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When will Israel learn to SAY "NO!"
Arlene Peck
However, this time I went only a mile or so from my home to the neighborhood mosque. Yet, today I am seeing the results of what I learned there in this war in Gaza . The people inside were well dressed. They weren't the screaming fanatics that you see shouting Jhahid !! In fact, they were well dressed and articulate.
What interested me was the comment made by one of the fathers who rose that day and to speak to his audience. He said, "Our children are now in the universities. We have done well. Now, we must direct them into the right fields. We must encourage them into three fields: education, media and, of course, politics.
Maybe that was on my mind too much during the Presidential campaign, when I first heard the man with the Muslim name, Barak Hussein Obama, was running for president. Yet, so many of my wealthy Jewish neighbors, and especially my friends from Israel seem to have complete faith in his leadership. I hope they're right. I keep thinking of the Manchurian Candidate.
My perception also was exacerbated, I suppose, because Ayn Rand, the brilliant author of Atlas Shrugged, was my mentor during my college years and her writings made such an impression on me. She was totally against the welfare state and believed that once socialism is the law of the land, communism isn't far behind. It frightens me that we have just voted in Socialism.
So, that folks is why when I read the LA Times, and the obvious hostility against the Jewish state, I'm not too surprised. In fact, I check to see the names of those writing the articles and most times they are, surprise, Muslims! I think it's so cute that after all these years, they still refuse to refer to the savage terrorists as militants and they write about the Hamas murderers as fighters . The murderers who bomb are still suicide bombers and never Homicides. I just read a column that stated "The military wing of Hamas attacked an Israeli tank." Good heavens see how semantics can form an opinion! I would have written, "The Islamic savage terrorists.. etc."
The newspapers are filled with human interest stories about how the hospitals across Gaza remained overwhelmed with dwindling supplies and patients stacked in crowded rooms. They lamented how difficult it was for severely wounded Palestinians to be transported outside the hospital enclave for treatments. Wonderful! Where did these so- called journalists get their training? The Gestapo?
One would think that during their extensive articles about how big bad Israel is putting the Arab children and hospital patients in danger, they might mention now and then that the Hamas leaders , like roaches, hide under schools, hospitals and kindergarten playgrounds. When they send out a rocket, these vermin plan it at a time that they know the Jewish children will be on their way to school. They don't mention targeting children and civilians.
It doesn t matter to the leftists at the LA Times. I can't even read it anymore. A recent letter to the editor from a professor at the University of Minnesota proclaims, "It is despicable to cruelly smash a small group, inadequately armed group, of virtual prisoners." This was the nice things this anti-Semite had to say. But, never do they mention this small group are part of 1.6 billion brothers who have kept the citizens of Gaza refugees for what? Sixty years. I don t want to hear about this evil, dysfunctional culture's hardships. I want them gone! Transferred. Out!
This is a people who absolutely live for death. If it is so terrible there, and it is; then, I believe that their Arab brothers should start working on a transfer to get them out and into any and all of their twenty-two countries with massive amounts of land. I was in Israel when that tiny sliver of land managed to welcome three million Russian Jews who managed to get out.
I know when I was there in the early 1990s, I too complained about the Israeli press corp. They made me crazy with their lack of public relations and attitude. And, I wasn't the enemy. However, looking back I recall the numerous times that I watched CNN set up scenes to cast the Jewish state in any negative way possible.
Now, they are crying that Israel is keeping the press out.
Good! Because readers, with the liberalism that has taken over, and I believe, in good part, with Muslim writers who have been trained to go into the three fields I mentioned earlier (media, education and politics), that they are smart to keep the battlefields closed. All wars have incurred a degree of media control. That's how we won WW II. It is disgusting that they have equivocated a terrorist organization, such as Hamas, with the country of Israel. And it is beyond stupid that Israel even considers a cease fire with a terrorist organization that is openly committed to the destruction of Israel. An enemy, whose platform is based on the death of the Jews; and, since its organization in 1988, has done its very best to achieve Israel's demise.
Hamas has a list of demands to any cease fire that they have no intention of keeping anyway. They demand that Israel open the borders and I wouldn't be surprised that they demand that Israel build them a new city to replace the one they bombed. They demand? Demand!! Sure, why not. Israel's lack of leadership opens the jails and releases the terrorists every time the anti-Semites around the world also demand. Why not?
It's Israel who never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity. How? Why do the very ones I consider treasonous keep getting re-elected or, somehow remain in power and continue to call the disastrous shots? I watch the evening news of Barbie dolls and talking heads who couldn't find Israel on the map and only know about it from flash cards and teleprompters that they read from, while they intone, "Both sides must stop fighting." Thank this culture which truly never misses the opportunity to miss an opportunity that they are still insisting that Israel open its borders to enemy traffic, while the enemy continues to lob their rockets into Israel towns.
Any other country is allowed to respond to danger to their citizens. Israel, too, I suppose, as long as their response isn't longer than a week.. or two. We have been in Iraq how long? Seven? Eight years? And the end still isn't in sight. Yet, ten minutes after Israel's response, the anti-Semitic State Dept , coven of Islamic and leftist reporters are meeting for emergency sessions to end the war. For G-ds sake, when are the government and people of Israel, going to stop acting like a banana republic? It's time to realize that the only friends that Israel and the Jewish people have that they can truly count on are they themselves.
I know that there are a great many good Christians out there who truly love Israel, but I've seen how little help they extend to their own people. I remember being in Lebanon in 1982 and watching them being rescued by the Jews. I didn't notice their Christian brothers rushing over to save them when they were being slaughtered by the Muslims.
So, when are they going to learn to just say, "NO??"
Despite the touting otherwise, Bush and Company were not our friends, and I fear the situation is going to be even worse when the new team gets started. At least, Bush never announced that he would sit and negotiate with a terrorist organization and give them the credibility of a real state.
Maybe Obama should just go sit down with the Taliban first and give them a hug.
Arlene Peck interviews Wafa Sultan
Arlene Peck is an internationally syndicated columnist and television talk show hostess. She travels extensively worldwide, reporting to her audience about political events, social happenings (Cannes Film Festival, London event for the Variety Club, etc.) and “must see” spots. If there is a place to see and be seen, she'll write about it for her international audience.
Arlene’s syndicated column is read weekly by millions and her television show (Wow! It's Arlene Peck!) can be seen throughout Southern California every Monday night.
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Monday 26 January 2009
A few years ago, I clandestinely went into a local mosque. Just to see what they were talking about. It was a visitor's day and I visited. I do those things sometimes. Usually to my own detriment such as when I was picked up by the KGB in Russia in 1976 and, accused of bringing in prayer books and mezzuzahs to the synagogue. Once, I even snuck into Gaza with an Arab pretending to be a Christian Women s newspaper writer to get the real story . I did. But, that's another column.