Posted on 08/21/2003 9:23:03 PM PDT by redrock
"An Eye for An Eye....Until the Whole World is Blind"
Gandhi
I heard the news while driving. Another 'suicide for Allah'.....had blown up a bus in Israel. From the first reports....there were a lot of people hurt...and dead.
I arrived home...and turned on the news.
Pictures of para-medics attempting to keep children alive.....the children laying on the ground...and the para-medics feverishly trying everything they had to breath life back into lifeless broken bodies.
...and watching their faces as they sometimes failed.
We have come so far...as humans...as children of God.......as our understanding of our Rights and Responsibilities have grown.....and yet....we are seemingly reduced to the slaughter of children.
For Political gain.....
For REVENGE.....
To just kill....
I don't know.....is this the METHOD that must be used to arrive at peace???
We have come so far....with ideals of a Free people...that each and every one of us has worth...and has control of our own lives.
We have come so far.....and yet in the end we need to see that there IS a cancer living in our human species.
A cancer that has only one thought...to kill everyone who disagrees with it.
To murder children ..all in the pretext of revenge...or on the pretext that they were merely Jews or Zionists (can a child of 2 actually BE political???).
We are told that the members of Hamas etc.....are fighting for a ' Palistinian Homeland '. That their actions are the only way they can fight...and "Liberate" their "Homeland".
Bullshit.
Fighting to Free your Homeland is the Spanish pushing out the Islamic conquerers one step at a time until they won.
Fighting to Free you Homeland is the Greeks banding together to drive out the Persians.
Fighting to Free your Homeland....is the farmers and merchants standing toe to toe with the British Infantry...and beating them...and creating a Nation of Free people.
Murdering small children is not.
So....the idea that Hamas etc are 'Freedom Fighters'.....is a lie.
And worse still....it is a cancer that seemingly pervades the entire Islamic World...(I have YET to hear of any other culture that has suicide bombers that delight in killing small children).
We are at a crossroads in humanities path towards Freedom.
This time in our History will decide the fate of millions.
Will they be helped to grow...to develop Free Governments....to learn that they CAN shape their own destiny...that it is NOT up to whatever Imman or Dictator is 'hot' at the time.
The Islamic Peoples DO have a chance...but there IS a cancer in their midst.
One keeping them from life......one determined to keep the chaos and carnage flowing freely...(which, like cockroaches, they thrive on).
A cancer that thinks nothing of sending their children out to kill other children.......
At this point....the Islamic World NEEDS to decide...on life or death.
If they decide on life...THEY will remove the cancer....and cast it aside.
If they choose death...they just need to keep going in the same direction......forever trading an eye for an eye.....until the whole world is blind.
But I don't believe the rest of the world is going to give them much more time.
redrock
redrock
It is the Islamic world that has the answer to this within their grasp.
If they do not act, then we will have to.
I do not know how much time they have, but the clock is ticking.
Change that to, "hell."
OUR Brothers are on the ground in Iraq...in Afghanistan in an effort to HELP.
But the Islamic world must WANT to rid itself of it's cancer......before it's too late.
redrock
I prefer a small shot of Bushmill's Irish Whiskey myself....
redrock
But I am afraid that there is a part of the rest of the world (some within our own midst) that is cheering them on...or worse yet, using them to try and weaken us.
A very dangerous time in history...but it is times like these, like two hundred plus years ago, that try men's souls and produce true heroes and true statesmen who somehow come in contact with the Almighty, understand His true will, and accomplish it.
Our founders, because they were peaceful men at heart, and because they trusted a loving God, were able to do that. I pray...and I believe with all my heart...that we will see the same happen here in our day.
Best regards my friend.
Fighting to Free your Homeland is the Spanish pushing out the Islamic conquerers one step at a time until they won . Fighting to Free you Homeland is the Greeks banding together to drive out the Persians . Fighting to Free your Homeland....is the farmers and merchants standing toe to toe with the British Infantry...and beating them...and creating a Nation of Free people .... Murdering small children is not.
Bravo!
I wouldn't wish insomnia on anyone, but, if your essay is representative of what one produces when suffering a bout, we might all benefit from an occasional sleepless night. :)
My two cents:
The Road Map calls on both the Palestinians and the Israelis to 'cease violence' against one another, and that each 'end incitement' against the other. Such urgings assume the existence of equivalent 'violence' and 'incitement' on the part of both parties. 'Violence' for one is a means toward an end. For the other, it is defensive and retaliatory. 'Incitement' for one is hate-based, and prevalent throughout education, media and political history. For the other, it is non-existent. (I've said before that) insisting that the 'Palestinians' and the Israelis refrain from violence and incitement amounts to sitting a dog and a cat down together and demanding that each of them stop barking. It empowers the dog, and insults and demeans the cat.
Bush knows, as does any thinking man with even a cursory knowledge of history, that peace in the Middle East is a pipe dream. That Israel's relinquishing any more land is not only additional capitulation, but it simply represents a postponing of the inevitable. At the same time, enough is never enough for the Arabs. (The trite 'give them an inch and they'll want a mile' couldn't be more appropriate. Yet, at the same time, it isn't the land. It's the insatiable desire to destroy Israel the people, not the nation). The Muslim world will not be satisfied until Israel no longer exists. It is a matter of destiny (such a lovely word for such a scourge) to them. It always has been, and always will be.
The fact that the Muslim world, until recently, has not enjoyed large-scale access to weapons of mass destruction (nuclear/chemical/biological) has represented a reprieve, of sorts, for Israel. Radical Islam had its fanatical leaders, but no effective way to achieve its destiny -- at least not in a massive, once (or twice) and done way. Not the case anymore .... thanks to technology .... and non-Muslims who are more interested in power and money than freedom, self-determination, and justice.
Sometimes the truth is hard to swallow. And it is almost always politically incorrect: The nebulous peace about which the world has been talking for decades will probably never occur. And justice will only come when and if Israel finally acknowledges that there can be no negotiating with murderers obsessed with her destruction, and then she takes Gaza and the West Bank back completely. Good men need to help see to it that she does.
We certainly do, both without and within our nation.
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