IT'S WRONG TO FORCE ISRAEL TO TOLERATE TERRORISM
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A few terrorists on September 11, 2001, caused a dramatic shift in American foreign policy. Since that day, America has spent untold billions of dollars in the pursuit of eliminating anti-American terrorists wherever they may be found, anywhere in the world.
The American friendship with Israel has been hurt by all this. Israel is by far America’s strongest ally in the Middle East. Today, the U.S. continues to provide military and monetary support to assist Israel--but it comes with many strings attached. The U.S. is all too willing to tell Israel how to run its own terrorism problem. The Israeli government knows that the flow of financial and direct military aid could stop if it should ignore Washington’s suggestions, even when those suggestions may be detrimental to the welfare of Israel.
On occasion, America will take a stand for Israel, if it is determined that such a stand is either necessary for U.S. security or the stand will not offend too many other nations. In the day-to-day struggle against terrorism, however, America encourages tolerance and negotiation on the part of Israel--just the opposite of what the U.S. itself is doing.
Looking at some of the terrorist attacks in Israel will help us to gain a perspective on what the Israelis are facing. Terrorists in Israel have placed fruit near elementary school playgrounds to entice Jewish children--fruit that is booby-trapped to explode if anyone should pick it up. Arab children have been trained to strap bombs to themselves and blow themselves up in crowded areas in Israel. During the first weekend of 2003, 23 people were killed and more than 100 injured as two murderers set off bombs attached to their own bodies in Tel Aviv.
America’s response to such events has been essentially to ask Israel to negotiate with the people who manufactured the bombs and taught their own children to carry those bombs into malls and restaurants and detonate them while they themselves remained a safe distance away. These are the people Israel is asked to enter into agreements with so the U.S. can be seen as reasonable by other nations. If the U.S. were to tell Israel to hunt down and destroy such people--which would be consistent with the U.S.’s own strategy--America’s international standing may be soiled, and support for its own actions against terrorists would diminish. It seems American officials consider the support of other nations more important than Israel’s right to protect its citizens.
America’s willingness to tell Israel to sit and tolerate murders within its own borders can only be interpreted as appeasement. History clearly teaches what happens when a nation negotiates with violent enemies. The 1930s taught us a clear lesson: Aggressive conduct, if allowed to go unchecked and unchallenged, ultimately leads to war.
The U.S. has done a poor job of learning from the past. We allow ourselves to ignore the things that have happened in the past, and the reasons why they have happened, and fall into the same situations over and over again. We thereby force history to repeat itself. The deadly delusion that all problems can be solved by negotiation is going to lead Israel and the U.S. to disaster! No nation has ever been built or sustained by such a belief! Any powerful nation that reasons from such weakness is putting itself in great jeopardy.
The posture of the U.S. toward Israel will soon cause Israel to seek support from other nations, especially the EU, and Germany in particular. This is already happening to some degree as the U.S. proves itself ineffective in protecting Israel. The friendship between Germany and Israel will lead to one of the biggest double-crosses in the history of man!
All these events will lead to the greatest world crisis mankind has ever seen.
The American friendship with Israel has been hurt by all this. Israel is by far America’s strongest ally in the Middle East. Today, the U.S. continues to provide military and monetary support to assist Israel--but it comes with many strings attached. The U.S. is all too willing to tell Israel how to run its own terrorism problem. The Israeli government knows that the flow of financial and direct military aid could stop if it should ignore Washington’s suggestions, even when those suggestions may be detrimental to the welfare of Israel.
On occasion, America will take a stand for Israel, if it is determined that such a stand is either necessary for U.S. security or the stand will not offend too many other nations. In the day-to-day struggle against terrorism, however, America encourages tolerance and negotiation on the part of Israel--just the opposite of what the U.S. itself is doing.
Looking at some of the terrorist attacks in Israel will help us to gain a perspective on what the Israelis are facing. Terrorists in Israel have placed fruit near elementary school playgrounds to entice Jewish children--fruit that is booby-trapped to explode if anyone should pick it up. Arab children have been trained to strap bombs to themselves and blow themselves up in crowded areas in Israel. During the first weekend of 2003, 23 people were killed and more than 100 injured as two murderers set off bombs attached to their own bodies in Tel Aviv.
America’s response to such events has been essentially to ask Israel to negotiate with the people who manufactured the bombs and taught their own children to carry those bombs into malls and restaurants and detonate them while they themselves remained a safe distance away. These are the people Israel is asked to enter into agreements with so the U.S. can be seen as reasonable by other nations. If the U.S. were to tell Israel to hunt down and destroy such people--which would be consistent with the U.S.’s own strategy--America’s international standing may be soiled, and support for its own actions against terrorists would diminish. It seems American officials consider the support of other nations more important than Israel’s right to protect its citizens.
America’s willingness to tell Israel to sit and tolerate murders within its own borders can only be interpreted as appeasement. History clearly teaches what happens when a nation negotiates with violent enemies. The 1930s taught us a clear lesson: Aggressive conduct, if allowed to go unchecked and unchallenged, ultimately leads to war.
The U.S. has done a poor job of learning from the past. We allow ourselves to ignore the things that have happened in the past, and the reasons why they have happened, and fall into the same situations over and over again. We thereby force history to repeat itself. The deadly delusion that all problems can be solved by negotiation is going to lead Israel and the U.S. to disaster! No nation has ever been built or sustained by such a belief! Any powerful nation that reasons from such weakness is putting itself in great jeopardy.
The posture of the U.S. toward Israel will soon cause Israel to seek support from other nations, especially the EU, and Germany in particular. This is already happening to some degree as the U.S. proves itself ineffective in protecting Israel. The friendship between Germany and Israel will lead to one of the biggest double-crosses in the history of man!
All these events will lead to the greatest world crisis mankind has ever seen.
