Israel is still treated as “a little ghetto Jew”.

by Steven Shamrak.

Most of the time when a complex issue or subject is discussed a variety of opinions and emotions are expressed. We debate them listen to the opposite opinions and ideas in an attempt to find some understanding or solution. It is not always that the majority decision is the right one. If all parties involved in the discussion of the complex issue have articulated and supported the same point of view it is most probably the wrong one and, expressed under duress or biased attitude toward the subject under discussion with disregard to the facts and disrespect towards one or all parties involved.

Out of more than two hundred countries there isn’t a single voice that would say: “Wait a minute, Israel is under terror attacks for many months and years.” Most of Israel’s neighbors refused to recognize her right to exist for 54 years. Israel desires to live in peace and is prepared to sacrifice a lot just for the sake of the piece of paper that would guarantee her a peaceful existence. Israel is condemned, but the Arab States that created terrorist infrastructures, who are instigators of recent waves of terror are not. Something is not kosher here! Why are different standards used? Don’t you think Israel deserves to be treated as equal among equals? Don’t you think there are legitimate historical, legal and moral rights for Israel to determine her own future?” I am still waiting to hear this voice!

Just imagine the reaction of Indonesia if it would be told “Leave West Papua”. What about the United Kingdom and its occupation of Northern Ireland? Spain and France still refuse to even consider a legitimate call for independence of Basque people. There are 35 millions Kurds divided among five countries with no hope for independence or extermination of the Christians in the south of Sudan. All of them and more have legitimate claims for independence, unlike the Arab-Palestinians.

The most amazing thing about this situation is that, living in an environment of continuous war and terror created by her neighbors, Israel has managed to build a true democracy in the neighborhood of dictatorships. In the deserts and swamps the strong, arguably, world-leading economy is built. At the same time her neighbors still ride their economies “on the back of the camel” and those who have oil have not done much for the good of humanity or even for the future of their own people.

The Arab-Israel conflict is a complex issue. Too many people, countries and organisations are expressing their opinion without full knowledge or even a modicum of the facts or filter them through deeply imbedded hypocrisy, xenophobic anti-Semitism or politico-economic fear of blackmail by oil producing Arab countries.

Arab dictators cannot allow the true and economically successful democracy to exist in their midst. It will undermined their authority and will evoke in the minds their subjects undesirable questions and ideas. This is the reason why they are using radical Islam in order to keep the population of Muslim countries under control.

A short time ago the former Prime Minister of Israel, Binyamin Netanyahu, expressed the following ideas: “Militant Islamists resented the West for pushing back the triumphant march of Islam into the heart of Europe many centuries ago. Its adherents, believing in the innate supremacy of Islam...”, “…militant Islam does not hate the West because of Israel, they hate Israel because of the West - because they see it is an island of Western democratic values in a Muslim-Arab sea of despotism.”

We are in the presence of a miracle! Traditional Christian anti-Semites, Fascists, Communists, the Leftist opposition to Western democracy and radical Islam are all united against Israel and Jews in general. All those groups hate and have been fighting and killing each other for generations. The only force that is able unite them is a deep-rooted hatred toward Jews. But they do not represent the ultimate danger. It is the silent and indifferent majority we have to worry about. They have done it before. They allowed Nazis take over Europe and commit genocide. The League of Nations (currently named UN), the International Red Cross, the Vatican and the Western democracies stood mute when more than 6 millions Jews and many millions of other minorities were murdered.

The same perpetrators submit themselves to the newly emerging force of extreme Muslim pan-Arabism, not realising or deliberately ignoring the full ramifications of its expansionistic goals. They are standing now in state of the group paralysis induced by the fear, like a rabbit in front of a piton.

After centuries of persecution of Jews it is time for all decent people to say: “Enough is enough. Israel and Jews have full right to be treated as equal among equals. No more double standards!”