Britannia Radio

ENEMY ARMIES FACING ISRAEL

by David Basch

8.6.10

"Did our synagogue membership need to convene for an Israeli government

presentation that echoed the soothing voice of the liberal media urging support

for Obama policies for further surrenders by Israel of its strategic territories

'for the sake of peace'?"

"Truly, the Israeli speaker sounded like he was campaigning for Obama, the guy

that has been stabbing Israel in the back ever since he came into office...."

Caroline Glick has reported on the new competence of the Arab armies facing Israel,

a competence made possible by the US and, ironically, by misplaced trust in the

US that leads Israel to wink at the threats these armies pose for the security of Israel,

if not to actually abet these anti-Israel military efforts.

The picture that emerges is of an Israel that is gradually being surrounded by powerful

Arab armies helped by the US that will face Israel with the choice of surrender and capitulation

or going down to destruction in a fruitless war of impossible self-defense. This is hardly

a reassuring situation. .

Past experience with fighting wars tells that a besieged nation that is having war thrust

upon it should respond vigorously in such a way that leads not only to stopping the

aggression but decisively defeating it so that it cannot recur. It wouldn't because the

conditions that brought it on would be forever changed and the enemy would no longer

have the ability to pose the former menace. This is a policy that Israel has not had

for decades. Instead, Israel has each time it nipped an attack had followed it up

by surrendering its victory by allowing the enemy to regroup and recoup. Each

time Israel has expected the enemy to learn a new way of behavior -- as though

a jackal curbed could change its nature and turn vegetarian.

Anyone who has watched Israel over the past decades has note that for all the

concessions, appeasements, and surrenders that Israel has made, this has not led

to promoting peace but always in promoting the strength of the enemy and the

legitimacy of its aggression against Israel. The enemy, thanks to active policies of

Israeli governments, has become "freedom fighters" for the "historic Arab lands

stolen from them by the Jews," the Jews now organized as an oppressing, illegal

Israeli government. Everyone knows this, including the vast majority of Jewish

youth in the US and even large numbers of Jewish youth in Israel itself.

Such things don't happen overnight. It took Israeli governments many years to

foster such thinking as they sought to show the implacable Arab enemy what

"good guys" Israelis are and "how wrong Arabs are" to fight such "nice Jews"

just because these "nice people" are robbing "the Arab lands of Palestine."

Will the Arab knife menacing the Jewish neck lead Israel's leaders -- the

threat has long ago succeeded in alarming normal, average Jews -- to recognize

that Israel is in mortal danger and needs expert strategy, strong deployments,

and tactics to confront the menace, not the usual ideological approach that

imagines away the threat of determined Arab enemies.

A recent pitch by an Israel speaker from the New York Israeli Consulate at our

local synagogue sought to paint a rosy picture of Arabs like Abu Abbas that were

"working for peace with Israel" in order to benefit by their improving economic

condition in the territories. Imagine, our audience was dumbfounded to learn that

because of such progress the Arabs would surrender their cherished Islamic beliefs

that lands once ruled over by Arab authorities should forever maintain such status.

The way the speaker told it, these Arabs were like Israelis, ready to throw away

their religious heritage for refrigerators, Nike sneakers, and other material

comforts and that, when they strengthened themselves sufficiently, they would

forgo the coup de gras of recapturing and absorbing "the lands they think stolen

from them."

You could hardly tell the Israeli speaker about this side of the problem in the

delirium he fostered in his talk of the good economic times current in Israel and how close

Israel was to the the thinking of the Obama administration. Truly, the speaker sounded

like he was campaigning for Obama, the guy that has been stabbing Israel in the

back ever since he came into office, continuing such back-stabbing that had begun

in the last years of the Bush administration.

Needless to say that there was nary a thought mentioned by the speaker of the

inescapable problem that Israel faces concerning the ever-present feeling of humiliation

that Arabs feel that a Dhimmi population of Jews had succeeded in reversing an Islamic

conquest of the land of Israel; that this was a continuing background threat to the existence

of Israel that needed to be considered in developing defense policies, not wished away

in imagining happy Arabs visiting their new shopping malls.

Did our synagogue membership need to convene for an Israeli government presentation

that echoed the soothing voice of the liberal media urging further surrenders by Israel

of its strategic territories "for the sake of peace"?

Hopefully, reality will intrude into the Leftist ideological realm of the Israeli leadership

before it is too late. I long to see signs of this.