Imagine for one moment that instead of Iranian artillery indiscriminately shelling Kurdish civilians across the border in Iraq, it was Israeli artillery doing likewise to Arabs in Gaza.


Let's step back a bit.


For weeks now, Iran has been shelling Kurdish villages in Iraq, supposedly because it

Kurds are still only referred to as separatists.

fears that Iranian Kurds, who wish for autonomy in Iran, are taking refuge across the border. Iran says PEJAK - a breakaway faction of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) - launches attacks from Iraqi bases.


For some time now, Turks and Iranians have been collaborating in dealing with their Kurdish "headaches." In this, they're soul mates with Arabs, as well. All have worked to deny over thirty million Kurds - who pre-date Arabs and Turks in the region by millennia and who are there at least as long as Iranians - political rights in a nationalist age. And it's worse than that. All three nations have killed many hundreds of thousands of Kurds, subjugated living ones, and denied them even their own culture and language over the past century.


While the world demands a 22nd state for Arabs (their second, not first, one in "Palestine" - Arab Jordan sits on 80% of the latter), Kurds are still only referred to as separatists, terrorists, or the like when this subject comes up for them. An AP story on September 2 was the latest to do this ("Iranian Shelling Angers Iraq," by Yahya Barzanji). And consider the following, as well. There are millions of Arabs in Iran's own western, oil-rich Khuzestan province - so many that even Iranians have called it Arabistan for centuries. It was the main reason Iraq and Iran fought their bloody war several decades ago. Why not create Arab state number 22 there, especially since the province did trade back and forth between Arab and Iranian rule over the centuries?


Answer: Won't happen because the Iranians are total hypocrites.


Iran brutally suppresses Arab, Kurd, Baluchi, Azeri, and so forth when it comes to the question of Iran's own unity and national security; yet, it is quick to point the finger at Israel about the latter's reluctance to cave in to Hamas, Fatah and other Arabs who still have the Jew of the nations' destruction as their end goal.


So, let's return to the beginning.


Over two years after Israel totally withdrew from Gaza, Israel's south is still being bombarded indiscriminately by Arab rockets and so forth from Gaza. One of the latest hit near a day care center, damaging a home next door and sending 12 young children to the hospital. Another exploded on a street in the center of the city. In their statements to the press, the Arabs called the attacks a "gift" for the new school year.

The Arabs called the attacks a "gift" for the new school year.



Could you imagine the world-wide outcry, condemnations, editorials and so forth if - in response to this barbaric, deliberate assault on the most innocent - Israel merely repaid Arabs in kind?


Folks, if I was running the show, best believe they'd get a mega-dose of their own medicine - and with just a slight bit of hesitation. I'd probably first issue sufficient warnings that such equal treatment will soon be coming, and then exponentially increase it with each new Arab "revenge" attack. Sorry, lefty, suicidal, liberals (and I'm an old-fashioned liberal, in many ways, myself - a very different breed from the "new" species), especially the head-in-the-sand Hebrew types.


Let Arabs see what it's like when they're subjected to random, indiscriminate bombardment like they dish out. Perhaps, afterwards, they'll think twice about allowing the deliberate murder and attempted murder of Jews to be launched from their lands. And, if not, the other way didn't work either. When you're outnumbered 300 million Arabs to five million Israeli Jews, perceived weakness and inaction is suicidal. Tit-for-tat responses don't work under these circumstances.


Yeah, I know, the world would be screaming about "Nazi Jews" and such - the same world that watches Israel's Sderot daily targeted and victimized and says nothing. Whoops, sorry, I'm wrong. The world does say that Israel must cave in even more.


So, being "nice" hasn't worked. Again, unilateral withdrawals and such are simply seen by Arabs as weakness and incremental victories towards their destruction-in-phases plans for Israel.


Jews try to do it right and get shafted anyway. Israel tries its best to target the exact perpetrators; yet, when the latter hide amidst their own populations (against the Geneva Conventions), civilians at times get caught in the middle, especially since Arabs love to use their own kids to retrieve rocket launchers after firing missiles at Israel. Sick. But again, no world outcry.


Given the expectations that Israel will pinpoint targets as it responds to Arab terror, why is it that Iran feels free to attack Kurdish civilians at will because of its quarrel with Kurdish "separatists"? Why is there no worldwide outcry for the plight of Kurdish victims and refugees, let alone the absence of support for Kurdish political aspirations? Where are the editorials, nasty sermons, and demands from the American State Department, and such?


While I'm not endorsing PKK or PEJAK attacks on innocents if

Neither Arabs, Turks, nor Iranians have granted Kurds anywhere near the rights that Israel has already conceded to Arabs.

and when they occur, please understand that neither Arabs, Turks, nor Iranians have granted Kurds anywhere near the rights that Israel has already conceded to Arabs who seek Israel's very destruction, including partitions of the land itself. Why is the latter a must for Israel, but autonomy (at the least) and political rights for suppressed Kurds unspeakable?


Shortly, Mr. Bush's Fall summit to shove a Fatahstan down Israel's throat will commence, despite the fact that Mahmoud Abbas's allegedly "moderate" Arafatians have as much or more Jewish blood on their hands - and the same end goals regarding Jews - as Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Just visit all of their websites, for starters.


Is it not time for the plight of tens of millions of Kurds - who seek no one else's destruction, just a slice of political rights denied them until now - to also move onto the front burner of the world's moral conscience?