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Arafat Installs New Palestinian
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Context: Middle East - Palestine & Israel - Jerusalem - Arafat in the
Drivers Seat Again
Summary (HFY):
Palestinian President Yasser Arafat has installed a new prime minister and
cabinet by decree and declared a state of emergency in the Palestinian
territories. The move is seen by some observers as an attempt to stop Israel
from sending Mr. Arafat into exile, following a Palestinian suicide bombing
that killed at least 19 people.
Comment (HFY): All
hand picked by Mr. Terror himself. There can be little doubt that Mr. Terror is
directly orchestrating what happens within the Palestine region. The
Palestinians have chosen for themselves a terrorist environment within which
the public at large is brain washed to accept terrorism disguised as freedom
fighting. They have been occupied by Israel only because the suicide bombings
continue and continue and continue.
Israel should consider an
ultimatum based on their complete withdrawal from all these so called occupied
regions. They withdraw after announcing the ultimatum. The ultimatum gives the
Palestinians one last chance to avoid outright war and complete displacement.
If one missile or mortar or suicide bomber or any other hostile act occurs from
out of the Palestinian area then Israel should declare a state of war which
then legitimizes the destruction of the government of the Palestine region and
they can be tried as war criminals by Israel. This is how it would work if
Israel was not Israel. But Israel is a state both feared and hated by its
surrounding neighbors. The Arab League represents a large group of Arab nations
that have a negative perspective of Israel. This is more than a negative
perspective it is also a perspective of hatred. This hatred is orchestrated
throughout the Arab communities in a variety of ways rooted in Islam and
propagated by the clerics of Islam and either tolerated or encouraged by the
Muslim governments.
It is to me a great mental puzzle why anyone
anywhere would choose hatred as a way of life, as a motivation, as an attitude
which drives their behavior and deeds. But it is irrelevant why people live by
hatred, the fact remains that they do. I don't agree with the humanitarian
organizations and UN philosophies that state if people are all treated with
love in the form of medicine, food, clothing, shelter and other physical
necessities this hatred would simply pack its bags and leave. They fail to
understand that people choose or accept their leaders and the attitudes of
these leaders eventually pervade the society governed by those leaders. These
Arab nations do not operate a democratic process based on humanitarian rights
and opportunities as does the USA or Canada or the UK and others. At some
point, removing the leaders will not serve any useful purpose because the
people themselves have become the same as their leaders. They think the same
way and they feel the same way and they tend to behave the same way. This tends
not to happen to the same degree in diverse societies. This social
templating has happened in Palestine. Palestinians now think and react to
life just as does Mr. Terror - Arafat, the social virus of hatred that attacks
those that differ from Islam. The ineffective way the UN operates has given
this virus both the opportunity and the time to spread. Now it is too late to
reform the Palestinian people. They will continue to elect Islamic militants,
it is for them a way of life, sick as this may seem. The sickness that comes
from this virus is a form of insanity. Who can reason with the violent? Who can
argue with hate?
In point of fact Israel is already involved in a
state of war with the Palestine region. It is a limited war like
wasVietnam. If one must war they must war to be decisive so that the enemy
cannot rise again. The UN has done absolutely nothing to prevent the
continuance of violence against Israeli citizens. On the contrary the UN has
provided millions upon millions of UN dollars to the Palestinian leadership.
The use of this money was not audited. Most every picture of enraged
Palestinians is filled with young men chanting revenge and hatred and holding a
machine gun. Where did this amazing arsenal come from? I cannot afford a gun
let alone the ammunition they shoot every time they get excited about
something. Yet there is no shortage of small arms and ammunition. They don't
have tanks and jet fighters as do the Israelis and if they did they would be
destroyed by the Israelis for good and obvious reasons. So instead, they fight
their war as do the terrorists in Iraq with weaponry they can hide but has high
destructive value.
The Israeli attempts to destroy these terrorist
organizations by assassinating their leaders is not working, it only slows them
down. The Palestinian Authority refuses to take the necessary action to
dismantle and destroy these terrorist organizations. They claim they don't want
a civil war. This is just an excuse. In fact, the Palestinian response to
such insistence is a contradiction in purpose for they blame Israel because
of the assassinations for the violence coming from these Islamic fundamentalist
militant organizations. What does any one expect to happen when such terrorist
organizations are to be dismantled and destroyed? These organizations will not
voluntarily dismantle because their purpose is quite clearly the destruction of
Israel. They have indicated that they will not dismantle. So the only way left
to dismantle them is a violent way. Yet the world expects Israel to stand still
and be slaughtered.
This lack of understanding, lack of empathy, and
lack of resolve can only be an anti semitic attitude and motivation. I
personally had thought those days were over. But apparently not. The
Palestinians say they want "peace" but they use that word with a double meaning
as it was used in the Cold war by Russia and China. It is still used that way
by Russia and China. The Palestinians don't want peace first before anything
else, they want peace exclusively on their terms. Russia and China also tend to
think in this definition of peace. This all has to end somewhere because the
dynamics operative in this whole situation in the Middle East are such as to
eventually force Israel into some form of national capitulation to the Arab
League. From the standpoint of Russia and China they operate in concert and in
a mode to capture the oil resources of the world (Russia's part) and batter the
American economy by degrading the number and output of the American industrial
complex (China's role). The Americans could leave Vietnam and the Vietnamese
people to fend for themselves. But this is not the case with Israel, although
the terrorists strategy is obviously one designed to hurt the Israeli economy,
Israeli social stability, and cause Israelis to leave their country. This is
most frustrating and almost unbelievable but simply consider these dynamics and
there is no other conclusion. There is a kind of parallel between Pakistan and
India over the Kashmir region. There is a core of terrorism that is more or
less hosted by Pakistan such that the violence coming out of these terrorist
organizations is aimed against India. Pakistan only confronts these militants
if they appear to be a threat to Pakistan or in response to American
pressures.
What we have to realize is that nations do not necessarily
have to have high level meetings in which they conspire to destroy some one or
several other nations. As they develop similar attitudes and interests they
simply fall in line with one another (as did Germany and France, as did Russia
and China, as did the Arab League nations, and so on). Eventually this can
result in political bonds and alliances where they agree to protect one
another's interests. They act together on common interests and form cliques of
nations. But even these cliques of nations can bond together to eliminate one
or several other nations if they see that it is in their interest and they
believe they can get away with it. This is why we are now seeing a bonding
between Saudi Arabia and Russia over oil issues. Saudi Arabia is in a position
to influence the entire League of Arab nations. They then can act in financial
ways to get rid of the USA and as part of the deal to get rid of Israel and
that sort of thing. This may have been the real issue in the USA penetrating
the Middle East in order to establish a point of influence equal to or greater
than the Russian influence or the EU influence.
Hypothetically, a state
of war by Israel could put Palestine in the same position as the Americans put
Iraq or Afghanistan. The Americans were forced to take unilateral action with
Iraq. The same can be expected of Israel with Palestine. The rationale here is
that the Palestinians must be held accountable for violence. There will of
course be an outcry regarding the settlements and other issues. These have to
be considered negotiable issues not causes for war and violence. If the
Palestinian Authority, or the terrorist organizations and mentality they
maintain refuse to accept this ultimatum then war is automatically declared.
But such a hypothetical official declaration of war is extremely dangerous.
This will of course antagonize most of the Arab League and many members in both
the UN Security Council as well as the UN General Assembly. This is primarily
because their common interests and alliances based on these interests are being
threatened. But most of these nations have already isolated Israel in the first
place waiting for capitulation in the form of economic failure, social unrest,
and a disappearing population that wants to escape the tyranny of terrorism. It
can be expected that these nations will all attempt to generate resolutions
that not only threaten Israel but also promise some form of military
intervention. Unless the USA supports such resolutions there will not be
sufficient international will for the UN to send in a military force against
Israel which is what the Arab League will insist upon. However, this is not
certain. The French and Russian members of the Security Council had told Saddam
Hussein the same thing feeling confident that the USA would not and could not
take unilateral action and they used their veto to that end. So the assurance
emboldened Saddam Hussein and the Americans took unilateral action. The Arab
league know they cannot win a war against Israel. They would need the support
of other nations.
In addition, the overall attitudes, interests, and
alliances are becoming such as to degrade the American economy and with that
degradation will be an inability to perform as a super power. When that day
comes, if it does, then Israel has no protector.
From a Christian
perspective, we must recognize that the creative purpose of God is
still active in creation and that as history progresses so does this purpose.
That purpose is moderated by the gift of free will given to mankind. But even
if the purpose is moderated the purpose is certain. Therefore we should not
fear but honor God in all things.
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