Palestine already exists is a nightmare. By Caroline Glick

Welcome to Palestine

By Caroline Glick
In the world of international diplomacy few issues receive more wall-to-wall support than the notion that it is essential to establish a Palestinian state. Leaders worldwide are so busy speaking of how essential it is for a State of Palestine to be founded that none of them seems to have noticed that it already exists.

This state was officially founded in the summer of 2005, when Israel removed its military forces and civilian population from the Gaza Strip and so established the first wholly independent Palestinian state in history. Israel's destruction of four Israeli communities in Northern Samaria and curtailment of its military operations in the area set the conditions for statehood in that area as well.

And so it is that as statesmen and activists worldwide loudly proclaim their commitment to establishing the sovereign State of Palestine, they miss the fact that Palestine exists. And it is a nightmare.

Jimmy Carter: An historical analysis of his misconduct

If Israel did not exist, still the same Middle East

If Israel did not exist, the West would today still be at war with the Islamic world. Most of the maladies of the Middle East have nothing to do with the Jewish state.

Arabs causing a massive and underreported Christian exodus

The pope has a Muslim problem all right. It is the hammering that Christian communities have been taking for years and are getting now in Islamic countries all over the world, but especially in the Middle East.

Across the region (with some exceptions), non-Islamic minorities--which by and large means Christian minorities--are being driven out through physical abuse, legal discrimination, murder and the destruction or confiscation of homes, businesses and churches. Call it religious cleansing. It is a political strategy that would eventually give Iran, Iraq, Egypt and the Holy Lands of Palestine a cultural homogeneity that has never existed in human history, before or after Christ.

Jimmy Carter: Israel wrong in 2006 Lebanon invasion

Jimmy Carter quote: "I don't think that Israel has any legal or moral justification for their massive bombing of the entire nation of Lebanon. What happened is that Israel is holding almost 10,000 prisoners, so when the militants in Lebanon or in Gaza take one or two soldiers, Israel looks upon this as a justification for an attack on the civilian population of Lebanon and Gaza. I do not think that's justified, no."

My letter to Jimmy Carter regarding his anti-Semitism

Mr. Carter:

Your piece entitled "Stop the Band-Aid Treatment" in today's Washington Post was predictably anti-Israel. Your public musing on the Middle East consistently amount to a recommendation that Israel abrogate its responsibility to self-defend. When in power, your timidity -- that there is no cause worth defending with arms and every enemy is simply "misunderstood" -- hobbled the United States as Iran held our sovereign territory for over a year after seizing it militarily. This was perhaps the most shameful event in our Country's proud history. Were Israel to conduct itself in such a feckless manner she would quickly cease to exist. Israel is now bearing the brunt of attacks launched against the western world by the very Arab terrorists whom you empowered and emboldened through appeasement. Next to Jimmy Carter, Neville Chamberlain appears a courageous defender of democracy in the eyes of history. You should be loath to criticize Israel in light of these facts.

Richard Becker
Emory University alumni, 1987

Islam and Islamic Fundamentalism are the same

"There may be moderate Muslims, but Islam itself is not moderate. There is no difference between Islam and Islamic fundamentalism. At most there is a difference of degree but not of kind." -- Ibn Warraq, executive director of the Institute for the Secularization of Islamic Society

In case you were wondering whether or not Islam is a "peaceful and loving religion," this link provides concise and precise citations to the Koran that prove this statement false. The Koran, in a nutshell, commands Muslims to "kill non-believers" and "non-believers" is a defined term: Christians and Jews.

CAIR (Council for American-Islamic Relations) makes the argument that the Christian bible has similar passages and that these are effectively ignored in modern times. Similarly, CAIR argues, the passages (linked) in the Koran and also effectively ignored in modern times. This argument is both cynical and specious because Muslims, unlike Christians, do not ignore these passages, but instead give them primacy. CAIR is well aware of this fact. Also, as the link below indicates, the passages in the Christian Bible are far less hostile and do not give specific malignant instruction as do those in the Koran.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-semitism#Anti-Judaism_in_the_New_Testament

Palestinian people do not exist

Way back on March 31, 1977, the Dutch newspaper Trouw published an interview with Palestine Liberation Organization executive committee member Zahir Muhsein. Here's what he said:

The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct "Palestinian people" to oppose Zionism.

For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan.

See also http://www.strategypage.com/messageboards/messages/13-468.asp

Logical Support for Palestine is a fallacy, political support a reality: WHY?

DRAFT OF MIDDLE-EAST ANALYSIS:

FOREIGN POLICY IS PERFECTLY SELFISH AND IS AMORAL: We stand where we sit. Quote. France 25% Muslim. Europe major radicalism problem that they prefer to avoid (appeasement history). America may be more moral and has done many things that defy the argument that all foreign policy is amoral. However, historically, our foreign policy back to G. Washington was very realpolitic.

ARGUING WITH SOMEONE WHO IS NOT ARGUING IN GOOD FAITH IS WORSE THAN FOOLISH: Arguing with fools is foolish, but arguing with another who is not a fool, but is arguing in bad faith for the very purpose of deceit is worse than foolish. There is a historical, long-term plan to destroy Israel (citation from that book). Israel-Arab conflict reduced to rhetoric is no argument at all: Israel is absolutely right. (History of conflict: Jews always mistreated and killed; treated Arabs humanely. Immigration historically (from that book). Palestine exists for this very purpose. Otherwise, the Arab states would absorb the population ASAP. Parallels to Chamberlin arguing and appeasing Hitler are simply unavoidable. Hitler was never conquering territory for the reasons he stated. "Diplomacy" simply emboldened him and led to the immense catastrophe of WWII, that would have been avoided if Hitler had been confronted.

FOREIGN POLICY THAT IS BOTH PERFECTLY SELFISH AND MORAL ULTIMATELY BEST PROTECTS THE INTERESTS OF AMERICA AND ALL MANKIND: America is a hyper power and has the resources to do the moral and just thing; namely supporting Israel. But that has never been the nature of the foreign policy of any nation, including America. But in this case, doing the right thing and defending our country's interest are the same. This is true of the Europeans, but they appease historically and will never make such a hard choice. Our interest is the same as Israel because the enemy is the same. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. here, the enemy of my friend is my enemy is an even more compelling argument. WWII, the Marshall Plan was selfish and moral. It was arguably so longsighted and expensive so as to be moral at the expense of America's self-interest. But in the end, it was best for Europe, for all mankind and in the end, for America. We are a hyper-power and have an obligation to the entire world to do the right thing, if this is consistent with our self interest.

Why Israel Must Destroy Hezbollah

Continuing to talk with somebody who is lying to you and working to undermine everything you are doing, is not a sensible long-term strategy. It conveys weakness, and too much eagerness to artificially paper over profound differences, and in Israel's case, has damaged its deterrent capability.

In the case of Hamas and Hezbollah, the word "engagement" has little meaning. Any engagement or resolution of an issue between Israel and one of these parties (e.g. prisoner exchanges) has tended be on their terms, and they have always moved on to fight another day with the same goal of destroying Israel.

Israel must revert to deterrance as its fundamental strategy

Decades of hard work before 1993 won Israel the wary respect of its enemies. By contrast, episodic displays of muscle have no utility. Should Israel resume the business-as-usual of appeasement and retreat, the present fighting will turn out to be a summer squall, a futile lashing-out. By now, Israel's enemies know they need only hunker down for some days or weeks and things will go back to normal, with the Israeli left in obstructionist mode and the government soon proffering gifts, trucking with terrorists, and yet again in territorial retreat.

Commentary on the commentators

The various commentators each have an agenda and promote it consistently throughout their writings. The better ones have more control over what amounts to viscereal tendencies. Below is what you can expect to read from the more well circulated commentators:

Dick Morris: Former political strategist, best known for helping the Clintons "tack right" after the Democrats were overwhelmed in mid-term congressional elections. Subsequently, Morris -- riding a hubristic high -- was caught disseminating sensative political information to a prostitute. The Clintons fired him and Morris became a devout and fixated enemy. Most of his commentary discusses the political machinations of the Clintons and portrays them as devoid of any moral compass and willing to say and do anything to achieve power. Morris has a uniquely well-informed perspective and much of what he writes rings true; however the fixation has become more salient than this truth.

Pat Buchanan:

America's end game in the Middle East

What the Islamists don't understand is that they are slowly pushing tired Westerners into a corner. If diplomacy, or aid, or support for democracy, or multiculturalism, or withdrawal from contested lands, does not satisfy radical Islamists, what would?

Perhaps nothing.

What then would be the new Western approach to terrorism? Hard and quick retaliation -- but without our past concern for nation-building, or offering a democratic alternative to theocracy and autocracy, or even worrying about whether other Muslims are unfairly lumped in with Islamists who operate freely in their midst.

Krauthammer: "Israel's Existence at Stake"

Jimmy Carter: In case you forgot why you voted for Reagan . . .

Carter believes that there is no cause worth defending with arms and no enemy who is not simply "misunderstood." Carter sees only one true evil in this world: Israel.

6 million Jews in Israel & an Iranian bomb: Never Again? Krauthammer

Financing both side in the Arab War: by Tom Friedman

The United States is fighting a war against the Islamic Nation, comprised largely of the Arab Nation. We are also financing our adversary by purchasing oil, the only product Arabs produce. Friedman argues that we should be pursuing an alternative energy and conservation policy as vigorously as we are fighting the war and our failure to do this is a major failure of the Bush II administration.

The War of Civilizations moves to the French suburbs

Jews and Muslims: Which has more Nobel Prizes?

ARAB/ISLAMIC NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS:

Muslims number 1, 200,000,000 ... about 20% of the world's population ...
and have won the following Nobel Prizes:

Literature:
1957 - Albert Camus (of French parentage, but raised in North Africa)
1988 - Najib Mahfooz.

Peace:
1978 - Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat
1994 - Yaser Arafat

Chemistry:
1990 - Elias James Corey
1999 - Ahmed Zewail

Medicine:
1960 - Peter Brian Medawar
1998 - Ferid Mourad


JEWISH NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS:

Jews number approx. 14,000,000 ... about 0.02% of the world's population,
which is about the population of Nepal or Morocco)

Literature:
1910 - Paul Heyse
1927 - Henri Bergson
1958 - Boris Pasternak
1966 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon
1966 - Nelly Sachs
1976! - Saul Bellow
1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer
1981 - Elias Canetti
1987 - Joseph Brodsky
1991 - Nadine Gordimer World


Peace:
1911 - Alfred Fried
1911 - Tobias Michael Carel Asser
1968 - Rene Cassin
1973 - Henry Kissinger
1978 - Menachem Begin
1986 - Ellie Wiesel
1994 - Shimon Peres
1994 - Yitzhak Rabin


Chemistry:
1905 - Adolph Von Baeyer
1906 - Henri Moissan
1910 - Otto Wallach
1915 - Richard Willstaetter
1918 - Fritz Haber
1943 - George Charles de Hevesy
1961 - Melvin Calvin
1962 - Max Ferdinand Perutz
1972 - William Howard Stein
1977 - Ilya Prigogine
1979 - Herbert Charles Brown
1980 - Paul Berg
1980 - Walter Gilbert
1981 - Roald Hoffmann
1982 - Aaron Klug
1985 - Albert A. Hauptman
1985 - Jerome Karle
1986 - Dudley R. Herschbach
1988 - Robert Huber
1989 - Sidney Altman
1992 - Rudolph Marcus
2000 - Alan J. Heeger


Economics:
1970 - Paul Anthony Samuelson
1971 - Simon Kuznets
1972 - Kenneth Joseph Arrow
1975 - Leonid Kantorovich
1976 - Milton Friedman
1978 - Herbert A. Simon
1980 - Lawrence Robert Klein
1985 - Franco Modigliani
1987 - Robert M. Solow
1990 - Harry Markowitz
1990 - Merton Miller
1992 - Gary Becker
1993 - Robert Fogel


Medicine:
1908 - Elie Metchnikoff
1908 - Paul Erlich
1914 - Robert Barany
1922 - Otto Meyerhof
1930 - Karl Landsteiner
1931 - Otto Warburg
1936 - Otto Loewi
1944 - Joseph Erlanger
1944 - Herbert Spencer Gasser
1945 - Ernst Boris Chain
1946 - Hermann Joseph Muller
1950 - Tadeus Reichstein
1952 - Selman Abraham Waksman
1953 - Hans Krebs
1953 - Fritz Albert Lipmann
1958 - Joshua Lederberg
1959 - Arthur Kornberg
1964 - Konrad Bloch
1965 - Francois Jacob
1965 - Andre Lwoff
1967 - George Wald
1968 - Mars! hall W. Nirenberg
1969 - Salvador Luria
1970 - Julius Axelrod
1970 - Sir Bernard Katz
1972 - Gerald Maurice Edelman
1975 - David Baltimore
1975 - Howard Martin Temin
1976 - Baruch S. Blumberg
1977 - Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
1978 - Daniel Nathans
1980 - Baruj Benacerraf
1984 - Cesar Milstein
1985 - Michael Stuart Brown
1985 - Joseph L. Goldstein
1986 - Stanley Cohen [& Rita Levi-Montalcini] 1988 - Gertrude Elion
1989 - Harold Varmus
1991 - Erwin Neher
1991 - Bert Sakmann
1993 - Richard J. Roberts
1993 - Phillip Sharp
1994 - Alfred Gilman
1995 - Edward B. Lewis

Physics:
1907 - Albert Abraham Michelson
1908 - Gabriel Lippmann
1921 - Albert Einstein
1922 - Niels Bohr
1925 - James Franck
1925 - Gustav Hertz
1943 - Gustav Stern
1944 - Isidor Issac Rabi
1952 - Felix Bloch
1954 - Max Born
1958 - Igor Tamm
1959 - Emilio Segre
1960 - Donald A. Glaser
1961 - Robert Hofstadter
1962 - Lev Davidovich Landau
1965 - Richard Phillips Feynman
1965 - Julian Schwinger
1969 - Murray Gell-Mann
1971 - Dennis Gabor
1973 - Brian David Josephson
1975 - Benjamin Mottleson
1976 - Burton Richter
1978 - Arno Allan Penzias
1978 - Peter L Kapitza
1979 - Stephen Weinberg
1979 - Sheldon Glashow
1988 - Leon Lederman
1988 - Melvin Schwartz
1988 - Jack Stein! berger
1990 - Jerome Friedman
1995 - Martin Perl

Admittedly, though, the Muslim world dwarfs the Jewish world in the number
of:
~terrorists
~suicide bombers
~slave traders - and -
~religious leaders calling for "holy wars."
Maybe they should spend a little more time on education, and less time on
blaming the Jews for all their problems.
What do you think

The Jews are entitled to Palestine; an historical primmer

Many people believe the Arab-propagated "Middle East Conflict Myth" that both legitimizes the Arab demand for the destruction of Israel via the "Right of Return" and blames Jews for the hostilities. The myth can be summed up in three parts: (1) the Jews have no recent connection to Palestine and the only connection they MAY have is over 2000 years old, (2) the Arabs (aka Palestinians) have this recent connection in addition to an historical one, and (3) the Jews lived in harmony in Arab territories prior to the creation of Israel. All three parts are a deliberate fiction and the Arab propagation of this myth is part of a long-term plan by the Arab hierarchy to destroy Israel. The actual history, as described in the excellent article, is quite different.

For a humorous perspective on this same subject, see the Dennis Miller article in this blog.