"What is the solution to the Mid East crisis?" ... "Destroy Israel!"
As the so-called humanitarian flotilla approached Gaza late last month, Israeli military authorities attempted to warn the ships away from impending confrontation. “This is the Israeli navy,” they cautioned in radio transmissions. “You are approaching an area which is under a naval blockade.”
“Shut up. Go back to Auschwitz,” was the reply.
There may have been a good number of benevolent souls on those ships. But the heirs of Albert Schweitzer these were not.
Days before the flotilla incident, Rabbi David Nesenoff asked Helen Thomas, dean of the White House press corps, if she had any comments about Israel. “Tell them to get the hell out of Palestine.” Where should the Israelis — presumably the 5.7 million Jewish Israelis, not the country's 1.2 million Muslim citizens — go? “Poland. Germany. ... And America and everywhere else.”
Days before the flotilla incident, Rabbi David Nesenoff asked Helen Thomas, dean of the White House press corps, if she had any comments about Israel. “Tell them to get the hell out of Palestine.” Where should the Israelis — presumably the 5.7 million Jewish Israelis, not the country's 1.2 million Muslim citizens — go? “Poland. Germany. ... And America and everywhere else.”
For those of us who hope that Israelis and Palestinians will one day live as neighbors in peace and security, the clips of the radio exchange and the Thomas interview were enlightening — and depressing. Surely it's possible to recognize the humanity of one group and support its national aspirations without demanding the expulsion or extermination of the other, isn't it?
Perhaps not. For years, critics of Israel have wailed that any criticism of the Jewish state, no matter how muted, is met with charges of anti-Semitism. It's an argument that is ridiculous on its face, one that — like the false accusation of bigotry — is meant to discredit and squelch debate.
The most vibrant arguments about Israel take place within the Zionist community. The most vociferous critiques of Israeli policy occur within Israel itself. Take a look at the opinion pages of the online edition of the Jerusalem Post in recent days: “We need an international inquiry”; “Wanted: Israeli strategic long-term thinking.”
The most vibrant arguments about Israel take place within the Zionist community. The most vociferous critiques of Israeli policy occur within Israel itself. Take a look at the opinion pages of the online edition of the Jerusalem Post in recent days: “We need an international inquiry”; “Wanted: Israeli strategic long-term thinking.”
“Like a robot lacking in judgment, stuck on a predetermined path — that's how the government is behaving,” began an editorial in the daily Haaretz. As a thought experiment, imagine a journalist in Gaza writing similar words about Hamas without being thrown off the top of a building, or a journalist in Tehran criticizing the mullocracy without getting hanged.
Yet if it's false that any criticism of Israel is impermissible and is always met with charges of anti-Semitism, it is true that some of the obsession over the small parcel of land Jews have called home for 3,000 years, the effort to delegitimize Israel alone among the nations, the elevation of Palestinian human rights above Tibetan and Chechan and all other human rights, the accusations of apartheid that somehow overlook entire Saudi cities that are forbidden to non-believers, the preoccupation with Israeli misdeeds while ignoring actual genocides elsewhere is ... well, hard to explain.
Maybe the people with these compulsions have completely benign intentions. Maybe they really do care about the welfare of Palestinians, despite the fact that Hamas represents a fundamentalist threat to the Palestinian Authority. Maybe they truly mean it when they say that their criticism of Israel is a sincere expression of caring, even if they have an odd way of showing it.
Or perhaps just below the surface, on a radio frequency they think no one will ever hear or in an interview they presume no one will ever see, something else is at work.
Perhaps they just wish the Jews would go the hell away ... somewhere, anywhere other than where they are. Perhaps their greatest lament about the Holocaust is that the Nazis didn't do a better job. And perhaps their hope is that if they can confound decent people long enough with their professions of humanitarianism, Hamas or Hezbollah or a nuclear-armed Iran will finally be able to finish what Hitler did not.
My notes:
When did America decide to become the servants of Islam?
Yes, servants! Are we not servants when this administration proudly bows to Islamic countries and its leaders (bowing = action of a servant); allows our Military to train Muslims in the West Bank; donates $940 MILLION DOLLARS to Gaza, ruled under the Hamas organization and recently, we give them another $200 MILLION, under the guise of "humanitarian aid", when actually this is either a bribe to the Arabs, as a thank you for not hitting the Untied States since September 11th, or this Administration's way of saying "Go back to Germany and Poland dear Israeli's and turn over the State of Israel to the Arabs."
What justifies defending a motley crew of terrorists on a ship from Turkey, over respecting a blockade set up by an ally, for the purpose of defending its citizens from terrorism?
Since Obama, like the UN, is demanding that Israel investigate the actions of its IDF for attempting to prevent a ship from running through an Israel/Egypt blockade, America is standing along side the Arabs and Islam, whether we like it or not (and most Americans disagree with this policy 100%). Unlike the Islamic country of Turkey, Americans are not in agreement of this "Free Gaza" movement, headed up by Islamic terrorist.
Would someone in Washington like to explain to America exactly when the United States preferred to support Hamas and the Palestinians in Gaza over America's ally Israel? Is supporting Gaza and the Palestinians the will of the people? Hardly!
When did our journalist, media, newspapers begin a code of silence, ignoring the truth, while writing up articles in defense of Islamic terrorism on the high seas?
I believe it began when we became servants of Islam - that's when! When we began defending the enemy that our own troops are attempting to fight for America's security. It began the day this administration apologized to the world for being an American and it began, most certainly, the day America's history was twisted to appease Islam, in a speech given in Cairo.
You can not force democracy on countries that refuse to become democratic. You cannot force terrorists to seek a road to peace, if they prefer to shoot missiles at its neighbors. You cannot claim to be a beacon of light and freedom, while defending murders and terrorists. Nor, can you prevent small minds from hating others, or using an entire race as scapegoats for the ills of this old world. Anti-Semitism is not new - just an old, hateful excuse to hate someone other than the ones who actually wish to divide and conquer this entire world - Islam!
Yes, as PM Netanyahu stated, "dark days are ahead" and each of us need to ask, "How dark?" As dark as the days that proceeded the Holocaust? Hitler had lots of volunteers in each country that were more than willing to murder Jews. The Holocaust may have been prevented if the average citizens in each country had refused to assist the SS and its troops.
Europe had much guilt and good reason for it, when silence was chosen over standing up for the Jews. And today, the Europeans are overrun by Muslim immigrants who are promoting the same propaganda against the Jews that was used during WWII. The propaganda and lies of Arafat live today, as if he were still alive. He is alive in the hearts and mind of people like Abbas, leaders in Iran, organizations like Hamas and Hizbollah and everyone who has chosen Islam over democracy; Islam, rather than those who seek peace, as Israel seeks peace for its citizens. Name one "democratic" Islamic country!!
And the question one needs to ask is, "Who's side is America on today?" Are we the servants of the same Islamic terrorists who attacked America's soil on Sept. 11th? If not, then call your representatives in Washington and DEMAND that they stand up to this administrations twisted foreign policies and DEMAND that this administration stand by and for America's ally, Israel. If we remain silent, do nothing, America will one day reap what we sow. If we are to defend America from its enemies, then define the enemy and stop handing out MILLIONS OF DOLLARS to the very people who curse America and America's way of life.
Lastly, it would have been decent of Obama, if he had demanded the IDF solider, Gilad's release, before giving Hamas another dime, let alone MILLIONS OF DOLLARS in free, tax exempt aid, under the pretense of helping Palestinians who voted for Hamas.
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