{"id":91,"date":"2007-11-03T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-03T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geraldahonigman.com\/?page_id=91"},"modified":"2007-11-03T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-03T13:00:00","slug":"the-1002nd-arabian-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geraldahonigman.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/03\/the-1002nd-arabian-night\/","title":{"rendered":"The 1002nd Arabian Night…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tales Of The Modern Arabian Nights\u2026Or, Abu Alaa And The Tightening Screws<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

by Gerald A. Honigman<\/p>\n

Forget Aladdin, Ali Baba, Sinbad, & Co., those wondrous tales of yore.<\/p>\n

Have you heard about Abu Alaa <\/em>?<\/p>\n

Well, his story really begins, for those non-Arabians reading these tales, when Israel\u2019s Rabin shook hands with his dear friend and colleague, Arafat, at President Clinton\u2019s prompting.<\/p>\n

During that subsequent 1990\u2019s \u201cOslo Peace,\u201d Ahmed Qurei\u2019–Abu Alaa<\/em>–was one of Arafat\u2019s chief marionettes. Prior to that, he was just another Fatah plotter or disemboweler of Jews\u2026Diplomacy as war by another means.<\/p>\n

Predictably, Israel got non-stop barbarism for each unilateral, concrete concession it was pressured to make. A similar scenario would take place a bit later at Camp David and Taba when Clinton, seeking to salvage his stained reputation, gave Israel\u2019s Barak an offer he couldn\u2019t refuse. And Barak did offer to give away the store\u2026despite the Arab spin masters\u2019 twist of this today.<\/p>\n

While the late Egyptian ghoul, Arafat, confirmed by refusing Taba that it makes no difference how big Israel is, but that Israel is that is the Arab problem–I mean, how dare Jews want in one tiny, resurrected state in which they have thousands of years of continuous history, what Arabs have created almost two dozen of for themselves on some seven million square miles of territory, mostly by conquering and forcibly Arabizing non-Arab peoples–the ghosts of Arafat and Taba still haunt us today. Taba is now the Arabs\u2019 starting point for \u201cnegotiations.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the Arab vision of justice, virtually the entire region is \u201cpurely Arab patrimony.\u201d Hence the millions of dead, intimidated, subjugated, and so forth Kurds, Copts, Imazighen\/”Berbers,” black African Sudanese, native kilab yahud<\/em>–Jew dogs–and so forth. Dr. Butros Butros Ghali–Egypt\u2019s Sadat\u2019s Uncle Tom Copt Foreign Minister–put it to Israel this way. I\u2019ll paraphrase him: If you want to gain acceptance, you must consent to Arabization.<\/p>\n

And that brings me back to the 1002nd Arabian nights tale\u2026<\/p>\n

A translation by the highly respected Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) on July 3, 2003 dealt with an interview with Abu Alaa. Among other things, he was asked about the Arabs’ problem with having the word “Jewish” placed in front of the words “State of Israel” at the summit leading up to the evolution of the current Roadmap. Here was his response:<\/p>\n

“What is the meaning of a Jewish state? Do we say…Sunni state…Shi’ite state….Christian state? These are definitions that will bring…turmoil.”<\/p>\n

It is not unusual to hear critics of Israel, even some academics, proclaim, “if Jews can have a state, then why not Catholics, or Protestants, or Hindus, and such?” a la Alaa.<\/p>\n

Now think about this for a minute…<\/p>\n

Someone from England is English, from Poland is Polish, from Ireland is Irish, from Sweden is Swedish, from Denmark is Danish, and so forth.<\/p>\n

Indeed, while there are other ways of describing one’s nationality or ethnicity (i.e. we’re not Americanish), the addition of the suffix “-ish” denotes this as well. That’s how Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary primarily defines it.<\/p>\n

So what’s Abu Alaa’s and his buddies’ problem here?<\/p>\n

It’s really very simple…<\/p>\n

If they admit that Jews are a nation or a people, it makes Arab rejection of their national movement–Zionism–more difficult to defend; i.e. how could Arabs demand a twenty-second state for themselves–and second, not first, one in \u201cPalestine\u201d (Jordan carved out of the lion\u2019s share of the land) while denying Jews their one?<\/p>\n

When the Roman historian, Tacitus, wrote the following amid the Jews\u2019 struggle for independence against their imperial Roman conquerors, ask yourselves if he was only referring to a religion or to a people who coincidentally had specific religious beliefs. Tacitus and other contemporary Roman historians, like Dio Cassius, wrote extensively on this topic, and I quote them frequently to those who babble as Abu Alaa and his fellow Arabs do\u2026<\/p>\n

“Titus was appointed by his father to complete the subjugation of Judaea… he commanded three legions in Judaea itself… To these he added the twelfth from Syria and the third and twenty-second from Alexandria… amongst his allies were a band of Arabs, formidable in themselves and harboring towards the Jews the bitter animosity usually subsisting between neighboring nations (Vol. II, Book V, The Works of Tacitus<\/em>)”<\/p>\n

So, Abu Alaa\u2019s tale is the ongoing saga of Arabs denying anyone and everyone in \u201ctheir\u201d region even a miniscule portion of the very same rights they demand for themselves. That\u2019s what the Anfal Campaign was against Kurds in Iraq; what Ismet Cherif Vanly wrote about in his book, The Syrian Mein Kampf Against The Kurds <\/em>(Amsterdam, 1968); what Arab genocide in Darfur and the Sudan is about today, along with murder and intimidation of Copts in Egypt,\u00a0Imazighen in North Africa, and what\u2019s left of native Jew dogs, in \u201ctheir \u201c lands. The latter now make up one half of Israel\u2019s Jewish population\u2026the refugees no one ever talks about.<\/p>\n

On October 31, 2007, the Associated Press wrote of Abu Alaa–now the Arabs\u2019 chief negotiator at yet another American President\u2019s attempt to improve his legacy before leaving office by consenting to traditional State Department Arabist arm-twisting of Jews–\u201craising the stakes\u201d prior to the proposed gang-up-on-the Jews \u201cpeace\u201d summit at Annapolis.<\/p>\n

Dalia Nammari wrote\u2026\u201cQueria tightened the screws Tuesday\u201d and demanded a specific deadline for establishing a Palestinian state. \u201cWe will not accept negotiations without a timetable\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

The quoted response given by the Israeli spokeswoman was all too typical of the spineless crew now running the show at that end, \u201c negotiations should be held behind closed doors, not through the media.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since Olmert and the Israeli leadership are now incapable of responding to Abbas, Querei\u2019 and all the other State Department alleged Arab good cops properly (Condi knows how to twist such Jews\u2019 arms well too), let me propose the following Israeli response to Abu Alaa\u2019s modern Arabian tale\u2026<\/p>\n

No nation is obligated to take part in its own suicide\u2026despite what Czechoslovakia was forced to do by its \u201cfriends\u201d via Munich in 1938.<\/p>\n

Israel is not obligated to withdraw to the U.N.-imposed 1949 armistice lines, which made it 9-miles wide in parts and a constant invitation to be attacked. Those lines merely marked the point where invading Arab armies were stopped after the rebirth of Israel in 1948 on roughly 11% of the original 1920 Palestinian Mandate created after the collapse of the Ottoman Turkish Empire which ruled it for the previous four centuries.<\/p>\n

After the latest Arab attempt on Israel\u2019s life in 1967, UN Resolution 242 made this quite clear. A reading of all of its final draft architects, quotes from Presidents Johnson and Reagan, Secretary of State Shultz, and others understood this well.<\/p>\n

Israel was to get \u201csecure and recognized borders\u201d–not armistice lines–in return for any withdrawal from territories it came to occupy in a defensive war and this was to be done in the context of real peace treaties, not hudna-type ceasefires.<\/p>\n

Regardless of State Department Arabist attempts to bury this over the years (the same folks who fought Israel\u2019s very rebirth in the first place), Israel must hold its ground and demand that Judea does not once again become Judenrein<\/em>, and seek a fair territorial compromise on that \u201cWest Bank.\u201d<\/p>\n

Again, Arabs are already controlling over three quarters of the original territory–just in Jordan alone. All of Gaza has since been handed over as well–with Arab mortars, missiles, and rockets constantly launched from there against Israel anyway. This occurred under Fatah\u2019s watch as well as Hamas\u2019s, for those bent on excusing the good cops. Much of the \u201cWest Bank\u201d is now also under Arab control , courtesy of the one-sided concessions of Oslo.<\/p>\n

There will be no timetable for the creation of Arab state # 22.<\/p>\n

As Arabs show themselves true partners for a true peace–not their well known \u201chudna\u201d games –then more steps can be taken towards that Arab goal.<\/p>\n

No nation would consent to being a partner with another whose school text books, maps, television and radio stations, children camps, religious leaders, etc. and so forth are unrelenting in calling for the other \u201cpartner\u2019s\u201d destruction. All of this was supposed to change as of Oslo. None of it did. And Abbas, Abu Alaa, & Co. insist that they will flood a miniscule Israel, after it withdraws to the \u201949 armistice lines, with millions of jihadist alleged Arab refugees. Recall Abu Alaa\u2019s problem with a \u201cJewish\u201d Israel\u2026<\/p>\n

The Arab leopard does not change its spot on this \u201cpurely Arab patrimony\u201d issue.<\/p>\n

And it won\u2019t after Annapolis 2007 either.<\/p>\n

The Jews will once again be pressured to cave in to the Arabs\u2019 well-known, post-\u201867 destruction-in-stages<\/em> plans, courtesy of their American friends. Munich 2007…<\/p>\n

Hopefully, Israel will quickly snap out of its stupor and have its own say at how this latest tale of the Arabian Nights will end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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