The Coming Assault On Israel
By James Lewis
AmericanThinker.com
Suppose you've just turned 18, barely out of
high school, and now you're on guard duty at
the borders of Israel, like the girls and
boys who check your tourist luggage at Ben
Gurion airport. It's an adult job, but you
try to live a normal life, while being
publicly threatened by suicidal Moo Bros,
nuke-happy Ahmadinejad, and all their
leftist enablers. Welcome to your life.
This is not your beer-soaked Spring Break.
It's not a break at all.
Check out
the daily hate propaganda translations in
English on MEMRI.org, and you can see what
they are facing. Fortunately it's easy for
Israel's young draftees to drive to their
IDF jobs, because it's only a few miles from
their homes.
A month ago Barack Obama told Egyptian
President Mubarak to leave office, thereby
throwing the Middle East into a dizzying
downward spin. Every Muslim country is now
torn by vicious in-fighting between
reactionaries and modernizers. Turkey has
become a Muslim Brotherhood satrapy after
seventy years of the most benign government
in a bad neighborhood.
In Egypt the phony "democracy" demonstration
in Tahrir Square -- where an American
television news anchor was stripped, beaten,
and gang-raped -- was immediately followed
by a Million Muslim March, to welcome
Egypt's Ayatollah Khomeini back from exile.
The day after Mubarak fell, the Egyptian
Muslim Brotherhood called for trashing the
Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty, the only formal
peace treaty in the Middle East. Syria,
Iran, Yemen, Bahrain, and Jordan have seen
thousands of street demonstrators being
killed.
When Arab regimes see riots in the streets
they always crank up the flow of hate-Israel
propaganda, to distract "the Arab Street"
from its real problems; it's a long and
dreadfully sleazy tradition in reactionary
Islam. More than a million Israelis
emigrated from Arab countries and Iran,
where wild mob scapegoating was standard
operating procedure after the imam's weekly
sermon, and no one was allowed to defend
themselves. They have really great gun
control laws in countries like Iran and
Syria, which is why all good liberals love
them.
A million plus Jews from Arab countries left
and moved to Israel. It is still their land
of refuge, in a world that is falling back
into its medieval past.
So if you are an eighteen year old draftee
in Israel today, you can see every nation
within missile range turning ugly. You have
to grow up fast.
Today in Egypt, Coptic Christians are being
murdered with the silent consent of the
military regime. Turkey is planning to
demolish the oldest Christian monastery in
the world. Palestinian Christians have been
driven out of Bethlehem. In India and
Pakistan, Muslim mobs have rioted against
Hindus, as usual.
Thank you, Barack Hussein Obama.
The other day Obama assured a brainwashed
group of American Jews that those "Arab
Spring" riots are bound to improve the
chances for peace in the Middle East. He
should have been laughed out of the room.
Instead, liberal Jews seem completely
willing to believe in Tinkerbell and the
Fairy Queen again. Liberals all over the
world are in nodding off to sleep, and the
radical left plays them like a Hawaiian
ukulele. They are sure to vote Obama again,
because he's so intelligent and liberal.
Nobody who reads the European news can doubt
that the radical left is colluding with
radical Muslims to delegitimize Israel and
drive the Jews into the sea. That is the
single most significant fact in
international politics today. If you doubt
it, check out all the articles on American
Thinker and European websites. In London,
the Hamlet Towers district has just gone
shari'a. Those Muslim votes were imported
by the Labour Party when normal British
voters were turning against the left.
That's how Tony Blair stayed in power for a
dozen years.
Obama has a lifetime of radical activism.
Everybody he's ever known is the same way.
The very word "activist" is a euphemism for
the old term "agitator." Communist
agitators like Saul Alinsky used to take a
lot of pride in whipping up discontent,
which is why Alinskyites founded ACORN and
40 other rabble-rousing groups.
Today Chicago --- Tomorrow the World!
The question is whether as president Obama
has enabled the collusion between his
friends and comrades Bill Ayers, Jodie
Evans, and Code Pink with the likes of Hamas
and Hezb'allah. Ten years after 9/11 we
have a president who actually brings Hamas
to power. Obama assassinated OBL with one
hand while aiding and abetting his twin
brothers in Egypt. The media celebrated him
for his heroic defense of America.
If Israel survives the coming assault, the
Israeli and American left will quickly cover
up for his sabotage of peace in the Middle
East. Israel has its own Fifth Column. It
often happens in war.
When Obama called for Mubarak to resign
because "Now means Now!" he looked like a
barefaced imperialist. But did Obama really
mean to give the Muslim Brothers an historic
chance to take over the most powerful nation
in the Middle East? Does anybody remember
that they assassinated Anwar Sadat thirty
years ago for making peace with Israel?
Thousands of people have died in "Arab
Spring" riots all over the Muslim world.
Obama has just told us this is all good
news. Is this his idea of spreading love
and peace? Or is it the Audacity of Hope
and Change in its genuine, malignant guise?
Self-deluded liberals are always the last
ones to know. Conservatives can at least
watch, and figure out how vote the next
time.
Organized left-Islamist assaults on Israel
are going to get worse soon. In June, Code
Pink and the Turkish government plan to run
another agit-prop operation against the arms
blockade of Gaza. The two wings of the
Palestinian revenge movement, Hamas and
Fatah, have come back together, and in
September they are expected to declare
"Palestinian" national independence.
The irony is that "Palestine" was the Roman
name for the place where Jesus was born.
Those were the same Romans who routinely
crucified Jewish rebels, remember? None of
the Arabs in former Palestine knew they were
Palestinians; they were Syrians or Druze or
Bedouin, but why pick up that old Roman
name? Today the world is conditioned to
believe in "Palestinian" as a nationality,
which brings us right back to the time of
Jesus.
The Euro-American Left, Obama, and the New
York Times can be expected to create one
almighty ruckus in the coming weeks, to put
maximum pressure on Israel to retreat from
defensible borders. That's what this is all
about. Think about those teenage soldiers
who are now facing the barbarians, and
imagine that your strongest ally for the
last sixty years has just joined with your
enemies. With the moronic support of
American liberals, natch.
Israel has a coastline patrolled by a tiny
navy. That's where Code Pink and Hamas are
concentrating their activities right now.
Last year they ran the Mavi Marmara
agit-prop stunt, in which Turkish street
thugs wrapped white rags around their heads,
wrote their wills, said their jihad prayers
for martyrdom, dug out their crooked old
Ottoman dagger and swore to die while
killing as many Jews as possible. This is
the Religion of Peace as it has always
behaved, going back to the desert raiders of
Arabia. Islam means "surrender." Not peace.
For the Mavi Marmara stunt Code
Pink launched its "peace flotilla" from
Cyprus, while the Turks sailed from
Istanbul. Then the suicide boat mingled
with Code Pink's criminal colluders; because
make no mistake -- deliberate, planned
collusion in murder and assault is a
criminal offense in all civilized nations.
If Code Pink tried the same thing in Lake
Michigan, the Chicago cops would haul them
to jail, "peaceful resistance" or not.
Even Da Mare would go after them.
When Israeli patrol boats challenged the
Mavi Marmara flotilla off the coast of
Gaza the Pinks sailed to an Israeli port,
while the Mavi Marmara kept driving
to Gaza. That's when the defenders fell
into the trap.
The Mavi Marmara was boarded by IDF
helicopter commandos rappelling down, one by
one, armed with paint guns for crowd
control. The Turks attacked each soldier as
he came on deck with steel bars, knives,
and possibly guns. The Turks were ready to
die for Allah, and some of them did, and the
international media had their field day. It
made headlines for weeks.
Code Pink and the media just happened to be
there on the spot, broadcasting all over the
world. A coincidence, ya think? It was a
classic agit-prop operation, with a dozen
dead and wounded on both sides. To this day
liberals all over the world believe this
stunt was for real, and you know what side
they are told to blame. Liberals are very
obedient to the media, afraid that somebody
might call them a "racist" or "Islamophobe."
The Mavi Marmara suicide attack was
the Reichstag Fire of the Obama left. Same
goal, same methods, and the same Big Lie.
It's the Audacity of the Left. But it's
amazing how little has changed since Lenin
and Hitler. Of course, now they have an
American president on their side.
So if you're an 18-year old boy or girl and
you see a "peace" flotilla off Gaza you also
have to watch for coordinated Hamas suicide
attacks in Jerusalem. The left will try to
draw you to one place while Hamas and
Hezb'allah will find a weak spot to attack.
Syria is bristling with Scud missiles,
Hezb'allah controls Lebanon, and Iran can
now send warships through the Suez Canal to
dock at the new Russian naval base in Syria.
You don't know where the next attack will
come from. Yes, you've learned to shoot a
gun and you've learned the rules of
engagement in strictly controlled, civilized
armies.
But your biggest dilemma is telling friend
from foe.
Take America, for instance. It used to be a
friend, but is it now a foe? (The answer is
Yes.) Turkey and Iran used to have
excellent relations with Israel (before
Jimmy Carter did his thing), but they are
now bitter foes. Europe used to profess its
friendship, but with 53 million European
Muslims next door, will Europe collapse
again? (The answer is Yes.)
If you're that 18 year old kid the left and
Islamic suiciders have just made your first
job a lot tougher. Your chances for getting
wounded or killed are a lot bigger.
You've been Community Organized.
This administration has sent a clear signal
that it's ok to screw with Israel's
sovereignty, safety, and security. Like
everything else with Obama, there are rules
for Me and rules for You, and they are never
the same.
Americans who do not understand the extreme
anti-American, anti-Israel policies of this
administration are deaf, dumb, and blind.
No matter how educated and intelligent they
seem to be, on crucial questions of survival
they are self-appointed victims.
At least Muslim radicals choose to
commit suicide. Liberals do it completely
unawares.