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Gerald Honigman is a Florida educator who has done extensive doctoral work in Middle East studies, has lectured on numerous university and other platforms. He has debated many of the best Arab and pro-Arab academics in public debates and on television. Mr. Honigman is widely published in academic journals, magazines, newspapers and other publications.


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PostSat Apr 22, 2006 9:06 pm     What Price Too High? Israel's Non-Response To Arab Barbarism    


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What Price Too High?

by Gerald A. Honigman



Imagine 4,800 dead, maimed, and/or injured Americans--victims of rejectionist neighbors dedicated to the destruction of both America and its citizens. Imagine what America’s response to all of this would be.

Think Taliban in Afghanistan…B-52s, B-1s, cruise missiles, etc. and so forth.

A proportionate equivalent of Israelis suffered just this way recently at a fast food stand…civilians deliberately targeted…the more innocent the better in Arab eyes. These were not like dead Arab civilians, killed because they were used as human shields by their heroes. Arab "militants" have a habit of hiding behind the skirts of their women and using their own kids this way. They typically set up shop amid civilian populations. And all of this is against the Geneva Conventions...not that anyone cares.

In the wake of this latest atrocity, reports have it that Israel decided against a proper response because Europe and America had now showed disfavor to the new Hamas-led Arab government elected by the Palestinian Arabs themselves.

Big mistake…

And I’m not naïve.

I realize the enormous pressure the Jew of the Nations is constantly under by much of the Gentile world to be better Christians than they themselves are. You know…Jews are simply expected to turn the other cheek…and the other cheek… and the other cheek….and the other cheek ad infinitum.

So, tell me, Mr. Olmert, just how many Jews does it take to make the price of the world’s crocodile tears and pathetic sympathy for yet more dead Jews too high? You, whose policies have literally trampled fellow live Jews (who insisted that Israel should not again be forced to return to its pre-’67 armistice line, rump state, ghetto-sized status), now fall back on once again depending on the blood of your dead brethren to win approval amongst the Gentiles.

Not a smart move…

Jewish blood has always been cheap in those quarters.

It still is.

While sympathy for dead Jews aided in the resurrection of Israel, should Israel have had to rely on this for its rebirth?

Did one third of our people really have to be destroyed for the Jew to ask for his own sliver of political justice in the age of nationalism…when Arabs were continuing their age-old practice of conquering, colonizing, murdering, and forcibly Arabizing millions upon millions of non-Arabs to create the almost two dozen states they claim as their own to date?

The argument now used against a proper response against enemies sworn to Israel’s destruction falls into this same category. It is meek and out of the ghetto.

I know that there are those who will say that the powerful can afford to not act so.

Guess what?

It doesn't work with Arabs.

Might is the only thing that most do respect...no matter how grudgingly.

We will never win them over by reason nor "love." We are merely viewed as weak when we do any of this. Not that the Jew of the Nations shouldn't have tried. And for that, Israel--half of whose Jews were refugees from the "Arab"/Muslim world--is better than them. Jews did try to come to reasonable compromises repeatedly over the last century. What reasonable compromises did Arab nationalism seek with any of its own competitors?

It's time to absorb this reality and to act accordingly.

Making Abbas and his Fatah into the good guys is a joke as well…and one that will backfire.

Fatah’s Covenant and Hamas’ are one and the same when it comes to the right of the Jew of the Nations to exist.

Alleged good cop Fatah’s terrorists have as much or more Jewish blood on their hands as the Hamas/Islamic Jihad bad cop half of this team does. Differences exist, but have more to do with who’s calling the shots (literally and figuratively), tactics, timing, and such rather than any real acceptance of a viable Jewish neighbor. Indeed, Abbas ran on a platform for Israel's destruction, only by more subtle means if possible.

As I've written often before, blown buses bring bad press and such.

Relying on the alleged support Israel is now getting from abroad will disappear if Hamas finds itself later out of power.

So then what? Back to Israel making yet more one-sided concessions, Oslo-style, to Abbas and his fellow “moderate” Arafatians…those who continuously turn the terror button on and off at will when the Jews don't cave in fast enough during negotiations and “diplomacy?”

Reports explain that Israel is supposedly afraid to overplay its hand in its response to the latest Arab barbarism.

Overplay its hand?

Again, the equivalent of almost 5,000 Americans have been murdered, wounded, disemboweled, and blown apart, and Israel is still retaliating against empty fields? And doing so allegedly because it’s trying to keep Gentile support?

Am I the only one nauseated by this...the Court Jew begging for the minimal…the Uncle Jake instead of Uncle Tom pleading to be able to just survive and not thrive?

Israel was reborn despite the Gentile world, not because of it. The resurrection of the Jew of the Nations would have happened with or without a United Nations vote. The timing would have been a bit different, but Ezekiel’s Valley of the Dry Bones was destined to have those bones reassembled…No doubt.

Depending on the likes of a Europe, which decimated Jews for millennia, or of an Arabist-controlled, no friends... just interests American State Department--which actively fought against Israel’s rebirth in the first place--is a rebuttal to the alleged intelligence of Jews.

What Israel’s leaders should be demanding from a Gentile world is empathy, not sympathy.

What would any Gentile nation do if faced with an enemy which delights in the murder of its innocents and whose goal is the very destruction of that nation itself?

Israel must make the price of Jewish life costly in the extreme to those who take it.

Arafat praised the Arab mother as his best weapon.

What a sick society…

But his point is well taken.

Hundreds of millions of Arabs know that they can win a tit-for-tat war of attrition against the sole, miniscule state of the Jews. And Israel’s leaders--to appease Gentile hypocrites elsewhere, who threaten to withdraw support (or worse) if it acts, as it should, to protect the lives of Jewish children--are falling right into their trap, allowing the Arabs themselves to dictate the rules of the game.

When a people elect a government known to have as its priority the destruction of its neighbor, that people becomes an active accomplice to the policies of the government that it elected. Such is the case with Hamas and the Arabs who voted them into office. Not that the Arafatians were any different, but reality has become more honest and defined with Hamas in power.

So, the ascendancy of Hamas is actually a good thing…honesty is better than lies. And pretending that Abbas and his Arafatians accept Israel in the long term any more than Hamas does is indeed a lie.

But Israel is blowing it in the name of keeping what it sees as important Gentile support.

If the non-Jewish world insists that the Jew of the Nations continues to be brutally victimized in order to earn “support,” then Israel must reject this as a cost too high and act as any other nation would or should to bring an end to the butchery of its innocents.

Furthermore, Israel is losing the respect of that part of the Gentile world which really counts the most…those who do not harbor the hypocritical double standards of the majority, but who are, nonetheless, crucial supporters of Israel.

Nothing short of devastating, massive retaliation against those who do and support such murderous acts will suffice at this time.

Sad but true.

This will also not bring peace. I know. But it will send a message Arabs now believe Israel is too weak or afraid to send.

Until recent developments regarding the ascendancy of Hamas, all that Arabs had been seeing was one unilateral retreat after another, Israel constantly being coerced by Condi & Co. to act against its own best interests…the Arabs well-known destruction in phases plan unfolding before their very eyes.

Regardless of the pressures it will be under, Israel must draw its final boundaries allowing for a reasonable territorial compromise envisioned by the wording of the final draft of U.N. Resolution 242, which sought to replace Israel’s 1949, 9-mile wide, armistice line existence with actual “secure and recognized borders.”

Arabs don’t accept a microscopic Israel let alone anything bigger. So waiting for their acceptance is futile.

Israel must draw its lines so that it can thrive not only survive.

Arabs caught on the Israeli side of this new border should be offered Israeli citizenship--like Berbers in “Arab” states, Copts in “Arab” states, Kurds in “Arab ” states, black Africans in “Arab” states, Jews in “Arab” states, and so forth. Only in reality much better, if you know anything about how those non-Arab peoples are actually treated by Arabs. Think gassed Kurds, murdered Copts and burned Churches (rioting going on in Egypt practically while this article is being written), Darfur, Lebanon, and so forth.

Arabs who reject the offer will have almost two dozen other states of their own to potentially choose from…including their second emerging one within the original April 25, 1920 borders of mandatory Palestine.

The Arabs and their supporters--including Americans a la the Foggy Folks--will protest and threaten.

Israel must do what it must do anyway.

Those who go to war and acquire territories and bases thousands of miles away from home in the name of their own nations’ interests and security have no right telling the Jew of the Nations that it’s not entitled to something beyond the Auschwitz/armistice lines shoved down its throat ( "here’s the crumbs, Uncle Jake, and better be glad that they’re being thrown to you…take them before we change our minds; after all, you G_d killers were cursed to be forever wanderers!” ), or that it must accept a murderous state, Hamasian or Arafatian, dedicated to its destruction, to be set up in its very backyard.

Let the tanks roll and the bombing begin...

And the body of the snake must be addressed along with its various heads.

At 70 or so per shahid ("martyr"), the Islamic Paradise must have a shortage of celestial virgins after Israel does what must be done in its proper response.

And after the next predictable act of revenge, exponential, massive retaliation must be the answer…with a knock out punch ready for Syria and Hizbullah in the north as well.

Israel fought to win in June 1967.

It must learn to do so again now.

The stakes are indeed that high.


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