“War is an ugly thing but not the
ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic
feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has
nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than
his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being
free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.” - John Stuart Mill
THE
ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER Benjamin
Netanyahu has retaliated against Hamas in the Gaza Strip after days of
witnessing missiles raining down on his people. He has stepped up his response,
and there is now speculation that he may use ground forces to entre Gaza.
The Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi
has condemned Israel’s retaliation, and the longer Israel’s latest involvement
in Gaza continues; then you can bet that the European Union will melt back into
jelly (after acknowledging Israel’s right to defend itself) by echoing Morsi’s
criticism.
This latest challenge to Israel’s right to exist was replied to with the assassination of Hamas’s military chief Ahmed Jabari. After which Israel has since launched dozens of air strikes; this in turn has brought appeals from the West to Israel to “do their utmost to reduce tension”.[i] But at least William Hague did blame Hamas for the latest crises, which is the usual practice for Western leaders, until things hot up, and we see civilian casualties; then the temper becomes less supportive.
Everybody knows that Hamas use their
own people as shields for their activities; and knowing that Western
politicians will shit themselves when the world’s media show dead civilians
being dragged from bombed buildings.
Hamas stores her munitions in civilian
areas (including houses); they even have children accompanying their missile
units in the hope of turning away Israeli pilots: knowing that if these
children are killed, their young bodies will be carried through the streets for
the Western media to pounce upon and give the ‘moral high ground’ back to the anti-Zionist
Western liberalista, who will then protest and march once more on behalf of the
poor downtrodden Palestinian.
This circus that is once again
unfolding, and which, during and after every performance, Israel is seen as the
music hall villain, must cease. The Palestinian cause has become the holy grail
of the liberal-left. As with all causes adopted by the Left, the Palestinian
one will end in as much unhappiness and disillusionment for them as did their
dreams of socialism.
THE UNITED NATIONS, being the UN, came forward with an opinion only after Israel responded to the missile onslaught on her people. Ban Ki-moon, the UN General Secretary, used his press office to deliver the following message after talking to Israel’s prime minister; “(Ban)expressed his concern (to Netanyahu) about the deteriorating situation in southern Israel and the Gaza Strip, which includes an alarming escalation of indiscriminate rocket fire from Gaza into Israel and the targeted killing by Israel of a Hamas military operative in Gaza," .
Then he expressed the hope that; "Israeli reactions are measured so
as not to provoke a new cycle of bloodshed." So, once more, Israel is expected to shoulder the blame for a conflict
it never started. I say this because if events go the way of previous conflicts
between Hamas and Israel; then before this one is over, it will leave Israel as
the bad guy…a scenario which of course the Palestinians have cottoned on to
through their use of the West’s media which they rightly observe to be manned
by the very useful liberal idiots who are prepared to believe every press
release that they, Hamas, conjures up.
Prime Minister Netanyahu is disliked as much by the current incumbent of
the White House, as he is by the Muslim world. He is disliked because he
insists upon the state of Israel’s right to exist. Whereas the Palestinians
(and I include the leadership of the West Bank) see no place for a Jewish state
and will therefore resist its continuance through armed conflict.
Netanyahu is no Right-wing extremist; although such a moniker fits
neatly into the left-liberal political demonology of those it sees as its enemies.
All he wants and insists upon is the right of the people of Israel to live in
peace, and for the state itself to be left alone to continue to flourish; and
flourish it has. It has turned deserts into fertile and productive fields.
Something the Palestinians never managed.
It is believed that Netanyahu is an admirer of Winston Churchill; and
why do you suppose this to be the case? It is because Churchill defended these
isles against Nazism, in the same way that Benjamin Netanyahu seeks to defend
Israel from not only the Palestinians; but after the Arab Spring, the whole Arab world.
Since the Arab Spring Israel has been put under even greater threat; and if the
Israeli prime minister is seen as an extremist; then so must Churchill himself have
to be so considered; after his country’s declaration of war on Germany.
THE WEST MUST DECIDE for itself whether they support Israel or not. If they do then they must commit themselves wholeheartedly to Israel’s existence. If they feel themselves unable to do so, then they must live with the consequences of a world without a Jewish state. For having helped destroy such a state, then the Islamic world will turn their attention to the West itself; which has allowed millions of Muslims to live among them; hundreds of thousands of whom can be quickly turned and present the West with a formable fifth column.
Israel
must do whatever her leaders see fit. We are entering the final episode of
Israel’s adventure. It will be the final confrontation between the Jewish state
and the Arab world. A world that has changed from being diplomatically pliable…
even after two attempts by the Arab world to secure the demise of Israel.
Today,
Israel is confronted by Arab nations that have seen their old leadership
overthrown. But only to be replaced by, in Egypt’s case the Muslim Brotherhood,
of which Hamas is an arm. While Syria, in the throes of a civil war, may seek
to involve Israel in a conflict on the Golan Heights in order to find support
in the Arab world; it just represents another cause for concern for Israel.
ISRAEL IS AT THE epicentre of the political earthquake known as the Arab Spring. While Western liberal enthusiasts of the Arab Spring sought a democratic outcome that encompassed the overthrow of Arab dictators; their accommodation with Israel, meant peace and less blood-letting.
I
feel the West will come to regret their support for the Arab Spring, when the
Arab world finally united under Islamism, turns its attention to Israel. Even
today the Foreign Secretary, William Hague is about to recognise the Syrian opposition
and as a consequence allowing it to be armed.
Our
politicians are once more about to mess-up big time. They should look at the
big picture and see the perilous state that their support for Arab Spring will
leave Israel in. The actions of Western politicians today will reap a bitter harvest
tomorrow for Israel.
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