By Schmoel Yitzhak
The cartwheels of joy executed at the White House over the alleged killing of Osama bin Laden are premature and utterly deceptive.
Where's the proof?
Never mind the hocus-pocus declaration that bin Laden's body had to be "dumped" into the sea for religious purposes.
We're talking about a man responsible for having thousands of Americans killed. Therefore his body -- assuming that whatever was "dumped" in the ocean actually was bin Laden -- should have been brought to the United States where any doubt about mis-identification would have been removed. The world's public deserved proof-positive and nothing less.
No matter what rationalizations the gloating president of the United States may present, doubt will be the order of the century about whether or not the real bin Laden was killed because the actual body was not brought home.
But let's assume -- painful as it may be -- that Barack Obama is telling the truth. So, what if bin Laden has been killed; how much of a difference will it make in terms of war or peace?
Does that mean militant Islam suddenly will retreat from its anti-American, Anti-Israel policies of eventually colonizing the world and, of course, wiping Israel off the map?
Not a chance.
Only the likes of Pollyanna, Snow White and Cinderella would believe that any tangible good will emerge from the bin Laden hullabaloo.
Israel learned that painful lesson a few years ago when it assassinated two of the top bananas in the Hamas' hierarchy.
Yes, it was a blow; albeit it a temporary one. But like any whack to the midsection, the victim generally recovers.
We saw how Hamas recovered; first by bayonetting the PLO out of Gaza and now by raining mortars and assorted rocketry on innocent Israelis.
Bin Laden's organization has many tentacles. If, in fact, Osama has been killed, you can rest assured that another "Arab holy warrior" will replace him; faster than you can say "Ismail Haniyeh."
Oh, him. That's the Senior Hamas Leader who condemned the killing of bin Laden by U.S. forces. Haniyeh is mourning bin Laden as an "Arab holy warrior."
Haniyeh: "We regard this as a continuation of the American policy based on oppression and the shedding of Muslim and Arab blood."
Really. The Hamas leader once again delivers a verbal slap at Obama who -- he's a Muslim, remember -- merely turns his other cheek.
Given his druthers, Haniyeh would just love to shed the blood of every Israeli Jew. But, then again, that's not news.
What will be news -- if Benjamin Netanyahu plays the right card -- is whether Israel will target the Hamas' version of bin Laden should another homicidal rocket attack be perpetrated against Sderot, Beersheva, Ashkelon or a school bus filled with innocent, young Jewish youth.
Haniyeh must be for Bibi what bin Laden was for Obama; no more, no less.
Hey, if Obama can boast about such a targeted killing of a terrorist, why not Bibi?
Meanwhile, for Netanyahu, the key word, above all, must be preparation.
While storm clouds gather across the Middle East, Israel cannot be caught short, neither militarily nor politically.
Too many times in the past, the government in Jerusalem has been seduced -- usually by Uncle Sam -- into absurdly ineffective peace pacts.
* CASE IN POINT, I -- GAZA: For many years, the IDF prevented smuggling of weaponry by occupying the Philadelphi Corridor. When Israel pulled out of Gaza, it relinquished corridor control to Egypt.
On paper it made a little sense; but not a lot.
Under Hosni Mubarak, Egypt half-heartedly monitored Philadelphi. There was just enough Egyptian inattention -- shall I say bribery -- to allow Hamas to actively dig smuggle-tunnels and import anti-Israel weaponry.
What Israel should have done then but failed to execute was anticipatory-thinking.
There was every reason to believe -- even then -- that Mubarak's shaky government would be toppled, opening Gaza for massive weapons shipments.
All Israel had to proclaim then -- whether Uncle Sam liked it or not -- was, "We're out of Gaza but we'll maintain a Phiadelphi presence because it's necessary for our self-defense."
Sadly, that was not done and now Bibi is paying the price.
The new Egyptian government -- as many of us had feared for years -- has tilted toward Israel's enemies and will relentlessly move into Iran's camp. This is not illusion; it's reality.
* CASE IN POINT, II -- CEASE FIRES AND TREATIES: Virtually every "cease-fire" and "peace treaty" signed by Israel eventually backfired on the Middle East's only democracy.
Exhibit A is Lebanon. Pushed into a far-too-hasty cease-fire just as it was about to destroy Hezbollah, Israel inked a pact that provided no ironclad security agreements for Jerusalem. Thus, there has been nothing to prevent the re-arming of Hezbollah and the eventual resumption of rockets raining on Israel. Hezbollah has re-armed and has become more of a threat now than ever.
Examining, Israel's premature Gaza cease-fire agreement, Haaretz columnist Israel Harel puts it as bluntly as anyone: "The government, which is full of ministers with military backgrounds, ignored one of the most basic rules of managing a battle: Take advantage of success (if it had not been a success, Hamas would not have begged for a truce) until the fight is won.
"Who knows how many yellow school buses will be attacked a a result of the decision-makers weak will?"
Preparing for a diplomatic tour that eventually will bring him to the White House, Bibi must never betray a weak will in these crucial talks.
Before making any concessions, Israel's leader must vividly recall the school bus destruction, the thousands of rockets dispatched to kill Jews and, once and for all, tell Obama, "Sorry, bud, but NEVER AGAIN!"
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Monday, May 2, 2011
THE SHOAH AND BIN LADEN
By Simon Fischler
Today, May Second 2011 is Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel.
It is a solemn day when we remember the six million plus Jews who were killed by Nazi Germans and their EUROPEAN allies.
Today also happens to be the same day that American Special Forces assassinated Osama Bin Laden.
It took the American Army and intelligence services ten years to kill one of the most evil and elusive murderers in history, but the job got done in the end.
In remembering the Holocaust we Israelis and Jews abroad must always remember that this world is inherently anti-Semitic.
We must remember that those “humanitarian” Europeans who judge Israel when she protects her citizens from Palestinian Terrorism are the same people who committed the worst type of Genocide this world has seen during the Holocaust.
In remembering the Holocaust we must always remember that the second we become bamboozled by appeasement and forget to fight for Jewish freedom and self-determination we have signed our own death wish.
It is crucial that we also remind our Jewish brothers and sisters abroad not to be fooled by false freedoms -- freedoms the Jews of Europe believed they permanently had before the Nazis came into power.
If you hide your head in the sand and ignore the ever-growing anti-Semitism emanating from Islam and the Left, you will end up in the same position as the Jews who refused to see what Nazi fascism had in store for them.
What happened in Europe can happen again and Israel is the only reason why it has not happened sooner.
This Holocaust Remembrance day more than ever it is important not just to remember the Jews who were slaughtered by Europeans, but also to remember that the Palestinian Nation played an immense role in killing the Jews of Europe.
Haj Amin Al-Husseini the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, leader of the Palestinian Nationalist movement during World War II, not only sided with the Nazi’s but also stayed with Hitler during the war in Berlin and recruited for the SS.
The Grand Mufti went so far as creating his own final solution for the Jews of Israel, had the Germans defeated the British in the Middle East.
Somehow the Palestinian leadership has done an amazing job of covering up this bit of history.
This evil part of Palestinian history must not only be remembered on Holocaust Remembrance day, but Israeli diplomats must clearly remind their Palestinian -- and for that matter European counterparts -- of this crime against the Jewish Nation.
Today the Palestinians again have reminded the world who they truly are.
Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas condemned the America for killing the man who was behind the deaths of more then THREE THOUSAND AMERICAN CITIZENS.
Hamas, who has just joined a unity government with the supposedly moderate Palestinian Authority, has also adamantly stated they will never recognize the State of Israel.
Israeli politicians and diplomats must make it clear that America cannot ask Israel to talk with Hamas or the P.A. when they deny the Holocaust, deny the Jewish Nation’s right to exist.
While Remembering the citizens of the Jewish Nation that the Europeans BURNT TO ASH, we must not forget that even today the same anti-Semites are attempting to rob the Jewish Nation of its freedom, self-determination and nation/state.
Those who stand against Israel, those who equate her to an apartheid state, who say that the Jewish Nation has no right to self-determination in Israel, who wish to boycott Israel; all of these people are no different from the Nazis.
All the people who are a part of the aforementioned groups would have happily assisted the Nazis. They are anti-Semitic to the bone and this must be said LOUDLY
We must not hide the fact that groups like Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions and the International Solidarity Movement are no different from Nazi movement, and those who support it are supporting the same genocidal principals as the Nazis.
On Holocaust Remembrance Day we must also remember that the worst Anti-Semites are none other than the self-hating Jews who have joined these movements.
Today, May Second 2011 is Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel.
It is a solemn day when we remember the six million plus Jews who were killed by Nazi Germans and their EUROPEAN allies.
Today also happens to be the same day that American Special Forces assassinated Osama Bin Laden.
It took the American Army and intelligence services ten years to kill one of the most evil and elusive murderers in history, but the job got done in the end.
In remembering the Holocaust we Israelis and Jews abroad must always remember that this world is inherently anti-Semitic.
We must remember that those “humanitarian” Europeans who judge Israel when she protects her citizens from Palestinian Terrorism are the same people who committed the worst type of Genocide this world has seen during the Holocaust.
In remembering the Holocaust we must always remember that the second we become bamboozled by appeasement and forget to fight for Jewish freedom and self-determination we have signed our own death wish.
It is crucial that we also remind our Jewish brothers and sisters abroad not to be fooled by false freedoms -- freedoms the Jews of Europe believed they permanently had before the Nazis came into power.
If you hide your head in the sand and ignore the ever-growing anti-Semitism emanating from Islam and the Left, you will end up in the same position as the Jews who refused to see what Nazi fascism had in store for them.
What happened in Europe can happen again and Israel is the only reason why it has not happened sooner.
This Holocaust Remembrance day more than ever it is important not just to remember the Jews who were slaughtered by Europeans, but also to remember that the Palestinian Nation played an immense role in killing the Jews of Europe.
Haj Amin Al-Husseini the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, leader of the Palestinian Nationalist movement during World War II, not only sided with the Nazi’s but also stayed with Hitler during the war in Berlin and recruited for the SS.
The Grand Mufti went so far as creating his own final solution for the Jews of Israel, had the Germans defeated the British in the Middle East.
Somehow the Palestinian leadership has done an amazing job of covering up this bit of history.
This evil part of Palestinian history must not only be remembered on Holocaust Remembrance day, but Israeli diplomats must clearly remind their Palestinian -- and for that matter European counterparts -- of this crime against the Jewish Nation.
Today the Palestinians again have reminded the world who they truly are.
Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas condemned the America for killing the man who was behind the deaths of more then THREE THOUSAND AMERICAN CITIZENS.
Hamas, who has just joined a unity government with the supposedly moderate Palestinian Authority, has also adamantly stated they will never recognize the State of Israel.
Israeli politicians and diplomats must make it clear that America cannot ask Israel to talk with Hamas or the P.A. when they deny the Holocaust, deny the Jewish Nation’s right to exist.
While Remembering the citizens of the Jewish Nation that the Europeans BURNT TO ASH, we must not forget that even today the same anti-Semites are attempting to rob the Jewish Nation of its freedom, self-determination and nation/state.
Those who stand against Israel, those who equate her to an apartheid state, who say that the Jewish Nation has no right to self-determination in Israel, who wish to boycott Israel; all of these people are no different from the Nazis.
All the people who are a part of the aforementioned groups would have happily assisted the Nazis. They are anti-Semitic to the bone and this must be said LOUDLY
We must not hide the fact that groups like Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions and the International Solidarity Movement are no different from Nazi movement, and those who support it are supporting the same genocidal principals as the Nazis.
On Holocaust Remembrance Day we must also remember that the worst Anti-Semites are none other than the self-hating Jews who have joined these movements.
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