Hamas, Gaza, And The United Nauseating Nations

Hamas, Gaza, And The U.N.N.
(United Nauseating Nations)
by Gerald A. Honigman

No sooner was Israel reborn in the wake of the Holocaust in May 1948 as a result (on the human part of the deal, at least) of a United Nations’ vote, it was attacked by a half dozen Arab nations--most of which had gained their own independence only recently as well. From that moment on, with a few (but important) rare exceptions, the U.N. would work to basically try to undo its “mistake” of permitting the resurrection of the Jew of the Nations.

Can’t help it...visions of the Hebrew Prophets pour though my mind. Some excerpts from Ezekiel 37:

The hand of the Lord was upon me… set me down in the midst of the valley full of bones.… very many… and, lo, they were very dry.

And He said unto me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” And I answered, “O Lord God, thou knowest.”

Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones; ‘Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live: And I will lay sinews upon you, bring flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you.’ “

So I prophesied… there was a noise...shaking, and the bones came together, bone to bone… sinews and flesh came up upon them, and skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them.

Then said He unto me, “Prophesy unto the wind, Son of man, and say to the wind, ‘Thus saith the Lord God: ‘Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.’ “

So I prophesied… and the breath came into them, they lived, and stood up upon their feet...

Then He said unto me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, ‘Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost....Therefore prophesy and say, ‘Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, O My people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel....’ “

Whoa...! Heavy stuff...I still get goose bumps...

Written some twenty-six centuries or so ago, if this wasn’t the resurrected phoenix of the Jews--Israel--then I’m Michelangelo.


And when Jews from the remote corners of the “Arab” world--where they also didn’t know what the morrow would bring and were commonly known as yahud kelb/Jew Dog killers of prophets--were gathered to be flown to Israel, with tears they recited the Hebrew prophecy predicting that they would return to Israel on the wings of eagles as they boarded the planes used in Operation Magic Carpet.

One of those above 1948 Arab attackers, Transjordan, became independent two years earlier. Its army was led by British officers and, like Egypt’s, was well equipped with Allied armaments left in the region after World War II.

Since the Emirate’s own story is crucial for understanding attempts made to try to balance conflicting Arab and Jewish claims over that part of the Turks’ previous empire which emerged as the Mandate of Palestine after World War I, I frequently reference this in my work. Arabs bring up their tale of how Jews allegedly stole all of the land over and over again; hence my own need to repeatedly remind readers of the truth as well.

Colonial Secretary Winston Churchill convened the Cairo Conference in 1921. As a result of this and other machinations of the latest empire (the Brits’) to acquire the land of the Jews--Judaea--since the fall of the latter to Hadrian’s Roman armies in 135 C.E., Britain’s Hashemite Arab allies were awarded all of the original 1920 Mandate of Palestine east of the Jordan River--almost 80% of the total area–in 1922.

Transjordan’s King Abdullah attributed this gift to an act of Allah in his memoirs. Along with other observers, Sir Alec Kirkbride, the Brits’ East Bank (of the Jordan River) rep, had much to say about this as well in A Crackle Of Thorns.

Not long afterwards, Abdullah’s brother, Emir Faisal, was gifted with all of the Mandate of Mesopotamia--renamed Iraq. Millions of Kurds thus saw their own best chance at independence shattered on behalf of Arab nationalism and British Petroleum politics as well.

The Ottoman Turkish Empire had ruled most of the region for the previous four centuries. Most of those above invading and other “Arab” states had, in turn, become Arab by the conquest, subjugation, and forced Arabization of millions of native peoples who survived earlier jihads in the wars of the Dar ul-Islam against the Dar al-Harb...another point I feel a need to stress repeatedly.

Similar stories could be told all over the region...millions of native, non-Arab peoples, within the power vacuum created by the collapse of empire, seeing their own hopes for freedom and independence in the new nationalist age swept away on behalf of the Arab Nation. Some later fought alongside Arabs against the Mandatory Powers...did them little good after the French and the British left the scene (one way or the other), however.

From Egypt, through North Africa into the Sudan, to Lebanon, Iraqi and Syrian Kurdistan, and elsewhere, scores of millions have all been forced to consent to this forced Arabization process.

As Egypt’s most famous native “Uncle Tom” Copt, the late President Sadat’s Foreign Minister Dr. Boutros Boutros Ghali basically summed it up for Israel (as well as all others) in an interview with an Israeli author: if you want to be accepted in the neighborhood, you have to consent to Arabization.

The post-1922 up to the current fight, therefore, has been to create a second state for Arabs in what’s left of “Palestine"--not a first...the Arabs’ 22nd in total spread out across over six million square miles of territory. And that state is expected, by “moderates” willing to tell the West what it wants to hear, as well as the more honest Hamas types, to replace the sole state of the Jews–not live peacefully along side it.

Back to the United Nations...

In 1947, another partition plan was presented which would have divided the roughly 20% of the Mandate of Palestine left after the creation of Transjordan in half between Jews and Arabs.

Had Arabs accepted this, they would have wound up with some 90% of the total original area.

They rejected this offer on the grounds that all was part of the Dar ul-Islam and/or their “purely Arab patrimony.” The rest is history.

Some things change, others never do. Israel’s fight with Hamas, Fatah, and others today is the same as it was back then.

Back to May, 1948...

The U.N. watched its newest child brutally attacked upon birth. It did nothing to stop the onslaught and only finally stepped in after the Jews turned the tide of the battle.

Afraid that they would push the Arabs back even further and take more of the non-apportioned territory of the Mandate, the U.N. finally acted. Keep in mind that, unlike Arab claims, these were not “purely Arab” territories.

The armistice lines drawn up by the UN. in 1949 simply marked the point where hostilities were stopped.

Amongst other things, they left Israel a mere 9-miles wide in some places, and not much more in its strategic waist--where most of its population and industry are located. Many peole travel farther than that just to go to work. It should not be a surprise, therefore, that these became known as the Auschwitz Lines--a constant invitation to Arabs to attack. The lines were never expected to be Israel’s real borders, as America’s own U.N. rep, Dr.Ralph Bunche, wrote about himself.

Recall that as a result of the 1948 Arab assault, Transjordan grabbed the non-apportioned west bank of the Jordan River (where both Jews and Arabs had roots, owned land, and were allowed to live). Now holding both banks, it changed its name to Jordan (since it now held territory from other parts of the Mandate besides those across the river)--and made all the land it now held Judenrein (Jew free)--including east Jerusalem. Numerous age-old synagogues were destroyed, ancient Jewish tombstones were used to pave roads, build latrines, and so forth. Only two nations recognized that illegal seizure.

While Jordan thus emerged above, Pharaoh--who had used Gaza to invade the land of the Jews for thousands of years--once again grabbed that coastal strip.

Note that during the time Jordan and Egypt held Gaza and the West Bank (aka, Judea and Samaria, its real name)--almost two decades--no one demanded the birth of the Arabs’ second state in Palestine in those areas. Not a peep from the United Nations either...

As another result of the Arab attempt to nip a microscopic, resurrected Israel in the bud, two refugee situations were created...another point that needs to constantly be reemphasized.

The Arabs have continued to this day to thrust the plight of their own refugees--created primariliy as a result of their own actions--into everyone else’s faces--people who were pawns (willingly or unwillingly) of the Arabs’ own murderous schemes that backfired. Scores of millions of non-Arab peoples also became refugees as a result of wars over the last century. Yet the folks who have received the most aid have been the biggest whiners.

Arab refugees, right from the start, were made virtual wards of the world--unlike all the others above. The United Nations Relief Works Agency (UNRWA)--whose spokemen, right now, are villifying Israel over Gaza--was created just to cater to these folks--most of whom were newcomers themselves coming into the land because of its economic development by the Jews.

The U.N.’s predecessor, the League Of Nations Permanent Mandates Commission, recorded numerous Arabs crossing into the Mandate from the surrounding Arab states. Many more slipped in through very porous borders under cover of darkness and were never recorded. And still many others arrived with Muhammad Ali and son Ibrahim Pasha’s armies from Egypt about fifty years or so earlier and never left...all alleged “native Palestinians.” Hamas’s virtual patron saint (for whom those rockets Gaza has been blasting israel with are named as well as Hamas’s “militant wing), Sheikh Izzedin al-Qassam, was from Latakia, Syria. Arafat was born in Cairo.

Indeed, so many Arabs were recent arrivals themselves into the Palestinian Mandate that UNRWA had to adjust the very definition of “refugee” from its prior meaning of persons normally and traditionally resident to those who lived in the Mandate for a minimum of only two years prior to 1948.

Now, keep in mind that for every Arab who was forced to flee the fighting that Arabs started (after all, how dare Jews want in one tiny, resurrected state what Arabs demand for themselves in some two dozen others), a Jewish refugee was forced to flee “Arab"/Muslim lands into Israel and elsewhere...but with no UNRWA set up to assist them. Why not?

UNRWA has been openly hostile to Israel from the getgo. It has long allowed the promotion of anti-Western and anti-Semitic attitudes among the Arabs it serves, and has done little to help solve the problem of their refugee status--unless giving shelter and employment to those who would terrorize and destroy their Jewish neighbor counts in his regard.

Before Israel’s current round of fighting in Gaza, back in 2004, UNRWA Commissioner-General Peter Hansen told the Canadian Broadcasting Company “I am sure that there are Hamas members on the UNRWA payroll and I don’t see that as a crime.”

Solid evidence and documentation obtained from Arabs on the spot have revealed that UNRWA has turned a blind eye to Arabs setting up mortar and rocket firing positions adjacent to U.N. schools, hospitals, private homes, and so forth. Additionally, in this latest round, Israel had solid intelligence that Hamas leaders were hiding in the basement of such a hospital.

Similarly, when Israel was forced to go after Hizbullah in Lebanon in 2006, it turned out that the U.N force there, UNIFIL, not only did not prevent attacks on Israel but allowed Hizbullah to set up its positions right next to UNIFIL units. After a U.N. position got hit as a result, pictures made the rounds showing just such a Hizbullah position right next to a U.N. building. Furthermore, solid evidence surfaced that UNIFIL members collaborated with Hizbullah to enable the kidnaping of Israeli troops from inside Israel proper-the move which started the war in the first place.

Ahhh, the United Nations...Nice to know where many millions of American tax dollars are going to, isn’t it?!?!

Turning the clock back again, from 1948 to1956, Israel was attacked repeatedly by Arabs using Egyptian and Jordanian territories as their bases. In 1956, when Egypt blockaded it at the Strait of Tiran, Israel struck back hard. France and Great Britain were peeved at Egypt’s Nasser as well for nationalizing the Suez Canal, so the time was ripe.

In a lightening assault, Israel soon found itself on the banks of the Suez Canal.

Before Western pressure forced it to withdraw--note the inaction of the U.N. to stop Arab attacks on Israel and so forth which provoked the Sinai Campaign (sound familiar?)--Israel’s David Ben-Gurion received assurances that if Egypt ever played the same blockade game again, it would be recognized as a casus belli. This would become very important, once again, in the not-too-distant future. A United Nations Emergency Force was also set up in Gaza and at the Strait of Tiran to supposedly prevent such happenings again.

So, tell me please...what good is a fireman who, at the first smell of smoke, disappears from sight?

In Spring 1967, Egypt’s Nasser must have been all sugared up once again.

Pharaoh amassed 100,000 troops, but instead of chariots, he positioned planes, tanks, artillery, and so forth on Israel’s border, reinstated the blockade, and ordered the U.N. force out of Gaza so his tank divisions would have an open door.

Without a wink, the U.N. turned tail and ran--leaving Israel, once again, all on its own. Nasser, meanwhile, got other Arab nations to jump aboard his own latter-day Final Solution bandwagon as well. While Syria was up to its eyeballs in this right from the start, others--like Jordan’s young King Hussein--had to be lured into this a bit later.

Big mistake...

Well, as you probably know, things didn’t quite turn out as Arabs planned...

In six days in June 1967, Israel destroyed several Arab air forces, left hundreds of their tanks smoldering, took thousands of prisoners, etc.and so forth...Remember Ben-Gurion’s casus belli deal in 1956 regarding a renewal of blockade?

Oh yes--I almost forgot...

Israel also now found itself holding all of the Sinai Peninsula (in which it developed oil fields, established important air bases, and at last gained a little strategic depth) up to the Suez Canal; in control of the Strait from which it had been repeatedly blockaded; on top of the Golan Heights, from which its farm villages and fishermen on the Sea of Galilee had been repeatedly attacked; in Gaza; and back in Judea and Samaria--the “West Bank,” from which all Jews were either previously slaughtered or later excluded from as a result of Transjordan’s land grab in 1948. Places like Hebron--where the Hebrew Patriarchs and some of the matriarchs are buried--and elsewhere once again saw Jews.

And in a rare moment (Divine guidance?), something else next happened which proved to be not par for the U.N.’s usual course.

After much argument, and thanks to America and Great Britain--folks who also opposed Israel in the past--the final draft of the U.N. document, UNSC Resolution 242, which dealt with any future Israeli withdrawal, was worded in a precise way which called for the creation of secure and real borders to replace Israel’s ‘49 Auschwitz lines. It also allowed for a necessary revision of those borders in order to undo–somewhat at least–the travesty of the ‘49 U.N.-imposed lines.

Here’s Britain’s Lord Caradon on 242...

It would have been wrong to demand that Israel return to its positions of June 4, 1967, because those positions were undesirable and artificial. After all, they were just the places where the soldiers of each side happened to be on the day the fighting stopped in 1948. They were just armistice lines. That’s why we didn’t demand that the Israelis return to them.

President Ronald Reagan commented on this same subject on September 1, 1982...

In the pre-1967 borders, Israel was barely 10-miles wide… the bulk of Israel’s population within artillery range of hostile armies. I am not about to ask Israel to live that way again.

Regardless of the renewed pressure that will undoubtedly be coming with the new American President’s administration, Israel must insist upon those territorial adjustments it was promised in order to right an historical wrong. A fair compromise must be demanded by Israel’s own new leaders.

The State Department opposed Israel’s creation from the start and has been usually hostile ever since.

Expect more of the same, if not worse, coming from the Foggy Folks with an Obama Administration.

The Jews the new President appoints to work with him are as reassuring on this matter as James Baker’s stick it to the Jew of the Nations “Jew Boys” were before--a good shield to deflect criticism later on from Jews who really care. I truly hope I’m wrong here...but doubt it. In fact, President Obama apparently just loves Baker’s Jew Boy Dan Kurtzer--Foggy Bottom’s Jew point man used to force the Jews in Israel to ignore 242 and return to their previous suicidal Auschwitz lines.

The new President had already sent his well-known, anti-Israel friend and special envoy, Robert Malley (raised in a family of anti-Zionists and Communists who counted Yasir Arafat as a close friend), to Lebanon’s slave master and Iran’s best buddy, Syria, before he even took the oath of office.

Now, pray tell, what might that be all about?

Decades ago, Israel had already offered a retreat from well over 90% of the Golan Heights to Syria in return for a true peace...

.....’Twasn’t good enough for Iraq’s Saddam Hussein’s twin butchers in Damascus, the Assad boys–neither Papa nor Junior.

So, guess who and what’s gonna be offered up to try to wean Syria away from Iran? The same folks whose arms are going to be twisted even further than they were already by Condoleezza Rice & Co. to believe that Mahmud Abbas’s latter day Arafatian Fatahniks are really the good cops. After all, President Bush had already begun arming, training, funding, and otherwise supporting those alleged doves of peace.

Trust me Jew of the Nations, to such folks you should give away the store and bare the necks of your kids...

Expect much more of the same (if not worse) with President Obama, close friend and associate of Rashid Khalidi and numerous other blatantly anti-Israel folks. Louis Farakhan has called him the messiah.

With a final return (for now) to the United Nations, let’s just say that with Arab genocidal actions being/having been waged against millions of Kurds and black Africans, and Arab murder and subjugation being waged against millions of Copts, Jews, Amazighen/Berbers, and others, the only thing that the United Nations seems capable of doing is vilifying Israel and placing it continuously under the high power lens of moral scrutiny for its determination to survive and defend itself despite the United Nations’ indifference. Indeed, most of all of the latter’s condemnations have been aimed solely at Israel.

Perhaps it’s time for Israel to seriously consider withdrawing from the United Nauseating Nations or, at the very least, make sure that it quickly elects a new generation of leaders who will know how to stand their ground and demand the fair territorial compromises Israel is entitled to and must have regardless of who’s tightening the screws.

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Between Ankara And Jerusalem...

Between Ankara And Jerusalem…

by Gerald A. Honigman

The Turks are, once again, upset with Israel.

Among other things, while hosting a banquet in honor of the visiting United Nations Secretary General, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoggan urged the world “not to turn a blind eye towards Israel’s savagery.”

In reality, the Arabs killed in the current fighting have been mostly fighters--despite Arab claims. The non-combatants killed have deliberately been used as human shields by their own “heroes.”

Where have the United Nations, International Court Of Justice, academic, European Union, and other voices been about that above blatant Arab war crime? Unless it’s Israel they can all jump upon, they’re about as useless here as they are in stopping Arab genocide in black Africa and Arab atrocities elsewhere as well.

After putting up with about ten thousand mortars and rockets being deliberately fired at their civilian population years after a full Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and the U.N. doing nothing to stop this, the Jews finally had no other choice than to move in to try to stop the terror themselves.

How long would Ankara have put up with these deliberate acts of war before reacting?

The Arabs who elected Hamas--an organization which exists primarily to destroy Israel--have been used by Hamas to commit a double war crime: Israeli civilians have been deliberately targeted from Arab civilian centers, while the latter have been used as human shields. The Perfidy and other clauses of the Geneva Conventions speak clearly about such cowardice and barbarism.

While I don’t advocate adopting the Arabs’ own tactics used against Jews (such as blowing up Arab buses, restaurants, shopping malls, schools, and such), any building, town, home, and so forth harboring murderers and their collaborators must be recognized for what the Geneva Conventions say it is...a fair military target.

Article 51/7

The presence of the civilian population shall not be used to render certain points or areas immune from military operations, in particular in attempts to shield military objectives from attack...

Article 58b

The parties to the conflict shall...avoid locating military objectives within or near densely populated areas.The rats’ dens are typically set up in or adjacent to civilian apartment buildings, hospitals, schools, mosques, and so forth. Video tape is available showing Arabs launching missiles from schools.

Article 51/2

The civilian population...shall not be the object of attack. Acts of violence the primary purpose of which is to spread terror among the civilian population are prohibited...Indiscriminate attacks are prohibited. Arabs typically target Israeli civilians.

Before I proceed with a reality check, let me state clearly that I am in favor of an alliance between Turkey and Israel...but one based on an equality in that relationship and the highest moral standards of behavior humanly possible by both parties towards others.

So, let’s now begin...

Unfortunately, the same folks who have declared over one fifth of their own non-Turkish, Kurdish population (over twelve million people) to be “non-existent” in the past --they’re really just “Mountain Turks, don’t you know?--and have taken steps to outlaw Kurdish language and culture (Arabic is one of Israel’s two official languages), are, once again, enraged at Israel for going after both Arab terrorists and their infrastructure in Gaza. These are the same folks who have killed tens of thousands of Kurds (and many others as well) over the years in the name of their own security, have invaded neighboring Iraq for similar reasons, etc., etc., and so forth.

Again, I favor alliances with Ankara, but that particular relationship with Israel must not be an unbalanced affair...something to use when relations are on the downswing with Syrian Arabs, for example.

Ankara complains about Israel being forced to take steps to prevent Gaza from becoming one giant base to launch death, destruction, and terror from--while Israel has agreed in theory to an Arab state being set up there--but totally nixes the idea of an independent Kurdish state being set up in adjacent northern Iraq for the Turks’ own security reasons. Think about that for a minute. We’ll return to this point a bit later.

For several years now, Arabs had a chance to begin to create that 22nd state they say they need in Gaza. All they did with the time and billions of dollars in aid which poured in was to use both to terrorize their Jewish neighbor instead. Gaza was a test--and the Arabs flunked it big time.

So, it’s time to use that American expression and really “talk turkey (speak candidly) to Turkey,” if you know what I mean.

Israel has neglected a brave people who have helped many Jews in the past. Just ask the hundreds of thousands in Israel who originated in Iraq. Israeli leaders have done this largely to not anger the Turks over this painful issue. So the latter’s policies towards the Kurds were treated in a hands off manner. Indeed, Israel has helped Ankara fight Kurds who have resorted to violent means to achieve their own political rights in Turkey...a highly controversial policy.

Since the Turks, however, insist on joining much of the rest of the world in applying hypocritical double standards towards the Jewish State, the time has come for certain truths to at long last come out in the open.

Some thirty-five million Kurds remain stateless today, often at someone else’s mercy. At a time when much of the world insists that justice demands that there be yet another Arab state, there is a nauseating silence--in most of the media, in academia, at the United Nations, and so forth--over the plight of this people.

Spread out over a region which encompasses parts of southeastern Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran, and other adjoining areas as well, these modern day descendants of ancient Medes, Guti, and Hurrians continue to find themselves in very deadly and precarious circumstances.

Kurdish culture and language have periodically been “outlawed” in attempts to Arabize or Turkify them, and in an age when other dormant nations/national groups were able to seize the moment with the collapse of empires, Kurds were repeatedly denied this chance by an assortment of so-called “friends” and foes alike.

Having been promised independence after World War I, the Kurds saw their hopes dashed after the British received a favorable decision from the League of Nations on the Mosul Question in 1925. Mosul and Kirkuk were where much of the oil was located, and the main arm of British imperial power--the navy--had recently switched from coal to oil.

The Brits decided that their long term interests involved not angering the Arabs, who--by their own writings--declared that the rise of an independent Kurdistan would be seen as the equivalent of the birth of another Israel.

Regardless of scores of millions of non-Arabs living in the region (including one half of Israel’s
Jews who were refugees from “Arab"/Muslim lands), Arabs declared a political monopoly over what they regarded as “purely Arab patrimony.” We are living with the consequences of this mindset today along with the related confrontation of the Dar ul-Islam vs. the Dar al-Harb. Hamas and the current Gaza mess are but the latest manifestations of this.

For a number of reasons--such as not angering Arabs and Turks alike--the State Department insists, after hundreds of thousands of Kurds have been maimed, gassed, and slaughtered in other ways by Arabs just in Iraq alone over the last half century (not long ago, Syran Arabs and Iranians renewed their own previous slaughter of Kurds as well), that Kurds will never gain independence. Recall that the heartland of ancient Kurdistan had been in the oil-rich region around Kirkuk.

Both Ankara and the State Department insist that the Kurds remain part of a united Iraq, regardless of the bloody consequences this will likely have for them in the future yet again once America leaves the scene.

America’s autonomous federal dream, while looking good on paper, will probably not last far beyond America’s withdrawal. The majority Shi’a, like the Kurds, massacred and long suppressed by Saddam’s Sunni Arabs, now have other plans. Furthermore, as the Brits earlier armed Arabs in their confrontations with the Kurds, America has now done likewise in rebuilding Iraq’s Shi’a Arab-led army.

The same State Department--which fought President Truman over America’s recognition of a reborn Israel in 1948--insists that there be no partition of Mesopotamia/Iraq. Britain had earlier received the Mandate for Mesopotamia at the same time it received the Mandate for Palestine in the post-World War I era upon the break up of the Ottoman Turkish Empire. But, unlike Palestine (the name Rome gave to Judaea after the Jews’ second revolt for freedom), which would have proposed and actual partitions in attempts to arrive at a compromise solution between Arab and Jew, a much larger Mesopotamia was/is somehow declared to be incapable of doing this same bit of justice for its Kurds.

The main reason put forth for why Mesopotamia/Iraq is incapable of this sort of partition is the potential for instability it will cause in the region. Not only will oil-rich Arabs be miffed at someone else gaining national rights in “their” region, but the Turks, in particular, will supposedly have a fit due to their own large Kurdish minority. Not to mention that Iranian mullahs have been collaborating with Ankara to suppress Kurds as well.

While strong Turco-American and Turco-Israeli alliances are worthy of support, the Turks are wrong on this matter, and too many others have allowed them to get away with this for too long. While it is understandable that they’re nervous about the potential problems, this does not give them the right to have a veto power over the plight of some thirty-five million long-oppressed, stateless, and politically abused Kurds.

Again, think of the irony here regarding Ankara’s outrage at Israel over unabashedly rejectionist Arabs who could have had their additional state (#22) decades ago had they just not continued to work towards the destruction of the sole, tiny nation of the Jews.

An independent Kurdistan set up in northern Iraq--under the right conditions--might actually be a blessing for the Turks. Those Kurds--like those diaspora Jews, Greeks, Armenians, etc.--wishing to live in an independent state could migrate to it. An arrangement could be made whereby the oil wealth of the area could be shared with the Turks as well, since they feel they got robbed via the earlier decision by the League of Nations on the Mosul Question.

Putting things into an even more important and broader perspective, consider the following
facts:

The CIA shows Israel to have a population of about 7 million people, of whom some 20% are Arab. Among the latter (the freest Arabs, by the way, anywhere in the region) are some extremely hostile elements. Israel’s territory is about 20,770 sq km.

Turkey has a population of about 69 million people, of whom about 20%
are Kurds. Turkey’s territory is about 780,580 sq km.

About 38 Israels would fit into Turkey.

Yet, despite its miniscule size, Ankara, Washington, and others have no problem demanding that Israel allow the creation of another Arab terrorist state, dedicated to Israel’s destruction, right on its doorstep. Ignored are the repeated proclamations by even so-called Arab “moderates” that Oslo and all other such “peace initiatives” are but Trojan Horses, steps along the way in the Arabs’ post-’ 67 destruction in phases strategy for Israel.

Now, how will the fifth of Israel’s population that is Arab react to this adjacent potential development? And how will the majority of Hashemite Jordan, which is also mostly Palestinian Arab (however you define that, since many, if not most, “Palestinians” entered Palestine from elsewhere in the region during the Mandatory Period), react to this?

Arafat’s boys (Mahmoud Abbas’s alleged current Fatah “moderates") had already tried a takeover of Jordan in 1970. They were crushed in King Hussein’s “Black September.” And Israel’s mobilization in the north sent a message to Fatah’s Syrian allies at the time as well. Yet no one seems to be worried about any destabilizing effects here.

The same hypocrites who declare that Israel must grossly endanger itself so that yet another Arab state might be born insist that Kurds must remain forever stateless because of some problems their freedom might cause to a Turkey nearly forty times Israel’s size in territory and over eleven times its size in population...and with the exact same 80% to 20% mix of potential “headaches.”

There’s no moral defense for this.

Indeed, the Turks definitely need to review the wisdom regarding those living in glass houses not throwing stones.

Asking Kurds to forsake the creation of their one, sole state for the pipedream of an egalitarian Iraq is a travesty of justice if ever there was one.

Regardless of their religious coloration, the vast majority of Arabs are in no sharing mood when it comes to questions about what they see as “purely Arab patrimony.” They’re the rulers, the rest are the ruled...Period...End of conversation.

Kurds do not aim to destroy Turkey in order to see their own dreams of independence--or, at minimum, a highly entrenched, sustainable autonomy--come true.

The reason Israel has fought war after war with Arabs is because the latter refuse to grant millions of other non-Arab peoples in the region even a tiny sliver of the very rights they demand for themselves. Many people besides Jews have been slaughtered and victimized by Arabs this way.

Ankara would be wise to reconsider its stance on all of these issues--especially since it insists on seating itself upon a moral high horse.

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Gaza Ain't Warsaw...

No, Mr. Jihadi...Gaza Isn’t Warsaw
by Gerald A. Honigman



I was treated to a nauseating sight the other night.

Fair and balanced Fox News interviewed an Arab about the Gaza thing to get that side of the current fighting. I can’t remember his name. It doesn’t matter.

His response was typical, one that anyone who has followed the Arab-Israeli conflict over the last century could recite: The “Palestinians” (Arabs) are the new Jews, and the Jews are the new Nazis.
But Arabs already have almost two dozen states on over six million square miles of territory, you reply--including one sitting on some 80% of the original 1920 Mandate of Palestine renamed Jordan. And Jews were stateless until the resurrection of their sole, tiny nation.

Shhhhh...Don’t ruin a fairy tale. Besides, don’tcha know, these ain’t Arabs, they’re “Palestinians” (so what if most came into the Mandate from elsewhere).

Back to Fox News...

Mr. Jihadi’s version of Arab Jews and Jew Nazis is the now popular Gaza is the Warsaw Ghetto claim. For that desecration alone, if there is a Hell, he’ll be there. And he’ll have Adolph--er Pat-- Buchanan, from the right (Gaza is Israel’s concentration camp for Arabs), and zillions of lefties with similar claims keeping him company.

Given ignorance and idiocy, a bit of background is in order.

In 1940, the Nazis began to concentrate most of Poland’s three million Jews into several ghettos. The word ghetto itself comes from a much earlier Church legacy vis-a-vis the Jews. One of the debates among the Church Fathers had to do with what should be done with the “Deicide People.” Guess who they allegedly are?

The “gentle” St. Augustine won out--at least at some times and in some places.

So, instead of Jews being burned alive in their synagogues and such (which others suggested and which happened anyway), they were to purposely be kept alive--but in such a lowly state, that when people looked upon them, all would be reminded of their crime and recognize the Deicide People.

The ghetta (today’s ghetto) was where the iron foundries were located in Italy–the smelliest, most unhealthy areas of the city...Perfect for god-killers (I won’t insult G_d by capitalizing the previous word), gated and locked as well. These soon spread throughout Christendom, while the “Arab” World constructed its own versions, mellahs, for its kilab yahud–Jew Dogs. Does anyone seriously wonder why Israel had to be reborn?

The ghetto in Warsaw was the largest. It held about 400,000 Jews who were told that they would be “resettled” to the East or, at worse, would be going to forced labor camps to work for the Germans.

By 1942, however, word of the Nazis’ true plans had made it into the ghetto. The cattle cars were heading for extermination camps, part of the Final Solution. While some still kept their heads in the sand (not unlike too many Jews to this day), many faced reality and joined the resistance. This was harder for Jews since they often faced the anti-Semitism of the other folks as well--not only the Germans. The road to Auschwitz was indeed paved by many ingrained “religious” teachings...

The full-fledged uprising of David vs. Goliath began in 1943 in the ghetto.

Armed with some pistols, revolvers, home-made weapons and explosives, and some Polish rifles and such paid for dearly, the Jews took on their tormentors and embarrassed them profusely until the Nazis blasted every place they could possibly hide.

During the Holocaust, the Nazis singled out the women and children first. The attractive of the former might be used for pleasure before being murdered. The kids were killed right away as they were of no use...unless they wound up in the labs of Nazi doctors to be turned into human guinea pigs for all kinds of grotesque experiments. All of this is well documented. One and half million of the six million slaughtered--for no other reason than they were Jews--were children.

Okay, so now let’s take a look at Mr. Jihadi’s Gaza “Warsaw Ghetto.”

Unlike the Jews who weren’t trying to kill any Germans, the Arabs of Gaza elected an organization dedicated to blowing both Jews and their State apart.

The Arabs killed in the current fighting have been mostly fighters-–despite Arab claims. The non-combatants killed have deliberately been used as human shields by their own “heroes.” Where are the U.N., International Court Of Justice, academic, and other voices crying out about this blatant Arab war crime? They’re as useless here as they are in stopping Arab genocide in black Africa.

Unlike the Nazis who sought out every last Jew for extermination, Israel has deliberately already sent its own soldiers to their deaths on the ground, fighting door to door knowing, in advance, of booby traps waiting for them, but trying to avoid the deaths of non-combatant Arabs. I disagree with that policy.

When the Allies fought the Nazis and Japan, they fire bombed German cities and nuked the latter.

Israel is fighting Arabs who want it dead. No Israel, regardless of its size, is acceptable. Arab kids are brainwashed from the diaper to the camps to the schools to the mosques to murder Jews. Nothing Israel does humanely--treating Arabs in Israeli hospitals, supplying its Arab enemies (who else does that?), attempted compromises, and so forth--matters. Sad, but true.

So, why waste Jewish lives? The world’s hypocrites will condemn Israel’s self defense anyway. Gaza should be taken care of from above. Actually, perhaps the Jews should follow the Arabs’ own Hama Solution.

When Syria’s elder Assad had “problems,” he wiped out 40,000 of his enemies in a month by leveling the town of Hama with artillery and so forth. Who screamed about that?

Unlike Nazis who targeted Jews for just being Jews (as Arabs do as well), Israel has tried its best--given the Arab human shield game--to target Jihadi combatants rather than just plain Jihadis.

If killing Arabs was Israel’s goal, does anyone seriously doubt that it could have made Gaza Arabrein by now?

Finally, as I write this, there’s much talk now about a ceasefire--to give Hamas time to rearm and regroup.

Not a good idea...especially since many of those tunnels delivering weapons from Egypt’s Sinai are still functional. Imagine if this was reversed, and Israel allowed its territory to be used against Egypt–-with which it supposedly has a peace treaty–-this way?

Israel should not accept any ceasefire unless it makes it very clear to all of the parties--especially an America under President Obama--that the next missiles fired against Israeli towns (as some ten thousand have already been since Israel’s full withdrawal from Gaza several years back) will see Gaza turned into a remake of Dresden 1945, after the American and British fire bombing. Germany finally got the message and the war soon ended. Sometimes there’s no other way--especially if your enemy has genocidal intentions.

Unlike the “civilian” Arabs’ murderous attitudes towards Jews and Israel which polls continuously confirm, Dresden’s German and Hiroshima’s Japanese civilians didn’t seek the destruction of America.

Arabs have had years and billions of dollars in aid to begin building that 22nd state they say they must have. They’ve used the time and the money to prepare for and conduct hostilities against their Jewish neighbor instead...a test of peaceful intent flunked with flying colors.

All of this must be kept in mind when Israel finally decides to fight to win or to deliver, at the very least, the closest thing to a knockout punch.

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Gaza School Daze

Gaza School Daze
by Gerald A. Honigman


So, there I was minding my own business eying the flat ocean on the way to work, wondering what fish were hitting in the surf.

I must be a glutton for punishment...why else would I turn on National Public Radio in the midst of renewed Arab-Israeli “festivities?”

Sure enough, on January 7th’s morning show, some woman reporter could barely hold back her sick glee at being able to report about Israel’shelling of a U.N. school causing numerous deaths. Anything that causes Israel to look bad, NPR jumps on.

While reporting the news is understandable, deliberately reporting only one side of the news is distortion. NPR has a history of this...but the lefty Jews keep funding it anyway. And many of those NPR reporters are also members of The Tribe. After a virtual dissertation of Israel’s alleged crime, you’re lucky to hear some passing footnote at the end posing as “the other side.” Unbelievable...

And, of course, it’s not just NPR.

Jackson Diehl, deputy editorial page editor of the Washington Post, wrote a syndicated piece which appeared in my local paper on December 30th singing praises to Ehud Olmert’s name...the guy perhaps most responsible for Israel’s current headaches, which were long in the coming. Diehl typifies too much of the mainstream media today. He also ended his op-ed (”...Israel’s hard-line show") by stating that “...it may be many years before Israel again has a leader as willing to make peace.”

Guess what? Ever since Israel was forced to fight–again–for its life in 1967, every Prime Minister has held his or her hand out to the Arabs to make a real peace. General Dayan offered, right after the war, to return all the territories for such a deal. The Arabs’ collective answer has often been repeated–the “Three Nos of Khartoum.” But Diehl and his ilk aren’t interested in such things.

As for the Arabs living in the portion of the Palestine Mandate left after Jordan wound up with most of it in 1922, they offered Arafat’s famous hudna (ceasefire), his “Peace of the Quraysh,” to the Jews in return for the latter giving away what was left of the store. It was and is modeled on the temporary halt to hostilities the Arabs’ Prophet Muhammad agreed to until he could muster the strength to conquer his enemies. Even the most “moderate” of these Arabs still have this in mind...regardless of others’ wishful thinking. Think America’s Foggy Folks, the European Union, and so forth.

Back to the recent school casualties...

It’s no news that Arabs have a long history of using their own women and children as human shields. Pictures made the rounds of Hizbullah gun installations set up in apartment buildings in Lebanon a few years back. Offices of Hamas leaders, the PFLP, and so forth are routinely set up in such places as well, with arms and munitions stored in schools, hospitals, and so forth.

Shoot, maim, terrorize, destroy, and/or murder Jewish property or people--then cry to the assorted world hypocrites and idiots and show off your dead kids whom you hid behind when Israel finally is forced to strike back.

Here’s a video of Arabs firing from just such a Gaza school a while back...
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/129266

It should be of no surprise, therefore, that Arabs are up to their same old tricks. And once again their own innocents–-or, at least, non-combatants--pay part of the price. But while we’re at it, also please recall that the latter elected those “heroes” of theirs… Know what I mean? By the way, all of this is contrary to the Perfidy and other clauses of the Geneva Conventions–war crimes, big time, as is deliberately targeting Jewish civilians.

Now, here’s what reasonable folks really deserve from NPR and all those other holier-than-thou mainline media types who watched Israel take over ten thousand rocket and mortar hits since leaving Gaza a few years back and barely--if ever--wrote an editorial, produced a radio program, news broadcast, or such about this...

Where’s the NPR producer--after all of these years--who will do an in-depth program on the above repeated Arab war crimes?

Not newsworthy?

Where’s the producer and reporter who’ll ask Arabs what they’ve done with all the billions of dollars in aid they’ve already received--except acquire more and more means to attack their tiny Jewish neighbor which is practically invisible on a world map. Twenty-one Arab states (including one already sitting on most of “Palestine") on over six million square miles of territory (mostly seized and forcibly Arabized from non-Arab peoples) but they still can’t leave the Jews and their sole resurrected state alone. The second proposed Arab state in Palestine will be their 22nd.

As many of us have asked, is this issue really not a no brainer?

Would that gal chomping at the bit to embarrass Israel--a perennial NPR specialty--want her own government to ignore her own house, neighborhood, school or so forth being attacked this way...repeatedly?

Hey Jews! Be like good Christians and just turn your other cheek!

Sure...show me the Christian nations which do this.

Indeed, who but the Jews would have put up with this manure for so many years before striking back hard. Yet the Washington Post’s Diehl labels Israel as being “hardline” for trying to put an end to this terror--er, sorry Jackson, “militancy.”

The sad, all important fact is that the goal of Israel’s Arab neighbors is still the destruction of the Jewish State--for both the terrorists and those who harbor and support them.

For Hamas, this is professed openly; for Abbas--a sweet-talking (sometimes) Arafat in a suit--this is a bit more disguised. As I like to say, blown buses bring bad press.

And there’s lots of money at stake for those willing to say the right stuff to an all-too-willingly gullible West...in English. Recall that the rockets were hitting Israel when Abbas was in Gaza as well.

Gaza must be a lesson for the next Israeli leaders who will hopefully replace Olmert’s crew very shortly.

Olmert’s move on Gaza now had several goals. One, for sure, was to give a boost to Foreign Minister Tzipora (as in Moses’s wife) Livni when she runs against Benjamin Netanyahu. But Livni has been too cozy with Olmert’s cave in to the Foggy Folks’ demands regarding Abbas and Fatah.

Israel cannot risk having its main population centers in its narrow waist exposed to Fatah’s latter-day Arafatians--who remain as rejectionist as Hamas when it comes to the idea of a long term Jewish neighbor. Abbas and his crew do not deny this. They think they’re going to swamp Israel with millions of alleged returning refugees and so forth.

America is now in the process of building Abbas’s Fatah army up so it will be able to kill more Jews. That’s the reality here after Israel hands Fatah a victory over Hamas it couldn’t win itself. Look at the “moderate” Fatah and Palestinian Authority official web sites, maps, textbooks, and so forth if you think otherwise. Part of what Israel is now doing to Hamas involves sending Fatah a message as well...

Even in an age of satellites and missiles, land is still important.

Israel must thus insist on a fair territorial compromise, giving it the somewhat secure borders it was promised via UNSC Resolution 242 after the June ‘67 war instead of the suicidal armistice lines which were imposed upon it by the United Nations after the Arab invasion in 1948 and which did nothing but invite continued Arab aggression.

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