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| 2007-05-15 |
| Posted by:anonymous5089 |
| #4 The article makes an important point: Nowhere in the op-ed does he even raise the possibility that it is something in Palestinian and Arab culture that accounts for this seemingly perverse, stubborn, maddening behavior. Indeed, nowhere in the article do the words “Muslim” or “Islam” so much as make an appearance. Instead, Avineri draws an even more embittered contrast, referring to “the Palestinians’ customary comparison between the Nakba and the Holocaust” as outrageous. Did the Jews of Germany and Europe declare war on Germany? Were the world’s Jews offered a compromise that they rejected? Europe’s Jews were murdered by the Nazis because they were Jews. What does that have to do with the Palestinians’ decision to refuse the UN’s compromise proposal and go to war?What, indeed—and why would people still be drawing such an obscene equivalency over six decades after World War II ended when the facts of the industrial-scale mass murder of entirely innocent, helpless civilians in Auschwitz, Treblinka, and the rest are well known? If he never mentions the Islamic dimension of the problem, it is not because Avineri, a sophisticated writer, does not know about it but more likely because—as an Israeli still clinging to the hopes, equivalencies, and pieties of the Left—its implications are still too grim for him. If the ongoing Palestinian and Arab self-righteousness, rejection of compromise, and viciousness toward Israel stem ultimately from deep-lying cultural factors of Islamic supremacism, then the siege on Israel is likely to continue and dialogue is likely to be fruitless. This is not something about which just Israelis must see the light. It is imperative that the entire Western world finally come to understand the abject refusal of Muslim minds to accept or understand how coexistence is the final measure of their own survival. Islam's adamant rejection of all other cultures and religions must eventually become the ultimate reason for its destruction. The parallels between the Israeli—Palestinian crisis and the ongoing war against global jihad have exceptional relevancy. The are instructional in the extreme and yet consistently ignored by nearly everyone. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-05-15 19:58 |
| #3 Today we hate teddy-bears. |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2007-05-15 18:52 |
| #2 Oh. They have a special day for that? Actually they have 365. |
| Posted by: DMFD 2007-05-15 18:46 |
| #1 Oh. They have a special day for that? Who knew? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2007-05-15 13:45 |