Parts 1 & 2

By Debra Rae, NewsWithViews.com

The Jewish Problem Examined

A popular children’s story features a little locomotive put to the test in front of a great, heavy train. As it neared the top of the grade, it reduced speed, but kept saying, “I—think—I—can, I—think—I—can.” Drawing on bravery, it reached the top and then went on down the grade, congratulating itself by saying, “I thought I could, I thought I could.”

Like the little engine that could, Israel is the little nation that could. The history of Israel involves unprecedented obstacles, including forty years of wilderness wanderings; seemingly endless warfare, blood baths (Masada), brutal captivity and enslavement (Assyria, Babylon, Egypt); displacement and persecution; rabid anti-Semitism, pogroms (Russia), Intifadas and riots; plundering, and genocide. When, in 1348, the “Black Death” killed them, among others, Jews were blamed for the Bubonic plague.[1]

Under Hitler, Jews were left bereft of their businesses, their food was rationed, and they were “marked” with yellow badges. Exported en masse to Eastern Europe concentration camps, where egregious medical experiments were performed on them, literally millions of Jews were mercilessly mistreated and eventually out-and-out exterminated.

Victim or Victimizer?

Although Israel is about the size of New Jersey, she is surrounded by her sworn enemies with a landmass comparable to the whole of the United States of America. In A.D. 635, Mohammed conquered Palestine, subjugated Jews, and used Jewish spoil to support his religious movement. The 1981 Mecca Declaration pledged jihad against Israel until the last Jew in the world is eliminated.[2]

Before Arafat, there was Palestinian spiritual leader Haj Amin al-Husseini. Called “Fuhrer of the Arab world,” the Mufti of Jerusalem befriended Hitler, supported his “Final Solution,” and murdered Jews. To this day, Mein Kampf is a best seller in Arab countries. Additionally, throughout the Arab Middle East, government press promotes a long debunked source for turn-of-the-century hatred of Jews. In his anti-Semitic campaign (1933-45), Hitler likewise used The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.[3]

Repeatedly and unremittingly, Jewish sovereignty has been attacked—not to mention Israeli El Al airliners, busses, schools, restaurants, peace spokespersons, and friends of Israel. At the Olympics in Munich (1972), Black September terrorists attacked even Israeli athletes. Egyptian president Anwar Sadat became one of three Arab leaders assassinated by fellow Arabs for having sought peace with Israel. Then, there’s America. In 1988, Bin Laden (and another suspect) allegedly issued a religious edict (fatwa) calling on Muslims to kill Americans “anywhere in the world where they can be found.” In 1993, the World Trade Center bombing retaliated against U.S. support for the Israeli government. These are acts of victimizers, not victims.[4]

Verbal Fuel to Fires of Hatred

Indeed, the so-called “Jewish problem” identifies Jews as the most universally hated and persecuted ethnic group in history. The Qur’an[5] characterizes Jews as “estranged,” “despised and rejected apes,”[6] insolent, “open enemies”[7] not to be taken as “friends,” “helpers,” or “protectors.”[8] Hatred of Jews is taught in mosques around the world. Nakhba (meaning “the catastrophe”) is the term Arabs use for the birth of Israel. Accordingly, some seventy percent of the Arabs in the West Bank and Gaza approve the suicide bombing of women and children—if the targets are Jews, that is.

Some suggest it is safer today to be a Jew in America than to be a Jew in Israel. Followers of the Qur’an are to lie in wait for these infidels,[9] as men “made for hell”[10] —then, “beleaguer,” “terrorize,” “fight,” “seize,” “smite,” and “slay” them. Specifically, slit their necks and “smite all their finger tips off them.”[11]

President of Iran (on the northern border of Israel), Mahmoud Ahmadinejab likens Israel to a “dead rat,” “doomed to go.” Zionists, he insists, are “the true manifestation of Satan” and, therefore, must be wiped off the map.” After all, he adds, “the Zionist Regime is on its way to annihilation.” Be sure Ahmadinejab is more than happy to help it along.[12]

With Muslim hate speak escalating, “freedom of speech” is denied those opposed to the Islamic Grand Design. 1989, two California bookstores were firebombed to protest sale of Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses,[13] which disparaged Islam. No reciprocity here.

Many instigators of the Palestinian Liberation Organization never lived in the Palestine Mandate before creation of Israel—or even thereafter. The expressed purpose of the PLO is not to “liberate Palestine,” as is claimed. In the words of its own leaders, it’s “to push the Jews into the sea.” To accomplish this (and thereby “destroy the Jewish state”), armed struggle is deemed necessary.[14]
Takiya Trickery; Fatal Fanaticism

The code of the desert allows seducing, marauding, tricking, and lying. Modeled by the Prophet Mohammed at Hudayblya, takiya is the right within Islam to “fake peace” when one is proven to be weak. The idea is to wait for better timing in order to conquer one’s enemy. Takiya trickery tramples trust in Palestinian “peace” propaganda. Facts do not back conciliatory language plainly used opportunistically.[15]

Unlike syncretistic (doctrinally mixed) religions, Islam allows no compromise; therefore, its most ardent followers are fanatics, willing to engage in terrorism on Allah’s behalf. Fanatics do not collaborate; they conquer. For the faithful, fatal fanaticism holds promise of great reward. By joining the fight unto death, young, hormonal, suicide bombers are ensured instant access to heaven, where seventy-two beautiful virgins await their blissful entry. Martyrs’ families stand to reap monetary rewards and generous accolades for their sons’ murderous violence. This dubious benefits package is hard for some to resist.[16]

 Deprivation and Hatred by Design

Whereas Israel welcomed and resettled hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees from Arab countries, no Arab countries welcomed Palestinian refugees, or allowed them to become full-fledged citizens. To the contrary, Arab leaders have refused to undertake needed effort to liberate the 3.7 million Palestinian “refugees” registered with the United Nations. Even highly educated professionals among them in Arab countries are relegated to lives of servitude.

Former Defense Secretary William Cohen warned, “The scenario of nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons in the hands of a terrorist or rogue nation is not only plausible—it’s quite real.”[17] All the more alarming is this: Those who are deprived and have little or nothing to lose are most dangerous among enemies.

The Jewish Problem Examined: Part 2

Israel, The Little Nation that Could

By Debra Rae

March 14, 2013

A so-called “Green Line” marks the boundary between Israel and its Arab neighbors. On a sliver of mostly desert land (without oil), Jews created abundance (hence, the metaphorical “Green” Line). Arabs were allotted nine times the acreage of Israelis, but chose instead to sit on its aridity and nurture poverty and resentments.

Today, the Jabalia refugee camp is as dismally poverty stricken as it was decades ago; but whose fault is that? Unfortunately, the worse off the Palestinians become, the more pressure the world brings to bear on Israel. You see, Jews were the supposed cause of poverty in Gaza; but, truth be told, that was a political ploy. Arab politics (not Jews) get in the way of making life easier for Palestinian refugees.

That Palestinians are kept in a state of disenfranchisement, poverty, and desperation further incites hatred of Israel. Jealousy is strong motivation, hard to overcome. It would seem, however, that Palestinians want destruction of Israel more than they want a better life. Otherwise, they would have accepted ninety-five percent concessions to Palestinian demands. Ehud Barak’s concessions were met instead with a renewed explosion of anti-Jewish violence.

Islamic Grand Design

The present Middle East conflict is said to be about Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories, which Israel refuses to give up; but this simply is not true. Truth be told, the 2003 Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research revealed that only ten percent of those questioned expressed any desire whatsoever to return to supposedly “occupied” territories.

Hamas’ founding documents insist, “The war is open until Israel ceases to exist and until the last Jew in the world is eliminated” — not until Palestinians are safe-and-sound in their supposed homeland. Former President Akbar (meaning “the greatest”) Hashemi Rafsanjani explained Islamic fundamentalism’s “Grand Design” as follows: In uniting all Islamic nations under the leadership of a coalition led by Iran and Syria, the West first must be driven from out of the Middle East, thus “liberating” Palestine. Next, the Judeo-Christian World Order must be supplanted with an Islamic one.

The bottom line is to impose seventh-century Islamic cultural imperialism. It is not to “liberate Palestine.” Throughout the first two decades of Arab-Israeli conflict, Israel controlled neither the West Bank of the Jordan, nor the Gaza strip. After the 1948 war, when Jordan annexed the West Bank, and Egypt annexed the Gaza strip, no Arab outrage ensued. Yet the war against Israel continued.

Jews, not Arabs, are the Returning Diaspora

More than ninety percent of the Palestinians now in the West Bank and Gaza persist in claiming unfounded “right to return,” but have never lived a day in territorial Israel. Demand that five million Palestinian refugees be returned to Israel is more than ten times the number who actually left the Jewish sliver of the British Mandate in 1948.

While more Arabs than Jews occupied the Jewish portion, Jews were legally barred from settling in the thirty-five thousand square miles of Palestinian Transjordan (eventually, Jordon). Moreover, no one talks about the Jews forced out of Arab lands (Iraq, Egypt, Syria, Yemen). In fact, Jews (not Arabs) are the returning diaspora (meaning “that which is sown”). With creation of Israel, hundreds of thousands of Arab Jews, known as Mizrahi, came to Israel as refugees. The word aliyah(Hebrew for “ascent” or “pilgrimage”) conveys the religious significance of Jews returning to Israel.

This is evident throughout history. Long before Mohammed was born, Jews “returned” to the land in 538 B.C. in order to rebuild their temple. In the 1800s, Zionists settled in Palestine to create a Jewish homeland. In 1897, the First Zionist Congress convened in Switzerland to discuss creation of a homeland in Palestine for the then-scattered Jews (diaspora). Many started moving to Jerusalem, under Turkish control at the time; and Hebrew (not Arabic) became the state language. In 1917, the British Balfour Declaration drew even more Jews to Palestine.

Legal, Bought-and-paid-for, Continuously Inhabited Land

Keep in mind that a state of Palestine has never existed. Neither does Israel hold “occupied territories” of some nonexistent nation-state. Some two thousand years before the rise of Islam, Israel became a legally recognized nation. Theirs is legal, bought-and-paid for, continuously inhabited land.

Egyptian author Nonie Darwish asks of the international community, “What’s so difficult about accepting the presence of 5 million Jews in an ocean of 1-1/2 billion Muslims?” Good question. For three thousand years, Jewish people have always lived there. In fact, for a period of 1,637 years (from 1000 B.C. to A.D. 637), Jews constituted its primary population. At the beginning of the 20th century, Jews were recorded in nearly every town today considered “purely Arab.”

After World War I (April 1920), the San Remo Peace Conference legally recognized a continuous chain of Jewish possession of the land. Tired of hearing that Jews “stole the land,” the late Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir countered that, from 1904 and beyond, a great deal of money changed hands; and because of it, many Arabs became very rich.

America’s Folly

In The Islamic Invasion, Dr. Robert Morey warns that Islamic fundamentalism is both organized and well funded. Arguably, radical Muslims are in the process of buying the U.S. Congress, and already they own vital news media outlets. While Westerners are curtailing procreation, Muslims worldwide are creating huge families (sometimes with multiple wives). By the year 2020, there will be over twenty-five million Muslims in the U.S. alone.

President Obama’s plan is to give Israel “the basic right to exist,” but without “permanent occupation.” Palestine, in his view, should be recognized as a viable, sovereign state (bordering Israel, Jordan, and Egypt). While exercising self-government, the parties in question are expected to negotiate swaps to implement 1967 borderlines.

Think of it this way: Never having borne distinction of a “nation-state,” disgruntled Palestinian refugees (many of whom have no interest in “returning”) nonetheless are to be favored recipients of a land continuously and legally inhabited by Jews since ancient times.

Sadly, Obama’s plan is based on fallacy, not fact. Plainly, the root problem has less to do with “occupied” territories, and more to do with viral hatred of Jews. Folks religiously committed to slit necks and smite finger tips off infidel Jews — folks responsible for repeated, egregious acts of terrorism — are being called to exercise civil self-government around negotiating tables inhabited by the very ones they’re intent on banishing to the sea. Nothing less than Israel’s complete annihilation will do.

Even so, by the grace of God, Israel has proved throughout history to be the little nation that could. Better with America’s help than without it.

Having authored the ABCs of Globalism and ABCs of Cultural -Isms, Debra speaks to Christian and secular groups alike. Her radio spots air globally. Presently, Debra co-hostsWOMANTalk radio with Sharon Hughes & Friends and hosts TRUTHTalk radio, plus she contributes monthly commentaries to a number of Internet news magazines. Debra calls the Pacific Northwest home. Web Site: www.debrarae.us/… E-Mail: debra@debrarae.us