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Two weeks later, the ruins are still smoldering at
the scene of the Crime of the 21st Century, the President has
declared war on the perpetrators, and fingers of blame are already pointed
away from the culprits, and toward the
victims. Pundits, the ivory-tower intellectuals who know so much more than
you and me, but who couldn’t locate their own rear end in the dark, are
declaiming, “What did the U.S.A. do that so angered the jihad
warriors, that they crashed civilian aircraft into the World Trade
Center?” Then, in answer to this rhetoric, they smugly answer: It was
because of the U.S. support of Israel in the Mideast.
Israel, as everybody knows, is a bone in the throat
of a billion Muslims worldwide. Israel, a tiny sliver of Judaism on the
vast expanse of Dar Al Islam, the lone democracy surrounded
by totalitarian dictatorships and medieval theocracies; Israel, which has
offered more for peace and shown more restraint in the face of terrorism
than any nation should be made to endure, is alone responsible for the
rage which spawned this monstrous Crime of Crimes. Israel, we are told,
also practices “terrorism” against the helpless Palestinians, terrorism
which is at least as bad, if not much worse, than the holocaust which
engulfed the World Trade Center.
And what do these acts of “terrorism” committed by
Israel consist of? When two Israeli reservists took a wrong turn into
Ramallah (which is one of the areas where the dubious excuse of
“occupation” does not apply), they were torn limb from limb by a mob of
frenzied savages. Israel’s response was to shoot missiles into an empty
police headquarters and a radio station, after first making sure that
“innocent civilians” evacuated the building. When a sniper lined up an
infant’s skull in the crosshairs, the Israelis put up a roadblock and this
was called “racism.” When a suicide bomber murdered twenty Israeli
teenagers in a Tel Aviv disco, the Israelis hesitated to resume
“negotiations” and were blamed for “slowing” the “peace process.” When a
suicide bomber slaughtered mothers and children at a Jerusalem pizzeria,
the IDF escalated the “cycle of violence” by hoisting the Israeli flag
over the “Orient House,” an atrocity so unprecedented for sheer brutality
that hardcore peace freaks like Uri Avnery and Michael Lerner shrieked with
outrage at what monsters the Israelis had become.
This hallucination has infected the brains of such
luminaries as British Foreign Minister Jack Straw and French Ambassador
Jacques Huntzinger. The logic that fuels it is that by feeding your
friends to a pack of hungry cannibals, they can be convinced to eat you
last. This is the same thinking that promoted the “Land For Peace”
psychosis that still persists in some elite, secular leftist circles. This
is the identical delusion that attempts to shove conservative Christians
and “Ultra-Orthodox Jews” into the same sewer hole with the Jihad
murderers. It is time for people to realize that this mode of thinking has
moved past the babbling ranting of a lunatic, into the realm of
rationalizing and justifying pure evil. And this evil has a
name: it is the antithesis of everything that is good and right and just
and G-dly. The Israelis are no more responsible for provoking this
monstrous wickedness by “occupation” or “excessive force” than the
Americans are for their unstinting support of Israel. It is time for
people to realize that this evil cannot be appeased by clinging to the
flimsy straw of “Land For Peace” when it is as obvious as broad daylight
that the total annihilation of the State of Israel and the expulsion and
extermination of its entire Jewish population is only an hors d’oeuvre
to the destruction of all Western values.
Jewish tradition teaches:
In each and every generation, they rise up
against us to destroy us. But the Holy One, Blessed Be He, saves us from
their hands.
Tradition also teaches:
The Lord shall give strength to His People.
The Lord shall bless His People with peace.
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