Another one of those land mark events is occurring at the U.N. which should tell us what President Obama’s actual views are towards the Jewish People and the State of Israel are. President Obama has, as in every other aspect of his political life to date, paid much lip service to being a supporter of Israel, while his actions and deeds have been decidedly the opposite. I have been shouted down by many of my fellow Jews for pointing this out, and flatly ignored when I pointed out that the real Jew hatred in this country comes from the political left. Whether you agree with me or not, one thing is absolutely certain. That is that Barack Obama’s policies have led us to where we are today. Whether due to his hatred for the Jewish People, or his banal incompetence combined with his unjustified arrogance resulting in a poorly executed foreign policy agenda have led us to this point is of little importance to me. The fact is, his statements about the pre 1967 borders and his backing of the Muslim Brotherhood’s takeover of several nations in the region have led to an event which could lead to the annihilation of Israel. The Obama Administration has stated publicly that they will be vetoing this initiative, but I would expect that veto to be coupled with another sickening apology to Muslim Overlords who are pressing this issue. Barack Obama’s sickening habit of moral equivalency which somehow puts a member of Hamas blowing himself up in proximity of a kindergarten school bus in the same category of the Israelis building a fence along their border designed to keep explosives off of their streets and out of their schools is every bit as evil as the act of blowing up those kids, (who’s only sin by the way is being born Jewish.) The Durban III Conference is starting this week, and it has already been eschewed by many brave nations. Going on at the same time will be something called Durban Watch. The U.N. had a fine and noble purpose. Bringing the world’s nations together to iron out differences diplomatically before violence became the only means necessary seems like a good idea. The only problem with it is the practicality. One, a lasting peace, in the entirety of world history has never been attained diplomatically. Two, it allows for an inherent moral equivalency. It starts with the premise that there is no such thing as a good or evil nation. That every behavior is just as morally acceptable as any other. In fact, every leftist philosophical argument starts with this premise. Clearly, people blowing themselves up in pizza parlors with the idea in mind of killing as many innocent children as possible is not good. Such evil must be defeated outright and not negotiated with. We as Americans used to understand this. At least today I am hoping that 51 percent of us strategically placed about the country understand this. Any Jewish person who votes for Obama is clearly insane.
Enjoy the video narrated by Bill Whittle for a much needed history lesson on the subject of Palestine and Israel.
Cross Posted at Musings of a Mad Conservative.
UPDATE: A hearty hat tip to buzzsawmonkey for the Update which follows.
Kudos to Bill Whittle for his video. It does, however, contain several serious errors:
1) Arab violence against Zionist Jews in the Land of Israel dates back to the 1880s, when the first pre-Herzl efforts by Jews to establish the groundwork for a future state began. Since that time, there has not been one single year when Arabs did not seek to murder Jews living in the land.
2) The video wrongly refers to the Arabs in the Land of Israel and the territories as “Palestinians”; that is a misnomer. Prior to Israeli independence, Arabs in Mandate Palestine were referred to as “Arabs”; “Palestinian” was the term used to refer to Jews. The Arabs did not adopt the term “Palestinian” until the formation of the “Palestine Liberation Organization” (PLO) in 1964; at that time, Gaza was ruled by Egypt and the West Bank and Jerusalem by Jordan. The “PLO” was formed, not to create an independent “Palestinian” Arab state, but to destroy the state of Israel; the name “Palestine” was adopted to differentiate the Arabs from Israelis.
3) Jerusalem is given short shrift in the video; while the video mentions Arab riots in the ’20s which went into “West” Jerusalem, what the video does not address is that the city of Jerusalem, as far back as population records exist under the Ottomans (back when “East” Jerusalem, i.e., the “Old City,” was the only Jerusalem there was), was a majority-Jewish city. Jordan occupied the Old City during the 1948 war: the UN, which had declared that Jerusalem should be “an international city, with free access to all holy places,” did nothing to prevent this, and stood by while Jewish property was expropriated, Jewish cemeteries and places of worship desecrated, and the Jews who resided in the Old City were killed or expelled. The media today speak of “traditionally Arab East Jerusalem”—but the only time for the last several hundred years that “East” Jerusalem was “traditionally Arab” was during the 19 years of illegal Jordanian occupation.
4) The video does not mention that following the independence of Israel, some 800,000 Jews were expelled from the Arab lands where they had lived for centuries—often with little more than the clothes on their backs. These refugees found a home in Israel. The Arab nations, however, refused—and continue to refuse—to accept and absorb the linguistically, culturally, and religiously identical “Palestinian” refugees, in order to keep alive a “problem” to delegitimize Israel. In short, the fledgling nation of Israel solved a “refugee problem” in a few years that the Arab nations have not merely refused to solve, but exacerbated, for more than half a century. Furthermore, other refugee populations were created in 1948; millions of Hindus were expelled from what became Pakistan, and millions of Muslims left newly-independent India for Pakistan; these people, unlike the “Palestinians,” have gotten on with their lives.
5) None of the nations surrounding Israel are more than 30 years older than Israel. Israel is often regarded as the “new kid on the block”—but Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Iraq and Syria were all created out of the debris of the Ottoman Empire following WWI—as, for that matter, was modern Turkey. Jordan, as the video notes, was created later by the British from the lion’s share of Mandate Palestine. In the Middle East, a few decades are as the blink of an eye; to regard Israel as some sort of upstart creation, when the surrounding nations are very little older than Israel, is absurd.
—reposted from Correspondence Committee, and from PJM
