By Ted Belman
What follows is an except of an Op-Ed from the National Post by the former publisher of the Jerusalem Post and now American felon serving time in prison for dubious crimes, Conrad Black.
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Most Palestinian leaders have never wanted peace with Israel, other than the peace that would come from the massacre, expulsion or subjugation of the Jews. The whole formula of “land for peace” has been a confidence trick — the trading of tangible territory for a revocable trust. The legitimacy of Israel as a Jewish state has never really been accepted by most of the Arabs. To this day, Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas still refuses to make this concession.
When former Israeli premier Ehud Barak conceded almost everything PLO leader Yasser Arafat was seeking at Camp David in 2000, Arafat demanded the right of six million Palestinian refugees and (mostly) their descendants to “return” to Israel and thereby swamp the state’s Jewish population. For good measure, he unleashed a second Intifada in late 2000, which Ariel Sharon shut down very effectively over the following years.
Sharon and his successors, Ehud Olmert and Benjamin Netanyahu, have promoted vibrant economic growth — including in the West Bank, which is now enjoying the greatest prosperity in its history. Meanwhile, Hamas, which has refused to negotiate with Israel until the recent prisoner exchange, has sunk further into poverty under the Israeli boycott.
The most prominent Palestinian demand in 2011, which has gained unwarranted credulity in the West, is for the end of new settlements, whether in the middle of the desert or as extensions to Jerusalem. This is just as much nonsense as the “right of return.” Menachem Begin in Sinai and Ariel Sharon in Gaza have demonstrated a perfect Israeli willingness to uproot settlers and destroy or hand over settlements for genuine peace, and obviously Israel would do so again. But it will not make pre-emptive concessions again. Leaving Gaza just opened up a splendid launch-site for thousands of Hamas rockets aimed indiscriminately at Israeli civilians. And Israelis don’t want to see this error repeated on a larger scale.
Despite the political uncertainties in Egypt, Syria, Libya and elsewhere in the Arab and Muslim worlds, and the gasconading of the Turkish government (formerly quite friendly to Israel, but now driven by the ethnocentric and sectarian hauteur of the European Union to fish for approbation from its former Arab satrapies), the position of the Jewish state is not precarious. Its standard of living is rising steeply and now exceeds that of many European countries; there have been large oil and gas discoveries offshore, and its military condition is still quite unassailable. And there has been a positive tectonic shift toward self-reliance in its attitude.
Even the ability of the anti-Israeli majority at the United Nations to go on tormenting Israel has been compromised by perhaps the most hopeful development on the Middle East stage in some years. The new country of South Sudan, set up in January of this year as a response to the genocidal outrages of the Sudanese Arabs against their Christian, Muslim and animist non-Arab countrymen, has taken its place squarely with the Jewish state and attacked the Arab-led conspiracy against Israel in international organizations.
Simon Deng, the South Sudanese delegate at the recent Durban III conference on racism (in New York), shattered the hypocrisy of the anti-Israeli front one normally witnesses at such meetings. Mr. Deng pointed out that while the UN has spent years launching paper attacks against Israel, the body generally has ignored the Arab racists committing crimes against Black Africans far more heinous than those falsely alleged against Israel.
From 1955 to 2005, four million non-Arab Sudanese were murdered, seven million were ethnically cleansed, and hundreds of thousands, including Mr. Deng himself, were seized by Arab slave-merchants and sold into bondage to Sudanese and Egyptian Arab owners. Darfur was never a “tribal” conflict, as the UN long soft-pedaled it; it was Arab colonialist genocide against Black Africans. It took UN bodies 16 years to recognize what was afoot, and they did so then only at the behest of Jewish organizations in Israel and the United states.
One of the only Middle Eastern countries to which persecuted South Sudanese could escape was Israel, which, as Mr. Deng reminded his unappreciative audience, is a country with no colour bars: Black Muslims and Christians have found safety in Israel. Mr. Deng also emphasized the violent discrimination of Muslim countries against Coptic Christians (Egypt), other Christians (Iraq, Nigeria and Iran), the B’hai (Iran) and Hindus and Sikhs in Kashmir. Deng celebrated the fact that the South Sudanese president, Salva Kiir, has determined that his new country’s embassy in Israel will be in Jerusalem, “the eternal capital of the Jewish people.”
Mr. Deng’s admirable and timely exposé was ungenerously received by the usual claque of Arabs and their anti-Semitic fellow travelers, and has been under-publicized. But it has put a banana skin under the anti-Israel movement in the Third World, and undermined, or even exploded, the prolonged, self-hating infatuation of sub-Saharan Africans and African-Americans with militant forms of Islam.
I agree with you Bland.
The article clearly shows the writer to be pro-Israel. Enough with the conspiracy theories.
Conrad Black is a Bilderberger, along with Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Ben Bernanke, Tim Geithner, Colin Powell, and a host of others including, lo and behold, U. S. Presidential candidate Gov. Rick Perry of Texas, to name just a few. The agenda of the Bilderbergers is control of the world by an elite of EUROPEAN and NORTH AMERICAN oligarchs like themselves. The organization teems with died-in-the-wool anti-Jews. If they make statements against the Arabs, I do not automatically take these as being pro-Israel: These people have their own agenda. David Rockefeller founded the Trilateral Commission, because the Bilderbergers were so narrowly focussed they excluded delegates from Japan.
Pardon me for not feeling comfortable around people such as Black and Perry. Right now, Israel faces enemies like Achmadinejad and Erdogan. In fewer than ten years, I suspect she will be up against the likes of the Clintons and the other Bilderbergers and their military arm, NATO.
That said, yes, there is an obvious truth spoken here: The Arabs want all Jews dead. So what else is new?
What is true and what we must constantly tell the world is that even if the Arabs signed a peace treaty with Israel, nothing would change. The violence would go on. The division of Jerusalem would only hasten more attacks on the Jewish and Christian people, because, as has been said many times, the Arabs want all of Israel. The mindset of Arabs, and what is being taught to their children, is the jihad against Israel is totally acceptable, and if this cannot be stopped, their jihadhi behavior will continue in to eternity.
Even now, the Arab Palestinians in their territory cannot be successful without the help of Israel. It seems they can’t be successful without massive donations of aid from other countries. I think it’s time to start trading aid and assistance based on their behavior to Jews, Christians, and other minorities, and if there is no improvement, cut their benefits. We only have to look at Egypt to see the way many Muslims there treat minorities. That’s 1700 years of violence against Egypt’s minorities. Islam will not make an effort to change the violence it preaches unless it has to.
If that means warring with Arab Muslims, we may have to do it.
The presidential election in the U.S. is a circus. This is what happens when people who are not qualified to be president run for the office. They have no shame about being fools. Especially Cain, this man is so duplicious and the biggest fool of all.