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PROBLEM SOLVED

David Basch - 4.11.13

At last the solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict has been found! The
solution dawned last Thursday at Fairfield University in a
presentation by Bob Simon of CBS and 60 Minutes fame. Simon had given
a one-sided presentation of the conflict that left most of his
audience quivering with sympathy for the suffering of the Arab side.
It is easy to do this when you totally leave out the facts for the
case for Israel as Simon did.

In a forty-five minute presentation, Simon entirely omitted the fact
that the League of Nations had awarded the Jewish people the right to
build a Jewish homeland and to allow "unlimited close settlement" on
the lands of the Mandate of Palestine. [So you see, "Jewish
settlements" are legal!] While Arabs accepted the League's rulings
pertaining to the splitting up of the Ottoman Empire defining the
borders for six of today's Arab nations, the Arabs firmly rejected the
Leagues' ruling supporting a Jewish homeland and, ever since, have
been at war with the resulting Israel.

Unfortunately, Israel's governments over the period since Israel's
1948 establishment have, in self-delusion, refused to accept the raw
reality that the Arab side will not resign itself to the existence of
Israel. Such a thought, apparently, is unthinkable in Leftist
ideology, which deems to understand others as universally craving
peace, like themselves. But the reality has been that despite all
Israeli attempts to change the thinking of the enemy through
compromise on various issues, including withdrawals from Israel's
lands, the Arabs have not budged from their rejection of Israel, using
the benefits conferred on them by the foolish Israelis to intensify
their efforts to destroy Israel.

Israel's stubborn but futile attempts to win over the Arabs have
resulted in horrible policies that have strengthened the enemy and
weakened Israel diplomatically and militarily. These misbegotten
Israeli policies brought back to Israel the defeated and exiled Arafat
and his terrorist army. They also brought for Arafat the establishment
of a Palestinian Authority that gave him control over the Arab
population of Judea, Samaria and Gaza, not to mention financial and
military resources to strengthen him.

Despite these and many more insane gestures toward an implacable Arab
side, Israel was left high and dry in its pursuit of peace, bringing
only death, maiming and wounds to thousands of Israelis even as it
promoted a rising tide of new demands on an Israel that was
progressively being delegitimized. This deterioration was later
crowned by Ariel Sharon's surrender of the Gaza salient and the ethnic
cleansing of its Jewish population, opening an Arab southern military
front in what has been a historic invasion route into the heart of
Israel -- though ignorant Israeli governments had never have heard of
such a thing, Gaza has ended up as a military bastion controlled by an
elected Hamas terrorist leadership, which promptly began a continuous
rocket bombardment of southern Israel.

In the question and answer period of Simon's talk, Simon, like Leftist
Israeli governments, found it difficult to accept the thought that the
reason for the continuing conflict was Arab refusal to accept an
infidel Israel in control of what the Arabs regarded as part of the
Islamic realm. Simon expressed doubt that this issue of an infidel
Israel explained the continuing conflict. And, of course, ignorant
Leftist Israeli governments like him agreed and had doomed Israel to
futile attempts at appeasement.

But some glimmers of reality did break through. A point was pressed
from the audience of an often repeated adage summarizing the reality
of Arab culpability for the continuing hostilities: this stated that
if Israel were disarmed, immediate war would result but that a
disarmed Arab side would bring peace.

As it happened at the talk, this dose of reality was dropped from
discussion as another commentator from the audience -- a local
attorney who identified himself as of Arab descent -- praised the
Jewish people he was acquainted with and alleged that what was needed
in the conflict was Jewish acceptance of the humanity of the Arab
side. The Arab attorney alleged that many Arabs in the region had
retained the keys to houses that had been abandoned in 1948 Arab
defeat. This argument threw the ball of solution to the Jewish side,
which was alleged to be withholding such compassion. And thus was the
idea buried of an implacable and heartless Arab enemy and the focus
given to Jewish responsibility for the conflict and the call for more
Israeli surrender in the name of "compassion" and "compromise."

Simon seized upon this line of thought and recommended to the audience
a recent documentary film featuring five former heads of Mossad and
other Israeli intelligence organization. These intelligence heads had
been in the vanguard of Israeli attempts to win over the Arab hearts
and had been responsible for the failing policies of an Israeli
government that brought on the Oslo and Gaza disasters and were still
at it, seeking another round of surrenders and undermining of any new
sanity in the policies of an Israeli "hardline" government.

Interestingly, it occurred to me that this Leftist line was recently
preached by Obama in Israel, who called on young Israelis to be
compassionate and enable the Arab side to establish a new Arab state
on Israel's lands. Here again with Obama, the reality was ignored of
an Arab side that has failed to acknowledge Israel's right to
sovereignty within the lands of the Mandate of Palestine and who placed
Islamic triumph over any call for acceptance of Israel's territorial
claims.

Neither did Obama or Simon confront the reality of an Arab side that
has implacably attempted to reverse Israel's possession of the
territories gained in 1967 as a result of defending against Arab
aggression, coming from the same lands demanded today for peace, which
the Arabs had then illegally possessed. (Both Egypt and Jordan in 1948
illegally seized these territories of the Mandate of Palestine,
including Jerusalem. What is more, Israel is the only sovereign entity
with a legitimate claim to such lands and Israel had crossed no
international boundary in defending against Arab armies and taking
possession of these lands.)

In this context we can readily see that what Israel is confronting is
a decades long Arab policy that seeks to reverse the Six Day War that
gave the fledgling Israel new, defensible, strategic borders in the
lands allotted to her by the League of Nations' Mandate of Palestine.
Interestingly, this right to defensible borders was specifically
reinforced by the UN agreement that ended the 1967 war. So how did it
come that Arabs who were referred to as "refugees" in that agreement
came to be recognized as a "people" with historic rights to lands,
including Jerusalem, set aside for the Jews in the Mandate?

We see here evidence of failed Israeli governments who have sought to
buy peace from the implacable Arabs by conceding Jewish rights.

So now, the solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict, which the Arabs
have no intention of allowing except in the case that they conquer
Israel. The solution was heard from the floor of Bob Simon's talk.
Recall, it was pointed out that,

A disarmed Israeli side would lead to immediate war,
but that a disarmed Arab side would bring peace.

There you have Israel's solution to the conflict. While solutions have
been posed that would strengthen the little thought has been given to
the Israeli solution at hand, namely, a strong Israel capable of
overwhelming all possible Arab forces opposing her and beating that
back with severe losses on the Arab side. In fact, this situation was
what occurred in the wake of the 1967 war.

Unfortunately, the Israeli Leftist dreamers were active in attempting
to institute an ultimate solution that would win Arab acceptance of
Israel -- as though Arabs would chuck off their deeply held Islamic
views in the way that these same Jews do for their Judaism. As a
result, Israel failed to complete her victory in the 1967 war and left
the Arab side had the expectation it could achieve Islamic victory
from the Jews that sought to win their hearts.

Blinded by a Liberal ideology that believes that all peoples desire
peace -- with the exception of course for the Nazis -- such Jews
craved to attain the "best" peace -- a world in which Arabs and Jews
will love one another -- and have gladly sacrificed the "better" way,
a peace in which Israel indefinitely holds the Arab enemy at bay.

In other words, the solution is not Israeli surrender, but Israeli
strength that would severely punish those who violated the conditions
of peace. This teaches that it is error to build up the Arab side --
they will only use that to defeat Israel -- and it is wisdom to see to
it that Israel holds the overwhelming, decisive edge over the enemy.
It is about time that Israel stopped trying to please US aims in
giving in to the US's implacable Arab enemy.

And what about winning Arab hearts? Interestingly this too will come
from an Israeli peace since Islam sanctions desisting from jihad in
circumstances when the result will be defeat and Islamic ruin. It is
about time a clear eyed Israeli government tried this approach.