Posted on 04/24/2002 3:16:45 PM PDT by radikf
Don't forget 'America's Palestinians'
Posted: April 24, 2002
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Joseph Farah
© 2002 WorldNetDaily.com
Pat Buchanan, Oliver North, Robert Novak and a host of other self-proclaimed conservatives are beating the drum for a Palestinian state to solve the Arab-Israeli conflict.
I wonder what these good Americans would have to say if Spanish-speaking residents in the southwest decided they were going to take over California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas and declare it an independent state.
I wonder what they would say if these activists went beyond lobbying for their cause and resorted to terrorism.
I wonder what they would say if Mexico and other Latin American nations began actively aiding the militarization of these terrorists – shipping arms, providing oil dollars and labeling U.S. attempts to quell the disturbances as equivalent to Nazi tactics.
Actually I don't wonder at all. I know exactly what Buchanan, North and Novak would have to say about such a development. They would show no mercy to the insurrectionists. There would be no negotiations. There would be no land concessions. Force would be met with overwhelming force.
Is this a far-fetched hypothetical? Is this scenario a mere invention to make a point?
Absolutely not. In fact, just such a movement modeled after the Palestinian struggle is organizing in the southwest United States right now.
Haven't heard of it yet? You will. America's "Palestine" is called Aztlan.
The activists working on behalf of this cause actually see themselves as "America's Palestinians." And, just like the original Palestinians in the Middle East, their agenda actually goes beyond the creation of a new independent state and seems designed to undermine the power and sovereignty of the United States.
The leaders of this movement are meeting continuously with extremists from the Islamic world, and you can read for yourself how they have been inspired by the Palestinian cause, and even adopted the most vicious forms of anti-Semitism in the process, by reading their own words on their own website. http://www.aztlan.org/
"There are great similarities between the political and economic condition of the Palestinians in occupied Palestine and that of La Raza in the southwest United States," explains an editorial from last year in La Voz de Aztlan in Los Angeles, the city seen as the future capital of the new Hispanic state.
Los Angeles, you see, is the southwestern U.S. version of Jerusalem.
The editorial goes on to draw analogies between the Arab uprising in Israel and gang violence in Los Angeles.
"The similarities are many," says the editorial. "The primary one, of course, is the fact that both La Raza and the Palestinians have been displaced by invaders that have utilized military means to conquer and occupy our territories. The takeover of our respective lands by foreign elements occurred 100 years apart. For La Raza, it happened in 1848 when Mexico lost the southwest at the end of the Mexican-American War and the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo. For the Palestinians, it occurred in 1948 when the Zionist Jewish People's Council gathered at the Tel Aviv Museum and signed the 'Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel' on the day in which the British Mandate over Palestine expired." Are you getting the picture?
I first wrote about this movement last fall, and I fully expected it would attract more attention following Sept. 11. After all, there is a growing body of evidence to suggest terrorists have used America's unpatrolled, unguarded borders with Mexico and Canada to infiltrate our country and to bring in arms and munitions. It's about time the American people learned there is an organized fifth column of U.S. activists who would be only too glad to assist Islamic terrorists in their jihad against the Yankee imperialists. This is an alliance long in the making. The logic and rationale for this movement is the same logic and rationale (if you can call it that) being employed to make the case for a Palestinian state. Americans need to understand this argument can and will be used against them – soon.
What are Buchanan, North and Novak going to say about this movement, should it ever gain momentum, after all their pro-Palestine rhetoric? What will be their moral argument against the independence movement? What will be their rationale for America's defense against such attacks?
The U.S. is ignoring a budding "intifada" in its own backyard, while choosing to tell the Israelis they must carve up their own tiny state to make a homeland for dangerous radicals who want only to destroy them.
Related column:
America's 'Palestinians'
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=25337
What's your logic? Spanish is widely spoken in America. I don't question *your* loyalty to America given *your* reluctance to learn Spanish.
Finally, New Mexicans are famous for their bravery and their patriotism fighting for this country. LINK
Ignore the liberals who have little grass root support.
Nah, don't be concerned over the BBQs. My husband, and his brother and sister's were the "Gringo" kids of his Mom's large Spanish family. Daddy was hybrid American. All the kids grew up to be Americans.
If they start talking about taking back New Mexico though, well...it's time to go past the neighborhood BBQ and go straight for the pure Americana greasy spoon western diner.
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