No longer are suicide bombings exclusive to Israel. We saw what happened in Najaf, and before that in Bombay and at the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad. Read the papers and listen to the experts point to this group and that group, but they forget that it all started when America whispered a single word in Israel's ear, and Israel, fearful of saying no, said yes.
It's from Israel that world-wide terrorism got its cue.
For all the lives being blasted away, I blame America, beginning with Eisenhower, all the way through Jimmy Carter, up to Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. On top of it all, I blame the U.S. State Department. (See also Peter Jennings and the onset of media terrorism down at the bottom.) These are the people directly responsible for every attack upon a G.I., every car bombing in Iraq, every minute of the intifada that has cost Israel more than a thousand Jewish lives.
What's the word I want? Oh, here it is ? "restraint." No single word in the English language has caused so much pain and suffering. Colin Powell loves that word. I blame him.
Question: When was the first rock thrown by an Arab against a Jew? There must have been a moment when this happened, I mean, the first time. Some archive must have a record of this. (I am not referring to Distinguished Columbia Professor Edward Said, who smugly told his interviewer on C-Span that he threw his rock at a Jew, because, well, it's the thing to do.)
Imagine if Israel had said, ?Oh no, we've taken enough of this when we were in exile. But here? In our land? In Israel? No, never again.?
Tradition has it that back in the Middle Ages, the Grand Rabbi of Toulouse, France, had to present himself on the steps of the local cathedral once a year. There, in view of a cheering mob, the Grand Rabbi was slapped across the face by the Archbishop. That was then, this is now, in Israel, and nothing's changed.
Had Israel taken action that very first moment; had Israel deported that first rock-thrower on the spot; had Israel declared that any Arab who merely picks up a rock will immediately be ousted, along with his family and his entire village; there would be no intifada and more than a thousand lives would have been spared.
But Israel chose restraint, and from this, the Arabs got schooled. Terrorism pays. Anytime, anywhere. Our lesson, which we refuse to learn, is that terrorism is contagious and portable. No wonder those scenes out of Iraq and elsewhere resemble Israel, ambush for ambush, suicide bombing for suicide bombing.
Powell and members of his State Department are personally responsible for every drop of American blood shed in Iraq; for the blood of Iraq cries up from the restraint imposed upon Israel.
Ariel Sharon, more merciful than God, should be made to answer for the crime of restraint, along with other so-called leaders whose cowardice turned Israel into a killing field.
Yes, another day, another dead Jew on the road, and if it's Monday or Thursday it must be two more G.I.s slain in Iraq. All of it thanks to Powell and the gutless ministers of Israel, who taught the Arabs that terrorism is a bargain and that Israel is for sale. The Arabs have learned that since Israel will take rocks, it will also take rockets, so that now Israel faces insults from the air as well as from the ground.
Arab infants have learned to pick up a rock the minute they spot a Jewish man, woman or child.
For that, members of the Compassionate Left must also answer, for every widow, for every orphan. (Can it be true that Edgar Bronfman, president of the World Jewish Congress, actually encouraged Arab terrorists to continue killing Jews, but advised them to kill only those Jews outside the Green Line? If true, this is sick.)
After that bus bombing in Jerusalem that took more than 20 Israeli lives, Powell said, "Both sides have to return to the bargaining table."
Both sides? This means, therefore, that Powell should return to the bargaining table with Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. After all, ?both sides?!
When terrorism hits next, anywhere, let's remember that it all started when the first rock was thrown in Israel, and Israel chose, or was compelled, to do nothing.
By the way, one of these Grand Rabbis in Toulouse went home and went to sleep after taking that public slap from the Archbishop. He never got up. He died of shame.
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Onto another topic for a minute, or maybe not, since we're already talking about rock-throwing terrorists.
King David, in his Psalms, wondered why bad people keep on going strong. This perplexed him. I don't know why I bring this up, except for this quickie item in the New York Post. The headline reads, "Going Strong", and it refers to Peter Jennings, our implant from Canada who is celebrating his 20th anniversary as anchor for ABC's World News Tonight.
More on this topic of Israel-bashing/media terrorism at a later date. (I think it started 20 years ago.)
It's from Israel that world-wide terrorism got its cue.
For all the lives being blasted away, I blame America, beginning with Eisenhower, all the way through Jimmy Carter, up to Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. On top of it all, I blame the U.S. State Department. (See also Peter Jennings and the onset of media terrorism down at the bottom.) These are the people directly responsible for every attack upon a G.I., every car bombing in Iraq, every minute of the intifada that has cost Israel more than a thousand Jewish lives.
What's the word I want? Oh, here it is ? "restraint." No single word in the English language has caused so much pain and suffering. Colin Powell loves that word. I blame him.
Question: When was the first rock thrown by an Arab against a Jew? There must have been a moment when this happened, I mean, the first time. Some archive must have a record of this. (I am not referring to Distinguished Columbia Professor Edward Said, who smugly told his interviewer on C-Span that he threw his rock at a Jew, because, well, it's the thing to do.)
Imagine if Israel had said, ?Oh no, we've taken enough of this when we were in exile. But here? In our land? In Israel? No, never again.?
Tradition has it that back in the Middle Ages, the Grand Rabbi of Toulouse, France, had to present himself on the steps of the local cathedral once a year. There, in view of a cheering mob, the Grand Rabbi was slapped across the face by the Archbishop. That was then, this is now, in Israel, and nothing's changed.
Had Israel taken action that very first moment; had Israel deported that first rock-thrower on the spot; had Israel declared that any Arab who merely picks up a rock will immediately be ousted, along with his family and his entire village; there would be no intifada and more than a thousand lives would have been spared.
But Israel chose restraint, and from this, the Arabs got schooled. Terrorism pays. Anytime, anywhere. Our lesson, which we refuse to learn, is that terrorism is contagious and portable. No wonder those scenes out of Iraq and elsewhere resemble Israel, ambush for ambush, suicide bombing for suicide bombing.
Powell and members of his State Department are personally responsible for every drop of American blood shed in Iraq; for the blood of Iraq cries up from the restraint imposed upon Israel.
Ariel Sharon, more merciful than God, should be made to answer for the crime of restraint, along with other so-called leaders whose cowardice turned Israel into a killing field.
Yes, another day, another dead Jew on the road, and if it's Monday or Thursday it must be two more G.I.s slain in Iraq. All of it thanks to Powell and the gutless ministers of Israel, who taught the Arabs that terrorism is a bargain and that Israel is for sale. The Arabs have learned that since Israel will take rocks, it will also take rockets, so that now Israel faces insults from the air as well as from the ground.
Arab infants have learned to pick up a rock the minute they spot a Jewish man, woman or child.
For that, members of the Compassionate Left must also answer, for every widow, for every orphan. (Can it be true that Edgar Bronfman, president of the World Jewish Congress, actually encouraged Arab terrorists to continue killing Jews, but advised them to kill only those Jews outside the Green Line? If true, this is sick.)
After that bus bombing in Jerusalem that took more than 20 Israeli lives, Powell said, "Both sides have to return to the bargaining table."
Both sides? This means, therefore, that Powell should return to the bargaining table with Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. After all, ?both sides?!
When terrorism hits next, anywhere, let's remember that it all started when the first rock was thrown in Israel, and Israel chose, or was compelled, to do nothing.
By the way, one of these Grand Rabbis in Toulouse went home and went to sleep after taking that public slap from the Archbishop. He never got up. He died of shame.
***
Onto another topic for a minute, or maybe not, since we're already talking about rock-throwing terrorists.
King David, in his Psalms, wondered why bad people keep on going strong. This perplexed him. I don't know why I bring this up, except for this quickie item in the New York Post. The headline reads, "Going Strong", and it refers to Peter Jennings, our implant from Canada who is celebrating his 20th anniversary as anchor for ABC's World News Tonight.
More on this topic of Israel-bashing/media terrorism at a later date. (I think it started 20 years ago.)