Fatah: "Partners"...The Ultimate Trojan Horse

Partners…The Ultimate Trojan Horse

by Gerald A. Honigman

Caroline Glick’s masterpiece, “Grounded In Fantasy,” appeared in the June 18th edition of the Jerusalem Post. It is must reading for all interested in what’s happening in Gaza and beyond these days.

While many of us have been writing about these things, the gal definitely has a way with words. I was almost convinced not to write this piece, since between what I and others penned earlier and Glick’s recent column, all bases--for heads not buried ostrich-style in the sand--should have been already covered.

Leave it to the Associated Press and Israel’s Prime Minister Olmert, however, to convince me otherwise…

On the same day Glick’s editorial appeared, Olmert was quoted in an AP article stating that Israel would be a “genuine partner” of a new Palestinian government and promised to consider releasing millions of dollars in frozen tax funds to it.

As has repeatedly been pointed out, there’s no real difference between what our State Department would have us believe to be Abbas’s latter day Arafatian good cops and Hamas’s bad cops.

There is no doubt that both seek the destruction of the State of the Jews. And both have been honest about this (Hamas more than Fatah). Abbas’s boys simply play the game better for Western consumption to gain all kinds of support--and, again, have said so.

Why won’t the Foggy Folks listen? And President Bush?

As has been repeated often--but not sinking in to those creating the fiction of Fatah “moderates”--Abbas’s folks have called any and all dealings with the Jews merely a Trojan Horse, each unilateral concession gained from Israel since the Oslo fiasco bringing them one step closer in their admitted destruction in stages plans. Pressured by its American friends, Israel’s weak leaders have, unfortunately, played along with this dangerous game.

With Hamas now in control in Gaza--and in possession of huge quantities of American military equipment, besides what’s being smuggled freely via Egypt from other (especially Iranian) sources--President Bush and the State Department are now pressing for the Jews to allow Judea and Samaria (the “West Bank") to be turned into another Gaza.

But, it will be said that Fatah and Abbas are different…

Who’s kidding whom here?

Fatah’s goals for creating “Palestine” from the River to the Sea have never changed…and won’t.

Forcing Israel back to its 1949, 9-mile wide armistice line existence will simply bring most of its population and industry within easy range of Fatah’s American weapons. And that, along with the moderate Abbas’s pledge that he’ll never stop demanding that Israel agree to be swamped by millions of alleged “returning” jihadist refugees, makes any such “deal ” a joke. Fatah and its affiliates have as much or more Jewish blood on their hands as Hamas.

What does Israel get for this proposed “partnership?”

A hudna…ceasefire. As the Arafatians--not Hamas--like to point out, the same thing their prophet, Muhammad, granted to his enemies until he was strong enough to conquer them. And this is not to say that an actual treaty with Fatah would be worth the paper it would be written on considering the agreements Abbas’s “moderates” have already reneged upon…before the ascendancy of Hamas.

Unfortunately, the same questions need to be repeatedly asked over and over again…

Where is the evidence the Foggy Folks offer for Fatah’s alleged moderation and acceptance of a permanent Jewish State as its neighbor?

Are Fatah’s web sites, schools, mosques, television and radio stations, press, etc. and so forth spreading this message of “acceptance” around to their own people--whom poll after poll show that, if Israel withdrew from all of the disputed lands, would mostly seek Israel’s destruction anyway?

No, they definitely are not.

Webster’s New World College Dictionary defines partner as a person who takes part in some activity in common with another…sharing its profits and risks.

Unfortunately, as we saw once again in that AP article, the wrong party once again jumped at the opportunity at “partnership” here.

Olmert still lives the leftist fantasy of Arabs giving up their claim of virtually the entire region as being part of the Dar ul-Islam and/or purely Arab patrimony.

Please, Arabs, what can we do to make you accept us?

Sickening.

With Fatah’s chestnuts now at least temporarily being pulled out of the Hamas fire, one might think that Abbas would be seeking a real partnership with Israel himself.

“No! He can’t do that,” some will say, “it will make him a traitor!”

Precisely…

Israel will be suicidal granting such huge concessions in land, aid, and so forth to folks who still can’t reconcile with the right of Jews to have in one, tiny, reborn state what Arabs insist upon having almost two dozen of for themselves. It’s bad enough that many others (i.e. America) are now insisting upon this; the Jews, themselves, don’t have to be a “partner” in this endeavor. Who will stop, for example, that independent Fatahland from importing all kinds of sophisticated arms and placing them right in Israel’s backyard? Don’t count on the Foggy Folks or anyone else…

While we’re discussing meanings, Arabs must learn what the word “compromise” is all about--especially the territorial variety--if anything more is expected to be handed to them, once again, by the Jews.

And fagetabout millions of alleged Arab refugees “returning” to overwhelm the Jews in a 9-mile wide Israel. Again, this is something the moderate Abbas says he’ll never concede. Recall that more Jewish refugees fled Arab/Muslim lands (and left far more property and wealth behind) than Arabs who fled in the opposite direction due to fighting Arabs started themselves.

No more Arab sweet talk in exchange for concrete, Israeli concessions that bare the necks of Jewish kids to those who repeatedly and deliberately target them.

Unfortunately, Abbas’s idea of partnership means getting the gift of the ultimate Trojan Horse handed to him: The Jews building up the very folks who will bring about their destruction.

For Fatah, both Jews and Arabs “partner” just for the Arabs’ advantage and against the Jews’ own interests. Another look at Webster’s definition may be in order...

Perhaps that’s why it was Olmert obeying Washington by pleading for partnership and not Abbas.

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Gaza's Arab vs. Arab Fighting

Let’s Hear It For Hamastan!

by Gerald A. Honigman

As Arab infighting expands in Gaza and much of the world bemoans Mahmoud Abbas and his fellow latter day Arafatians’ setbacks, Israel has reason to be glad.

While I get no pleasure from anyone dying, the fact is that it makes no difference whether it’s Hamas or Fatah’s affiliates murdering Jews. Both have no intention of living peacefully with a permanent Jewish State as their neighbor…whatever their assorted whitewashers say, including the Foggy Folks. And Abbas himself ran on a platform for Israel’s destruction. He and his folks are simply willing to sing the right tune to Western ears to gain support so the international squeeze can be put on the Jews. To its credit, Hamas is more honest about its murderous intent.

Dozens have been killed and wounded as Gaza implodes. If Israel was doing this, imagine the international outcry.

The good news is that even syndicated New York Times columnist, Thomas Friedman, finally seems to get it.

While usually throwing a zinger in regarding alleged moral equivalency regarding Israeli responses to Arab barbarism, in one of his latest pieces he had his aha moment and stated that the Arabs could forget about the Jews handing over the West Bank as they did with Gaza.

Gaza was a test, as many of us have noted, and the Arabs flunked it with flying colors.

And as Friedman finally acknowledged--after years of lecturing Israel about the need for withdrawal from virtually all the disputed territories--it just takes one Arab rocket fired from the West Bank to close down Israel’s main airport. Hundreds have been fired into Israel proper since its withdrawal from Gaza two years ago.

Keep in mind that America has been pressing the Jews to arm or allow arms to reach the sweet-talking Arafatians. Latest reports state that Hamas has confiscated much of these arms and equipment already delivered from Fatah (which has also used them themselves against Jews).The Foggy Folks are just loaded with such shaft the Jews ideas.


Any Israeli leader who continues to cave in on these issues needs to be exiled or tried for treason.

The fight Abbas & Co. have with Hamas is basically over who gets control of the money which is and will be pouring in. Arafat made zillions this way. And it is about, of course, which group will be calling the shots--really and figuratively speaking.

So, guess what?

I’m backing a Hamas victory.

No more bull manure.

Let the Arabs fight it out. They had their chance at state building and blew it big time. They chose what the late professor, Richard Cottam (Nationalism In Iran), George Orwell (Notes On Nationalism), and others have called negative nationalism over the more tedious responsibilities of positive nationalism. 

Israel got nothing in return for its unilateral withdrawal from Gaza--land used repeatedly to launch warfare and terror against it--except what most of us expected…more terror, but this time launched closer to home. As even the alleged “moderate” Arafatians repeatedly said, any dealings with the Jews would just serve as a Trojan Horse, bringing them one step closer each time in their post-‘67 destruction in stages plans for the Jews.

Given all that has transpired--including the recent resurrected fiasco of the Saudi Peace (of the grave) Initiative and the Mecca Accord which insist on flooding Israel with allegedly “returning” jihadists dedicated to its destruction.--Israel must continue to act unilaterally.

It must draw its lines in the sand in disputed lands in Judea (as in Jew) and Samaria--the “West Bank”--which allow it reasonable defense against its millions of murderous enemies. The days of Israel’s 1949 U.N.-imposed microscopic armistice line existence must be gone forever--as U.N. Security Council Resolution 242 specified in the wake of the Six Day War. Judea and Samaria were non-apportioned areas of the original Palestinian Mandate received by Britain after World War I and were open to settlement by all the Mandate’s inhabitants…not just Arabs--most of whom were settlers themselves who came in from elsewhere.

Absent a true peace partner willing to come up with a real compromise and modus vivendi, Israel must declare that henceforth any aggression from Arab lands will be dealt with the way America’s Colin Powell instructs for America itself…massive retaliation.

A Hamas win in Gaza and perhaps beyond will make this easier for Israel to carry out…no façade of equally murderous, phony Arafatian peace partners to deal with.

But Hamas has been playing Lebanon’s Hizbullah game, learning the latter’s lessons against Israel last summer well.

So, Israel must not be lured once again to fight according to the Arabs’ game plan.

Hamas’ “win” must turn into its own destruction…and as President George W. Bush has said, those who support terrorists will suffer their fate.

When America warred with Germany and Japan, it didn’t worry much about civilians killed along the way during the fire bombings and so forth.

And, unlike the above conflict, the war the Jews have been continuously forced to fight is about the very existence of their sole, tiny, reborn nation. Poll after poll has shown that if Israel withdrew from every inch of disputed territory, most Arabs would still refuse its right to exist.

So, again, cut the manure.

When the Arabs create Hamastan, Israel must deal with it as any other country would which faced an enemy dedicated to its destruction. To do this, it must first hold new elections and get rid of the pusillanimous, inept crew currently running the show. It must elect leaders who will tell Israel’s best friends that what they’re asking is not very friendly. And I’m being nice in describing such behavior this way.

This war is not about Arabs wanting their 22nd state (and second, not first, one in “Palestine“). They could have had that decades ago. Honorable plans were repeatedly offered and turned down by the Arabs themselves over the past century. It’s about the Arabs wanting the destruction of the only state the Jews have…and the conflict has always been about this. Negative nationalism par excellence…

While the inter-Arab conflict plays out in the territories and before the dust settles, Israel must create plans to leave the Arabs gasping for air when the time is ripe…a la June 1967. It must leave them afraid of retaliation because of what the next Israeli response will bring. This can be done. ..Israel must just have the will to act for its survival.

The hypocrites elsewhere will yell and scream about “Nazi” Jews and such.

Israel must ignore them and take the cuts in aid or whatever if need be.

Hamastan will give Israel a chance to face its mortal, genocidal, rejectionist enemies head on with gloves removed.

And it must do it this time in a way which will remove the smirk Arabs have been wearing since Lebanon last year.

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Turkey and the Kurds

A Message For Two Friends…

by Gerald A. Honigman

Don’t do it!

There is a better way.

Recent reports tell of Turkey crossing the Iraqi border in pursuit of Kurdish terrorists tied to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).

I will call them terrorists, even though I have misgivings doing so.

Since their victims have included innocents, in addition to military targets, I will do this.

I have misgivings because Arabs who deliberately target Jewish innocents are routinely called “militants” by the same folks who are quick to call Kurds terrorists. And even the Kurds’ terrorists don’t seek the destruction of Turkey…just justice for their people. Now think about what Hamas, Hizbullah, Islamic Jihad, Abbas and his sweet-talking Fatah Arafatians, and so forth have planned for Israel--with or without the disputed territories.

While I don’t advocate violence against the Turkish military either, the latter has been, after all, the tool by which the subjugation of about one fifth of Turkey’s seventy million people who are Kurds has been carried out.

Over the past century in particular, after the collapse of the Ottoman Turkish Empire in the wake of World War I, the Kurds were renamed Mountain Turks, had their language and culture outlawed, etc. and so forth to insure that the new, constricted Turkey which arose with Mustafa Kemal--Ataturk--would suffer no further geographical losses.

I applaud the Turks for many reasons.

When Spain was holding inquisitions and exiling some of my own relatives, the Turks took them in.

Turkey has been a valuable ally of America and has resisted Islamic extremism better than any other Muslim country.

Turkey has relatively good relations with Israel…especially when its relations with neighboring Syria take a dive.

So, I truly wish nothing but good for our Turkish friends.

But friends should be able to disagree and remain friends.

Not long ago, when Israel went after Hamas terror masters, Turkey was quick to criticize Israel and lecture her about the need to create the Arabs’ 22nd state and second, not first, one in “Palestine”--Jordan having surfaced on some 80% of the original April 25, 1920 territory over the past century.

Turkey knows full well what the Arabs’ plans are for the Jewish State, yet makes these demands anyway.

As I’ve pointed out before, Turkey is almost forty times as large as Israel geographically and eleven times as large in population. Despite this, it sees nothing wrong, after demanding the creation of the Arabs’ 22nd state, with telling thirty million truly stateless Kurds--who have been massacred and subjugated in all the lands where they have lived in the new nationalist era--that they must remain forever in that stateless condition because of the potential threat independence in Iraqi Kurdistan might have to Turkey. The Turks fear the effect this will have on their own large, adjacent Kurdish population.

The fear is well founded, and I understand it.

A look at what is now happening in Kosovo/Kosova is a case in point.

The Turks defeated the Serbs there in 1389. What would later be named Albania became Muslim with continuing Turkish conquests of the region.

Turn the clock ahead six centuries, and ethnic Muslim Albanians have spread outside of their independent state of Albania into an ethnically fractured Yugoslavia held together only by the glue of Marshal Tito. When he died, all knew that Yugoslavia’s days were numbered.

Indeed…America led the dismemberment.

Some analysts have said that America needed to show that it was supporting Muslims elsewhere since it was also in conflict with them in so many other places.

And now, there is a drive to create an independent Muslim Albanian Kosova in traditional Serb lands…in addition to the already existing Muslim state of Albania.

So, such things do happen.

But if a Turkey which dwarfs Israel in size and population has reason to fear this, then what is Israel to say?

One fifth of Israel is Arab…like the fifth of Turkey which is Kurd. Yet the Jews are told by virtually all--including Turks--that they must allow yet another Arab state, dedicated to their destruction, to be set up in their backyard.

Keep in mind that even the PKK doesn’t seek Turkey’s destruction.

Despite the potential for problems, justice does not demand that Kurds should remain forever stateless in the nationalist age. Kurds lived in the area for millennia before imperialist Turks arrived there from Central Asia or imperialist Arabs arrived after bursting out of the Arabian Peninsula. Both would occupy and settle Kurdish lands. An independent Kurdistan was promised after World War I in Mesopotamia before it was aborted on behalf of British petroleum politics and Arab nationalism. If expansionist Albanians can lay claim to Kosovo, then what are Kurds due in lands they have lived in since biblical days?

So, what’s to be done?

There is no doubt that the Kurds must do what the Arabs refuse to do…

They must show their Turkish neighbors that an independent or highly autonomous
Iraqi federal Kurdish region will not be a threat. They must have serious discussions with the PKK about what the greater good for Kurdistan will require. That means Kurdish leaders must get their own acts together as well…beyond protecting their own virtual fiefdoms. And, if need be, they must use military force to subdue their own extremists.

Hopefully, it will not come to this. And nothing will be expected in this regard if the Turks don’t show that they will be willing to grant Kurds the same right to have in one of which they expect Israel to allow Arabs to have almost two dozen of.

Notice, please, while we’re on the subject, the absence of voices in academia and elsewhere…the same ones demanding that 22nd Arab state, knowing full well its murderous intentions regarding Israel.

In the late ‘70s, the only time my tenured professor at Ohio State University even mentioned Kurds is when he mocked their aspirations while telling of his travels through Turkey. Like many others, he knew who buttered his bread and who and who not to put under the high power lens of moral scrutiny. This was the same guy who lionized the Arab quest for state # 22 and Hitler’s good buddy, the Mufti of Jerusalem.

There is room for coexistence and cooperation if both peoples can get beyond their fears. Besides real problems with the PKK (for which Turkey shares part of the blame), there already are real benefits materializing for Turks in Iraqi Kurdistan.

Turkey can establish good, working ties with Kurds who, like Turks, can also hold their own heads up high as a free and proud people. Both have a history of opposing Islamic extremism, though some are to be counted amongst both populations…more with the Turks than with the Kurds.

Kurds from Turkey, Syria, Iran, and elsewhere wanting to live in an independent Kurdish state can have in Iraqi Kurdistan what Jews have in a reborn Israel.

Like formerly truly stateless Jews, Kurds have suffered greatly because of this statelessness. Renaming Arabs “Palestinians” does not change the fact that Arabs have almost two dozen states--conquered from mostly non-Arab peoples. If there is a rough analogy to the Jews, it is the Kurds, not the Arabs.

Turks and Kurds must examine each others needs and fears.

The future can be a promising one for both peoples.

While Arabs of different stripes blow each other apart, Turks and Kurds have mostly shown that they want no part of this sort of thing.

Think of the possibilities which can arise if both peoples can get themselves to grant each other the humanity and respect both deserve.

The realm of the Turks will not see itself geographically split again. The Kurds must understand this. But this does not mean that Kurds should be suppressed in Turkey. To insure Turkey’s integrity, the Turks have demanded Turkification of all who live there. This needs to be moderated. Imagine the outcry if Israel was doing this sort of thing to its Arabs.

Ironically, Kurdish autonomy or independence in Iraqi Kurdistan has the potential to ease these very problems…under the right conditions.

Having the potential to live in a Kurdish-ruled area will give Kurds everywhere less grievance and reason to resort to violence.

Will there be risks and problems?

Of course. There is much that will be needed to be worked out. And all thirty million Kurds will not fit into Iraqi Kurdistan.

But reasonable people can come up with reasonable solutions.

My advice to my Turkish friends…

Invade Iraqi Kurdistan?

Don’t do it!

There is a better way…

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