Posted on 10/30/2001 5:23:19 AM PST by vrwc54
http://www.jewishworldreview.com -- WITH all the attention paid to how Muslims and Arabs in America feel about the Islamic terrorists' attacks on America, it may come as somewhat of surprise to learn about another anxious group of Americans - Jews.All Americans are worried about the America hatred among groups who do not value human life. But Jews who know their history have additional fears. We Jews have reasons to worry because a significant part of humanity has a hatred of us indistinguishable in kind and intensity from that of the Nazis.
The most cursory acquaintance with the Arab press and fundamentalist mosque discourse around the world makes it clear that millions of Arabs and Muslims loathe Jews and many want Jews dead. Not to mention the hundreds of millions of Muslims and Arabs who want the one tiny country Jews have ever called their own eliminated from the map. Protests that the Arab/Muslim hostility is directed only at Israeli occupation of that even tinier area known as the West Bank have no basis in reality. The Arab/Muslim world sought Israel's destruction before Israel occupied an inch of the West Bank.
We Jews have reasons to worry because the last time a civilization declared such hatred against Jews, what ensued was the most organized and monumental evil in history, the Holocaust. We hoped that Nazi-type hatred would never reappear. But it has. In fact, in two ways, Arab/Muslim anti-Semitism is more frightening.
First, while both Nazi and the Arab/Muslim anti-Semites have used closed societies with their controlled press to promote horrific lies about Jews, the Nazis hid their murder of Jews from the German public. They did not have confidence that enough Germans would support the murder of Jewish men, women and children. The Arab/Muslim anti-Semites, however, have no such problem. Those who kill Jews in Israel are public celebrities.
On the West Bank, a Palestinian university in Nablus has been putting on an exhibition celebrating the Palestinian suicide bombing of a family pizza restaurant in Israel. The exhibition consisted of a replica of the Sbarro's restaurant complete with Hebrew inscriptions. Inside the exhibit, replicas of human body parts and pizza slices were strewn. Pictures published on the Internet showed Palestinians waiting in line to see the exhibit. In Nazi Germany, there were no public exhibits of Einsatzgruppen (Nazi mobile Jew-killing units) or gas chambers.
The second more frightening aspect of Arab/Muslim Jew-hatred is that many of these haters do not value their own lives. Nazis did.
We Jews have reasons to worry because no libels against Jews are too awful or too incredible in much of the Arab/Muslim world. That is why the father of Mohammed Atta, suspected ringleader of the Sept. 11th attacks, could tell Newsweek that his son was kidnapped by Israelis and that it was Israelis posing as Arab Muslims who actually attacked America. He could say this because he and millions of other Muslims (not only in the Arab world) believe it, as well as the notion that no Jews died in the World Trade Center because they were alerted in advance.
Americans may recall the flap over then-First Lady Hillary Clinton listening to the wife of Yasir Arafat state that Israel was poisoning Palestinian water supplies. Like the Nazis, many Arab/Muslim societies attribute to Jews virtually all evils, including, for example, deliberately spreading AIDS in the Arab world.
We Jews have reasons to worry because the West ignores this Jew-hatred. One reason is that Third World evil is rarely taken seriously among Western elites. A second reason is the psychological and political need of Westerners to believe that Islamic societies are, with the exception of "a few extremists," tolerant societies. And the third reason is that Arab/Muslim anti-Semitism is dismissed as a temporary phenomenon that will disappear when Israelis and Palestinians make peace. But this belief inverts reality. The lack of peace between the Jewish state and its neighbors is not the cause of Arab anti-Semitism, it is the result of that anti-Semitism. Since 1948, there has been one reason for the Arab-Israeli conflict - the Arab/Muslim world rejects the concept of a Jewish (or any non-Muslim) state in its midst.
We Jews have reasons to worry because while much of the Muslim world - a billion strong stretching from the Atlantic through Asia to the Pacific - hates us, Europe and Japan do not defend us. Instead they defend their business deals with Saddam Hussein and with Iran's medieval theocracy.
We Jews have reasons to worry because the Islamic terrorists who blow up Jews are not on the list of terrorist organizations our government is fighting. There are political reasons that account for omitting terror groups that target Jews, but whatever those reasons, how can a Jew not worry about this omission? If America, the most philo-Semitic country in the world, will not regard terrorists who murder Jews as worthy of fighting - even though these terrorists share sponsors and philosophy with anti-American terror groups - no nation will.
As I write this article, my 8-year-old son is playing next to me with his Nintendo. While he is painfully aware of the attacks on America, he remains blissfully unaware that a substantial percentage of humanity would like to see him dead. One day, unfortunately, he will know this. Unless the good people of the world finally learn the great lesson of anti-Semitism - that Jew-haters hate all that is good, that they target Jews first but never Jews alone, and that Jew-haters must therefore be fought - one day he may in fact be hurt. That is why at least one Jewish father worries today
Tony
Weren't the 'Trade Unionists' on the Nazi list also?
Bump for our Jewish brothers.
Shalom.
Anti-semitism has several definitions. One of these definitions means hatred towards semetic people. But another definition, the common definition and the original meaning of the term anti-semitism, means "hatred towards Jews". There is no question at all that a semite can be an anti-semite.
The point is, they are setting out on a world war jihad, and in the process of our settling their hash, they may hit us with far worse bio weapons than pin-prick anthrax attacks, or even purloined nukes. During this war, it is quite likely that our economies will be wrecked, with oil not flowing, our post offices shut for the duration, blasted nuke plants sending Chernobyl like plumes over London and Washington and so on.
Some of us are very aware of the hatred of the Jewish people and we are angry that some of our leaders would compromise the safety of the Jewish people for political reasons.We watched "the kiss" with horror...and now watch the guarded language of the current administration .We heard the trial balloon offering the "seperate state "idea.
I saw a CNN special where a little 6 year old boy said he would"hate" America untill we "stopped" prosecuting muslims and allowed Islam to become the world religion..that was from the mouth of a 6 year old..
The biggest issue in all this mess is our support of Israel....the question will be will America seek peace at any price.That is what the zealots of Islam are counting on.
Pray for the peace of Jerusalam
The Nazis attempted to hide their atrocities, the Islamics feed on it. Evil acts are their nourishment.
But what nourishes our idiot policy makers who think you can negotiate and compromise with evil? The Talaban are only a cog in the machine.
Ohhh - ohhh - then we could come in claiming a mandate to save them from themselves and take over the oil fields and run them for a profit.
What! It's already been tried?
Shalom.
This is another reason why the U.S. has to play the card of deportation. Not only does deporting Arab/Muslim nationals greatly reduce the incidence of terrorism in the U.S., like you and Tony pointed out, it cuts off their access to our technology and ability to capitalize from our learning centers. When Middle East people are left to themselves, tribal wars inevitably result. Better that they expend their hostility among their own instead of on us. As long as America acts as an escape valve for their common hatred of Western culture, Middle East nations don’t have to come to grips with the consequences of their dysfunctional Islamic culture. We don’t need this ungrateful culturally primitive people in our midst anyway. Be Gone!
Let us say 40% of the "known" oil reserves.We have lots of oil in this country and Mexico has too.The environmental wackos need to shut up and let us drill now.
How True! The Koran also prohibits suicide. Seems that many Muslims pick and choose what parts of the Koran they want to abide by.
So I think what the author means is that the Arabs have been saying this kind of stuff for decades, attacking Israel many times in war... and then when they lose the wars and continue with this hateful propeganda, the USA and Europe go ahead and say "Islam is a religion of peace" and "terrorists like Arafat can be good leaders of a new state".
What message do we send to them when we don't put them in their place.. when our leaders kiss them after saying that Jews poison their water, or we offer them a new state after being so violent? The message is the wrong message, it says that terrorism and hatred pays, and that it is the only way to get attention from the west. It's a bad message.
Sharon got a lot of flack for demanding that Israel will not be like Czechoslovakia, but isn't that almost exactly what is happening? We have a bunch of crazed mini-Hitlers running around destroying everything, and the west capitulates to their demands. I think it is the wrong policy.
In that they are not one smidgeon different from Herr Shickelgruber's similarly death-and-destruction-worshipping jihadist Nazis who hated, raged and murdered indiscriminately -- and who sooner or later would have had every one of us; Jew and Christian; either abjectly enslaved of rendered into fats, oils and soaps!
It is way past time for us all to wake up and know that Jews and Christians are all part of the same religion -- and that "islam" -- far from being "one of the monotheist 'religions'" -- is a death-and-destruction-worshipping, false-"prophet"-following blasphemy.
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