Monday, July 21,
2014
The Noose Around
Israel's Neck
Posted by Daniel
Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog 23 Comments
Israel is being
hanged on a public gallows erected on the grounds of the United
Nations with yards of rope gleefully supplied by the Muslim world.
But the hangmen are mostly Westerners who still think that the Muslim
lynch mob at their doorstep can be pacified with the death of a
single victim.
There are three
things you can do when you are about to be hanged. You can walk
proudly, recite a glorious line or two to embed your martyrdom in
historical memory, and then allow yourself to be hanged. Jews have an
extensive body of experience with that brand of martyrdom.
Alternatively you
can plead your case all the way to the gallows, arguing that a
mistake has been made, that your case has been improperly reviewed,
begging for someone to listen and do something. This way also ends in
a hanging. But it's the hanging of a slave without even a shred of
dignity attached to it. A man that dies pleading with his murderers,
and puts his fate in the honesty of the liars and hypocrites whose
own crimes makes the worst of his look like virtues, is a craven
fool.
Because there is
really only one thing you can do when the noose is being placed
around your neck. Resist. A noose works by tightening around your
neck and cutting off your air or breaking your neck. If you resist
the tightening of the noose, you may actually survive. On the other
hand if you follow through all the procedures, if you allow your
hands to be tied behind your back, and the noose to be fastened
around your neck while trusting in the system to do right by you--
your death is inevitable.
For two decades
Israel has been walking toward the gallows. Its leaders have led it
there by empty international assurances. Its people have been led
there by refusing to see what is waiting ahead for them, even while
the blood was being cleaned off the streets.
Every attempt to
reach a peaceful solution, every concession and show of good faith,
has only tightened the bonds around its hands and the noose around
its neck.
Every concession
Israel has made, has further restricted not only its ability to
defend itself, but even its ability to do basic things such as build
residential housing in the capital of its own nation. Every gesture
and agreement Israel has signed has bound it to ever more restrictive
terms. And none of them have brought any peace. All they have ever
done is set the bar higher for the next round of concessions demanded
by the enemy and its aiders and abettors in the next phase of
negotiations.
This is not a peace
process, and it has never been one. It is a public lynching. It is
the lynching of a country whose only real crime is that its existence
offends the religious fanaticism and prejudices of a billion Muslims,
who control much of the world's oil, and whose followers are willing
to riot and kill in the streets of nearly every major city in the
world at the slightest offense.
The lynching began
as a trial where the murderer wore a fine suit and his victim sat in
an orange jumpsuit in the dock. Every day during the trial, the
murderer would be allowed to leave the courtroom to kill again. And
every afternoon he would return to the courtroom with bloody hands
that the judge and jurors would pretend not to see.
If the victim called
attention to those bloody hands, he would be told that those murders
were also his fault because he had provoked the murderer into
committing them.
The endgame is all
too clear. The undoing of that "mistake" which allowed the
oldest and most persecuted minority in the Middle East to briefly
reclaim their homeland from the tyranny of Muslim Caliphs and Sultans
as a homeland for their persecuted brethren from the east and the
west.
Every time Israel
tries to be accommodating, it instead takes a step closer to the
gallows. It allows the noose to be tightened around its neck. And
every time that happens, it has to fight harder for air.
Eventually there
will be no air at all. Only a sad forlorn figure swinging in the hot
eastern wind from the desert.
And cries of Ibtach
al Yahood among the rubble of cities and gardens of Jerusalem, Haifa,
Tel Aviv and Ariel.
Israel cannot
survive by accommodating a lynch mob. Only by having the courage to
defy it. When the international community at the behest of the Muslim
lynch mob dictates the parameters of Israel's survival, it must
expand those parameters by pushing through them to the other side. If
they want to recognize terrorists, then kill those terrorists. If
they want to unilaterally create a Palestinian state, then annex
those territories. Accommodation is a noose. Defiance is the air of
freedom. Every time Israel retreats, it is condemned for it. When it
advances, it is condemned for it also, but its freedom of action
expands.
The world will
always condemn Israel regardless of its intentions. But like any form
of name-calling, those condemnations only gain power when Israel
allows its actions to be dictated by them. Israel is not condemned
because of what Israel does. It is condemned because of Islamic
bigotry, left wing radicalism and international dhimmism converging
in one place.
This is a pattern
that cannot be undone. It can only be ignored.
When you listen to
the threats and taunts of those who hate you, you give them power
over yourself. If you try to accommodate your behavior to gain their
favor, their outpouring of hate for you will only grow. It is not
your behavior they hate, it is you. By showing weakness, you invite
attack. By giving your enemies power over you, all that you
accomplish is to drive them into a feeding frenzy at your
vulnerability.
If you go on this
way, you will either be a slave or a corpse. A slave if they have any
use for you alive. A corpse if they don't. Either way you have put
your head into the noose they made for you.
Israel cannot go on
this way. No country could for long. Yet it does, marching on toward
the gallows, protesting that there has been a terrible mistake here.
But there is no mistake here. None at all. The executioners nod
sympathetically and promise to look into it, as they bind his hands
behind his back. It's a farce and everyone, except the dumbest among
the lynch mob and the condemned, knows it.
But like the
condemned man refusing a blindfold in the anecdote who's scheduled to
be executed, Israel keeps being warned not to make trouble. Go
quietly. Breathe deeply. Soon it will all be over. What will the
world say, if Israel resists? Exactly what the world says now. The
troublemakers that are the cause of all the troubles of the otherwise
peaceful nations of the Middle East. The worm in the lovely healthy
apple otherwise covered with Muslim tyrannies.
Every threat that
has been made has come about when Israel made concessions, not
because it refused to. Every time Israel has chosen the high road,
its enemies have ambushed it from the low road. It's past time to
wake up and start learning some lessons. The noose is drawn. And the
nation is gasping for air. That breath of air was Jerusalem. The next
one will be the Galilee. And then what? How many more breaths are
left after that?
Before Oslo, Israel
was threatened with terror if it did not comply. It complied and the
terror increased manifold. And if did not negotiate further, it was
threatened with international isolation. It negotiated. It gave. And
it was isolated anyway. It was threatened with boycotts, and it gave,
and the boycotts came anyway. Now they threaten the unilateral
recognition of a Palestinian state. Followed by a One State Solution.
Followed by international intervention. Noose, gallows and all.
And does anyone
think that all these will not come about anyway if Israel gives Abbas
and his terrorist cronies their own official state with a capital in
Jerusalem?
No compromise has
worked until now. Which means no compromise will work. A process in
which one side repeatedly compromises and the other side repeatedly
threatens and takes, is not a process, but a holdup. If a man
threatens you with a gun, then you might think that you can buy him
off. Until he returns again and again. And then it is no longer a
threat, it is a process. Israel is in that process, or rather it is
being processed. At the end of the process is death. If you pay
attention only to the gun, and not the pattern of threats, you may
keep giving in, until you have given up your home, your wife and your
children, and you have nothing left but your life. And then you will
lose that as well. That is the nature of the process. To survive, you
must not see the gun alone, but the process it is part of.
When Israel withdrew
from Gaza, allowed Hamas to control it, and did nothing but prevent
Hamas from having outside access, the world howled as if Israel had
filled the country with graves from end to end, as Sudan or Iran or
some of the other members and former members of the UN Human Rights
Commission have. Now that Israel sacrifices the lives of its soldiers
to minimize Muslim civilian casualties while Hamas does everything to
increase those casualties, the howling has become a din.
That is not justice.
That is a lynch mob.
We are no longer
talking about negotiations. Or any serious discussion of a state. We
are talking about the world rising up in one voice to defend the
rights of a genocidal organization whose charter includes the words;
"The Day of Judgment will not come about until Muslims fight the
Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and
trees. The stones and trees will say O Muslims, O Abdullah, there is
a Jew behind me, come and kill him."
The pretense is over
and done with. This is not about anything resembling peace. This is
about death. This is a lynch mob. Some come willingly. Others think
that they have no choice. That a single murder will buy them the
tolerance of the Dar Al Islam.
This is what a noose
looks like. These are the gallows. As its hands are bound, Israel
loses the ability to defend itself. As the noose tightens, Israel
dies. Only by resisting the noose, can it survive. Only by fighting
to free its hands, can it resist.
The way of surrender
is the way of death. And after Israel dies, its own hangmen will be
next.
The lynch mob has
only begun. Its appetite is whetted by death. Its hunger will only be
sharpened, not sated, by blood. And it will cover the world in blood,
if it is not stopped. But now the noose draws tight. Only a little
more air is left.
What will Israel do
with that air? Appeal for justice, or fight with all its strength to
rip the noose away. For now the choice is still hers. When the noose
has done it work, it no longer will be.
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