Conservinator
12-07-2004, 02:22 AM
Yasser, That's My Baby
By Irwin N. Graulich
Dec 6, 2004
He was responsible for blowing up babies in pizza parlors. He had babies shot in their homes and schools, sometimes while their mothers watched.
Much of Europe and Scandinavia called him "a great and courageous leader," yet he orphaned the babies of 11 Israeli athletes in the 1972 Munich Olympics. He murdered a disabled, elderly American tourist, the wheelchair-confined grandfather of the Klinghoffer babies by "heroically" tossing grandpa off a cruise ship at sea.
To the Arab and Muslim world, his legacy was teaching their babies how to blow up and murder innocent non-Muslims. Yet he somehow attained heroic status. And there you have the upside down world in which we live today. Under present conditions, a Palestinian state would undoubtedly send the horrible message that there are positive consequences to terrorism.
Well, Arafat is finally dead. "Hooray; the wicked witch is dead!" There should be no compassion for evil whether it is Hamas, al Qaeda, Timothy McVeigh, Pol Pot or Hitler himself. "Purposely" hurting innocent people changes the status of a human being into sub-human monster.
Now that the ultimate terrorist is dead, where do we go from here? Is peace possible in 2004-5? The truthful answer is "no," unless one has the bizarre belief that it is indeed possible to negotiate and trust evil.
It is necessary and better for a group to wait and learn values before they are permitted to have a state. There are very wise biblical precedents for this concept. 3350 years ago, God made an incredible effort to "take the Jews out of Egypt," and bring them into their land of Israel. He used plagues to free them and even split a giant sea to permit escape.
After all those amazing miracles, the Master of the Universe made those same Jews wander in the desert for 40 years, before bringing them into the Promised Land. Herein lies the answer to the present Israeli-Palestinian issue. God understood the important concept that the children of Israel were simply not ready for their own state, because they were filled with poisonous Egyptian values and a death culture.
That generation had to die out and a new generation had to be raised and taught different values and behavior. Unless this same change is applied to the Arab Palestinians, a decent, democratic state is not possible. As the Jews did 3300 years ago, Arabs must change their thinking, their ideologies, their methods of raising their children and their behavior. The Arab Palestinians must go through their own "Wilderness Program" in the same way that Jewish Palestinians underwent their transformation.
The simple answer to this lingering problem that politicians have not been able to figure out is that the West Bank and Gaza should become commonwealths of Israel for at least a generation. If the Palestinians take advantage of learning science, technology, business, nation-building, values and democracy from Jews, while teaching their children the important biblical concept of "love your neighbor," a separate state can eventually go off on their own. Just like an IPO spinoff, only then will their shares truly be worth something.
Full article (http://www.michnews.com/artman/publish/printer_5974.shtml)
By Irwin N. Graulich
Dec 6, 2004
He was responsible for blowing up babies in pizza parlors. He had babies shot in their homes and schools, sometimes while their mothers watched.
Much of Europe and Scandinavia called him "a great and courageous leader," yet he orphaned the babies of 11 Israeli athletes in the 1972 Munich Olympics. He murdered a disabled, elderly American tourist, the wheelchair-confined grandfather of the Klinghoffer babies by "heroically" tossing grandpa off a cruise ship at sea.
To the Arab and Muslim world, his legacy was teaching their babies how to blow up and murder innocent non-Muslims. Yet he somehow attained heroic status. And there you have the upside down world in which we live today. Under present conditions, a Palestinian state would undoubtedly send the horrible message that there are positive consequences to terrorism.
Well, Arafat is finally dead. "Hooray; the wicked witch is dead!" There should be no compassion for evil whether it is Hamas, al Qaeda, Timothy McVeigh, Pol Pot or Hitler himself. "Purposely" hurting innocent people changes the status of a human being into sub-human monster.
Now that the ultimate terrorist is dead, where do we go from here? Is peace possible in 2004-5? The truthful answer is "no," unless one has the bizarre belief that it is indeed possible to negotiate and trust evil.
It is necessary and better for a group to wait and learn values before they are permitted to have a state. There are very wise biblical precedents for this concept. 3350 years ago, God made an incredible effort to "take the Jews out of Egypt," and bring them into their land of Israel. He used plagues to free them and even split a giant sea to permit escape.
After all those amazing miracles, the Master of the Universe made those same Jews wander in the desert for 40 years, before bringing them into the Promised Land. Herein lies the answer to the present Israeli-Palestinian issue. God understood the important concept that the children of Israel were simply not ready for their own state, because they were filled with poisonous Egyptian values and a death culture.
That generation had to die out and a new generation had to be raised and taught different values and behavior. Unless this same change is applied to the Arab Palestinians, a decent, democratic state is not possible. As the Jews did 3300 years ago, Arabs must change their thinking, their ideologies, their methods of raising their children and their behavior. The Arab Palestinians must go through their own "Wilderness Program" in the same way that Jewish Palestinians underwent their transformation.
The simple answer to this lingering problem that politicians have not been able to figure out is that the West Bank and Gaza should become commonwealths of Israel for at least a generation. If the Palestinians take advantage of learning science, technology, business, nation-building, values and democracy from Jews, while teaching their children the important biblical concept of "love your neighbor," a separate state can eventually go off on their own. Just like an IPO spinoff, only then will their shares truly be worth something.
Full article (http://www.michnews.com/artman/publish/printer_5974.shtml)