Against All Odds
It is a state that is almost friendless. Few stand with it. Its fierce instinct for survival, responding to threats to its existence at first enthralled the international community which expressed support and sympathy for its continued existence as a nation among nations. Time has a way of influencing opinion, and what was at one time an almost universal support has eroded exponentially.And that country stands alone, but undefeated.
It draws relentless criticism for actions taken to ensure its survival. Accusations abound against its tactics necessitated by the hostility of its neighbours. It continues to be brutally criticized even while its citizens are under constant threat of violence and bombs rain down incessantly on border towns. Some of its neighbours contend it must be destroyed, expunged from their shared geography.
This must be a dreaded, feared state whose continued defiance of international rules strikes fear that as a rogue it will obtain weapons of mass destruction and sow carnage and dread destruction on a huge scale in demonstrating the level of its contempt for those who criticize it. North Korea, possibly?
Pakistan, the country that constantly seeks to destabilize its neighbours, Afghanistan and India, by mentoring terrorist groups, and arming them and challenging them to destroy symbols of harmony among others? Iran, defying the international community, in its insistence that it too, like Pakistan, must become a nuclear power?
Academics teaching in the hallowed pinnacles of higher education, their socialist credentials impeccably aligned with that of trade unions, have adopted a new attitude of despising Israel while denying they would ever entertain thoughts of anti-Semitic antipathy toward the classic world underdog, have joined in adopting the plight of the Palestinians for their own.
That great international forum of human rights and dignity and concern for the plight of the under-privileged, the world's ill-fed and politically and socially oppressed, manages to overlook depredations in Sudan, Zimbabwe, Somalia, Yemen, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Ivory Coast, in their zeal to condemn the State of Israel for its inhumane treatment of its Arab and Christian citizens with full rights of citizenship under the law.
What Nazi Germany did not quite succeed in performing, though they perfected the precise machinery with which to accomplish it, the world community now looks on with equanimity as threats for a more successful Holocaust emanate from sources as diverse as Iran, Venezuela, al-Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah and their silent enablers vow in agreeable unison.
The combined armies of Egypt, Syria, Transjordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Iraq, vastly outnumbering that of the hastily assembled, newly-declared State of Israel in 1948, did not succeed in destroying the new state. But vowed to gamble again in 1967, when Egypt's Nasser decided the time again ripe for success, assembling Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Algeria to the task.
"The Arab people want to fight. Our basic objective will be the destruction of Israel."
The result was the reunification of Jerusalem. The ancient heritage of the Jewish people restored to them. But all is not lost for the nation's enemies. They portray themselves as victims of an intransigent occupier and the world clasps their plight to its collective bosom. That the Arab Palestinians refused what the Jewish Palestinians took joy in and made a state from, is the deadly viral agent of intent.
That intent is to restore to the Arab Palestinians what they claim to have been theirs, and to rout the pretenders to the heirloom possession and pride in the land and the ancient city that was once and is now part and portion of a nation reborn.
Labels: Anti-Semitism, Israel, Political Realities Peace Middle East
posted by Pieface @ Tuesday, May 22, 2012
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