Blaise Pascal wrote in his 'Thoughts' that "Not all that is incomprehensible ceases to exist." It seems this world has refused, en masse, to acknowledge the real history of Israel and the Jewish people. It is as if this Israel had never existed.

Of course, I cannot expect even a minority of the Muslim world to acknowledge the real history of Israel, simply because it is apparent, even to a dispassionate observer that one of Islam's present goals is to obfuscate the reality of Israel and the Jewish people, both past and present. The present State of Israel the Muslim world (and their advocates) seeks to condemn into obscurity through the much propagated sufferings of an invented people, namely the Muslim "Palestinians".

In the past-that is, the past before the advent of Yasser Arafat-the appellation "Palestinian" categorized both Jews and Arab Muslims inclusively. In his book Ancient Jewish Proverbs, published in 1911, the famous Jewish scholar Rabbi Avraham Cohen refers to the Jewish people as Palestinians. Such a context is a contradiction to the present Arab Muslim machination which has obtruded upon the Western world the imposture that all Palestinians are of Arab descent. And this world promptly accepts the Arab Muslim version of Middle Eastern history simply because this world has long ago become indurate to all measure of fantasy traducing Jews and their ancient Zionism.

There are, basically, in my opinion, two different types of Zionism. One is the secular Zionism of Jabotinsky and Herzl. The other Zionism-the original Zionism-is outlined in the Torah and is a prescription for all Jews to return to the land of Israel. Both types have melded into a Jewish resistance shaped and hardened by a gauntlet of millennia of years.

This conflated Zionism is not a resistance made timid, neither by the insular and hostile nationalism of a Michael Sheuer nor by the unctuous and sycophantic ravings of a Jimmy Carter. The exclusively Jewish voice of this Zionism cannot be silenced nor diminished, no matter the violence, no matter the lies, no matter the religious preponderance of Islam or Christianity, no matter the autocratic secularism of Western academia and American foreign policy.

In his book 'The Dust of Empire' Karl E. Meyer mentions a certain Loy Henderson of the American Senate who was given the honorific title of "Mr. Foreign Service." Mr. Meyer refers to Loy Henderson as an ardent Arabist and "smitten with Islam,"who"viewed Israel as at best a distracting nuisance, at worst, a state that compromised U.S. interests in the Middle East. Like most senior Foreign Service officers, Henderson and his Arabists had vainly opposed President Truman's decision in 1948 to recognize the state of Israel." Today much of the Arab Muslim world "vainly opposes" a public recognition of the State of Israel; moreover, their attempts to extirpate Judaism from the homes and hearts of those whom the United Nations and the Obama Administration refer to as "Jewish settlers" would indicate much of the Muslim world cannot comprehend the calefactive efficacy of Jewish Zionism.

For the same reasons anti-Jewish bigots like David Irving and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad deny the Holocaust ever happen: such fools cannot comprehend that the Jewish people could survive such a tragedy, never mind build again from the ashes another sovereign Jewish state upon the same land where their famous Kings David and Solomon ruled over the first one. Noetic dolts like Irving and Ahmadinejad are convinced that if they cannot imagine such a tenacious people as the Jews they will cease to exist. For them, Jews living in modern Israel is an incomprehensible truth.

Michael Devolin,

B'nai Elim Canada