printMainstream media and the community of documentarians have “explained” ad nauseam the vexing nuances of the “Palestinian problem.” We know why jobs are unavailable in that otherwise economically viable anarcho-terrorist territory, why government consists of competing terrorist gangs (rather than only one), and why civil society, such as it is, canonizes killers. Israel; it’s all Israel’s fault! [Plagiarized from “The Plight That Never Shuts Up”]
Now that we have that out of the way, let’s watch a professional victim get creative. In this LiveLeak video, our young cherub—what is she, all of 15?—is driven to stab a checkpoint guard. Why do I use the passive form of the verb for a premeditated act of savagery? Read “Coddling Killers” for the framework you need.
Such aggression is an every day occurrence at these checkpoints; alas, it’s not as common on the Internet, which is festooned with ahistoric, fact-challenged “documentaries” such as this one. For one, the crawl text begins with stock propaganda, calling Gaza and the West Bank “occupied territories.” Let me dispel that factoid herewith:
“Prior to 1967,” explains palestinefacts.org., “Jordan had occupied the West Bank and Egypt had occupied the Gaza Strip; their presence in those territories was the result of their illegal invasion in 1948. Jordan’s 1950 annexation of the West Bank was recognized only by Great Britain and Pakistan and rejected by the vast majority of the international community, including the Arab states.”
“International jurists generally draw a distinction between situations of ‘aggressive conquest’ and territorial disputes that arise after a war of self-defense. Former US State Department Legal Advisor Stephen Schwebel, who later headed the International Court of Justice in the Hague, wrote in 1970 regarding Israel’s case:
* Where the prior holder of territory had seized that territory unlawfully, the state which subsequently takes that territory in the lawful exercise of self-defense has, against that prior holder, better title.
“Israel only entered the West Bank in 1967 after repeated Jordanian artillery fire and ground movements across the previous armistice lines; additionally, Iraqi forces crossed Jordanian territory and were poised to enter the West Bank. Under such circumstances, even the United Nations rejected Soviet efforts to have Israel branded as the aggressor in the Six-Day War.
Regardless of how many times the Palestinian Arabs claim otherwise, Israel cannot be characterized as a ‘foreign occupier’ with respect to the West Bank and Gaza Strip.”
[SNIP]
Predictably, and like Swiss clockwork, a RIOT erupted after this, or another, “victim” (the aggressor/stabber, naturally) was arrested. The audacity! I urge you to read “Rah-Rah For Rioters” for the anatomy of a victim in-riot and his enablers.
ERGO: Roadblocks or checkpoints, the quintessential pacifist form of self-defense—akin to lifting your hand in front of your face to shield it from a blow—must be dismantled. And that goes for The wall, which has cut deaths by homicidal bombers by 80 percent.
Don’t you know that Palestinians sans medical care and jobs have a natural right to Israeli markets and manpower (hospitals)? Yeah, that’s the progressive definition of a right.
You say you’re all for shielding girls like the exquisite Sgt. Ma’ayan Na’im, 19, of Bat Yam, who “was murdered (33 others were wounded) when a bomb exploded at a bus stop in downtown Tel Aviv at about 7 a.m., July 11, 2004.
Hmmm. That’s a tough one. I’ll have to think on that…
Update: WALLING. It’s hard to get over the audacity of those Israelis. Their intention to screen and secure ports of entry is just so … UnAmerican. What are they afraid of? Terrorists? A surplus of cheap labor in a recession? Both? C’mon. The duty of a government is to always work against its own people. Have the Israelis learned nothing from the American ship of state?
Apparently so. We now learn that “Israel will Build Barrier Along its Egyptian Border”:
Israel will build a barrier along the entire length of its southern border with Egypt, the Prime Minister’s Office said today in a statement posted on its Web site.
The barrier is meant to keep out “intruders and terrorists,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in the statement, including “illegal workers who try to enter Israel by way of its southern border.”
The barrier will cost at least a billion shekels and take several years to construct, the statement said.
Israel is supposed to follow different rules than the US, or Egypt, or any other country in the world. There are dozens of security walls around the world – does anyone speak of them?
No other nation would have been so tolerant of its depraved neighbors as has Israel. The US gets bombed on 9-11 and we go to war half-way around the world with the result being hundreds of thousands of deaths.
Israel gets missiles lobbed at it from across the border, and gets condemned for “disproportionate response,” whatever the hell that means!!
What would France do? How about the Brits? Or the Germans? We already know what the Russians would do, and what we would do? How about the world let Israel defend itself, and the Europeans, especially the Fins and the Swedes, who should go back into their igloos and ponder why their comrades’ suicide rates are so high.
As best as I can remember from past reading the Israelis tried to offer the Palestinians citizenship in the new country of Israel when they started up in 1947 or 48. I forget the exact year. Of course the natural anti-everything nature of the Arab made the Palestinians refuse. All these years they have, with the support of the rest of the Arab world, been a boil on the back side of the Jews and will stay that way. I might have some of my historical facts wrong, but the situation is as stated. The place of the Palestinians is to be perpetual victims and perpetual “comanches” to constantly thwart the Israelis.
It is not mentioned often that the UN created a Palestinian state simultaneously when it created Israel. But the Arab world decided that it would rather destroy Israel first. The word went out to the Arabs in the Israeli part of the partition to leave, so that the brave Arab armies could swoop in and kill all the Jewish men, women and children. Then the Arabs could move back in and take all that the Jews built. Ironically, the Soviets funneled arms to the Jews through the Czechs because, you see, the Israelis started out as Socialists, and would perhaps be a good base for the Soviets in the Cold War.
Also rarely mentioned are the 600,000 Jews thrown out of Arab countries – where they had lived for millennia – thrown out and mostly leaving their worldly possessions behind.
So the world harps on half the story. It has almost gone full circle from killing Jews in WWII, to killing Jews in Israel.
Interesting how few comments here.
[Astute observation. Israel and international WND columns too are poorly read compared to local-issue columns.].
Pardon me, but the only way in which someone could be “driven to stab” would be if their mommy had taken them to their victim in her car.
How about if the Palestinians surrender?
After all, the Japanese and Germans did at the end of their agression.