Posted by
Will Blesch on Sunday, December 28, 2008 9:57:01 PM
I
think I would like, at this time, to remind everyone exactly why Israel
is bombing Gaza. If anyone recalls, there was an Egyptian brokered
cease fire, or as the Arabs like to call it, a "Hudna." This was a six
month long "cease fire" during which Hamas terrorists continued, off
and on, to send both Kassam as well as Katysha rockets and mortar fire,
over the Gaza border and into the south of Israel. I would also like to
remind people, that this rocket and mortar fire was being directed at
Israeli communities that are behind the "green line." The towns of
Sderot, Netivot and Ashkelon let alone other southern communities are
cities (particularly Ashkelon) with populations of a Hundred Thousand
people or more.
With all of the calls for calm and quiet, with
the many condemnations of Israel by the E.U. and the United Nations,
Russia and others...it makes one wonder if any of these people
screaming at Israel for their retaliation against Hamas, Islamic Jihad
and other terrorist organizations, would be screaming if these same
terrorist organizations were targeting their communities?
Would
these hypocrites be screaming if their militaries were sent to bomb
those who were attacking them? Would France, Germany, Italy, Greece, or
Great Britain...any of them, stand for a rocket attack on their soil?
Or would they declare war?
Would they be worried
about a humanitarian crisis knowing that Hamas regularly makes a habit
of practicing the art of making civilians human shields, placing their
military operations smack in the middle of civilian population
centers...in schools, in mosques, in universities and hospitals?
I think we all know the answer to this.
The
terrorist government of Hamas should have been toppled a long time ago.
If the USA had the chutspah, the guts to take out Saddam Hussein...(who
was NOT a terrorist leader, a terrible man, and an evil dictator
perhaps, but not a terrorist)...then Israel should have the guts to do
the same to Hamas, and the world be damned.
The only problem I see here,
is that it does look like a politically expedient move on the parts of
Ehud Olmert, Tzipi Livni and Ehud Barak. Israeli elections are less
than two months away with opposition leader, Benjamin Netanyahu coming
on strong in the polls. The Israeli people collectively are tired of
constantly having to justify their existence, constantly having to live
in fear of terrorist rocket and mortar attacks, homicide
bombers...constantly living in fear of the Muslims.
Benjamin
Netanyahu predicted that if Israel allowed Hamas to rule in Gaza, if
the Jews were expelled from land taken in 1967, it would not restore
calm. It would not bring peace.
Instead it
would create a terrorist state, a ten-thousand man terrorist army, and
a rabid group of people dedicated to the destruction of the Jewish
nation.
The "peace-at-all-costs" leaders of Israel, those in
Kadima and Labor, Tzipi Livni and Ehud Barak were for this
expulsion...they were for making Gaza, Judenrein.
(Wow
such a provocation! Such an insult to the Muslim community...having to
deal with Jews living among them and the Jews not having to bow, walk
on a different side of the street or pay the Jizya Tax!)
[For those that don't know, you should read up on the history of Jews (and Christians!) living under Islamic rule.
Also
for those who don't know, Under Islamic law, jizya or jizyah is a per
capita tax levied on a section of an Islamic state's non-Muslim
citizens, who meet certain criteria. The tax is/was to be levied on
able bodied adult males of military age and affording power,[2] (but
with specific exemptions,[3][4] though these were discarded at various
points in history[5]). From the point of view of the Muslim rulers,
jizya was a material proof of the non-Muslims' acceptance of subjection
to the state and its laws, "just as for the inhabitants it was a
concrete continuation of the taxes paid to earlier regimes."[6] In
return, non-Muslim citizens were permitted to practice their faith, to
enjoy a measure of communal autonomy, to be entitled to Muslim state's
protection from outside aggression, to be exempted from military
service and taxes levied upon Muslim citizens.[7][8][9]
I suppose Jews should be on their knees thanking the Muslims for their kindness eh?]
The
Arabic term jizya appears in verse Qur'an 9:29, but the Qur'an does not
specify jizya as a tax per head. According to Paul Heck, the jizya
taxation seems to be a developed form of the Sassanian practice of
taxation.[10]
So, thinking it would make peace, and caving in to
international pressure from the U.S., the E.U., Russia...basically
everybody, Ariel Sharon expelled the Jews from Gaza. And voila...war.
Land for peace?
How about this:
The Muslims understand strength. They understand the concept of "No
Compromise." I understand this concept as well. It's my God against
theirs. An unconquered Jewish people in their midst is a slap in the
face of Islam! Yes, Mahmoud Abbas and Mashaal and I, we would
understand one another. Neither of us would give an inch. We might hate
one another, and we would strive to make sure the other failed, and
they at least, would try to make sure I died.
But we would, in the end, respect one another.
No one understands the Western mewlings of the E.U., Russia or the U.S.A.!!!
No one understands the insane, self destructive policies of Ehud Barak, Ehud Olmert and Tzipi Livni!!!
The
entire Muslim world looks at Israel's leaders as weak, and ripe for
conquest. Israel's destruction is nigh! Just listen to Ahmadinejad!
They'll wipe Israel off the map they say. Why? Because they view Israel
as weak. They will finally beat the Zionist entity they believe. Allah
is stronger than YHVH! Stronger than the God of Israel they think.
(And
for you Christians out there, you could not be farther from the truth
if you believe that Allah simply is the Arabic word for God, and that
he is the same as the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.)
This
is a religious war, and until the West understands this, they will not
understand anything else about the Middle Eastern conflict. And, sadly,
they will continue to be the so obvious hypocrites they are.