Posted on 05/12/2002 2:13:14 AM PDT by kattracks
The symbol of the Palestinian movement is not the dove of peace or the olive branch of friendship, but the dismembered body of a suicide bomber's victim, a metaphor for the violent ritual of death that emanates from the heart of Palestinian nationalism.
Bloodshed is its point, lies its language. Sacrilege is its currency. Palestinians honor their bombers as "martyrs," defaming the names of saints who sacrificed themselves for others. These murderers die only so that innocents might die with them. They are psychopaths, deluded and equipped by cowardly fanatics, incited by the Iraqi and Saudi gold their families receive when they have done their killing.
It's no accident that last week's outrage at Rishon Letzion was timed for the moment when Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and President Bush sat together in the White House. The destruction of Israel, not peace, is the aim of the Arab radicals. Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat "strongly condemns" the terrorism, he says. But the disavowal carries no conviction, coming, as it does, from a man who vents that Israelis are "Nazis."
Today, only one in four Israelis believes the conflict can be resolved by a peace agreement — less than half what surveys showed just three years ago. Americans understand that the Israelis are dealing with terrorism. In a recent Washington Post-ABC News poll, 90% said they think Arafat can do more to stop the killings; 66% found Israel's military incursion justified. Congressional support is nearly unanimous. This strong American leadership should stand as a rebuke to the fence-sitters in Europe.
There are three tragedies here: the tragedy of all the lives taken; the tragedy of a peace postponed, and the tragedy that the organization supposed to be a moral and diplomatic catalyst has disqualified itself by the depth of its prejudice. Yes, sadly, that would be the United Nations.
On the day of the outrage at Rishon Letzion, the UN was in the process of condemning Israel's efforts at self-defense. This was the same body that voted America off its Human Rights Commission and placed Syria on the Security Council. Israel is the only UN member that is opposed by an automatic antidemocratic majority, led by Arab tyranny. Sadly, the secretary general himself has now yielded to these Israel-haters.
At the UN, Israel is treated as the Jew among nations, subjected to the kind of hatred the world's tiny population of Jews once received from so much of the rest of the world. A double standard is applied. Some of the nongovernmental organizations hiding behind high-minded names such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have bought into this bigotry, ignoring the fact that besieged Israel is the only open democracy in the region.
The Security Council has devoted a third of its energy to criticizing Israel. The UN Commission on Human Rights has devoted a quarter of its official actions to the same cause; it will soon be saluting the homicide bombers. The UN never protests the violations by Arafat's corrupt tyranny.
Sadly, the secretary general, Kofi Annan, has recently added to this anti-Israel sentiment. He has worked hard to make the UN more effective, but under pressure, he is hazarding his reputation by ill-judged interventions. He attacks Israel's presence on the West Bank as "illegal," ignoring the UN's own resolution. He draws an unfounded equivalency between the terrorism carried out against a democratic country, Israel, with the purpose of maximizing civilian casualties, and the response of the Israeli government to protect its citizens with the purpose of minimizing civilian casualties.
Several months ago, the UN was exposed in its campaign to stonewall Israel by withholding videotapes of the kidnapping of Israeli soldiers along the Lebanese border, videotapes the UN then refused to turn over to Israel on the grounds that they might violate UN "neutrality." Some neutrality!
Agency's Twisted Mission
Add to this noxious brew the UN Relief and Works Agency. It was established to assist Palestinian refugees and managed, funded and administered the refugee camps. But the UN Relief and Works Agency is the godfather to all terrorist training schools, notably in Jenin, the so-called suicide capital of the Palestinians.
The UN leadership in the region is symbolic of where that bureaucracy's sympathies lie. The Relief and Works Agency's commissioner general, Peter Hansen, described the recent battle of Jenin as "wholesale obliteration," a "human catastrophe ... with bodies piled up in mass graves," with some 300 to 400 Palestinians killed. He told CNN, "I had, first of all, hoped the horror stories coming out were exaggerations ... but they were all too true." This was, manifestly, a lie. Even Palestinian officials on the ground verified the Israeli estimate of no more than 52 bodies. Israel engaged in house-to-house combat to spare Palestinian civilians. To that end, Israel sacrificed 23 soldiers.
But it gets worse. The secretary general came up with the idea of a "factfinding" commission on Jenin. The man who was to chair this commission was Arafat's favorite European diplomat, and I have direct knowledge that the other two members are hostile to Israel. The team also lacked the expertise necessary to assess the appropriate level of military force necessary to find armed terrorists.
The sheer hypocrisy of this hanging jury — which the secretary general was finally forced to disband — was made even clearer when Palestinian gunmen openly boasted about mining roads, setting thousands of explosive devices to booby-trap houses and having "children stationed in the houses with explosive belts at their sides." An Islamic Jihad bomb maker bragged that Palestinians "had more than 50 houses booby-trapped" and had lured Israelis into an ambush.
Palestinian regard for truth was recently exposed in a videotape of a funeral staged in an attempt to exaggerate the number of deaths. There was one problem, though: The camera caught the body falling off the stretcher not once, but twice; the second time, the body, miraculously, got up and jumped back on the stretcher. Even for Arafat's fabulists and propagandists, this was too much. The bogus funeral had to be canceled.
The tragedy is the fact that because Arafat's Palestinian Authority refused to suppress the terrorists, Israel was compelled to use military force in a dense, urban area. As Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Joe Biden put it, "There is a world of difference between the deliberate targeting of civilians and the unintentional and inevitable casualties that were bound to occur in a place like Jenin, where terrorists deliberately hid themselves among civilians. ... Would any other democratic country behave any differently than Israel" in rejecting this commission? Put simply, there is no justice to be had for the Jewish State at the United Nations.
Once the epitome of a dream of a humanity united by justice, the UN and its General Assembly have been transformed into a dispiriting factory of hate, tragically undermining their moral authority and credibility.
| For a dose of truth: | |
| WSJ: The Massacre That Wasn't - Part I http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/668601/posts Non-evidence and Pali fabrication of evidence |
Steyn: The UN is running out of blind eyes to turn http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/669411/posts Interesting link on UN backpedaling |
| WSJ: The Massacre That Wasn't - Part II http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/669632/posts Palestinians drop their hyped-up "massacre" charges |
The Massacre That Never Was http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/668572/posts The testimony of pathological liars |
| WSJ: The Massacre That Wasn't - Part III http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/672189/posts Jimmy Carter, Mr. Middle East Fiasco, has an opinion |
There was No Massacre in Jenin http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/668650/posts The Elite, The Paid, The Gullible all accept Pali lies |
| WSJ: The Massacre That Wasn't - Part IV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/672160/posts Yet more non-evidence and Pali fabrication of evidence |
NY POST: THE MASSACRE THAT WASN'T http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/667529/posts Peres: There wasn't a house that wasn't booby-trapped |
| WSJ: The Massacre That Wasn't - Part V http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/673145/posts The Pali's contradict themselves and blame it on Israel |
Steyn: It's time to snap out of Arab fantasy land http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/669063/posts Some great Oriana Fallaci quotes/links as well |
| WSJ: The Massacre That Wasn't - Part VI http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/678521/posts Pali grave digging and UN jury rigging |
Jenin's 'Massacre' Death Toll Reduced to 56 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/675752/posts Say it slow: Israelis told the truth, Palis told lies |
|
An interesting juxtaposition of tales: |
|
| Message From An Israeli On The Front Lines http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/673234/posts "Entire families exploded themselves! It was horrific." |
Palestinian Fighter admits: No Massacre in Jenin http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/671903/posts 2,000 bombs and booby-traps placed in the camp |
| Pediatrician: terrorists used children in Jenin camp http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/670962/posts Doc: IDF did everything possible to avoid civilian harm |
Palestinians Booby-Trap Wheelchair in Jenin http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/670810/posts NOTE: The wheelchair was occupied!! |
| Jenin War Diary of a Hasidic Soldier - Part I http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/672951/posts Israeli citizen-soldier describes what went on in Jenin |
Massacre Claims Unsupported by Pali Fighters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/675129/posts Pali eyewitnesses all support the Israeli version |
| Jenin War Diary of a Hasidic Soldier - Part II http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/678298/posts There is no army as humane as the IDF |
Palestinian fighter's version of the Jenin battle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/672896/posts Pali Plan: Trap Israeli soldiers, then blow them up |
|
Yellow Journalism: Sensationalism, Yes! Truth, No! |
|
| How the L.A. Times and CNN Distorted Jenin http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/681552/posts First, you start with an agenda... |
Jenin: The Big Lie. Fighting the Media War http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/667296/posts World media falls for Goebbels's 'Big Lie' ... Again |
| The Media and 'The Massacre' http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/668719/posts Quick to report fantasy, slow to correct errors |
Atrocities of the British Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/669206/posts Huge amounts of ink devoted to unverified Pali tales |
| Reporters Back Down From 'Massacre' Reports http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/668509/posts World press forced to face the truth: No Massacre |
The Big Jenin Lie http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/679694/posts Putrid Pali Propaganda Promptly Panned - GO FR! |
|
We're from the UN. We're Here to Help. |
|
| The Overseers of Jenin http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/675737/posts Camps run by UN are centers for terror bombings |
U.N.'s Point Man In Jenin http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/673541/posts Arafat's militia gangs rely on Mr. Roed-Larsen |
| Guilty Until Proven Guilty http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/675043/posts Surprise! The UN has a not-so-hidden agenda |
The Jenin Probe Ends http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/675737/posts UN unhappy about Israel's possible exhoneration |
|
And so, in conclusion: |
|
| The 'Jenin Massacre' Hoax http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/677148/posts Living in a world of monstrous moral inversion |
The Phantom Massacre http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/672761/posts War Crimes in Jenin were committed by the Palis |
| Terrorists admit they carried out atrocities http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/679306/posts Fanatics brutalize women, children, old men |
Jenin's War Criminals http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/675340/posts What the Palestinians did was the real war crime |
If people want on or off this list, please let me know.
American Policy Center on-line Declaration of Independence from the U.N.
Also, I recall that the un has one or more "contingency sites" located in other nations... let's banish them there--
Also:
Child sex book given out at U.N. summit
|
|
Why the U. S. continues to recognize and fund this monstrous oganization and its creature, Arafat, is a profound mystery to me.
Now, yes the author supports Israel. Where are the factual errors that come from that "bias" you so complain about?
Hitler's neighbors were peaceful as well. Death can be very peaceful I suppose.
"And it shall come to pass, in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem" [Zechariah]
The future of the terrorist-facilitating UN, Vaticanized EU, Muslim nations, and others who are using the Palestinian people as their cannon fodder and bomb carriers is written and their day is coming ----
You're anti-Israel, who knew?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.