By Stan Goodenough

Dear Israel

Those of you who didn’t like to believe that Gentile blood is more valuable than Jewish blood may now be having to reconsider your position.

According to the messages being conveyed to your leadership by the US State Department this past week, ‘Israeli blood is incomparable to American blood, the blowing to bits of Israeli kids at a Tel Aviv disco does not warrant the same response as the crushing to death of American citizens in New York skyscrapers, America has the moral and legal right to drop bunker-busting bombs on Afghani terrorists, but don’t you, Israel, dare to put a sniper’s bullet into a self-confessed Arab terrorist.

‘For even as we Americans believe in a military solution to our conflict, we adamantly maintain and insist that there is no military solution to yours.’

For the world, the September 11 attack on the United States changed everything, from the way the West secures its airplanes, to the tabling of new, privacy invading, security legislation, to the scanning of millions of items of mail for anthrax attacks, to a wild see-sawing of the world’s economy, to an alignment of the traditionally Christian states with a great number of the world’s Islamic ones.

But is life any different for you, Israel?

Certainly you are used to arriving at airports three hours before your flights. Gas masks? You all have those. Anti-anthrax medication? Israel has the biggest stockpiles on earth. A 100 percent certainty of another terror attack? For you that’s everyday news.

Not much difference so far.

Arafat and his PLO? Yes, well they’ll always be around, won’t they? Their vows to “liberate” Palestine? Old hat. Carry on the jihad until their flag flies from the mosques and churches of Jerusalem? So, what else is new?

Did September 11 really change nothing?

Actually it has made one difference. It has successfully pushed stalled events forward. And if you know what’s good for your future, I’d urge you to take note of the unwelcome realities staring you in the face.

For guess who is going to really pay the price for the September 11 attack. Usama Bin Laden? We’ve been assured that justice will be brought to him. But he’s just an icon, a figurehead.

Have you noticed, though, that while they’re gunning for him, everyone on the planet is looking your way for the REAL cause?

That’s same-old too? Yes, I guess it is. For when were glances of suspicion, fear and hatred NOT thrown at the Jews after a major catastrophe in the Gentile world?

Now hold on, you say, this isn’t at the Jews as such, it’s at Israel.

Ah yes, like it’s not the Jews the Arab states can’t stand, it’s the Zionists. Right?

Sure.

Increasingly, sentiment is circulating that Israel is to blame. As it does so, predictably, the nations are treading the path they’ve opted for since the end of World War One, choosing to make your nation, rather than the oil-brandishing Arab states, pay the price. In their march of folly, they remain blind to the fact that it is precisely this morally bankrupt route that has encouraged the Muslim world on its course towards fundamentalism – the belief in Allah’s inevitable global triumph.

Today, as a horrified gentile world is discovering, we all must reap what we sow.

And now, as those who have open eyes will have seen, England’s Tony Blair has embarked on a crusade to liberate Jerusalem – preparing to lead the international community to enforce UN resolutions interpreted by your enemies as legalizing a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital. (And why should he not, when your own “hard-line” prime minister says he can accept such a state on the soil of your land?)

In this, the British premier is positioning himself alongside President George W. Bush, who is gearing up to announce a major policy shift in a speech currently being crafted by Colin Powell and his State Department. Reports say this new policy will position the United States “in the center” of the Israel-Palestinian conflict, ending its hitherto “myopic” bias in favor of Israel. Among other things, behind the planned policy shift lies a letter written by 28 former senior US officials, primarily former American diplomats based in Arab and Muslim countries, who told their president in no uncertain terms that “Americans will not likely live tranquil lives again until the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is resolved and a Palestinian state is born.” (The Jerusalem Post, 16/10/01)

I take it many of you heard Yasser Arafat speaking alongside Blair last Monday (October 15), underscoring his and Islam’s opposition to terrorism?

“What I have said is very, very clear, Islam as a religion prevents anyone, forbids anyone to harm any civilian, any innocent people around the world.”

Here Arafat is correct. For as any Muslim will tell you, in Islam, if you don’t belong to Dar el-Islam (the House of Islam) then you are an infidel member of the House of War (Dar el-Harb), which means that you are neither a civilian nor an innocent, and killing you is positively permissible.

Arafat again, verbatim: “We are not asking for the moon. We are asking [for] what had been agreed in all the meetings which took place since Madrid conference and now to be implemented.”

Pity not one reporter had the courage to ask why Arafat has to date consistently refused to implement the very first agreement he made with his “partner for peace” Yitzhak Rabin, and for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace, which was to renounce and disavow all violence as a means of gaining political objectives.

Of course, these same journalists seldom miss an opportunity to report on Jewish victims of terrorism in such a way as to suggest that “it is their own fault because they won’t leave those settlements,” thereby justifying the terrorism themselves.

In this way, Colleen McEdwards, CNN anchor reporting on the September 3 terrorist infiltration of Eli Sinai in which two young Israelis were murdered, corrected herself thus: “two teenagers, or rather, two Israeli settler teenagers, were killed?”

So what has changed for you, Israel?

Ominously, nothing has changed. And unless something does, the day is looming large when a Palestinian state will be forced upon you by the United States’ led “terrorism-fighting world.”

© Israel My Beloved