Re: [OT] Another heated discussion about the Iraq siutation, war and politics.
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"Recruiting Jews For Self-Sacrifice"
"I cannot help but feel that there is something in our Jewish DNA which makes a certain Category of Jews rush to line up for 'suicide' missions. Unlike the Arabs who simply strap on an explosive's belt, the Jews chose to die, preceded by an intellectual rationale.
For example, with the failure of Oslo there was a large contingent of Left-liberal Jews desperate for self-sacrifice left with nothing to do. But, then came the slogan of the Arabist State Department "Road Map" which was pushed through the mouth of the American President by Colin Powell. The gaggle of Jews from all corners, Leftists, Breira, New Jewish Agenda, Peace Now, Israel Policy Forum, 'et al', all had a new lease on life before death.
Nothing that preceded the failure of Oslo made any impression. The years of Arab attacks, the build-up of Arab armies, the pledge that Islam would not tolerate a Jewish State, the terror which turned to suicide/homicide bombers - none of this made any impression on these Jews in their delusional state.
In no particular order of importance, we find a column in the New York times speaking to the efforts of the Israel Policy Forum, a decidedly Left-liberal organization, to use Jewish donors to influence Democratic Congressmen to support the so-called "Road Map." Their timing was extraordinary as Islamists blow up buildings in Saudi Arabia that house many Americans.
As the same time, waves of Terrorist attacks were launched across Israel with homicide bombings on buses, checkpoints and other vulnerable civilian locations. Now, this is the stuff that made up the days of Oslo and the day-to-day killing of Jews by the Arab/Muslim Palestinians who comprise Arafat's various Terrorist Groups.
All through that period since the signing of Oslo September 1993, the Osloids, backed (or controlled) by the Arabist U.S. State Department, invariably dribbled a statement of condemnation but, always with the expression: "This will not stop the Peace Process." Indeed, it couldn't stop that which never started.
After I read that Jewish Democratic donors had been recruited for rescuing the already leaded "Road Map" plan, I could smell the stench of the Leftists working the crowd.
With a little looking, I found that the Jewish Federations in America had been quietly recruited to pick up the same mantra "Save the Road Map". That recruitment would have two centers of operations. One would be in the belly of the beast Arabist State Department and the other coming out of the Prime Minister's Office in Israel. Recall it was Sharon was prepared to establish another Arab Palestinian State with "all the pain" it would bring "him" - and, of course, the Israeli people.
In the Last few days, Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has caved, saying that he would accept the Bush "Road Map" with the Bush promise that the would have the Palestinians carry out their commitments. Where have we heard that before?
The main theme to persuade the Jews was NOT that the "Road Map" was a good plan but, rather that Bush will be angry with the Jews for NOT supporting the "Road Map". I recall, in similar times that, when the Jews were too fearful to confront President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the anti-Jewish State Department over their policy NOT to rescue the Jews of Europe lest Roosevelt be insulted and so, the Jews died - 6 million of them were murdered including 1½ million children. Our American Jewish leadership has this unenviable record from the 'Judenrat', through Oslo and now the "Road Map-ists".
Earlier I had heard about Assistant Secretary of State William Burns in Israel, speaking 'confidentially - in secret' with the Ultra-Left of the Left, urging them to not only support the "Road Map" but castigate those Jews in Israel and America who said it was a "Trojan Horse". The stench of perfidy and betrayal was evident even then.
Recently, we heard former Ambassador from America to Israel, Martin Indyk, viewed by many as a spoiler and Left-liberal 'par excellence', doing the Sunday talk shows. He was telling everyone how desperate it was for all Jews and everyone else to support the plan even to force concessions from Israel.
Well, that's not too surprising, given that he was doing that even while he was Ambassador to Israel. Presumably, it is now Daniel Kurtzer of the infamous (former Secretary of State) James Baker's team of Jews who is taking the same line as Indyk when he was Ambassador to Israel.
There is a big push on to legitimize the "Road Map" even as the Palestinians, Muslims, Islamists are blowing up Jews in Israel or anywhere in the world they, the radical Muslims can target. Recruiting aberrant Jews with what must be a defective gene, which calls to them to make for the ultimate sacrifice, is not all that difficult.
Recruitment is almost unnecessary as our self-sacrificers dash about, looking for an opportunity to claim honor for putting the Jewish nation at risk. This is not the first time fearful Jewish leadership has failed the Jewish people;
Watch closely the gaggle of Hollywood Jews who have spent their lives and all their waking moments studying themselves, suddenly break out in support of the peaceful Arab Palestinians and hostility towards the Jewish State of Israel.
These Hollywood type Jews, most of whom barely made it through school and rarely read detailed intelligence on the Middle East suddenly want to be more than inconsequential stars of entertainment but, suddenly, wish to be viewed as informed 'intellectuals' on the grand scale. They, like some Jewish businessmen who sign letters to Congressmen, wish to be seen as more than they are or ever could be.
How they need that adulation, that pat on the head for their chest-pounding 'mea culpa'. Then again, I observe most of the Jews who make up the Boards of Jewish Federations, who also look for a chance to show their readiness to sacrifice Israel in a show of intellectual martyrdom. If they were faced with a real fire fight, as confront the Jews of Israel, our Hollywood poster heroes or Federation talkers would likely wet their pants (or worse) as they scrambled out of harm's way. But, the Federations have been told that Bush will be angry with American Jews if they do not offer a show of support for the Bush "Road Map". Even AIPAC (American-Israel Public Affairs Committee) is showing its soft underbelly as it reverses itself from its initial assessment of the "Road Map" as a bad document to softening their objections.
The Jewish businessmen who were recruited for the letter to Congress want to see themselves as heroes. They mistake doing lunch at Sardis and cutting a deal on real estate with solving Global Terror. They yearn for the day when, like those of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations, they are invited to the State Department where they are asked for their vaunted opinions on complex Middle East matters. They hold forth, are given lunch and patted on their broad behinds to be then ushered out - not knowing that whatever they said would be ignored and even laughed at. They were suckered - again and again.
They, like all other Jews of the self-created establishment. have been duly massaged for whatever influence they may have on Jewish public opinion at large and for whatever political campaign contributions they can pour forth. After all, President Bush is going into the 2004 elections and needs the image of a foreign policy that is working - even if it fails and kills Jews. For Bush and family, losing Israel will be merely an "Oops!".
None of them understand that the so-called "Road Map" is merely an old collection of disastrous timelines to which Israel must adhere. None of it solves the real problem of stopping the on-going 'Jihad' (Holy War) Terror, War, the smuggling in of weapons, the teaching Muslim Arab children that their destiny is to hate and kill infidels *(both Jews and Christians) and to establish the ultimate World of Islam, dominating the whole world, as said in many Fatwas and public speeches.
But, they, (the Left-liberal Jews) will tell you there are words in the heretofore secret contract that calls for all that. They do not understand that Israel is expected to fulfill the contract and the Muslim Arabs only obligation is to sign the contract and to try 100% to stop Terror. There is nothing that demands that they succeed in preventing future murderous Terror attacks.
A self-sacrificing Left-Liberal Jew cannot grasp this mode of agreement so common to the Arab Muslim world. All the Arab Muslims have to do is 'talk the talk' but, the Jews must give up tangible territory - homes, factories, farms, vineyards, industries, schools, infrastructure - and to allow millions of Arab Palestinians into Israel because they claim to descend from the 450,000 Arabs who left Israel for safe havens elsewhere when the 7 Arab nations attacked the new born State in 1948.
These gullible Jews do not understand that the 'double standard' is not the exception to the rule when applied to Jews and the Jewish State. Even as President Bush calls for Israel to close her checkpoints, open her borders to so-called Palestinian Arabs, Bush elevates the American Terror Alert to Orange, increases security at American checkpoints in airports and on borders, simply because they have heard increased hostile Muslim 'chatter' in their intelligence listening Posts. Israel is not threatened with chatter. She is being hit with real homicide bombs and rockets but, nevertheless, there is a big push to accept the Quartet's unsafe "Road Map", explosions and all. It will help Bush at the election booths in 2004 - whatever the cost to Israel.
These same Jews who supported the failed Oslo Accords and subsequent agreement which Israel signed and fulfilled, fell silent for a time as the body counts mounted. They now wish to shed their guilt and are preparing to dig a new graveyard for the failure of "Road Map" as inevitably measured by the numbers of dead Jews. The "Road Map" is even a worse solution than Oslo was because a hostile Arab Muslim Palestinian people pledge never to accept a Jewish State in their midst and expect to acquire all that the Jews have built in the past 55 years.
The pacifist general, now Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, speaking at a press conference of the G8 was asked about the "Road Map". He basically said that he would listen to Israel's reservations about the "Road Map" but the "Road Map" document would NOT be changed(!) Sharon is to bring this absurd document to his Cabinet for a vote, pressured to make a suicide pact for the nation so Bush could claim a political victory for his foreign policy as he begins his 2004 re-election campaign. Clearly, the Israeli Cabinet must vote NO! and give Sharon the backbone he discarded when he became a politician.
There is not much more to say about these gullible Jews except to identify them and then ignore their counsel.
Contact your Federation and AIPAC. Demand that they cease supporting the "Road Map" and the weak new Palestinian PM Abu Mazen, an unreconstructed Terror leader along with Yassir Arafat. Contact your Congressmen and let him and her know how you feel. Let them know that the Jewish Federation self-appointed leaders, seeking only safety and comfort for their wealth, do not speak for you or the Jewish State of Israel's safety and sovereignty."
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When somebody says he is going to kill you.........believe him. -Holocaust survivor
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