694/posts
Iran Demands UN Take Action against Israel, Denmark
AZCONSERVATIVE | 23 Feb 2008 | John Semmens
Posted on 02/26/2008 5:27:13 PM EST by John Semmens
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1976696/posts
The Vatican joins the fight against free speech
Pajamas Media | February 28, 2008 | Flemming Rose
Posted on 02/28/2008 7:21:20 PM EST by forkinsocket
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1977966/posts
Editorial: Playing With Fire
Arab News | 1 March 2008 | Staff
Posted on 03/02/2008 7:31:01 PM EST by forkinsocket
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1979339/posts
the really good news:
Al Qaeda Spies Believed to Have Infiltrated British Police Force
FoxNews.com | Sunday, March 09, 2008
Posted on 03/09/2008 4:21:49 PM EDT by Joiseydude
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1982974/posts
Making “peace” with these Amalekstinians is like french-kissing a rattlesnake.
I love that headline — “murder dooms hope for peace”. Did you have any hope for peace? I sure didn’t, other than when all that’s left of the enemy is what the buzzards are growing fat picking over.
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