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”With metronomic regularity, there is a choreographed minuet of carnage.
Israel is attacked. Israel defends itself. Perfunctory affirmations of Israel’s right of self-defense
are quickly followed by accusations that Israel’s military measures are disproportionate. Then come
demands for a cease-fire, and the attackers replenish their arsenals.
“The accusations and demands are ascribed to something fictitious,
‘the international community.’ . . . ‘International community’ is {nothing more than} an empty
cant that bewitches the minds of earnest diplomats {and the gullible bleeding hearts of the world}.
. . . {But, today’s reality is that} Jews shall never again . . . depend on the kindness of strangers.
Such dependency did not work out well for Jews, so Israel exists for Jewish self defense.”
(Ref. 1)
There are actually two wars being conducted between Israel and the Hamas
terrorist organization in control of Gaza. The first war is the one being fought between
the IDF and Hama with rockets, bombs, and rifles. The second war is the propaganda war against
Israel, waged by Hamas, but supported (either intentionally or unintentionally) by the news media
of the world. This second war is being won by Hamas – the world is bombarded with stories and
pictures of the innocent victims in Gaza. It’s heartless to be unsympathetic. But, this second
war is just that – a propaganda war. The first war, however, is the real war, and this is one
war that Israel cannot afford to lose. In truth, it is a war that all opponents to radical Islam
cannot afford to have Israel lose. While Israel fights the real war, the one that ultimately is
for its very existence, the rest of the world needs to stop being the dupes of jihadist propaganda.
The rest of the world needs to get behind Israel and give that nation the support it deserves in
their all-out effort to rid the world of the cancer that is causing so much misery for the
Palestinians in the Gaza strip.
Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler’s propaganda minister, believed in the
efficacy of the Big Lie: If you are a victimizer, tell the world you’re a victim, and if you repeat
that lie often enough, people will believe it. Goebbels said, “If you tell a lie big enough and
keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for
such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military
consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers
to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the
truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
(Ref. 2)
The Arab extremists have learned this lesson well. They make martyrs of
their adherents and their innocent children and then complain to the world that they are the
victims rather than the victimizers. Too many people have bought into this big lie. The world
media abets these extremists by repeating and perpetuating this big lie. For the mass media,
dead bodies sell, destruction sells, bad news sells, the big lie sells. Israel fighting for
its right to exist itself just doesn’t sell as well – there isn’t enough gore and hand-wringing
in reporting on this fact, there aren’t enough dead bodies in Israel (thank God) to make the
front page or the 6 o’clock news. It’s time for all people of good will and a little intelligence
to ignore much of the repeated, biased and irrelevant reporting from Gaza and focus on the
underlying justification for Israel’s war on Hamas and the need to rid the world of the evil
festering in the Gaza strip.
I’m tired of the media repeatedly ranting about the disproportionate
ratio of Palestinian casualties versus Israeli Casualties, presenting innumerable images of
Palestinians filled with rage and/or grief over their dead friends, relatives and children, and
endlessly showing films and videos of the destruction and casualties of the war in Gaza. All
unneeded deaths are unfortunate and everyone should mourn for the victims and their families.
But instead of the endless coverage that shows the misery of war, I would rather the media
focus on asking and answering the following basic questions: Does Israel deliberately target
innocent civilians? – NO! Does Hamas deliberately target innocent civilians? – YES! Does Israel
spend billions of dollars to protect its civilians? – YES! Does Hamas spend the billions of
dollars in foreign aid it receives to protect its civilians? – NO! (Hamas spends it on weapons,
tunnels and incitement to terror!) Does Israel deliberately use its civilians as human shields
and martyrs to garner sympathy? - NO! Does Hamas deliberately use its civilians as human
shields and martyrs to garner sympathy? - YES! Does Israel call for the elimination of a
potential Palestinian state and the expulsion or killing of Muslims living there? – NO!
Does Hamas call for the elimination of Israel and the expulsion or killing of all Jews
living there? – YES!
Unfortunately, people are killed and maimed in war, especially the
type of war waged by the jihadists in Gaza. In war, proportionality deals with the amount of
force necessary to achieve a legitimate military objective with a high degree of certainty.
Given the objective of defeating a vicious enemy, the legitimate amount of force used may be
hugely disparate. For example, hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians were killed by U.S.
bombing even before the atomic destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It has nothing to do with
equivalent or “balanced” casualty rates. It has to do with the ultimate objective – victory,
with the minimum amount of losses to oneself. War is not a game to be played on a level
playing field!
With respect to the second war now taking place, “House Speaker John
Boehner said Monday {28 July 2014} that support for Israel must be the United States' main
focus and not peace mediation in a subtle jab at the Obama administration.
“‘At times like this, people try to isolate Israel - but we are here
to stand with Israel,’ Boehner said in remarks at the National Press Club. ‘Not just as a
broker or observer - but as a strong partner and a trusted ally.’
“Boehner defined that support: ‘Well, it doesn't mean issuing vague,
on-the-one-hand, on-the-other-hand statements. No, it means backing up our words, and showing
solidarity with our friend.’
“The comments from the Ohio Republican came as Secretary of State
John Kerry has tried to negotiate a humanitarian cease-fire between Israel and Hamas after
weeks of fighting, with little success.
“Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday warned his
country that it faces a prolonged campaign against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
“Boehner said the U.S. House will always support Israel's right to
defend itself.
"’We will not equate professional militaries with terrorist organizations
that use human shields and seek to maximize civilian casualties,’ Boehner said. ‘And we insist
that the demilitarization of Gaza be not just a House goal but a shared, uncompromising U.S.
and international objective.’” (Ref. 3)
Even moderate Palestinians are fed up with the brutality of Hamas’s
actions. U.N. Ambassador Ibrahim Kraisi, the Palestinian Representative to the U.N. Human Rights
Council said on MEMRI-TV, “The missile that are now being launched against Israel, each and
every missile constitutes a crime against humanity, whether it hits or misses, because it is
directed at civilian targets.”
Contrast Boehner’s and Kraisis’s statements with the report that
“President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry have been pressing Israel to accept
an immediate and unconditional humanitarian cease-fire.”
(Ref. 4) The simple fact is that
Israel shouldn’t agree to any cease-fire that allows Hamas to rearm again. Kerry,
Obama and too many of the other nations of the world either don't have a realistic grasp of
what the jihadist mentality entails or they are simply closet anti-Semites or outright
haters of Israel. Every time Israel has been forced into war to preserve its very existence,
there has always been a superpower that intervenes and prevents Israel from achieving total
victory and enforcing a peace treaty as the Allies did in WW II with the Nazis and Japan.
This has allowed the terrorists masquerading as champions of the Palestinian people to
subjugate these Palestinians under a brutal and repressive regime that uses them as cannon
fodder in their vicious war against Israel.
“Kerry’s error has been to put so much emphasis on achieving a
quick halt to the bloodshed that he has solidified the role of Hamas, the intractable,
unpopular Islamist group that leads Gaza . . .
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“. . . Gaza has suffered from a generation of brutal expediency.
Any deal that reinforces Hamas’ stranglehold . . . is misconceived. In the name of stopping
bloodshed this week, it all but guarantees it in the future.”
(Ref. 5)
Kerry, Obama and the other useful idiots of the world are calling
for an “unconditional humanitarian cease-fire” in Israel’s struggle to end the ongoing
attacks against them. Exactly what is humane and inhumane in this case?
What would be inhumane would be to allow the jihadists to continue killing Jews, Christians,
and Israelis while sacrificing their own children and people in an attempt to garner
sympathy and support from the rest of the world. What would be humane would be for Israel
to destroy, once and for all, the regime in Gaza that would keep the mid-east constantly
at war. What would be humane would be for Israel to rid the world of the extremists who
ultimately seek world domination and the subjugation or elimination of all "infidels".
What would be humane would be for Israel, with the supoort of the rest of the world,
to provide the people of Gaza with the right to enjoy a peaceful and productive life
without the crushing oppression of the Hamas jihadists.
Can your imagine what America’s and the Allies’ response to an
absurd request for an “unconditional humanitarian cease-fire” would have been in the middle
of World War II? – Please stop bombing Germany and Japan for humanitarian reasons.
Israel is engaged in a war for its very existence. The war was not brought about by Israel –
it was started and has been continued by the Arab terrorists in control of Gaza and elsewhere.
Israel has the right to defend itself and has the right to destroy those who have vowed to
eliminate the State of Israel. In spite of what the useful idiots of the world may say,
Israel is not to blame for the civilian casualties – the Arab/Islamists who use civilians as
human shields, who fire rockets at civilian targets in Israel, who have declared war on Israel,
who refuse to recognize Israel’s right to exist – they are the ones to blame for the civilian
casualties in Gaza. To you useful idiots of the world and jihadist dupes, I say “Stop blaming
the victims!” Israel is no more to blame for the civilian casualties in Gaza than
the United States was for the civilian casualties in Germany or Japan in World War II.
Adolph Hitler and his murderous Nazi criminals were responsible for causing Germany’s destruction
in World War II and for causing the civilian casualties there. Today, Hamas, and not Israel,
is responsible for causing the destruction in Gaza and for causing all the civilian casualties there.
It’s time for the world to face reality. Hamas does not want a meaningful
cease-fire. What Hamas calls a cease fire is for Israel to withdraw from all defensive/offensive
positions, stop all defensive/offensive actions and for Hamas to be allowed to freely regroup,
reorganize, re-install human shields, refortify, reconstruct tunnels and rearm while they cut
back - not stop - their attacks on Israel.
All the bleeding-hearts of the world, the useful idiots of the world who
have bought into the jihadist lies and propaganda, along with the anti-Semites of the world need
to come out and admit the obvious - that the Islamic terrorists controlling Gaza have been waging
an ongoing inhumane war against Israel; they are waging this war with the goal of annihilating
the State of Israel and of killing all the Jews that live there. Israel is engaged in a war - a
war of survival. Israel did not start this war. But, God willing, they will end this war by
winning this war. A permanent cease-fire or truce is not an option – total victory is
the only acceptable solution. The murdering animals in control of Gaza must be destroyed
just as the Nazi scourge of World War II had to be totally eliminated. One does not live with a
cancer – one either exorcises the cancer or dies a lingering death because of it.
Hamas is a cancer. It must be annihilated. Otherwise, it will continue
to fester, even at the expense of destroying its host. Everyone needs to understand this, given
the history of the Islamic radicals’ dealings with Israel and the rest of the world over the past
seven decades. The world must understand that the Islamic extremists interpret the Koran to mean
that they must conquer the world, that all agreements can be broken in order to achieve
that objective, and that murder and suicide are noble ideals for the sake of their form of religious
extremism. Hamas, like all the other Islamic jihadist organizations, fully subscribes to this
doctrine - peace, tolerance and co-existence are not part of the jihadist
doctrine.
While no reasonable person takes pleasure in the death of innocents, when
a nation or group chooses to fight another, inevitably civilians will die. In World War II, over
1.5 million German and Japanese civilians were killed - a lamentable waste of human life, but the
blame for those deaths lay not with the Allies, but with the leaders of those countries and the
populations who tolerated if not embraced them. So it is with Hamas and Gaza - except in this case,
the casualties are even more egregious since the civilians there are being used as pawns by Hamas
in their attempts to win the public relations war and the sympathy of the willing dupes of the world.
That's the real tragedy here.
The Islamic jihadists scream for Jewish blood and the elimination of Israel.
In contrast, here is what one Israeli says. Hamas is killing Palestinian children for political
gains, for propaganda. Am I surprised? No. I am shocked, outraged, flabbergasted, and disgusted.
The vast majority of Israelis mourn every life lost. I was raised to believe that all God's children
are precious. I feel immense pain at the death of innocent people (even when Hamas is responsible).
I feel enormous pain for the brain-washing Palestinian children go through. I weep at their loss of
childhood and loss of innocence. I wish they played with teddy bears and not with machine guns.
I pray for reconciliation, where this blood soaked land will grow flowers and not tombstones. And
here is my big disappointment with Obama and Kerry - they, like the Israeli Peace Now movement and
other extreme left organizations, demand peace at any cost, when we know that such a peace, without
real reconciliation, will only be the prelude for a bigger war. We need a reset button. We need a
completely demilitarized Gaza. We need a kind of "Marshal Plan" for Gaza, so that, finally, these
people will have normal lives, houses, jobs, education, and freedom. When even Saudi scholars
openly write that it is time for peace with Israel, it is clear that Hamas is blocking the light
at the end of the tunnel. We should not save Hamas. We should save the Palestinian people from
Hamas. We can do it. Let us not miss this opportunity.
“The war between Hamas and Israel is subtext to a far more consequential
conflict between proponents of two forms of Palestinian nationalism – call them the State Builders,
and the Rejectionists. Unless the State builders prevail, an enduring resolution to the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict will remain improbable.
“Many Palestinians are tired of their conflict with Israel, accept
that {Israel} is here to stay and would prefer to concentrate on establishing a viable Palestinian
state based on a negotiated two-state solution.”
(Ref. 4)
Most Israelis long ago accepted the concept of a two-state solution and
Israel has willingly offered to negotiate an agreement to make it happen. The Revisionist influences
on the Palestinian side have famously forced the Palestinian ruling powers to reject the offer,
even though U.S. President Obama and Secretary of State Kerry have made attempting to force such
an agreement upon both parties a cornerstone of the administration’s foreign policy.
The Palestinians and the anti-Israel Arab countries have continually
made several “non-negotiable” issues non-starters to arriving at a meaningful negotiated settlement.
One of these is the demand for the “right of return” of refugees – more correctly the “right of
return” of those who are descendants of the original 1948 refugees.
“The Palestinian refugee population and a roughly equal sized group of
Jewish refugees {from Arab countries} resulted from a war launched by Arab states in 1948 to
annihilate Israel. The Jewish refugees were quickly resettled {in the newly established State
of Israel that was ill-equipped, economically, socially and politically to absorb them}. Palestinian
refugees, however, were relegated to camps where they {and their descendants} have languished as
pawns of Rejectionists, who have made the refugee population’s hopes for the future contingent on
Israel’s destruction.” (Ref. 4)
The United Nations and the anti-Israel hordes have aided and abetted the
rejectionists by establishing UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine
Refugees in the Near East in 1949. For the past 65 years, UNRWA has kept the Palestinian refugees
in what amounts to detention camps in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria, as well as in the West Bank and
the Gaza Strip. UNRWA allows the Palestinian refugees to continue as unwilling pawns of the Arab
rejectionists and bleeding hearts of the world. UNRWA is the only agency dedicated to helping
refugees from a specific region or conflict. It is separate from UNHCR, the United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees, which is dedicated to aiding all refugees in the world.
It is well known that UNRWA’s work has long crossed the lines of
humanitarianism and relief, deep into the realm of anti-Israel politics. Indeed, the
acceptance by UNRWA’s leadership of the mission to enhance the political rights of Palestinians at
large, not only refugees, has gradually become a key trend, characterizing the Agency’s activity.
UNRWA has expanded its activities to provide protection for refugees and non-refugees alike. This
mandate to protect Palestinians, and the accompanying sense of being joined with the Palestinians
against Israel, is today a part of UNRWA’s culture. The supposedly neutral UNRWA has engaged in
the endorsement of Palestinian political views. The one-sided positions of UNRWA officials were
reflected by their focusing on condemning Israeli counterterrorism efforts in language associated
with war crimes while their criticism of Palestinian-initiated attacks was both mild and
infrequent.[ 6]
In addition to the U.N., the U.S. and other nations around the world
have been blindly contributing to the corrupt and vicious Palestinian ruling regimes with so-call
humanitarian aid. “Although ‘humanitarian aid’ may be nice sounding, the reality is no one in our
government – or the U.N. – is tracking how hundreds of millions of dollars in international aid
is being spent.
“’We see what Hamas has been doing with all the international humanitarian
aid in the past. Instead of building housing, and hospitals etc., they’ve been pouring all the aid
into underground tunnels for a murderous war against Israel.’” (Ref.
7) One may well ask the obvious question of
why is an organization like Hamas, designated by the U.S. and the European Union as a terrorist
organization, being given ‘humanitarian aid’ in the first place?
“Hamas, the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, has become the
standard-bearer of the Rejectionist camp. It {Hamas} is recognized by the United States and
the European Union as a terrorist organization. Its charter expressly calls for the destruction of
Israel and the murder of Jews. And, it explicitly rejects efforts to resolve the conflict with
Israel peacefully. [emphasis mine]
“Hamas has been committed to these goals for more than a quarter century,
and preventing a final peace accord with Israel has been central to its efforts. To this end, it
has maintained a robust terror program, including suicide bombings, missile attacks, assassinations
and kidnapping.
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“The current war between Hamas and Israel illustrates how Hamas uses
violence to advance its mission. They launched hundreds of missiles and rockets at more than
half of Israel’s Jewish and Arab citizens. In response to Israel’s efforts to stop these
attacks, Hamas turned citizens of Gaza into human shields and every Palestinian
killed into a trophy with which to sway public opinion against Israel. [emphasis mine]
“The human tragedy that is unfolding is heartrending, yet this is a
situation that demands moral clarity. An organization capable of the depravity demonstrated
by Hamas is a bulwark against peace. By not confronting this reality, well-intentioned proponents
of Palestinian-Israeli reconciliation continue to undermine Palestinian State Builders, cloud the
path to peace and lay a foundation for continued conflict.” [emphasis mine]
(Ref. 4)
So, What is humane and what is inhumane? What would be inhumane would be to allow
Hamas to remain in power!
It’s time to end the
inhumane treatment of the Palestinians in Gaza
imposed on them by their terrorist Hamas rulers. What would be humane would be to once and for
all eliminate the scourge of Hamas terrorism! It’s time to let Israel do the humane thing
and end the rule of Hamas over Gaza, thus eradicating the cancer that has plagued the region
and the world for too long. And it would also be the humane and intelligent thing to do for the world
to stop buying into the Terrorists' and anti-Semites' big lies.
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References:
- Develop foreign policy neither weak, nor grandiose, George Will,
Boston Herald, Page 17, 31 July 2014.
- Joseph Goebbels: On the "Big Lie", Jewish Virtual Library,
Accessed 30 July 2014.
- Boehner urges US solidarity with Israel, AP Report on AOL Donna Cassata,
28 July 2014.
- Terrorist Hamas blocks peace, Robert Leikind, Boston Herald, Page 15,
29 July 2014.
- Kerry bungles Gaza cease-fire push, David Ignatius, Boston Herald,
Page 15, 30 July 2014.
- UNRWA: Blurring the Lines between Humanitarianism and Politics , Dr. Rephael Ben-Ari,
Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Accessed 29 July 2014.
- U.S. needs to back words with action in Gaza, Adriana Cohen,
Boston Herald, Page 8, 31 July 2014.
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