Posted on 02/04/2003 4:28:29 AM PST by SJackson
 How does the value of an Israeli life become so cheap that we Jews accept the idea that we have to sacrifice hundreds of lives on a yearly basis in order to exist in the state of Israel?
Not many years ago, when one Israeli life was innocently lost, Israelis were shocked and there was a sudden hush in the atmosphere and wonderment in our voices. Why is it that now we think of it as an unavoidable sacrifice, as if there are certain questions for which there are just no answers?
Why was the loss of an Israeli life so inconceivable before and so acceptable now? The answer is that we are living through another version of the same mentality that accepted the idea that a Jew couldn’t help dying in the Holocaust. The idea that a tiny minority of Jews should fight an army of Nazis was so inconceivable that it was unthinkable. It was as if we were assigned to death by the will of G-d for reasons only G-d knew.
When we Jews came to Israel we created this nation with a blazing new mentality. We were offended by our own history of timidity and helplessness. We were full of contempt for the world and an even greater contempt for our own character as inevitable victims, which is why we were able to win the war of Independence against all the Arab armies with practically nothing but willpower and fearlessness.
We acquired not only a new country but also a new mentality and a new confidence in our destiny. Since the Arabs could not tolerate the presence of Jews in their neighborhood, they tried to destroy us whenever they could put an army together. Every time they lost a war they couldn’t understand it — and they couldn’t believe that they wouldn’t win the next war.
Like the Americans in Vietnam and the Russians in Afghanistan, the Arabs possessed such a huge advantage of resources, population and power that they couldn’t accept the experience of defeat by the tiny state of Israel. As we were winning more and more victories we were paying a bigger price and getting more and more tired of victories in the battlefield at the cost of losing so many of our young Israeli lives. We became so weary and fearful of the next possible war, we blinded ourselves into believing all the fraudulent gestures of the Arabs about making peace.
We never realized the extent of our self-delusion until Prime Minister Barak offered the Arabs 98% of what they demanded and was answered with an avalanche of suicide bombers taking more Israeli lives than ever before. Since then we have become involved in futile efforts to solve the problem by retaliating more decisively than ever before — which has served as a great release from our frustrations but has always left us helpless from the next attack from more suicide bombers.
Somehow we have become helpless in the face of death, as if there were no possible solution to this problem. For the first time in 50 years we have again become a lost, confused, helpless and paralyzed people. Somehow we have resigned ourselves to suffer the constant killing of our people, like another but slower Holocaust.
We have paralyzed ourselves by our sickening fear of “World Opinion,” which is why we find it impossible to face one simple fact: We will never win this war unless we immediately threaten to drive every Arab out of Israel if the killing doesn’t stop.
It is no accident that the Arabs are not concerned with public opinion as they kill our people — while we are terrified of public opinion should we dismiss them from our country. Somehow, we have become intimidated into believing that we are obligated to give them a place to live, and that we have no right to throw them out just because they are killing our people.
It is about time we realized that “public opinion” is nothing but publicly expressed anti-Semitism, and that appeasing public opinion makes as much sense as Chamberlain’s appeasement of Hitler.
Jews dying in Israel disturbs world opinion as much as watching your neighbor killing a cockroach disturbs you — even if it doesn’t fill you with pleasure, you certainly don’t feel remorse about it. That is why when suicide bombers kill hundreds of Jews not a word of protest is ever heard, but when we try to defend ourselves by retaliating against our killers the U.N. immediately is called in an emergency session to protect our assassins.
We are brain-dead if we accept the idea that we have to guess which Arab is our next killer. We are not obligated to victimize ourselves by letting the Arabs play Russian roulette with Jewish lives. Israelis are constantly asked the same obnoxious question: “How can you throw the Arabs out — where would they go?” The answer is, if they don’t care whom they kill, why are we obligated to care where they go?
If a gang of killers lived across the street, would you allow them to keep throwing bombs through your window until you found them another apartment? Are we morally obligated to become a real estate agent for every Arab suicide bomber?
We are not obligated to accept a new, slower Holocaust as the inevitable fate of our people. The Jordanians did not take a poll of world opinion, and neither did the Kuwaitis, before they routed the Palestinians out of their countries.
America did not wait for public opinion to take whatever action was necessary to protect itself, and there is no reason why Jews should be afraid to do whatever is necessary to protect the state of Israel. ◙
Jackie Mason is the world-renowned comedic genius. Raoul Felder is a prominent Manhattan attorney.
BFD.
The Zionist Entity has certain existential problems, but I don't think that's one of 'em.
Reported.
Long past time for threats. Take the action.
Encouragement and funding of moderate to liberal elements within Islam may be a great means to an end - because in the current scheme, Wahhabists control the field.
Aren't there some empty concentration camps in Europe where the Israeli's can send these Arabs? I'll bet some of the people on this thread would think it to be a good idea.
Only partially true.
We still have our swell governmental "open borders" policy which looks the other way at illegals and simply refuses to secure our borders. Then, we continue to let in hordes of Muslims on visas from all sorts of threatening places. There is also the unanswered questions of the genuine loyaly of millions of Muslims we allowed to become card-holders and citizens - who frequent the mosques the Wahabbi Saudis finance and have become a sea the terrorists can swin in.
So, America has hardly taken the required steps to assure the safety of her citizens and won't until after the next horrendous attack which perhaps will serve to shock some of our PC out of the system. Not likely though, but possible. Our PC mindset is as deeply ingrained in our institutional culture (education, media, government, legal system, societal and conversational mores) as the phony environmental mindset inculcated for decades which has succeeded beyond the wildest dreams of the Liberals.
If you don't believe me, ask any 8-30 year old to name what are the most important issues facing our country. The answers will overwhelmingly contain key concepts like "environment" and "tolerance" with all the rest far, far behind.
You've got to be kidding, right? The biggest mass expulsion in the last 10 years has been native Californian's moving out of state, or to other regions within the state, as a result of illegal immigration. Mass expulsion works pefectly well for the conquering party.
Very true and was back when Christians ran Lebanon.
Jackie Mason uses comedy to point out a truth.
Lots of transfers going on.
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