Like Father, Like Son (Israel)

Restraint? Sure. Israel should show the same restraint towards the ‘poor Palestinians’ as the United States is showing each day when United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld goes on CNN and announces how many terrorists American forces have killed in Afghanistan while we were safe in our homes. While Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was busy bombing, other than empty buildings, the Security Council of the United Nations immediately rushed to endorse a Palestinian state for the first time, supporting a U.S. measure. Oh yes, and that fair minded head of this biased organization, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, called on the Jewish state to end it’s “illegal occupation” of Palestinian land and halt “the bombing of civilian areas, the assassinations, the unnecessary use of lethal force, the demolitions and the daily humiliation of ordinary Palestinians.” Golly gee, that very same description could be applied to Afghanistan and the United States might be facing the same condemnation. Oh, and let’s not forget that this other bastion of peaceful coexistence who naturally deserves a place on the Security Council, Syria, was the sole veto to the resolution. It just didn’t go far enough. Isn’t it lovely how the states on the Security Council have all decided that Israel has a right to exist? Should we all be grateful at this point?

The pro-PLO Los Angeles Times reporter, Tracy Wilkerson, made her usual plea for the Palestinians, while filling half a page with a description of how the poor “residents of this camp that has produced suicide bombers and shooters were seething at the destruction wrought by the Israeli incursion.” Funny how in all of her anti-Semitic columns she regularly deplores how “Soldiers order families who live in apartments above the factories (terrorist bomb plants) to evacuate before the explosions, but give them no time to collect any belongings or clothing.” Well, my goodness. Did anyone ever tell those families that if you choose to live among and within a bomb factory you just might be inconvenienced? I wonder how much time the soulless Arab terrorists gave to the Israeli babies in their strollers before killing them.

The grief and depression of my Israeli friends and family is beyond comprehension. One of them recently told me, “I am terrified even to go to the cleaners and pick up my clothes, because I’m afraid of being bombed. I fear for my child to come home from school. Afraid a sniper might shoot out the windows of their school bus.” Yet, because of the tendency of the world to cave into Arab oil-backed demands, Israel is once again put into the position of ‘showing restraint’ so that US Vice-President Cheney can put together his coalition of terrorists. Has anyone besides me noticed that over the last eighteen months, after Arafat walked away from everything on his ‘wish list’, there have been almost 12,000 terror attacks against the Jewish State. Look how the United States reacted after only one. Granted, it was a biggie. War is not to be taken casually, but Israel has avoided it for far to long. When the war is won, as the previous five that have been forced against Israel, then the conquered lands should be annexed.

Why not? Would it be a good idea for Mexico to decide to go to the fair-minded group of world leaders at the U.N. and tell them how much they need Texas back? Hey, after all, it used to belong to them. Then, President George Bush could move out of his hometown in Texas with all the rest of those Texan ‘invaders and occupiers’ and go peaceably to a nearby state, so that he could live side by side in harmony with his good Mexican neighbors. Of course, we would all recognize the right of the United States to exist. Just as America cannot ‘make nice’ to Mexico and give back Texas, so be it for Israel. The land of Israel, furthermore, never belonged to the Arabs, as Texas once did to Mexico.

I didn’t notice any one of those U.N. leaders having a problem with moving a quarter of a million Jews who are settled in the Judea, Samaria and Gaza out of their homes. By the same token, I don’t have a problem with moving out those who commit terror and violence against Israel. The Arabs in the Land of Israel have another country and it’s called Jordan. That, among other Arab regions, is where they originated. Let them go back. Let them also take their ‘brothers’ who refuse to serve in the Israeli army, because they don’t want to be involved in ‘humiliating’ the Arabs. Of course, we know that those Arab enemies of ours don’t humiliate; they may mutilate and decapitate, but they don’t humiliate.

Arlene Peck is an internationally syndicated columnist and television talk show hostess.

I posted he below to another thread concerning this discussion about the Israelis and Palistinians and thought perhaps it would apply here as well.

"The threat to Israeli national security must be neutralized."

I agree, but the threat to Israeli national security doesn't reside in Palestinian suicide bombers. That "threat" lays in the governments of Iraq, Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Libya, and on and on and on.

If we (in the United States) are really sincere in our support of the only democracy in the middle east, we are eventually going to have to come to that point of finality. Not only for the survival and national security of Israel, but for our own and that of the rest of western civilization!

This WAR will never come to an end until we accept that the oligarchies and dictatorships in the Arab world must fall. Those governments only survive in power in that region by overtly feeding their masses with the inherent Islamic Fundamental hatred of Jews, Christians and all other non-Islamics. That fundemental change in governments, in many cases, won't come until we (the United States) are ready to take on a military challenge rivaling the two World Wars. With perhaps the exception of England, we will be alone with the Israelis in that endeavor.

Fundamental Islam must be DESTROYED in each and every instance, for their objective is our destruction and we will never, NEVER, succeed in negotiating a peace with such an insidious ideology.

To kill the serpent, we must cut off the head and then cut off each and every head that replaces it, until there are none left.

That is a large order and unfortunately I don't think the citizens of this country are ready to do that and won't be until an event that makes 911 look like a Sunday School Picnic happens.

"You are either with us, or you are against us." I think some of us understand that phrase to it's deepest meaning. I don't know if GW accepts it fully yet. However I do think he realizes there isn't that commitment of support in the nation to carry out what will eventually be required to end "the madness". That being greater madness for a period of time.

Those are just my thoughts.

"The threat to Israeli national security must be neutralized." I agree, but the threat to Israeli national security doesn't reside in Palestinian suicide bombers. That "threat" lays in the governments of Iraq, Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Libya, and on and on and on.

And, above all, it lays in all those fascist-rightist Israeli governments, from Begin's to Sharon's, who never, not once understood what it means to be displaced, de-rooted, degraded, humiliated and despaired. One could eventually understand such a behaviour of a government of an uncouth and opullent nation who never suffered, but, coming from a government of the Israeli People?

This is the unexpected factor in this whole case that makes one stay aghast in the face of this tragedy. These kind of people represent nowdays Israel? Are this kind of people what the Jewish People have in reserve for their future and that of their children? Assassins, bully-boys, psycopaths and no better than common thugs who proclaim with arrogance that they are the elected sons of God? We will instaur peace they said and they installed HELL around their own people. Is this the only greatness left to this brave nation? to revenge its own sufferings of the past upon a poor and defensless population, the Palestinians? If that is the case then, one has the right to wonder what else is left to this world to seek Light and Hope?

"You are either with us, or you are against us." I think some of us understand that phrase to it's deepest meaning.

NO! I don't! and I will never even try to understand this kind of primitive and stupid thinking. After all, those who use such arguments to convince their eventual followers who they think they are? the elected sons of God too?

SHAME, SHAME AND SHAME upon us all, whoever we are, wherever we live for what happens on that Sacred Land.

Assassins, bully-boys, psycopaths [sic] and no better than common thugs Are you talking about the U.S. and what we are doing in Afghanistan?

It appears that, much like your compatriot, Voltaire, although endowed with intelligence and philosophically inclined, you let these faculties of yours rest when you analyze something that involves Jews.

Perhaps, you should heed the words of another countryman of yours, Jean-Paul Sartre. Here are some of them:

…anti-Semitism is a passion. Everybody understands that emotions of hate and anger are involved. But ordinarily hate and anger have a provocation: I hate someone who has made me suffer, someone who continues to insult me… anti-Semitic passion could not have such a character. It preceded the facts that are supposed to call it forth; it seeks them out to nourish itself upon tem; it must even interpret them in a special way so that they become truly offensive.

Do you recognize yourself? Not yet? Here is some more:

…How can one choose to reason falsely? It is because of a longing for impenetrability…. The anti-Semite has chosen hate because hate is a faith; at the outset he has chosen to devaluate words and reasons. How entirely at ease he feels as a result. How futile and frivolous discussion about the rights of the Jew appear to him. How entirely at ease he feels as a result. How futile and frivolous discussion about the rights of the Jew appear to him.

With one thing you said I do agree: shame, shame, shame on you… Have you considered changing your screen name to Voltaire? I do not know about your other talents, but your hatred of the Jews will be thusly represented well.

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