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A Response to "The Peace of Israel" By Alan Caruba

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This is a response to the postThe Peace of Israel from the blog Warning Signs  by Alan Caruba.  I have read Mr. Carubas blog for some time and find his work informative and generally cogent.  This is not the case here.
 
In this post Mr. Caruba states: “There is one nation in the Middle East that is not roiling in anarchy, rioting, and internal warfare. It does so without oppressing its citizens. It encourages and protects the practice of all religions. That nation is Israel.”
 
Israeli Policy and our blind support is Upside Down
 Picture from: Warning Signs-altered here
 

Like Israels policies, forged from fear, Mr. Caruba’s argument is upside down.  Please refrain from labeling me antisemitic.  I believe in Israel’s rights as a sovereign state and its defense.  I do not however, have to blindly support it’s policies.  I ask everyone to open your minds to the reality of the Palestinian people… This was originally a comment to Mr. Caruba’s post.  As he decided not to publish it and it ties in nicely with our previous two post Inflection Point ispublishing it here.


Again, the opening statement: 
 
“There is one nation in the Middle East that is not roiling in anarchy, rioting, and internal warfare. It does so without oppressing its citizens. It encourages and protects the practice of all religions. That nation is Israel.”

Such a statement about an Apartheid practicing regime is utterly absurd. 
 
I generally like your blog and I am seldom driven to flaming a post but, your latest is sans any insight into present reality or historic precedent.  Make that statement to Palestinians in Gaza (which Israel is annexing) and you will see jaws drop.  Forbidding annexation of territories gained by military conquest is a major principle of international law.  International Court of Justice, in paragraphs 121, 134 & 137 of its 2004 advisory opinion concerning Israels security wall, throughout the West Bank, ruled de facto annexation significantly interferes with the human rights and right of self-determination of the occupied people See: (http://www.israellawresourcecenter.org/miscdocument/icjadvisoryopinion2003/fulltext/icjao2003text.htm).
 
Most Jewish Friends and a majority of the Israeli people oppose the Israeli government’s policy of Palestinian apartheid.  To the government; the peoples wishes be damned.

” Israel is weighing a new plan for a provisional Palestinian state, an offer of temporary borders within which the Palestinians could establish a nation of their own.”

Sovereignty! What Sovereignty?
 
The government says what it will to please the international press and then does something completely different.
 
“…but for many worldwide the Jews are not supposed to have their own nation or to live in the land in which their ancestors have lived for 3,500 years ago.”

They lived along side Arabs in “Palestine”.  What, the Palestinians do not deserve a sovereign state?
 
“In a world in which more than a billion Muslims are eager to establish a universal caliphate, mostly by the use of terror on the Earth’s other five billion inhabitants, the Pope’s book is a candle of sanity in the darkness.”

Every Muslim, to a man, wants a “universal caliphate”?   Does the Pope endorse this statement?  It’s always; the “us against them” battle cry.  Why?  
 
This is an intellectual black hole from which no common good can ever emerge.  Hate is taught at home and engendered from generation to generation.  It separates us from our humanity and portrays those with different beliefs as, less than human.  This simple psychological ploy is used to prejudice warriors into believing killing is just.  To what end is such a statement made, other than inciting fear and perpetuating hate?  It has no place in an intellectual argument.
 
“It takes clarity and courage for non-Muslims to identify the threat to their faith and their lives.”

Yes there are those who will stop at nothing to destroy us.
 
To think otherwise will surely hasten our demise.  But, counter to what you would like to frighten us into believing, it is not a majority.  Extremes are practiced by each camp.  No one side holds a monopoly here.  In fact your argument, if there is one, obfuscates and widens the divide.  (Properly dealing with Hamas is anther matter, for another time, and obviously has wider implications).
 
The fact that people of corrupt, supposed neo-liberal, autocratic regimes are throwing off the yoke of subjugation is a mighty blow to Arab terrorist everywhere.  Al-Qaida’s call for universal jihad has been greatly diminished .  All this was done; without the help of Kellogg, Brown and Root.  This deserves our encouragement, support and respect for self determination.  But here lies the rub; a free sovereign state may not be so easily swayed to our will, as were their former kleptocratic leaders.
 
Your mention of our current regimes refusal to use words like “terrorism” or “jihad” is telling.  No doubt those who stand for nothing fall for anything.  That aside, what is telling is; not once do you refer to the Palestinian or Arab peoples basic human rights or their right of self-determination.
 
Terrorist must be stopped. They must be identified, brought to justice, and their funding cut off wherever they are.  What if however, the terrorist is a state with the full backing of a military industrial complex and powerful supporting beneficiaries?  Things become more complicated.
 
We must forge a path toward peace and understanding with moderate thinkers and God help us work to eliminate the profiteers from the equation.  As if the obstacles in the Middle East are not enough; here we face the daunting task of overcoming international hypocrisy as the worlds five largest arms exporters are also the five permanent members of the UN Security Council.  One can dream… And from there, all change is manifest.
 
“It is a good thing to be a Catholic. It is a good thing to be a Christian. It is a good thing to be a Hindu or a Buddhist. It is a good thing to be a Jew.

The same cannot be said of those who embrace terror, murder, and death as their path to paradise.”

So Jews or the state of Israel have never practiced terror?   Your denial of events taking place today in Gaza and History itself does not make it so.

In the piece you praise the Pope for his efforts to mend scars of the Catholic Church’s collaboration with the Nazis in WWII and his exoneration of the Jewish people for the death of Jesus (fortunately; regarding Jesus, the Catholic Church has condemned this anti-Semitic line of thinking for over four decades).  Strikingly, you are able to find forgiveness in your heart for historic atrocities and a lineage of hate.  But, in the present conflict, the here and now, you make no effort to find a peaceful solution, to forgive or, at the very least, express a scintilla of our common humanity.  This Sir is a consistent bane to mans evolution. 

 

The old adage; “bad things happen when good people do nothing” was addressed in the bottom of the page quote by Roger Waters in Roger Waters: Why am I doing the Wall again now? 

“Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body’s final fall, nor the barrels of death’s rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.”- Roger Waters

To overcome the constant din of rhetoric we must take a thorough account of things as they are and realize; half truths are lies.  And, subtle as it may be; hate and prejudice are scars on any argument and we are all the worse for it. -EC

Please also see: Eretz Israel – Erased: Wiped Off The Map – THE SIEGE ON GAZA 
And: Roger Waters: Why am I doing the Wall again now?

 

“Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.” -  Charlie Chaplin

 

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    • HfjNUlYZ

      I became curious about the basis of the Jewish “claim” to Palestine,
      how they were always crying “God gave it to us”,
      so I read their “claim”.
      Their “claim” to Palestine, in a book THEY wrote,
      is based entirely on War Crimes and GENOCIDE.
      It is WRONG to compare Israel to the Nazis.
      The CORRECT comparison is the Nazis to the Israelis:
      The Nazis just copied the Jewish “Manual” point by point
      KILL THE SICK and CRIPPLED
      Numbers c.5 v.2-4
      KILL HOMOSEXUALS
      Leviticus c.20 v.13 well, really the whole chapter
      KILL ALL DISSIDENTS:
      Exodus c.32 v.27
      Numbers c.11 v.1-2
      Numbers c.16 all
      Numbers c.21 v.5-6
      Numbers v.26 v.10
      KILL anyone who engages in “DIVERSITY” or “INTEGRATION”
      Numbers v25 v.4-8
      Deuteronomy c.14 v.2
      DEHUMANIZE and then EXTERMINATE ALL NON-MEMBERS:
      Numbers c.21 v.03 Canaanites
      Numbers c.21 v.24 Amorites
      Numbers c.21 v.33-35 Bashan
      Numbers c.31 all Midianites
      Numbers c.32 v. more Amorites
      Deuteronomy c.2 v.34 People of Heshbon
      Deuteronomy c.3 v.6 really the whole chapter. threescore cities
      Joshua c.12 A list of victims of Israeli GENOCIDE
      Where are THEIR “holocaust” Memorials!
      OCCUPY YOUR VICTIM’S DWELLINGS/LAND
      Numbers c.21 v.25
      Numbers c.32 v.39
      Numbers c.33 v.53
      (just to name a FEW)
      GENOCIDE CODIFIED IN THEIR RELIGION
      Numbers c.33 v.31-34
      Deuteronomy c.7 v.2
      Deuteronomy c.12 v.28-30
      Deuteronomy c.20 v.11-16
      TERRORISM CODIFIED IN THEIR RELIGION
      Deuteronomy c.2 v.2
      Deuteronomy c.7 v.1
      Jews SELF-anointed “The CHOSEN People of GOD”
      Nazis SELF-anointed “The GENETICALLY CHOSEN People of God”.

      antiGENTILISM is the cause of so-called “antisemitism”. Humanity did not invent “antisemitism” from thin air, and then wait thousands of years for a Jew to come along so they could “hate” him for absolutely no reason. Jews codified hatred of ALL NON-Jews in their beliefs, as is thoroughly documented elsewhere. Now whenever a NON-Jew acts or speaks in SELF-DEFENSE, the Jews yell “antisemitism”. Jew have to quit their HATE of the rest of HUMANITY, and “antisemitism” will dissipate. Maybe those GENOCIDES the Bible brags about created some “animosity”?? Or the fact that Israel murders GOYIM/Palestinian/GENTILE CHILDREN in such a methodical manner, on such a regular basis, with such deliberate design, that it must be concluded that Israel is engaging in RITUAL SACRIFICE.

    • HfjNUlYZ

      IF, Israel wanted peace, it would FLOOD Concentration Camp GAZA with food and healthy economic activity. Did America launch massive assaults and shoot Black American Women and Children dead in the streets or use Jet Fighters and launch Artillery and Missiles into CIVILIAN areas? NO! Israel does so because Israel wants Ethnic Cleansing, NOT peace. Where is Israel’s Recognition of the PALESTINIAN’S RIGHT to EXIST!? Israel demands the Palestinians “repudiate” this and that …Does Israel REPUDIATE the TORAH???? Israel was White RACIST, APARTHEID, South Africa’s ONLY ally, trading weapons, torture techniques, NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY, with them. Today Israel continues Racist APARTHEID with it’s wall. Israel enforces laws that are straight out of Nazi Germany such as Palestinians must have different colored ID cards and license plates, JUST like the yellow stars the Jews WAIL about having to wear. Palestinians have to use separate roads, IDENTICAL to Black OR Whites Only drinking faucets.
      Israel and South Africa were virtually twinned as military allies for Pretoria helped supply Israel militarily in the immediacy of its 1973 setback and Israel came to support apartheid South Africa at the height of sanctions with weaponry and technology – from naval ships and the conversion of supersonic fighter planes to assistance in building six nuclear bombs and the creation of a thriving arms industry. Israel resembles apartheid South Africa at its zenith – even surpassing its brutality, house demolitions, removal of communities, targeted assassinations, massacres, imprisonment and torture of its opponents and the aggression against neighbouring states.
      Israel just PRETENDS to care about African Americans (but look how Israel treats Blacks at home), so they can STEAL the taxdollars that SHOULD have been repairing schools and infrastructure and providing police protection in the Cities. Year after year BILLIONS of African American Tax dollars buy more APARTHEID-suppression for the NATIVE PEOPLE of PALESTINE instead of improving life for the Black American People who earned those dollars.
      “It is unacceptable that nations made up of people who have only just come down from the trees should take themselves for world leaders . . . How can such primitive beings have an opinion of their own?” – Yitzhak Shamir, in reference to the black African nations who voted in support of the 1975 U.N. resolution, which denounced Zionism as a form of racism, in Yediot Ahronot, November 14, 1975.

      Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:15 CDT © Jewish Middlesex
      Ethiopian Jewish student – not allowed to study at new school
      Several months ago, a religious school in the illegal Israeli settlement of Immanuel was criticized for segregating white Jewish students from non-white Jewish students in classes. Originally, the school was fined for this policy of racial segregation, because the school was state funded. Now, the Israeli education ministry has agreed with the white parents’ request to allow the school to continue with its racial discrimination under private funding.
      There is no law preventing racial discrimination by priyvate organizations, even schools, in Israel.
      The Israeli court has interpreted these laws to also apply to illegal West bank settlements, like Immanuel, which are located in areas that are supposed to be under Palestinian control. The Palestinian Authority does not allow racial discrimination, but due to the Israeli military occupation of the Palestinian Territories, it has no authority over the area in question. 74 white girls who have been studying in a building next to the school will now be allowed to study in whites-only classrooms that are privately funded, as their parents claim they do not want their girls to study in racially-mixed classrooms.

    • HfjNUlYZ

      Does America get it’s self-defeating foreign policy directives from Tel Aviv?

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