-Caveat Lector- > Rosh HaShanah War--Palestine Authority Pogrom/Commentary: GENTILE > ADVICE > TO THE "PALESTINIANS" > > > by David White, forwarded by Rabbi Dr. Natan T. Lopes Cardozo
> > > YERUSHALIYIM, D.C. (David's Capital), Yom Revi'i (Fourth Day -- > "Wednesday"), 16 Tammuz, 5762 (Gregorian Date: June 26, 2002) (Hijri > Date: > 15 Rabi Thani, 1423), Root & Branch [www.rb.org.il]: > > > Dear Root & Branch Readers, > > Instead of a Thought to Ponder, I am sending you an essay which is, I > > believe, of major importance. It speaks for itself and I ask you to > send > it to all your friends and all those who need to learn. I suggest > that you > try to get this published in journals and newspapers. > > In friendship, > > > Nathan Lopes Cardozo > > > SPEAKING TRUTH TO THE POWERLESS: AN OPEN LETTER TO THE PEOPLE > COMMONLY > CALLED "PALESTINIANS" > > > by David White -- May 26, 2002 > > > Greetings to any Palestinian who may be reading this. My name is > David > White. I am a citizen of New Zealand, a small, Western, nominally > Christian country in the South Pacific Ocean. I am not Jewish, or > Christian, I guess I'm vaguely agnostic. > > Writing this letter is a good way for me to discuss the horrible mess > in > the Middle East, spell out as many relevant points as possible > concerning > the state of the Palestinian people, and to see what can be made of > them. I don't speak Arabic, so I can only communicate with > English-speaking Palestinians. There aren't many here in NZ, though, > and I > haven't yet met any. I don't know how many will ever see these > words, but, > here's hoping someone does. > > I have a post-graduate university education, and I suppose I could be > > called an intellectual. Unfortunately, many such people have > supported > abhorrent ideologies such as Nazism, and continue to support > Communism, so > I refuse to describe myself in this way. I don't want to considered > as > just another "trendy leftie" academic, as we would say in NZ. > > So, unlike many university-educated types, I am anti-totalitarian, > pro-peace up to a point, pro-democracy, pro-capitalism (except the > capitalists running Enron), and skeptical about the "cult of > victimhood". I'm quite safe here in New Zealand, and no-one I know > has > been killed by a Palestinian. > > My perspective of Palestinians is something like this -- you're Arabs > (of > course), mostly Muslim, but with a Christian minority. Many of you > live > outside Gaza/West Bank, mostly in Jordan and other Muslim countries, > with > some groups living in Western countries as well. You feel that you > have > been wronged by Israel and are fighting to destroy them. > > As for my perspective on Israel, I see them like this. They are a > mainly > Jewish, small, free-market democracy with a large Arab minority > surrounded > by hostile Arab dictatorships. They have an ancestral claim to > Israel, > their state was created as a refuge from persecution, they have a > right to > exist, and, having survived a holocaust in Europe, they should not > have to > sit still and wait for another one in the Middle East. > > > A DOWN UNDER OVERVIEW > > > Over the last few months, the conflict in the disputed territories of > Gaza > and the West Bank has turned into a war between the Palestinian > people and > Israel. (I will not apologize for using the term "disputed", as I > believe > it reflects a rather complicated situation more accurately than > "occupied"). > > Your interpretation, as far as I can tell, seems to be something like > > this: You have no state of your own, and you are fighting a war > against > those you call "Zionist oppressors" and "colonial imperialists", in > order > to create a Palestinian state. Accusations of massacre and human > rights > violations by the Israeli Army are being tossed around like confetti. > Your > leader, Yasser Arafat, vows to "martyr" himself rather than > "surrender", > and that bungling and incompetent organization, the United Nations > (again, > no apologies for venting personal opinions), is trying to do what it > is > constitutionally incapable of doing, i.e. "saving future generations > from > the scourge of war". > > The Israelis see things differently, of course. For them, it's a > simple > battle for survival. They offered you a state, and you attacked them > > instead. They have occupied Palestinian towns, have fought it out > with > various armed groups, and desperate attempts are being made by the > U.S., > other Arab countries and the U.N. to break the so-called "cycle of > violence". As a result, the Palestinian situation at the moment > generally, > can be explained by putting it into New Zealand idiom. > > Put bluntly, the Palestinian people are > buggered. Munted. Stuffed. Rooted. (American equivalent = > screwed. British equivalent: done over). It's like this: Yasser > Arafat > turned down the Israeli offer of a Palestinian homeland in Gaza and > the > West Bank. You want, or Arafat claims that you want, a Palestine > "from the > river to the sea"; in other words, "all or nothing". > > There is one insuperable obstacle to this -- Israel. No matter how > eloquent your arguments or numerous your martyrs, no matter how many > European diplomats are angered by, or U.N. resolutions are passed > against, > Israel, the Israelis are not going to pack up and leave. The only > way you > will get the Palestinian state you want is to destroy Israel. > > This is what you have been trying to do since 1948, and the current > "intifada" launched in 2000 is your latest effort. However, the > Israelis > are not standing there and letting you kill them. They are fighting > back, > and if they have to choose between their own survival and yours, > guess > which choice they'll make. > > > A VAST WRINGING OF HANDS, A GREAT FLUTTERING OF DIPLOMATS > > > That has been the overall response to the disaster you have created > for > yourselves. You, the Palestinian Arabs, are obviously hoping for > some kind > of international intervention to save you. As we in New Zealand > would say, > "Get Real!". > > The European Union and the U.N. have demonstrated on numerous > occasions in > the past their incompetence and total incapacity to take any sort of > firm > action without American leadership. Ask your Muslim brothers of > Bosnia-Herzegovina, about how effective the E.U. and the U.N. were in > > protecting them without American intervention. In spite of the > impression > that American diplomatic efforts have created, the U.S. will not take > sides > against Israel, and will eventually abandon its futile attempts at > evenhandedness. If they do join forces militarily with Israel in > their war > against terrorism, your fighters will be snuffed out like candle > flames. > > As for your "beloved Arab brothers" in the Middle East, they make a > great > deal of noise about your "liberation struggle", and have sent money > and > arms, but have not sent a single tank to save you. Their diplomatic > proposals are ones that could have been offered at any time, and are > aimed > at benefiting them, not Palestinians. The Egyptians themselves will > not > declare war on Israel unless they receive $100 billion to cover their > costs. > > Do you really believe that the rest of your Arab Muslim brothers > think you > are worth that much? Do you really believe they will put your > interests > ahead of their own? Although your friends and Arabs in Europe are > passing > sanctions and burning synagogues in your support, not a single E.U. > warship > has sailed to your aid, and not a single N.A.T.O. aircraft has > dropped a > single bomb on your "Zionist oppressors". > > I have noted that large numbers of people, including university > educated > intellectuals support the Palestinian cause. Don't be misled by > this. No > matter how many western intellectuals, news media and international > organizations may support the Palestinian struggle, none of this > matters > because America stands by Israel. > > > THE UNBEARABLE BURDEN OF LIFE > > > How did you get into such a mess? As you yourselves would say and > have > indeed said on many occasions, it isn't your fault. It's always the > "Great > Satan" America, and it's "Lesser Satan", Israel, that you blame for > all > your woes. Everything that you do, such as your "martyrdom > operations", > are described as the products of your "rage" at being "dispossessed > of your > land", and of your "helplessness" in the face of "Zionist" might. > > There are only 300 million Arabs against over 5 million Jews! How > unfair! How unjust, that so many can do so little against so few! > > A number of Western commentators have put Arab failures down to > numerous > cultural factors, not the least being Islam. Your religious beliefs > in > martyrdom and jihad, coupled with a total inability to accept any > blame for > your own predicament, have combined to do you great and lasting > damage. > > Look closely at why Western countries such as Israel have succeeded, > and > Muslim countries have not. Western countries are free-market > democracies. Muslim countries (other than Turkey) aren't. Surely > that > should tell you something. > > > WHY I STAND > > > As I said, I do not, and I will not, support the Palestinian cause. > Why > not? I have a number of reasons, and here they are: > > > 1. You have made it clear beyond any shadow of doubt that you > intend > to destroy Israel and kill or drive out its Jewish population. This > is > genocide, pure and simple. You justify this by saying that Israel > has > committed many crimes against your people, and that you seek > "justice". I > say this in response -- NOTHING WHATSOEVER is an acceptable > justification > for genocide. Loss of land, humiliation at being militarily defeated > -- > others have suffered these and moved on to create new nations and > opportunities for themselves. > > Examples abound -- the Germans thrown out of East Prussia in Europe, > 1945, > the Nationalist Chinese who fled to Taiwan in 1949, to name but > two. Germans and Taiwanese have coped with military defeat and the > loss of > land. They haven't warred with their neighbors, nor have they > launched > terrorist attacks upon them. Both countries have more wealth than > any Arab > nation. Why can't Palestinians cope? Are Germans and Chinese better > able > to deal with adversity than Arabs? > > > 2. You have accused the Israelis of "genocide" against you. > Here's a > question for you: Israel has atomic bombs and powerful military > forces. If they really, truly wanted you all dead, they could easily > do > it. Why haven't they? If the Israelis went all-out, you would be, > as we > say in New Zealand, "dog tucker". Why did they spend so much time > negotiating with your leaders? Because Israel wants peace and secure > > borders. You refuse to give them even those. You plan genocide and > accuse > Israel of the same crime. Prove it! > > > 3. The use of terrorism. Killing people for being Jewish is > despicable. Terrorist attacks on innocent civilians are also > despicable. (At this point, I'd like to pause and get a question of > nomenclature cleared up, regarding those Palestinians who kill > themselves > and others with explosives strapped to their bodies. You call them > "martyrs". Western media sources and academics debate the precise > term to > use in describing them. Others, including the Israelis, call them > terrorists. > > I have a better, more appropriate term. I prefer to use the word > "kamikazes". The original kamikazes appeared in 1944, in the war in > the > Pacific. They were Japanese Navy and Army pilots, organized into > "Special > Attack Units" with orders to crash their planes into American > warships, in > the hope of destroying them -- "one plane, one ship". Their initial > impact > was similar to that of the Al-Quaeda attacks on New York and the > Pentagon > -- shock and horror. (I noted that many Palestinians appeared on > Western > T.V. celebrating the September attacks). Note: The American > response, in > both cases was not the one hoped for. > > Once the shock had worn off, the U.S. set out to destroy the > kamikazes, and > terrible destruction was rained down on Japan, ending only with 2 > atomic > bombs. (You know what is happening right now in Afghanistan to the > Al-Quaeda group). > > > 4. Using children as suicide bombers. Anyone who teaches > children to > kill themselves in suicide attacks is not worth supporting under any > circumstances. For you to do this to your children is an > abomination. A > commentator on a Web magazine said that if the Palestinians laid down > their > arms, they would get peace and land. If the Israelis laid down their > arms, > they would be killed. You know that is true, even if most of Europe > doesn't. Your cause is evil, because it seeks destruction at any > price. Genocide is not justice. Sacrificing your own children for > the > sake of your leader's personal ambitions is wicked. > > That's why I cannot support you. That's why I stand with Israel. > > > PALESTINIAN PAST OR FUTURE? > > > The Second World War in Europe ended with Hitler's suicide. He was > replaced by Admiral Doenitz who quickly made peace with the > Allies. Japan's leader, Emperor Hirohito, decided on surrender > rather than > see his nation destroyed. > > If Arafat chooses surrender, though, will the rest of the > Palestinians go > along with it? If he dies, will the war end? If the answer to both > of > these questions is No, then the Palestinian people are doomed. Do > you > really prefer death as a people? Do you fully comprehend what you > are > doing? If you are indeed aware that the path you have embarked on > leads to > destruction, and if you have freely chosen to walk in that direction, > then > as a people you are truly beyond hope. > > Are Palestinians really going to be a "Kamikaze Nation"? Are you > really > going to give Israel no other option except your destruction? If > they must > choose, then as Israeli historian Martin Van Creveld said, "better a > terrible end than terror without end". > > Do not think that kamikaze tactics can get you what you want. The > Israelis > can tell you all about Masada, if you ask them. Remember what > happened to > the Japanese at places like Okinawa and Iwo Jima. Palestinians > deserve > better than the current mess you are in now -- but before you can be > given > anything, you must offer a sincere peace, you must stop teaching your > > children to hate, you must stop believing that "victimhood" justifies > > everything and -- above all other things -- GIVE UP ISRAEL! Accept > that > you will never go there again except perhaps as workers or > tourists. Accept that Jews are human beings. Accept the verdict of > 1948 > and learn to live with it. > > Invest in banks, not bombs. Build computer chips, not Kalashnikovs. > Teach > science and mathematics, not hate. Look to the future, not the past. > Stop > blaming Americans and Jews for all your problems, and take > responsibility > for your own actions. Read those parts in the Quran about living with > the > "peoples of the Book". > > Golda Meir, the former Israeli Prime minister, is quoted as saying > "there > will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their > children > more than they hate Israel". Every time I see pictures of > Palestinian > children waving guns and wearing dummy explosives, then I can only > say she > is right. The alternative to peace is not victory but death. > > Think about it -- before it's too late. > > From an Infidel to Those Who Submit, and are living in the Holy Land > -- > May God grant you steadfastness in the face of things that cannot be > changed, the capacity to cope with those that can be changed, and the > > wisdom and the ability to tell the difference. > > > David White > > > Auckland, New Zealand > > > > Shavua Tov (Have a Good Week) from Yerushaliyim, > > > Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Member, Council of Consulting Rabbis and Torah Scholars, Root & > Branch > Association, Ltd.; > Dean, David Cardozo School for Jewish Studies and Human Dignity > (Machon Ohr > Aaron); > Honorary President: Aaron Spijer; President: Rob Kurtz, Esq. > The David Cardozo School (Machon Ohr Aaron), 7 Cassuto Street, 96433 > Jerusalem > Tel: 972-2-641-4077; Fax: 972-2-642-6076 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Web: www.cardozoschool.org __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? 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