The Omega Letter Intelligence Digest
Vol: 59 Issue: 2 - Wednesday, August 02, 2006
'That Ye May Remember I Told You'
There is an old joke about a drunk crawling around on the ground on a street corner. “What are you doing?” asks a passerby. “Looking for a quarter I dropped,” replied the drunk.
“Where did you lose it?” asks the passerby. “Down the street,” says the drunk. “Then why are you looking here?” our nosy passerby demands.
The drunk looks at him like he is an idiot. “The light's better here.”
The quest for peace in the Middle East is being conducted as if that drunk was in charge. Indeed the whole war against Islamofacism is using the same template of looking where the light is better, even if they are looking in the wrong place.
The entire world community is operating under the assumption that an immediate ceasefire imposed against Israel is the best solution to putting an end to the Israeli-Hezbollah war that has so far claimed hundreds of lives.
Thundered the increasingly antisemitic Pat Buchanan in his most recent reminder of God's grace (that he didn't become president);
“If Israel is not in violation of the principle of proportionality, by which Christians are to judge the conduct of a just war, what can that term mean? There are 600 civilian dead in Lebanon, 19 in Israel, a ratio of 30-1.”
In other words, the sum of Buchanan's argument is that an immediate ceasefire is mandated because Israelis aren't being killed in sufficient numbers to justify going after their killers.
Making things worse, he introduces 'Christians' into his argument, invoking some 'principle of proportionality' as a benchmark against which 'Christians' are able to measure whether a war is 'just' or not.
It reminds me of Jesse Jackson trying to justify Cynthia McKinnon's slugging of a Capitol Hill police officer because McKinnon is black.
It was a 'red-meat' charge calculated to create the impression that McKinnon was striking a blow for black independence. While hoping nobody connected the dots and realized Jackson's 'explanation' really meant that McKinnon didn't slug the officer because SHE was black, she slugged him because HE was white.
There is no Christian ethic that requires proportionality as a principle of warfare. Christianity does not address what constitutes an acceptable ratio of deaths per side in conflict. Buchanan's argument is as transparently antisemitic as Jackson's argument is transparently racist.
Buchanan's cynical insinuation of Christianity into his argument is calculated to remind his readers that Israelis aren't Christians, but Jews, without his having to say so in so many words.
This is Buchanan's second effort to use Christianity as a hammer to beat back US support for Israel in as many weeks.
Buchanan is careful to remind his readers of Lebanon's large Christian population to stir up outrage against Jewish Israel for 'attacking Lebanon' – as if Hezbollah was a Lebanese Christian benevolent organization, instead of an Islamofacist terror group equally as deadly to Christians as it is to Jews.
Buchanan's purpose isn't to win support for Hezbollah, but to invoke the Middle East adage; “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” to divert Christian support for Israel.
But his twisted logic is shared by most of the world's leading antisemitic nations and openly embraced by the United Nations.
The lopsided death toll is evidence, to the world's antisemitic community, that Israel is winning. Consequently, an immediate ceasefire must be imposed against them before they succeed in wiping Hezbollah out.
Note carefully that the pressure for a ceasefire is being unilaterally imposed on Israel, even as Hezbollah rockets continue to rain down on Israeli cities. If Israel were to stop fighting, what incentive is there for Hezbollah to do the same?
Looking for peace behind an Israeli ceasefire is like looking for a quarter under a streetlight because that's where the light is best. You'll never find it there, but the search is easier.
Buchanan's ideological allies in Europe echoed Buchanan's demand for an immediate ceasefire using the same unspoken logic that the root and branch of the conflict in the Middle East is Israel.
France, Sweden, Spain and Greece are attempting push forward a draft EU resolution that demands “an immediate cessation of hostilities to be followed by a sustainable cease-fire,” be imposed on the Jews.
As EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana explained; “It means that the war must be stopped and that negotiations held to obtain a sustainable ceasefire.”
The operative phrase here is 'the war must be stopped'. Nobody has offered anything resembling an explanation of how an immediate cessation of Israeli hostilities will translate into a 'sustainable' ceasefire – and, in any case, a 'ceasefire' isn't peace. Who should Israel negotiate with?
What can it offer Hezbollah as a negotiating chip when Hezbollah's goal is Israel's destruction, apart from a surrender to its intended fate? Obviously, the correct answer from the world's perspective is 'who cares?'
When the conflict is viewed in terms of 'the Jews' against non-Jews, peace isn't even entertained as an option. Noted Finnish Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja, Israel's offensive against Hezbollah “will only increase support for Hezbollah.”
The idea of ending the threat posed by Hezbollah to Israel never even enters into the equation. Because killing Israelis is what Hezbollah does.
Assessment:
Arguing in favor of an enforced ceasefire as the first step towards a 'sustainable peace' is so utterly devoid of logic that attempting to debate it is like trying to debate the circumference of the earth with a member of the Flat Earth Society.
The reason for the conflict is Hezbollah's 'raison d'etre' or, its only reason for existing (if you will excuse my French). The annihilation of Israel. How does one debate that a unilateral Israeli ceasefire that leaves Hezbollah intact will lead to a 'sustainable ceasefire' when Hezbollah's existential goal is Israel's national destruction?
What if Israel offered to live in peace with Hezbollah and Hezbollah accepted? Would Israel continue the war? Why would it?
Now, let's turn it around. What if Israel offered to live in peace with Hezbollah and Hezbollah promised to continue its efforts at Israel's destruction? (Which is what the international community is demanding).
Is there any viable chain of logic that can make the leap from that scenario into one of 'sustainable, lasting peace'?
If the goal is a 'sustainable lasting peace' instead of, as Buchanan is demanding, a 'principle of proportionality; (more dead Jews, fewer dead Arabs), then the only logical solution would be for Hezbollah to be disbanded or destroyed.
Buchanan's insane principle of proportionality is a guarantee of continued hostilities until either Israel or Hezbollah is no more.
A unilateral ceasefire in the face of an unrepentant, armed and dedicated enemy can only serve to allow the enemy to regroup and rearm itself for the next conflict. And the next one. Until Israel is no more.
It is only after the world is cleansed of a Jewish state that a 'sustainable ceasefire' is possible, unless Hezbollah changes its foundational goals. And it doesn't take a rocket scientist, an historian, or a political science major to figure that out.
Demanding a ceasefire under the current situation is like a police force demanding that shopkeepers pay off the mob for 'protection' as a way of curtailing organized crime. There is no identifiable logic in there.
Buchanan accidentally underscored the real reason for both the conflict and for the international insanity being proposed as a 'solution'. It is a spiritual war, rather than a war between nations. Since it is spiritual, natural logic does not apply.
Israel is not at war with Lebanon. It is at war with a stateless, armed religious militia that has taken over Lebanon as a base of operations in exactly the same way that al-Qaeda took over Afghanistan.
Hezbollah's goal is the destruction of Israel as a matter of religious duty. The war would end one second after Hezbollah abandoned its plan to destroy Israel. The Taliban and al-Qaeda are sworn to the destruction of 'Crusader America' as a matter of religious duty.
Israel's justification for the invasion of Lebanon is a mirror image of America's justification for invading Afghanistan in 2003. Arguing for an Israeli ceasefire against Hezbollah is the moral equivalent to demanding a US ceasefire against the Taliban and al-Qaeda.
But I don't hear Pat Buchanan demanding a ceasefire with al-Qaeda on the grounds that America is killing more terrorists than terrorists are killing Americans.
That argument is reserved exclusively for the Jews, who evidently aren't being killed off fast enough to suit him and his antisemitic colleagues around the world. History proves that Jews are easier to kill when they don't fight back.
“They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service. And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor Me.” (John 16:2-3)
The world hates Israel for the same reason that Pat Buchanan does. Because they are Jews. Since Hezbollah is only interested in wiping the Jews from the face of the earth, Buchanan feels comfortable in invoking Christianity as a justification for standing back and letting Hezbollah wipe them out, evidently doing God a service by wiping out these 'Christ-killers'.
“But these things have I told you, that when the time shall come, ye may remember that I told you of them.” (John 16:4)
The absolutely illogical, but universal contention that the best way to end the Israeli-Arab conflict is to make it easier to kill the Jews reminds us that the time has come. Just as Jesus promised.
Because He IS God, Bible prophecy is coming true before our eyes, in this generation, and He is making ready for His return.
Maranatha!
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