This Article comes from Section 3 of a recently updated and amended commentary originally published in 2006 at Kingscalendar.
Within Sections One and Two, there are a number of key points made, not about Islam or Muslims, but about Western people. I would like to recap them in point fashion:
Many people say that they are not racist but merely have a political position
A political position is an ideology.
Many people hold to one form of ideology or another.
Sometimes Ideology will change to suit political reality.
Many ideologues support despotic regimes in the Middle East.
Many ideologues oppose Israel - a democratic country.
Middle Eastern Arabs in 2011 are rebelling against despotic Arab Regimes.
Many Militant Ideologues are Fundamentalists.
The Proud and Militant are often arrogant and ignorant.
Fundamentalism is a manifestation of an emotional problem.
One manifestation can be classed as 'Reaction Formation'.
Free Speech is a defense against lies and propaganda.
Hamas consistently states that it will never live in Peace with Israel.
Hamas and Fatah are now reunifying in order to gain statehood.
Hamas regards Israel as occupying Palestinian Land.
For years now the bleeding hearts have been supporting Hamas and Fatah and calling for boycotts, sanctions and whatever against Israel. Consistently painting Israel as a Nazi State, a terrorist state, and the cause of all Palestinian problems, they ignore the historical reality on the ground. That reality is that:
- Palestine was a part of the Turkish Empire until annexed by Britain, that in 1948 a Palestinian state could have been created alongside of Israel, and that the current borders of Israel were won in defensive wars instigated by the Arabs
The sorts of ideologues / activists / and 'we only have a political position 'racists', could not, at the time of the formation of the first unity government in Palestine, see that the government would not work.
I wrote several articles at the time, maintaining that Hamas was a Trojan Horse, and that I was cynical about Hamas intentions. I stated quite plainly that Hamas were liars, but at the time so many people jumped for joy over the prospect of real peace and a two state solution for Palestine. But what happened? Gaza Happened! Today, everyone is once again believing that Hamas, despite its constant statements about never accepting the existence of Israel, is going to co-operate with Fatah and peacefully achieve Statehood.
Such people are as foolish as all those peace activists who go to Gaza and other places and act as human shields for terrorists, or at the very least turn a blind eye to the way the Palestinians have been treated by Hamas. In my recent article Ideological Activists: Aiding and Abetting Terror, about the murder of Mr. Arrigoni an Italian peace activist operating out of Gaza, I wrote:
- I know nothing about the man. This much I do know about activists however, is that they are people driven by ideology, and ideology cares nothing for the truth. Whatever the man may have believed, he obviously did not understand that the people he supports don't fit a nice ideological pigeon-hole. The Palestinian peoples are pawns in a political game controlled by terrorists. That is the sum of it in a nutshell! Mr. Arrigoni sided with terrorists, and now he is dead!
Jim Kouri (Board Member of the National Association of Chiefs of Police) writing about the latest planned Gaza Blockade Busting Flotilla says:
The main organizers of last year's so-called Gaza Flotilla, the Turkish-based Foundation for Human Rights, Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief (IHH), the Free Gaza coalition, and assorted radical-left leaders such as President Obama's friends and colleagues William Ayers and Jodie Evans, are preparing a new blockade-busting voyage.
The organizer of the [previous] blockade-busting action was a known radical group called Free Gaza. The "Free Gaza" flotilla was far more than a collection of innocent "peace activists" trying to provide humanitarian aid to Gaza, as they were portrayed by many news organizations.
Among its members were Weather Underground founders William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn--who perpetrated a series of terrorist attacks--as well as Jodie Evans, the leader of the radical activist organization Code Pink. Besides the U.S. radicals, Islamic groups such as Hamas, Hezbollah and Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood contributed to the flotilla.
Whilst activists spend their time telling us that Israelis are the terrorists and murderers, Yoram Ettinger in his recent article Arabs Condemn - But Prefer - Israel points out that "The collapse of Arab regimes reflects the collapse of superficial assumptions, which have underlined Western policy-making and public opinion molding. The upheaval in Arab societies highlights the dramatic gap between Israel's democracy and its Arab neighbors." He goes on to say that:
Israeli ID cards have been sought by senior PLO and Hamas officials and their relatives, such as the three sisters of Ismail Haniyeh, the top leader of Hamas. They married Israeli Arabs and migrated from Gaza to Tel Sheva in Israel's Negev. Two are already widows, but prefer to remain in the Jewish State, and the son of the third sister serves in the Israeli Defense Forces. Akrameh Sabri, the top Muslim religious leader in eastern Jerusalem, who delivers anti-Semitic and pro-terrorist sermons retains his Israeli ID card as do Hanan Ashrawi of the PLO, Muhammad Abu-Tir of Hamas, Jibril Rajoub's wife, etc.
150,000 non-Israeli Arabs, mostly from Judea and Samaria, married Israeli Arabs and received Israeli ID cards between 1993-2003. In addition, scores of thousands of illegal Arab aliens prefer Israeli - over Palestinian - residence.
The Muslim World recognizes the stupidity of Western ideologues and political activists whose personal aims are, if not the overthrow of western politico-cultural society, to see their faces on national television. One can never be really sure if such people are outright liars or as stupid as their actions indicate.
These people talk about justice, and how Palestine was stolen from its people by the Jews, and in saying so, they simply ignore real history. To reiterate what I wrote in Now is the time to Destroy Israeli Nazism!
The non discriminatory non anti-Semitic merely 'politically positioned' people will tell you that Israel 'stole' the land from the Palestinians and is therefore 'illegally or unjustifiably' occupying Palestinian land. They will call this injustice. But of course this is also a blatant and an emotive lie.
Palestine did not belong to the Palestinians. Palestine was a province of Turkey! It was 'stolen' from Turkey by the British! If 'justice' is the foundation of all those who call for Israel to be boycotted, then let them call for Palestine to be returned to Turkey and for Britain and the United Nations to pay reparations to Turkey.
I merely want to point out that the foundational premise of all those who claim to be 'non discriminatory, democratic, human rights loving people', is false, and deliberately false; knowingly false; deceptively false; arrogantly false but nevertheless demanding of acceptance lest those who do not support the 'Anti-Israel' cause be accused of 'Arab/Palestinian/Muslim' racism and discrimination.
Who knows whether all these people and organizations pretending to care about Palestinians really do care or whether they are simply interested in the destruction of Israel, but it has become quite clear that Worldwide, the Arab/Muslim peoples have had enough of their dictatorial governments and are seeking democratic reform. It is strange therefore that peace activists choose to support totalitarian regimes rather than democratic states.
With the Hamas/Fatah appeal to the General Assembly only a few months away, it seems certain that there is jubilation in the hearts of many of those who support Hamas and Fatah. Those amongst them who are not deceived by rhetoric know that this statehood deal could have been achieved years ago; as early as 1948. That it wasn't achieved was a deliberate choice on the part of the Arab leaders and Arafat.
They, like this poor writer know full well, that statehood is not the step toward peace, but the final step to guarantee the destruction of Israel. If Palestine becomes an internationally recognized state, then Israel will not be able to blockade Gaza and that means that Hamas can increase its armaments in preparation for the "Final Solution" - The Destruction of Israel.
It is my belief that within 3 years of obtaining statehood, there will be a new all out Arab war on Israel. (See Call me a Cynic!)
If that vision comes to pass, there is only one thing that is certain: 'Destruction will reign supreme!'
We Westerners are already on "The Path of Self-Destruction", and if we do not soon smarten up and become truly wise, instead of following political ideology that conceals very real bigotry and hatred, then we will very soon find ourselves living in a world that is not the slightest bit interested in judicial rights, human rights, democratic rights, gay rights, children's rights, women's rights or any other form of right that you can imagine. The only right left to us will be the right to do exactly what we are told, when we are told.
Free Speech is our greatest defense against lies and propaganda.
Political Correctness and Hate Speech Laws are about denying free speech!
You May believe what you will about anything! That is your democratic right! And like most people you will only believe what you want to believe. But those who value truth, pursue it, irrespective of the final outcome.
Truth is not always pleasant to hear. It sometimes punishes us for our foolishness!
Personally, I would rather be punished for my foolishness in pursuing the truth, than willfully, ignorantly and gladly tread the 'Path of Self-Destruction' as did so many Nazi Era Jews who went quietly 'like lambs' to their deaths because they refused to listen to the early warnings of the consequences of a Hitler led Germany.
The best we can ever do is honestly and realistically look for the truth. If we come up with the wrong answers, then at least we did our best. But those who would confine our democratic freedoms; who would insist that we must agree with them or be punished; they are not humanitarians or peace activists. They are just old-fashioned tyrants leading you down the Path of Self-Destruction.
R.P. BenDedek
Email: rpbendedek@hotmail.com
R.P. BenDedek is the pseudonym of an Australian who has been teaching in China since 2003. In addition to contributing to Magic City Morning Star News as a columnist, he is also the Temporary Voluntary Editor of this Newspaper.
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Additionally, BenDedek is the author of 'The King's Calendar: The Secret of Qumran' at www.kingscalendar.com and has published at Magic City, Nineteen Chapters of his autobiographical book "Finding Myself in China' .
