Israel: Fight like your forefathers
Ellis Washington - Jan 07, 2009
World Net Daily
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. ~ Sir Edmund Burke
God willing, Hamas will win. ~ Nizar Rayan (a Hamas leader the day before his death)
As I look at tiny Israel finally getting the courage to start defending herself decisively against the evil and intractable Hamas, the de facto leadership of the Palestinians living in Gaza, I had a troublesome sense of unease for several reasons:
1. As detestable as watching sausage being made, war is something that has always been very difficult for me to view in real time because of the carnage, the slaughter of innocent women and children, but even worse, the geopolitical posturing by corrupt politicians.
2. I am not convinced that Israel has a prudent, efficient war plan replete with post-war policy contingencies already in place.
3. Now that Hamas has the technological capabilities to launch rockets to Israel's nuclear plant, can Israel any longer afford the political self-delusion to tolerate what conservative intellectual Michael Savage called "the enemy within"?
If just one of those stray Hamas rockets hits Israel's nuclear plant in Dimona (pop. 186,000), the fallout in that city and throughout Israel could rival Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan (1945), or at least be comparable to the nuclear disaster at the Chernobyl facility in the Soviet Union (1986).
As a Christian, I am inextricably joined at the hip with my Israeli brothers, but like many lovers of Israel, I am dismayed as I witness them possess such a magnificent army, yet because of reliance on secular humanist presuppositions, instead of exacting a decisive blow to Hamas, their politicians are mired in liberalism, socialism and egalitarianism. For now, Israel seems content to allow hundreds of billions of dollars worth of military equipment to remain idle, encamped on the border of Gaza. This is an untenable situation for me.
As wicked and utterly evil as I find Hamas to be, I do not blame them exclusively for this war in Gaza. Why? Hamas is what they are. They are a fanatical Muslim terrorist group like Fatah and the old Palestine Liberation Organization of Yasser Arafat, which Hamas seeks to utterly usurp. Hamas was not voted into power in a democratic election by the Palestinian people, but in January 2006 took the election by force, killing Fatah candidates and their supporters and forcing Mahmoud Abbas, the leader of Fatah, to flee to the West Bank. Because this treasonous act was tolerated by the Palestinian people of Gaza without revolt, in my mind, there are no innocent Palestinians in Gaza or the West Bank.
Remember the wise words of Lady Margaret Thatcher, the former prime minister of England, who repeatedly warned, "Never appease an aggressor," for to do so only emboldens them to your destruction.
Israel, if she is to survive, must strike out on her own and fight like her forefathers in the Torah gallantly fought wars – men and women like Abraham, Moses, Joshua, Gideon, Samson, Jepthath, Deborah, Jael, Mordecai, Esther and David. Israel must destroy the enemy, drive them out of the occupied territories and annex all of Israel. That means Hamas in Gaza, Fatah in the West Bank and the Palestinians in Jerusalem including the Temple Mount. Yes, the world will hate you, Israel, but that's OK because the Arabs and the gentile nations have hated you from antiquity and with increasing venality since you became a nation reborn on May 14, 1948.
Israel, you have nothing to lose if you fight fearlessly, comprehensively and gallantly like boy David did against Goliath. (Recall that David gathered five stones, one for Goliath and his four brothers; David left nothing to chance.) Israel, you have always defied the odds because the God Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is on your side. Israel, like many Americans, Christians and Jews throughout the world, I believe that you are God's chosen people, that one day the Jewish Temple will be rebuilt on the Temple Mount without any other Muslim edifice there to defile the true worship of God. Indeed, multitudes of Christians and Jews throughout the world long to see that day.
Hamas leader Nizar Rayan, arguably the most zealous proponent of homicide attacks against Israel, has thankfully made his transition to hell along with his four wives and 10 of his 11 children (a 12th child he sent to die as a homicide bomber in October 2001, killing two Israelis). It didn't have to be this way for Sheik Rayan and his family, because Israel follows an irrational, self-imposed set of rules of war that no other nation on earth would pursue and had warned this murderous Hamas leader that the bombs were coming – and he ignored the warnings.
I don't worry about Hamas, Fatah, Hezbollah, the Taliban, al-Qaida, the 44 Muslim nations of the world or the psychopaths in the U.N. Why? Because these evil people and hateful, jealous nations were predicted by the Jewish prophets from antiquity. Sir Edmund Burke paraphrased the Torah in this way: "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." And herein is my reason to fear. I see very few "good men" as leaders of the civilized nations of the world that possess the courage, vision and moral authority to be a bulwark against the ever-growing Muslim menace.
What I also fear is Israel's irrational love affair with liberalism, socialism and egalitarianism. I fear Israel's litany of foolish and delusional policy choices that make Israeli leaders impotent to act decisively in the face of a sworn fanatical enemy like Hamas and Fatah. These terrorist groups' Muslim financiers, like Syria, Egypt, Iraq, Iran Jordan, Saudi Arabia and many others, have for decades surreptitiously provided the Palestinians millions of dollars ostensibly for food and humanitarian aid, but Hamas and Fatah have instead used this money for mortars, weapons and homicide (not suicide) bombers to kill Jews.
Hamas isn't' the problem, but a symptom of Israel's more insidious, intractable problem. Liberalism and the Alignment-Labour-Kadima Party in Israeli politics is the problem. Socialist liberal leaders of Israel like Rabin, Peres, Barak, Sharon, Olmert, Livni, even conservative Netanyahu (Hebron), in order to curry favor from America and the U.N., for decades treacherously gave away their holy birthright for the promise of peace by their sworn enemies, the Muslims, and yet Israel has no peace.
Israel, I implore you to ignore the political madness of the Bush/Condi Rice/Obama "Two-State Solution," the genocidal policy of land-for-peace of the United Nations and the Arab nation states, as well as the anti-Semitic vitriol from all of the other corrupt gentile nations of the world that are jealous of you, that hate you and don't think that the Torah is the word of God, nor that the Jews are God chosen people. Be assured that the Arabs and the Muslim and gentile nations will lose if they are foolish enough to war against you … for they are warring against God, whom the Torah repeatedly calls, "the Lord of Hosts."
Israel, listen only to the rabbis and Israeli leaders whose religious and political policies comply with the words of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, for that is where your redemption will be found.
Shalom, Israel!
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