Rudyard Kipling"
āWhen you're left wounded on Afganistan's plains and
the women come out to cut up what remains, Just roll to your rifle
and blow out your brains,
And go to your God like a soldierā
General Douglas MacArthur"
āWe are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.ā
āIt is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.ā āOld soldiers never die; they just fade away.
āThe soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and be the deepest wounds and scars of war.ā
āMay God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't .ā āThe object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
āNobody ever defended, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
āIt is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
The Soldier stood and faced God
Which must always come to pass
He hoped his shoes were shining
Just as bright as his brass
"Step forward you Soldier,
How shall I deal with you?
Have you always turned the other cheek?
To My Church have you been true?"
"No, Lord, I guess I ain't
Because those of us who carry guns
Can't always be a saint."
I've had to work on Sundays
And at times my talk was tough,
And sometimes I've been violent,
Because the world is awfully rough.
But, I never took a penny
That wasn't mine to keep.
Though I worked a lot of overtime
When the bills got just too steep,
The Soldier squared his shoulders and said
And I never passed a cry for help
Though at times I shook with fear,
And sometimes, God forgive me,
I've wept unmanly tears.
I know I don't deserve a place
Among the people here.
They never wanted me around
Except to calm their fears.
If you've a place for me here,
Lord, It needn't be so grand,
I never expected or had too much,
But if you don't, I'll understand."
There was silence all around the throne
Where the saints had often trod
As the Soldier waited quietly,
For the judgment of his God.
"Step forward now, you Soldier,
You've borne your burden well.
Walk peacefully on Heaven's streets,
You've done your time in Hell."
Robert Spencer : Confronting the forgotten history of Muslim occupation of Israel. The hysterical condemnations of āillegal constructionā did not end
when the Muslim occupation did. The great outhouse of the United Nations
and the smaller outhouses of the foreign ministries of countries whose
leaders tremble whenever Muslims grow agitated over a cartoon or a
YouTube video fill the air with the vilest of substances whenever a
Jewish family moves into a home in Jerusalem.
It would be
inconceivable for the international community to denounce an ethnically
cleansed group which survived attempted genocide for moving back into
its own city. It is, however, standard policy at the State Department
and the Foreign Office to denounce Jews living in those parts of
Jerusalem that had been ethnically cleansed by Muslims, as āsettlersā
living in āsettlements,ā and accuse them of being an āobstruction to
peace.ā
Peace being the state of affairs that sets in when an ethnic cleansing goes unchallenged.
What
we are talking about here is not peace, but ethnic cleansing. In 1948,
the Jews were ethnically cleansed from Jerusalem to Islamize the city.
Their synagogues were blown up by the Muslim occupiers. Their tombstones
were used to line the roads traveled by the racist Muslim settlers. In
1948, the Jews were ethnically cleansed from Jerusalem to Islamize the
city. Whether they were Zionists or anti-Zionists did not matter. They
were not Muslims. That was all that counted.
āFor the first time
in 1,000 years not a single Jew remains in the Jewish Quarter,ā Abdullah
el-Talal, a commander of the Muslim invaders, had boasted. āNot a
single building remains intact. This makes the Jewsā return here
impossible.ā In his memoirs he wrote, āI knew that the Jewish Quarter
was densely populated with Jews who caused their fighters a good deal of
interference and difficultyā¦. Only four days after our entry into
Jerusalem the Jewish Quarter had become their graveyard. Death and
destruction reigned over it.ā
Every politician who denounces Jews
building houses in Jerusalem, but not Muslims doing the same thing is
endorsing Abdullahās genocidal vision and all the terrorism that goes
with it.
In 1920, racist Muslim settler mobs in Jerusalem had
chanted āMohammedās religion was born with the swordā, āDeath to the
Jewsā and āthe government is with usā as Muslim policemen under British
colonial rule had joined with them in the rape and murder of the
indigenous Jewish population.
Too many governments are still with
those who wave the sword of Mohammed and cry death to the Jews. They
encourage them, defend their agenda and issue weak rebukes when blood is
spilled in the name of Islamization in Jerusalem, as it is in Kobani by
ISIS and a thousand other places. Those who endorse the Islamization of
Jerusalem cannot escape responsibilities for the crimes of the
Islamizers.
Describing Jewish homes in Jerusalem, one of the
worldās oldest cities, a city that all three religions in the region
associate with Jews and Jewish history, as āsettlementsā is a triumph of
distorted language that Orwell would have to tip his hat to. How does
one have āsettlementsā in a city older than London or Washington D.C.?
To
understand that, you would have to ask London and Washington D.C. where
the diplomats insist that one more round of Israeli compromises will
bring peace.
They say that there are three religions in
Jerusalem, but there are actually four. The fourth religion is the true
Religion of Peace, the one that insists that there will be peace when
the Jews have been expelled from Judea and Samaria, driven out of their
homes in Jerusalem, and made into wanderers and beggars once again.
Oddly enough, this religionās name isnāt even Islam ā itās diplomacy.
Diplomacy
says that the 1948 borders set by Arab countries invading Israel should
be the final borders and that, when Israel reunified a sundered city in
1967, it was an act of aggression, while, when seven Arab armies
invaded Israel in 1948, it was a legitimate way to set permanent
boundaries. When Jordan ethnically cleansed East Jerusalem, it set a
standard that Israelis are obligated to follow to this day by staying
out of East Jerusalem. To violate that ethnic cleansing endangers peace.
When Muslims move into a Jewish town, thereās no clamor. When Muslim
countries fund Muslim housing in Israel, there are no angry statements.
Muslim housing in Jerusalem or anywhere in Israel is not a problem. Only
Jewish housing is.
The issue is not Israel. If it were, then
Arabs with Israeli citizenship would also be condemned. Itās only the
Jews who are the problem.
The entire Peace Process is really a
prolonged solution to the latest phase of the Jewish Problem. The
problem, as stated by so many diplomats, is that there are Jews living
in places that Muslims want. There were Jews living in Gaza before 1948,
but they were driven out, they came back, and then they were driven out
again by their own government in compliance with international demands.
Now only Hamas lives in Gaza and itās as peaceful and pleasant without
the Jews as Nazi Germany.
But there are still Jews in the West
Bank and they have to be gotten rid of. Once enough Jews have been
expelled, there will be peace. Thatās not a paragraph from Mein Kampf,
itās not some lunatic sermon from Palestinian Authority televisionā it
is the consensus of the international community. This consensus states
that the only reason there still isnāt peace is because enough Jews
havenāt been expelled from their homes. The ethnic cleansing for peace
hasnāt gone far enough.
There will be peace when all the Jews are
gone. That much is certainly undeniable. Just look at Gaza or Egypt or
Iraq or Afghanistan, which has a grand total of two Jews, both of them
in their seventies. Or Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Syria where peace
reigns now that the Jews are gone. Some might say that violence seems to
increase proportionally with the number of Muslims, but we all know
that would be Islamophobic. On the other hand suggesting that violence
increases with the number of Jews living on land that Muslims want,
thatās just diplomacy. A common sense fact that everyone who is anyone
in foreign policy knows to be true.
How will we know when the
Muslims have gotten all the land that they want? When the violence
stops. Everyone knows that agreements mean nothing. No matter how many
pieces of paper are signed, the bombs and rockets still keep bursting.
The only way to reach an agreement is by groping blindly in the dark,
handing over parcel after parcel of land, until the explosions stop or
the Muslims fulfill their original goal of pushing the Jews into the
sea.
Thatās the wonderful thing about diplomacy if youāre a
diplomat and the terrible thing about it if you are anyone else without a
secure way out of the country when diplomacy fails. And diplomacy in
the region always fails. Camp David and every single agreement Israel
has signed with Muslim countries arenāt worth the paper theyāre written
on. The only peace treaty that counts is the one made by tanks and
rifles. Itās the one made by Israeli planes in Egyptian skies and
Israeli soldiers walking the border. Itās the one made by Jewish farmers
and ranchers, tending their sheep and their fields, with rifles strung
over their backs. The only peace thatās worth anything is the peace of
the soldiers and settlers.
In 1966, Jerusalem was a city sundered
in two, divided by barbed wire and the bullets of Muslim snipers.
Diplomacy did not reunite it. Israel pursued diplomacy nearly to its
bitter end until it understood that it had no choice at all but to
fight. Israel did not swoop into the fight, its leaders did their best
to avoid the conflict, asking the international community to intervene
and stop Egypt from going to war. Read back the headlines for the last
five years on Israel and Iran, and you will get a sense of the courage
and determination of the Israeli leaders of the day.
When Israel
went to war, its leaders did not want to liberate Jerusalem, they wanted
Jordan to stay out of the war. Even when Jordan entered the war, they
did not want to liberate the city. Divine Providence and Muslim
hostility forced them to liberate Jerusalem and forced them to keep it.
Now some of them would like to give it back, another sacrifice to the
bloody deity of diplomacy whose altar flows with blood and burnt
sacrifices.
As we remember Yom Yerushalayim, Jerusalem Day, it is
important to remember that the city is united and free because
diplomacy failed. The greatest triumph of the modern state happened only
because diplomacy proved hopeless and useless in deterring Muslim
genocidal ambitions. Had Israel succumbed to international pressure and
had Nasser been as subtle as Sadat, then the Six-Day War would have
looked like the Yom Kippur War fought with 1948 bordersā and Israel very
likely would not exist today.
Even as Jews remember the great triumph of Yom Yerushalayim, the
ethnic cleansers and their accomplices are busy searching for ways to
drive Jews out of Jerusalem, out of towns, villages and cities. This
isnāt about the Muslim residents of Jerusalem, who have repeatedly
asserted that they want to remain part of Israel. Itās not about peace,
which did not come from any previous round of concessions, and will not
come from this one either. Itās about solving the Jewish problem.
As
long as Jews allow themselves to be defined as the problem, there will
be plenty of those offering solutions. And the solutions invariably
involve doing something about the Jews. It only stands to reason that if
Jews are the problem, then moving them or getting rid of them is the
solution. There is less friction in defining Jews as the problem, than
in defining Muslims as the problem. The numbers alone mean that is so.
Yom
Yerushalayim is a reminder of what the real problem is and what the
real solution is. Muslim occupation of Israel is the problem. The
Islamization of Jerusalem is the problem. Muslim violence in support of
the Muslim occupation of Israel and of everywhere else is the problem.
Israel is the solution. Only when we liberate ourselves from the lies,
when we stop believing that we are the problem and recognize that we are
the solution. Only then will the liberation that began in 1967 be
complete.
Only then will we have liberated our Jerusalem. The
Jerusalem of the soul. It is incumbent on all of us to liberate that
little Jerusalem within. The holy city that lives in all of us. To clean
the dross off its golden gates, wash the filth from its stones and
expel the invaders gnawing away at our hearts until we look proudly upon
a shining city. Then to help others liberate their own Jerusalems. Only
then will we truly be free.
