Holocaust in Progress

Apparently, the term “peace process” denotes a situation when Jews are prevented from defending themselves, while Arabs are killing them at will. And while a small group of “Palestinian” storefront puppets diligently maintains an impression that the Arab war against Israel might end if Israel agreed to meet some suicidal conditions, Arabs themselves make no secret of their true intentions. Their ultimate goal is the complete destruction of Israel. Had they tried to target any other country, the world would have called it genocide. But Jews have always been subject to different standards in the eyes of the world. Therefore, let’s not wait for the world to be fair and call a spade a spade. What the world euphemistically dubbed a “peace process” is actually Holocaust-in-progress.

The tally of victims has not yet reached millions, but that’s only because Arabs can’t compete with Germans when it comes to industriousness, organization and discipline. However, Arabs are way ahead of them in their love for murder. Germans were implementing their “final solution” in relative secrecy, not wishing to needlessly disturb public opinion, and those who took part in mass executions had to be periodically replaced to relieve the unbearable burden of mass murders. Arabs tirelessly kill Jews in front of TV cameras and not a single Arab voice has ever been heard protesting the murders. In the obligatory comment on last week's suicide bombing, Mahmoud Abbas condemned it because, in his words, it did not serve the interests of the “Palestinian people”. That’s an extremely interesting moral position that deserves a separate careful study.

At any rate, Arabs do whatever they can and the world, once again, pretends not to notice. There is an eerie parallel between forcing Czechoslovakia 65 years ago to end its “occupation” of the Sudetenland, and the international opposition to Israel’s “occupation” of Gaza, Judea and Samaria. The parallel was brilliantly underscored by the practically simultaneous suicide bombing in Baghdad that targeted the United Nations. There is only one other organization that has done more than the UN to promote terrorism: it’s al-Qaeda. In a wiser world, the twin attacks could have served as a warning that support of terrorism makes one more, not less, vulnerable to it. But in a wiser world, Islam could not have survived for 13 centuries, so let’s be realistic.

When President Bush, in the wake of September 11, declared his War on Terror, he made sure to repeat several times that it was not a war against Islam. What would the outcome of World War II have been had FDR proclaimed his resolve to stop stormtroopers from going about their business, but emphasized that the war was not against Nazism?

Bush also promised to never negotiate with terrorists. Unfortunately, he failed to specify which terrorists he was not going to negotiate with, what exactly he was not going to negotiate with them, and how often.

His unwavering friendship with Saudi rulers has been a dangerous symptom of a gaping inconsistency. The Saudi royal family leads the Wahhabi sect of Islam, which rules Saudi Arabia. It is an extremely militant sect that advocates forceful conversion and murder of infidels. It mandates execution of any Jew who ever sets foot on the Saudi soil. Inexplicably, I have never heard anyone accusing the Saudis of racism because of that. It also finances and indoctrinates Moslem terrorists around the world. Another of Bush’s allies in his War on Terror, Pakistan, harbors thousands of Wahhabi-sponsored madrasas (Islamic seminaries), where young Moslems from all over the world are trained to become ideologues and executioners of terrorism. If I declared a war on terrorism, Iraq and even Afghanistan wouldn’t be on top of my list. I would certainly start with the Wahhabis — both in Saudi Arabia and beyond. But I’m sure Bush had his compelling reasons.

Nevertheless, it came as a shock even to me when the United States not only declared terrorists that specifically target Israel immune from prosecution, but decided to forcefully promote them to nationhood and twisted Israel’s arms into surrendering to them — as mandated by a worthless four-page piece of paper known as the “roadmap”. If this is not anti-Semitism, then Eichmann must’ve been a self-hating Jew.

As usual, Israel is not paying the price of the world’s anti-Semitism alone. As the second anniversary of the September 11 attacks approaches, Americans feel no safer than they did in the immediate aftermath of the attack. Al-Qaeda appears to have recovered from the blow it suffered in Afghanistan, and the official position of the US government is that another catastrophic attack on the American soil is imminent. Afghanistan remains the same snake pit it has been since the Soviets invaded it 25 years ago, and it is becoming increasingly unclear what the United States can hope to achieve there. The same question arises vis-a-vis Iraq, where the US goals, beyond the removal of Saddam Hussein, remain sadly undefined. (Here’s a terribly interesting question: Was Bush in fact protecting Saudi interests by deposing Saddam?) The hopeful talk of establishing democracy there is absurd: democracy cannot be forced on people. But even if the US succeeded in democratizing Iraq, how does it promote peace in the Middle East? Democracy defines the procedure, but not the result. We shouldn’t forget that Hitler was democratically elected to power or that undeniably democratic countries, like, for instance, France, can be abysmally anti-Semitic.

Meanwhile, Jihad is progressing on many fronts, and suicide bombings have not been its most efficient weapon. Taking advantage of liberal immigration laws, Moslems flood Europe, changing its face forever. The Dutch are in danger of becoming a minority in Amsterdam in just one generation. In Moscow, one has to be a Moslem to move into certain areas of the city. London provides safe heaven for Islamic terrorist groups. France, never missing an opportunity to enjoy being raped, is enthusiastically greeting its own rapid Islamization. Desecration of Jewish cemeteries is quickly becoming a new European tradition — probably a tad more bizarre than the annual bull run in Pamplona, but certainly far less risky.

And all the while, Israel is being told that there is no military solution for its problems. This is an outrageous lie invented by Israel’s enemies. The exact opposite is true: Arabs are impotent to destroy Israel by war, while Israel has no choice but to use its army to achieve peace. All the numerous attempts to achieve peace by non-military means failed dramatically. It has become exceedingly clear that peace will not come until one of the sides wins the war. Therefore, Israel has no choice: the enemy must be defeated, and those who survive must face a trial for their crimes against Israel.

Let’s face facts. We live in an anti-Semitic world. All that’s changed around us since the Crusades and the Inquisition are the car models and the quality of stereo sound. The people and their mentality have remained basically the same they have always been since the Dark Ages. Anti-Semitism of finely civilized Europeans today exceeds the anti-Semitism of finely civilized Europeans during the previous Holocaust. When I say that Israel has no choice if it wants to survive, I mean it in the most literal way. No matter what it does, the world will not suddenly start loving Jews. Therefore, Israel must defend itself, even if the world objects.

Arafat shouldn’t be kept under house arrest in Ramallah. Arafat shouldn’t be exiled to Tunisia either. Arafat should be arrested, indicted for his crimes against humanity — because Jews, believe it or not, are human — and tried along with thousands of his accomplices. This trial should pointedly ignore the inevitable outrage of the peace-loving international community. It should bring into open and make official everything we already know about the so-called “Palestinians” and their “fight for freedom”. It should provide the factual proof that no “Palestinian people” has ever existed. It should unhurriedly, without omitting any tiny detail, shed the light of truth on every crime against Jews ever committed by Arabs and their sympathizers. It should forever destroy every anti-Semitic lie, from bloody matzos and the Protocols, to the “occupation” by Israel of Israel’s own land. If necessary, it should last for years. If necessary, it should become the core of Israel’s very existence. It should analyze and disclose the role of the international community in the preparation of a new Holocaust. It should pronounce a fiercely fair sentence to everyone whose hands are smeared with Jewish blood.

And if you tell me that it will cause even more hatred towards Jews, I will ask: What difference does it make? They already hate Jews to death.

A few months ago, the New York Times published a lengthy article about one of the tragic episodes produced in abundance by the “peace process”. Arabs started firing at Gilo from one of the apartment buildings in Beit Jala. IDF responded. One of the bullets pierced the wall of the house and killed an eight-year-old Arab boy. His mother blamed the militants: “I hate Jews no less than they do. But why couldn’t they shoot at them from some other place?” Nobody bothered to explain to her that it was precisely her hatred of Jews that killed her little son.

Which is extremely painful, but far less unfair than letting Arab hatred kill Jewish children.

Arabs tirelessly kill Jews in front of TV cameras and not a single Arab voice has ever been heard protesting the murders.

Not true:

Israeli Arabs condemn suicide bombing

"The terrorist acted on his own behalf and not in the name of a single person from this village," Abu Snan council chairman Faouzi Mishlab said yesterday, after learning that the Nahariya suicide bomber was a resident of the village.

Mishlab added that if Israel decided to destroy Havishi's home in Abu Snan, the villagers would understand. Village residents, a mix of Moslems, Druze and Christians, expressed the hope that the suicide bombing would not reflect badly on their intentions to remain law-abiding citizens of Israel.

The Arab monitoring committee issued a statement yesterday condemning all acts of violence against innocent people, Israelis and Palestinians alike. "We condemn the criminal attack against citizens in Nahariya," the statement said. "But we also emphasize that source of the cycle of bloodshed is in the occupation, and it will only be possible to end this cycle through real peace and justice and the removal of the occupation."

The spokesman for the Islamic Movement in Israel, Sheikh Hashem Abed al-Rahman, said, "The movement condemns the murder of innocent people." Al-Rahman said it was not proven that Havishi had been responsible for the terror attack and denied that Havishi had belonged to the Islamic Movement.

Israeli Arab Knesset members were quick to condemn the attack but cautioned against judging the entire Israeli Arab population based on the actions of one man. "We are opposed to attacks on civilians and view with gravity the involvement of an Israeli Arab in a suicide mission," said Mohammed Barakeh (Hadash).

MK Ahmed Tibi (Ta-al) said he "objects totally to such acts, which serve as ammunition in the hands of the right to incite against the Arab population." Knesset Member Azmi Bishara (Balad) announced his political and moral objection to the "killing of innocent civilians." MK Abdulmalik Dehamshe warned against depicting Israeli Arabs as a "fifth column" of internal opposition against the State.

Prominent Palestinians condemn suicide bombings

June 20 2002

More than 50 Palestinians took out a full-page newspaper ad today condemning suicide bombings, sparking debate at a time when most Palestinians support the attacks as an effective way to hit Israel.

The ad in Al Quds, a leading Palestinian daily, appeared this morning - a day after a suicide bombing killed 19 people on a Jerusalem bus, and hours before another suicide attack killed seven more people at a bus stop in the evening.

In the ad, the Palestinians urged the militant groups behind deadly assaults on Israeli civilians to "stop sending our young people to carry out such attacks".

"We see no results in such attacks, but a deepening of the hatred between both peoples and a deepening of the gap between us," the ad said.

The signatories included Hanan Ashrawi, a leading Palestinian spokeswoman and a legislator, and the Palestinians' senior Jerusalem official, Sari Nusseibeh, along with other prominent figures regarded as moderates. The ad urged other Palestinians to join them in their opposition to the bombings.

"We felt we had to chart a course, not just break the silence," said Ashrawi.

"We wanted to create a momentum to get people to think with their minds and to reason, instead of always reacting emotionally and out of revenge and pain and trauma."

With the latest attacks, Palestinians have carried out 71 suicide bombings in the past 21 months of Middle East fighting, killing about 250 people on the Israeli side.

The attacks outrage Israelis, and the government has responded with military strikes and incursions into Palestinian territory, aimed at suspected militants as well as buildings belonging to the Palestinian Authority government and security forces. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon says Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is ultimately responsible for failing to stop the attacks.

Palestinians have held virtually no public debate on the issue.

Polls regularly show strong support for the suicide bombings, though it has come down a bit in recent months, following the strong Israeli military response.

A poll released last week by a Palestinian think tank showed support for suicide bombings dropped from 74 per cent in December to 68 per cent recently. The survey, which had a margin of error of three percentage points, was roughly in line with other polls.

Ghassan Khatib, who headed the think tank and was recently named Labour Minister, said the modest decline in support for bombings was due to three reasons: international criticism of the Palestinians, the damage done to the Palestinian image by the bombings, and the consequences for the Palestinians of the bombings including Israel's military response.

He said the newspaper ad was the strongest public expression to date opposing the bombings.

Hamas, the group that has made more attacks than any other, dismissed the ad as the work of a small number of Palestinians who lack broad support.

"Let's see how much support they will have among the people," said Hamas spokesman Ismail Abu Shanab.

The bombings "really hurt Israel. It really affects the Israelis, and if we have an effective weapon in our hands and the whole world is trying to take it off us, this kind of reaction shows it to be the most effective way," Abu Shanab said.

The Palestinian leadership routinely condemns the bombings, but the Palestinian security forces have not carried out large-scale roundups of suspects in Hamas or other groups behind the attacks.

Most attacks are carried out by young Palestinian men. Initially, most also had strong links to radical Islamic movements, such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad. But recently, their numbers have also included members of secular groups, such as the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, which is linked to Arafat's Fatah movement.

Ahmed Abdel Rahman, a longtime aide to Arafat, acknowledged that Palestinian public opinion was at odds with the stance of the Palestinian leadership. He said the best way to end the bombings was for a resumption of peace talks, which broke down 18 months ago amid the violence.

"You can say that (Palestinian) public opinion is with these operations," Abdel Rahman said. "But the Palestinians still consider Arafat their leader. The solution is to stop these suicide operations with a political solution."

But Jibril Rajoub, the Palestinians' West Bank security chief, said the Palestinians cannot cooperate with Israel now to arrest those behind suicide attacks.

"As long as the Israelis are continuing their invasion - using their tanks, F-16s and Apaches (attack helicopters) - there will be no arrests of any Palestinian," Rajoub told The Associated Press from Egypt, where he was meeting with officials about Palestinian security matters.

A number of prominent Islamic figures in the Palestinian areas and the wider Arab world have endorsed suicide bombings.

Hamed Baitawi, chief of the Islamic Clergy Committee in Palestine who has close ties to Hamas, said suicide attacks were legitimate at present.

"Islam demands that we avoid killing women children and civilians, but God ordered us to fight our enemy in the same way that he fights us," Baitawi said.

"As long as the Israeli occupation is killing our people, we have the right from the sky to kill its civilians."

But Zohair Dobei, considered a moderate Muslim sheikh in the West Bank city of Nablus, stressed the Islamic prohibition on killing civilians. He also was critical of Palestinian mothers who have appeared in videos, endorsing bombing attacks subsequently carried out by their sons.

"I can't imagine that there is a mother in the world who can dispatch her son, or who would not prevent him from doing so if she knows that he is going to kill himself," Dobei said.

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