Israel
The Islamic world often complains about Israel.
Israel can be strongly criticised, but
it is the only free country
in the entire Middle East.
It is a tiny beacon of democracy, human rights, free speech,
science,
religious tolerance and accountable government
in a vast Islamic sea of totalitarianism.
Most of the Islamic world
has no right to speak about it.
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Their complaints are pure hypocrisy anyway.
The Islamic world
does not hate Israel
because
they care about the
human rights of the Palestinians.
If they cared about human rights
they would have human rights in their own countries.
The Islamic world
hates Israel because, well, essentially because they are Jews.
If they were Muslims, doing exactly the same things,
no one in the Arab world would care.
- The main reason people focus on Israel is
because it involves Jews
- This is a pretty bleak vision.
I'm arguing that the Arab world, the western left, and the UN
are driven by racism
and hallucinatory anti-semitism,
not by reason.
If no Jews or at least whites can be blamed,
they're not interested.
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See, for example,
the persecution of Palestinians in Syria/Lebanon and Kuwait.
No one
cares about this because it is not being done by Jews.
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Jordan killed 10,000 Palestinians in 1970,
and
Syria killed 20,000 Islamists in 1982,
and
Kuwait ethnically cleansed the Palestinians in 1991
and
the Egyptian dictator Nasser gassed Yemen in 1967.
But the moral guardians of the world don't care,
because the culprits were not Jews.
- That's human nature.
That's the way humans are.
It's pretty disgusting.
But then again, where do you think genocides and holocausts come from?
It's because humans are disgusting.
If humans were rational,
history would not be a bloodbath.
Ordinary humans - family men, mothers, bright young people - all over the world,
hold irrational and morally sick political and religious views.
That's the way the world is.
- The Islamic world and the Western left get far more excited
when it is Jews killing Muslims
rather than when it is Muslims killing Muslims:
- Muqtedar Khan:
"While we loudly and consistently condemn Israel .. we are
silent when Muslim regimes abuse the rights of Muslims and slaughter thousands of them.
Remember Saddam and his
use of chemical weapons against Muslims (Kurds)?
Remember Pakistani
army's excesses against Muslims (Bengalis)?
Remember the Mujahideen of Afghanistan and their mutual slaughter?
Have we ever condemned them for their
excesses? Have we demanded international intervention or retribution against them?
Do you know how the Saudis treat
their minority Shiis? Have we protested the violation of their rights?
But we all are eager to condemn Israel; not because
we care for rights and lives of the Palestinians, we don't.
We condemn Israel because we hate 'them'."
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The silence of Palestinian Solidarity groups when Palestinians and Lebanese kill Palestinians, May 22, 2007:
"Since the beginning of the year 150 Palestinians have been killed in "internal violence" in Gaza.
In the past week, more than 50 have died in "clashes" at the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian Refugee camp.
...
It is as if these Palestinians have not died at all,
or that their deaths are simply unimportant and not worthy of note."
- The destruction by Lebanon
of the Islamist terror group
Fatah al-Islam
at the
Nahr al-Bared
Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, May-Sept 2007.
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Lebanon kills Palestinians in a refugee camp, 2007, and the world broadly supports Lebanon.
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Jenin comes to Lebanon. So where is the outcry?, Jonathan Kay, National Post, May 29, 2007.
"The main difference between the two sieges is that Israel's army put its troops at far greater risk
by invading Jenin with infantry -- whereas the less humane Lebanese army has simply
pummelled Nahr al Bared with explosives from a distance.
Jews apparently care a lot more about saving Palestinian civilians than do Lebanese soldiers.
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In fact, many Arabs seem to embrace the same blind anti-Palestinian hatred of which Israel
is typically accused. When Lebanese armoured personnel carriers rolled through Tripoli ...
they got a standing ovation from local residents.
"We wish the government would destroy the whole camp and the rest of the camps,"
one local told The New York Times. "Nothing good comes out of the Palestinians."
...
the siege at Nahr al Bared shows that what inflames "the Muslim street"
... isn't Muslim suffering, but the relatively tiny fraction thereof that jihadi propagandists
and their Western apologists can lay at the feet of Jews and Christians."
- Israel is much freer than any of its neighbours:
- I do not understand why the European media
hates Israel so vehemently,
and ignores the virtual non-existence of human rights
in all of free Israel's
totalitarian neighbours.
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Is it because
the left is racist about "non-whites"
and views only the Israelis as full adults?
The Arabs are
excused as victims of history,
or slaves to their culture, while only the Israelis
are treated as adults capable of moral choices.
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Or is it just
the ancient European anti-semitism,
back again in a guilt-free form?
You would think after its obscene history,
Europe would have grown up.
You would think after murdering all their own Jews,
Europe would have the decency to shut up complaining
about Jews for at least a few centuries.
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The Paradox of the Fisks:
The most criticised societies in the world
will be the least criminal societies
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Why do people support the Palestinians?
- Why Don't I Care About the Palestinians?
by John Derbyshire
- "We are all supposed to support the
notion of a Palestinian state. Why? We know perfectly well what it would be like."
We do know what it would be like.
It would be like Syria, Libya or Saddam's Iraq.
Why should we care if such a state is set up or not?
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The Palestinian state has no right to exist
because it will be a tyranny
- Don Watkins makes the fundamental point
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"no one has the right to establish a government
unless it is a free, democratic, secular
government. Only free nations have a right to exist."
I agree.
No one has the right to set up a tyranny.
- A Palestinian state would be a tyranny with no human rights:
- A Palestinian state would escalate the war:
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Time to end the charade, by Salim Mansur, October 20, 2007,
on pointless US efforts to broker Arab-Israeli peace.
"But the truth of the matter is that there is nothing to broker when one party, the Palestinians and their Arab-Muslim financiers and supporters, remains committed to the destruction of the other party, the Israelis.
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Another Arab state squeezed .. between the River Jordan and the Mediterranean -- its population hostile to the West and readily embracing every passing totalitarian ideology in its declared aim of harming Jews and destroying Israel -- instead of being a recipe for any final settlement, will be the source of unremitting conflict in the region and terrorism beyond.
Moreover, Palestinians killing each other while continuing to be supportive of terrorism -- in addition to the appalling record of Arab-Muslim regimes disregarding human rights and respect for minorities -- make them undeserving of the amount of attention provided by American administrations in contrast to the level of American support extended to the equal, if not more deserving, claims of the people suffering in Darfur, Burma, Tibet and Zimbabwe."
- I agree. A Palestinian state would make the conflict worse, not better.
What is needed is not a Palestinian state
but rather for the Palestinians to reform.
The Palestinians have no commitment to democracy.
They attack almost exclusively liberal democracies,
and consistently support tyranny throughout the world.
The Palestinian leadership supported the Nazis,
the Soviet Union,
communist China,
Nasser's Egypt,
Saddam's Iraq,
Castro's Cuba
and Qaddafi's Libya.
The Palestinians should be ashamed of their history.
The Palestinians
supported Saddam
- The Palestinians
supported Saddam Hussein
in both the first and
second Gulf Wars.
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The issue of the Palestinians and Kuwait
illustrates perfectly the double standard
that Islamic countries like Kuwait apply.
Their fellow Muslims - who supported their oppression by Saddam
- are forgiven.
The Israelis - who supported their liberation
- get no thanks and are hated:
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The Palestinians
supported
the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq in 1990.
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America, supported by Israel,
liberated Kuwait from the Iraqi jackboot.
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The Kuwaitis ethnically cleansed their country
of Palestinians
in revenge.
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With breathtaking cynicism,
modern Kuwaitis
now cite the plight of the Palestinians
as reason to hate Israel and America.
It must be said again and again:
The Arab world hates America and Israel
because they are not Muslims.
That is the reason.
There is no other reason.
If they were Muslim, doing the same things, they would not be hated.
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict would be between two Muslim groups,
and the Islamic world would not care.
It is because the Israelis
aren't Muslims
that there is a problem.
"the Muslims inside and outside Palestine welcome the new regime of Germany
and hope for the extension of the fascist, anti-democratic governmental system
to other countries."
- Quote
from the leader of the Palestinians,
the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem,
Haj Amin al-Husseini,
welcoming the
Nazi rise to power,
1933.
"Our fundamental condition for cooperating with Germany was a free hand to
eradicate every last Jew from Palestine and the Arab world. I asked Hitler for an explicit undertaking to allow us to solve the Jewish problem in a manner befitting our national and racial aspirations and according to the scientific methods innovated by Germany in the handling of its Jews. The answer I got was: 'The Jews are yours.'"
- Quote
from the Mufti after WW2.
"I declare a holy war, my Moslem brothers!
Murder the Jews! Murder them all."
- Quote
from the Mufti
calling for a genocide of the Jews
when Israel was declared a state, 1947.
Luckily, the Palestinians failed to carry out their genocide.
A single video clip
sums up Palestinian culture:
Palestinian pre-school children celebrate their mother's death, Mar 2007.
Their mother was suicide bomber
Rim Al-Riyashi
(or Riashi),
who killed herself
and 4 Israeli soldiers and officials
in Jan 2004
at the
Erez
crossing point from Gaza.
See transcript.
Interviewer: "How many Jews did mama kill?"
Muhammad: "This many ..."
Interviewer: "How many is that?"
Muhammad: "Five."
Interviewer: "Do you love mama? Do you miss mama?
Where is mama, Muhammad?"
Muhammad: "In Paradise."
...
Interviewer: "do you want to go to mama?"
Dhoha: "Yes."
Comment:
"I love their children more than they do"
Another video here:
The Hamas "Mickey Mouse", Apr-May 2007,
tells children it is their obligation to fight the Jews,
that all Jews must be killed,
and that Islam must dominate the world.
See transcripts
here
and here:
"We will annihilate the Jews."
The sick Hamas children's character "Assud the Bunny"
threatens to kill
Danish cartoonist
Kurt Westergaard
for drawing a cartoon suggesting that Islam is violent.
Layer upon layer of hypocrisy, hatred, intolerance, corruption of children,
and just plain evil.
Al-Aqsa TV, February 22, 2008.
See transcript.
Tasnim:
"I say to him, and to all of them, that no matter how much they try to hide him, we will manage to kill him, to assassinate him."
Assud: "Allah willing."
They are willing to kill real live people
for a being called "Allah" who doesn't even exist.
Israel is the only country in the entire region
where I, an atheist, could live
without being persecuted.
That is all one has to say really.
We all know this in our hearts in the West.
We all know this is true.
Freedom of religion in Israel
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Atheists should support Israel.
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Gays should support Israel.
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- Writers on Islam and the Arab world
that are still sympathetic to western values:
- Israeli media
(and here
and here)
- Israeli blogs
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"Before I turn to proposals for a future peace,
let me directly address the growing number of students and young people
who are joining the legion of bigots who can see no right on the side of Israel
and no wrong on the side of those who seek to destroy the Jewish state
and transfer its Jewish population.
You are on the wrong side of history.
You are on the wrong side of morality and justice.
You have, perhaps inadvertently, joined hands with forces of evil
that have for millennia imposed a double standard against everything Jewish.
You are on the side of those who supported Hitler's Holocaust and now deny that it occurred.
You are assisting those who are once again
targeting babies, children, women, and the elderly just because they are Jewish.
You are in very bad company.
Nor can you continue to hide behind claims of ignorance,
because the facts are so easily available to anyone who wants to think for himself or herself.
If tragedy were once again to befall the Jewish people,
or the Jewish nation in which more than 5 million of them make their home,
history will judge you harshly, as it has your ideological predecessors.
Think for yourself. Learn the facts. Listen to all sides.
And if you are a person of goodwill,
I am confident that you will no longer see this complex issue as one-sidedly anti-Israel.
You owe it to yourself and to history not remain complicit
with a new variant on the world's oldest prejudice."
- From the closing words of
Alan Dershowitz's
book
The Case For Israel, 2003.
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