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Volume XIII, Issue # 234, September 17, 2011
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FIVE WARS, 63 YEARS OF TERRORISM, & ISRAEL SURVIVES
By Alan Caruba
THE CONTINUING CONFLICT BETWEEN THE ISRAELI JEWS & THEIR ISLAMIC NEIGHBORS IN THE MIDDLE EAST:
SINCE ITS FOUNDING IN 1948, THE STATE OF ISRAEL HAS BEEN THROUGH FIVE WARS WITH ITS MIDDLE EASTERN
NEIGHBORS, ENDLESS PALESTINIAN TERRORISM & ROCKETING, & OPEN THREATS OF NUCLEAR DESTRUCTION BY IRAN.
THE PALESTINIANS HAVING REFUSED EVERY OFFER OF PEACE & STATEHOOD MADE TO THEM, THE CURRENT DEMAND FOR
A PALESTINIAN STATE IS INTENDED TO HEAT UP & KEEP ALIVE THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT, AS WELL AS THE ISLAMIST
GLOBAL JIHAD AGAINST ISRAEL & THE WEST.
FULL STORY:
The people who have given us bagels and lox, potato latkes and chicken soup, in addition to the Old Testament, Albert
Einstein, and a list of Nobel Prize winners as long as your arm, are in for yet another interesting week.
Last week, Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas announced that the Palestinian Authority would not make
a bid for statehood at the United Nations. That may have had something to do with massive pressure from the United
States, Europe, and Saudi Arabia.
You can always trust a Palestinian’s word, right? Wrong. The next day, September 15, Abbas said the Palestinian
Authority had changed its mind and would go to the UN Security Council to ask that it grant statehood to Palestine,
admitting it as a full-fledged member.
He must have gotten a call from Turkey’s Prime Minister, Tayyip Erdogen, who has been spoiling for a war with Israel
and has been urging the Arab League to join in. It might have something to do with Erdogen’s beef with Greece, which
announced that it will begin drilling for natural gas on Monday, September 19, in Cyprus’s offshore Aphrodite field.
The Turkish Air Force has been watching the rig, owned by Houston-based Noble Energy, move from Israel to Cyprus.
This is probably as good a way to start World War Three as any. It has nothing to do with Israel and everything to do
with the decades of bad blood between Greece and Turkey that includes a divided Cyprus.
Israel, founded in 1948, has been through five wars with its “neighbors,” endless terrorism and rocketing, and has been
openly threatened with nuclear destruction by Iran.
The only thing I can guarantee you is that Israel will be blamed for whatever happens.
This week is also the occasion for the United Nations celebration of “Durban III.” It is an anti-Semitic, anti-Israel hate fest
in which every other nation in the world that practices racism is ignored and Israel is identified as the lone offender;
largely because the Palestinians have refused every offer of peace and statehood made to them.
To demonstrate what an obscenity the event is, one of the keynote speakers will be Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran’s
President and longtime Holocaust denier. A number of nations, including the U.S.A., Canada and Great Britain, have
already made it known they will not sit through another Ahmadinejad vituperation. Israel’s PM, Bibi Netanyahu, will be
on hand to offer a response.
Anyone who still thinks the United Nations is about peace needs to pay closer attention. It is about being a global central
power with authority over all the nations of the world.
Durban III is about “racism.” So how does that square with a statement by Maen Arewikat, the Palestinian Authority
Ambassador to the United States, who last week said that an independent Palestinian state would take steps to force Jews
living in the West Bank to leave. In an interview with USA Today, he said it would be in the best interest of Israelis
and Palestinians to “be separated.” The Nazis had a word for this, “Judenrein.”
Elliot Abrams, a former U.S. National Security Council officer, told USA Today that “No civilized country would act
like this.”
The United States has already made it clear that it will veto a resolution for Palestinian statehood in the UN Security
Council. So far, the Palestinians have rejected the Oslo Accords and every other laborious diplomatic effort to get them to
settle for peaceful coexistence. They could have had statehood after the UN partitioned the former British mandate that led
to Israel’s establishment, but they rejected that option in favor of trying to drive the newly minted Israelis out of their
ancestral homeland.
Jordan was among those nations that lost the 1967 war. The Israelis occupied the West Bank, a name Jordan gave to the
ancient Israeli provinces of Judea and Samaria. The only reason Israel has not annexed the West Bank is that asserting
such a claim would add a million Arabs to its population, none of whom have any love for Israel. Meanwhile, over the
years, Israeli “settlements” have grown up on the West Bank.
U.S. President Barack Obama has made it clear that he wants Israel to return to its 1967 borders. Netanyahu has made it
clear that they are indefensible.
The turmoil of the “Arab Spring” has altered the cold peace that had existed between Egypt and Israel. The Israeli
Embassy in Cairo was attacked last week and the Israelis withdrew its staff. How many times do the Egyptians have to be
defeated in war before they conclude it’s a bad idea?
The Palestinian demands have Jordon on alert as well. Jordan doesn’t want to have to absorb more Palestinian refugees
into its population, thus making them a majority of the Hashemite Kingdom created by the British after World War One.
They tried to overthrow the former King once, and he drove them into Lebanon.
The Syrian despot is busy crushing a revolution. Lebanon which used to belong to the Lebanese is now controlled by
Hezbollah, a Palestinian organization backed by Iran and sworn enemies of Israel.
And how do the Palestinians have a state when the Palestinian Authority and Hamas, an Iranian-backed group located in
Gaza, are at each other’s throat? If it is possible, Hamas hates Israel more than the Palestinian Authority.
The Palestinian dilemma is that they cannot get along with each other and no other nation in the region wants to have
anything to do with them.
What will happen at the United Nations this week?
What will happen, if Turkey decides to attack the oil rig off the Grecian part of Cyprus?
What will happen when the Israelis, who have a defense pact with the Greeks, respond?
How does NATO deal with two of its member nations going to war? What affect will this have on its role in the liberation
of Libya?
It’s tough enough for the Israelis and Jews around the world to deal with the growing anti-Semitism that has been spread
and nurtured by Muslims, but this irrational hatred, the well spring of the Holocaust, could set off a series of events
initiated by such hatred.
Having destroyed the World Trade Center towers ten years ago, World War Three would be Islam’s gift to the world.
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© Alan Caruba, 2011
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Israel, Arabs, & the Islamic Middle East -- The Israeli-Arab Conflict;
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The State of Israel in War & Peace -- Israel's Role in International Relations;
Israeli Military Defense & National Security -- The Israeli Economy
The Middle East -- Arabs, Arab States, & Their Regional Neighbors
American Foreign Policy -- The Middle East
Islamism & Jihadism -- Radical Islam & Islamic Terrorism
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Osama bin Laden & the Islamist Declaration of War
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Islamist International Terrorism &
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U.S. National Security Strategy
Alan Caruba's commentaries are posted daily at Warning Signs, his popular blog -- and thereafter on dozens of other
websites and blogs. His monthly report on new books is posted at Bookviews.
A business and science writer, Caruba 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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