THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume XII, Issue # 100, June 12, 2010
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
AWAITING ARMAGEDDON
By Alan Caruba
WILL THE ARMED MIGHT OF THE U.S.A., ALREADY PRESENT IN THE MIDDLE EAST IN AFGHANISTAN, IN IRAQ & IN THE
PERSIAN GULF, BE USED TO THWART AN ISLAMIC DRIVE TO DESTROY THE POPULATION, CULTURE, & INSTITUTIONS OF
THE STATE OF ISRAEL? THE ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION WAITS UPON THE DECISION OF BARACK HUSSEIN
OBAMA.
FULL STORY:
I do not know what it is about Islam and Liberalism that causes both to turn logic and truth on its head, but we have been
witnessing it in different ways in recent days.
First, there was the “humanitarian” flotilla running the Israeli blockade of Gaza and, then, there was the appalling
anti-Semitism of Helen Thomas, formerly of the front row in the White House press room.
Suffice it to say that the socalled Palestinians are not living in a state of “occupation.” They have repeatedly been offered
a state of their own, but have refused it for some six decades. They exist as wards of the United Nations.
Israel is a sovereign nation-state and has been since May 16, 1948. Its ancient sovereignty dates back to the days of
David and Solomon. I say “socalled Palestinians” because Palestine was the name applied to Israel by a Roman emperor
in an effort to make the world forget that Jews had been living in their own land for over a thousand years before being
driven into exile.
Arabs who live in Israel are called Israelis because they are citizens there. They number more than a million and, while most
are Muslim, about nine percent are Christian. So, while the enemies of Israel talk exclusively in terms of its Jewish
population, they are ignoring a sizeable number who are Muslims. It need also be said they enjoy freedoms that their
counterparts in other Middle Eastern nations do not.
What I have always found astonishing is the way the Arab nations surrounding Israel have attacked the latter repeatedly,
but, nonetheless, regard Israel as the aggressor.
This is the same strange logic that says Al-Qa'ida destroyed the Twin Towers and attacked the Pentagon, but is blameless
because they did so in response to U.S. policies in the Middle East. It is the same sick logic and contempt for everything
not Islamic that pursues the creation of a mosque within walking distance of ground zero.
Not surprisingly, after 9/11, the U.S.A. responded with military action against the Afghanistan base of Al-Qa'ida
operations, followed thereafter with an invasion of Iraq, the second such military action after having initially driven the
Iraqis out of Kuwait. The result was the end of the three-decade regime of Saddam Hussein. The Saudis and oil-rich Gulf
states were the major beneficiaries.
There is not a single justification for the “humanitarian” flotilla, one ship of which was filled with men who violently
resisted the boarding of the ship by Israelis, under long established international law regarding blockades.
Tons of humanitarian aid is routinely delivered daily to Gaza, after inspection. The inspection is necessary because, since
having withdrawn from Gaza as a gesture of peace in 2005, the area has been used to launch thousands of rockets against
Israel. Even the Egyptians, who share a border with Gaza, maintain a comparable blockade to ensure weapons are not
smuggled into the Hamas hotbed of hatred for Israel.
So far in its short history, Israel has fought seven wars in defense of its people against Arab aggression. Israel fought the
1948 War of Independence against several Arab armies. The famed Six-Day War followed in 1967. In 1973, the Israelis
were attacked on one of the holiest days of their calendar, Yom Kippur, by a coalition of Arab nations. They also endured
Yassir Arafat’s PLO Intifada of terror bombings
In 1982, the first Lebanon War was a response to constant terror attacks on northern Israel. It was followed in 2006 by a
second Lebanon War, in response to the abduction of two Israeli soldiers by Hezbollah, a proxy Islamic organization
funded and armed by Iran. The most recent Israeli military engagement, that against Gaza in 2009, was a response to
constant rocketing and attacks. The blockade is part of the way Israel must cope with a self-defined enemy.
In every case, the Israelis were accused of being the aggressors. Arab nations insisted the Israelis were “occupiers” in a
land in which Jews had lived for 3,500 years and called their home, despite an exile that had existed for 2,000 years prior to
the reestablishment of Israel. It followed the Nazi Holocaust that killed six million European Jews during World War Two.
Throughout the Middle East and most particularly in the United Nations, Israel has always been called the aggressor.
The same irrational hatred for Jews that has existed everywhere for centuries explains why Israelis are armed to the teeth
and why Jews worldwide are experiencing a rise in anti-Semitic attacks.
What worries Israelis these days, and should worry Americans as well, is the Middle East policy of the Obama
administration, which has clearly turned against Israel, emboldening its enemies. Obama policy toward Israel shames the
history of friendship that has existed between America and Israel since the Jewish state was reestablished over sixty
years ago.
U.S. foreign policy under President Obama is an invitation for war in the Middle East, one that has been joined by
Turkey, a nation that has abandoned its history of secular governance, in favor of the Islamism that threatens Western
nations in particular and the world in general.
Allowing Iran to acquire nuclear arms will tip the world into a global conflict whose casualties are incalculable.
America needs to assert its support for Israel, if only in its own interest. America is being infiltrated by Islamic terrorists,
and it has a growing number of home-grown ones. Having elected a president whose stated preference is for Islam, the
prospects are not good. In the words of Islamists, Israel is the “Little Satan” and America is the “Big Satan.”
Commentator J.D. Longstreet summed up the threat:
“I am not optimistic that hatred of the Jews will end,
or even lessen, any time soon. In fact, I expect it to
get much, much, worse and eventually lead the
nations of the world to a place known as the
Megiddo Valley and the final battle known as the
Battle of Armageddon.”
Will the armed might of the U.S.A., already present in the Middle East in Afghanistan, in Iraq, and in the Persian Gulf, be
used to thwart this? That question waits upon the decision of Barack Hussein Obama.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Israel & the Arabs -- The Israeli-Arab Conflict
Middle East -- Arabs, Arab States,
& Their Middle Eastern Neighbors
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 writes a daily post at http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com. An author, commentator and business and science writer,
he is the Founder of the National Anxiety Center, a clearinghouse for information about "scare campaigns" designed to influence
public opinion and policy.
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