THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume XI, Issue # 121, May 10, 2009
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
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ISRAEL IN THE CROSSHAIRS
By Alan Caruba
THE STATE OF ISRAEL VERSUS THE ISLAMIC FORCES OF THE MIDDLE EAST & SOUTH CENTRAL ASIA: THE JEWS'
HISTORICAL CLAIM TO A HOMELAND IN WESTERN ASIA -- THE HISTORY OF THE LAND OF ISRAEL SINCE ITS
RE-ESTABLISHMENT AS A JEWISH STATE IN 1948 -- HOW ISRAELI POLITICS HAS WEAKENED ISRAELI NATIONAL SECURITY
-- UNITED NATIONS EFFORTS TO DESTROY ISRAEL -- U.S. GOVERNMENT ACTIONS UNDERMINING THE STATE OF ISRAEL --
WHAT ISRAEL MUST DO IN ORDER TO SURVIVE AS A FREE & INDEPENDENT NATION-STATE
FULL STORY:
There are few nations on Earth, other than Israel, with a greater claim to exist as a homeland for a specific people. Along
with China and India, Israel reaches back thousands of years, predating both Christianity and Islam.
For some 3,500 years, Jews have lived in Israel. In good times and bad, Jews have always identified themselves with
Israel even when, as a Diaspora, they spread for their survival to many other nations. The re-establishment of Israel on
May 14, 1948, led to two immediate events. Within eleven minutes after the announcement, President Harry S. Truman
recognized the new nation. Within hours, the Arab League declared war.
Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq joined together to destroy Israel, which had only six hundred
thousand Jewish residents at the time. The Arab states failed. They tried again in 1967. They failed. They tried in 1973,
attacking on one of the holiest days in the Jewish calendar, Yom Kippur. They failed.
Following the 1967 War, eight Arab nations gathered in Khartoum and issued their “Three No’s.” No peace with Israel.
No recognition of Israel. No negotiations with Israel.
In time, Egypt would sign a peace treaty; though not abandon its animus. Jordan would make its accommodations. The
others remained hostile.
To understand Israel’s situation, it is necessary to understand that (1) Jews had lived there since the days of Moses, (2)
the early Zionist movement members that moved there purchased land on which to farm and live, (3) the land which was
captured in successive wars had always been part of Israel, and (4) both the United Kingdom and the U.S.A., for their
own reasons, have not been honest brokers, particularly so far as their demand that Israel negotiate with people who
never had any intention to negotiate peace.
The Israelis did not steal their own land, nor are they illegitimate “occupiers” of their land regained as the result of
having been attacked. What they gained in wars against them historically was always theirs and had been denied to
them by the Arab nations that claimed them.
Israel has never known a day of true peace in just over sixty years of its modern existence. In his latest book, The
Late Great State of Israel, Aaron Klein spells out why Israel is closer to destruction than anyone might imagine,
except for its implacable enemies.
I want Israel to exist and to thrive, but I find it unsurprising that a totally Muslim region, comprising the Islamic
nations of Near East and South Central Asia, as well as those of North Africa, would see Israel through their xenophobic
lens as an invasion by the West; by European Jews who began settling there in the early 1900s, by the Jewish
survivors of the Holocaust, by the host of Russian Jews granted permission to leave the former Soviet Union, and
even the many Jews who felt compelled to flee Arab nations following Israel’s founding.
While Jews had always lived in Israel, the Arabs who lived there prior to its formal establishment as a state identified
themselves loosely as citizens of pre-World War One Syria. The land had known many conquerors, dating back to
the Romans, who renamed the land of Israel "Palestine" in a vain effort to remove its Jewish history. Muslims fought
many wars, including the Crusades, to extend and maintain their control over Jerusalem Their utter scorn and
contempt for Israel and the Jews is found in the Koran and infuses Islam, as does its core belief that all
religions must bow down to Allah.
Christians know the fall of the Jewish state to present-day Muslim invaders would mark the end of any opportunity to
visit the birthplace and ministry of Jesus and would be taken as a sign that Christianity was vulnerable wherever it is
practiced. In many towns and cities of Israel, where Christians had lived for centuries, they have been forced to flee
before the hostility of Muslim “neighbors.”
Herein is the warning that Klein issues in his book. Those who would destroy Israel are not just external, they include
(1) the Arab nations surrounding it and the socalled Palestinian “refugees” laying claim to Israel, (2) the United
Nations, which has supported the Palestinians since 1950, passing its endless resolutions singling out Israel as racist,
and (3) even the largely unreported aid that the U.S.A. has given to Fatah, the alleged Palestinian Authority with
whom Israel is supposed to negotiate peace.
Other than Iran (4), which has openly threatened to “wipe Israel off the map,” the latest threat is the Obama
administration (5), which is demanding a two-state accommodation with the Palestinians, a proposed settlement that
they have always refused to accept, since their goal is Israel’s destruction.
To put in proper perspective, consider that the U.S. government demands that Israel stop building settlements in the
disputed West Bank and other areas. Also, consider that, according to the World Almanac, Israel is comprised
of 7,849 square miles. By comparison, New Jersey is 8,721 square miles. Imagine, then, if the U.S. national government
insisted that New Jersey cede Delaware all the area from Atlantic City to the Delaware border?
Internally, from its founding, Israel has been divided between (1) its Socialist and largely secular Jews, the men and
women who took up Zionism as an answer to the bigotry Jews faced in Europe pre-dating the Holocaust, and (2) the
religious Jewish community, the members of which see Israel as the fulfillment of the Torah prophesy and as
the center of world Judaism. This latter group has always felt the scorn of Israel’s secular Jewish government.
Without delving into the complexities of Israeli politics, Klein makes a strong case that Israelis in recent times have
been ill-served by the secular Likud and former PM Ariel Sharon’s Kadima parties. The withdrawal from southern
Lebanon and the 2006 short war led by Hezbollah shattered the image of Israel’s impregnable and powerful military
capabilities.
Israel’s forced removal from Gaza of its longtime Jewish residents, its abandonment to the Palestinians, and the recent
military action against Hamas simply demonstrate that the Palestinians have figured out a way to demoralize Israelis
with constant rocket attacks. Giving Gaza to the Palestinians merely created a new staging area for attacks.
Klein documents how several U.S. administrations have provided weapons and financial aid (through the United
Nations) to Fatah. Fatah and now Hamas have used both to kill Israelis, and, yet, successive Israeli governments
have participated in this lethal charade.
For now, I will take some small comfort that Benjamin Netanyahu is once again Israel’s Prime Minister, but --
Unless Israel is prepared to assert its right to its ancient and re-conquered land;
Unless it destroys the Iranian nuclear facilities for an America too weak or
unwilling to address this necessity;
Unless it refuses the wrongful demands to turn over Jerusalem, its holiest sites,
and other Jewish cities to Iranian control --
Israel’s future may disappear in a nuclear cloud. There has been one Holocaust in my lifetime. I do not want to
witness another.
At stake is more than Israel’s right to exist. The failure to support and protect Israel puts the entire basis and future
of Western Civilization at risk.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Israel & the Arabs -- The Israeli-Arab Conflict
Middle East -- Arabs, Arab States,
& Their Middle Eastern Neighbors
Israel, the Middle East, & the Problem of Iran
American Foreign Policy -- The Middle East
Islamism & Jihadism -- Radical Islam & Islamic Terrorism
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International Politics & World Disorder:
War, Peace, & Geopolitics in the Real World:
Foreign Affairs & U.S. National Security
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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, science and political 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.
Caruba has a daily blog at http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com.
Caruba’s most recent book, Right Answers: Separating Fact from Fantasy, has been published by Merril Press. Books
previously authored by Caruba include A Pocket Guide to Militant Islam, The United Nations Versus the United States: The
UN's Plan to Control Planet Earth, and America: A Nation Without Borders -- A Pocket Guide to Immigration Issues.
© Alan Caruba 2009
Published with Permission of Alan Caruba
ACaruba@AOL.Com
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