On Israel’s 61st Birthday
Posted on April 29, 2009
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“If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star dust lost in the blaze of the Milky Way. Properly the Jew ought hardly to be heard of, but he is heard of, has always been heard of. He is as prominent on the planet as any other people, and his commercial importance is extravagantly out of proportion to the smallness of his bulk. His contributions to the world’s list of great names in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine, and abstruse learning are also away out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers. He has made a marvellous fight in the world, in all the ages; and has done it with his hands tied behind him. He could be vain of himself, and be excused for it. The Egyptian, the Babylonian, and the Persian rose, filled the planet with sound and splendor, then faded to dream-stuff and passed away; the Greek and the Roman followed, and made a vast noise, and they are gone; other peoples have sprung up and held their torch high for a time, but it burned out, and they sit in twilight now, or have vanished. The Jew saw them all, beat them all, and is now what he always was, exhibiting no decadence, no infirmities of age, no weakening of his parts, no slowing of his energies, no dulling of his alert and aggressive mind. All things are mortal but the Jew; all other forces pass, but he remains. What is the secret of his immortality?”
Concerning the Jews – Mark Twain
The secret of Jewish survival through the ages and Israel’s independence 61 years ago, are closely intertwined. For 2,000 years Jews prayed for, cried for, hoped for, lived for and died with the wish of returning to Jerusalem. Between never giving up their national aspirations, between being reminded constantly that they were merely accursed Jooz, the possibility of assimilating into the society around them could not be accomplished easily. Even converts were all too often reminded of their roots. Frankly, neither the Europeans nor the rest of the world wanted them even when they tried to blend in and become a part of those around them.
Every major empire conquered the Jewish nation, every major empire left its mark on the Jews. By every rule of history, Jews should have disappeared long ago. By every rule of history English historian Arnold Toynbee would have been right, Jews should have become “the fossil of history.” Yet, while all we have left of the glory of Egypt, Assyria, Persia, Babylonia, Greece or Rome is little more than a few superb works of art, timeless literature, philosophical works and imposing ruins… the rest of these nations’ past lies somewhere in the dung heaps of history. The Jew is still here, still strong, still vibrant and a still major influence on the rest of the world. The Jew represents less than 0.2% of the globe’s total human population and yet there is hardly a day or an hour that he does not somehow figure prominently in the news.
Having said that and as attested by many world travelers trough the ages, even including Mark Twain, there was a continuous and uninterrupted Jewish presence in the Land of Israel since biblical times. The first Jew in history wasa convert, Abraham, he was born in 1948 of the Jewish Era. In 1948 of the Current Era, the Ste of Israel was born anew. You would have thought that the Jew who had emerged from the ashes of the Holocaust would now be safe with his own piece of land finally returned, but, that was not yet to be… Within hours of independence the combined armies of Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria and Iraq attacked the new country. The odds against Israel were overwhelming, but the will to not be slaughtered again prevailed and against all logic, through the sheer power of unwavering belief and unfaltering determination, the Zionist Entity managed to repel the attackers.
So it went in many a war, many a skirmish, many an ambush. The Israelis repelled every attacker, though much Jewish blood was shed through all the years by those who managed to infiltrate from every point of the Armistice lines (lines concluded in 1949, where each of the invading armies had stopped when the cease fire came). In 1967, after Gamal Abd’el Nasser Egypt’s President suddenly closed the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping and concentrated his forces in Sinai in preparation for an attack on Israel (that was to be followed by the Syrians, looking down from the Golan Heights) and by the superbly trained Jordanian Legion. In six days, again defying all the odds, all logic, Israel took out and defeated the enemy forces while liberated Jerusalem’s Temple Mount. There were a series of skirmishes after that, and yet more major conflagrations. All the while terrorist attacks never stopped.
You would have expected that surrounded by mortal enemies Israel’s resources would have been completely dedicated to its defense, but such is not the case. Major technologies in the very PC you are using, gentle reader, were developed in Israel. Major medical advancements have been made by Israel doctors and scientists and were adapted freely around the world. Even the cell phones you can’t live without, owe a lot to Israel.
Almost at its inception Israel took in over 850,000 Jewish refugees from Arab lands and successfully integrated them into its society, in spite of their having left their riches in their native lands where the Jewish communities have been living since Biblical times. Its Arab neighbors not only did not allow the 300,000 refugees that fled Israel (in spite of Prime Minister David Ben Gurion’s radio pleas to the contrary!) – at the instigation of the advancing Arab armies who promised them they would be allowed to return (within three days) to their own properties and those of the slaughtered Jews – but to this day have limited rights while cooped up in cramped refugee camps without the right to work and blend in with the rest of the population whether in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Egypt or Iraq.
Palestinians and the rest of the Arab World refer to Israel’s Independence as Naqba – Catastrophe. Israel has taken the vicissitudes of daily life, has learneed to tackle the dangers, dem Jooz celebrate life, they realize that life must go on and slights to its pride are not nearly important when it comes to the welfare of its inhabitants and the world at large. By contrast Palestinian leadership continues to arm itself and its “security services” (a whopping 10% of the population!) while ignoring the needs for infrastructure, for hospitals, for an educational agenda that does include incultating hatred for the Zionist Entity while praising martyrdom and murder of Jews from even before kindergarten. That attitude is. however, the real Naqba!
What is the real obstacle to peace in the Middle East, who ’s to blame, who is incapable of living with reality instead of hatred and dreams of vengeance? Let’s hear from an Arab himself, the contents czar of Al Jazeera:
The success of Israel, modern, democratic, wealthy, and above all Jewish, has obsessed the Arabs. They cannot tolerate the Jews being among them. Their entire sense of themselves rides on solving their problem with the Jews. It gnaws at their self esteem. It is central to their thinking.
It’s in their genes.
Be Honest. Would you dare say something like that in public?
What if I told you that they are the view of Al-Jazeera’s Editor in Chief? Pierre Heumann of the Swiss weekly Die Weltwoche spoke with Al-Jazeera’s content czar Ahmed Sheikh in Doha. The interview was published in German, but we can read them in English thanks to a translation by the estimable John Rosenthal of Transatlantic Intelligencer. World Politics Watch publishes the entire interview. An excerpt:
Do you mean to say that if Israel did not exist, there would suddenly be democracy in Egypt, that the schools in Morocco would be better, that the public clinics in Jordan would function better?
I think so.
Can you please explain to me what the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has to do with these problems?
The Palestinian cause is central for Arab thinking.In the end, is it a matter of feelings of self-esteem?
Exactly. It’s because we always lose to Israel. It gnaws at the people in the Middle East that such a small country as Israel, with only about 7 million inhabitants, can defeat the Arab nation with its 350 million. That hurts our collective ego. The Palestinian problem is in the genes of every Arab. The West’s problem is that it does not understand this. [emphasis added]
Here is more by another Arab, no Zionist stooge here:
A ‘crucible’ for our faults
By Ali Ahmad Al-Baghli
Former Minister of OilSixty years ago, the United Nations (UN) issued a decision to establish Israel as well as divide Palestine into two — one part for Palestinians and the other for Jews. After several decades, Arab nations are still against these decisions due to their belief that Palestine should only be for Palestinians — similar to what Abdulnasser, Al-Shuqairi and Arafat have demanded in the past. The Arabs lost a six-day war that started on June 5, 1967, they retreated to their borders and rejected a decision to distribute Palestinian lands in 1948. They all cried for the lost lands on the West Bank, Al-Golan and Sinai.
The Palestinians and Arabs these days are organizing parties to celebrate what they call a ‘calamity’ while the Jews rejoice because of construction and development. We hold parties for calamities!
I felt dejected when I realized that 60 years have gone by and nothing happened during the glorious days. Other parts of the world reached the pinnacle of development, particularly in the 20th and 21st centuries, but the Arabs accomplished nothing because we all focused on blaming each other for the negative things happening around us. We all believed some parties are conniving against us. According to the Holy Quran, we are the best nation for the people. Some of us are still living in the magnificent days of the sixth and seventh centuries when Muslims were driven out of Andalusia.
We often blame Israel for our failure to achieve development. Let us then imagine that Israel is not in the region. Would we then be like Malaysia, Indonesia, India or Turkey? I think no. It’s so absurd to imagine something like this, not because of Israel but because of our tendency to oppose development or anything that is new.
For instance, North Africa should not be suffering since it is far from Israel. Nations in this part of the world have all the requirements for development in addition to their proximity to Europe, where countries are developed and advanced. However, there is no democracy and development in the Arab nations in North Africa. Why? These nations blame the European colonies for their failure. In other words, if there was no Israel for us to use as a scapegoat, we would invent someone else to blame for our problems.
In other words, if there was no Israel for us to use as a scapegoat, we would invent someone else to blame for our problems. Jooz are particularly easy to blame, look at European history. Isn’t what’s good for the goose, good for the gander?!?!?
Meanwhile, Darfurians (Muslim and Christian) fleeing Sudanese Janjaweed militia and the carnage, the rapes, the hunger, the murders, risk their lives to reach Israel almost every day in search of freedom and a long hoped for peace their own land and those immediately surrounding it could not afford them…
I have no doubt that I will be accused of propaganda by those for whom unrevised history is of no concern, by those to whom truth is inconvenient. If truth is propaganda so be it! If the hope for a truly just peace for the region is propaganda so be it! I’ll continue to expose the lies, I’ll continue to decry the injustice, the murders, the terror against Israel and the exploitation of Palestinians by their own greedy corrupt leaders, their ruthless dictators and the rest of Israel’s neighbors.
Chaim
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great piece keep up the good work
As “Search” said before me:
GREAT PIECE. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK
ve Jag Sameaj !!!
Mr. Chaim! You are again so right about the Jewish people. As Mr. Ali Ahmad Al-Baghli stated, this is all because of the United Nations, not because of Israel. These terrorists love to murder and rape. So, they use the koran to give them excuses.
It is ridiculous for those fools to think that the creator of the universe wants the Jewish People to be slaughtered because a man named Mohamed decided that he doesn’t like Jews. This same man, also decided that for Paradise, he would like to have 72 virgin 16 year olds. So, he told everyone that god told him that is what heaven is like. I mean, you have these idiot adults really believing this crap. The Pope should recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and he should tell the Moslems to get the hell out.
Anyway, thanks for putting it straight and you got the point out clear and open to the truth. I am surprised and glad that this oil minister said it and that you found what he said and put it here on Freedoms cost. Thanks many times.
One day, seven billion people on this planet are going to get too upset by all the killing that comes from the one billion Islamicks and they gonna do horrible stuff to them. Then they gonna be sorry they did all this killing and things, not just to the Jews but to the Catholics and to the nuns.