Israeli occupation a boon to world by Elia Leibowitz 11:42am Fri Feb 21 '03 The chief outcome of the occupation is a continuous depletion of Israel's strength. As time goes on, more and more Palestinians will come to realize that perpetuating Israeli occupation is the key to destroying the Jewish state. But we see that Israeli occupation serves the interests of the whole family of nations. The Israelis who lament Israel's lack of success in achieving national unity can take comfort in the fact that it is doing not badly in unifying the world. Thanks to the State of Israel, there is still one issue that enjoys wall-to-wall international consensus: Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. print article In 2003, the whole world supports the presence of IDF troops in the casbah of Nablus. The Arabs and the Palestinians do, too, and unfortunately, so do most Israelis. The only difference between the Israelis and the goyim is that the Israelis openly support this presence, whereas the goyim camouflage their approval of it by spouting anti-Israeli rhetoric in various degrees of viciousness. Global advocacy of Israeli occupation, one might say, is the post-modern incarnation of historical anti-Semitism. The events of September 11 have not significantly changed international political discourse, with the possible exception of the rhetoric coming out of America. But it would be naive to think that the message of the toppled towers in New York has been lost on the citizens of the world. No one can ignore the Muslim aspect of this tragedy. In the wake of the bloodbath in New York, fear of future Muslim terror attacks has increased all over the world. Diplomatic and other measures to play down this fear have become a top priority in the political considerations of all heads of state. As world leaders contemplate the situation, none of them will deny that Israeli occupation is a lightning rod for hatred and acts of murder and destruction on the part of the world's Islamic terror organizations. Most of them fully recognize that the ultimate targets of global terror are the affluent countries of the West and Western Christian culture. In the current geo-political situation in the Middle East, as Israeli tanks demolish homes in Jenin, not to mention the killing of Palestinian women and children, Israel is the major focus of Islamic terror and the rage of the Muslim masses. A French president considers himself blessed if the thousands of Muslims taking to the streets in Paris burn an Israeli flag and not a French one. For all the peoples of the world, in fact, it is convenient to have Israel and the Jews take the brunt of global terror. If Israel were not there, the Muslims would turn their sights elsewhere. Israeli occupation does not totally prevent Islamic terror attacks on non-Jewish targets, but there is no question that it helps. From a political standpoint, too, countries that publicly side with the demand for Israeli withdrawal find that it is helpful in improving relations with the Muslim world. Harsh criticism of Israel's presence in Nablus voiced by all the Arab leaders merges with the call for popular resistance, diverting the fury of the masses over their terrible hardship to channels that pose no risk to the government. Hence, no leader in the world would take any real steps to remove the bait called Israeli occupation, which attracts the hatred of the world's Muslims and feeds the sharks of Islamic terror. Even the Palestinians can be reasonably satisfied with the current state of affairs. They are not blind to the long-term effects of occupation on the occupier. At the moment, time is working against us, whereas they have nowhere to withdraw to, and also nothing to lose. The chief strategic outcome of the occupation is thus a continuous depletion of Israel's strength. As time goes on, more and more Palestinians will come to realize that perpetuating Israeli occupation is the key to destroying the Jewish state. If this idea was only a pipe dream until now, Israeli occupation and its malignant effects on the Israeli army, economy, society, culture and morality, are making it a reality. And so we see that Israeli occupation serves the interests of the whole family of nations. The Israelis who lament Israel's lack of success in achieving national unity can take comfort in the fact that it is doing not badly in unifying the world. Thanks to the State of Israel, there is still one issue that enjoys wall-to-wall international consensus: Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.j... add your comments

Facts by Joe 12:57pm Fri Feb 21 '03 print comment The Israelis have bent over backwards to try to accomodate the Palestinians including the best deal ever offered to Arafat by the Israelis during the Clinton Administration. All olive branch offered by the Israelis have met with more and more suicide (homicide) attacks. The onus is on the Palestinians to back down from their terror in order to ever achieve a semblance of peace and the possibility of a Palestinian state. I do not blame the Israelis at all. If you suffered a 9-11 attack on an almost daily basis like the Israelis do, at some point you will not be so agreeable, diplomatic or willing to offer a olive branch. The onus is on the Palestinians to stop killing Israeli civilians, but this wont happen, because Arafat is obsessed with implementing his phase by phase plan. Arafat and his henchmen prefer to keep his position as head terrorist and dictator in order to keep "his" people poor, miserable and angry and to insure his swiss bank account stays fat with EU $$ - sad but true. There is no democracy anywhere in the Arab world and this is equally true for those civilians under the PA control. Until the Jew hating idiots on the left understand that the problem between the Israelis and the Arabs is mostly the Arab leadership (or I should say lack of leadership) they will never serve under purpose but to be useful idiots to the terror, dictatorships and sadistic monarchies. The PLO was founded in 1964 to destroy Israel. Go read there charter! This is when the Arabs had all the disputed lands. Arafat went into detail in 1996, how he planned to ethnic cleanse and destroy Israel in 1996. Go read Arafat's speech in 1996. http://www.iris.org.il/quotes/stockhlm.htm Why doesn't the left protest the hate, where Palestinians and other fanatical Muslims manipulate and encourage their children to attach dynamite to their bodies and march into synagogues, hotels, cafיs and shopping centers to blow themselves up along with hundreds of innocent men, women and children in Israel. Have the Palestinians and their leaders accomplished anything in the past 52 years to indicate to the Israeli people that once a Palestinian state is established that it will be a peaceful and productive neighbor to Israel? "In October of 2000, with the help of Clinton, Israel offered Arafat an independent Palestinian State, 97% of the West Bank all of Gaza, Arab sections of Jerusalem and 3 percent of Israel. Arafat refused and the Palestinians started their homicide/suicide bombings and their latest attempt to destroy Israel." In fact, the Palestinians broke the Oslo Accords precisely because of Israeli generosity, because the government of Ehud Barak offered to meet 100 percent of their demands, including turning over half of Jerusalem to their control -- a possibility once considered unthinkable. These concessions confronted Arafat with the one outcome he did not want: Peace with Israel. Peace without the destruction of the "Jewish Entity. I read something that 1999 was the only year that no Israeli civilians were killed by Arab terrorists in Israel. In that year, 99 percent of Palestinians were living under Arafat's rule. Not one time did Israel go in any Palestinian city in 1999. This is not to hard to figure out. Israel wouldn't go in one Palestinian city if the Palestinians stop killing Israeli civilians. Everytime Israel leaves a Palestinian city, what happens, the Palestinians resume terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians. This forces Israel to go back in these cities. Israel withdrew ELEVEN times from the West Bank to effect a cease-fire. Each time Israel was attacked by suicide bombers who massacred Israeli civilians in Israel. The Palestinian Authority failed to arrest them, and instead paid their families awards. Arafat even named streets after them as "martyrs". How can anyone take seriously, Arab leaders that encourage terror attacks against civilians? Take Hebron, Israel left the city of Hebron. The second Israel left, Palestinian gunman then machined gunned Israeli worshippers to death. Take Bethlehem. Israel left Bethlehem, what happens, a Palestinian homicide bomber goes on an Israeli bus and slaughters Israeli school children. You see, when someone wants to destroy you and kill your civilians. When you have 70 percent of Arabs who support homicide bombers against Israeli civilians. When you have Palestinian terrorists groups that refuse to sign an agreement, not to target Israeli woman and children. What do you expect Israel to do? When you hear about all the Israeli civilians being massacred. Thats only the Palestinian terrorist atrocities that got through. You know how many bus massacres, cafe massacres, Israeli security forces prevented. When Israel was making peace with Egypt. How many times did Israeli soldiers attack Egypt? Zero Times. When Israel was making peace with King Hussein. How many times did Israel attack Jordan? Zero times. They didn't attack them, because Egyptians and Jordanians were murdering Israeli woman and children, like Palestinian terrorists are. I'll ask if, if everytime Israel leaves a Palestinian city and the second they leave, Palestinian terrorists from the city then massacre Israeli civilians. What do you expect Israel to do? If you dont know, its Palestinian terrorism which is forcing Israel back in Judea and Samaria. What do you think Israel should have done, seeing there civilians are being blown to bits by suicide bombers who are deliberately targeting elderly Holocaust survivors at Passover Seders, teenagers in pizza parlours, Israeli civilians in buses and disco's? Israel targets Palestinians terrorists who send homicide bombers and gunman, who go into Israeli college cafeterias, night clubs, restaurants, felafel stands, buses, and hotel lobbies full civilians, and deliberately massacre hundreds of innocent Israeli civilians. I saw this from 2 weeks ago, which explains exactly what i'm talking about. http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1043152787039 Several Palestinian officials from different groups have already arrived in Cairo for the conference. PA officials said the conference was expected to end in failure after most of the Palestinian groups announced that they would not halt their attacks against civilians inside Israel. Can you imagine that, these Palestinians wont sign an agreement not to target woman and children in Israel. You couldn't find me a Hindu, Budhish, Jewish or Christian leader that wouldn't sign an agreement not to target innocent civilians. Only the murderous Arabs wont sign it. Nothing will change for the Palestinians, because its not about their state its about destroying Israel. The Pals live in bad conditions, because their leaders keep them in it, not because of Israel. Its not in the Pal leaders best interest, to normalize life for their people. If they did, there would be no need for them. add your comments