Decision ‘08

The Palestinian ‘Innovation’

In a blistering editorial, Dennis Prager puts the onus of today’s terror squarely on the Palestinians and the anti-Israel elements of the the Left:

We need to thank Palestinians for their major contribution to humanity - religiously sanctioned mass murder of innocents through suicide. Prior to the Palestinians, this did not exist…

…Palestinian Muslims - no Palestinian Christians have committed a suicide bombing - have created a religious and moral basis for mass murder and did so within a worldwide religion with a billion adherents. When the Palestinians sent brainwashed young men to blow themselves up in Israeli buses, cafes and discos, they offered justifications that provided the basis for many others to do the same.

They said that blowing up Jews in Israel — of any age and in any location — was an act that glorified Allah, that one who engaged in such atrocities was a Muslim equivalent to a saint, and would be rewarded in heaven by many beautiful virgins. I do not know of any Muslim religious organization or leader who condemned this Palestinian Muslim terror-theology as anti-Islamic.

…That is where the Left comes in. They have provided the secular and universal justification for Palestinian Islamic terror against Jews.According to the world’s Left, it’s OK for Palestinians to put bombs in an Israeli student cafeteria because:

1. Israel occupies Palestinian land (even though a leftist Israeli government offered 97 percent of it to Yasser Arafat)

2. Therefore, Palestinians are engaging in legitimate resistance

3. Since Palestinians don’t have sophisticated weaponry, they use their weapon, the suicide bomber

4. Israelis kill Palestinian civilians, so there is a moral equivalence between Israel and the Palestinians (even though the Palestinians target Jewish innocents and the Israelis do not target Palestinian innocents)

Now that’s a provocative article; and Prager has deliberately framed it that way. Whether you buy it wholeheartedly or not, there is much truth to it. Sadly, the hatred of Israel in the Muslim world is real, pervasive, and unyielding. Indeed, the hate is so great that it makes people blind to the most horrendous and foul deeds. It bears repeating: at the heart of terror is an ancient prejudice. Anti-semitism, unfortunately, never appears to go out of season…

2 Responses to “The Palestinian ‘Innovation’”

1 louielouie Says:
July 26th, 2005 at 4:56 pm
somewhat off-topic, as opposed to my usual completely off-topic, post.

for over 25 years i was a project mgr./engr. for oil & gas processing equipment. and yes during this time i was polluting the hell out of the environment. during this period i oversaw the shipment of numerous pieces of equipment going to the saudi penninsula(sp). the equipment was always an assembly of numerous smaller components mounted on structural steel frames.
a company in marshalltown iowa was a major source of components in these assemblies for all pieces of equipment going throughout the world.
except saudi arabia.
any equipment going to saudi arabia could not contain equipment made by the FISHER controls company of marshalltown iowa.
i give you one guess why.
this gives me the right & the basis for wanting to hurl each time i see the photog of bush holding hands with that excrement for brains so called leader of saudi arabia.
2 Clint Says:
July 26th, 2005 at 8:14 pm
Dennis Prager seems to have it exactly right.

The only thing he doesn’t mention is the Nobel-Peace-Prize-winning architect of this innovation.

LL-
Obviously the end-game of the GWOT involves a moderate regime in Saudi Arabia. But we have alot of work to do before we get there.