Daniel Pipes writes about the hatred that the Palestinians
have for the Jews. In fact, writing about someone hating the Jews seems to be a
favorite pastime of the Jews. So, let's settle one thing and never return to
it.
It is this: most people in the world hate the Jews and have
been since the beginning of time. If there is someone that has not hated the
Jews as yet, it is because they have not dealt with the Jews as yet. Being
hated being the normal state of the Jews, give those people enough time, and
they'll discover that HATE is the natural habitat of the Jews. And they will
eventually join the club.
This point settled, let's ask a few questions: Do the Jews
love someone at all? Do they love the Nazis? Do they love Hitler? The
Palestinians have a reason to hate the Jews; the latter robbed them of their
possessions, killed thousands of them, hurt millions of others and decimated
their lives. Now the question: Do the Jews love the Palestinians for losing so
much to them? For failing to send them back to where they came from? For not
driving them into the sea?
Let's end the schoolyard game of who loves whom, and who
hates whom. And let's get into the business of saving the Jews from themselves
because, left to themselves as they have been for nearly four thousands years,
they did not find a solution to their predicament. And in the absence of one,
there are those who thought of a final solution; one that must be avoided
because it is messy.
We should begin a debate in search of an ultimate solution
that will be humane, and that will replace the brutal final solution. We can do
this by analyzing the Daniel Pipes article which came under the title: “A
century of Palestinian hatred of Jews” and the subtitle: “Repudiating the first
mufti's hostility to decency is the only way forward,” published on October 26,
2015 in The Washington Times.
Once again, let's not resort to the childish game of calling
on someone to repudiate this act or that one, and believe that this will solve
the problem. Five-year old Johnny may ask mommy to repudiate seven year-old
Bobby who took his toy, thus get it back when mommy does what Johnny has
suggested. But the world of grownups does not work like that. And besides,
there is not someone big enough in this world to play the role of a mommy that
will babysit the Jews, and look after their needs full-time.
So here we have a Daniel Pipes who fancies himself as being
a historian (at least of the Palestine-cum-Israel region) if not the entire
Middle East, writing of violence in a land that is occupied by foreign troops –
as if this condition never happened before on Planet Earth. Look at the quote
that follows, and try to figure what must have gone wrong with the brain of
someone to have become so detached from reality: “News comes every year or two
of violence … a spasm of unprovoked violence against Israelis.” He calls a
half-century military occupation of a people and their land, an unprovoked
situation. That's a seriously deficient mind looking at a seriously large
problem, and displaying a sorrowful inability to comprehend its dimensions.
But is this the condition of one man, Daniel Pipes, or is it
that of the population participating in the occupation? Apparently, it is the
attitude of the majority of Jews now living in Israel . Here is what Pipes says
about that: “Their [Palestinians] actions harden Israeli opinion, making the
prospect of concessions and compromise that much less likely.” Is there a voice
contradicting this stance they may be aware of? Yes there is. It is the voice
of the world, as articulated by UNESCO which regularly “condemns Israel for this
and that.”
What does he think of that? He dismisses the world body
because he says “its actions serve more as theater than as practical steps
toward conflict resolution.” Is he saying he wants to see practical steps
instead of talk? Yes, that's what he wants. But is he not the one that said the
problem could be solved if someone just repudiated what the Palestinians are
doing? Yes, he is the one.
So why is it that UNESCO repudiating Israel does not yield the result he
says is possible to obtain? Because he says “the outside world, as symbolized
by UNESCO, must stop encouraging Palestinians … only when they [Palestinians]
realize they will not be rewarded will they stop their campaign of violence.”
What reward? Is the UNESCO handing out practical rewards? No, it does not. So
then, what reward is he talking about? Cheap talk, theatrics, repudiation of Israel .
But again, did he not say that repudiating the Palestinians
would solve the problem? So why is it that repudiating the Jews will not solve
the problem? No response here.
Okay then. Let's try another line of questioning. If
practical steps are needed, like he said at some point, and if the Palestinians
are not rewarded with anything practical, would it not make sense to ask if
Israel is rewarded with practical things, the withholding of which could be
used as leverage to force it to end the occupation, thus save the Jews from
themselves and help restore calm to that region of the world?
Oh yes, there is, and there is plenty. In fact Israel could not live for a month if it were not
for America 's
material help. And it could not maintain the occupation for a week if it were
not for America 's
military help.