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Buzzing Latakia...Ironic Ignorance
by Gerald A. Honigman
As part of Israel's current campaign to send a message to Hamas over the capture of one of its young soldiers and the daily terror and attempts at terror its citizens have been subjected to, Israeli jets buzzed Syria's president, Baby Assad, in his summer home in Latakia.
Assad has given refuge to Hamas leaders, such as chief honcho, Khaled Meshal, and the Jews dropped in to say hello.
A few days earlier, Arabs kidnapped and murdered another Israeli teenager...one of those Jewish settlers they and others like to speak of. I mean, after all, how dare a Judean (Jew) live in Judea...
I couldn't help but note the sickening irony here...though most of the rest of the world surely didn't.
Hamas's patron saint, Sheikh Izzedine al-Qassam, was also from Latakia.
Like scores of thousands of other Syrians, he too poured across the border...Arab settlers setting up Arab settlements in Palestine.
The Records of the League Of Nations Permanent Mandates Commission and other solid documentation noted these migrations as well as those of many other Arabs who arrived from other countries both then and a bit earlier as well. Arafat was born in Cairo.
The sheikh became Hamas's hero by butchering Jews, many who were refugees themselves from Syria and elsewhere in the "Arab" world. But while the sheikh and his buddies would become known as native Palestinians, Jews would be labeled "settlers."
There is no doubt that many of Hamas's current members--those who specialize in terrorizing Jews--are from families as "native" as their murderous sheikh.
As has been noted often before, so many Arabs were recent arrivals themselves that when the United Nations Relief Works Agency--UNRWA--was created to take care of Arab refugees created after the Arab attempt on Israel's rebirth backfired in 1948, the very word refugee had to be redefined to accomodate those who had lived in the Mandate a mere two years.
Yet the deeper message of all of this is lost to virtually all. Or perhaps worse...I'm convinced that many simply don't want to know the real story here.
And, buying right into the Arab line, the media and others will simply continue stressing "settler" when reporting the next Jewish kid murdered by...Arab settlers.
As if it really makes any difference to Arabs which Jew they kill.
One thing's for certain, however...
Blowing hot air and telegraphing punches will accomplish nothing with Arabs who have learned how to play the game along with Israel's all-too-predictable responses by now. Bombing empty fields and creating sonic booms aren't going to fix the problem.
Indeed, the Arabs have now turned the current crisis around to blackmail Israel yet again to release hundreds of prisoners, many with Jewish blood on their hands.
When will Israel learn?
First of all it must get itself a capital punishment policy for those who murder, attempt murder, or are accomplices to murder. And it must get rid of its own idiotic, ultra left judges who care more about such folks than the Jews they butcher. This will eliminate hundreds of live trades that Arabs will demand later--as has already been done too often before--for the remains of Jews they already slaughtered.
How dumb is that? Smart Jews? Yeh, right...
Why should millions of dollars be spent to keep those who plot the slaughter of innocents alive? Does Israel's Arab neighbors do such things? Does America? While some states don't have capital punishment, others do. My own state, Florida, certainly does.
Israel gains nothing by trying to show the world how "enlightened" it is. And from the Arabs it gets the blackmail we are all seeing yet again right now.
Many shouldn't be taken alive in the first place. If you're a "tough guy," armed, and aiming to kill Jews, then Israel must see this as it's own version of Clint Eastwood's famous Dirty Harry line, "Make my day."
Those who commit murder and terror as well as those who support them must be taken out en masse. Just ask President George W. Bush...virtually his own words.
Nothing short of this will work.
And the Jews better wise up.
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