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It
is impossible for the ordinary human mind to fully grasp the
evil of Joseph Stalin. He
purposefully engineered the starving to death of over ten
million people in Ukraine. In
terms of mass murder, Stalin’s Ukrainian Holocaust was an even
greater crime than Hitler’s Jewish Holocaust.
Millions
more were hauled off to be enslaved and die in the Gulag, or
tortured and shot for the slightest suspicion of anything Stalin
was suspicious of. Many
of his closest deputies were ordered to put their parents,
wives, or children to death to prove their loyalty.
Yet
this tyranny, this monstrous evil, is not a mystery.
Evil exists, deeply embedded in certain human souls.
That isn’t mysterious;
it is a basic fact of
human society. The
true mystery is why and how such is evil is tolerated.
Stalin tyrannized the Soviet Union for thirty years.
In all those years, there is not one single known attempt
on his life. Not
one.
Which
then, is the greater depravity:
Stalin killing people, or no one killing him?
The former, of course.
Evil itself is the greater evil – but toleration of it
is the greater mystery.
It
has been blindingly obvious for years now that Robert Mugabe is
a pathologically evil man.
He has systematically been destroying the rights,
freedom, and livelihood of people in Zimbabwe.
He will commit any crime he considers necessary to
maintain his power. Anyone
who had the slightest hope that he would allow an election with
the barest semblance of fairness and honesty exhibits naïveté
of Olympian magnitude.
Zimbabwe
is dying as a country. Its
people face dying of actual starvation.
Its white population doesn’t stand a chance of keeping
their property and indeed their very lives as long as Mugabe
lives. Yet
Mugabe’s existence is no mystery.
The history of Africa is riddled with such loathsome
leaders. The
mystery is why no one in all these years hasn’t realized there
was no hope for Zimbabwe as long as Mugabe lived, and put an end
to his life.
It
is only the toleration of evil that enables evil to continue to
exist. It is not
immoral to extinguish such evil as Joseph Stalin or Robert
Mugabe. It is
immoral not to. Mass
murderers, tyrants and terrorists, have forfeited by their
crimes their claim to life.
If Osama bin Laden should be hunted down and shot on
sight, so then should Robert Mugabe.
So then should Saddam Hussein.
So then should Yasser Arafat.
No
people on earth have had evil directed at them more than Jews.
No people should be more intolerant of this evil than
Israelis. Yet they
keep tolerating it. They
keep acting and hoping and wishfully thinking towards Yasser
Arafat as Zimbabwe’s white farmers do towards Robert Mugabe.
The
toleration of the evil of Palestinian Nazism is the cause of
Israel’s travails. Arafat
is an Arab Nazi. He
inherited the leadership of the PLO from his mentor and uncle,
Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem who formed an
alliance with Adolph Hitler.
(At a meeting with Hitler in Berlin on November 21, 1941,
al-Husseini convinced Hitler a better “solution” for the
Jews would be to kill them in death camps rather than expel them
from Europe). You
don’t negotiate with Nazis, because you can’t.
Their entire purpose in life is to kill those they hate.
The Reverse Golden Rule must apply:
Do unto them before they do unto you.
The
United States is not trying to find Osama bin Laden to negotiate
a peace settlement with him.
It is trying to find him in order to kill him.
There is no more chance of peace between Yasser Arafat,
the Fatah, Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, et al, and Israel,
than there is between Al Qaeda and America.
Both are duels to the death.
Al
Qaeda’s September 11 attack enabled America to acquire the
resolve for this duel. What
will it take for Israel to acquire a similar resolve?
How many more slaughters of babies, of children, of
mothers, of innocents is necessary?
It’s not like Palestinian Terrorism started recently
with their so-called “intifada.”
It has been going on for decades.
When will Israel stop its toleration of evil?
For
once it does, the path to real peace becomes clear.
The path has the following steps:
1.
Annex the West Bank.
The West Bank is no more “Israeli-occupied Palestine”
than Kuwait is “Kuwaiti-occupied Iraq.”
Jordan invaded Israel in 1948 and occupied a large area
of the country. In
1967, Israel recaptured its own land.
This entire area of Judea and Samaria, or the West Bank,
should now and finally be formally annexed as fully part of the
sovereign territory of Israel.
2.
Either put a bullet in Arafat’s brain, or expel him together
with the entire Palestinian Authority from the West Bank.
No commentary needed.
Just do it. One
or the other.
3.
Make Gaza the Palestinian State.
Abandon the Israeli settlements in Gaza, have its
inhabitants move back to Israel, give full sovereignty to Gaza
as a Palestinian nation. Terrorist
attacks launched from Gaza would be considered acts of war by
one state upon another.
4.
Give West Bank Palestinians a choice.
Either they emigrate to Gaza (or other country), or they
apply for Israeli citizenship.
Such an application must include a written affirmation
that they recognize the legitimate existence of the State of
Israel, and will act to uphold its laws and sovereignty.
Those who do not sign under oath such an affirmation
should be expelled from Israel, including the now-annexed West
Bank.
5.
Target Mecca.
The only way to force the Arab world to accept the
existence of Israel is to give it no hope that Israel will be
defeated and vanish. The
only way to accomplish this is to hold Mecca as a nuclear
hostage.
Egypt
is already in a similar position, which is why the largest Arab
nation has been neutered in the Arab struggle against the
“Zionist enemy.” Egypt
knows its defeat of Israel is impossible, because the Aswan Dam
is targeted by Israeli nukes.
Should Egypt ever be so insanely foolish as to again
attempt militarily conquering Israel, before such an attempt
could reach success, Aswan would suffer a nuclear hit, and the
entire Nile River Valley below would be under twenty feet of
water.
As
Aswan is Egypt’s Sword of Damocles, so Mecca should be the
Damoclean Sword for the whole Arab world.
The
clear message of Israel should be:
“We are not going away.
We are not going to be defeated.
You must come to grips with and accept the fact of our
sovereign existence. To
make this crystal clear, we have targeted nuclear missiles at
the Holy City of Mecca. We
hope and pray we will never have to use them, just as Americans
hoped and prayed during the Cold War they would never have to
use their nuclear missiles aimed at Moscow.
They serve as an ultimate deterrent – for you to
understand that victory over us is an impossibility.”
Such
a message should of course be a completely private one, and
fiercely denied publicly, just like targeting Aswan – or the
very existence of Israeli nukes in the first place.
Lastly
and most important is the step that under girds all the others:
6.
No more toleration of evil.
No more negotiation of any kind with Arafat, or any
Palestinian who does not recognize the legitimate sovereignty of
Israel. No
diplomatic relations with the government of an independent Gaza
unless it is democratically elected.
No
more toleration of French anti-Semitism.
Sever diplomatic relations with France and resume them
only after Daniel Bernard, France’s Ambassador to England who
denounced Israel as a “shitty little country,” is removed
from any position in the French government.
No
more toleration of equivalences.
At every turn, it seems, from the cover of the London Economist,
to the editorials of the New
York Times, to countless media outlets in Europe,
there is an attempt to make the actions of Palestinian Nazis and
those of Israel defending against them morally equivalent.
Attempts to muzzle or control the media are non-starters.
But at every opportunity, such equivalence should be
unrelentingly denounced.
And
here is where to begin with all of this: No
more Arabs in Jerusalem.
Every Palestinian suicide bomber story starts with:
“An Arab got on a bus in Jerusalem and…”, or “An
Arab on a busy street in Jerusalem…”
The solution to stopping suicide terror in Jerusalem is
obvious: expel the
Arabs from the city.
No
Arab should be allowed on a bus in Jerusalem.
No Arab should be allowed to walk on a street in
Jerusalem. No Arab
should be allowed within miles of any bar-mitzvah, wedding, or
other gathering in Jerusalem.
No Arabs should be allowed in Jerusalem at all without a
permit to do so, such as to operate his business or visit Al
Aqsa on the Temple Mount.
Start
this with West Jerusalem, and extend it through East Jerusalem
if necessary. Palestinians
must be made to accept Israel’s existence and that Israel will
take whatever measures required to preserve it.
These
measures must include no longer caring about world opinion.
Israel should no longer be concerned with the opinions of
those who tolerate evil. It
should only be concerned with this unalterable fact:
If evil is tolerated, evil thrives.
It
is time the world recognizes Palestinian Terrorism as a form,
indeed the heir, of, Nazism.
It is time Israel demanded that the toleration of such
evil no longer be acceptable by civilized societies.
It is time for human garbage such as Robert Mugabe,
Saddam Hussein, and Yasser Arafat be disposed of along with
Osama bin Laden. Peace,
prosperity, and civilization itself, can be achieved only by the
refusal to tolerate the evil such men embody.
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