Saturday, August 27, 2005

The Middle East: The La-La Land of Truth Inversion

“Observe what the absurdly named “peace process” has consisted of. The Palestinian Authority and its Arab neighbors deliberately keep the Palestinians in misery, indoctrinate them with anti-Semitism, and sponsor terrorism against Israel. They then blame Israel’s “occupation” of territories won in a war of self-defense (and crucial for Israel’s security today) for the Palestinian’s misery—and blame the Palestinians’ misery for Palestinian terrorism. The solution, they convince Israel and the West, is more land, loot, and power for the “downtrodden” Palestinians—money which the Palestinian leadership uses to fund more attacks on Israel.” (Israel’s Deadly Appeasement Process Continues (www.capmag.com).


The removal of the Jewish settlements in Gaza and with it any Israeli presence in this territory is a sad reminder of the bizarre times we live in. It took six days for the Israeli army to capture Gaza, the West Bank, Sinai and the Golan Heights during the 1967 Middle East war – a war which by the way was NOT started by Israel. Ironically it took the Israeli army six days to remove residents from 21 settlements in Gaza and four settlements in the West Bank.

Reading the comments from Arab leaders is an interesting exercise in truth inversion. Rafiq Husseini a Palestinian presidential chief of staff stated after the pullout: “This is a momentous and very important point in history for us. But now we want to start building.” They want to start building? Who was stopping them? It certainly was not the Israelis who at every step were willing to live side by side with their Arab neighbors. The stopping was done by the same Palestinian leaders backed by Terrorist organizations who knew that if the Palestinians prospered that would be the death blow to their fantasies of an Islam dominated world.

Mr. Husseini also stated that the Israeli withdrawal was “a very important step toward liberation and freedom and independence”. Liberation? It will be an important step when the Palestinians are liberated from their terrorist masters that have every intention of continuing the present state of Palestinian misery and poverty.

But the greatest inversion of actions and consequences was when the Israeli foreign minister Mr. Meir said: “We disengaged the people from the land in the Gaza Strip and the northern part of the West Bank. Now it is the Palestinians’ turn to disengage themselves from violence and terror.” For every action there is a logical reaction. For every cave-in to irrationality there is only more irrationality. The terrorists have learned in the past that violence and murdering innocent Israelis pays. In August 2005 they learned that patience and continued violence will give them land.

Facing the truth and telling it like it is, is a necessary component to winning anything in life and much more so when a war is being fought. In the 20th century we won WWII because we openly called the Japanese evil and Hitler a monster. Then we took the necessary actions to bring them down. The Islamic terrorists are our 21st century evil. Let us not call what happened in Gaza this month a step toward peace. It is a step toward the self sacrifice of Israel - their doom. True freedom-loving people around the world should be saddened by Israel’s capitulation, the only bulwark of freedom and democracy in a sea of irrationality and evil.

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