People in Ireland are not given a real insight into the war which the "Palestinian" Arabs are conducting against Israel.
To understand the issue it is necessary to go back to at least 1947, when in a UN resolution the Arabs had the chance to have another Arab state set up on the Jewish Homeland set aside by the League of Nations in 1921. (The other being Jordan)
They refused that chance of a state, and other later offers as well, and they went to war in the genocidal war of 1948 to 1949 when they were eventually defeated.
I have just read a very interesting take on all of this by a writer on the New York Sun. It is most interesting in that it is the view of an Arab writer.
It can be accessed on http://www.nysun.com/article/35606
His name is Youssef Ibrahim
He begins his piece in dramatic form!
Dear Palestinian Arab brethren:
The war with Israel is over.
You have lost. Surrender and negotiate to secure a future for your children.
We, your Arab brothers, may say until we are blue in the face that we stand by you, but the wise among you and most of us know that we are moving on, away from the tired old idea of the Palestinian Arab cause and the “eternal struggle” with Israel.
Dear friends, you and your leaders have wasted three generations trying to fight for Palestine, but the truth is the Palestine you could have had in 1948 is much bigger than the one you could have had in 1967, which in turn is much bigger than what you may have to settle for now or in another 10 years. Struggle means less land and more misery and utter loneliness.
At the moment, brothers, you would be lucky to secure a semblance of a state in that Gaza Strip into which you have all crowded, and a small part of the West Bank of the Jordan. It isn’t going to get better. Time is running out even for this much land, so here are some facts, figures, and sound advice, friends. "
These facts which the writer then gives turn out to be most interesting:
"You hold keys, which you drag out for television interviews, to houses that do not exist or are inhabited by Israelis who have no intention of leaving Jaffa, Haifa, Tel Aviv, or West Jerusalem. You shoot old guns at modern Israeli tanks and American-made fighter jets, doing virtually no harm to Israel while bringing the wrath of its mighty army down upon you. You fire ridiculously inept Kassam rockets that cause little destruction and delude yourselves into thinking this is a war of liberation. Your government, your social institutions, your schools, and your economy are all in ruins.
Your young people are growing up illiterate, ill, and bent on rites of death and suicide, while you, in effect, are living on the kindness of foreigners, including America and the United Nations. Every day your officials must beg for your daily bread, dependent on relief trucks that carry food and medicine into the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, while your criminal Muslim fundamentalist Hamas government continues to fan the flames of a war it can neither fight nor hope to win.
In other words, brothers, you are down, out, and alone in a burnt-out landscape that is shrinking by the day.
What kind of struggle is this? Is it worth waging at all? More important, what kind of miserable future does it portend for your children, the fourth or fifth generation of the Arab world’s have-nots?
We, your Arab brothers, have moved on."
This is a very good piece of writing. None of this type of approach is seen by any writer in Ireland who all tend to place the Palestinian terrorists on a pedestal.
But I am afraid that the writer leaves out one very important item and that is the Jew hatred which is promoted by Islam, or more precisely by Islamofascism, and the fact that the "Palestinians" have been used as a battering ram against the state of Israel.
That is what lies at the bottom of it. The reactionary nature of Jew hatred, anti-semitism, simply will not tolerate a Jewish state in their midst.
Does this excellent writer tend to minimise this aspect of things? But worth reading and remembering. I wish Irish journalists were as truthful!
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