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Israel Alone
Posted by TF Boggs at 7:16 PM, 1/13/10 |
Imagine for a moment that the United States has been under rocket attack from Mexico for several years. The border states-California, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas- have been hit with over 8000 rockets that have not only claimed innocent lives, but also terrorized families trying to go about normal life. When alarms go off warning of incoming rockets kids playing outside at school have to run for cover, the elderly scramble for safe rooms, and work stops while people pray for their safety.
Not satisfied with simply killing innocent civilians Mexican terrorists started kidnapping helpless people living near the border. Those kidnapped do not enjoy the privileges we afford to our prisoners but instead are kept isolated, far away from international aid groups and the public eye. No matter how we capitulated in favor of the terrorists the only thing we got in return were caskets full of the bodies of those previously kidnapped.
When our politicians finally decided to take action they were condemned by the international media before our military had even crossed the border. Demonstrations were held across the globe. Our own college campuses condemned the very thought of taking action. So caving to pressure we let the rocket attacks continue. More civilians were killed and more infrastructure was damaged. Attempted kidnappings continued all the while we gave the terrorists monetary support under the guise that it was going to help the Mexicans who needed it the most. The money instead funded ever-increasing terrorism and allowed the terrorist group that controlled the flow of money to buy public support. In order to curry international favor we continued to provide money despite knowing these facts.
Only when public outcry within the states became louder than the international condemnation did we invade the border towns in Mexico to put an end to the terror attacks. In doing so we conducted the most humane operation in history. As we went street to street looking for the terrorists, who were both fighting and hiding out in hospitals, homes, and schools, we called each house or place of business before we entered in order to warn the potential innocent residents that they had thirty minutes to leave in order to minimize civilian casualties.
By the end of the campaign we occupied some of the territory that had previously been used as staging grounds for terrorism. We did this in an effort to be able to police the areas so that we could ensure no rockets would be fired from there again. We did not tear down existing buildings, or move in a large number of Americans in order slowly take over the areas through increased demographics, but rather, helped build up the infrastructure in order to get the towns back on their feet.
After all this we began to build a wall along the border between the USA and Mexico in order to ensure the safety of our own people, not just to keep out what were perceived to be unwanted Mexicans. For all of our actions we became the black sheep of the United Nations. Speeches were given at the UN by foreign ambassadors decrying the state of affairs between the United States and Mexico. Foreign universities and religious organizations called for divestment from all American intellectuals and businesses in order to show their solidarity with the plight of the Mexicans. News organizations carried stories to the masses about the plight of the Mexicans faced with the evil Americans who oppressed them at every turn. No mention of the rocket attacks or kidnappings were offered up in the articles that called for our immediate withdraw from ‘occupied’ Mexican territories that we lawfully held as a result of military action.
All the while our problems with Mexico continued we faced an ever-present threat from Canada, who, on several occasions, had previously attempted invasions and constantly made promises to their citizens that they would one day reclaim the ‘occupied’ territory that we lawfully took from them after they preempted an attack on us.
Most Americans would be outraged by the Mexican terrorist attacks and would call for a unilateral military solution to the problem. The fact that we conducted military action as humanely as possible would actually irritate a lot of people who would have preferred swift and decisive bombing to targeted killings several years after the attacks started.
Of course we all know that the series of events described above never happened to the USA but they did happen, and continue to do so, to Israel. Substitute Palestinians for Mexicans, and Syrians for Canadians. Now why when we see the issue so clearly when it pertains to the USA do we become muddled in moral equivocation when it comes to Israel and the problems it has with all of its neighbors? Is it because we erroneously believe what the mainstream media tells us when it comes to the legitimacy of the state of Israel? If we have fallen into the trap of believing the likes of Noam Chomsky, Edward Said, or Jimmy Carter we have been mislead. Not one of them can truthfully answer to the facts on the ground and are left making moral platitudes that only pertain in their own make believe world.
To deny Israel the right to self-defense is to deny their claim to legitimate statehood, which the UN approved in 1948. Of course this is just what Israel’s critics want to do. Due to reasons beyond any sane person’s comprehension Israel’s critics continue to spew hatred aimed at the Jewish nation solely because of their own racist hatred and jealousy. When firmly held opinions contradict fact the only answers can either be immense ignorance or racist ideology.
The reason why freedom loving people of the USA should care about Israel is twofold: first because freedom is under attack in Israel, and second because we cannot sit around watching as the Jewish people are again discriminated against. Jews in Europe are once more under attack and are retreating to Israel for some sense of a normal life. If they cannot find peace and safety in their own country they will not find it anywhere. With the destruction of Israel and the desire to see the “Mediterranean Sea turn red with the blood of the Jews”, Israel’s enemies will not be satisfied with anything less than the complete destruction of not only Israel, but all the Jews that inhabit it. What we do as Israel’s number one ally in the next few years will be critical for Israel’s existence. However, due to the massive ignorance of the current administration concerning Israel, and the Middle East as a whole, there doesn’t seem to be much reason for hope. Israel seems poised once again to be alone in the midst of enemies on all sides.
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