Saturday, April 20, 2002

Why the Jews are always to blame "But Israel has committed a heinous crime. That crime is to seek to defend itself against the attempt to annihilate it. For this effrontery, a torrent of lies, distortions, libels, abandonment of objectivity and the substitution of malice and hatred for truth is pouring out of the British and European media and Establishment." "The authorised version, from which there is barely any deviation, goes as follows. The Palestinians, denied a homeland by Israel and understandably driven to terrorism in their despair, are now under murderous assault by Israel’s Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, who is using the suicide bombings as an excuse to destroy the Palestinians. " "This will understandably produce more suicide bombings; so, if more Israelis are blown to smithereens, it will be their own fault. Indeed, all this mayhem is their fault anyway because they won’t negotiate. If only they would give the Palestinians what they want, the violence would end, and the world would be a safer place. As it is, the whole region may go up in flames, Israel included. That, too, will be Israel’s fault. " "Israel, for all its faults, is a democracy and an open society. The Palestinian Authority is a corrupt despotism which has brainwashed its people into believing mediaeval blood libels against the Jews. . . . everyone knows that the Israelis cannot be victims because they are always to blame. In the same fashion, everyone knows that Chairman Arafat is not a terrorist. He is a statesman . . . " "There is no doubt that Israel has behaved badly to the Palestinians in these territories. It was wholly wrong to settle them; those settlements should have been dismantled and the territories returned years ago. But the territories are a monumental diversion from the issue, which is that the Palestinians want the Jewish state destroyed. They do not want a ‘two-state’ solution. That was offered in 1948 and . . . has been rejected by the Arabs from that time onwards. . . . the peace process was a ‘Trojan horse’ and that the long-term goal was ‘the liberation of Palestine from the river to the sea’." "There is a widespread view that the Middle East impasse has to be solved before the assault on terror can proceed. This is precisely the wrong way round. There will be no prospect of the Palestinians making peace until their terrorist sponsors in Iran, Iraq and Syria are dealt with." "For the real crime of Israel is this: to have fought back. Jews aren’t supposed to do this. They are supposed to go passively to their deaths. If the Jews do fight, they should lose. What they must never do is to win." "But if all those who believe the Jews run America really think that the world would be better off if only those dreadful Jews would kindly disappear, they should think again. For radical Islam, the West is next on the list." "The question is whether the West will stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Israel in its war against terror or whether it will side with terror against it. At present the signs are ominous. The leitmotiv of the state of Israel, forged after the world looked the other way from the Holocaust, is ‘never again’. The West has now given its response: ‘Yes, again’; and if they are destroyed, the Jews, as ever, will be to blame." 1:53:03 PM  Google It!  comment  []

Baghdad Delenda Est. "Even the Marxists and Arab apologists like Edward Said . . . " " . . . the Middle East is what anthropologists call a 'shame society.' In such societies . . . 'the acquisition of honor and the converse, avoidance of shame, are the keys to motivation.'" ISLAMIC LIBERATION "Indeed, the Islamic faith itself is at odds with the concept of nationalism. In the Koran, Mohammad admonishes believers . . . to think of themselves as members of the faith, regardless of geography. Islam began as a pan-Arab religion and even though it has become a catholic faith, . . . it has retained much of the internal logic of empire." "Europe, thanks to geography and Christianity, developed into coherent nation-states that are only now melting together. The cultures are different. Civil society — the space between state and the individual — is huge in the West. It's teeny-tiny in Arab cultures. The word 'religion' draws from the Latin 'religio' which originally referred to customs and rituals. The Islamic word for 'religion' in Arabic is "din" which means 'law.' To be grossly simplistic, religion in the West is something we do, in the Middle East it is something you must do." "'For the traditional Muslim . . . religion was not only universal but also central in the sense that it constituted the ultimate basis and focus of identity and loyalty. It was a religion that distinguished and united those who belonged to the group and marked them off from those outside the group, even if they lived in the same country and spoke the same language.' . . . 'The Fatherland of a Muslim is wherever the Holy Law of Islam prevails.'" LINES IN THE SAND "The Middle East is a shame culture. What unites the Arab world, from "moderates" to "suicide bombers" is a fixation of humiliation and honor. When Crown prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia offered his "peace plan," almost the first words out of his mouth were about humiliation. Terrorists of every stripe and flavor seethe with talk of their honor and how humiliation must be avenged." " . . . as for the Palestinians as a "people" (a very new concept), countries like Syria, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait talk a great game about how much they care for them, but their actions run in the opposite direction. These regimes pay lip service to "Palestinian nationalism" — with all their talk of the "Arab nation" and "Muslim world" — as a way to feed their own resentments and hence, the beast of Islamic fundamentalism." " . . . the distinction between Osama bin Laden's terrorism, that seeks to attack America first, and Hamas's terrorism, that wants to start with Israel, is fairly academic from their perspective. They have a very real  fight against very real terrorists. And, let us not forget, it isn't a war on terrorism, but on those willing to use it." DISMANTLE IRAQ "Which brings us to Iraq. Of all the artificial nations of the Middle East, Iraq is the most bogus. . . . The Ottomans never conceived of Iraq as a nation, in fact no one did. To the Turks the area was comprised of three imperial provinces centered on three respective cities: Baghdad, Basra, and Mosul. . . . Shortly before his death King Faisal wrote, 'I say with my heart full of sadness that there is not yet in Iraq an Iraqi people.'" "The point for now is that Iraq shouldn't have existed in the first place. It's lasted this long thanks to the Stalinist repression of the Baath regime. And the only reason we didn't get rid of it last time was that the Saudis despise the idea of toppling Hussein because they don't want us to establish an attractive alternative to the nasty form of government they profit from." 1:27:15 PM  Google It!  comment  []

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