Israels only
course ... is to assume its previous stance of unflinching deterrence
... and not to be inhibited ... to preempt resolutely if it appears
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The Unrelenting and Virulent Hatred of the Arabs
Will peace ever be possible under those conditions?
After over fifty years of statehood, Israel is
a lone outpost of Western civilization and its values. The Arab nations
surrounding it are a swamp of terrorism, corruption, dictatorship, and
human enslavement. But the hatred of the Arabs against Israel and against
all Jews is so abiding and so virulent that peace, at least for the foreseeable
future, seems to be most unlikely.
What are the facts?
No "Sacrifice" Will Overcome the Hatred:
Many still believe that the conflict between the Arabs and the Jews could
be settled if the Israelis were willing to bring greater "sacrifices
for peace". Such "sacrifices" would include relinquishing
ever-larger portions of their tiny country (less than half the size of
San Bernardino County in California) to the Palestinians, dismantling
the "settlements" in Judea/Samaria (the "West Bank"),
handing the Golan Heights to Syria, and allowing the "return of the
refugees" a group that has grown miraculously from about 500,000
to somewhere around 5 million, and the absorption of even a substantial
fraction of which would signify the demographic end of the Jewish state.
But by now, after almost two years of the bloody war against Israel in
the Al Aksa Intifada, it is clear to even the most confirmed "doves",
to even the most ardent supporters of the "Oslo Peace Process,"
that absolutely nothing that Israel could do, any further "sacrifice"
that Israel were prepared to bring would satisfy the Arabs and would promote
peace. The sad but irrefutable conclusion is that only the complete disappearance
of Israel, its annihilation, its being wiped off the map could satisfy
the Arabs and most of the Moslem world.
During his recent visit to Syria, not too long ago, the
Pope listened to Bashar-al-Asad, the President of Syria, declare that
"...the Jews have betrayed Jesus Christ, with the same mentality
with which they tried to betray and kill the prophet Mohammed." (Disappointingly,
the Pope did not protest this canard, either right then or at a later
date.) Saddam Hussein, the tyrant of Iraq, expressed the wishes of his
country and of the Arab world with the succinct entreaty, "G-d damn
the Jews."
Mortal Hatred and the "Big Lie:" The "big
lie," invented by the notorious Joseph Goebbels of Nazi infamy, is
a mainstay of Arab hatred and propaganda. In Egypt and Jordan (the two
Arab countries technically at peace with Israel), government-controlled
news sources published that Israel had distributed drug-laced chewing
gum and candy to kill children and to make women sexually corrupt. The
Jews (Israelis) are being accused of having introduced foot-and-mouth
disease in the Middle East. The age-old calumny of Jews using the blood
of Christian and Moslem children in order to bake their Passover matzos
is alive and well in Arab publications. The Protocols of the Elders of
Zion, an egregious falsification originating in Czarist Russia, is a steady
best-seller in all Arab countries. Among other malevolent fabrications,
it accuses "international Jewry" of "limitless ambition,
inexhaustible greed, and hatred beyond imagination."
In the controlled Arab press, Holocaust denial and accusation
of the Zionists having been in cahoots with the German Nazis are regular
features. Egypts government-sponsored Al Akhbar newspaper has expressed
fervent thanks to Adolf Hitler for having taken advance revenge on the
"vilest criminals on the face of the earth." Still, it berates
him for not having been thorough enough in his task of extermination.
The Arabs do not consider Israel a normal country, but a creation of the
devil, an excrescence, a malignant force of aggressors, murderers, infidels
and barbarians. It should be destroyed, for the glory of God, no matter
what sacrifices that might entail.
Mortal hatred against Israel and against the Jews is taught
to Arab children from the very first grade. Children are encouraged to
sacrifice themselves as martyrs and suicide missiles, with promises that
Paradise with unimaginable pleasures awaits those who sacrifice themselves
in the holy cause of killing Jews.
This bottomless hatred, a hatred that pervades the Arab
world in all strata of society and is incessantly fomented by Arab governments,
including those supposed to be "at peace" with Israel, cannot
be assuaged by negotiation or by making any further "sacrifices for
peace". Nothing will suffice, except the destruction, the complete
disappearance of Israel. The Arab states, having been unable in over fifty
years and in many wars to defeat and exterminate the hated Jews, are now
feverishly arming themselves with "conventional weapons" (easily
purchased from the West, including, sad to say, from the United States),
and are ardently pursuing the development of weapons of mass annihilation.
Just as the suicide bombers do not vacillate to sacrifice themselves,
one can safely expect that, once in possession of such weapons, the Arabs
will not hesitate to sacrifice millions of their own people in order to
destroy Israel. Israels only course in the face of this almost certain
prospect is to assume its previous stance of unflinching deterrence and,
as it once did in the destruction of the Iraqi atomic reactor at Osirak
in 1981, not to be inhibited by "international opinion" to preempt
resolutely if it appears necessary to assure survival of the country.
This ad has been published and paid for by
Facts and Logic About the Middle East
P.O. Box 590359
San Francisco, CA 94159
Gerardo Joffe, President
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