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The recent past

Gaza pullout. Palestinians elect Hamas. Terror attacks on Israel continue. Palestinian civil war begins.

Israel ending the occupation won't bring peace

  Optimism

The plan


Israel - The future

There will never be peace in the Middle East until the Palestinians change, and adopt the values of human rights, religious freedom and liberal democracy.

In the absence of that, Israel addressing their supposed grievances (ending the "occupation", allowing a "right to return") will lead to more violence, not less (as the "Peace Process Intifada" has shown). The only thing that will bring long-term peace is the gradual adoption of democracy and human rights by the Palestinians.



From pro-Israel demo, June 2007.
Israel is the front-line state of the West, facing the enemy before we have to.
In the 2000s, we discovered to our surprise that the disgusting suicide bombings we saw in Israel in the 1990s were not just Israel's problem. They were a glimpse of our future, in the rest of the West. They show what the future will be like, in Madrid, London and all western cities, which will have to live now for the next few decades under the constant threat of jihadi suicide bombing.
Israel's fight is our fight - the fight to preserve democracy, freedom of religion, free speech and human rights against our totalitarian enemies.




Pessimism

Israel has many bigoted, racist, Islamic enemies that want to destroy it, and under the right circumstances they would carry out another Holocaust.

Until the Islamic world changes, this threat of extermination will always hang over the future of Israel.




The recent past


The "Peace Process" caused more, not less killing


The intifada is over, and Israel has won

The intifada is over, and the left was wrong. All through 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003, as the Palestinian intifada raged against Jewish civilians, we heard again and again from the western left that Israel's response was all wrong. That a tough Israeli response would just encourage more hatred and violence, and breed more terrorists. That Sharon was a disaster.

But the left was wrong. Israel's response - military incursions, building the wall, and targeted assassination - ended the violence. Israel elected Sharon to stop the Palestinian violence - and he did. The western left was wrong about everything.




The Security Fence has stopped the violence



From standwithus.com. See here.



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The absurd analogy with the Berlin Wall



Cartoon by Scott Stantis, Birmingham News, Alabama.




Gaza pull-out


The Gaza pull-out achieves nothing - The war continues


Going nowhere - The Palestinians vote for Hamas, Jan 2006


The Gaza Beach Incident, June 2006



Palestinian civil war

As predicted, the Gaza pull-out led to the setting up of a terrorist state, with lawless Islamist gangs fighting each other for control - instead of the setting up, say, of a parliamentary democracy with respect for the law and human rights. Gaza illustrates better than anything could that the Palestinians do not deserve their own state.



There is an incredible idea that we should support the supposedly "moderate" terrorist killers of Fatah in this civil war against Hamas. The US, EU, and even Israel have sent aid, money, and even arms to Fatah. Have they forgotten the long list of terror attacks and suicide bombings by Fatah? I am sure Fatah have killed more innocent Israelis than Hamas. I fail to see how Fatah are any better than Hamas. This is like supporting Saddam against Iran.
Cartoon from Cox and Forkum (see here). See Cartoon Use Policy.



Synagogues Used as Bases To Fire on Israel, Aaron Klein, February 27, 2007, illustrates better than anything that the Palestinians do not deserve a state, and trying to give them one in Gaza and the West Bank is pointless:

"The ruins of two large synagogues in evacuated Jewish communities of the Gaza Strip have been transformed into military bases used by Palestinian Arab groups to fire rockets at Israeli cities ... When Israel withdrew from the Gaza in August, 2005, it left intact 20 synagogues of the Gush Katif Jewish communities ... Immediately after the Israeli evacuation was completed, Palestinian Arabs destroyed most of the Gaza synagogues. ... a spokesman for the Popular Resistance Committees, Abu Abir, said the area in which the synagogues once stood is now used to fire rockets at Israel. "We are proud to turn these lands, especially these parts that were for long time the symbol of occupation and injustice, like the synagogue, into a military base and source of fire against the Zionists and the Zionist entity," Mr. Abir said. Mr. Abir blamed the Jewish state for the desecration of the Gaza synagogues by Palestinian Arabs, claiming the decision to leave the structures intact was part of an Israeli conspiracy. Israel "left the synagogues behind so the world would see the Palestinians destroying them," Mr. Abir said."

You know, he could be right about that.



Israel ending the occupation of Gaza and the West Bank won't bring peace



Optimism

Is there any more optimistic note I could end on? Not really. It is the Palestinians that must change if there is ever to be peace.

The Palestinians must abandon Islamofascism and adopt the values of democracy, freedom of speech, freedom of religion and human rights. If they ever do so, with Israel next door, there will be peace and prosperity beyond their dreams.

In the meantime, while we wait for the Palestinians to change, it seems that a military/security solution is the way forward.


New Palestinians



The plan

OK, here's the only attempt I can make at optimism. For peace in Israel, the Palestinians must change. For that to happen, the entire Middle East must change:

  1. This is what America is trying to start with Iraq.
  2. Lebanon has already changed as a result.
  3. If democracy beds down in Iraq and Lebanon, Syria too will fall.
  4. And Iran will fall from within.
  5. If these all become democracies, the wave of change may finally arrive at the Palestinians.

This is not utopian. This could happen in the next couple of decades (look at how the Soviet world has totally changed since 1985). In a very real sense, the road to peace in Israel runs through Baghdad and Tehran.

In summary, there will be no peace in the Middle East until the Islamic mind changes, and embraces the Enlightenment and the modern world. This will take decades, but it could happen.




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