Israel Must Not Listen To The World If It Is Going To Survive

For some time we have been expressing the following opinion to anyone who will listen. Israel must act in its own interests and ignore what the world says.  The Arabs will never end the attacks and any "land for peace" deal will only up the ante for the next set of demands. Any prisoner swaps will only result in more kidnapping.

Let me make this perfectly clear. The Arab goal is to drive Israel into the sea and to wipe out any vestige of Jews (or Christians) from the land. Anyone who ignores this, does it at Israel's peril. Any Jewish leader who does not understand this should be convicted of malfeasance in office.  Any Jew who does not understand this in his gut is not pro-Israel but pro-Arab. 

Until Israel and Jews around the world accept the fact that the Arabs are not reliable negotiating partners and cannot be counted on to uphold their end of the bargain, will Israel start making progress. We see how the agreement with Egypt has been relegated to the dust bin by their new rulers.

We suggest that starting tomorrow, Israel must overreact to every bombing, rocket attack, kidnapping, incursion or attack on its embassy. It must tell the world that until Israel is no longer attacked in ANY way (for an extended period of time --which is not a month but years and maybe decades,) will they sit down to talk. Until that time Israel will strike out viciously against not only those who took the action against her by those who collaborate, either actively or passively. Any condemnation by the UN or the world will be met with the same response "we will not talk until the time we are no longer attacked and until that time, we will do what is the long term interests of Israel."

Israel has been under constant attack for the 60+ years of its existence and it is time that we make those who attack her understand that we will no longer stand for it. For those who wring their hands and say "such action will only increase the number of Arabs that hate us." Our response is--the number of those Arabs who hate Israel will not increase as the propaganda over the past years has done that already. 

One element of Middle East psyche that is missed by many people including our President and State Department is that in that region, strength is respected and "willingness to negotiate and talk" is thought of as weakness. Israel must start to show strength and to stop the discussions.  If they don't take these actions, we fear their days as a viable country are numbered. We hope they find the intestinal fortitude to do so.

The following article is very much in line with what I am saying. I especially like the final paragraph.  What do you think?

Palestinian Arab Aggression Will Never End

Victor Sharpe - Family Security Matters,  October 31st, 2011

No, the terror will continue so long as Israel and the IDF merely retaliates against each and every separate Muslim Arab crime against the Jewish state’s civilian population. As one person, commenting on a blog, stated: “Israel’s taking out a few rocket launchers is like giving aspirin for cancer. It’s only a band aid – not a cure.”

These last few days, Israeli cities and villages have been bombarded with dozens of Grad and other missiles from Gaza; lethal weapons, many brought in from Libya. Last Wednesday, October 26, 2011, a Grad rocket brought into Gaza from one of Gaddafi’s looted weapons stockpiles, was fired into an Israeli town.This began a relentless daily barrage.

There was no Israeli response until the following Saturday when a gang of Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists were spotted preparing to launch several more Grad missiles at Israeli civilian targets. They were killed and the Grads and their multi-barreled launchers destroyed before they could be fired.

Predictably, the mainstream media attacked the victim, Israel. The BBC, CNN, and the New York Times all blamed Israel during this latest unprovoked Palestinian attack, giving the usual pass to the terrorists. This twisting of the truth must give great joy and comfort to the ghost of Josef Goebbels; Nazi Germany’s Minister of Propaganda.

But if the Israeli government does not inflict far, far more intensely painful responses to the terror bosses of Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Al Qaida, the Muslim Brotherhood, and all the human cockroaches who infest the Gaza Strip, then the missiles will continue to strike at southern and central Israel with increasing lethality and horror.

The Israel Defense Force (IDF) produces charts and graphs showing the ever increasing capabilities and destructiveness of the terrorists’ weapons caches. The deadly flow of Grad missiles entering Gaza – with Egyptian complicity – from the looted arms stores of Muammar Gaddafi in Libya exposes the real meaning of the Arab Spring.

The so-called rebels, who were aided by NATO, are not the democratic loving folks who Hillary Clinton and her boss, Barack Hussein Obama, claimed them to be.

Along with all the European heads of state who gleefully joined in the lust for Libyan oil that masked their hollow claims of bringing democracy to Libya, Clinton and Obama have unleashed a Muslim Pandora’s Box, which will create in the Maghreb (North Africa) an Islamist, Jihadist and Sharia compliant wave that will eventually engulf Morocco and Algeria. It will extend west to Mauritania and its loathsome tentacles will then reach south beyond the Sahel and into equatorial Africa.

Like Hillary’s and Bill’s destruction of the Serbs, which allowed the ancient Serbian heartland of Kosovo to become a Muslim beach-head in the Balkans, so too Hillary’s and Obama’s misguided policies – under the guise of an Arab Spring – have plunged the world into an endless and perilous cycle of violence in which untold horrors will plague the entire globe.

The Islamic tide is rising. With every foreign policy misstep by the Obama Administration and the grotesque mishandling of her term as Secretary of State at the State Department, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are emboldening the Islamists in their aim of a creating a worldwide Caliphate.

Nowhere has their ideological foolishness and political ineptitude been more glaring than in their relentless obsession with what they call Israeli “settlements.” They even go as far as to denounce the construction of homes within Jerusalem’s city limits as “impediments to the peace process.” Again Palestinian Arab terror, the real impediment to peace, is cynically ignored.

Jerusalem, north, south, east and west is Israel’s capital. It was her capital city 3,000 years ago – millennia before the United States was created and Clinton and Obama came to power.

Judea and Samaria is the biblical, ancestral and aboriginal heartland of the Jewish patrimony going back to the time of Joshua’s entry into the Promised Land. Before that, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the Jewish patriarchs, lived in the land some 4,000 years ago and are buried in Hebron, Judea; one of Judaism’s four holy cities.

Jews have always lived in this tiny sliver of land in whatever numbers they could maintain and the hills and valleys of Judea and Samaria are dotted with Judaism’s shrines, holy places, villages and ancient cities from time immemorial. The very ground embraces its Jewish heritage and patrimony. Ask the archaeologists.

Yet here come Obama and Clinton, et al, parroting the mendacious and deceitful lies of the Arabs, those who call themselves Palestinians, that Judea and Samaria is Palestinian territory and that Jewish villages are “settlements.” Even Judaism’s holy shrines, such as the biblical Joseph’s tomb in Shechem – the city now known by its Arabic name, Nablus – are Islamized by the Palestinian Authority and attempts by Muslim Arabs to desecrate it and turn it into a mosque are all too frequent.

Clinton and Obama employ today, as so much of the world sadly does, the Jordanian Arab name of “West Bank” for the territory instead of  biblical Jewish Judea and Samaria. This is the territory the Arabs want to take as a Palestinian state – a first stage before taking what is left of Israel. But it must be repeated again and again that there has never in all of recorded history existed a sovereign, independent nation called Palestine; and certainly not an Arab one.

This “West Bank” was seized by the British officered Jordanian Arab Legion when it invaded and occupied the territory in the 1948 Arab-Israel War. The Jordanians drove out the Jewish population, including from the Old City in Jerusalem, and the subsequent illegal Jordanian occupation was recognized only by Britain and Pakistan.

Yet the thousands of years that the land was known as Judea and Samaria are forgotten and sublimated to the name, “West Bank,” which refers to the term given to the mere 19 years of Arab occupation that lasted from 1948 to June, 1967. How strange!

So many times have such slanders and falsehoods about this Jewish heartland been spewed by Arabs and their supporters that now the world cannot comprehend the immoral, unspiritual and unhistorical fabrication that they have perpetrated.

That the morally bankrupt United Nations vomits such lies endlessly is one thing, but that Hillary Clinton and United States President, Barack Obama, repeat it and hurl it at Israel is shameful. But we know by now that neither of them are true friends of the Jewish state.

Anything but.

So, in the face of the villainous campaign to delegitimize and demonize the embattled Jewish state by the Arab League, the Muslim world, the Left and the execrable international and national media – with few honorable exceptions – Israel must realize that it is time to weather the storm by responding both to Hamas and terrorist crimes and aggression with a terminally painful and crushing rejoinder.

It must also decide that, if needs be, it is better to be hung for a wolf than a sheep. After all, whatever restraint Israel shows in the face of Muslim Arab terrorism and barbarism, she will still be vilified, slandered and pilloried by a hostile and unsympathetic world. And whatever concessions she makes, one truism will always remain: Palestinian Arab aggression will never end.

FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor Victor Sharpe is a freelance writer, contributing editor, and author of Volumes One and Two of “Politicide: The attempted murder of the Jewish state.” Volume Three will be published shortly.