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Video #28: Israel facing Western seduction

 Video#28  https://bit.ly/2mKoQ90; Entire mini-seminar: http://bit.ly/1ze66dS

 

 

1. Western media and policy-makers try to seduce Israel to misread Palestinian and Islamic terrorism, to make-believe that “one’s terrorist is someone else’s freedom fighter;” that Palestinian terrorism is a reaction to occupation; that Palestinian terrorists are “lone wolves” not institutional; and that Islam is a religion of peace, not inducing violence and terrorism. But, contrary to freedom fighters, Palestinian terrorism – a branch of 1,400 years of Islamic terrorism – has targeted non-combatants deliberately, institutionally and systematically, as prescribed by the Quran, the Palestinian Covenant and Palestinian hate-education in schools, mosques and the media.

2. Moreover, Palestinian terrorism has plagued the Middle East since the 1920s – before the 1948 establishment of Israel and the 1967 Six Day War – focusing on Israel’s existence, not “occupation;” triggering civil wars, subversion and terrorism in Egypt (1950s), Syria (1960s), Lebanon (1970s and 1980s) and Kuwait (1990); assisting Saddam Hussein’s and Assad’s repression of Iraq and Syria; and systematically siding with anti-US and anti-Western rogue regimes, such as North Korea and Iran.

3.  In 2016, Israel’s leadership is cajoled by Western media and policy-makers to stray away from its national security course of navigation, which has been charted by costly geo-strategic experience, security constraints and requirements, historical reality and commitments made to constituents.
4. They attempt to allure Israel to join a tempting, seemingly-unprecedented regional peace-for-our-time initiative, lulled by peaceful Arab talk, US and NATO security guarantees, possibly Western troops on Israel’s borders, along with a lavish economic package. Israel is enticed to accept a demilitarized Palestinian state on its borders, the re-division of Jerusalem, the uprooting of Jewish communities in the Land of Israel, and the diminution of its size – in the increasingly tectonic Middle East – to a 9 to 15-mile-wide-sliver along the Mediterranean, over-towered by the mountain ridges of Judea and Samaria, which are the protective “Golan Heights” of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Israel’s only (Ben Gurion) international airport, Israel’s major freeway (#6) and 80% of Israel’s population and infrastructure.

5. Western media and policy-makers try to smog Israel’s critical requirements of strategic depth for routine Middle East stormy days such as potential upheavals in Jordan and Egypt, which would wreak havoc domestically, regionally and globally, posing a survival threat to the Jewish state. Middle Eastern realism requires security contingencies for future – rather than present day – lethal threats, which emerge dramatically, unpredictably and frequently.

6,  The proposed 2016 regional peace initiative is the latest in a litany of Western and Arab peace initiatives – introduced since 1948 – wrecked on the rugged surface of the Middle East. These initiatives have stipulated dramatic Israeli concessions, which fuel – not extinguish – violence, as recently demonstrated by the 1993 Oslo Accord and the 2005 disengagement from Gaza, which resulted in unprecedented Palestinian incitement, hate-education, terrorism, missile salvos and non-compliance with agreements.

7. The West expects Israel to sacrifice long-term national security on the altar of short-term comforting delusion, camouflaging regional Islamic/Arab reality, which would lead to an Israeli shipwreck on the 14-century-old Middle Eastern rocks of inherent intra-Muslim fragmentation (tribally, religiously, geographically, ideologically), instability, unpredictability,
terrorism, subversion, treachery, the absence of democracy and civil liberties, tenuous rogue regimes, and therefore provisional policies and short-lived compliance with intra-Muslim agreements, violent intolerance of rival fellow-Muslims and the “infidel,” and adherence to Islamic supremacy over the “infidel” (via peaceful and military Jihad), the sanctity of the Waqf (land divinely-ordained to Muslims) and the legitimacy of Taquiyya (Islam-sanctioned double-talk and deception as a tool to subordinate the “infidel”), while smothering Israel with peaceful Arab talk, diverting attention away from the Tsunami-like Arab walk. 

8. Israel is expected to be hoodwinked into assuming that a retreat to the pre-1967 lines (with minor modifications), would convince Muslims to accord the “infidel” Jewish state something which Muslim “believers” have not accorded to each other since the 7th century: peaceful-coexistence and compliance with agreements. Israel is expected to assume that “land-for-peace” is a constructive option in the Middle East, where concessions are defined as a symptom of weakness, resulting in intensified pressure and terrorism.

9.  The West is trying to lure Israel into underestimating the dominant role of supremacist Islam and Arab ideology among contemporary Arab leaders, wishing to afflict Israel with a suspension-of-disbelief, defining the Arab Tsunami as an Arab Spring.

10. Israel is expected to 
tolerate a Palestinian state in its midst, notwithstanding the stormy regional environment and the track record of the PLO, the role model of international terrorism, oppression and corruption.

11. In 1948, David Ben Gurion – with a mere 650,000 Jews – fended off local and international seduction and pressure to postpone the declaration of independence, and to concede land in the Negev, Galilee and Jerusalem, dismissing a CIA assessment that he was leading Israel into “another Holocaust.” Israel’s present-day leadership – with 6.7 million Jews – should follow in Ben Gurion’s footsteps, and embrace long-term realism, while rejecting short-term convenience.

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 The next video will highlight Iran as a clear and present danger to the USA.



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US-sponsored anti-Israel UN Security Council statement – acumen

*The US’ co-sponsorship of an anti-Israel UN Security Council Statement reflects the return of the State Department’s worldview to the center stage of US foreign policy-making. This was the first time, in six years, that the US enabled the UN Security Council to act against Israel.

*This is not merely a worldview, which is highly critical of Israel, as has been the case since 1948, when Foggy Bottom led the charge against the re-establishment of the Jewish State.

This worldview has systematically undermined US interests, by subordinating the unilateral, independent US national security policy (on Iran’s Ayatollahs, the Muslim Brotherhood, the Palestinian issue, etc.) to a multilateral common denominator with the anti-US and anti-Israel UN and international organizations, as well as the vacillating and terrorists-appeasing Europe.

*It has sacrificed Middle East reality on the altar of wishful-thinking, assuming that the establishment of a Palestinian state would fulfill Palestinian aspirations, advance the cause of peace, reduce terrorism and regional instability; thus, enhancing US interests.

*However, the reality of the Middle East and Jordan and the rogue Palestinian track record lend credence to the assumption that a Palestinian state west of the Jordan River would doom the pro-US Hashemite regime east of the River, yielding traumatic ripple effects, regionally and globally:

^Replace the relatively-moderate Hashemite regime with either a rogue Palestinian regime, a Muslim Brotherhood regime, or other rogue regimes;
^Transform Jordan into a chaotic state, similar to Libya, Syria, Iraq and Yemen, which would be leveraged by Iran’s Ayatollahs to intensify their encirclement of the pro-US Saudi regime;
^Convert Jordan into a major arena of regional and global Islamic terrorism;
^Trigger a domino scenario into the Arabian Peninsula, which could topple all pro-US, oil-producing Arab regimes;
^Imperil the supply of Persian Gulf oil, which would be held hostage by anti-US entities, catapulting the price at the pump;
^Jeopardize major naval routes of global trade between Asia and Europe through the Indian Ocean, the Red Sea and the Suez Canal;
^Intensify epicenters of regional and global terrorism and drug trafficking;
^Generate a robust tailwind to US’ adversaries (Russia and China) and enemies (Iran’s Ayatollahs, the Muslim Brotherhood and ISIS) and a powerful headwind to US economic and national security interests.

*The State Department assumes that Palestinian terrorism – just like Islamic terrorism – is driven by despair, ignoring the fact that Palestinian terrorism has been driven (for the last 100 years) by the vision to erase the “infidel” Jewish entity from “the abode of Islam,” as stated by the charters of Fatah (1959) and the PLO (1964), 8 and 3 years before the Jewish State reunited Jerusalem and reasserted itself in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank).

*Aspiring for a Palestinian state, and viewing Israel’s control of Judea and Samaria as an obstacle to peace, ignores the Arab view of the Palestinians as a role model of intra-Arab subversion, terrorism, corruption and treachery. Moreover, the State Department has held the view that the Palestinian issue is the crux of the Arab-Israeli conflict and a central to Arab interests, which has been refuted by the Abraham Accords. The latter ignored the State Department, sidestepped the Palestinian issue and therefore came to fruition.

*The State Department overlooks the centrality of the Palestinian Authority’s hate education, which has become the most effective production-line of terrorists, and the most authentic reflection of the Palestinian Authority’s worldview and vision.

*The State Department has also taken lightly the Palestinian Authority’s mosque incitement, public glorification of terrorists and monthly allowances to families of terrorists, which have documented its rogue and terroristic nature (walk), notwithstanding its peaceful diplomatic rhetoric (talk).

*The State Department’s eagerness to welcome the Palestinian issue in a “red carpet” manner – contrary to the “shabby doormat” extended to Palestinians by Arabs – and its determination to promote the establishment of a Palestinian state, along with its embrace of Iran’s Ayatollahs and the Muslim Brotherhood, have been interpreted by rogue regimes and organizations as weakness.

Experience suggests that weakness invites the wolves, including wolves which aim to bring “The Great Satan” to submission throughout the world as well as the US mainland.

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