ATLAS OPED:INDOMITABLE ISRAEL AT 60

INDOMITABLE ISRAEL AT 60

by Pamela Geller and Eliza Saxon

“…and whether we like it or not, the coming into being of a Jewish State in Palestine is an event in world history to be viewed in the perspective, not of a generation or a century, but in the perspective of a thousand, two thousand or even three thousand years…This is an event in world history…” Sir Winston Churchill* (Martin Gilbert, Churchill and the Jews)

Israel in 2008 looks little like the tiny agricultural nation that declared its independence 60 years ago. Modern Israel is   high tech superpower, leading the world in of medicine,  biotech, computer science,  environment, culture and art.  After two thousand years of exile, fresh from the ovens of Europe, with virtually nothing, they came to rebuild their lives as free Jews in their homeland.

This week Israel celebrates her 60th Birthday and despite our enemies who wish to destroy her, as well as our very own self-hating Jewicidal tools, we as Jews are magnificent. We have much to  be proud of and to celebrate. In fact, let me dare to say, that the nations of the world should thank G-d for us. What we’ve given to the world over the past 60 years  in the  fields of science, medicine, technology, the arts, and academia is immeasurable, miraculous even. Sir Winston Churchill a great friend of the Jews and Zionism said, “Some people like Jews and some do not, but no thoughtful man can doubt the fact that they are beyond all question the most formidable and the most remarkable race which has ever appeared in the world.’ (Martin Gilbert, Churchill and the Jews)

In Israel's sixty years, the Jews thrived. Free to pursue their dreams, the Jews  flourished and their enemies seethed,  Jews prospered while their enemies plotted their annihilation. The end of the Third Reich was merely a hudna, a cessation of hostilities until the annihilationists could regroup, rearm, redeploy. But Israel  succeeded and Islamic jihad failed in all but one thing. The enemies of the people of Israel succeeded in infecting the world politic with their vile Jew hatred. Worse still, "enlightened",  guilty,  secular Jews sidled up to the enemy and worked their evil inside Israel, the US and other Western nations.

It galls me that the majority of the Jews I fight for are self destructive, suicidal even. Here in America (and the world over), Israel's real friends are on the right and yet over 80% of American Jews are Democrats. I don't get it.  The conventional wisdom on the left is  that Israel is an oppressor and her actions are worse than the world's most depraved and dangerous  regimes. Chomsky, Finkelstein, Soros .......... these men are killers.

Further, these woefully clueless Jews give aid and  comfort to the enemy.

There are two disturbing pieces in the past week on why Israel shouldn’t exist. One a venomous piece of anti-Semitic invective from Johann Hari in last Monday’s London Independent under the title Israel is suppressing a secret it must face. He writes, “I would love to be able to crash the birthday party with words of reassurance. Israel has given us great novelists like Amos Oz and A.B. Yehoshua, great film-makers like Joseph Cedar, great scientific research into Alzheimer's, and great dissident journalists like Amira Hass, Tom Segev and Gideon Levy to expose her own crimes. She has provided the one lonely spot in the Middle East where gay people are not hounded and hanged, and where women can approach equality .But I can't do it. Whenever I try to mouth these words, a remembered smell fills my nostrils. It is the smell of shit. Across the occupied West Bank, raw untreated sewage is pumped every day out of the Jewish settlements, along large metal pipes, straight onto Palestinian land. From there, it can enter the groundwater and the reservoirs, and become a poison”. This is nothing less than a modern blood libel, instead of Jews murdering gentile children to make matzah, we are poisoning the wells of the poor, terrorist Palestinians. It’s 2008, but it might as well be an article in the notorious German anti-Semitic newspaper Der Strumer in 1938! Well, Mr.Hari we shan’t require your attendance, thank you very much. In fact, since you’re so distressed and upset by our existence, here’s a suggestion for you, stop using your mobile phone, your computer, many medications, and a long list of other daily inventions from the hard labour and works of the Jews of the filthy State of Israel…

The other deeply disturbing article was written by Karin Laub for AP under the title, Palestinian plight is flip side of Israel's independence joy. Her piece is one continued sob story over the plight of the Palestinians and their life in refugee camps, once again it’s the big bad nasty Jews with their security wall, nightly raids against terrorists and oil blockade of the Gaza Strip. She writes, “As Israel celebrates its achievements - robust economy, democracy and army - Palestinians look back on a history of failures. "We were the losers over the years ... and we will keep losing," said Luay Shabaneh, head of the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics.

The refugees and their descendants number 4.5 million today, or nearly half the world's 9.3 million Palestinians. Few refugees can realistically expect to go home again, because Israelis fear being swamped by a mass repatriation.” There is no history of who started all the wars, why the Palestinians fled and their continued war against the Jewish democratic state since it’s inception and the continued, daily barrage of deadly rocket fire from the terrorist’s of Hamas in Gaza, (which Israel pulled out of in 2005 to her great detriment) upon the people of Sderot. This is a one sided piece of Arab propaganda, without an Israeli counterpoint or narrative. This isn’t journalism, it’s propaganda devoid of pros and cons or even the essential queries of basic journalism 101.

The fallacious term "Palestinian" was concocted by Yaser Arafat and while slow to take, it caught fire when the media worm turned ................ and there's been no going back. Israel bashing is Jew bashing,  the world's oldest profession Period. Anti-zionism, anti-Israel is antisemitism - a modern mask to an age old hate. Don't believe the Jew hater that tells you, I have no problem with Jews, it's Israel's policies that are abhorrent. David Mamet writes in The Wicked Son, 'The outright denunciation of Israel as "acquisitionist" bloodshirsty, colonial, et cetera" is to me simply a modern instance of the blood libel---that Jews delight in the blood of others.'  If anything, Israel has been too docile and too accommodating, to an enemy that vows to destroy her.

Dr. Martin Luther King did not suffer liars that declared that they don’t hate the Jews, just Zionism, Dr. King brilliantly dismantles such rhetoric.

". . . You declare, my friend, that you do not hate the Jews, you are merely 'anti-Zionist.' And I say, let the truth ring forth from the high mountain tops, let it echo through the valleys of God's green earth: When people criticize Zionism, they mean Jews--this is God's own truth.

"Antisemitism, the hatred of the Jewish people, has been and remains a blot on the soul of mankind. In this we are in full agreement. So know also this: anti-Zionist is inherently antisemitic, and ever will be so." From M.L. King Jr., "Letter to an Anti-Zionist Friend," Saturday Review_XLVII (Aug. 1967), p. 76. Reprinted in M.L. King Jr., "This I Believe: Selections from the Writings of Dr. Martin Luther King J

So I say to Israel, stand loud and proud. Give up nothing. Turn over not a pebble. For every rocket fired, drop a MOAB. Take back Gaza. Secure Judea and Samaria. Stop buying Haaretz. Throw leftists bums out. Stand straight and walk on. Be worthy of your ancestors.

"Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never--in nothing, great or small, large or petty--never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy." (Winston Churchill)

In the Hagaddah we read 'In every generation they rise up against us to destroy us, but the Holy One, Blessed is He, saves us from their hand.' We survived Pharaoh, Haman, the Inquisition, the pogroms, the Shoah and the continued attempt by our Arab enemies to annihilate us. So I say to our enemies, we shall be proudly standing, long after you have disappeared, footnotes of history...

Happy Birthday Big daddy

Comments

[WorthNoting]

Bold, brazen, and brilliant. Kol Ha'Kavod.

[timjansing]

Happy 60th!
Here's to 6,000 more!

[Barbara]

Israel..you are a beacon of light, genius, and goodness.

It is nothing short of a miracle that you still exist.
The gifts you have given to mankind since your birth are truly remarkable.

You are my identity, my heart and the blood in my veins.
G-d bless you Israel

[RISE_UP]

Long live Israel.Apple of God's eye. She will be left standing when all else is in rubble.

[Armoured Passionfruit]

Long Live Israel!

[dbl action]

There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells. God is within her, she will not fall; God will help her at break of day. Nations are in an uproar, kingdoms fall; he lifts his voice, the earth melts. The Lord Almighty is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah
Psalm 46:4-7

[George Mc.]

Well done, Pamela. Great post. Israel is our only true ally in the middle east and deserves our total support against the advancing tide of Islam. What is even more amazing is that Israel continues supplying utilities, food, medical supplies and care to the Palestinian arabs who have vowed to eradicate them. How crazy is that?