Thank goodness the enemies of freedom behave not merely irrationally, but criminally foolish in both the illegal and intellectual sense. Their behavior is on par with that of the rabid dog that bites the hand that feeds it. Like the rabid dog, their mental and moral disease is such as to guarantee their own demise. And as with a rabid dog, the only logical thing for the decent people of the civilized world to do is to isolate them, sit back, and wait for their fast-approaching and inevitable end. In this, Ariel Sharon might have the right idea.
Call them what you will - Islamists, Islamo-Fascists, or Islamo-Nazis. Their entire philosophy and utter lack of rational thinking, let alone their refusal to face reality, ensures their demise. Ever hear the expression ?You can dress them up, but you can?t take them anywhere?? This old saw seems tailor-made for the modern-day pseudo-religious Islamist. Every time they are given an opportunity to further their cause, they react in precisely the wrong way. It couldn?t work better if their enemies were running their campaigns. And if you doubt the veracity of my claim, the following are but a few examples.
Opportunity: In the year 2000, the pseudo-Palestinian Arab entity* was offered a country of its own, part of Jerusalem, control of the Temple Mount and 99% of what it had asked for. Never had they been offered, or were going to be offered a better deal.
Reaction: Instead of taking the best deal they?d ever get,thereby ensuring happy, prosperous lives, and an end to the limbo of their existence, they began a war. And, like lemmings robotically drowning themselves in the sea, the Islamist world supported them in their futile and irrational belief that war could get them a better deal. Failure to face even the most basic reality of Israel?s permanent existence has achieved nothing but death, destruction, world condemnation, and the rapidly fading hope of a viable state.
Opportunity: The Islamic world had the attention of the entire planet at their yearly meeting of the OIC (Organization of Islamic Countries) in the autumn of 2003. Their leader, Dr. Mahathir proudly bellowed his ignorance of even the most rudimentary facts of history by declaring "the Jews invented democracy." (In reality, the Greeks invented democracy; Jews invented guilt about not voting). Further, Dr. Mahathir revealed the Islamists? true goal of world conquest when he said "We need guns and rockets, bombs and warplanes, tanks and warships"
Reaction: Instead of showing us their progress towards peace, civilization and knowledge, every single Muslim there gave that ignoramus extraordinaire, Dr. Mahathir, a standing ovation. Apparently not one of those high and mighty Islamists is aware of history, nor did they realize that Dr. Mahathir tipped their hand as to their true goals. Even his ignorant and blatantly uneducated ranting was an opportunity for the rest of the Muslim world to prove their worthiness among civilized and enlightened people. If they had denounced him and his lack of knowledge, as well as his stated goals for Islamic conquest of the planet, they would have garnered world support and admiration. Instead, they applauded his ham-fisted ravings. It couldn?t have worked out better public relations-wise if the Jews had orchestrated it.
Opportunity: In the fall of 2003, a group of Americans went to Arab-occupied Judea and Samaria to give away much-coveted Fullbright grants.
Reaction: These Americans-bearing-gifts were murdered. And yet, even in murder, there was opportunity. If the pseudo-Palestinian Arab entity had immediately brought these killers to justice, if the Arab/Muslim world had demanded and worked towards finding these murderers, they would gave shown the world that Islamists do not behave uniformly as a pack of rabid dogs, murdering the very people trying to help them. Instead, the killers remain at large, despite evidence that the Arabs know exactly who they are.
Opportunity: Egypt's Foreign Minister Ahmad Maher visited the al-Aqsa Mosque on Israel's Temple Mount to show solidarity with Arafat and his followers.
Reaction: He was attacked by the very people he came there to support. And even in this attack, it could have been an opportunity for Arafat to show something other than his usual savage and bestial tactics. Arafat?s own Temple guards did nothing and let the attack continue. Maher had to be rescued by the despised Israelis, thus showing the humanity and moral elevation of the Jewish people for saving a man who came to show solidarity with their mortal enemy.
Opportunity: In the aftermath of a devastating earthquake in Iran, the Iranian government was given the chance to save possibly tens of thousands of lives by accepting help from the best, as well as closest, search-and-rescue and medical teams in the world - the Israelis.
Reaction: Like a rabid dog that bites the hand that would feed it, the Iranians flatly and ungraciously turned down the Israeli offer of help. If they had taken it, the world would have had a great excuse to say that the Muslim world is not totally unreasonable and has shown its willingness to deal with the Jewish people on some level. Instead, the Iranian government has reinforced the contention so many of us have that their entire society has no place in a civilized world.
Opportunity: Finally we come to ?The Roadmap.? Arafat and his followers were given a final chance to have what they claim to want most - a viable country. All they?d have to do was stop and dismantle the terrorist infrastructure - nothing more. And they?d have their own sovereign nation in a matter of months.
Reaction: Arafat and his followers continue to try and perpetrate genocide bombings on an almost daily basis, unrelentingly shell civilian homes, shoot at families driving in their cars, and worse. Nor have their Arab brethren seen the consequences of these actions in terms of themselves. Therefore, I will lay it out for them.
When Ariel Sharon declared that Israel would disengage from the pseudo-Palestinian Arab entity, he was threatening to, most of all, remove Israel from the equation. Without Israel to focus their hate upon, the Arab/Muslim world has time and again shown its cannibalistic tendency to turn on itself in innumerable wars of Muslim upon Muslim and Arab upon Arab.
Arafat and his supporters have a final opportunity to make something good come from their decades of evil-doings. They can implement merely the first part of the ?Roadmap? and permanently forestall ?disengagement.? But I?m willing to bet a pint of Godiva Chocolate ice cream that they won?t. I?m also willing to bet that as soon as Israel is out of the loop, history will repeat itself and the Arab/Muslim world will, once again turn on itself. This time, maybe with WMDs. And the world, for its own safety, had best just stay out of their way and watch nature take its course.
With such self-destructive enemies as these, who needs allies?
* I refer to the occupiers of Judea and Samaria as the ?pseudo-Palestinian Arab entity? because there never was any country called Palestine beyond the one ruled by the Hebrews. There never was a people called ?Palestinian? other than the Jewish people for the past 2000 years, until Yasser Arafat, an Egyptian, stole the name in the early 1960s and gave it to a bunch of Arab nomads whom their own countries refused to accept. It is an ?entity? because it has no legal status and ?entity? was the nicest word I could come up with for a society which, according to their own polls, supports genocide bombings of the Jewish people.
Call them what you will - Islamists, Islamo-Fascists, or Islamo-Nazis. Their entire philosophy and utter lack of rational thinking, let alone their refusal to face reality, ensures their demise. Ever hear the expression ?You can dress them up, but you can?t take them anywhere?? This old saw seems tailor-made for the modern-day pseudo-religious Islamist. Every time they are given an opportunity to further their cause, they react in precisely the wrong way. It couldn?t work better if their enemies were running their campaigns. And if you doubt the veracity of my claim, the following are but a few examples.
Opportunity: In the year 2000, the pseudo-Palestinian Arab entity* was offered a country of its own, part of Jerusalem, control of the Temple Mount and 99% of what it had asked for. Never had they been offered, or were going to be offered a better deal.
Reaction: Instead of taking the best deal they?d ever get,thereby ensuring happy, prosperous lives, and an end to the limbo of their existence, they began a war. And, like lemmings robotically drowning themselves in the sea, the Islamist world supported them in their futile and irrational belief that war could get them a better deal. Failure to face even the most basic reality of Israel?s permanent existence has achieved nothing but death, destruction, world condemnation, and the rapidly fading hope of a viable state.
Opportunity: The Islamic world had the attention of the entire planet at their yearly meeting of the OIC (Organization of Islamic Countries) in the autumn of 2003. Their leader, Dr. Mahathir proudly bellowed his ignorance of even the most rudimentary facts of history by declaring "the Jews invented democracy." (In reality, the Greeks invented democracy; Jews invented guilt about not voting). Further, Dr. Mahathir revealed the Islamists? true goal of world conquest when he said "We need guns and rockets, bombs and warplanes, tanks and warships"
Reaction: Instead of showing us their progress towards peace, civilization and knowledge, every single Muslim there gave that ignoramus extraordinaire, Dr. Mahathir, a standing ovation. Apparently not one of those high and mighty Islamists is aware of history, nor did they realize that Dr. Mahathir tipped their hand as to their true goals. Even his ignorant and blatantly uneducated ranting was an opportunity for the rest of the Muslim world to prove their worthiness among civilized and enlightened people. If they had denounced him and his lack of knowledge, as well as his stated goals for Islamic conquest of the planet, they would have garnered world support and admiration. Instead, they applauded his ham-fisted ravings. It couldn?t have worked out better public relations-wise if the Jews had orchestrated it.
Opportunity: In the fall of 2003, a group of Americans went to Arab-occupied Judea and Samaria to give away much-coveted Fullbright grants.
Reaction: These Americans-bearing-gifts were murdered. And yet, even in murder, there was opportunity. If the pseudo-Palestinian Arab entity had immediately brought these killers to justice, if the Arab/Muslim world had demanded and worked towards finding these murderers, they would gave shown the world that Islamists do not behave uniformly as a pack of rabid dogs, murdering the very people trying to help them. Instead, the killers remain at large, despite evidence that the Arabs know exactly who they are.
Opportunity: Egypt's Foreign Minister Ahmad Maher visited the al-Aqsa Mosque on Israel's Temple Mount to show solidarity with Arafat and his followers.
Reaction: He was attacked by the very people he came there to support. And even in this attack, it could have been an opportunity for Arafat to show something other than his usual savage and bestial tactics. Arafat?s own Temple guards did nothing and let the attack continue. Maher had to be rescued by the despised Israelis, thus showing the humanity and moral elevation of the Jewish people for saving a man who came to show solidarity with their mortal enemy.
Opportunity: In the aftermath of a devastating earthquake in Iran, the Iranian government was given the chance to save possibly tens of thousands of lives by accepting help from the best, as well as closest, search-and-rescue and medical teams in the world - the Israelis.
Reaction: Like a rabid dog that bites the hand that would feed it, the Iranians flatly and ungraciously turned down the Israeli offer of help. If they had taken it, the world would have had a great excuse to say that the Muslim world is not totally unreasonable and has shown its willingness to deal with the Jewish people on some level. Instead, the Iranian government has reinforced the contention so many of us have that their entire society has no place in a civilized world.
Opportunity: Finally we come to ?The Roadmap.? Arafat and his followers were given a final chance to have what they claim to want most - a viable country. All they?d have to do was stop and dismantle the terrorist infrastructure - nothing more. And they?d have their own sovereign nation in a matter of months.
Reaction: Arafat and his followers continue to try and perpetrate genocide bombings on an almost daily basis, unrelentingly shell civilian homes, shoot at families driving in their cars, and worse. Nor have their Arab brethren seen the consequences of these actions in terms of themselves. Therefore, I will lay it out for them.
When Ariel Sharon declared that Israel would disengage from the pseudo-Palestinian Arab entity, he was threatening to, most of all, remove Israel from the equation. Without Israel to focus their hate upon, the Arab/Muslim world has time and again shown its cannibalistic tendency to turn on itself in innumerable wars of Muslim upon Muslim and Arab upon Arab.
Arafat and his supporters have a final opportunity to make something good come from their decades of evil-doings. They can implement merely the first part of the ?Roadmap? and permanently forestall ?disengagement.? But I?m willing to bet a pint of Godiva Chocolate ice cream that they won?t. I?m also willing to bet that as soon as Israel is out of the loop, history will repeat itself and the Arab/Muslim world will, once again turn on itself. This time, maybe with WMDs. And the world, for its own safety, had best just stay out of their way and watch nature take its course.
With such self-destructive enemies as these, who needs allies?
* I refer to the occupiers of Judea and Samaria as the ?pseudo-Palestinian Arab entity? because there never was any country called Palestine beyond the one ruled by the Hebrews. There never was a people called ?Palestinian? other than the Jewish people for the past 2000 years, until Yasser Arafat, an Egyptian, stole the name in the early 1960s and gave it to a bunch of Arab nomads whom their own countries refused to accept. It is an ?entity? because it has no legal status and ?entity? was the nicest word I could come up with for a society which, according to their own polls, supports genocide bombings of the Jewish people.