Posted on 03/28/2002 9:55:56 PM PST by kattracks
WASHINGTON--Sept. 11 awakened Americans to the anti-American vitriol in the state-controlled media of such apparently friendly states as Egypt and Saudi Arabia. We are just beginning to understand how a daily diet of hatred fed through schools and the media--a hatred quietly incubating for years--found its most perfect expression in the slaughter of Sept. 11.
We have failed, however, to see how a similar campaign of hate has laid the groundwork for the orgy of murder-suicide the Palestinians are now engaged in. A mother appears on videotape proudly sending her 18-year-old to his death just so he can kill as many Jews as possible. This is unprecedented. Before the Oslo peace accords of 1993, suicide bombing was a practice almost unheard of among Palestinians.
And it is not as if they had no grievances before 1993. On the contrary. The advent of suicide bombing coincides precisely with the era of Israeli conciliation and peacemaking: recognition of the PLO, repeated concessions of territory, establishment of the Palestinian Authority, acceptance of an armed Palestinian police--all culminating in the unprecedented offer of an independent Palestinian state with its capital in a shared Jerusalem. It is precisely in the context of the most accommodating, most conciliatory, most dovish Israeli policy in history that the suicide bombings took hold.
Where then did they come from? During the last eight years--the years of the Oslo ``peace process''--Yasser Arafat had complete control of all the organs of Palestinian education and propaganda. It takes an unspeakable hatred for people to send their children to commit Columbine-like murder-suicide. Arafat taught it. His television, his newspapers, his clerics have inculcated an anti-Semitism unmatched in virulence since Nazi Germany.
And who are these Palestinians, anyway? A hundred years ago, the land which is now Israel was largely a wasteland, with hardly a population to take notice of. Only after the Jews started settling there as Zionism grew as a movement, did the land become prosperous. Arabs, seeing opportunity, moved their as well from neighboring countries. Arafat himself was born and raised in Egypt. It isn't much of a stretch to say Arafat isn't any more "Palestinian" than I am.
And when the plight of the "Palestinian" refugees is brought up, what is universally ignored is that there were an equal number of Arab Jews who were displaced -- often run off by their native countries -- who only found refuge in Israel.
As sad as the scenes from these reputed Palestinian refugee camps, the culpability for their suffering lies right at the feet of the surrounding Arab nations.
At this point in time, it is beyond wondering. Why did Germans starve and then gas Jews? Why did Japanese pilots fly kamakazi missions?
The answer worth searching for is: "What will it take to stop the islamic terrorists, the worldover?" Complete defeat worked before, and that involves massive loss of life. That seems to be the only answer these diabolical organisms will understand. Stop or be killed.
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An oft-unnoted fact- how utterly poisonous "Oslo" was.
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