It is only with great sorrow that one can contemplate that through the act of randomly murdering 20,000 non-Islamist human beings - the total body count worldwide to date of defenseless Jews and non-Jews massacred since the commencement of the intifada in 2000 - an Islamist totalitarian caliphate can be established in the middle of the State of Israel with full rubber-stamped approval of the world's governments. This includes, bafflingly, the USA's present theoretically pro-Israel regime (or at least, it was pro-Israel until the US election ended). Can one therefore extrapolate that this is to be the new paradigm for the formation of nation-states for the New Millennium? It is a precedent set that one hopes does not result in the Caliphate of Crown Heights or the Islamic People's Republic of Far Rockaway.
As this is being read, those who built their homes and staked their futures on building an observant and Jewish life in Judea, Samaria and Gaza even now await the Judenrat, which stands ready to "escort" them to their new homes - where, please? Madagascar? Paraguay? - with billy-clubs and tear gas if necessary, in the abject humiliation of the forcibly dispossessed. It is Yamit all over again.
Or is it?
With the advent of a fully-bribed, prime-time press corps waddling its pudgy way from luxury hotel to luxury hotel on the fringes of the battlefields of this earth, its hamster-like cheeks stuffed with Al-Qaeda and Albanian dope dealers' cash, no one is able to escape the non-news that the world is engulfed already in the final war between disgruntled Arab aristocrats and the defenders of the Western model of democracy. It is final, because now, for the first time since World War II, a simultaneous worldwide effort is being undertaken to end the principally African and Muslim tradition of slavery in all its vile and nefarious forms.
This is further underscored by the World Bank embracing with vigour a new mission, apart from its thirty-year unbroken loan portfolio of unabashed failures. Under Paul Wolfowitz' new leadership, the World Bank is to abandon its policy of funding unending studies and leftist social-agenda education programmes, in favor of reassuming its Marshall Plan-era charter of providing "bricks and mortar" infrastructure: powerplants, electrical grids, sewage treatment plants, municipal water plants, roads, bridges and fuel distribution grids to countries that have been begging on bended knee for such support since the 1970s. The latest G7 meeting's member nations have also confirmed a similar and unbelievably common-sense stance in supporting this change of direction. In addition, small factory enterprises geared toward export will be introduced under multinational guidance to provide livelihoods and honest employment for those now chained to the wheel of poverty and war, and crushed under the heel of crypto-fascist, left-wing feudalism.
This is happening because, for the first time since most of the developing world ceased being colonies to one European nation or another, those expatriate upper class children of the former colonies are awakening to their original homelands' potential to grow as truly economically sovereign nations, and thus are returning from North America and Europe to the lands of their forebears to build their own lives and those of their fellow citizens. The end of the Cold War is finally bearing fruit, now that the often pointless showcase project competition between Washington and Moscow for who can build the largest useless dam or steel mill in the middle of nowhere has been over for a decade and a half. Formal colonial states are now being asked what they feel will work for their civilizations' development, instead of being dictated to by condescendingly rude $250 per hour Washington "beltway bandits" and Red political commissars, true heroes of the proletariat, with offices in Leningrad and mistresses in Berlin, Stockholm and Paris.
This new era of international development is very important, both to these fledgling nations and to the West. The developing countries, former colonies finally arising from the confusion and rubble of being the abandoned proxy battlefields between capitalism and communism, stand as our last, best hope for an export market of the magnitude need to sustain our own economies. There is but one, last odiferous fly left in the ointment of the pending new era of world industrial progress: an oil-revenue glutted band of European-educated Islamist sissies with rocket launchers, who are out to thrash their former subjects and slaves back into the brutal Dark Ages of faith-based totalitarianism, which will chain the newly-growing nations.
My only hope is that Ariel Sharon is Israel's Georgi Zhukov, guarding the gates of a land more precious to us than Mother Russia; that he is, in his droll, poker-faced manner, faithfully moving his protesting people out of the main target zone in preparation for one last battle that shall ensure, once and for all, the security and peace of the State of Israel. I also believe this is being conducted with eyes wide open and in perfect harmony with President George Bush's strategic military planning to make an end in one massive debacle of the remaining terrorist fiefdoms of Syria, Iran, Hizbullahstan and their fellow travelers in global hatred.
The terrorists will find the freshly open beaches of the new Frankensteinian state in Gaza too tempting to resist having a go at an amphibious assault on Israel. This will serve as the lawful trigger event under the Geneva Convention for Israel to respond with full force, to sweep the menace of Islamist fascism once and for all into the Mediterranean Sea. Such victory will establish lawfully, once and for all, the Greater State of Israel according to the scripturally dictated borders. The Iraq expedition, successful beyond the expectations of anyone except America, Britain and Israel (it is the only military conflict besides Grenada and Desert Storm in which the rate of US military traffic deaths service-wide exceeds the number of combat deaths), constitutes but a training exercise and feasibility study for the accomplishment of both necessary tasks: the elimination for all time of the Islamist threat, and the stabilization of the region as a whole, including a safe and secure Holy Land.
It is a large task, but long overdue, and perfectly in line with the mission of the USA, NATO allies and the United Nations. A cynic might say the above scenario would be a great way for Mr. Bush to bluff his way into a third term, but one could do worse, if in fact this is how the project is intended to play out.
For now, though, there is no choice but to hope and pray, and to litigate in the most effective jurisdictions, against what folly is presently playing out in Judea, Samaria and Gaza against the Jewish people, who ask only to keep what is rightfully theirs.
Copyright 2005, Walter James O'Brien
As this is being read, those who built their homes and staked their futures on building an observant and Jewish life in Judea, Samaria and Gaza even now await the Judenrat, which stands ready to "escort" them to their new homes - where, please? Madagascar? Paraguay? - with billy-clubs and tear gas if necessary, in the abject humiliation of the forcibly dispossessed. It is Yamit all over again.
Or is it?
With the advent of a fully-bribed, prime-time press corps waddling its pudgy way from luxury hotel to luxury hotel on the fringes of the battlefields of this earth, its hamster-like cheeks stuffed with Al-Qaeda and Albanian dope dealers' cash, no one is able to escape the non-news that the world is engulfed already in the final war between disgruntled Arab aristocrats and the defenders of the Western model of democracy. It is final, because now, for the first time since World War II, a simultaneous worldwide effort is being undertaken to end the principally African and Muslim tradition of slavery in all its vile and nefarious forms.
This is further underscored by the World Bank embracing with vigour a new mission, apart from its thirty-year unbroken loan portfolio of unabashed failures. Under Paul Wolfowitz' new leadership, the World Bank is to abandon its policy of funding unending studies and leftist social-agenda education programmes, in favor of reassuming its Marshall Plan-era charter of providing "bricks and mortar" infrastructure: powerplants, electrical grids, sewage treatment plants, municipal water plants, roads, bridges and fuel distribution grids to countries that have been begging on bended knee for such support since the 1970s. The latest G7 meeting's member nations have also confirmed a similar and unbelievably common-sense stance in supporting this change of direction. In addition, small factory enterprises geared toward export will be introduced under multinational guidance to provide livelihoods and honest employment for those now chained to the wheel of poverty and war, and crushed under the heel of crypto-fascist, left-wing feudalism.
This is happening because, for the first time since most of the developing world ceased being colonies to one European nation or another, those expatriate upper class children of the former colonies are awakening to their original homelands' potential to grow as truly economically sovereign nations, and thus are returning from North America and Europe to the lands of their forebears to build their own lives and those of their fellow citizens. The end of the Cold War is finally bearing fruit, now that the often pointless showcase project competition between Washington and Moscow for who can build the largest useless dam or steel mill in the middle of nowhere has been over for a decade and a half. Formal colonial states are now being asked what they feel will work for their civilizations' development, instead of being dictated to by condescendingly rude $250 per hour Washington "beltway bandits" and Red political commissars, true heroes of the proletariat, with offices in Leningrad and mistresses in Berlin, Stockholm and Paris.
This new era of international development is very important, both to these fledgling nations and to the West. The developing countries, former colonies finally arising from the confusion and rubble of being the abandoned proxy battlefields between capitalism and communism, stand as our last, best hope for an export market of the magnitude need to sustain our own economies. There is but one, last odiferous fly left in the ointment of the pending new era of world industrial progress: an oil-revenue glutted band of European-educated Islamist sissies with rocket launchers, who are out to thrash their former subjects and slaves back into the brutal Dark Ages of faith-based totalitarianism, which will chain the newly-growing nations.
My only hope is that Ariel Sharon is Israel's Georgi Zhukov, guarding the gates of a land more precious to us than Mother Russia; that he is, in his droll, poker-faced manner, faithfully moving his protesting people out of the main target zone in preparation for one last battle that shall ensure, once and for all, the security and peace of the State of Israel. I also believe this is being conducted with eyes wide open and in perfect harmony with President George Bush's strategic military planning to make an end in one massive debacle of the remaining terrorist fiefdoms of Syria, Iran, Hizbullahstan and their fellow travelers in global hatred.
The terrorists will find the freshly open beaches of the new Frankensteinian state in Gaza too tempting to resist having a go at an amphibious assault on Israel. This will serve as the lawful trigger event under the Geneva Convention for Israel to respond with full force, to sweep the menace of Islamist fascism once and for all into the Mediterranean Sea. Such victory will establish lawfully, once and for all, the Greater State of Israel according to the scripturally dictated borders. The Iraq expedition, successful beyond the expectations of anyone except America, Britain and Israel (it is the only military conflict besides Grenada and Desert Storm in which the rate of US military traffic deaths service-wide exceeds the number of combat deaths), constitutes but a training exercise and feasibility study for the accomplishment of both necessary tasks: the elimination for all time of the Islamist threat, and the stabilization of the region as a whole, including a safe and secure Holy Land.
It is a large task, but long overdue, and perfectly in line with the mission of the USA, NATO allies and the United Nations. A cynic might say the above scenario would be a great way for Mr. Bush to bluff his way into a third term, but one could do worse, if in fact this is how the project is intended to play out.
For now, though, there is no choice but to hope and pray, and to litigate in the most effective jurisdictions, against what folly is presently playing out in Judea, Samaria and Gaza against the Jewish people, who ask only to keep what is rightfully theirs.
Copyright 2005, Walter James O'Brien