The Palestinians will soon appeal to the United Nations to declare Gaza a disaster area. That is how these professional refugees operate: They browbeat the "Yahud" (Arabic for Jews), murdering Jews, and then, when the Yahud return fire, they run crying to the liberal global media and to Israel-haters in the West. After they make everyone feel sorry for them, they ask this bunch of gullible suckers to open their deep pockets and give them lots of money to rehabilitate the damage that these whiners brought on themselves, with the money that the suckers gave them last time. What will they do with this money? Some of it will be used to pay off key Hamas officials, and not-so-key Hamas officials; some of it will be invested in rebuilding Hamas' weapons arsenal and underground attack tunnels; only the bit left over at the end of the food chain will be allocated to rebuilding homes and public institutions. If the West had guts, if the West had learned its lesson after World War II, it would say to the Palestinians: True, your land is a disaster area, and the disaster is called Hamas. But in the eyes of some parts of the West, the disaster ailing the Middle East is actually the Jewish people, who chose to return to their historical homeland. Dear Europeans, the day when Europe is declared a disaster area is near. The disaster is already in your cities, challenging your Judeo-Christian value system. Islam is coming to remind you of your identity, in case you forgot, whether you like it or not. It is challenging your silly notion of multiculturalism, and has only one goal: wiping the European culture off the face of the earth in favor of the desert culture of Islam. 2. There is one Christian principle that Europe still clings to: The Lamb of God (Agnus Dei) must be sacrificed in order to save the world. For 2,000 years, the Jewish people have served as a terrestrial substitute for the celestial Lamb of God. The ancient anti-Semitism was a compulsive repetition of the crucifixion. It wasn't just one Galilean Jew who was crucified in the first century, but it was in fact millions of Jews who were habitually crucified for thousands of years. The establishment of the State of Israel put the Jews back in history; Jesus climbed down from the cross and went home, and he is now trying to avoid another crucifixion. So instead of Jews, you got the State of Israel. Within the framework of the political correctness mechanism that you have constructed, it is easier to speak out against Israel than against the Jews. But we all know that it is the same thing. So now you are deluding yourselves into thinking that if you sacrifice Israel, the Muslims will let you be. Europe is tired of wars and wants only to be left in peace. The Muslims sense that, but there is something standing in the way. There is one irritating obstacle that is growing and blossoming in front of them against all odds. That thing stopping them from destroying the West is the State of Israel. 3. Together with its religious values, Western culture has also adopted rational values, encouraging debate, a wide range of viewpoints and freedom of expression. The Muslim culture, as it is manifested in Muslim nations, is the polar opposite. Moreover, it uses them to get what it wants. Here is an example of a random confrontation between these two worldviews in an interview conducted by CNN's Wolf Blitzer with Hamas spokesman Osama Hamdan in the Qatari capital of Doha. Hamdan, who represents an organization that bases its existence on a Nazi-like charter that seeks to eliminate the Jewish state and the entire West, was dressed like a Westerner, in a suit and tie. He was sitting against a backdrop of the Doha skyline -- the Manhattan of the Middle East -- a perfect setting for the naive West, who think that Hamdan is no different from them. As it turns out, Blitzer is not so naive. Hamdan chose his words very cautiously from a word bank prepared with great care over the course of two generations by radical western thought. He spoke of ethics and morals, the chance for peace and "our children's future" sprinkling his remarks with words like freedom, hope, history, concentration camps, barbaric attacks, and saying that Muslims believe in everyone's right to choose their religion. Hamdan repeated the term "genocide," arguing that Israel was guilty of it. He assumed that the viewers were not familiar with the history of the Jews and Islam (and he is right in this assumption) and claimed that Jews had always been welcomed peacefully in Muslim states. And of course he added that "we don't have a problem with Jews, we are against the occupation" and that it had nothing to do with "religion or race." It is the Israelis who hate humanity, he claimed. Throughout the interview, he never hesitated, even when the facts were stacked against him: Yes, he claimed, Israel violated the cease-fire (no one outside of Hamas thinks that). Yes, the agreement in Cairo is nothing like the agreement proposed two weeks prior (shall we compare-) And yes, we are talking about genocide. (How many people live in Gaza? Does Israel not have the capability to kill hundreds of thousands if it wants, God forbid? So how does killing 2,000 people over the course of nearly a month, most of whom are combatants or human shields, constitute genocide-) This goes beyond propaganda. This is a culture of lies. Then came the ambush. Blitzer presented the well-prepared Hamas spokesman with a recording of his own remarks to the Al-Quds network, in which he said in Arabic: "We all remember how the Jews used to slaughter Christians in order to mix their blood with their holy matzos. This is not a figment of the imagination, or something taken from a film. It is a fact acknowledged by their own books and historical evidence." All at once, the mask was ripped off and Hamdan became agitated. Right there, on live television, the vast gap between Hamas and the West, between the Dark Ages and the 21st century, was exposed. The gap between the two languages spoken by Hamdan -- one, an English laden with radical jargon directed at the West and the other, his mother tongue, directed at his own people. In both languages he used the words similarity, fact and history, but in each language the meanings of the same words were entirely different. Are we to understand that the word cease-fire also has different meanings in the two languages- 4. And now, we have a new archeological discovery. While excavating the area near route 1, an ancient Jewish village from the first century B.C.E. was discovered. Archeologists unearthed 114 bronze coins, dated "year four" -- the fourth year of the revolt against the Roman Empire (69-70 C.E.) and engraved with the words "for the redemption of Zion." The coins are also decorated with the Jewish four species -- palm, myrtle, citron and willow. Silly me, I though the coins would have said "for the redemption of Palestine." But no, "Palestina" was the name given to the Land of Israel, and specifically to Judea, by the Roman Emperor Hadrian after the Bar Kokhba revolt (132-135 C.E.) in efforts to sever the link between the Jews and their land. That is why he chose to name it after the Philistines -- a sea people who had disappeared from the region hundreds of years earlier. Coins are invariably a sign of sovereignty. Sadly, it was during that year that the Temple and Jerusalem were destroyed. Our ancient mothers and fathers, there is a payoff for your work. There is hope in your demise. Your children have come again to your border. Now, 1944 years after you buried the remains of our independence, your descendants have found them in the independent Jewish state, next to the highway leading to the capital, Jerusalem.
