Israel – The Rolling Stones’ great hit – and title for this article – pretty much sums up those who continue to support Hamas in light of the recent war in Gaza. There is no moral equivalency between the Hamas terrorists and the Israeli Defense Forces. Hamas deliberately uses civilian areas, including schools and hospitals, to shoot their missiles into Israel. The IDF dropped thousands of leaflets warning civilians to leave before striking certain areas in Gaza. The tactic of Hamas is quite the opposite. They simply shoot at whatever they can, whenever they want, hoping, in fact, to kill and harm as many Israeli civilians as possible.
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Let us remember that not too long ago, Israel gave up Gaza, kicking out the Israelis living there for the sake of peace. With Gaza now Judenrein, what possible excuse can the Arabs have for not turning Gaza into their own beautiful land? Isn’t that what they supposedly wanted to begin with? But rather than work hard at building the positive infrastructure of a healthy society, the Gazans, under their own elected Hamas rulers, have instead turned the place into a battleground. They’ve used billions in international aid to secure weapons, build smuggling tunnels, as they inch closer to the very heart of Israel. Gaza has turned into a puppet of Iran and peace with such a neighbor seems utterly impossible.
Many countries in the world are starting to wake up and smell the coffee. Hamas’ aims are part of a much larger war, one that militant Islam is ever hell-bent on – taking over Mother Earth. Israel is simply the canary in the coal mine – the “indicator species” of how it goes with militant Islam’s goal of world domination. If, G-d forbid, there was never any Israel to begin with, would the fanatic Muslims be content with, say, holding on to the entire Middle East? Hardly. They’d set their sights on ever bigger targets, like Africa, Asia, Europe and good ol’ America. In fact, this process has not only already begun, but the train is picking up steam and rolling along the tracks of Western slumber and political correctness.
Many political leaders have long pointed out that there is an ever-growing fifth column of militant Islam supporters in our communities. In Europe, the rapidly growing Muslim population is a voting force to be reckoned with. They persuaded England not to teach the “offensive” Holocaust curriculum in many of the schools. Oh well, so much for that line about those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it. One wonders what’s next on the chopping block.
After the terrorist slaughter in Mumbai, several Muslim cleric leaders pointed out that Chabad House was attacked since the movement believes Israel belongs to the Jews. The difference is, of course, that Chabad may indeed believe this, but they, like Israel, are prepared to live with others in peaceful coexistence. Apparently, just having the belief was more than enough of a reason to murder the rabbi, his pregnant wife and the Chabad House guests.
Truth be told, fanatical Muslims don’t require too much of a logical reason to commit atrocities. Any non-Muslim, in their eyes, is fair game – by any means necessary. Even during the recent Gaza War, Hamas was still busy murdering members of rival Fatah, whom they deem to be not “real” Muslims.
In ways that would make Hitler rejoice, many supposed Muslim “leaders” and clerics continue to fan the flames of hatred and racial intolerance. They have become, in their own eyes of course, the new superior race. The rest of us on planet Earth, give or take a few here or there, are deemed infidels. The Muslim fanatics teach their cute kiddies in preschool to hate us, educating them that we are not even on the level of pigs and monkeys.
It is a branch of Islam that threatens all of us, including the more moderate Arab countries such as Egypt and Jordan. The free world must rise to the occasion and stand up to this evil before it overwhelms us all and sends us back into the Dark Ages.
Now is not the time to show sympathy for the devil.
fantastic article!!
Stop wasting your digital ink preaching to the choir! Hashem has hardened the world’s heart, just like Paroah.
Is this article going to hit the papers nationally? It is a must to be read and not only by the convinced (on your site) rather by the world at large.
Great article. It is nice to see that someone is finally starting to make a distinction between “Muslims” and “fanatical Muslims”. Islam never condones this kind of terrorism.
There are those who use religion as their rock, and mold their environment around it. There are others who mold their religion around their environment.
The violence-based environment (which has existed in the the Islamic world on and off for centuries) becomes the rock for some… the core. Once that happens, it is not difficult to lay the religion on top and mold it into whatever you want it to be.
This is the core difference between radical/fundamentalist Muslims and the rest of the Islamic world.
A good example in the US is the x-ians. Most groups follow the mainstream example where their religion (whether or not we validate or agree with their religion is another discussion) is the core, and they build their world around it. Groups like the Aryan Nation and other racist “x-ian” groups do the same as the fundamentalist Muslims. Hatred and racism are their core… then they mold the religion to fit around it, yielding a very distorted and misguided variation.
I frequently hear people say things like “the Arabs want to kill us!”. In reality, most “Arabs” have no problem with Israel. Arabs make up only one part of the Muslim world. Our greatest threat today comes from Persians (primarily found in Iran). How do we ever expect to get anywhere with this if we do not even know who our enemy really is.
The same way that the x-ians have different groups with different beliefs, so do we (not to start a debate about Jewish denominations), and so do Muslims. You beat your enemy with knowledge, not with silly generalizations.
Why don’t they turn Gaza into a beautiful land? Are you kidding me? Gaza is under a strict embargo since Hamas came to power.
Many countries now wake up and start to smell coffee? Oh really? I follow the news, and all I see is more and more condemnation against Israel for the past war.
I am wondering why Israel didn’t transfer control of Gaza to Egypt when Israel signed its peace treaty with Egypt many years ago. I guess Egypt probably wouldn’t have wanted control of Gaza, however it would have probably been the best solution for Gaza. Israel withdrawing from Gaza a few years ago was a big mistake. I guess at that point there was no way to convince Egypt to take control of Gaza, and no way to find another stable and powerful enough force to enforce peace in Gaza. The current state is not just a tragedy for Israel, but also for the innocent people living in Gaza.
Those who condemn Israel for the recent war in Gaza should be asked what alternative did Israel have? What would you have done to stop the rocket attacks, and bring peace and stability to Gaza?
The Palestininans have Gaza. Now they want full control of the West Bank. What comes after that, an insistance for a land bridge to connect the two so they have one contiguous state, with Israel cut in 2 pieces, and having indefensible borders?
Why aren’t the Palestinians asking for Gaza to be expanded to the south, into land that is not part of biblical Israel?
Nothing to add to that! what a great article.
arabs muslim call them wat ever u want. they have a lot of hate for jews and won’t b happy until there r no jews left. we must relize that they don’t want peace or land they want a place that should flow with milk & honey to flow with blood & treas
We will never learn.
Milhouse: I dont have the energy on erev shabbos to type all of this. 🙂
You say that over the past 2000 years many xians have done bad things, but its founders were peaceful. That is very misleading. Nearly all of the violence and war in the Islamic countries were the result of the xians trying to force Muslims to convert. The Crusades were not the first attempt. While the Quran does give detailed accounts of Muslim war victories, it is not meant that that is how people should always behave. Mohammed preached much the same the xians about peace, but that when you had to fight you fought to win. Mohammed did not start (subject to your point of view I suppose) wars and was very much against that.
I could go on with this… you are best off reading an unbiased (ie. not written by Jews) book on the history and beliefs of Islam. Why do some Islamic groups hate us and some not? Why do Muslims in the non-tribal parts of Pakistan want so much to do business with E”Y? Why is Morocco such a good trade partner with E”Y?
When we jumble them all together that way, we just pour fuel on the fire. That fire translates to rocket attacks and buses blowing up because people keep sending them money. Muslims all over the world hear from their uneducated clerics how the Jews are killing Muslims, and our uneducated rabbonim and “news” people tell us how much Muslims just want to kill Jews and we get nowhere.
If I were in the Israeli military, I would have no problem shooting dead a Palestinian who was attacking Israel. At the same time, I can have coffee & conversation with a (very religious) Muslim Pakistani co-worker of mine.
Here is a good example:
Is every Jew a “Jew for j****”?? There are a lot of them. Why shouldn’t everyone assumes that every Jew believes in j****?
There is a whole community here in rural FL where the only “Jews” are part of that ridiculous, phony J4j religion. Should everyone else in that town just assume that Jews believe in j*** because all of the Jews they know do? Stupidity.
Admit it. 95% of Jews couldn’t tell one Muslim from the next. Again, stupidity.
A wise man once said: “Knowledge Is Power”.