Humble Opinions

Over the last few days, a series of tragic events took place in Israel, with a net result of 4 unnecessary deaths, widows, orphans, vowed revenge, and heightened intensity of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. I think the series of the events is a clear-as-day representation of the conflict on a grand scale. I will provide a chronological recap of what occurred, but first here is some background information:

The West Bank is an area of land that has been under Israeli control since the 1967 Six Day War. It is populated by a few hundred thousand Jews, and roughly a million Palestinians. The Palestinian Authority has been pushing to rule the area, with aspirations of establishing a Palestinian state there, with a connection to the Gaza Strip. The security implications for Israel are extreme, as it has suffered countless bus bombings and suicide bombers, originating from the West Bank, that traveled into Israel.

Israel has since built a barrier wall separating the West Bank from the rest of Israel, which it has come under intense international protest for (regardless of the fact that bombing attacks have dropped by 99% since its construction). The US has been in favor of supporting the Palestinian Authority, in hope that it will be able to secure the West Bank, and develop it into a great economy and living situation for Palestinians there. In fact, just the other day, the Obama Administration pledged $500,000,000 for the year 2010 to help train PA forces, and have even sent US personnel and equipment to assist. And away we go:

• In 2007, a series of deals were made between the PA and Israel, with US backing, whereas Israel would remove certain members of Fatah (the ruling faction of the PA) from its most wanted list, if the individuals swore not to return to terrorist activities. The deals were meant to bolster relations between the PA and Israel, so they could jointly fight Hamas and other Palestinian “extremist” factions (I put extremist in quotes, because I think the extremists are only slightly more extreme than Fatah themselves). Here is one such example.
• On Thursday, December 24 2009, a father of seven, school teacher was murdered in the West Bank, on his way home from work. His car was shot at 10 times in a drive-by shooting. Put yourself in his wife or any of his seven childrens’ shoes for .5 seconds to understand the magnitude of this awfulness.
• This is the Palestinian Authority’s first true test on the ground in the West Bank. How will they respond? Israel notifies the PA of the incident, and grants them 24 hours to conduct an investigation, and come up with a result.
• After 24 hours, the PA has not turned over any suspects or produced any real results in the investigation. Israeli intelligence by now has already determined the 3 perpetrators involved in the crime, and thus, sends a commando unit into the West Bank to apprehend the men. The Israelis surround the house, and call for the men to come out. After a gunbattle, and one of the men sending his wife outside, the Israeli commandos take all 3 men out, fearful of an escalation.
• It is soon after revealed that one of the 3 men were on the list of terrorists Israel removed from their wanted list in 2007. The initial attack is claimed by Fatah, and they vow swift revenge for the Israeli escalation of violence in the West Bank.
• Mahmoud Abbas (head of the Palestinian Authority) fiercely lashes out against the Israeli operation, claiming it is a clear indication that Israel is not interested in peace with the Palestinian people, because it had entered the West Bank and handled the situation on its own.

I think it’s pretty obvious what’s going on here. My opinion is that Mahmoud Abbas is the one not interested in peace with Israel. If he were, he would have praised the Israeli operation for removing extremist terrorists, who clearly stood in the way of peace between Israel and the Palestinians. Why exactly is he so outraged, and who is really to blame for this escalation of violence?

Meanwhile, 4 people are now dead, leaving widows and orphans with decades of suffering. Great job. Mahmoud Abbas has already started his usual complaining to the US that Israel’s intervention in these matters works against their training of the PA forces, and is a step backwards. I’m sure if Israel did nothing, and these 3 men were left alone to plot another attack in the near future, Mahmous Abbas would have been a much happier camper.

And in their usually biased fashion, Al Jazeera reported the incident as an Israeli raid of the West Bank, ending in the killing of 3 Palestinians, without mentioning a single word of the drive-by shooting on Thursday, or the deals of 2007. They also managed to bring up last year’s war in Gaza, obviously noting the large Palestinian death toll… they seemed to have forgotten to mention the 6,000 rockets shot into Israel for the 3 years leading up to the war, which was the primary cause of the war.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s response was: “Our policy against terrorism is clear. We will continue to respond aggressively - against any attack on Israeli citizens and against any firing of rockets or missiles at Israeli territory.”

Had Fatah’s men not killed the innocent school teacher for no reason, the population of earth would be 4 greater than it is now. A perfect example. The cycle continues.

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In 1947, the United Nations voted in favor to partition Palestine into a homeland for the Jewish people, as well as a homeland for the Arab population that was living in the area at the time. It was passed at 33 against 13, with 10 abstentions. Not surprisingly, the 13 nations that voted against the bill were: Afghanistan, Cuba, Egypt, Greece, India, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, Yemen. From that very moment, Israel’s neighboring Arab countries have sought to remove that Jewish homeland from the region in practically every way that was in their power. I digress:

Following the vote, the Jewish population happily accepted this plan, even though their portion was not contiguous, and included hundreds of miles of desert land. The Arab population rejected the bill, and immediately (literally, the next day) launched a massive, multi-front war against the Jewish population. Unfortunately for them, they lost. The Israelis survived the attack, outnumbered 10 to 1, and even pushed the Arab population back to setup defense paremeters. The Israelis sustained over 6,000 casualties in a matter of months.

Ever since then, the Arab world (with overwhelming support in the UN) has attempted to extract more and more “land for peace” trades with Israel, whilst igniting 8 regional wars against it in a period of 60 years, and bombarding it with terrorist attacks in the forms of suicide bombers, rocket launches into Israeli cities, machine gunning school kids to death, explosive booby traps, and much much more. They have also kidnapped Israeli soldiers, trading them back to Israel at a ratio of 1000:1, hijacked planes full of Israelis, and have continuously smuggled lethal weapons from all parts of the globe into the region, to murder Israelis with.

To be very blunt, the world hasn’t said shit about any of this. Instead, the UN has filed more motions against Israel’s behavior than any country on earth (by a long shot), and has labeled the country racist, comparing them to the Nazi regime, and the situation to the South African apartheid.

So let me get this straight: In 1967, when Israel miraculously survived a 5-way coordinated attack against it with a hail mary preemptive strike, THEY were the ones to blame? During that war, the Israelis pushed the Syrians off of the Golan Heights, seeking an end to the 19 years of daily shelling against it from the Syrians. And Israel is the occupier? When the Jordanians attacked West Jerusalem from East Jerusalem, and Israel ousted them there as well, again, THEY were the ones to blame? If Israel had just stood there and let themselves be raped and hacked to pieces - I suppose that may have found more favor in the eyes of the UN? Literally, every single step Israel has taken to protect its citizens in the last 62 years has been met with worldwide protests and uproar.

After Israel won the 1948 war, the Arabs said “okay, just withdraw to the previous borders, and then there will be peace.” Oh really? So why wasn’t there peace before the war then? They said the same exact thing in 1956, 1967, 1973, and have been saying it every day since. The current saying is “withdraw to the 1967 borders, and THEN there will definitely be peace.” Give me a break.

Meanwhile, every UN resolution against Arab terrorist organizations has been 100% ignored, and nobody has said a single word about it. UN resolution 1701 demands the Lebanese government disarm the Iranian-supported terrorist organization Hezbollah, which sits on the northern border of Israel. This resolution was passed in 2006, in order to get Israel to stop bombing Hezbollah infrastructure and weapon caches. At the time, they had 7,000 rockets in their arsenal. Now, not only do they have an estimated 30,000 - 80,000 rockets, but they were also voted into the Lebanese parliament. Amazing.

Let me just say that for the last 62 years (and even before then), Israel’s stance has not changed one iota: Stop attacking and killing us, and we will stop having to defend ourselves. Simple as that. But no, that doesn’t exactly work for the world. Instead, the world demonizes Israel for its US backing, and world class military. Why do you think Israel seeks such a military? Well with 8+ wars having been waged against it, and a non-stop barrage of terrorist attacks, I can kind of see why.

As I write this, a German mediator is attempting to negotiate the Hamas terrorist organization trading 1 Israeli soldier who has never killed a human being in his life, for 1000 Palestinian terrorists, who combined have killed hundreds, if not thousands of Israeli men, women, and children. And American news channels are covering the story as though it’s totally normal. “Yeah, I wonder if Israel will agree. Hmmmm, how interesting.” How come nobody has yet said “Are you fucking kidding me?”

Fair is fair. I rest my case.

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