WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE…
July 13, 2009 by yipbop · Leave a Comment
As if Israel did not have enough problems dealing with terrorism surrounding this tiny country and the scrutiny of the international community trying to undermine and prevent it from defending itself, we have now an Obama administration which in less than 100 days has forthrightly adopted the negotiating position of Arabs vis-à-vis Israel. Why I keep rehashing on Obama’s stand toward Israel, very simply, because facts on the ground speak loudly about his rebuke of the only democratic country in the Middle East, as opposed to his soft and partnering stand with the Islamic world.
For starters, we have seen the escalating pressure that Barack Hussein Obama and his Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, has been putting on Israel to stop settlement construction, including for normal growth, in fact parroting Palestinian authority’s President Abbas, who has proclaimed that “peace talks” will not take place unless the Jewish people beyond the green line, are not only prevented from having babies or marrying, but they are expected to be evicted from Judea and Samaria, thus making these territories judenrein.
Obama’s apparent and overt alliance with the Arab world, including his apologetic speech delivered recently in Cairo, deliberately ignored past terrorism and Jihadist conflicts perpetrated against Israel as a result of the defunct Oslo agreement in spite of Israel’s continuous gestures toward peace. This so-called “staunch ally” is also ignoring the writings in the PA’s and Hamas covenants, their media incitement and Imams’ brainwashing tactics preaching that Palestine was stolen from them and that Israel has no right whatsoever to even an inch of the land.
Obama’s stand and Middle East policies against Israel including his soft talk on Iran have major Jewish leaders in the U.S. worried. For example, in his recent speech in Cairo, Obama spoke of Palestinian “resistance” a term that can only be translated into Israel being an illegal occupier, followed by equating the Palestinian “struggle” with Black South Africans during apartheid, in fact confirming the Arab allegation that Israel is a racist, apartheid state. To add salt to the wound, Obama also proclaimed that the Jewish homeland came about with the tragic history of the Holocaust, either deliberately or naively disregarding Jewish historical, cultural and biblical roots to Israel for thousands of years. All in all, Obama’s apparent evenhandedness between Islamic entities such as the PA and Hamas and Israel’s struggle for survival is quite disconcerting and worrisome.
We are stuck with a President of the U.S. who is kowtowing to hostile and terrorist entities and who refuses to call evil by its name. In the meantime, the clock is ticking quickly and Iran is continuing its deadly path toward producing nuclear weaponry. As Obama’s shocking offense to Israel and the Jewish people in general is becoming more prominent and dangerous, it is obvious that Israel’s survival and future hinges on taking its decisions on national security into its own hands.
ARAFAT’S LEGACY CONTINUES
May 3, 2009 by yipbop · Leave a Comment
In many of my previous essays under the “terrorism” category, I have stressed the futility and danger for Israel to cede more land to the Palestinian authority which also comprises the terrorist entity, Hamas, a satellite of Iran and Hezbollah. In 1993, the famous White House Lawn signing of the Oslo agreement, effectively brought Arafat and his regime of murderers as peace partners in Israel. Since then, this arch-terrorist and inventor of plane hijackings, brainwashed an entire generation of Palestinians to the duty of hating Jews and the rewards awaiting them in paradise by killing them. He fooled the world by speaking in English of the “peace of the brave” and of his recognition of Israel. But in Arabic, he promoted the historic exclusive rights of the Palestinian people to historic Palestine, based exclusively on religious grounds. He instigated a jihad or holy war in Israel against the Jews through unrelenting suicide bombings which took the lives of hundreds of innocent women and children in Israel.
Upon Arafat’s death, the cause of which has remained a mystery, this PLO leader who left behind him hundreds of families morning for their children and who stole hundreds of millions of dollars for his private coffers from incredulous Western donors, was given a hero’s burial ceremony by the then President of France, Jacques Chirac, and the United Nations in New York honored him by lowering its flag to half-mast.
What this story, that you probably all know shows, is that terrorism wins. We have seen it with Arafat, and we are also seeing it with Hezbollah, Iran and with the new terrorist leader of the PLO, Mahmoud Abbas. Enter Mahmoud Abbas who is considered by the world community as an ideal partner for Israel. In fact, Mr. Abbas, along with Arafat, is one of the founding members of the notorious Fatah terrorist organization, and his doctoral dissertation in 1982 refuted the Jewish holocaust. In addition, Mr. Abbas wrote a book which was later translated into Arabic entitled “The secret relationship between Nazism and Zionism.” Due to his anti-Israel propaganda background, he became an idyllic partner for Arafat. By the way, it is important to mention that the PLO was created prior to Israel’s 1967 victory and acquisition of the “occupied” territories, indicating that their terrorist mandate was to wipe Israel off the map.
In essence, Mr. Abbas is following Arafat’s footsteps; the only difference is that he is wearing a suit and a tie. The U.S., the EU, UN and quartet view this “moderate” leader as an answer to their prayers of shrinking Israel to suicidal borders. Mr. Abbas categorically refuses to recognize Israel as a Jewish state since if he did so, it would revoke what Arafat had been proclaiming to his people throughout his career, that the Jews have no historic or cultural link to Israel and that no Jewish temples ever existed, in fact that we are usurpers of the land.
Israel is threatened in all of its borders by fanatical religious terrorist entities bent on the destruction of Israel. The imposed Western Annapolis and road map, and the Arab suicidal Saudi plan with a “peace” partner such as Abbas, an Arafat clone, are no peace solutions, but rather the “final solution” used by Nazis for the eradication of the Jewish race. Throughout the Jewish scriptures, God promised that the Jewish nation is eternal and that no evil forces committed to its destruction will ever prevail. This covenant has already been proven throughout Israel’s five war victories since 1948 against implacable Arab enemies and it will continue until the final Jewish redemption.