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DR. PHIL AND ISRAEL'S DANGER by David Bash November 12, 2009        "Israel won't defeat its enemies -- the only policy that        will insure her own survival -- since it is under the        obsession that giving the enemy compassion, jobs, and        sovereign power will turn enemy hearts to peaceful living        with Jewish infidels and away from the glorious behests of        Islam that offers its followers the ecstasy of victory        through bloody war...." Dorothy Rabinowitz's recent article in the Wall Street Journal ("Dr. Phil and the Fort Hood Killer," 11.10.09) sheds light on the obsession among US government and military officials to see no evil as Muslims express in word and deed their devotion to jihad, the expansion of the Islamic realm through methods that include violence and war. In her article, Rabinowitz epitomizes this tendency of seeing no evil by the reaction of television's famous Dr. Phil to the terrorist major, Malik Nidal Hasan. Dr. Phil was outraged that his view of the Muslim mass killer at Fort Hood was called "psycho-babble" by a fellow television panelist in discussing the massacre. Dr. Phil had asserted that Maj. Hasan had been driven by some kind of stress syndrome. Apparently, Dr. Phil could not tolerate the clarity of thought expressed by a sane fellow panelist who was quite capable of calling a spade a spade, Major Hasan as a Mulim terrorist, even if Dr. Phil could not. The Rabinowitz article is interesting since she describes some of the mechanisms through which denials of the dangers from Islamic jihadist enemies of our nation are made possible and how such tendencies of denial have not served the country well, having now led to the massacre of 13 soldiers and civilians and the wounding of another 30 innocents. Ms. Rabinowitz touches on how this kind of misdirected thinking in 2001 had rendered opaque the many reported signs that Muslims were preparing some kind of strike against US airlines. Ignored at the time were reports of Muslim passengers sizing up conditions on US commercial aircraft and the many acts of Muslim suicide bombings, including the ignoring of the dramatic implications of the Egyptian commercial pilot that yelled "Allahu Akbar" as he crashed his airliner carrying many Jewish passengers -- a detail reported by Thom Friedman -- who were then returning from a good will trip to Egypt. If those responsible for US security cannot fathom and connect the dots of such signals given by Muslim actors, action to stem Muslim terrorism will be futile, nor will such grand efforts to bring Afghanistan within the Western orbit be of any avail if the obvious is not grasped. The Rabinowitz article is a clear object lesson of the cost of placing our heads in the sand concerning the Muslim enemy. But, then, the experience of Israel has already been such a warning since Israel is a dramatic example of what happens when a nation succumbs to Dr. Phil thinking and fails to comprehend the nature of the enemy it faces. It has been the mind-set of Israeli leaders for decades to blind themselves to the grave dangers of the Muslim enemy and his commitment to jihad. If the US has practiced such self blindness for a decade, Israel has been at it for many decades. To this day, Israel is obsessed with seeing the anger and hate of the Muslim enemy as rooted in economic deprivation rather than the mainline Islam that directs its adherents to defeat the infidel enemy and restore all lands once ruled by Islamic rulers to the Islamic realm. In the case of Israel, this explains Israel's constant stream of surrenders in an effort to wean the enemy from the religion that gives meaning to the lives of its masses. These Islamic masses regard this goal as their first priority, far ahead of the refrigerators and Nike sneakers that Israeli leftists, projecting their own value system onto the Arab enemy, think is the key to peace. Ever since the acme of Israeli power in 1967, Israeli governments have been involved in wilful blindness of what the Arab enemy is about and have sought to win Arab enemies to peace by, astoundingly, empowering the enemy diplomatically and militarily. It never occurs to these Israeli leaders that super-nourishing malnourished Arab jackals does not diminish their blood lust for the Jewish sheep. These are not Dr. Phil's psychologically disturbed patients but persons characterologically nurtured to pursue such, to them, magnificent values. Thus, Israel's bringing terrorist Arafat and his army back to Israel from defeat in Tunisia and arming them and promising them eventual nationhood -- an insane Israeli policy that was the result of blindness to the implacable Islamic goal of reversing the existence of Israel -- brought about what alarmed observers had warned of, the strengthening of the Arab enemy and the weakening of the Israeli capacity to protect the nation. One would have thought that the results of this blunder would have awakened Israeli leaders but no such development occurred. True to the insane nature of the Israeli policy that brought this about -- its root in liberal, self-righteous, universalistic ideology -- this madness persisted, as the Israeli government proceeded to surrender the Gaza salient to the enemy, thereby creating as a gift to the enemy of another Arab war front that has brought the entire southern tier of Israel under perennial Arab attack. So while Ms Rabinowitz points out how misdirected thinking and blindness to the nature of enemies that do not share our values have led to fostering the enemy capability of murdering our people, it must be warned that these consequences hardly reveal the grave extent of the dangers that such thinking brings. But this oversight is corrected by a mere glance at the recent history of Israel, which reveals how the same kind of blindness can actually lead a nation toward destruction, despite the fact that same nation otherwise has the power to defeat its enemies, but won't. Israel won't defeat its enemies -- the only policy that will insure her own survival -- since it is under the obsession that giving the enemy compassion, jobs, and sovereign power will turn enemy hearts to peaceful living with Jewish infidels and away from the glorious behests of Islam that offers its followers the ecstasy of victory through bloody war. That policy was not the way the Nazi threat was overcome. The Western Allies, after a spate of futile surrenders to buy the Nazi enemy off that only made them more powerful adversaries, did not continue to pay ransom and rely on reeducation of the enemy to help him see his errors but moved to a policy of unconditional surrender and destruction of those with the Nazi mind-set, making it impossible for the Nazi enemy to continue its war. Observing Israel continuing with policies that surrender Israel's strategic defensive perimeter and strengthen the capacity of the implacable enemy to wage war, one must gain new respect for the power of self deception as a pernicious force for self-destruction that, if not exposed and conquered, will bring about consequences that will annul the magnificent work of millennia toward human freedom and material betterment.                              ******* David Basch is an architect and city planner in New York as well as the Freeman Center's political philosopher. Basch is also an expert on Shakespeare and the author of the book, The Hidden Shakespeare, which proves through talmudic and other Jewish sources that Shakespeare was in fact Jewish.