The Islamic Indiscriminate Terrorists, having demonstrated in Afghanistan and Iraq that they can't last for more than a few days once the West gets determined, is now out to frighten people.
The thing is, though, that they can't even win a philosophical or political argument, much less fight without back-stabbing or self-immolation.
For example, consider the following issues:
1. Is peace possible without self-defense?
The answer is no, and about the only ones who want us to believe "yes", besides the terrorists, are the Peace-at-Any-Pricers, the Bureaucracy-at-Any-Pricers, the Land-at-Any-Pricers, the Next-Election-at-Any-Pricers, and the Sexual-Choice-at-Any-Pricers.
2. Were the Palestinians in the "Israel-Palestine" region before the Jews?
The answer is no, since Islam was founded several hundred years A.D. and did not even exist in B.C., when the Kingdoms of Israel and Judea flourished.
3. Does Israel or do the Moslem nations have the responsibility to help the "poor Palestinians" economically, with land and re-settlement?
The answer is: the Moslem nations have that responsibility. Israel contains a few million Jews, the Moslem nations contain about 1.25 billion Moslems. Israel's territory is between the size of Rhode Island and New Jersey, while one Moslem nation alone, Saudi Arabia, has vast empty lands that could hold a few thousand "Palestines", at least. Moslem nations extend from far West Africa on the west to Indonesia on the east. Even one Moslem nation, Saudi Arabia, not to mention Iran and the Emirates, is fabulously wealthy. Saudi Arabia has been begging for immigrants for years (except Palestinians), offering them free land, free education, etc., to increase its own rather small population.
4. Should Israel trade land for peace?
No. You might as well ask whether Rhode Island or New Jersey should trade its land for peace.
5. Are the Jews the victimizers, and the Palestinians and their surrounding Arab brethren the victims?
No. After the breakup of the Kingdoms of Israel and Judea by Rome and other empires, the Jews were dispersed across the world, although some always remained in the region of Israel. Many exiles ended up in European ghettos, where they were forbidden to own land and other rights, and where they were frequently raped, robbed and killed by non-Jews in what is called pogroms (e.g., in Russia, the Ukraine, Kazakhstan, etc.). They were massacred during the Inquisition, by Hitler in the Holocaust during WWII, etc. When they finally re-formed Israel in 1948, the surrounding Arab nations immediately attacked them in war and lost. Israel has been fighting Indiscriminate Terrorists and invading Arab nations ever since.
In conclusion, it's useless to argue with a terrorist since they have no arguments, just as they have no military knowledge or ability, as well as no courage.
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Osher Doctorow is a California-based college instructor and mathematics researcher.
The thing is, though, that they can't even win a philosophical or political argument, much less fight without back-stabbing or self-immolation.
For example, consider the following issues:
1. Is peace possible without self-defense?
The answer is no, and about the only ones who want us to believe "yes", besides the terrorists, are the Peace-at-Any-Pricers, the Bureaucracy-at-Any-Pricers, the Land-at-Any-Pricers, the Next-Election-at-Any-Pricers, and the Sexual-Choice-at-Any-Pricers.
2. Were the Palestinians in the "Israel-Palestine" region before the Jews?
The answer is no, since Islam was founded several hundred years A.D. and did not even exist in B.C., when the Kingdoms of Israel and Judea flourished.
3. Does Israel or do the Moslem nations have the responsibility to help the "poor Palestinians" economically, with land and re-settlement?
The answer is: the Moslem nations have that responsibility. Israel contains a few million Jews, the Moslem nations contain about 1.25 billion Moslems. Israel's territory is between the size of Rhode Island and New Jersey, while one Moslem nation alone, Saudi Arabia, has vast empty lands that could hold a few thousand "Palestines", at least. Moslem nations extend from far West Africa on the west to Indonesia on the east. Even one Moslem nation, Saudi Arabia, not to mention Iran and the Emirates, is fabulously wealthy. Saudi Arabia has been begging for immigrants for years (except Palestinians), offering them free land, free education, etc., to increase its own rather small population.
4. Should Israel trade land for peace?
No. You might as well ask whether Rhode Island or New Jersey should trade its land for peace.
5. Are the Jews the victimizers, and the Palestinians and their surrounding Arab brethren the victims?
No. After the breakup of the Kingdoms of Israel and Judea by Rome and other empires, the Jews were dispersed across the world, although some always remained in the region of Israel. Many exiles ended up in European ghettos, where they were forbidden to own land and other rights, and where they were frequently raped, robbed and killed by non-Jews in what is called pogroms (e.g., in Russia, the Ukraine, Kazakhstan, etc.). They were massacred during the Inquisition, by Hitler in the Holocaust during WWII, etc. When they finally re-formed Israel in 1948, the surrounding Arab nations immediately attacked them in war and lost. Israel has been fighting Indiscriminate Terrorists and invading Arab nations ever since.
In conclusion, it's useless to argue with a terrorist since they have no arguments, just as they have no military knowledge or ability, as well as no courage.
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Osher Doctorow is a California-based college instructor and mathematics researcher.