The Cure To Civil War
Yes, of course, the way to stop bashing one another's brains out (presupposing there are any to begin with) is to turn one's balefully murderous intent on another group infinitely more worthy of death. The leaders of Hamas and Fatah lament that Palestinians are murdering one another - as though they're totally innocent and have nothing whatever to do with this latest exercise in settling old scores. The leaders are irreconcilably pitted against one another, and their followers, happy to unleash their tribal animosities set about cementing the disagreements - in mortal combat.This geography is, after all, highly representative of that testosterone-loaded culture of violence, greatly amplified by fanatic Islamism which encourages its believers to accept that infidels are responsible for the Palestinians' woes, not their own internal failings. Only reflecting the accepted wisdom of the greater Middle East and beyond, where imams, mullahs and ayatollahs exert themselves to foully misinterpret Koranic passages to bolster their jihadist message of death-dealing.
Things go slightly awry, unfortunately, when the beast that is aggrieved Islam turns its attention to others of the faith singled out as "false" Muslims, honouring the wrong prophet, and as such themselves ripe for attack and murder. In the name of the most holy of course. The same Allah that enjoins Muslims to be brotherly, to respect others of different faiths, seems somehow to also encourage followers to launch deadly assaults on their 'brothers' and others of different faiths. Contradiction? Well....
Still, all those jihadist groups eager to get on with the real mission to destroy Israel and all those nuisance-presence Jews, become impatient with these search-and-destroy digressions. And so it is that Islamic Jihad and Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades celebrate yet another victory; an impressionably disoriented jihadist-beset young man eager to achieve blessed martyrdom is sent off on his own mission to deal death.
"The operation has a clear message to the Palestinian rivals. It is necessary to end the infighting and point the guns toward the occupation that has hurt the Palestinian people" explains an Islamic Jihad website. So the eager murderer and three innocent Jews arrive at the void, and the Islamists are jubilant. Never will they recognize that their tribal hatred and jihadist bloodlust is what has harmed and continues to harm the Palestinian people.
War and bloodshed is a game held dear by these unregenerate terrorists. The cause is not the plight of the Palestinians which has true merit, and which they have successfully built into a cause celebre, but their own enthusiastic love of death. The terrorists don't, of course, believe death will befall them for they are invincible warriors. They deal death, they inspire others to sacrifice themselves to deliver themselves and others into death's hands.
Yet the Palestinians remain staunchly, proudly gullible. The suicidist-murderer's family claim to be proud of the man's enterprising move to enter paradise; he had behaved thusly because he was "despondent over the recent death of his infant daughter and the death of his best friend in an Israeli attack". Clever, the terrorists, are they not? Identify potential suicide-conscripts by their frail state of mind, indoctrinate and convince them and send them out well equipped and lethal.
The bomber's mother even wished him "good luck" in his stated endeavours. She prayed "to Allah that Muhammed will be accepted as a shaheed (martyr)". Later, a crowd of Palestinians appeared at the family home to congratulate them on their son's martyrdom and help them to celebrate the blessed event. Hamas, for its part, said the murder of three innocents in Eilat was "justified". "So long as there is occupation, resistance is legitimate", crowed a spokesman.
But will they lend themselves honestly to resolving the "occupation" by holding talks aimed at finally bringing an end to the situation, by making a sincere attempt to responsibly and responsively represent the needs of their people for security, autonomy and eventual economic renewal? It appears not. Peace for Hamas is a tenuous matter, not to be offered to the infidel. Israel will always be the "occupier" since Hamas will never agree that they have a legal right to be present on what they perceive to be Muslim land in perpetuity.
This is the legislative representation that Palestinians voted for the Palestinian Authority.
Labels: Middle East
posted by Pieface @ Tuesday, January 30, 2007
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