Elusive Peace

Ari Bussel explains the Arab hatred of Jews by those that call themselves Palestinians makes the cry for peace a time of hypocrisy.

JRH 5/2/12

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Elusive Peace

By Ari Bussel

Sent: 5/2/2012 11:26 AM

“Brothers, half of the Palestinians are Egyptians and the other half are Saudis.  Who are the Palestinians?  We have many families called Al-Masri (“Egyptian”), whose roots are Egyptian.  Egyptian!  They come from Alexandria, from Cairo, from Dumietta, from the North, from Aswan, from Upper Egypt.  We are Egyptians.  We are Arabs.  We are Muslims.  We are part of you.”  Fathi Hamad, Hamas Interior Minister, March 23, 2012 on Egyptian TV (by Memri)

To deceive well-meaning Jews, liberals and other innocent people who think that “peace” is better than “war,” the slogan used by the Left is “pro-Peace,” one with a capital “P.”  “Peace” for them means a world devoid of Israel, for Israel is the real obstacle for peace, the root source of evil.  What a wonderful scenario it must be, ridding the world of this nuisance, finally achieving tranquility for all time without a Jewish state as a thorn in the Middle East.

It appears that they alone want peace, while in their minds I, and others who strongly support the Jewish State, are right-wing extremists.  For them, we loathe both peace and the Palestinians.  We are racist, colonialists, a Zionist Occupier.  And for those who read my bio and saw my IDF connection – a proud officer and a gentleman – I am undoubtedly also a rapist and a murderer:  Like all other brainwashed members of the brutal Occupation forces, we rape women and murder people at point-blank range just for fun.

What separates these “Peace” people from me is that they claim to truly want peace, and to them I am a warmonger.  They argue that as a member of this racist, “superior” race of the Chosen Few, I am seeking to cleanse the Land of Israel from the presence of anyone who is not Jewish.  Reality, evidently, makes no difference to them.

They alone claim to know the path to peace.  It goes via the Occupied West Bank and the Jewish Settlements over Arab lands.  It waves its way through Jerusalem, the holy city to Islam, where the Occupation has swallowed East Jerusalem and refuses to let go.  It further extends to other cities, from Jaffe to Acre, Beer Sheva to Haifa, but let us leave these to another time, let us liberate the more pressing and obvious places first.

First, these “peace seekers” on the Left wanted “two states living side by side,” but soon they realized the error of their ways.  Two States do exist today, one called Israel, the other Jordan.  [Wrong!  That’s the Right-wing extremist interpretation.  Jordan is Jordan, and Palestine must be free from Zionist Occupation!] 

Why does the “two-state solution” fail?  For the simple reason one state is doing everything to enable its arrival, while the other “partner,” those who call themselves “Palestinians” and the Chorus of Left-liberals, wants only one state to exist.  Israel has no place in the Middle East, definitely not between the River and the Sea.

They say so themselves in word and deed, on their maps and literature.  Israel must cease to exist and Palestine must rise, liberated and free, to achieve this elusive “Peace.”

Time after time it becomes obvious that two states will not work, that the status quo is quite satisfying; for the moment.  “Peace” they shout then blame Israelis it is not here. “Peace” for them means Israel be required to allow “Muslim refugees” to “return,” to accept goods and services from the Palestinians and allow them free travel within Israel.  Anything else will be deemed “Apartheid” and evil.

The converse of course is neither expected nor will be allowed:  Jews anywhere in Palestine?  Filth is not allowed.  Blasphemy.  Prohibited.  Israeli goods and services, even currency, allowed?  They are already banning and burning Israeli goods today, wait until this “Peace” reigns.

Free worship, press, right of assembly?  Of course, all these are expected exactly as they are practiced and available today under the “brutal” Israeli rule.  For a picture of the future, just look at journalists in Gaza, or even under PA rather than Hamas rule, and then wander to Syria or Egypt, Lebanon or Turkey.  Try to find these “rights” and natural privileges there.

In short, Israel is good, for it encapsulates all the wishes of both Muslim Arabs and those who crave for a real peace.  No one wants to give up on Israel, for it is good there, to Israelis and Arabs alike, Jews and Muslims – and everyone else too!

Approaching the problem with a more academic methodology, I first look at the intentions as they are laid out to the international community:  Two states, living side by side, with Israel giving up land – in Judea and Samaria (including parts of Jerusalem) – and the Arabs recognizing Israel’s right to exist.

Well, a young Israeli will ask, “why should I care?”  They refuse to recognize us since our rebirth in 1948, 64 years ago.  They went to war time after time to eliminate us and still refuse to recognize us.  They are sore losers.  Just imagine, says this young Israeli with not a shred of hatred in her voice, what an amazing peace we could have had already!

The occasional bystander will add in amazement, but Arabs will not really recognize Israel’s right to exist, for they say a Jewish State is a racist notion!  [The numerous Muslim countries are not; only a Jewish state is an aberration of nature.]

Peace, the way Israelis understand, is living side by side, with relative ease of passage, cultural exchanges, commerce, trade and working together toward mutual goals. These may include fighting the spread of diseases, prolonging life, reducing mortality, safeguarding and learning how to share precious limited resources such as drinking water and protecting the environment.

Thus for three decades, this is exactly what Israelis did, going to Egypt and Jordan, investing and cultivating, believing they live in a better reality, that the days of the past will never reemerge from the cemeteries of history.

Stated intentions sound lucrative and inviting.  Israelis have lived by them for decades, striving always to put down the weapons, knowing all too well the day they do, there will not be enough space for mass graves, for there will be no Jews left alive on this tiny piece of land.

Arabs however used the plans themselves as weapons, very effective ones.  They “strove” for a Peace they did not want but that sounds wonderful to Western ears.  Advocating a path that will lead to Israelis letting down their guard, for a brief moment, is all that the Arabs need.  Once the throat is slashed, the body separated from the head, all that remains is to lament a life bygone, like that of Daniel Pearl, or rejoice the barbaric act of beheading.

Choose which side you are on, rather than use labels to attack me.  Are you with those doing the beheadings or are you with us—those who want to live and celebrate life?  The choice is yours, and it is very simple, black or white, life or death.  There is no half pregnancy here.

What a creative wish, what an astonishingly ingenious way of defeating the Jews:  If not by might and brute force then by smarts, and the Arabs seem to have developed a knack for that trade.  Deceit!

Now that the idea of “Two States Living Side by Side” has settled in and is the obvious “SOLUTION” (I am most careful with “Solutions,” for they remind me the Final Solution), it is possible to relax and expand the notion.

Eighteen years of failed attempts at reaching the Israeli goal of real, lasting peace have taught us nothing.  Like parrots we keep repeating:  “Give peace a chance; give up more land; capitulate; they only want to live in peace.”  We hear it repeated so often that we, too, join the Chorus of the Believers:  “The trains will take us to a new beginning.” “They are only work and resettlement camps.”

They slash throats and teach their kids hatred and we say, “We must try again.” 

 

Now they say two states is not what is needed.  “One State for All Its People” is the new “Solution” to the Jewish presence between the Jordan and the Mediterranean.  Clever, is it not?  One state is what they aspired to have all along:  One state with no Jewish presence.  One state where democracy and the rule of law, free press and a capitalistic society that fights corruption as an immunity mechanism, will no longer be.  Nor will there be access to any holy sites.  These will cease to exist, their remains, heaps of rubble, mountains of trash, will be pounded into dust as not to serve as evidence anything had ever existed.

The Germans tried to do the same toward the end of the war and cover up their wrongdoings.  What a massive undertaking:  digging up mass graves and burning the remains.  Working methodologically to ensure there is nothing left of those atrocities.  Their goal was just, their intentions good:  Rid the world of this disease that has inflicted it with ills for two millennia. 

The Arabs today continue that work.  Those Jews are a stubborn people indeed.  They took root and grew, expanded and strengthened.  Now they refuse to let go.  No water.  No natural resources.  Wars.  Massive waves of often-backward immigrants. Nothing distracted the Jews; nothing stopped their growth.

Look what beautiful young men and women they turned out, look at their creativity and determination.  How are we to defeat them—for the benefit of the world, of course?

There is one sure way to bring about the final-final solution.  Israelis themselves must be convinced to let down their guard, to stop believing they have a right to exist, to think that they owe a peace to others, lest they become the new Nazis, the modern-era South Africa. They must believe the trains lead to a work camp and no more.

How successful this plan has turned out; for Israelis have fallen into the trap and the quicksand is surrounding them.  Amos Oz, Livni, Barak, Peres, the list of names is long and quite impressive.  Soon they will start choking, then the final realization.

Wake up, young Israel.  Peace can be achieved not by talk, but by deeds.  You exist because there is an Israel.  You are not murdered because there is a strong army.  Your enemies want peace?  Let them work to deserve that peace, or let them go again to war. 

They are fighting and you do not see.  The war is all around you, and you refuse to admit. 

The Germans and Japanese only desired “Peace” once they were crushed into nothing.  Only then, from the ruins and the ashes, true peace emerged.  Today too, “Peace” will not rise from the Palestinian Authority cartoons and music videos, their textbooks or symbolic behavior (from naming squares after terrorists or awarding scholarships for following their examples or burning Israeli goods).  Talk is cheap, and the PA/Hamas has excelled in blinding everyone.

So let us stop this nonsense about two states or one state, a final solution or a final-final solution.  There cannot be “Two States” where Jews are prohibited from Palestine, but Palestinians have the right to emigrate in millions into the Jewish Israel.  It is the very definition of one state, ultimately with no Jewish presence.

Wake up and realize they are not talking about peace, but extinguishing this candle whose light has grown so strong over the past six and a half decades.  But the light will refuse to die, for life or the will to live is stronger, and it keeps feeding the light like oxygen. 

For a real peace to emerge, the ground must be plowed deeply after a very great fire.  It seems the time has come for such fire to erupt, as it does in cyclical regularity.  May we live to see new plants raising their tiny heads, may enough of us be left to enjoy the world after the next World War ends and goodness is reborn in strength.

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The series “Postcards from America—Postcards from Israel” by Ari Bussel and Norma Zager is a compilation of articles capturing the essence of life in America and Israel during the first two decades of the 21st Century.

The writers invite readers to view and experience an Israel and her politics through their eyes, Israel visitors rarely discover and Israelis often ignore.

This point—and often—counter-point presentation is sprinkled with humor and sadness and attempts to tackle serious and relevant issues of the day. The series began in 2008, appears both in print in the USA and on numerous websites and is followed regularly by readership from around the world.

Zager and Bussel can be heard on live radio in conversation on the program “Conversations Eye to Eye between Norma and Ari.”

© “Postcards from America — Postcards from Israel,” April 2012

Contact:  bussel@me.com

First Published Apr 28, 2012

The West Sticks their Heads in the Sand as Muslims Persecute Christians

John R. Houk

© November 29, 2011

Egypt has been the recent paradigm of the persecutions of Christians by Muslims especially since the fall of Hosni Mubarak and the emerging power of the Muslim Brotherhood. The Coptic Christians of Egypt (10% of population – 8,200,000) are the largest grouping of Christians in a Muslim nation in which Islamic Supremacism dominates. There are pockets of Christians remarkably dwelling in other Muslim nations. The American ally (allegedly) Pakistan and partner in the GWOT (allegedly) also has a contingent of Christians in their population.

Figures cited in Wikipedia show there are a little less than 182 million Muslim in Pakistan. The same Wikipedia article shows 2,700,000 Christians reside in Pakistan. Pakistani Christians receive severe treatment under Sharia Law. Sharia is often used as an excuse for Muslims to exploit Christians in the case of property. Simply make up a blasphemy accusation of a Christian leader and your Church may be subject to confiscation and the leader on trial for his/her life.

Western media barely covers the horrific treatment of Christians in Egypt. Western media coverage of persecuted Christians in Pakistan is near zero. If it was not for a few bloggers people would not know there were Christians in Pakistan let alone persecuted Christians.

I have been following the plight of two Pakistani Christians both of whom have been charged with breaking blasphemy laws in Pakistan. I have not come upon any information as to their outlook in several months. I have to run across their status from organizations dedicated to exposing Muslim mistreatment of Christians or a few brave Pakistani Christians willing to risk detection by getting info out via the Internet. The two I am writing about are Hector Aleem and Asia Bibi. Both faced death sentences under Pakistani Blasphemy and both have receive some kind of legal reprieve the last I have read of them yet the last I heard they both were in a Pakistani jail or prison for whatever ludicrous Islamic Sharia Law ruling. (If anyone has heard anything about Hector and Asia let me know)

Join the Walid Shoebat Foundation in helping persecuted Christians in Pakistan and that Foundation be a whistleblower of the vicious tragedies perpetrated by Muslims upon Christians in Pakistan. Below is a little piece writing about Pakistan from the Foundation.

JRH 11/29/11

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When will the West Understand what is Actually Outrageous?

John R. Houk
© April 13, 2011

The Quran Burning incident sponsored by Pastor Terry Jones has moved into the old news of the past. The incident that occurred on March 19 caused an outrage in the Muslim world that resulted in Muslims attacking Christians and their property. This was particularly the case in Afghanistan in which some U.N. workers that I presume the crazed Muslims believed were Christians (chances are the U.N. workers were Western secularists more than practicing Christians) were assaulted, killed and beheaded.

Of course condemnations came from the West and even the U.N. which was levied at Muslims who were probably connected to the Taliban enemies American troops are fighting. Unfortunately though, the condemnations of the murdering Muslims were soon followed by denunciations of the considered outrageous act of burning the Quran from Western and American outlets.

I have to qualify my reason for saying “unfortunately”. I say unfortunately because I do not consider the Quran burning an outrageous act. I do consider Pastor Jones’ publicizing of the event and the national MSM picking up the story as bad judgment on Pastor Jones’ part.

Part of the mission of NATO coalition under American leadership to secure Afghanistan from the radical Islam of the Taliban and al Qaeda is to win the support of supposed sane minded Muslim citizens. This was the success point of the Iraq Surge that has rendered Islamic terrorism into incompetence and has given the new Iraq government a good path to govern their own nation without massive American troops entrenched into a quagmire of blood. The Muslim populace became weary of Islamic terrorism targeting Muslim citizens and began to choose American troops as the lesser of two evils in their perspective of living lives without daily violence and murders.

If the American strategy is similar in Afghanistan then the public nature of burning a Quran which was picked up on rapidly by Taliban propagandists did indeed harm the military mission in Afghanistan. In other words Burn the Quran day did not help our American troops fighting for the American way of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. Thus we see and hear of military leaders like General Petraeus condemning the Quran burning in no uncertain terms.

Now here is an angle to the Quran burning that I discovered thanks to (STOP) RadicalIslam.com. That website did a cross post of Raymond Ibrahim’s article entitled, “Destroying One Koran vs. Destroying Many Christians - Which is Worse?”

Ibrahim’s point is that the MSM went out of its way to condemn Pastor Terry Jones and the burning of the Quran as an evil incitement and a hate-act effrontery toward Islam. AND YET, the MSM never places front and center the worse effrontery toward Christianity of Muslim Supremacism continually persecuting Christians by suspending their civil rights, assault, property destruction (including Churches), defacing of Christian symbols of worship (INCLUDING THE BIBLE), forced conversions, murder and rape. These horrendous acts occur in the Muslim Middle East on a habitual basis. The persecution is not an odd exception to the rule. The persecution of Christians is THE RULE!

Pastor Terry Jones sponsored one Quran burning in 2011. Did you read that? ONLY ONE! If chose to look for it you will discover the persecution of Christians occurs at least on a weekly basis in the Muslim world. The Christian fear of persecution is undoubtedly on a daily basis in the Muslim world. A good place to check on the constant persecution of Christians is the website ironically named The Religion of Peace.

So let’s rethink this question in light of what really happens in the Muslim world: Which is worse – burning a Quran in America or the torturous daily fear of persecution in Muslim dominated nations?

Be sure to check out Raymond Ibrahim’s article on this kind of thinking.

JRH 4/13/11
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Destroying One Koran vs. Destroying Many Christians - Which is Worse?

By Raymond Ibrahim
April 8, 2011
(STOP) RadicalIslam.org
Originally Published: FrontPageMag.com

The now infamous Koran burning by Florida pastor Terry Jones has created hysteria in the Muslim world. In Afghanistan alone, some twenty people, including U.N. workers, have been killed and beheaded to screams of “Allahu Akbar!” Western leaders around the globe—including Obama and members of Congress—have unequivocally condemned Jones’ actions (without bothering to point out that freedom of expression is a prized American liberty). Many are even blaming the deaths in Afghanistan directly on Jones; Bill O’Reilley says he has “blood on his hands.”

Yet, as Western leaders rush to profess their abhorrence at what one American did to one inanimate book, let’s take a quick look at what many Muslims are doing to many living and breathing Christians around the Islamic world—to virtually no media coverage or Western condemnation:

• Afghanistan: A Muslim convert to Christianity was seized and, according to sharia’s apostasy laws, awaits execution.

• Bangladesh: A Christian man was arrested for distributing Bibles near Muslims. Since Wednesday, thousands of Muslims have been rioting, injuring dozens—not because of Jones, but in protestation of women’s rights.

• Egypt: A Muslim mob burned down another Coptic church and dozens of Christian homes; when Christians protested, the military opened fire on them while crying “Allahu Akbar,” killing nine. Another mob cut a Christian man’s ear off “according to sharia.”

• Ethiopia: Muslims went on a rampage burning down nearly 70 churches, killing at least one Christian, and dislocating as many as 10,000. Christians living in Muslim majority regions are being warned to either convert to Islam, abandon their homes, or die.

• Malaysia: Authorities detained and desecrated thousands of Bibles.

• Pakistan: Two Christians were shot to death as they exited church; a Christian serving life in prison for “blasphemy” died in his cell under suspicions of murder.

• Saudi Arabia: An Eritrean Christian has been arrested for sharing his faith with Muslims and is facing the death penalty; other missionaries continue to languish in Saudi prisons.

• Somalia and Sudan: Christian girls—including a mother of four—were recently abducted, raped, and killed for embracing Christianity.

It should be borne in mind that none of these atrocities were performed in retaliation to Jones’ Koran burning; they’re just business as usual in the Muslim world. Moreover, the above list is but a quick and cursory sampling of the very latest in Christian suffering under Islam. Were one to include persecution from just a few months back, one could also mention the jihadist attack on a Baghdad church, killing 52 Christians; the New Year’s eve Coptic church explosion, killing 21; Muslim rampages that destroyed several churches in Indonesia, Nigeria, and the Philippines; Iran’s “round up” of some 70 home-worshipping Christians; and Kuwait’s—a nation that owes its very existence to U.S. war sacrifices—rejection to build a church.

Then there are the countless atrocities that never make it to any media—the stories of persistent, quiet misery that only the victims and local Christians know.

One would have thought that all this was at least equally deserving of media attention and Western condemnation as the burning of a Koran. This is especially so considering that, whereas only Jones is responsible for his actions, many of the aforementioned savageries—arresting and executing Christian missionaries and Muslim apostates, destroying or outlawing churches, seizing and desecrating not one but thousands of Bibles—are carried out at the hands of Muslim authorities and governments deemed U.S. “friends-and-allies.”

Such is the surreal and increasingly irrational world we live in, where irate Muslims and groveling Westerners obsess over the destruction of one book while ignoring the destruction of many human lives; where a guaranteed and hard-earned American right—freedom of expression—receives a lot of condemnatory huffing and puffing from those charged with protecting it, while murderous, barbarous—in a word, evil—behavior is devoutly ignored.

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When will the West Understand what is Actually Outrageous?

John R. Houk
© April 13, 2011
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Destroying One Koran vs. Destroying Many Christians - Which is Worse?


Raymond Ibrahim is associate director of the Middle East Forum and author of The Al Qaeda Reader.
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The War Against Palin Goes On and On and …

Victor Davis Hanson is educated in the Classics and Military History. Hanson is also a writer of the Right who is often described as a Neoconservative. If there is anything that is sure is that Hanson is one of those rare American intellectuals that has not succumbed his intellect to Leftist ideology that tarnishes American Culture.

Hanson writes with clarity on the idiocy of the Dems and Leftists heaping Goebbels-type propaganda disparaging Sarah Palin.

JRH 1/19/11 (Hat Tip: Conservatives 4 Palin)

Criticism of Newt’s Stand on Political Correctness

John R. Houk
© January 1, 2010

Ben believes Newt Gingrich is a hypocrite.

Ouch. Your observations are valid. I think your conclusion is a bit rough. Newt and Palin are victims of political correctness and yet also practice it. It is true it is hypocrisy. Unfortunately effective politics in America is rarely successful in black and white terms.

For Newt to step up to the plate to make an effort to spot light that political correctness is hampering National Security and American safety is a good thing. No one can seriously believe an American politician will step up to the plate and state the obvious - Islamic ideology is evil when compared to the American heritage of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. The concept of religious freedom is simply too ingrained in the American conscientiousness. It will take some time to bring an understanding to Americans that a religion is inherently evil in its core beliefs. There are simply too many Muslims who are brainwashed that their religion is a religion that brings inner peace (the so-called greater jihad that is deluded hogwash).

For Newt to begin the push toward putting a spot light on Islam is a huge politically incorrect gamble for him. Thus I say good for Newt in this instance. I am certain political correctness will have Newt make some not so great stands (Here is an example), but that is inevitable in American politics.

JRH 1/1/10