Posted on 11/17/2003 3:43:20 PM PST by SJackson
Thousands of Europeans, in an unambiguous poll, have declared that Israel is the major danger to the peace of the world. They are right.
One can, of course, say cynically that if there were no Jews in Istanbul (or Eretz Israel) the Arabs would not have killed them, together with several Turks. In other words, the Jews (whom Israel represents) are the inevitable cause of international violence. If they did not exist, the world would remain quiet and peaceful.
It is somewhat cynical to accuse the girl instead of the rapist, but only to a certain extent. In some cases, the girl is really guilty. This is true in Israel's case. Let's consider the most outstanding and publicized case of violence in the last decade: the affair of the World Trade Center. The Twin Towers collapsed on thousands of innocent Gentiles because of Islamic suicide bombers. But who invented the phenomenon of Arab suicide bombers? The Israelis, of course. No, this isn't a joke.
This crazy Islamic mutation did not exist anywhere in the world until the Israelis came up with their Oslo process. There had previously been cases of soldiers who committed suicide on the battlefield, or in situations where they had no alternative. However, a terrorist who blew himself up near the homes of innocent children who went to buy pizza could have triggered the bomb with a delay mechanism and escaped unharmed. Furthermore, these children were not fighting him nor did they put him in a situation with his back against a wall. This is a case of a death wish unprecedented in human history, the exact opposite of any human value. The fact cannot be ignored that it first appeared when the Jews decided to recognize the justification of the Arabs' claims and gave them what they wanted.
After the Six Day War, the Jews in the world were full of pride. Anti-Semitism became marginal, and aliyah from prosperous countries increased tremendously. The Jews stood up for themselves and proved that they believed that they were in the right and were ready to fight for this, and that the Almighty was on their side.
The Oslo process was a trend in the opposite direction - the Jews admitted that their enemies were in the right. They went down on their knees and implored their enemy, despite recognizing his being in the right - or, in other words, despite the admission in principle by the Jews that they had stolen Eretz Israel - to be so good as to allow these colonialists to retain a strip of land between Gedera and Hadera.
In order to understand how this process drove the Arabs crazy and gave birth to suicide bombers, we have to adopt levels of consciousness that do not usually exist amongst Western people who regard themselves as rational. I don't think that I fully understand this issue, but I shall try to express my feelings.
This justice, which has come into the possession of the Islamic Arabs, this hot potato delivered personally by the most reliable messenger possible, the people of the Bible, is like an atom bomb held by a baby. The power of justice is greater than any kind of weapon. Not by chance does Arafat speak only of justice, while we speak of pragmatism. (The secret of the power of justice was known to all the dictators - they all spoke in terms of rights.) Islamic Arabic consciousness is incapable of handling this concept in this world. (Neither is Christianity. Islam equates justice with power, and Christianity equates justice with weakness.) The sole culture which indicates how to connect morality and justice to this world is Jewish culture. Now the Jews have thrown this to the Arabs and have driven them mad. They are incapable of holding on to it in this world, and are left with no choice but to die, and to be Shahids.
You may or may not agree with what I have written. I shall be happy to hear from anyone who can clarify the issue. However, it is impossible to dispute that the phenomenon of the suicide bombers began with the Oslo Agreement. Israel is the representative of the Jewish people. The nation is supposed to be the lighthouse of justice and morality for humanity in general.
Consciously or unconsciously, humanity is expecting this. Now the representative of the Jews has admitted by its actions that the claim of their enemies is justified. Humanity in general, the vast majority of which believes in the Bible, is seeing how the Jews, for the first time in history, are declaring that they are not bearing the message of the Almighty, that the site of the Temple belongs to the Arabs (so that they are therefore the bearers of divine truth - and what does Bin-Laden need more than this?), that there is no moral direction, that there is no good and evil. In fact, they are saying that violence pays, and is even justified, and therefore provides temptation to act in this way.
So what is more dangerous to the peace of the world than the Israel of the Rabin legacy?
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