GERALD HONIGMAN; WHAT WAS NETANYAHU THINKING?
Kenya is one of the latest fairly new places that the Jihadis have chosen to target–well over a hundred dead and wounded in a shopping mall. The day before it was the Philippines making news with its own Islamic insurgency…that same old Dar ul-Islam vs. the Dar al-Harb thing again and again and again. Around the same time there were hundreds dead and wounded blown up in a Pakistani Christian church. The list goes on, with new victims surely to come on the morrow. I think you get the picture.
Pick your conflict. Chances are Arabs or other Arabized Muslims are involved. And you’d make out good in Vegas with those odds.
Sounds a bit “racist” you say? Please check my facts then…
Show me a day, I dare you, when even the mostly politically correct mainstream media is not reporting some Jihadi claiming a ticket to Paradise by massacring masses of innocents–often at random. Whitewashing will only fool those who want to be fooled. And these folks are not dying because their heroes use them as human shields.
While it’s true that you can find mass murder occurring elsewhere (including right here in America), this is not (thank G_d) a daily event.
And, amid all of this nauseating barbarism which has become routine in the so-called “Arab”/Muslim world, with numerous thousands of innocents being wantonly slaughtered (millions if black Africans in the Sudan and elsewhere and the Anfal campaign and such against the Kurds are included from a bit earlier), there is a tiny oasis of relative peace and sanity. Guess where? Hint–it starts with “Isr” and ends with an “l.” You know, the nation which has been condemned by the United Nations more than any other.
“Relative” is the key word here. Israel has its problems too, and as various Jewish subgroups from all over the world have their own grievances with the government, so do Israeli Arabs. But there’s one thing for certain…the latter are the freest Arabs anywhere in the region–and they know it.
Israeli Arabs repeatedly attempt to murder Jews who enter their villages, and the moronic Hebrews give them a free pass. Check out what Iraqi or Syrian Arabs are doing to their own neighbors for far less. Just imagine if this was reversed and Arabs were being murdered in Jewish villages and towns–the news reports would be non-stop.
Regardless, Jews did not wait for millennia for the resurrection of their sole, minuscule nation only to have to be afraid to travel within it. That’s what life was frequently like for the Jews outside of Israel. The rebirth of the Jewish State was supposed to change that. So, any Jewish leaders who allow this to occur are pathetic. In a democracy–a true democracy, not just a nation of majority rule–this becomes a bit more complicated, so the Jews will have to find legal ways to rid themselves of Lefty judges and others who blame the victims instead, enabling such Arab murderous and traitorous behavior.
Next…
But, with all that’s been happening on the Syrian front (regardless of who did or did not use chemical WMD), there are some other very powerful lessons that the Jews better learn. That brings us back to the opening sentences of this analysis…
Back in the days when George H.W. Bush was President (1989-1993), one of his best buddies, James Baker III, was appointed Secretary of State. Along with such famous gems as calling Israel a turkey that needed to be carefully stalked, complaining about the Jews’ love of money (while himself milking the Arab petro-teet non-stop), and proclaiming, “F’ the Jews, they don’t vote for us anyway,” Baker also promised Syria the same deal that Egypt’s Anwar Sadat got in the Sinai–a full return of the lands lost in the 1967 Six Day War.
Keep in mind that Baker was making such deals with Assad the First without even consulting Israel.
Also keep in mind what this author, along with some others, repeatedly emphasizes–that the final draft of UNSC Resolution 242 (the one that was accepted, not the one that the Arabs, Russians, and the French wanted passed which involved a return to the status quo ante, as if there were no Arab aggression, casus belli blockade, etc.) did not call for Israel to return to what has been called the Auschwitz lines of 1949. Those armistice lines only marked the spots where the Jews stopped the invasion of their nascent country by a half dozen Arab states. They were not official boundaries, and the architects of 242 stated just that while calling for the creation of more defensible, secure, and real borders to take the place of the ’49 lines.
What Menachem Begin’s Israel could gamble to do with Egypt–when the latter’s leader flew to Jerusalem to make a real peace (which would have likely thawed even more over the years had Sadat not been assassinated by Muslim Brotherhood clones)–it could not do on other fronts unless the circumstances were similar. Later, some opportunities opened (some would say, re-opened) with Jordan too, an Arab state carved out in 1922 from almost 80% of the original 1920, post-World War I Mandate of Palestine.
While it’s true that immediately after the ’67 war, Israel offered most, if not all, the territories back in exchange for peace and was answered with the “3 Nos of Khartoum” instead, it soon became obvious that true peaceful coexistence with the state of the Jews was not what most Arabs had in mind. They openly adopted a destruction-in-phases policy instead, with a return of Israel to the ’49 lines as the first stage.
Syria had done much to instigate the ’67 hostilities–and yet, the Alawis who came to rule Syria over the past four decades, have some interesting earlier “history” regarding Jews and the Jewish state
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/grandpa-assad-the-jews-brought-to-the-muslim-arabs-civilization-have-not-taken-anything-by-force-nevertheless-the-muslims-declared-holy-war-against-them/.During the Yom Kippur War in 1973, Syria had plotted with Egypt, once again, for this attack. Recall Israel’s repeated offers of the return of at least most of the territories taken in its defensive war in ’67 for real peace. This was true on the Golan Heights as well (which had also been ruled by Jews in much earlier history, was part of the original 1920 Mandate of Palestine, etc.). But remember 242’s call for the creation of more defensible, secure borders.
The Sinai Peninsula, if demilitarized, could be a fairly large buffer zone–and it was, at least until recently. With the recent turmoil in Egypt, various Jihadi factions have moved in and so forth. Still, as long as no major tank and artillery battalions, missile and air bases were set up there as in pre-’67 war days, Israel could manage the problems.
Here’s Reagan on the same subject on Sept. 1, 1982…
In the pre-1967 borders (sic), Israel was barely 10-miles wide… the bulk of Israel’s population within artillery range of hostile armies. I’m not about to ask Israel to live that way again.
And here’s Lord Caradon, the chief architect of the final, passed version of 242…
It would have been wrong to demand Israel return to positions of June 4, 1967 … those positions were … artificial … just places where soldiers of each side happened to be on the day fighting stopped in 1948 … just armistice lines. That’s why we didn’t demand Israelis return to them.
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