May 14th, 1948 was the day that Israel officially declared its independence. It was immediately attacked by a half dozen Arab armies, and as a result of the war which the Arabs themselves initiated, two sets of refugees were created–Arabs fleeing the fighting in that small portion of the original 1920 Mandate of Palestine which would become Israel and a greater number of Jewish refugees fleeing their ancient homes in the so-called “Arab” world.

To date, Arabs have almost two dozen states, including one created on almost 80% of the original 1920 Mandate of Palestine…Jordan.

In 1947, Arabs were offered a second state for themselves in about half of the roughly 20% of the land remaining after the creation of Arab Transjordan. They rejected this offer–which would have netted Arab nationalism, in its various stripes, almost 90% of the total territory.

Jews have one minuscule, resurrected state which they never ceased to call home for over three thousand years of history. It sits on less than one half of one percent of the territory of the region.

Regardless, each May 15th Arabs protest and demonstrate about their catastrophe–Israel’s rebirth–because in their attempt at completing Hitler’s genocide in 1948, their efforts backfired on themselves.

Since the Arab tune is the same every Nakba Day, there is no need for me to reinvent the wheel on this issue either.

So, my friends, for your reading pleasure, please check out my widely-published responses to Nakba Day in years gone by. I have selected one of many versions of each article. Here they are below…the answer to the Arabs’ distortions and outright lies:

A Tale Of Two Nakbas…

http://www.cdn-friends-icej.ca/isreport/dec02/2nabkas.html

Nakba Crapka…

http://www.teapartytribune.com/2011/08/11/nakba-crapka/

Self-Inflicted Nakba…

http://www.icjs-online.org/indarch.php?article=263

And, last year’s edition, The Case Of The Missing Nakbas…

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http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/10240

Had Arabs granted any of the scores of millions of non-Arab peoples in the region just a tiny slice of the very justice they demand solely for themselves, their own “nakba” would have never occurred. It happened as a result of their own self-centeredness and greed–pure and simple. Now please read any or all of the above articles to see what I mean.

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by Gerald A. Honigman

All of us have regrets in life. Some have more than others.

I’ve probably shot myself in the foot more than should ever be allowed…and hurt my loving parents and others as well in the process.

Sure, my “luck” was not the best, I was naive in many ways, and there were, at times, truly nasty and unbelievable things being done to me. Still, my own shortcomings contributed to the problems–no doubt. A different person, perhaps, could have found a way to overcome those obstacles or may have not had to face them in the first place.

Oh well…

I think about all of this as I ponder the fact that this year will mark twenty years since my Father’s passing. I realize how hard he worked for us all of his life–often endangering his own life in the process. Lieutenant Edward Honigman, of blessed memory, passed away on December 2, 1992. I remember that horrible night as if it was yesterday.

Dad had put twenty-seven years in on the Philadelphia Police Department. He joined the latter not long after returning from fighting in several theatres for four years in World War II. There’s a few brief stories of his days in the U.S. Navy that I’d like to share at this time because of their relevance to today’s events in the Middle East.

As a gunner in the Armed Guard, his duties included the protection of merchant shipping crossing dangerous waters. When I was a teenager, this very “macho” man had no qualms revealing to me that he spent many a night at sea worrying about whether he’d be alive the next morning. German U-boats were sinking ships all around him. Indeed, his sister ship went down. There but for the Grace of G_d go I…

But I’m not writing now simply to recall war stories.

One evening, while on shore leave during the Allied North African Rommel Campaign, Dad visited a cafe in Alexandria, Egypt. While sitting at a table with his buddies, he happened to notice several soldiers who walked in with Star of David patches on their uniforms.

Curious, Dad walked over, introduced himself, and inquired about the patches. It turns out that he had met up with members of the Jewish Brigade, a fighting unit consisting mostly of “Palestinian” (which in those days meant exclusively Jews…Arabs called themselves Arabs) Jews attached to the British Army. These were besides tens of thousands of other Jews who served in Allied militaries.

Towards the end of their conversation, Dad’s new friends had some chilling words that he later repeated to me. They said that when the war was over for him, G_d willing, he’d be able to return home and all would be calm. But when World War II was over for them, it would simply mark the beginning of yet another major conflict–the battle for the rebirth of the Jewish State…the answer to all the would-be Hitlers our people have been periodically confronted with for thousands of years. Those words haunted my Father from that day onwards.

During one of Dad’s later stops in Aden near the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula, his friends decided to play what they considered to be a joke on their Jewish shipmate. Now, keep in mind that these were the same guys who repeatedly fed non-Jews more ammo in fleet gunnery competition so that the Jew wouldn’t beat them. They told Dad to call one of the Arab attendants over and address him as “Yahudi.” After my Father did this, the distressed Arab then said, “ curse me, curse my mother, but please, please sir… never call me that!”

My Father had called him a Jew.

A look at those last five paragraphs tells you much about what Jewish existence was like over much of the world, in the Muslim East as well as in the Christian West, before the rebirth of Israel. And Dad had experienced both versions firsthand.

Many years later, I had become the father of three children of my own.

On one of the last of our hundreds of fishing trips together over the years, Dad asked me why I wasn’t thinking about having another child. I kind of jumped on him for that…one of my many above-mentioned regrets. I told him that I was much older than he was when he had his first child, was a teacher living from hand to mouth with nothing too much to spare in Florida (having what we do have largely due to the generosity of my wife’s and my own parents), etc. and so forth.

A few months later, Dad was gone.

After partially recovering from the pain, Mom and I had to eventually go to the rental storage facility where Dad had stored lots of stuff in a zillion different boxes. We had to weed through the latter to decide what to keep and what to get rid of. Hours later, we opened a box that had something wrapped in newspaper on the bottom of it. And, as I unwrapped it, I was in shock….

Yehudit is Hebrew for Judith, the female form of Yehuda, Judah…Dad’s Hebrew name. It is customary for Jews to name children after deceased loved ones. There is no letter “J” in the Hebrew languge.

And here in Dad’s box was a statue of Judith, the ancient Hebrew defender of her people.

Did Dad know? Was that the reason why he wanted so much for me to have a fourth child…so that he would have a name?

Well, Dad probably had a number of good reasons why he wanted this. But what a truly amazing, unforgettable experience.

My grandfather, of blessed memory (a veteran of World War I), was a “collector” of all kinds of things. Dad used to make jokes about Pop’s “collections.” But the best I can make out from all of this is that Dad acquired one of those “collectables” from his father and, for some reason, held onto it for who knows how long.

Elana Judith Honigman, G_d bless–the “unplanned baby” and fourth child–was born on February 9, 1993…about two months after Dad passed away. She just completed her sophomore year in college. And, like my other children, Abigail Zipporah, Jessica Beth, and Jonathan Ze’ev–whom I am also especially grateful for as I, myself, get older–I am amazed at what a blessing she has truly turned out to be.

What else is new? Dad was right again.

I can only hope that G_d permits the soul of my Father to know how this story has turned out.

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You know–that same rail system the Jews’ super hero refused to bomb.

Recently, two news articles especially caught my attention.

The first was an article by Professor Rafael Medoff, FDR Used The Jews. In it he gave an account of an earlier interview he conducted with the current Prime Minister of Israel’s father, Benzion Netanyahu, who was an eye witness to these events. The scholar had recently passed away at the age of 102.

While some folks have known of these things for quite some time, most Jews still view FDR as the next best thing to chocolate candy. As just one of too many such troubling examples, a movie was later made of the ship carrying fleeing German Jewish refugees seeking asylum (Voyage Of The Damned) which was never allowed to land in Florida under FDR’s watch.

Professor Medoff is the founding director of the David S. Wyman Institute For Holocaust Studies. Wyman is the Protestant author of one of the essential, definitive texts on the Holocaust, The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust (1984)–the one that puts to the lie the claim that America went to war to save Jews.

Here are some telling excerpts from that interview…

Part of the problem was how they saw themselves. In their contacts with President Roosevelt, Jewish leaders thought of themselves as weak or helpless. Take, for example, Rabbi Stephen Wise – leader of the American Zionist movement, the American Jewish Congress and the World Jewish Congress. He thought of himself as a servant of President Roosevelt.

He referred to Roosevelt as “Chief,” and he really meant it that way – Roosevelt was the chief, and Wise was the servant. Wise was happy to just follow along with whatever Roosevelt wanted. He was content as long as FDR just remembered his name or gave him a few minutes of his time every once in a while.

FDR used Jews if they served some purpose that he needed. Samuel Rosenman was useful to him as a speechwriter. Henry Morgenthau Jr. was useful to him as secretary of the Treasury.

Only a certain kind of a Jew could reach that position in Roosevelt’s administration – the kind of Jew who would not talk about Jewish issues or problems.

FDR used the Jews, but there was no room in his heart for the plight of the Jewish people…

Just before Yom Kippur in 1943, the Bergson Group and the Vaad Hahatzalah mobilized more than 400 rabbis to march to the White House to plead for rescue. The president refused to meet with a delegation of their leaders.

Later, a columnist for one of the Yiddish newspapers wrote that if 400 priests had come to the White House, the president would not have refused to see them. Was there indeed a double standard applied to Jewish concerns?

To answer that question, just consider how the international community would have responded if millions of Englishmen or Frenchmen were the ones who were being annihilated, rather than millions of Jews. Would the world have just stood by, quietly?

Would you have needed to have protest groups organizing marches and taking out newspaper ads in order to wake up the world’s conscience? No. The nations of the world would have immediately risen in angry protest, without any prompting. They would never have allowed such a thing to continue. But when the Jews were the victims, it was a different story. It was as if the Jews were untouchables. It was as if the nations did not want to besmirch their hands by touching the Jews.

In other words, folks like Wise and Morgenthau were nothing more than modern day Court Jews and did nothing to jeopardize their own comfortable positions. FDR would not be the last American leader to have such Hebrew crew members aboard ship.

Yet, to this day, if you have a discussion with the vast majority of members of The Tribe, they either don’t–or won’t–know anything about this.

Besides Wyman, Professor Medoff is a renown scholar himself. One of his newest books, Blowing the Whistle on Genocide: Josiah E. DuBois, Jr. and the Struggle for a U.S. Response to the Holocaust, discloses how a fairly low level US Treasury Department lawyer exposed the State Department’s policies of impeding the rescue of Europe’s Jews. Follow these excerpts closely as seen in

http://www.jewishmag.co.il/128…..titute.htm :

In 1943, DuBois, who was chief counsel for the Foreign Funds Control Division of the Treasury Department learned through surreptitious examination of documents provided by a friend within the State Department, that senior State Department officials had been deliberately obstructing opportunities to save the remnants of Europe’s Jews.

In an excerpt of a pivotal report authored by Josiah DuBois dated January 13, 1944 and sent to Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, Jr, DuBois intones, “This government has for a long time maintained that its policy is to work out programs to save those Jews of Europe who could be saved. I am convinced on the basis of the information which is available to me that certain officials in our State Department, which is charged with carrying out this policy, have been guilty not only of gross procrastination and willful failure to act, but even of willful attempts to prevent action from being taken to rescue Jews from Hitler. Unless remedial steps of a drastic nature are taken immediately, I am certain that no effective action will be taken by this government to prevent the complete extermination of the Jews in German controlled Europe, and that this government will have to share for all time responsibility for this extermination.”

Ah yes, the State Department…Those very same folks who would later fight President Truman over his willingness to recognize the rebirth of Israel turned out to be complicit in the murder of Jews as well.

The hostility emanating from the State Department both towards Jews and the Jew of the Nations has not subsided to this date–so Israel must harbor no illusions regarding the nature of any negotiations which lie ahead under the guidance of State’s assorted anti-Semites and Arabists.

Before leaving this first article about FDR, let’s just look at a few more closing excerpts from that Jewish Magazine source utilized above…

During his remarks, Dr. Medoff contrasted DuBois and President Roosevelt as two symbols “of the tragic history of America’s response to the Holocaust.” Concerning President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dr. Medoff said, “here is the president who was regarded as a humanitarian, who portrayed himself as the champion of the little man, who had the power to save many Jews from the Holocaust but who — to quote Fowler Harper, the Solicitor General for the Interior Department in the 1940s– ‘would not lift a finger’ to help them…His was the administration that kept the immigration quotas 90% under-filled –meaning it could have saved 190,000 Jews under the existing quotas, without changing the immigration laws. His was the administration that sent planes to bomb German oil factories less than five miles from the gas chambers of Auschwitz, but refused to instruct them to drop bombs on the gas chambers, or the railway lines, even after receiving maps and detailed information about what was happening in the camp. His was the administration that refused to pressure the British to open the gates of Palestine so Jews could find refuge there.”

So much for Franklin Delano Roosevelt…the alleged hero of most Jews who, to this date, largely go to the polls each election cycle and vote in memory of his name.

Okay…time to move onto the second article I mentioned above which prompted this analysis.

The headline read, Biden: Obama’s Done Most For Israel Since Truman.

It was not the first time that President Obama’s Vice President uttered such words of wisdom. This time, he proclaimed that no leader since Truman has done more to enhance Israeli security than Obama.

Biden likes to brag (especially to contributors) that he’s a great friend of the Jews. Follow below and see what that might really translate to…

Back in 2010, he returned from the Middle East after blasting Jews for building on land that they have called home since the days of the Pharaohs. And, much earlier, in well-documented reports, in 1982 Biden used similar bully tactics with the late Israeli Prime Minister, Menachem Begin–banging on the desk with his fists and so forth, to try to intimidate him into relinquishing his nation’s barest security needs to American “no friends, just interests” policies. Some things change, some things don’t.

For many reasons, Biden would be best not to open his mouth at all on such issues. While he gets away with much of his shtick with the ignorant, for those who know, he’s a sorry joke.

Truman–to be credited, for sure, on his recognition of Israel amid opposition from those in the State Department and elsewhere–did virtually nothing to help the nascent state of Israel’s security. Take a look at the title of this second article again…

When Israel was attacked immediately after its rebirth in 1948 by a half dozen Arab armies, no official American response came to aid it. Israel protected itself mostly with Czech and later French armaments for decades after Truman was long out of the White House. French Mirages and Mysteres lead Israel’s devastation of Arab air forces and tank battalions in the 1967 Six Day War. Only after that war ended did American aid become significant.

But, that particular revelation of either Biden’s ignorance or deliberate obfuscation was actually the least offensive of his claims.

Israel has had a long-standing relationship, for the past several decades, with the United States regarding military issues. This has been done largely to counter Soviet–and now Russian, North Korean, and Chinese–influence in the region as well as the various forces of militant Islam which see Israel as but the Little Satan next to the bigger one–America. Those forces are indeed ascendant today as the Muslim Brotherhood and its clones increasingly gain power during the so-called Arab Spring.

For some perspective, Arab countries also get tens of billions of dollars in aid from the United States. Besides, the armaments per se, America for years has spent as much in one week in Iraq as Israel gets in one year in aid. Please read that sentence again. Ditto for Muslim, but non-Arab, Afghanistan. The difference? Thousands of Americans have lost their lives and limbs for the sake of the latter two–none for Israel.

Additionally, leading American military officials repeatedly state that Israel is the best bargain on the planet for the return it gives back to America in terms of further weapons improvement, invention, and innovation…those Israeli drones, for example. Israeli intelligence services are still rated among the best anywhere as well.

So, there’s no doubt that Israel gives America–whether under Obama or his predecessors–the best bang for the buck…if you’ll pardon the expression. Obama continues this military cooperation with Israel because it’s good for America. And that’s how it should be.

That leads us to the real problem with Biden’s assertions. And it’s the same problem I’ve written about repeatedly.

Via the armistice lines–not political borders–imposed upon Israel by the United Nations in 1949 after the Arabs invaded it the year before, Israel was made a mere zipper of a state…nine to fifteen miles wide and virtually invisible on a world globe without the aid of a magnifying glass.

The UN did nothing when Israel was attacked in 1948 and only intervened when Israel, at great human cost, finally turned the tide of battle. At that moment, the UN jumped in to prevent further Arab losses and drew up armistice lines which merely indicated the point at which hostilities ceased.
The ‘49 lines only tempted Arabs to attack again and again in the years to come.

One does not have to be a General Patton or Napoleon to see that Israel could be severed in half at its minuscule waist, where most of its population and infrastructure are located.

Thus, after the Arabs renewed attempt at genocide backfired on them big time in ‘67, the architects of the final draft of UNSC resolution 242 made sure that this official guideline for peacemaking between Arab and Jew contained a provision for territorial compromise in the areas Israel came to occupy in ‘67. Much has been written about this, but some excerpts from 242’s chief architect, Great Britain’s Lord Caradon, should suffice for now. Indeed, the Vice President and his boss need to read and re-read them again and again…

It would have been wrong to demand that Israel return to its positions of June 4, 1967 (the day before the war broke out), because those positions were undesirable and artificial. After all, they were just the places where the soldiers of each side happened to be on the day the fighting stopped in 1948. They were just armistice lines. That’s why we didn’t demand that the Israelis return to them.

And American presidents echoed this sentiment as well…

Here’s President Johnson on June 19th, soon after hostilities came to a close:

A return to the situation on June 4 was not a prescription for peace but for renewed hostilities. He then called for…new recognized boundaries that would provide security against terror, destruction, and war.

These were President Reagan’s remarks on September 1, 1982…

“In the pre-1967 borders (sic), Israel was barely 10-miles wide…the bulk of Israel’s population within artillery range of hostile armies. I am not about to ask Israel to live that way again.”

I think you get the picture…

It was obvious that Israel was never meant to be the 9-15 mile-wide sub-rump state that the armistice lines had left it as, and the ‘67 renewed Arab attempt on its life finally convinced many in the world that something would finally have to be done to end that travesty.

An Arab state had already been created on almost 80% of the original 1920 Mandate of Palestine with the creation of Transjordan–later renamed Jordan–in 1922.

The lands between Transjordan and Israel in its ‘49 armistice lines were non-apportioned territories of the original 1920 Mandate in which all peoples–not only Arabs–were allowed to live. Just because Arabs claim those were just purely Arab lands does not make them so. Arabs claim this for the entire region as well. A quick look at the valid sources for that period also show that most Arabs were themselves newcomers into the Mandate, entering due to the economic development going on because of the Jews. Even Hamas’s virtual patron saint, Sheik Izzedin al-Qassam–for whom its terror squad and rockets are named–was from Latakia, Syria.

In the ‘48 fighting, Transjordan seized the non-apportioned lands west of the Jordan River–Judea and Samaria, aka, the “West Bank–destroyed dozens of synagogues, and continued the process of making them as Judenrein as it made itself after 1922. Holding both banks of the River, it renamed itself Jordan soon afterwards.

What the Arabs living in the lions’ share of the original 1920 Mandate of Palestine–Transjordan– took illegally in 1948, they lost in 1967.

And the territorial compromise built into UNSC Resolution 242 (calling for more defensible, secure, recognized, and real borders to replace those suicidal armistice lines) promised that Israel would once again be allowed to have Judeans living in such places as Judea. Jews indeed lived and owned land there until their massacres by Arabs earlier in the 20th century.

Now, enter the Obama Administration…

Even before his election in 2008, Senator Obama was on record–as I reiterate time and time again–stating that Israel would be crazy (his exact words) to reject the alleged Saudi Peace Plan. This is documented thoroughly in my own book http://q4j-middle-east.com

It should come as no shock–given the constant fight the Obama Administration has had with Israel over this issue–that the key provision of that Saudi plan calls for Israel to totally abandon the promise 242 made to it.

Instead of a reasonable territorial compromise in Israel’s vulnerable narrow waist, Obama demands that Israel return to the vulnerable ‘49 armistice lines which did nothing except invite repeated Arab attacks. That’s what the settlements issue, housing in east Jerusalem, and so forth are all about. After getting backlash from even Democrat supporters such as Senator Harry Reid on this, Obama then started talking about a possible swap of territories.

242 mentions no “swap.” But, it might not be a bad idea for Israel to get rid of some of its Arab 5th column this way if it can. That remains to be seen (and the Arabs are having a fit fearing that they might actually come under Arab rule rather than those of the Jews whom they hate and plot against).

So, that brings us back to the Vice President’s assertion that Obama is great for Israel’s security.

After Israel unilaterally withdrew from Gaza a while back, all it got was over ten thousand rockets, mortars, and missiles fired at its southern towns and cities as a thank you from the Arabs. Gaza was a test for peace–one flunked by Arabs with flying colors.

Now, imagine a similar scenario where Jews once again no longer live in at least part of Judea and Samaria. Please look at a map when you contemplate this. At this time, densely-populated, high priority targets such as Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Ben Gurion Airport, the Knesset, Haifa, and so forth then become the targets instead.

Regardless of whatever else Israel gets from an Obama Administration, given the rejectionist nature of its enemies (even its two peace treaties with Egypt and Jordan are in now in dire jeopardy), if it’s forced to return to its 9-15-mile wide existence, then to talk about security is absurd. Yet that’s exactly what Obama and the perpetually hostile State Department he’s working with have in mind.

Anyone pressuring Israel to once again become that previously exposed sardine can of a state is no friend–let alone “best in show” as Biden and his boss claim.

Only those same Jews who still idolize FDR will continue to keep their heads in the sand over what Obama has in mind for Israel. The President’s recent comments to the Russian leader about having “more flexibility” after the 2012 election should be pondered real hard by those who claim to care about Israel’s future. If you think there have been problems between Obama and Israel up until now, just wait until he doesn’t have to worry about getting reelected again…

There is no doubt that much good was created for America under the leadership of FDR. The serious problem discussed here involved his disinterest in saving Jews abroad who were forced to jump onto cattle cars leading them to places like Auschwitz to be turned into lampshades and soap.

Today, in many ways, for Jews it’s 1938 all over again.

They’re told that if they’d only give the Arabs what they want, there will once again be “peace for our time,” cheap oil, etc. and so forth. And, just as there were lots of ethnic Germans in Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland, are there not also many Arabs in Judea and Samaria? Give Arabs all the latter, and they will be satisfied and leave Israel alone…

Sure–just like Hitler was satisfied with only the Sudetenland.

Unfortunately, it comes down to this…

Jews in America will soon have to make a decision dealing with re-electing a man who is determined to once again force their brethren abroad into making an updated jump onto the 21st century cattle cars. For, given the genocidal nature of Israel’s enemies, that’s what a return to the pre-’67 Auschwitz/armistice lines virtually amounts to.

Take a good look at what is happening in Iraq, Syria, and elsewhere today–what Arabs do to other Arabs–and imagine what they would do to their kilab yahud–Jew dogs–if given half a chance.

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In the Middle East and its environs, for most of the world, if you’re a native but non-Arab people who actually pre-date the Arab imperialist conquest and colonization of your land by millennia, you deserve not only no political rights but no basic human ones as well? And while your cause is routinely ignored by the “progressive,” self-proclaimed enlightened powers that be, that of your Arab oppressors is unabashedly proclaimed loud and clear in academia, the mainstream media, halls of government, and so forth?

The newest, non-perfect nation struggling to be born is in North Africa…even newer than the still fragile Republic of South Sudan in the same general vicinity. In the latter, black Africans were slaughtered, enslaved, and so forth by the millions by the Arab and Arabized north and at long last gained a tenuous freedom in July 2011. The blood keeps spilling, however…not to mention Sudan’s other genocidal problems with Darfur and the Nuba.

On April 6th of this year, a coalition dominated by the Touareg (the people–not the Volkswagon SUV named for their strength and adaptability), a so-called “Berber” people of North Africa–took control of Timbuktu and other major towns and declared independence for Azawad in the northern part of Mali, a huge area double the size of California. Oh yes, like South Sudan’s Abyei border area, it too has oil….

Like many other scores of millions of native, pre-Arab conquest Imazighen/ Berber peoples (”Berber” is actually a pejorative term imposed upon them by invaders), the Touareg were left at the mercy of others, largely due to the machinations of French colonial rulers after World War II. Recall that Africa, as a whole, had borders for its future states arbitrarily created by Europeans in the late 19th century (with no native African input) for the sake of their own interests.

As some forty million other Kabyle and Amazigh people were deemed non-deserving of independence in the new age of nationalism erupting in the region, the fate of the native Touareg was likewise tied to others’ aspirations.

With Arabs in control of much of the region’s oil deposits, a decision had been made to not ruffle their feathers as much as possible. So, as scores of millions of Kurds (and the oil of their own region) were sacrificed earlier on behalf of Arab aspirations; likewise done to black Africans in the Sudan and elsewhere; most of the Mandate of Palestine turned over to Arab nationalism as of 1922; and so forth, it should also come as no surprise that the various Amazigh peoples would suffer a similar fate. This favorite, important quote speaks volumes on this subject…

In Algeria, Berbers were forbidden to use their own language, Tamazight…riots erupted, reported in France but ignored elsewhere in the West…America, of course, had been sufficiently subject to ARAMCO (the Arabian American Oil Company) propaganda, a payoff to the Saudis by Big Oil, to allow the latter to produce and market Arab oil. So, ARAMCO’s message to America was that there is just an Arab world in this region in which there are no Copts, Armenians, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Turkmen…and, of course, no Berbers and no Jews–they all came to Israel, you see, from Europe for everyone in this region is just Arab (New English Review, January 17, 2008).”

Thus, at the same time that American State Department spokeswoman, Victoria Nuland, was chastising Israelis for allowing Judeans–Jews– to once again live on millennial Jewish soil in Judea and Samaria (aka, the “West Bank”–this time in the towns of Recehlim, Bruchin and Sansana–on non-apportioned state, not private Arab, lands–where all residents of the original Mandate were/are allowed to live), not a word was uttered about the rights of scores of millions of a truly stateless people in the region. There will be no support from the State Department for the first, long overdue, Amazigh state. The Foggy Folks opposed President Truman on the rebirth of Israel for largely the same reasons.

Indeed, there has been nothing but hostility towards the Touareg since their move to independence.

Besides threats coming from the black Africans in the south of Mali from whom they broke away, the French and the European Union are upset as well. Having long been neglected and mistreated, when the Touareg dared to ask for the same independence that black Africans and Arabs in the region were at long last achieving, over a half century ago the French denied them this right and forced them to be tied to the south instead. This is the same treatment some forty million other Amazigh people received courtesy of the French throughout the rest of North Africa…in Algeria, Morocco, and so forth.

Recent reports coming out of the area are conflicting.

On the one hand, it appears that the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA), bolstered by arms arriving from Qaddafi’s Libya (which employed some Touareg fighters), still has control of the situation in the north.

On the other hand, there seems to be an attempt to undermine any potential support for the MNLA by others claiming that Islamists tied to Al-Qaida are really now running the show.

Regardless, there is no doubt that an independent “Berber” state of Azawad sends jitters up many other folks’ spines–both outside and inside the region–for a number of reasons.

For players like the French, it upsets and destabilizes their neocolonialist schemes for still pulling the strings in their former colonies.

For Arabs in neighboring North African states, it establishes a real nightmarish precedent…

With France’s cooperation, the Arabs of the Maghreb were able to proclaim the entire area as solely part of their own alleged greater “purely Arab patrimony.” To this end, scores of millions of native, pre-Arab/non-Arab people (both in North Africa and beyond) had their very cultures and languages periodically outlawed to speed up the forced integration, pacification, and Arabization process.

If you have not seen her work yet, Anna Mahjar-Barducci is an interesting and careful Moroccan-Italian journalist. An Amazigh friend, whose comments grace the jacket cover of my own book http://q4j-middle-east.com, alerted me to her recent account of this situation in the Israeli-newspaper, Haaretz http://www.haaretz.com/print-e…..t-1.426801

Here’s some extensive excerpts from her analysis…

Now that Azawad has become a reality, it is clear that North Africa can no longer (simply) be “Al-Arabi,” as it now includes a state that is geographically and culturally part of the Maghreb but declares itself Berber. That is a situation that is unacceptable to Arab countries.

In the meantime, Mali, which is now ruled by a transitional president after a coup in Banako, the capital, has threatened “total war” against the MNLA. Mali, which systematically repressed the Tuareg and other Azawadi minorities, is now indiscriminately arresting and killing “red-skinned” Berbers within its reduced borders. France, the old colonial power, is forcefully opposing Azawadi independence and calling for a “compromise”: autonomy for the region. Autonomy, though, is not the solution, as it would not guarantee an equal division of the area’s resources, which include oil and access to budgets that would allow it to fight droughts. France and the international community would do better to support the struggle for self-determination of the Azawadi people as they have done for other nations. Only independence will ensure stability.

Whenever the dust finally settles, however, one thing will remain certain…

The so-called “Arab Spring” must work to usher in a new age for other peoples too. I addressed this quite some time ago in Berber Autumn http://kabylia.wordpress.com/2…..er-autumn/. And that Arab Spring is not looking too well these days.

For justice to truly come to this volatile region of the world, the injustices of the past will have to finally be addressed.

And justice in the realm of man–as I often point out–must be viewed in relative, not absolute, terms.

The same French and European Union, so quick to condemn the non-Arab Berber Touaregs’ quest for a slice of the justice pie, are also the same folks demanding the birth of a 22nd Arab state whose idea of “peace” with Israel is getting the latter to commit suicide. Some forty million subjugated, stateless Amazigh people are thus still deemed unworthy of the same rights Europe and others have no trouble granting to their tormentors.

While Arabs, basking in their own imperialist Caliphal past, may still have delusions that via centuries of forced Arabization, there really is no one else in “their” region with legitimate claims but themselves, in an age in which other people are still struggling for basic human–let alone political–rights, such an abusive, oppressive, self-centered mindset must not be allowed to continuously prevail.

Despite its imperfections (what nascent country–or long-standing one for that matter–does not have them?), the quest for long-overdue justice by this new Touareg nation of Azawad must be supported.

Addressing any real concerns regarding such things as Islamist influence should be part of this support–not used as an excuse to squash the hopes for freedom and independence of this first Amazigh/Berber state.

The militant Islamist nature of Hamas, Hizbullah, and others does not prevent the world from demanding the creation of yet another Arab nation. That factor should certainly play no role in determining the fate of scores of millions of predominantly Muslim, but anti-Islamist Amazigh people as well.

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My good friend, Charlie, alerted me to a recent article in the American Thinker dealing with President Obama’s Holocaust Day tribute http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/04/obamas_come-uppance_from_elie_wiesel_during_self-serving_visit_to_holocaust_museum.html

Rather than my reinventing the wheel, let’s begin by reviewing some excerpts from Leo Rennert’s essay…

During the last three years, President Obama did not visit the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. But today, he did; and promptly gave a self-serving campaign speech for Jewish votes.

The president had with him as escort and introducer Elie Wiesel and lavishly praised the Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor for his unrelenting campaign to keep the memory of the Holocaust front and center…

But Wiesel did not reciprocate. Instead, determined to tell truth to power, he admonished Obama for not doing nearly enough to confront Assad’s atrocities in Syria and Iranian President Ahmadinejad’s development of nuclear weapons and threats to wipe Israel off the map.

In introducing Obama, Wiesel asked why ‘world leaders,’ presumably including Obama, have not ‘learned anything’ from the Holocaust.

Directly addressing Obama, Wiesel declared: ‘Mr. President, we are here in this place of memory. Israel cannot not remember. And because it remembers, it must be strong, just to defend its own survival and its own destiny.’

Clearly, Wiesel was not exactly encouraged by Obama’s remarks.

Since the Holocaust Museum is a national undertaking, it is fitting for a U.S. president to pay an occasional visit and call its lessons to public attention. But by waiting until 2012, an election year, and in the substance of his speech, Obama turned his visit into a political event, just as the presidential-election campaigns move into high gear. It leaves a stain on the museum and the Holocaust to exploit it for political purposes.”

Mr. Rennert stated what had to be said nicely. It reminded me of one of the President’s earlier staged Passover Seders for his resident Jew Boys (conducted soon after his public arm-twisting of Israel for not prostrating itself to Arab and his own expectations low enough) at which he could not even cover his head with a kipa (yarmulke) or such to show respect for G_d. He has no such problem taking his shoes off when entering a mosque for similar reasons.

All of this brought back memories, however, from the not-so-distant past which had been very disturbing. Furthermore, after sharing what comes next with you, there’s no doubt that I’m going to “catch it”–from at least some circles.

So, what else is new?

Here goes anyway…

Back in 2007, I was sent an article from the May 18th Jewish Daily Forward, Foxman, Wiesel Upbraid Israel For Pace of Peace Effort.

Elie Wiesel had co-hosted the third annual Petra Conference (”for improving the world”) of Nobel Laureates and others in Jordan. Around the same time, the Anti-Defamation League’s Abraham Foxman participated in a panel discussion at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. Besides Moses in the bulrushes and Jesus on the cross, Wiesel has become the Gentiles’ favorite Jewish victim.

Wiesel’s writings have no doubt served an important purpose; and perhaps, in the Eternal Plan, he was spared for this. Both he and Foxman have sired much good in a post-Auschwitz world.

But, human both are.

Please bear with me for a moment as I sidetrack a bit…

Oprah Winfrey has been listed as one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World. On both her April 25, 2005 widely-viewed television show and in her almost three million readers a month June 2005 edition of O Magazine, Oprah showcased alleged Arab victimization at the hands of Israelis. Both were blatantly one-sided depictions of reality.

In case you haven’t heard yet from the Arabs and their assorted derriere kissers, the Jews have become the new Nazis and Arabs the new Jews. A favorite theme–victims, now victimizers.

That someone as influential as Oprah lends support to this nauseating lie is tragic. But it gets worse…

To preemptively shut the Jews up afterwards, she soon dragged out guess who?

The world’s third most famous Jew victim!

On her May 24th and 25th 2006 widely-watched television shows, she strolled arm-in-arm with Wiesel to Auschwitz.

So, the Jews were victimized too. Oprah says so…How ’bout that !

But , Wiesel’s return to Auschwitz did nothing to counter Oprah’s anti-Israel endeavors.

Some things need to be spelled out very clearly. The differences between what happened to stateless Jews for millennia and what is happening to Arabs in their attempt to create their 22nd state on the ashes of–not alongside–the Jews’ sole, resurrected nation were definitely not.

As both Foxman and Wiesel know, time after time, Arabs have shown that they seek to replace Israel with yet another Arab state.

So-called Arab moderates themselves have repeatedly stated that their moderation was/is simply a Trojan Horse designed to extract additional one-sided, suicidal concessions from the Jews in the court of world opinion.

The State Department and the West’s darling, Mahmoud Abbas, is simply Arafat in a suit. He ran on a platform for Israel’s destruction–but by more acceptable means. As I like to point out, blown buses bring bad press. He still holds to this–no matter what his assorted whitewashers say.

Despite the periodic infighting and struggle to control the billions of dollars coming in, largely courtesy of the dhimmi purse, the difference between Fatah and Hamas, when it comes to a Jewish Israel, is tactical, not strategic. Any real Arab moderates on this issue go the way of Isam Sartawi–they’re dispatched from this world. Others, like Wiesel’s conference colleague, Yasser Abed Rabbo, or Sari Nusseibeh–whether serious or not–are temporarily tolerated for the assorted mileage they achieve in Western eyes. For such strategic sweet talk, the Jews are expected to bare the necks of their kids and give away the store.

Withdraw, Jew, from the (disputed) territories and the conflict will end. Agree to return to your pre-’67 nine-mile wide armistice line (not border) existence as a sub-rump state, and the Arabs will grant you peace (of the grave).

Yeh…Like in Gaza.

And I’m Santa Claus–with Obama’s above missing yarmulkeh.

Keep in mind that Wiesel knowingly played right into all of this.

At the Petra Conference, he even made Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert (arguably one of the Arabs’ best buddies), the brunt of mockery and laughter. The latter may have deserved this–but not for the reasons Wiesel & Co. charge.

Think about it…

While placing blame for the lack of real progress towards peace on the Jews themselves for not caving in to all that Arabs demand, elsewhere both he and Oprah speak of Darfur and the Sudan and never manage to mention the word Arab. I guess Martians are responsible.

Again, some things need to be spelled out very clearly.

Had those allegedly oppressive Jews used Arab techniques against black Africans in the Sudan, against Kurds (and even fellow Arabs) in Iraq and Syria, Copts in Egypt, Berbers in North Africa, and so forth, their Arab headache could have largely been resolved long ago. Millions of black Africans have been killed, maimed, raped, enslaved, murdered, and so forth on behalf of the Arabs’ purely Arab patrimony schemes. This is still going on as I write this essay today.

Okay, before I wander too far astray, let’s return to Wiesel’s virtual anti-Israel pandering and, to a lesser extent, Foxman’s more vague statements about Israel’s seriousness.

While there’s always room for improvement, and mistakes are surely made by both sides in any conflict, surely both men–one of whom I know personally, worked with for years, and so forth–understand the real facts of life here.

Given real and not-so-real peace partners, Israel has repeatedly bent over backwards, sideways, and forwards to reach honorable compromise and accommodation–certainly far more than Arabs have ever done with their own ethno-nationalist competitors. So, indulging in such things as pointing the finger at Israel during a conference like that in Petra (undoubtedly filled with duplicitous Israel bashers) was/is nothing short of self-serving and cowardly.

Both Foxman and Wiesel know that the root cause of this conflict has always been an Arab refusal to accept that anyone but themselves be granted political rights in “their” region. Again, scores of millions of non-Arab peoples have been murdered, gassed, subjugated, enslaved, turned into refugees, and so forth for daring to disagree.

The conflict Israel was criticized for at Petra and many times since could have been solved long ago had Arabs been willing to grant Jews a mere microscopic slice of the very rights they demand for themselves. And, again, both men knew and know this very well.

So, given such an enemy, it is hard to conceive of what both were thinking when they willingly participated in shifting the spotlight onto Israel.

Will either men take up residence in Israel’s Sderot, frequently blasted by Arab mortars, missiles, and rockets and adjacent to Arab-controlled (and now Judenrein) Gaza, or in Israel’s narrow waist (where most of its population is located) after it’s forced to return to its ‘49 Auschwitz/armistice lines and next agrees to accept millions of allegedly returning jihadi Arab refugees? The latter are the main provisions of the alleged Saudi Peace Plan–which Obama has repeatedly stated Israel would be crazy to not accept.

Sure…

But if the answer to my question just happens–by some small chance–to be in the negative, then perhaps it’s time to put the period of perpetual Jewish victimization behind us…despite what these twofamous Holocaust survivors asserted.

Their approach would, no doubt, only perpetuate this cult of victimization only further. At the time, I cynically thought that afterwards perhaps at least Wiesel believed that he could then get the world to weep for yet millions of more dead Jews. Disturbing…but, who knows?

And while this may be good for the Jewish victimization business, it’s certainly not good for Jews.

I’ll demand empathy over sympathy any time. And Israel better do likewise.

It was thus a blessing, for many reasons, to hear of Elie Wiesel’s recent refusal to play along with the President’s re-election performance (and that’s indeed what it was) at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington.

For me at least, he has at somewhat redeemed himself. And I am glad.

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by Gerald A. Honigman

Periodically, the broken record skips back to the beginning, and we hear the same old tune again and again…

We poor Arab victims (who “only” have about two dozen states so far–which were conquered and forcibly Arabized from mostly non-Arab peoples) will never recognize Israel nor honor any peace agreements with the Jews.

For this latest replay, the song comes from the simply more honest Hamas folks in Gaza–but it could have come from virtually the rest of the so-called “Arab” world as well.

The allegedly “moderate” good cops of Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah no more accept the permanence of a Jewish State of Israel any more than the Hamas and the Islamic Jihad bad cops do–and have said so repeatedly (even if all of their assorted whitewashers aren’t listening). Take a good look at what’s happening in Egypt these days as well with the rise of Hamas’ parent, the Muslim Brotherhood, regarding the same issue.

It’s all about appearances right now–that’s all.

To make themselves feel less guilty after Auschwitz, those in the dhimmi West, who would just as soon like to see Israel disappear, feel better when they’re lied to instead by Arabs with similar genocidal plans for Hebrews that Europe excelled in itself for millennia.

So, it pays to be Arab “moderates”–indeed, billions of dollars for such taqiyya (permitted lying for the cause).

Responding to Hamas chief honcho-in-exile, Khaled Mashaal’s, unity games with Fatah in which he allegedly tentatively accepted the notion of a Palestinian Arab state on the basis of Israel’s 1949 armistice lines (incorrectly referred to as “borders”), Moussa Abu Marzouk, Hamas’ second in command, says any potential deal would only be considered a hudna, or temporary cease fire.

There is nothing new here–except that while some choose to play the game, others don’t. And again, those who agree to play stand to gain billions. The late Arafat’s Swiss bank accounts are legendary. And he was a frequent guest at the Clinton White House. The former President made out nicely as well via this relationship…tens of millions of dollars have so far been donated towards his Presidential library and such by his Arab buddies.

Since the ‘67 War (that they themselves instigated) backfired on them big time, Arabs shifted their strategy to destroying Israel in stages rather than in one fell swoop as had been attempted before.

Arabs have openly admitted to this destruction-in-phases strategy, and the first step in this process involves forcing Israel to abandon UNSC Resolution 242.

Passed in the wake of the Arabs’ attempt on Israel’s life in ‘67, the final draft of 242 promised Israel more defensible, real, and secure borders, instead of previous armistice lines which made it a mere 9 to 15 miles wide in its vulnerable waist–where most of its population and infrastructure are located. The settlement issue all of the fuss is about is about whether Israel finally gets this long overdue territorial compromise over the disputed, non-apportioned (not “purely Arab”) territories of the original Mandate or not…Judeans returning to Judea, where they have thousands of years of history–clear up until their massacres by Arabs in the 1920s and 1930s.

Arafat used to call these “peace” games–which made him and his cronies rich–the Peace of the Quraysh. The latter was the pagan tribe in Mecca which Muhammad temporarily made a hudna (the same type of temporary truce Hamas’s Abu Marzouk now speaks of above) with in the 7th century C.E. until he felt strong enough to deal the final blow.

Even forgetting about the Hamas “bad cops” in the State Department game to pose Mahmoud Abbas’ boys as the alleged good ones to force Israel to give away the store, the so-called moderates have openly called any dealings with the Jews a “Trojan Horse.”

Now, who in their right mind would give anything at all to such murderous, rejectionist enemies–except exponential payback? Yet, short of literal suicide, the Jews are expected to cave in to all Arab demands and have already made too many one-sided concessions.

Still, despite all of the above, I’ve come to an important revelation…
I believe that it’s really time for Israel to appreciate the virtues of Hamastan.

Really…I’m serious.

As Hamas entrenches in Gaza, and much of the world bemoans the internal struggles (sometimes bloody) between the Hamasniks and Mahmoud Abbas’s latter-day Arafatians, Israel has reason to be glad–and not just because its enemies are divided.

Of course I’d prefer a situation in which Arab and Jew could peacefully live as neighbors, assisting each other in building a better tomorrow for all of their children. Realistically, however, an Arab subjugating mindset, which declares the entire region to be simply “purely Arab patrimony,” eliminates this possibility. Until that changes, nothing else related to true peace will either. Arab kids are educated from their diaper days onwards to hate Jews who dare to want in one tiny state what Arabs insist on having some two dozen of themselves–and at scores of millions of non-Arab peoples’ expense.

While I get no pleasure from human suffering anywhere, the fact is that it makes no difference whether it’s Hamas or Fatah affiliates murdering Jews. Again, neither have any real intention of living peacefully with a permanent Jewish State as their neighbor. Any such discussion is indeed for show and who gains access to the dhimmi petro-dollar-addicted purse.

Several years back, Hamas and Fatah had a bloody struggle for control over Gaza in the wake of Israel’s unilateral withdrawal. Gaza, since the days of the Pharaohs, had been used as a major invasion route into the land of the Jews, and modern Egypt’s Nasser was no exception.

With the collapse of the centuries old Ottoman Turkish Empire after World War I, Gaza became part of the Mandate of Palestine in 1920. Egypt again grabbed it after its invasion of a reborn, minuscule Israel in 1948 and ruled it until the ‘67 War–using it to stage attacks against Jews, amass troops, build military bases, and so forth. Nasser’s hostile acts–blockading Israel (a casus belli) and so forth–lost Egypt Gaza.

It’s worth recalling that during those nineteen years that Egypt had control over Gaza (and Transjordan seized Judea and Samaria, aka the “West Bank,” thus renaming itself Jordan since it now held both banks of the River), there was never any talk about creating a second state for Arabs in the original 1920 Mandate of Palestine there. After 1922, Jordan was created and emerged on almost 80% of the Mandate’s territory.

After Israel’s Ariel Sharon’s complete unilateral withdrawal years ago (uprooting thousands of Jewish residents), Gaza became a test, as many of us have noted, and the Arabs flunked it with flying colors. Thousands of rockets, mortars, missiles, and other acts of terrorism have been launched against the Jews in southern Israel from Gaza instead. Now, imagine what will happen if Israel foolishly does likewise in the West Bank. Tel Aviv, Ben Gurion Airport, the Knesset, Haifa, Jerusalem, and so forth will become the new Arab targets instead–a few stones’ throws away from Arab gunners.

Had Gaza’s Arabs showed evidence of truly wanting to build their additional state (# 22)–instead of just continuing to work towards the destruction of the sole nation of the Jews–all possibilities were ready to unfold. Israel has been hopefully waiting for such signs. Unfortunately, as we still see with the recent news reported above, this was–and still is–not to be. It remains in the realm of dreams.

So, as I suggested above, I’m totally rooting for Hamas in its struggles with Mahmoud Abbas’s alleged “good cops.”

No more word games that simply advance Arab destruction-in-stages plans for the Jews.

Israel must insist on getting the meaningful territorial compromise promised to it by UNSC Resolution 242–regardless of who is twisting its arms.

Absent a true peace partner willing to arrive at a real compromise and modus vivendi, Israel must declare that, henceforth, blatant acts of war directed against it from Arabs will be dealt with the way America’s (Colin) Powell Doctrine instructs America to do itself –via massive retaliation.

A total Hamas victory in its struggles with its phony “moderate” Arab opponents will make such a policy easier for Israel to carry out, with no facade of counterfeit, and equally murderous, Arafatian peace partners to deal with.

By the way, as a footnote of sorts, America has been building a modern army of tens of thousands for Hamas’s rival, Abbas’s Fatah folks–something that the Israeli armored corps and air force must obliterate as well when the time comes.

Fatah has at least as much blood on its hands as Hamas and, like its creator–Arafat, with Mahmoud Abbas as his chief lieutenant–said himself, is only biding its time during its renewed “Peace of the Quraysh” with its kilab yahud–Jew dogs. In the meantime, its army grows stronger and richer courtesy of Uncle Sam.

As with Muhammad’s waiting for the proper moment to strike the final blow against the Quraysh, Fatah, like Hamas, watches as Israel is forced to face a powerful Iran and Syria–as well as an Egypt whose peace treaty with Israel is all but dead.

The emergence of a Hamastan ever-determined to kill Jews and their state must thus turn into its own demise.

As President George W. Bush stated after America itself was victimized as Israel repeatedly has been, those who support terrorists should take care lest they suffer the terrorists’ same fate.

When America warred with Germany and Japan, it didn’t worry much about civilians killed along the way during the fire bombings and so forth.

Unlike those World War II conflicts, the war which the Jews have been continuously forced to fight is about the very existence of their sole, tiny, resurrected nation. Poll after poll has shown that if Israel withdrew from every inch of disputed territory, most Arabs–not only the Hamas and Fatah crews–would still refuse its right to exist.

So, again, it’s time to end the games.

While Israel faces the prospects of an Arabized nuclear Iran sworn to its destruction, the mullahs have sent scores of thousands of missiles and other armaments to Hizbullah and Hamas surrounding Israel on two sides. Add to this the vast biological and chemical arsenals of Iran’s best buddy, Assad’s Syria–just itching for a chance to deflect attention from itself–and the urgency becomes even more apparent.

For Israel to survive these potentially existential threats, the gloves must come off, Israel must ignore the warnings of the world’s assorted hypocrites, and it must deal with Hamastan and such as all other countries would when faced with an enemy dedicated to their own destruction.

This war has never been about Arabs wanting their 22nd state They could have had that decades ago.

Honorable plans were repeatedly offered and turned down by the Arabs themselves over the past century.

Once again, it’s all about Arabs wanting the destruction of the only state the Jews have. The conflict has always been about this…the late renowned scholar, Richard Cottam’s, “negative nationalism” par excellence.

While the inter-Arab contest plays out in the territories and elsewhere, and before the dust settles, Israel must thus create plans to leave the Arabs literally gasping for air when the time is ripe–a la June 1967.

Additionally, Israel must leave its enemies afraid of retaliation because of what the next vastly exponential Israeli responses will then bring. This can be done. Israel must just have the will to act for its survival. The hour is late…and Great Britain and America didn’t apologize for Dresden and Hiroshima.

Hypocrites elsewhere will yell and scream about “Nazi” Jews and such. Israel must ignore them and take the cuts in aid and whatever if need be. There are still good people around who will understand…especially in America.

While Israel should warn the Arab civilian population (which idealizes and chose Hamas as its leaders)–as it always does–that war will be Hell, after doing so, it must not fight with one hand tied behind its back.

The virtue of honesty in Hamastan will give Israel a chance to face its mortal, genocidal, rejectionist Arab enemies head on, in full scale war, with victory as its goal–not tit for tat nonsense a la its earlier War of Attrition with Egypt. The latter was terribly costly, a no-win game for the Jewish State which only led up to the even costlier Yom Kippur War several years later…a war which almost ended with Israel’s destruction.

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Yes, over the years, I’ve said some of this before. And, no doubt, some have read some of this before.

Nevertheless, some issues remain so persistent, urgent, and timely that revisiting them seems to be in order. So, please permit me to continue.

I guess it was my own fault.

Several years ago, my two older daughters brought home a momma cat and two small kittens that they found late at night wandering on the road. Another kitten was spotted not far away which lost out in its chance meeting with a car. Who could say “no” to them?

The problem was that we already had three established cats. While we’ve had situations related to this involving our original two females, it was Binx, the young male, who (even though neutered) had really proven to be a pistol regarding the newcomers. And I suspect that he began by first taking it out on me…

I kept a box in my bedroom closet with some important stuff in it. No problem–until after our feline additions entered onto the scene. Not long after their arrival, Binx was caught in the act of leaving souvenirs, if you get my drift, in my box.

Not having much of a choice, I now had to gingerly weed through decades of materials I had saved. Funny what you’ll find when you do this sort of thing.

Among the various hidden treasures I now reviewed was a letter dated to 1979 from Jahandir, a half Iranian fellow doctoral student, who was commenting on a research paper I had written.

I liked Jahan, but we butted heads constantly. He’s probably teaching at some university now. We were doing graduate work together at the height of Iran’s Islamic Revolution.

Allow me, please, a few comments about the latter before we proceed.

The fate of the twenty-six century old Jewish community in Iran frequently–especially after the Arab imperial invasions ushered in the Islamic age in the mid-7th century C.E–depended upon a balance of power between the ruling Shah (who acted as their protector) and the Islamic religious establishment. (No, Ahmadinejad–not all Jews came from Europe–just ask Israel’s recent former president and chief of staff of its armed forces, modern Iranian Jewish refugees).

Prior to the Islamic era, there were often good times for the Jews in Iran as well as good relations between Iran and the original land of the Jews, Judea/Israel.

Cyrus the Great, according to ancient Iranian accounts ( like the Kurash Prism) as well as Jewish ones, allowed Judeans–Jews–whom he freed from Babylonian (modern Iraq) captivity some six centuries before the birth of Jesus of Nazareth to return to Judea. Many returned–but many remained in Iran, and from there also moved points east. The Hebrew Bible’s Book of Esther takes place in Iran, and much archaeological and written evidence shows that Jewish soldiers manned Iranian outposts in places like Elephantine, Egypt (where they also had their own temple).

For the sake of relative brevity (something I’m not too often accused of), allow me just one additional example of these long and positive ties between the Iranian and Jewish peoples.

Practically on the very eve of the Arab imperialist, colonialist Islamic onslaught, in the 7th century C.E., of both the land of the Jews and that of the Iranians as well, ancient, non-Jewish sources tell of the alliance of tens of thousands of Jewish warriors with Iran against the hated Byzantines.

Okay, enough background information. Let’s now return to Jahandir, the Jews, and the latter’s dependence on a powerful shah in the Islamic era…

Such age-old dependency would get Jews and modern-day Israel in trouble as well, as they both had close relations with the Pahlavi dynasty.

While the Pahlavi shahs did much to bring Iran into the modern world (Reza modeled himself after Mustafa Kemal–”Ataturk”–in Turkey), their decision to rule their people (which they had indeed helped in many ways) as if nothing had changed since the days of Iran’s ancient, all-powerful shahanshahs could no longer be accepted by many Iranians whose eyes had now been opened to the freedoms of the West. Think Jahandir, as but one example of these folks.

Ironically, the advances on behalf of the Iranian people made by the Pahlavis did much to bring about their own downfall.

But, little did the frustrated Iranian Street know (or want to know), that when the Islamic Revolution came while Jahan and I were both doing grad work in Middle Eastern Studies in 1979, they would simply be replacing an autocratic shah with an absolute, megalomaniacal, autocratic theocracy instead–which would be even worse in terms of supporting those very freedoms many who opposed the shah had sought.

At the time, Ayatollah Khomeini was the hero for most of “Progressive” (anti-Shah, anti-Israel) academia, so Jahan’s similar Khomeini-flavored, anti-Israel politics (too often a “litmus test” in Departments of Middle Eastern Studies, History, Political Science, and the like) were far more acceptable to the powers that be than those of myself. As a result, I’m sure Jahan was not denied a Ph.D. dissertation advisor the way I was…the most advanced doctoral student in the program at the time. I naively made the mistake of expecting that the same lenses of academic scrutiny would be applied when studying the “Arab” and Islamic world as were routinely used in dissecting Israel in the classroom.

Big mistake–and paid for dearly.

Knowing of the reputation regarding the tenured chief honcho in terms of anything having to do with Arab-Israeli politics, I had been assured by others that there would be someone else to serve as my program adviser when the time arrived to start my doctoral dissertation. As the song goes, like a fool, I believed.

Imagine taking a graduate course on the Palestine Mandate and never hearing anything about the preliminary Cairo Conference, the original 1920 borders of post-World War I “Palestine,” the separation of Transjordan from the latter in 1922, and so forth. Or hearing Hitler’s good buddy, the Arab Mufti of Jerusalem, being idealized while Jewish nationalist leaders, like Jabotinsky, were being painted as the real fascists. Or constantly being fed additional, one-sided material sympathetic to Arab nationalist aspirations while the rights of scores of millions of non-Arabs in the region were deliberately being ignored. Looking back, I later came to realize that, for a number of nauseating reasons, such duplicity is indeed not rare in the Ivory Tower.

The only time, for example, that Kurds were ever mentioned during those earlier studies was when the above professor made a mockery of their own plight and aspirations upon reporting of his travels throughout southeastern Turkey. It was a rarity for them to ever be mentioned in classrooms at all, or read about in assigned textual materials (guess why?).And, again–forget about an assumed climate of academic freedom. Beware if you dared to disagree–as I would later find out the hard way. One mustn’t veer away from the specially chosen, designated bad guys.

As is even more typical today, while Israel was constantly selected for “special treatment” and placed under the high power lens of scrutiny, the far more real and gruesome sins of the “Arab”/Islamic worlds were and are more often than not ignored. The Arab genocide and continuing atrocities against black Africans in the Sudan, slavery in the Arab World, massacres of Kurds, Imazighen/Berbers, Copts, kilab yahud “Jew dogs,” and others as well were going on back then as they are today–but students would never know any of this coming out of most classrooms.

And that’s where Jahandir enters into the picture again.

Constantly demonstrating on campus against the Zionist occupiers of Judea and Samaria (aka, the West Bank), sitting across from me in class, and the like, we finally had a long-brewing, explosive exchange.

After Jahan had given me a critique of the work I had done on that research paper mentioned earlier, I fired back with both barrels with something as timely and relevant to the discussion today as it was when we did battle over a quarter century ago.

Prior to the Iranian nationalist era of the Pahlavi shahs, Iran’s oil-rich Khuzestan province had–for centuries–an Arab majority. In fact, it had largely been ruled by the Arab Sheikh of Mohammarah until the early 20th century. Later, Arab chieftains had advocated the incorporation of “Arabistan” into Iraq. Undoubtedly, such memories played a key role in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq’s ill-fated decision to invade Iranian Khuzestan/Arabistan, sparking a long and costly war in the 1980s.

Was it not back then–and is it not now–absurd for Iranians, such as Jahandir, to be pointing fingers at Israel (which has been trying hard to arrive at a truly fair compromise, a la UNSC Resolution 242, with Arabs over such things as the “West Bank”) while Iran ruthlessly deals with its own Arab, Kurdish, Balochi, and other “problems?”

Arabs in Khuzestan have been scattered to other areas, numerous Aryans were transferred from elsewhere into the strategic province, and any manifestations of Arab nationalism have continuously been squashed by whatever means necessary in the name of the Iranian nation–and with no United Nations’ condemnations, trials in Geneva, comments by Jahandir, lectures by academics, or whatever. All of the latter seem to be reserved almost exclusively for the Jews in their attempts to survive instead. Among other measures, serious thought was given by Iran to even outlawing Arabic as a spoken tongue…shades of Iraqi and Syrian Arab and Turkish and Iranian policies towards Kurds, Arab policies towards Imazighen/Berbers, and so forth. Israel has made Arabic the second official national language of the land.

The point to all of this, of course, is the blatant double standards Jahan, the current Iranian rulers, and much of the rest of the world typically display in all of these matters. Adding insult to injury, minuscule Israel is simply expected to ignore a would-be nuclear Iran’s repeated intentions to wipe it off the face of the planet.

Finally, before closing, let me just update you a bit about my former Iranian classmate.

Despite repeated inquiries regarding his atypical loss for words, I never did get a final response from Jahandir in our exchange in academia during those momentous days ushering in Iran’s Islamic Revolution.

The stench of hypocrisy reeks as badly on such matters today as it did back then, and the continuing silence from all quarters speaks volumes as well.

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Most Palestinians are Muslim-Arabs who originated in the Arabian Peninsula. However, the source of the name “Palestine” was Pleshet, the region of the Philistines (Pleshtim in Hebrew), who originated in Greece’s Aegean Islands. They were expelled from Greece in 1300 BC and settled the coastal plain of the Land of Israel in 1200 BC. The Roman Empire introduced the name “Palestina’” in order to erase the memory of the Jewish People and the Jewish Homeland, Judea, from history.

Contrary to political correctness, Palestine was never an Arab entity with a unique national, geographic, cultural, identity. It was part of a larger entity, and its Arab inhabitants considered themselves as part of the Arab, Moslem, Ottoman or the Greater-Syria entities. George Habib Antonius, the leading historian of Arab nationalism, considered Palestine to be part of Greater Syria.

On the other hand, John Haynes Holmes, the pacifist, Left-oriented Unitarian priest, co-founder of the American Civil Liberties Union and the author of Palestine Today and Tomorrow – a Gentile’s Survey of Zionism (McMillan, 1929) wrote: “This is the country to which the Jews have come to rebuild their ancient homeland…. On all the surface of this earth there is no home for the Jew save in the mountains and the well-springs of his ancient kingdom…. Everywhere else the Jew is in exile…. But, Palestine is his…. Scratch Palestine anywhere and you’ll find Israel…. There is not a spot which is not stamped with the footprint of some ancient [Jewish] tribesman…. Not a road, a spring, a mountain, a village, which does not awaken the name of some great [Jewish] king, or echo with the voice of some great [Jewish] prophet…. [The Jew] has a higher, nobler motive in Palestine than the economic…. This mission is to restore Zion; and Zion is Palestine.”

History documents that the Land of Israel was the cradle of Jewish identity 2000 years before the appearance of Islam, and that the tangible connection between the Jewish People and the Jewish Homeland has been sustained since then. On the other hand, Palestinian Arabs have not been in the area west of the Jordan River from time immemorial; no Palestinian state has ever existed, no Palestinian People was ever robbed of its land, and there is no basis for the Palestinian “claim of return.”

Most Palestinian Arabs are descendants of the 1845-1947 Muslim migrants from the Sudan, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, as well as from Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Yemen, Libya, Morocco, Bosnia, the Caucasus, Turkmenistan, Kurdistan, India, Afghanistan and Balochistan.

Arab migrant workers were imported by the Ottoman Empire and by the British Mandate (which defeated the Ottomans in 1917) to work on infrastructure projects: The port of Haifa, the Haifa-Qantara (1918), Haifa-Edrei (1905), Haifa-Nablus (1914) and Jerusalem-Jaffa (1892) railroads, military installations, roads, quarries, reclamation of wetlands, etc. Legal and illegal Arab laborers were also attracted by the relative economic boom, stimulated by the annual Jewish immigration beginning in 1882.

The Arab population of Haifa surged from 6,000 in 1880 to 80,000 in 1919, as a result of workforce migration, modernization introduced by the British occupation, and the establishment and expansion of Jewish settlements, which enhanced the infrastructure and employment base. The eruption of World War II accelerated the demand for manpower and the flow of migrants to the area west of the Jordan River.

According to a 1937 report by the British Peel Commission (Palestine Betrayed, Prof. Efraim Karsh, Yale University Press, 2010, p. 12), “The increase in the Arab population is most marked in urban areas, affected by Jewish development. A comparison of the census returns in 1922 and 1931 shows that, six years ago, the increase percent in Haifa was 86, in Jaffa 62, in Jerusalem 37, while in purely Arab towns such as Nablus and Hebron it was only 7, and at Gaza there was a decrease of 2 percent.”

As a result of the substantial 1880-1947Arab immigration – and despite Arab emigration caused by domestic chaos and intra-Arab violence - the Arab population of Jaffa, Haifa and Ramla grew 17, 12 and 5 times respectively.

The (1831-1840) conquest, by Egypt’s Mohammed Ali, was solidified by a flow of Egyptian and Sudanese migrants settling empty spaces between Gaza and Tul-Karem up to the Hula Valley. They followed in the footsteps of thousands of Egyptian draft dodgers, who fled Egypt before 1831 and settled in Acre. The British traveler, H.B. Tristram, identified, in his 1865 The Land of Israel: a journal of travels in Palestine (p. 495), Egyptian migrants in the Beit-Shean Valley, Acre, Hadera, Netanya and Jaffa.

The British Palestine Exploration Fund documented that Egyptian neighborhoods proliferated in the Jaffa area: Saknet el-Mussariya, Abu Kebir, Abu Derwish, Sumeil, Sheikh Muwanis, Salame’, Fejja, etc. In 1917, the Arabs of Jaffa represented at least 25 nationalities, including Persians, Afghanis, Hindus and Balochis. Hundreds of Egyptian families settled in Ara’ Arara’, Kafer Qassem, Taiyiba and Qalansawa. In 1908, Yemenite Arab migrants settled in Jaffa, and Arabs from Syria’s Huran proliferated in the ports of Haifa and Jaffa.

“30,000-36,000 Syrian migrants (Huranis) entered Palestine during the last few months alone” reported “La Syrie” daily on August 12, 1934. Az-ed-Din el-Qassam, the role-model of Hamas terrorism, which terrorized Jews in British Mandate Palestine, was Syrian, as were Said el-A’az, a leader of the 1936-38 anti-Jewish pogroms and Kaukji, the commander-in-chief of the Arab mercenaries terrorizing Jews in the 1930s and 1940s.

Libyan migrants settled in Gedera, south of Tel Aviv. Algerian refugees (Mugrabis) escaped the French conquest of 1830 and settled in Safed (alongside Syrians and Jordanian Bedouins), Tiberias and other parts of the Galilee. Circassian refugees, fleeing Russian oppression (1878) and Moslems from Bosnia, Turkmenistan, and Yemen (1908) diversified the Arab demography west of the Jordan River.

Many of the Arabs who fled in 1948, reunited with their families in Egypt and other neighboring countries.

Mark Twain wrote in Innocents Abroad (American Publishing Company, 1869): “Of all the lands there are for dismal scenery, Palestine must be the prince…. The hills are barren…. The valleys are unsightly deserts…. The Dead Sea and the Sea of Galilee sleep in the midst of a vast stretch of hill and plain wherein the eye rests upon no pleasant tint…. It is a hopeless, dreary, heart-broken land…. I would like much to see the fringes of the Jordan in spring-time, and Shechem, Esdraelon, Ajalon and the borders of Galilee — but even then these spots would seem mere toy gardens set at wide intervals in the waste of a limitless desolation…. Palestine sits in sackcloth and ashes. Over it broods the spell of a curse that has withered its fields and fettered its energies…. Nothing grows but weeds, and scattering tufts of cane…. Nazareth is forlorn; about that ford of Jordan where the hosts of Israel entered the Promised Land with songs of rejoicing, one finds only a squalid camp of fantastic Bedouins of the desert; Jericho the accursed, lies a moldering ruin, to-day, even as Joshua’s miracle left it more than three thousand years ago; Bethlehem and Bethany, in their poverty and their humiliation…. Renowned Jerusalem itself, the stateliest name in history, has lost all its ancient grandeur, and has become a pauper village…. The noted Sea of Galilee…a silent wilderness. Capernaum is a shapeless ruin; Magdala is the home of beggared Arabs…. Palestine is desolate and unlovely. And why should it be otherwise? Can the curse of the Deity beautify a land?…. The advertised title of the expedition–”The Grand Holy Land Pleasure Excursion”– was a misnomer. “The Grand Holy Land Funeral Procession” would have been better–much better.”

Joan Peters echoes Mark Twain’s observations in her book, From Time Immemorial (Harper & Row, 1984), which is top heavy on historical documentation and footnotes, and was written in consultation with the three icons of Middle East history and politics, Prof. Bernard Lewis, Prof. Elie Kedourie and Prof. P.J. Vatikiotis, as well as Prof. Fred Gottheil, Prof. Walter Laqueur and Martin Gilbert. Peters quotes Dr. Carl Hermann Voss, then Chairman of the “American Christian Palestine Committee:” “The Arab population of Palestine was small and limited until Jewish resettlement restored the barren lands and drew to it Arabs from neighboring countries (p. 245).” In 1939, President Roosevelt noted that “Arab immigration into Palestine since 1921 has vastly exceeded the total Jewish immigration during this whole period (p.395).”

“Ibrahim Pasha, Palestine’s Egyptian conqueror, had left behind him permanent colonies of Egyptian immigrants at Beisan, Nablus, Irbid, Acre and Jaffa. Some 500 Egyptian soldiers’ families established a new quarter [in Jaffa], and that was only one among countless similar situations. With this aid and the resettlement of Jews, which dates from 1830, Jaffa began to grow. In another area, the Muslims of Safed are mostly descended from Moorish settlers and from Kurds…. Much of the Muslim population that remained in the country was transient, as observed in 1918 by the Arab leader, Sharif Hussein (pp. 169-70).” “In 1878, groups of Circassians, Algerians, Egyptians, Druses, Turks, Kurds, Bosnians and others came into Palestine…. At least 25% of the 141,000 Muslims [in the whole of Palestine in 1882] were newcomers or descendants of those who arrived after the 1831 Egyptian conquest…. In 1858, James Finn, the British Consul General in Jerusalem, reported that ‘Mohammedans of Jerusalem’ were scarcely exceeding one quarter of the whole population (pp. 196-97)….”

“According to the 1931 census, at least 23 different languages were reported in use by Muslims, and most of those plus an additional 28 were in use by Christians, many of whom were known as Arabs – a total of 51 languages. The non-Jews in Palestine listed as their birthplaces at least 24 different countries (p. 226)….”

Peters documents the British war against Aliyah (Jewish immigration), while encouraging Arab immigration. For example, “On January 3, 1926, the British Controller of Permits indicated that ‘it is agreed that refugees who would appear to be Syrian, Lebanese or Palestinian by nationality may be admitted into Palestine without passport or visa (p. 270)….’” The 1930 White Paper enabled Arabs – but not Jews – to purchase land. It constrained Jewish immigration until Arab demography was sufficiently enhanced (pp. 300-301).

Arieh Avneri (The Claim of Dispossession, 1980), a ground-breaking researcher of Palestinian history, wrote: “Throughout history there are many instances of conquests which led, through a process of absorption and assimilation, to the formation of new national entities. Had the Arab conquest led to the formation of a crystallized Arab nation – no matter how small in number – it would have been difficult to contradict the claim of Arab historical continuity in Palestine. But such was not the case. The few Arabs who lived in Palestine a hundred years ago, when Jewish settlement began, were a tiny remnant of a volatile population, which had been in constant flux, as a result of unending conflicts between local tribes and local despots….” In 1554, there were 205,000 Moslems Christian and Jews in Palestine. In 1800, the total population was 275,000. In 1890, there were 532,000 people in Palestine, as a result of accelerated immigration, impacted by Jewish-built trade, employment, health and cultural infrastructures. “The population in Palestine underwent radical changes in the wake of two destructive wars that swept the country – Napoleon’s campaign of 1799 and the invasion by the Egyptian army and the subsequent rule of Ibrahim Pasha between 1831 and 1840…. It caused many old inhabitants to flee and new elements to settle in the land (pp. 11-13)….”

The baseless claim of an Arab presence in the Land of Israel from time immemorial, and the attempt to dismiss the moral, historical and geographic Jewish right to sovereignty over the Land of Israel, have fueled Arab hatred and terrorism, have constituted the chief obstacle to peace, have perpetuated war and terrorism.

My friends over at The United West.org http://theunitedwest.org/ recently posted a You Tube, with commentary by Alan Kornman, dealing with yet another “Progressive” dhimmi mouthpiece of the Jihadis, Josh Ruebner. He had given a lecture at Rollins College, near Orlando, comparing Israel’s struggle to survive with the Nazis’ plans to exterminate the Jews http://theunitedwest.org/the-united-west-exposes-anti-israel-hate-propaganda-2/. Unfortunately, this is nothing new these days…

The video brought back memories which would up evolving into a chapter of my own book http://q4j-middle-east.com.

Several years ago, fair and balanced Fox News interviewed an Arab about the Gaza thing to get that perspective of the fighting. I can’t remember his name. It doesn’t matter.

His response was typical, an earlier rendition of Ruebner’s, and one that anyone who has followed the Arab-Israeli conflict over much of the last century could recite: The “Palestinians” (Arabs) are the new Jews, and the Jews are the new Nazis.

But–you reply–Arabs already have almost two dozen states on over six million square miles of territory, including one sitting on some 80% of the original 1920 Mandate of Palestine renamed Jordan. And Jews were stateless until the resurrection of their sole, tiny nation.

Shhhhh…

Don’t ruin a good fairy tale.

Besides, dontcha know, these ain’t Arabs, they’re “Palestinians” (so what if most came into the Mandate from elsewhere in the region).

Back to Fox News…

Mr. Jihadi’s version of Arab Jews and Jew Nazis is the now popular Gaza is the Warsaw Ghetto claim, a la Ruebner. For that desecration alone, if there’s a Hell, they’ll both be there. And they’ll have Adolph–er Pat–Buchanan, from the Right (Gaza is Israel’s Arab concentration camp) and zillions of other anti-Semites (and I use that term very carefully) making similar claims keeping them company.

Given this ignorance, idiocy, or deliberate obfuscation, a bit of background is in order.

In 1940, the Nazis began to concentrate most of Poland’s three million Jews into several ghettos. The word ghetto itself comes from a much earlier Church legacy vis-a-vis the Jews. One of the debates among the Church Fathershad to do with what should be done with the “Deicide People.” Guess who those folks allegedly are?

The “gentle” St. Augustine won out–at least at some times and in some places.

So, instead of Jews being burned alive in synagogues or otherwise massacred (which prominent spokesmen like Martin Luther, “St.” John Chrysostom, and others suggested and which often happened anyway), they were to be deliberately kept alive instead–but, in such a lowly state, that when people looked upon them, all would be reminded of the Jews’ alleged crime and recognized as the Deicide People.

The ghetto was where the iron foundries were located in Italy–the smelliest, most unhealthy areas of the city…perfect for god-killers (I won’t insult G_d by capitalizing the previous word), gated and locked as well. These soon spread throughout Christendom, while the “Arab” World constructed its own versions, mellahs, for its own kilab yahud–”Jew Dogs.”

Does anyone seriously wonder why Israel had to be reborn? Obviously so…just ask Ruebner.

The ghetto in Warsaw was the largest. It held about 400,000 Jews who were told that they would be “resettled” to the East or, at worse, would be going to forced labor camps to work for the Germans.

By 1942, however, word of the Nazis’ true plans had made it into the ghetto.

The cattle cars were heading for extermination camps, part of the Final Solution. While some still kept their heads in the sand (not unlike too many Jews to this day), many faced reality and joined the resistance. This was harder for Jews since they often faced the anti-Semitism of the other folks as well–not only the Germans. The road to Auschwitz was indeed paved by many ingrained “religious” teachings…

The full-fledged uprising of David vs. Goliath began in 1943 in the ghetto.

Armed with some pistols, revolvers, home-made weapons and explosives, and some Polish rifles and such paid for dearly, the Jews took on their tormentors and embarrassed them profusely until the Nazis blasted every place they could possibly hide.

During the Holocaust, the Nazis singled out the women and children first. The attractive of the former might be used for pleasure before being murdered. The kids were killed right away as they were of no use…unless they wound up in the labs of Nazi doctors to be turned into human guinea pigs for all kinds of grotesque experiments. All of this is well documented. One and half million of the six million slaughtered–for no other reason than they were Jews–were children.

Okay, so now let’s take a look at the Jihadis’ and Ruebners’ of the world’s Gaza / Warsaw Ghetto analogy.

Unlike the Jews–who weren’t trying to kill any Germans–the Arabs of Gaza elected an organization dedicated to blowing both Jews and their State apart.

The Arabs killed in the Gaza fighting have been mostly fighters-–despite Arab claims.

The non-combatants who have been killed have deliberately been used as human shields by their own “heroes.” Where are the U.N., International Court Of Justice, academic, European Union, “Progressive,” and other voices crying out about this blatant Arab war crime? They’re as useless here as they are in stopping Arab genocide in black Africa and elsewhere. When will Jihadi sycophants like Ruebner pay a visit to South Sudan or Darfur?

Unlike the Nazis who sought out every last Jew for extermination, Israel has deliberately sent its own soldiers to their deaths on the ground, fighting door to door knowing, in advance, of booby traps waiting for them, but trying to avoid the deaths of non-combatant Arabs. Like the Syrians are doing right now with their own problems, the Jews could have easily blasted Gaza targets from afar.

When the Allies fought the Nazis and Japan, they fire bombed German cities and nuked the latter.

Israel is fighting Arabs who want it dead.

No Israel, regardless of size, is acceptable. Arab kids are brainwashed from the diaper to the camps to the schools to the mosques to murder Jews. Nothing Israel does humanely–treating Arabs in Israeli hospitals, supplying its Arab enemies (who else does that?), attempted compromises, and so forth–matters. Sad, but true.

So, why waste Jewish lives? The world’s duplicitous hypocrites, like Ruebner, will condemn Israel’s self defense anyway.

Unlike Nazis who targeted Jews for just being Jews (as Arabs do as well), Israel has tried its best–given the Arab human shield game–to target Jihadi combatants rather than just plain Jihadis.

If killing Arabs was Israel’s goal, does anyone seriously doubt that it could have made Gaza Arabrein by now?

Despite the phony analogies, at some point in the not-too-distant future Israel must make clear to all of the parties–especially an America under President Obama–that the next missiles and mortars fired at Israeli towns (as over ten thousand have been since Israel’s full withdrawal from Gaza several years back) will see Gaza turned into a remake of Dresden 1945, after the American and British fire bombing. Germany finally got the message and the war soon ended. Sometimes there’s no other way–especially if your enemy has genocidal intentions. Israel is allowed to defend itself–whether dhimmi Ruebner approves or not. All other nations fight to win in wars, especially if they’ve been attacked repeatedly. Only the Jews are expected not to do so.

Unlike the “civilian” Arabs’ murderous attitudes towards Jews and Israel which polls continuously confirm, Dresden’s German and Hiroshima’s Japanese civilians didn’t seek the destruction of America. President George W. Bush warned that those who supported terrorists would share in their fate. If that was sound advice given by an America three thousand miles wide and over three hundred million people strong, what’s minuscule, exposed Israel to say? A review of the Powell Doctrine for how America deals with its own enemies is in order as well.

Arabs have had years and billions of dollars in aid to begin building that 22nd state they say they must have. They’ve used the time and the billions of dollars to prepare for and conduct hostilities against their Jewish neighbor instead…a test of peaceful intent truly flunked with flying colors.

All of this must be kept in mind when Israel finally decides to fight to really win or to deliver, at the very least, the closest thing to a knockout punch.

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by Gerald A. Honigman

As President Obama gets ready to visit the Summit Of The Americas, my thoughts about the Middle East travel to Latin America as well.

Regardless of what does or does not happen between Israel and an Iran which has repeatedly stated that it intends to destroy the Jewish State, the future of Arab-Israeli politics really does largely depend on Hugo.

Let me explain…

I called it years ago in my “It’s So Bad It’s Good” (http://www.news.faithfreedom.o…..p;sid=1099) and much earlier still in “Watch Out For The Set Up” (http://www.israelnationalnews…….aspx/6586 ).

While the State Department–with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at the helm–really wasn’t given much choice other than to express disappointment with the results of the Arabs’ 2007 Saudi-hosted Mecca Accord (which brought Hamas and Fatah’s Abbas closer together but rejected anything to do with actually arriving at peace with a viable Israel),I predicted that the Foggy Folks’ position would very shortly revert back to normalcy–squeezing the Jews, no matter what.

Sure enough, the ink had barely dried on that good cop/bad cop Arab accord when State resurrected the earlier alleged Saudi Peace (of the grave) Plan–the one the Obama Administration has now largely embraced.

In case you forgot, here’s a summary of that plan:

Israel, surrounded by almost two dozen Arab states carved out of over six million square miles of territory (which Arabs conquered mostly from non-Arab peoples), first agrees to return to its 1949 armistice lines–not borders. Those lines were where the fighting stopped after six Arab states invaded a re-born Israel in 1948. They were never meant to be permanent borders, as a reading of any of the United Nations’ representatives’ writings at the time clearly show.

Judea and Samaria–aka, the “West Bank”–must once again become Judenrein, and so forth.

Among other things, those Auschwitz Lines made Israel an average of a mere nine to fifteen miles wide at its strategic waist, where most of its population and infrastructure are located. Most people travel farther than that just to go to the mall or to work. And recall that the U. N. stood by and watched as Israel was attacked. It only got involved after Israel turned the tide to limit Arab losses. This became the pattern that would often be repeated.

After the Arabs, led by Egypt’s Nasser, blockaded Israel at the Straits of Tiran in 1967 (a casus belli ),amassed 100,000 troops on Israel’s borders, ordered the U.N. peacekeeping force out of Sinai, daily bragged that the extermination of Israel was near (I still have the newspaper reports and pictures of this from May ‘67), and shelled Israel from what was then the Jordanian half of Jerusalem, the Six Day War soon erupted.

When the dust settled, the architects of U.N. Security Council Resolution 242 (Eugene Rostow, Lord Caradon, etc.) saw to it that the final draft of the resolution did not ask Israel to return to those fragile ‘49 armistice lines.

In fact, 242 calls for the creation of secure and recognized borders to replace those lines, and any withdrawal at all was to come in the context of real peace agreements (not phony “hudna” ceasefires) between Israel and its assorted Arab would-be executioners. President Reagan and other American officials confirmed this later on as well.

The State Department, however, has been another story…those same folks who fought President Truman and rejected Israel’s rebirth in the first place in 1948.

The Foggy Folks have constantly tried their best to undermine Israel’s attempt to undo the travesty of those ‘49 armistice lines. A reading of my Resolution To Kill The Resolution provides much detail about this. Besides being a chapter in my heavily-documented book http://q4j-middle-east.com, here’s an updated version of that analysis as well http://www.ekurd.net/mismas/ar…..cle26.htm.

Indeed, just a few weeks after Secretary Rice muttered some sanity over the Mecca Accords, she embraced the Wahhabi “peace” plan–and couldn’t have done this unless her boss agreed.

Mind you that besides calling for Israel to return to its submicroscopic existence, before allegedly gaining Arab “recognition” of its right to exist (would you like to know where Arabs can stick that recognition?), the Jew of the Nations must also consent to being inundated by millions of alleged refugees raised on genocidal Jew-hatred for over a half century.

Okay, stop…time for a reality check, one that cannot be repeated too often:

When the United Nations Relief Works Agency–UNRWA–was set up to assist Arab refugees (after the Arabs invaded a nascent Israel in 1948 and their attempt backfired), the very word refugee had to be redefined to assist those people.

So many Arabs were recent arrivals themselves into the Palestinian Mandate that UNRWA had to adjust the very definition of “refugee” from its prior meaning of persons normally and traditionally resident to those who lived in the Mandate for a minimum of only two years prior to 1948.

Get the picture about many, if not most, of those allegedly native Arab “aborigines?”

Now also recall that for every Arab forced to flee the fighting that they themselves started (after all, how dare Jews want in one tiny, resurrected state what Arabs demand for themselves in some two dozen others), a Jewish refugee was forced to flee “Arab”/Muslim lands into Israel and elsewhere…but with no UNRWA set up to assist them. The latter account for at least half of Israel’s Jewish population.

There are over 100,000 Iranian Jews living in the United States today (besides those in Israel), with a similar number of Syrian Jewish refugees here as well. Counting as the Arabs do, this includes those original refugees’ descendants.

But, hold onto your seats…Guess what I just found out?

There’s breaking news–and just in time for Obama’s visit to Latin America!

Amid all of these developments regarding the Middle East, I bet you missed the latest coming out of Venezuela.

President Hugo Chavez has evidently tired of his spat with Washington and has offered to bury the hatchet. He too will visit the Summit of the Americas to make this official announcement.

Here’s a preview of Hugo’s Peace Plan:

First, in order to show good faith, the United States must pay billions of dollars in reparations for its capitalist exploitation over the past centuries of Latin America–its people and its resources. This has sired deep resentment among the Latin Street.

Washington must rescind its Monroe Doctrine. After all, what right does one sovereign nation have to tell another sovereign nation whom it can or can’t have relations with and what the extent of those relations must be? If Venezuela wants to invite Iran and Hizbullah into Latin America so they can set up bases and such there closer to The Big Satan, then so be it.

The United States must next agree to give back California, Texas, New Mexico, and the entire southwest…lands conquered and forcibly Gringoized from Latin Americans.

Finally, to promote better relations, Washington must agree to an unlimited return of millions of the descendants of those Latins who were displaced during America’s three thousand mile drive for its Manifest Destiny. Any border fences or walls must also be taken down as well to help facilitate this. (Find Israel on a world globe without a magnifying glass–I dare you.)

If Washington agrees to all of the above, President Hugo Chavez will then recognize America’s right to exist in its new constricted borders…despite the obvious problem involving native Americans. Since Latin America has that same “Indian” problem south of the border, El Presidente has decided not to make a point of this.

For the sake of justice and peace for our time, Chamberlain–er, Obama–must consent to Chavez’s offer, or it will be seen as being merely the imperialist, exploitative, capitalist, expansionist, war-mongering nation that many other nations already accuse it of being.

So…how do ya like them apples ?

Well, I guess you know by now that Chavez didn’t really come up with this plan. Consider it my post-April Fool’s day shtick.

But think about this a moment….and then ponder what Secretary Rice and her boss and now Secretary Clinton and her boss have been setting Israel up for–and getting nasty when Jews don’t cave in and prostrate themselves low enough.

The only real difference between Hugo’s plan and this analogy is that Jews have lived continuously–despite ups and downs–in the land of Israel for well over 3,000 years. Their presence and wars for freedom and independence are well documented by the Romans, and Egyptian pharaohs and Moabite kings are among the other ancients who speak of them in Israel itself–let alone elsewhere in the region. Can President Bush say that about American roots for his ranch in Texas? How about Bush’s fellow Texan gadzillionaire buddy, the blatant anti-Semite (let alone anti-Zionist), former Secretary of State, James (milk the Arab petro-dollar teat, master of “Jew Boys, and F ‘ the Jews, they don’t vote for us anyway ) Baker III?

Arabs conquered scores of millions of non-Arab Kurds, Berbers, Copts, Assyrians, Jews, black Africans, etc. and so forth and then called the latters’ lands “purely Arab patrimony.” And the American State Department has repeatedly supported such viewing the world through Arab eyes only garbage.

As I like to frequently point out, a roadmap for thirty-five million truly stateless non-Arab Kurds or a like number of native, non-Arab North African Imazighen (”Berbers”) is still not on the State Department’s agenda, while it insists on creating a 22nd state for Arabs via grossly endangering Israel.

Keep in mind that, together with Egypt’s subjugated non-Arab Copts and the Sudan’s ( both north and south) still victimized non-Arab black Africans, the non-Arab Berbers are North Africa’s true aborigines (scores of millions of them)–not their genocidal Arab slave masters and conquerors.

An Amazigh Tuareg state declared itself independent on April 6th in what the jihadis refer to as merely part of their “purely Arab patrimony” in North Africa. Has anyone heard about this yet, or the centuries-old continuing plight of the Berber peoples?

Azawad, northeast of Mali, would become the world’s first Amazigh state–as opposed to almost two dozen for Arabs.

Forgive me. I’ve digressed. Back to those alleged peace plans…

Rice’s former position–and Clinton and Obama’s current one–is that the Saudi Peace (of the grave) Plan will be a “basis for negotiations.”

Remember the commotion not long ago when the President recently tried to twist Israel’s Netanyahu’s arm over the settlement issue and the building freeze? That has everything to do with whether or not Israel will be forced back to its pre-’67, ‘49 armistice line existence or not–one of the main demands of the Saudi plan.

So, what’s to negotiate? Let’s see…

Okay, Arabs, we’ll meet you half way. We’ll ‘only’ agree to have half as many alleged millions of jihadis as you insist upon shoved down our throats…and that after we’re forced to become a nine to fifteen mile wide sub-rump state again.

Thanks–but no thanks….

As a number of us have been pointing out, the stench of Munich ‘38 is indeed once again in the air… peace for our time–with Israel instead of the Czechs as the sacrificial offering.

This is the time for Israel to hold its ground and insist upon peace terms, with enemies dedicated to its destruction, that Americans themselves would expect. Poll after poll show that most Americans do indeed understand this– to the State Department and the current White House’s dismay.

Hamas and the alleged “moderate” Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah both deny Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state…no matter what their assorted whitewashers say.

Whatever happens on the Iranian front, that still remains a side issue–as potentially devastating to Israel as an Arabized, jihadi nuclear Iran is.

Israel’s Jews shouldn’t be squeezed by their “friends” into suicide the way the Czechs were. Keep in mind that the world soon found itself at war anyway. The Nazis wanted far more than the Sudetenland and Czechoslovakia–and take a good look at what’s happening in Europe today if you believe that the Arabs’ centuries-old wars of the Dar ul-Islam vs. the Dar al Harb stop at the gates of Tel Aviv or Jerusalem. The Jews are simply on the front lines–the Little Satan vs. the American Big Satan.

Substitute for the Sudetenland and Czechoslovakia, Judea and Samaria (the “West Bank”) and Israel today…and then ask yourselves if delivering the Jews on a silver platter will cure our own jihadist ills.

The Saudi peace of the grave plan must be stuffed in the same place where that “recognition” we discussed earlier must go.

Israel’s leaders must offer Arabs peace for peace, recognition for recognition, and negotiate a compromise over disputed–not “purely Arab” territories.

There is much that Arabs and Jews can gain from each other in a peaceful Middle East.

But the Arabs still have not come up with an honest plan for this to occur. Even their so-called “moderates” still speak of all negotiations with Jews as being simply a Trojan Horse, part of their openly-admitted destruction-in-stages plans for Israel. Does any of this really need to be further explained?

While it may be easier to turn the screws on six million Israeli Jews than on hundreds of millions of rejectionist Arabs and their other Muslim supporters, is this really something that America wants to do?

If not, the time is now to let the powers that be know this.

There is a crucial American election coming up just months away. For Israel, this may be one of the most important ever. Folks who really care need to think long and hard about this.

President Obama recently told the Russian leader, he’ll have more “flexibility” after he gets his last presidential election behind him.

For sure…

And if you thought Israel had problems getting the recognition, compromises, and such that UNSC Resolution 242 promised it before (as when Netanyahu was left sitting alone in the White House while Obama took off to dine with family because the Prime Minister refused to abandon 242’s crucial promise of territorial compromise), just wait until after November 2012–when the current occupant of the White House won’t have to worry about reelection any more. For my non-American readers, he’s not allowed to run again.

Finally, while you’re at it, it wouldn’t hurt to also think about Hugo’s “peace plan” once again when considering Israel’s on-going fight for survival.

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