We Are All Israelis
Published as Guest Commentary in the Delaware State News on August 1, 2006.—————————You don’t have to be a Jew to support Israel. It’s a democracy like the United States. It has been a staunch American ally in an unfriendly neighborhood. It has strong political, social and religious ties to the United States.
However it’s more personal for me. One of my earliest memories is the destruction of airplanes sitting on the tarmac in Jordan by terrorists on September 12, 1970. I was 3 years old.
At the time my sister was a flight attendant for TWA. One of the planes hijacked happened to be a TWA flight, and my father – a physically imposing man – was driven to hand-wringing and pacing until he learned that my sister was safe.
Two years later I sat mesmerized in front of the TV watching the hostage drama in Munich unfold. There 11 Israeli athletes were held for 18 hours by Palestinian terrorists before being massacred.
The Arab-Israeli conflict became a part of my daily life when the Arab oil producing states decide to punish the Western nations for supporting Israel. Gasoline doubled overnight from 59 cents a gallon, straining my parent’s budget and ushering in a period of high inflation. Terms like ‘Misery Index’ entered my vocabulary as I watched the nightly news during dinner at home.
As I grew into adolescence I became fascinated by world history. I saw unforgettable photos of the Holocaust and read the stories of unimaginable horror in the concentration camps. I learned how Israel was founded from the ashes of the crematoria.
Since its founding, Israel has been cast into the historical role of the Jewish people: the world’s scapegoat. For decades, the Israelis have been portrayed as greedy – taking away land from the Arabs. People forgot that Israel accepted a two-state solution proposed by the United Nations at its creation. It was the neighboring Arab states, and a large proportion of the Arab population of the prospective Arab state of Palestine who refused to accept the existence of Israel. This continues to be the stand of the Palestinian Authority under the elected leadership of Hamas – a terror group explicitly founded to wipe out Israel and enslave the Jews living there.
The terror attacks continued. As the Israelis suffered, the world convinced itself that the only solution was for Israel to trade the land it had won in battle for peace.
In 2000, Israel itself believed this. It pulled out of south Lebanon. With American guarantees and assurances to both sides it offered the Palestinians all the land it had gained in the prior 33 years. But the Palestinians refused the offer.
Soon, families sitting to dinner were murdered by Hamas terrorists. Toddlers eating pizza at a Jerusalem fast food restaurant were slaughtered by Islamic Jihad attackers, their families paid by Saddam Hussein, their faces painted on walls and names bestowed on streets in Gaza and the West Bank.
Soon after this attack, America experienced 9-11 and shared in the misery of being under attack. On 9-11 the World prided itself by saying everyone had become Americans. In retrospect the truth is that on 9-11 we became Israelis.
Still, Israeli clung to the myth that by pulling out of the lands it had captured in battle, it could buy peace. It pulled out of Gaza, dragging Jewish nationalists screaming at the soldiers who carted them away. Gaza was emptied of Jews, and the first thing the Palestinians did upon taking control was to set fire to the evacuated Jewish synagogues, celebrating and dancing as the temples burned to the ground.
Now Israel finds itself at open war with its enemies. Rockets packed with ball bearings fall upon its northern cities. Hamas attacks continue in the south. Once again the Europeans and the United Nations return to their anti-Semitic roots and try to hold Israel down so that its enemies can attack her without fear of being struck back.
But as an American, I see the truth. It may be possible to talk your way out of a mugging, but you can’t negotiate with a killer. Israel has tried negotiating, has tried playing by the rules imposed on it by the United Nations and the Europeans – and what has it gotten? Dead Israelis.
I stand for Israel because I see it as a desert that has bloomed through the hard work and brilliance of its people. I see a people that has suffered unjustly for thousands of years continue to suffer today. I see a people who refuse to accept the status of victims. I see a people who value peace but aren’t willing to trade it for annihilation.
I stand for Israel because Israel is a nation where Arabs, Jews and Christians live together in peace – next to states where religions and their books are banned outright. I stand for Israel because it values everyone. It holds gay pride rallies next to nations where gays are hung from forklifts. It treats women as equals in all ways, while the women in nearby nations can’t even leave their homes alone.
I stand for Israel because it is at the frontier of civilization, an outpost of honesty in a region mired in corruption. I stand for Israel because in the fight to preserve the light from the darkness, we are all Israelis.
Administrator:
You’re absolutely right.
14 August 2006, 6:02 pmAnd the way we should cope with those “alternative possibilities” is to destroy them.
Administrator:
Paul
The US loses as many troops in a month in Iraq that we lost in a day in Vietnam. To put things in perspective, the body count after 3 years in Iraq equals a month’s worth of highway fatalities or 6 weeks worth of gun deaths in the United States. Hell, we lose more US military personnel worldwide in car accidents than we do in Iraq and Afghanistan put together.
The only killing that is going on now in Iraq is Sunni vs Shiites. We’ve just become the referees.
You can call that a “botty spanking” if you want (whatever the fuck that is). However you must enjoy seeing Muslims killed because that’s all that’s happening now in Iraq.
If seeing Muslims fight to the death over 1200 year old issues (Ali vs. caliphs) then you are nothing but a racist hater.
24 November 2006, 4:46 pmScott Kirwin:
Paul
2 September 2007, 6:19 pmYawn…
Scott Kirwin:
See comment 7
21 September 2007, 3:40 pmScott Kirwin:
Paul
You are a tool, a “useful idiot,” to the radical Jihadists that want to establish a caliphate in your country.
Given the failure of your society to protect itself, it’s only a matter of time before they succeed. Will we have to bail your ass out the way we did three times this past century (2 world wars and 1 cold one)? I sure as hell hope not because honestly, no society is worth defending that won’t defend itself.
Your society has become a cesspool. Crime in your cities is so bad it reminds me of the movie Clockwork Orange. You can’t integrate your immigrants, and so they stew in their own juices of extremism. Meanwhile you blame the Jews or the Americans for your own moral weakness and failures. As I’ve written elsewhere, hating America is the new acceptable form of bigotry. It’s still not acceptable to hate the Jews in some elitist circles, but hating America – that’s okay. Since you do both, you can consider yourself ahead of the curve.
Blaming us for your own mess may make you feel better, but it’s not going to solve your problems. No, those problems are homegrown – the ones you created. We didn’t force your society to become incapable of enforcing a respect for law and order. We didn’t send the stormtroopers in to ruin your economy and stamp out any signs of entrepreneurship on your beloved Sceptered Isle. Your own homegrown politicians and nanny-state did that for you. But even blaming them is wrong: after all, it’s people like you who look to the government the same way a toddler looks to his mother’s breast to succor him. It’s your system: You made it, and you’re going to have to fix it.
But like an alcoholic who refuses to recognize the source of his trouble, you continue to blame America for your failure as a society, a nation, and as a human being. Instead you seek the easy out, the scapegoat, and build up a hatred for me and my country. If I was saint I would pray for you, but I am too busy helping those who truly need help – like the Burmese who fight the type of government you secretly yearn for.
Meanwhile leftists like you suck up to the Islamic zealots, happy to find someone who hates America more than you. Well, suck away, my friend. If you are gay you might want to prepare for the day when you are hung or have a wall collapsed on you the way they handle your type in Iran or under Taliban controlled Afghanistan.
If you are an atheist, you might want to consider converting to their brand of hate. Granted, a bigot such as yourself is filled with hatred, of Americans and of Jews, so it won’t be that difficult to switch from Chomsky to Bin Laden. You are like the neo-Nazis and Klan-lovers I grew up in the Midwest; just those people recognized they were bigots, and even took pride in it. You probably consider yourself a “liberal” and “tolerant” – when in actuality you are as racist and as intolerant of any moonbat who populates the shadows on the World Wide Web.
How dare you, who live without purpose, question those who die for one. What purpose is this, you ask? They die for their comrades and for their country. Since patriotism is an alien and reviled concept to you, I’m sure their deaths appear meaningless. But rest assured that there is more meaning in a single death of an American soldier than there is in the lives of countless people like you.
What is your purpose, really? What makes you slog through your pathetic life day after mindless, boring day? Is it drugs? Booze? What do you have to numb to keep sucking air?
You are one of a class of parasites who thrive on the struggle and sacrifice made by others. I wish that men and women in the British Military could choose who they sacrifice their lives for – because rest assured that they wouldn’t waste their precious lives on the likes of you.
You are full of poison, and I have no time nor inclination to allow you to spread your hatred on my site. Besides, you bore the crap out of me – as most extremists do. Bottom line: If you want to spew your bigotry, get your own blog. I’m not going pay to support your anti-American bigotry here.
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