Posted on 05/19/2007 6:01:42 AM PDT by Clive
This week 59 years ago May 14, 1948, David Ben-Gurion read out the declaration proclaiming Israel's independence.
Some six months earlier in November 1947 the UN voted for the partition of Palestine under British Mandate into two states, one Arab and one Jewish.
Jewish leaders accepted the UN resolution, while the Arab League representing Arab opinion repudiated the UN plan and refused to accept the making of modern Israel.
The history of this period, and of the decades preceding and following Israel's re-birth, is layered with controversy, yet one dominant motif of this history stands out. Arab misery is in part a self-inflicted consequence of Arab vindictiveness toward Jews, making the Arab-Israeli dispute the most intractable of conflicts over the past 100 years and counting.
Arab refusal to accept Jewish rights to statehood has been accompanied by wars with the intent to annihilate Israel. Bigotry and hate toward Jews on the Arab side has masqueraded as religious edict, and then morphed into the sheer evil of indiscriminate suicide bombings.
Arabs have not been alone in their malice towards Jews and Israel. Big powers have also connived and colluded with Arab states to keep alive Arab-Muslim animus towards Israel.
Britain's promise made to Jews in the Balfour Declaration of November 1917 laid the grounds for a Jewish home in the lands where God -- so does the Koran (5:20-21) of the Muslims record -- instructed Moses to take his people. It was from these lands and the temples Jews built to God that the Romans evicted them 2,000 years ago.
But when Jews, threatened in the 1930s with Hitler's Final Solution for European Jewry needed most urgently support to find refuge, Britain imposed stringent restrictions on Jewish emigration into Palestine. If with British help -- instead of London's opposition to Jews and appeasement of Arabs -- Israel had been founded 10 years earlier then many of those Jews who perished in the Holocaust would have survived.
An acceptance of Israel, at any time during the past six decades, would have made for permanent peace between two people claiming rights over the same lands. Israel's peace treaties with Egypt (1979) and Jordan (1994) are instructive that neither nationalism nor religion are insurmountable obstacles to reaching an Arab-Israeli settlement on Palestine as proposed in the UN plan of 1947.
What is missing on the Arab side, in particular with Palestinians, is reasonableness, a quality amply demonstrated by Jews despite the anguish of their tragedy and the rightness of their claims to statehood. Unlike Arabs, Jews accepted what was offered by the UN in 1947 as the least good, and then worked hard to make the best of the circumstances provided.
Elias Khoury, a Palestinian-Christian writer, reflecting on the twists and turns of his native land comments, said, "Palestine isn't a country for it to have a flag. Palestine is a condition. Every Arab is a Palestinian... Palestine is the condition of us all." In other words, Palestine for Arabs is pathology or a rage and tribal call for rallying in an endless conflict with tribal enemies.
Israel's success in building a modern economy within a democratic setting holds a mirror to the Arab-Muslim world's abject failure to meet demands of the modern world with reasonableness.
Arab politics instead burns self-destructively with rage whether it is in the savagery of violence at display in Iraq, in the ethnic genocide unleashed in Darfur, or Palestinians shooting each other as the world watches in disbelief or wrong-headed sympathy.
Salim Mansur ping
“Arab misery is in part a self-inflicted consequence of Arab vindictiveness toward Jews”
Arab misery is *entirely* a self-inflicted consequence of Arab vindictiveness toward Jews.
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I dont agree. Arab misery is inbred in them. They love misery. If the Jews did not exist , they would have to find someone else to hate and try to kill, probably each other.
They dont just hate, they hate everyone, including themselves. Its their religion, hatred, abuse misery its all part and parcel of being Arab.
I think this captures it.
Certainly the "Palestineans" are well beyond psychological redemption. They went over the cliff a long time ago. But they also strengthen the 7th century medieval archetype from which Arabs cannot seem to escape.
The mental illness called Islam has made the Arabs powerless and hopeless.
I agree and cannot, after many years of observing, justify in my mind nor heart any sympathy for the Arabs. They operate in a 15th century mind-set of hate and violence...all bolstered by their religion.
If the mooselimbs didn’t have oil under their sand, they would still be a nomadic bunch of tribes intent on getting their own branch of islam as the official religion. For thousands of years, the persians, egyptians and what is now iraq had a very educated population and a culture that was very business oriented. Along came mohammed and it’s been all down hill from then.
They have forfeited their future and their children’s future on the alter of hatred, and they are reaping their hideous crop. I see no solution other than for us to take the fight to them. There is no reasoning with them, this is lunacy only the dumycrats can be serious about.
I guess we know where the next terrorist attack will happen in Canada...
You are correct my friend. Sadly there are too few speaking from the Arab world who recongnize wate Mansur has only begun to glean.
I say begun because the pathology is Islam, Jew hatred is merely a symptom.
Islam is a cancer of the soul and the mind for which few find a cure. Those who escape only do so by radical spiritual surgery and only then with the help of the true God.
Simple truths are often rejected in the secular west but eloquently demonstrate they are inspired:
By their fruit you shall know them.
Judge the fruit of Islam.
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