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As Israel plans to finally end the decades of terrorist slaughter by Hamas, some Western nations––many functionally antisemitic––are plaguing Israel yet again with a plan to bring to the UN a resolution for creating a Palestinian state, thus rewarding Hamas and other jihadist terrorists for murdering Jews.
In addition to the blood-libels of Israelis –– like “starving” and wantonly “slaughtering” innocent Gazans that lard this “plan” –– there’s the stale reprise of diplomatic magical thinking to conjure a nation for a people who never had one in the ancient homeland of the Jews they want to murder and plunder
Of course, the Europeans and other oil-cringe geopolitical milquetoasts are relying on the UN, which has long supported the fancifully named “Palestinians” ––a propaganda tactic used to gull Westerners into believing that Israel sits on a sacred Palestinian “stolen” homeland. All freedom-loving nations, especially the U.S., should make every effort to stop the UN and feckless Nato Nations from recharging the Jew-haters for another attempt to repeat Hitler’s Holocaust.
Moreover, the UN for decades has lost any credibility when it comes to Israel by successfully convincing Western useful idiots to ignore history and morality, and to bully Israel into not just letting a sadistic enemy off the hook, but bestowing on them a Potemkin “state” that in fact would be a bigger platform for continuing the murder of Jews.
And don’t forget the malign role the UN has played in the vicious abuse of the only democratic state in the region. For example, General Assembly Resolution 2708 (1970) stated that the UN “reaffirms its recognition of the legitimacy of the struggle of the colonial peoples and peoples under alien domination to exercise self-determination and independence by all the necessary means at their disposal.” Notice how that phrase repeated the communist moral idiocy of “any means necessary,” and exempts not just the brutal violence of “national liberation” movements, but also legitimized terrorism from the codified restraints limiting armed conflict.
One of the most infamous crimes of the “diplomatic engagement” promoted by the UN were the Oslo Accords, two agreements between Israel and the terrorist PLO negotiated in 1993 and 1995. The pacts were marketed as the foundations for a peace treaty and a Palestinian state, with the creation of the Palestinian Authority awarded some self-government authority, including armed police powers, over the so-called “West Bank,” the Orwellian euphemism for the ancient Jewish territorial heartland of Judea and Samaria.
The folly of making deals with terrorists sworn to destroying Israel quickly became obvious. Terror attacks between 1994-1999 totaled 215, just about the same number as before the pact. Carnage continued to escalate in subsequent years. Proving his chronic bad faith, terrorist Yasser Arafat, the first leader of the PA, unleashed the “Second Intifada,” a series of vicious attacks which in five years murdered over a thousand Israelis, mostly civilians.
Moreover, recently, according to Palestine Media Watch, “‘9,750 terrorist prisoners are now recognized by the PA as eligible for monthly terror rewards, up from 4,300 prior to October 7. This means the PA is committing to pay nearly NIS 60 million [$16.4 million] a month to terrorist prisoners. The PA has recognized Hamas’ Martyr count, and a total of 38,983 new Martyrs’ families are currently eligible for terror rewards. This means nearly 55 million shekels [$14.7 million] in additional monthly payments to the families of Martyrs.’”
Despite this bloody object-lesson in the PA’s jihadist bona fides, the latest “two-state solution” schemes spearheaded by France and the UK, has proposed a Palestinian state, as the Gatestone Institute reports, “‘predicated’ on commitments from the Palestinian Authority (PA) to undergo critical governance reforms, as well as excluding the Iran-backed Hamas terrorist group from a future Palestinian government.”
For the Europeans to banish Hamas, but welcome the PA––with its long history of terrorist slaughter of Israeli civilians, and serial violations of pacts and agreements––suggests some in the West are rife with objectively antisemitism, bespeaking a despicable moral idiocy.
Finally, this long failed process of state-building and “diplomatic engagement” is one of the bloodiest repudiations of the “rules-based international order” that has mesmerized the foreign policies of the West with its feckless idealism replacing traditional realism about human nature’s flaws and passions, and the malign, parochial interests of complex, diverse states.
The fact is, there is no global “harmony of interests,” no “community of nations,” no “citizens of the world,” no “international laws” properly understood that can promote and enforce justice across hundreds of diverse nations––with different principles, cultures, and beliefs that can be trumped by alien foreign ones. Nations deem, as Lord Palmerston, UK Prime Minister in the late 19th Century, put it, “We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow.”
Next, “diplomat engagement” and negotiations amongst enemies are usually a chimera when it comes to settling conflict, often leading to bad faith and appeasement. As George Shultz reminded us, “Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.” Without a concentrated mind that believes a rival or enemy will use force to protect an agreement’s conditions, every promise is born to be violated.
Last, most important is the warning from the historian of Soviet atrocities, Robert Conquest, wrote in Reflections on a Ravaged Century about Cold War diplomacy: “Since diplomats’ forte is negotiation, they believe negotiation to be a good in itself. . . But the Soviets did what their interests required when the alternative is less acceptable, and negotiation was merely a technical adjunct.”
Thus, diplomatic negotiation is not necessarily a sincere desire to reach a peaceful accommodation to both sides of a conflict, but rather a means to a serve a nationalist or political purpose. This means that seeing clearly the adversary’s true interests and purposes–––rather than projecting our own beliefs and goods onto the enemy’s––is the most important factor in diplomacy. “It is easy enough,” Conquest writes, “to fall into the trap of thinking that others think, within reason, like ourselves. But this trap is precisely the error that must be avoided in foreign affairs.”
The wisdom of this realism has been lost in the postwar West, and the effect on foreign policy has been a plague for Israel. The “trap” Conquest identifies has been particularly perilous in our relations with Islamic states. The secular, if not Christophobic prejudices of modernity, have made us dismissive of faith, and prone to ignore the deep, 14-centuries-old precepts and doctrines of Islam.
In contrast to the West, as Middle East scholar Bernard Lewis points out, “in most Islamic countries, religion remains a major political factor,” for “most Muslim countries are still profoundly Muslim in a way and in a sense that most Christian countries are no longer Christian. . . in no Christian country at the present time can religious leaders count on the degree of belief and participation that remain normal in the Muslim lands.”
Given its Islamic neighbors, Israel is perforce an exception to the West’s dismissive ignorance, and has for decades been plagued by the well-meaning, but often dangerously misguided advice of its Western allies, who think that Western ideals like liberal democracy, national sovereignty, human rights, and economic growth will achieve by “diplomatic engagement” the solution to a conflict born in 14 centuries of religious doctrines and faith.
Israel now sits on the brink of destroying a fanatic, savage, genocidal enemy that has murdered tens of thousands of Jews living in their ancestral homeland. The Western nations like France and the UK need to stop trying to solve its domestic problems brought on by feckless immigration policies and suicidal anti-carbon energy policies, and let Israel finish the job of securing its homeland and its future.
ISRAEL TO THE WORLD:
La, la, la, la we are not listening!!
1. You hate us regardless of our moral IDF forces.
2. You both ignorantly and viciously blame us for the horrors committed by Hamas in commandeering food from the Gazans to feed themselves and sell it to restock their weaponry.
3. You refuse to admit the sadistic barbarity of Hamas against innocent Jewish men, women, children and the elderly.
4. You fashion yourselves as the world’s moral police but refuse to mandate the release of all hostages taken against their will into the cheering adulation of those in Gaza.
5. You are easily brainwashed by Hamas’ propaganda and you remain willfully ignorant about the Jewish people, our 3,000 plus years history in this land and you salivate like Pavlov’s dogs in response to the created lies of a fake people called Palestinians
orchestrated into reality by Egyptian Yasser Arafat, and the Russian KGB.
6. You mandate our compromise with these Islamic psychopaths because so many of you are cowards.
7. Hamas has raped, caged, starved and tortured the hostages but that is meaningless to the world as the only focus of your attention are the Gazans you have labeled as victims of oppression.
8. This raging stupidity continues in the face of factual evidence of Gaza’s approval of Hamas’ authority and their repeated elation of Israeli suffering and public humiliation of those kidnapped and hauled into Gaza.
9. You actually think you have the right to dictate how a sovereign nation defends itself against an enemy. That arrogance is off-the-charts and Israel doesn’t answer to the world’s tyrants, despots, self-surrendered dhimmi globalists and antisemites.
10. The world’s perception of genocide has said NOTHING about the Syrian onslaught against the Druze, Christians, and Alawites or the Muslim slaughter in Darfur, Rwanda, and other parts of Africa.
11. There is no two-state solution with people hell bent on the total annihilation of the Jewish people and Israel.
12. We owe this hypocritical world nothing and our people and nation everything so our people can live within our borders safely and securely.
So, shut up, take a seat and let us get this done. We already know exactly what is at stake and we’re though listening to a world that has no idea what’s really going on and insists in blaming us.
AM ISRAEL CHAI❤️🇮🇱❤️
That is an excellent summation of the situation. To bad all the cretins like Macron, Starmer, Albanese and a host of other so called leaders don’t have any appreciation of these facts and would probably ignore them in pursuit of their own dubious agendas if they did.
I also must wonder who are the ignorant idiots that down-voted your factual comments. I am amazed at just how many low IQ people there are in the world. You see it in action with all the obscene pro-Hamas and anti-Israel demonstrations that are plaguing the planet.
All you’ve said is Profoundly True❣️
Kill them all and let God sort them out.
As the old saying goes.
Israel’s response to the UN should be to completely ignore it and then, when the Hamas cowards are defeated leave the UN, kick out all foreign embassies that are hostile and retake Gaza.
So, according to the International Association of Genocide Scholars Israel’s response to an unprovoked act of war by Hamas on Oct 7 and the continuance of their intention to wipe the Jewish State of Israel off the map, is regarded as a genocide, while England’s response to the Germany’s blitz of London and the United States’ reaction to Peal Harbor are regarded as heroic achievements by defeating implacable enemies.
As you may recall, England firebombed Dresden into oblivion and the United States obliterated both Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Yet somehow England’s and the United States’ responses have not been the object of condemnation, while Israel’s efforts to prevent its extermination, the world denounces.
One of the reasons Israel and Jews have garnered so much hatred for millennia is because Jewish ideological values became the moral and ethical basis of Western civilization. Contrary to what Israel’s detractors, and those ignorant of the facts claim, Israel not only conducted the most humane war in history, but its founding fathers provided a guidebook that instructs us how to reign in our worst instincts and elevate them into positive actions. And it is for those reasons that the world has never forgiven Israel and the Jewish people.
Muslims far outnumber Jews, yet Jews have won far more Nobel Prizes. At the corner of Ignorant and Democrat, this disparity has nothing to do with superior culture and instead is explained by Islamophobia on the part of those who determine the Nobel winners.
I’m not sure if your comment is supposed to be satire or is just leftist dribble. You should be more specific.
Muslims, as far as I can ascertain have contributed nothing to humanity except death and destruction and the confiscation of countries which are then blighted by islam. They make ludicrous and risible claims to all sorts of inventions that were never part of Muslim achievements. I believe even their output of books is very limited by Western standards. The execrable koran demands the continuation of a seventh century mentality and demands the faithful rid the world of the kafr until all is for allah.
I voted thumbs down, but maybe you meant your comment to be viewed as satirical. My apologies if that was the case
Just to make sure, I voted thumbs down to Aisha’s comment and thumps up to Brian’s reply
Fat Man and Little Boy ended WWII, dumbass. The Supreme War Council of Imperial Japan refused to end the war and vowed to fight till the last civilian was killed, including women and children, even after both nukes were dropped and more were promised – in writing. Emperor Hirohito overrode those stupid animals and surrendered pretty much unconditionally. All he asked was to remain ceremonial Emperor and the Magnanimous US said “sure, OK. Who gives a fuck besides you.”
And fuck Dresden. Germany shouldn’t have started a war of conquest or committed the Holocaust. Between the Nazis and Imperial Japanese, AT LEAST 60 million people, mostly civilians, were killed in WWII.
No big deal, right?
Great comment showing the never ending hypocrisy against our Jewish people!
Trump’s idea of ending the war now, put in context, means to obliterate Hamas today.
Polls show massive amounts of scumbags expressing stupid opinions.
And fuck “the world.”
Hamas does not distinguish between soldier and civilian, neither in Israel nor in Gaza. Why is Israel expected to do so? According to Hamas, every single Jew is a target whether man, woman or child, and every single Gazan, whether man, woman or child has the duty serve the purpose of killing Jews and destroying Israel. How else do you fight an enemy like that except by annihilation? Sure, Israel does some dirty work but this isn’t tiddly winks.
Just wait until those stones finally start helping Hamas!
“Allah’s Messenger said, “The Hour will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say. ‘O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him.’”
It always makes me laugh to know those retards believe in talking rocks and Genies.
Stones require evil men and women to be thrown….just like guns cannot kill without someone pulling the trigger!
You should be most careful because you are in worship of an illiterate, psychopathic pedophile who claims the status of prophet based upon his self-claim of this exalted status by asserting as truth a non-existent covenant through Abraham’s son Ismael. Yet another insufferable lie. The Jewish scriptures clearly tell of G-d directly informing Abraham that His eternal covenant will only go through Abraham’s son Isaac.
Since Islam did not exist until 1400 years later, the foolhardy attempts of Mohammad to rewrite the ancient truths in the Jewish scriptures only plays well to those ingesting Islam’s propaganda. Yet another reason Mohammad hated Jews because we have kept the sacred Oracles of G-d uncorrupted for thousands of years and we are not swayed by futile attempts at co-opting scripture for Mohammad’s self-aggrandizement and futile assertions of prophecy. G-d also warned the Jewish people of accepting false prophets. He clearly admonishes us in His scriptures of attempting to legitimize any false prophets. All legitimate prophets were known of in the Jewish scriptures and G-d said there are no others!
Netanyahu wants to kick them all into Egypt. Al Sisi offered twice a to relocate those vermin before he pretended to change his mind for PR reasons.
Israel will have a “Forever War” until it expels all those vermin from the Gaza Strip, Judea, Samaria. Jerusalem and every square inch of the country.
Sebastard, the propaganda boy, strikes again.
Trump 45 DID get the U.S. out of Afghanistan rather than leave it for a future president. Thank God! If left to a President Biden it would have been a nightmarish exit.
Trump 47 DID end the war on “day one” in the Ukraine. He said many times that he would do it and, as the man of his word, he did exactly that. Those reports about the war continuing in Ukraine have been, and remain, fake news.
Trump said he would balance the federal budget, but it might take two terms. He made incredible progress in his first term an the deficit went down to close to zero. With all the tariff revenue, the budget will be not just balanced, but in surplus soon.
Stop watching MSNBC.
Stop taking LSD, Al Suckhimup.
Israel lost the PR war back in 1973, retard and there’s nothing intrinsically moral about PR.
Only retards and scumbags criticize President Trump.
Well, in addition to magical thinking, there’s also monumental ignorance. I read a posting elsewhere last night and it has bothered me since then. Here is just a piece of it.
“… Moving forward Israel is going to have to learn to get along with neighbors, even hostile ones. If it cannot, then that is on them, NOT us. ENOUGH. 75 years of handing Israel the latest in weapons technology (and using our own weapons when that isn’t enough- see our use of air to air missiles to knock down Iranian drones), cash, intel, moral support, and whatever else t [sic] needed has to come to an end. Those of us who are non boomers plan on making that happen….”
Could any amount of time spent in careful explanation help this soul?
Those left-wing scum have been planning Israel’s destruction along with the islamopithecines since 1948.
No Nation on Earth should need the UN Approval of anything the whole UN/Globalists Tyranny needs to go
God’s word “shows”, Israel will Always Be! HE made an everlasting covenant. HE is not a liar. God’s Word is Superior to Pew. You need to read the Bible. It will do you good, I hope.
The monthly terror awards don’t go to the terrorists in Israeli prisons; they go to their families, right?