Much thanks to Lt Colonel Allen West, who sent this to me erev Yom Kippur. Like Sarah Palin, West is a ganser mensch. A leader in the mold of Churchill and Patton. If America is to be saved, it will be with the leadership of great Americans like Palin and West.
Here is his position paper on Israel. After the foolishness witnessed this past week at UN, West felt it necessary to make his position unequivocally clear. Somebody with cahones.
I love this guy!
Lt Colonel Allen West
About 62 years ago the world came together and established something
that was very long overdue, the State of Israel. When one considers the travails
of the Jewish people since the 7th century it should bring shame upon the face
of the world. These persecutions began with their being forced out of the Saudi
peninsula and the Levant by muhammad and his successors.
The horrors of the inquisition in Spain among other wrongs brought upon
the Jews in early Europe followed. When we failed to learn from that lesson, the
world would witness the supreme horror in Europe of the Holocaust. Finally, we
learned the lesson. We made a commitment and established a Jewish homeland,
fully recognized.
Now we face the resurrection of the original enemy of the Jewish
people, a resurgent islamic fundamentalism evidencing itself in totalitarian,
imperialist design. This time it has morphed itself using 21st century
technologies still retaining a 7th century mentality, utilizing terrorism
internationally to promote its perverse aims.
One of those objectives is the destruction of the State the world
agreed to support in creating, Israel.
In keeping with previous traditions established by muhammad, the modern
islamic warriors promote taquiyya, lying to promote islam. They also, just as
muhammad, use the Treaty of Hudabiyya as a model to delay and deceive their
enemies until they are ready to strike. Under Yasser Arafat some 200 agreements
were never honored.
Why would be trust any word coming from the mouth of the psychopathic
delusional leader of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad? The mad mullahs, insane imams,
and combative clerics are again calling for the supremacy of islam, no different
from earlier centuries.
Israel faces groups such as Hamas which in its charter commits to the
destruction of Israel. They face Iran who has committed to destroying the Jewish
state and driving its people into the sea. When asked to depart from southern
Lebanon, Israel complied, yet they now face Hezbollah in the north. In Egypt the
muslim brotherhood is complicit in enabling Hamas to receive materiel support
and funding through the series of tunnels.
And there are those who demand more land be ceded by Israel and
settlements halted? The end result will be a Country with the width comparable
to the distance of New York's JFK to LaGuardia airports. Each time Israel has
given back terrain it has become a launching point for terrorist
attacks.
We are dealing with an enemy that has no regard, nor respect, for
negotiations, compromises, and certainly not appeasement. Matter of fact it is
deemed weakness and only encourages them moreso.
I do not support any creation of a Palestinian state, to do so would be
to create a terrorist state. There is already a state for the Arabic people
residing in the region called Palestine, Jordan. If the Arabs can build an
indoor ski slope in Dubai, they can resolve the issue of their Arab brothers and
sisters. Instead, they use them as pawns in an international game of extortion
and use the subsidies provided not for humanitarian gain but for more weapons,
for jihad.
I do not support any division of Jerusalem. If I recall from history
and the Old Testament, David, Son of Israel built Jerusalem and his son Solomon
made it great. The muslim claims to Jerusalem are based upon a very contentious
story concocted by muhammad, and of course the latter conquering of the city
even by Salahaddin. One flag will fly over Jerusalem, the Israeli flag, never
any other, certainly not a UN flag.
Lastly, we must move away from the antiquated world government
organization called the United Nations. We recently saw what type "leaders" are
allowed a stage before this body politic. It is time we create a new
organization which is based upon Nations with like political structures,
Republics and Democracies. I advocate Israel being part of this structure,
perhaps an expanded NATO, but something with teeth, and principled member
Nations. We face a dangerous committed enemy, we are all targets, not just
Israel.
And if we fail to believe that last sentence, ask those who lost loved
ones on 9-11 in America, on 3-11 in Madrid, and in the London bombings. We just
dodged a terrible blow here in America, again, while promoting "Islam on Capitol
Hill". Funny, the attendees blamed their fear of reprisals for not having more
persons participate. This on the same day, 25 September 2009, that a Jordanian
illegal immigrant was caught sitting in a "supposed" car bomb and dialing up the
cell number to detonate in Dallas.
Genesis Chapter 16, verses 11-12 states, "And the Angel of the Lord
said to her (Hagar): Behold you are with child, And you shall bear a son, You
shall call his name Ishmael, Because the Lord has heard your affliction. He
shall be a wild man; His hand shall be against everyman, and every man's hand
against him. And he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren."
Ishamel of course became the beginning of the Arab people....and God's
word is immutable truth.
In closing, there are battle lines clearly drawn, I know where I stand,
and that is to support the State of Israel. The lessons of history have been
learned by me and I offer one simple retort, "Not on my Watch".
Steadfast and Loyal
LTC(R) A B West
