THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume VIII, Issue # 123, July 12, 2006
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
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IT'S ALWAYS ISRAEL'S FAULT
By Alan Caruba
THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT: THE STATE OF ISRAEL VERSUS PALESTINIAN TERRORISM -- ANTISEMITISM IN THE
UNITED NATIONS & THE ARAB WORLD -- THE LESSONS THAT THE ENTIRE WORLD SHOULD LEARN FROM THE HISTORY
OF THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT, INCLUDING THE ACTIONS OF PALESTINIAN TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS:
A NATION HAS THE RIGHT TO DEFEND ITSELF AGAINST ITS ENEMIES -- A NATION MUST PUNISH ITS ENEMIES UNTIL THEY
GIVE UP THE FIGHT & CEASE ALL ACTS OF AGGRESSION -- YOU CANNOT NEGOTIATE WITH PEOPLE WHO WANT TO KILL
YOU -- ISRAEL'S ALTERNATIVES: ANNIHILATE THE TERRORISTS, OR BE ANNIHILATED
FULL STORY:
We live in a world where hijackers, primarily from Saudi Arabia, can commandeer two airline jets to destroy the World Trade
Center and, within hours, the word is spread that this heinous act was really the work of the Israeli Mossad and Jewish
terrorists.
We live in a world where, despite ceding Gaza to the Palestinians, a tunnel is built by Hamas to facilitate the killing of two
Israeli soldiers and the kidnapping of a third, while rockets rain down daily, and yet Israel is ultimately blamed because it is
the “occupier” and holds Palestinian terrorists in its jails.
We live in a world where Hezbollah can take two Israeli soldiers hostage and, a few days later, flee back across the border
into Lebanon. Apparently, Israel’s military withdrawal from Lebanon in 2000 was insufficient reason to cease such outrages.
This brings us to the UN’s Division for Palestinian Rights, a branch of the United Nations Department of Political Affairs.
Every year since 1977, the Division for Palestinian Rights has organized a meeting in New York, N.Y., on November 29 to
deplore the UN General Assembly’s 1947 Partition Plan, which was accepted by the Israelis and unanimously rejected by
the Arab states. The meeting is a platform for speeches denouncing the existence of Israel, all paid for by the UN.
When the body of the former UN Human Rights Commission stank so rankly of its own putrescence, it was rhetorically
replaced with a Human Rights Council, and, on July 6, 2006, the Council ended its first-ever “special session” with a
resolution condemning Israel for the latest problems in Gaza.
Briefly, Gaza is a sliver of land adjacent to the Egyptian border, a sliver of land from which Israel withdrew, forcing its own
citizens who lived there to abandon their homes and communities. The hope was that, by ceding Gaza to the Palestinians,
it would lead to peace. It led to the election of Hamas, a terrorist organization dedicated solely to the destruction of Israel.
When Israel retaliated against the latest provocation, demanding the return of the young soldier, it was the considered
opinion of the UN Human Rights Council that Israel was guilty of causing a humanitarian problem. The vote was 29-11,
with five abstentions.
The Council’s resolution included a call “to dispatch an urgent fact-finding mission headed by the Special Rapporteur,”
et cetera, et cetera. The man selected for this mission is John Dugard and, as UN Watch, an independent
nongovernmental organization, noted, he has held this position since 2001 and has the dubious record of never finding a
single Palestinian guilty of anything. After a pro forma expression of sympathy for Corporal Gilad Shalit, the Hamas
hostage, Dugard added that he felt the same “for all Israel’s young soldiers compelled to serve in the army of an
occupying power.”
According to UN Watch, this same “occupying power” has, over the past four years, been subject to more than 140
separate suicide attacks and 13,730 shooting attacks. Dugard failed to mention them.
The United States has been oddly quiet, of late, regarding events in Gaza, noting only that the kidnapping was a terrorist
act. Perhaps the U.S. State Department has concluded there is nothing that can be done to persuade the Palestinians to act
in a sane fashion.
The Israelis have tried every thing they could to mollify the Palestinians and the neighboring Arab states. They have done
this, despite having fought several wars that gained it the territories the Arabs want returned, along with all of the rest of
Israel.
There is a lesson here somewhere for the Israelis and for the rest of the world. It has something to do with punishing one’s
enemies until they give up. It has something to do with the lesson the Holocaust should have taught them. You cannot
negotiate with people who want to kill you.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
The Israeli-Arab Conflict
Jews & Anti-Semitism
Europe, Europeans, & Anti-Semitism
The United Nations & Its Agencies
Middle East -- Arabs, Arab States,
& Their Middle Eastern Neighbors
Islamism & Jihadism -- Radical Islam & Islamic Terrorism
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War & Peace in the Real World
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Islamist Terrorist Attacks on the U.S.A.
Osama bin Laden & the Islamist Declaration of War
Against the U.S.A. & Western Civilization
Islamist International Terrorism &
U.S. Intelligence Agencies
U.S. National Security Strategy
Alan Caruba is a veteran business and science writer, a Public Relations Counselor, and Founder of the National Anxiety Center, a
clearinghouse for information about media-driven scare campaigns. Caruba writes a weekly commentary, "Warning Signs," posted
on the Internet website of the National Anxiety Center, which is located at
www.anxietycenter.com.
© Alan Caruba 2006
Published with Permission of Alan Caruba
ACaruba@AOL.Com
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