Killing Gentiles
March 12, 2002
Ariel
Sharon has finally gone too far. Israels thuggish prime
minister thought he could crush the Palestinian revolt with a policy of
violence, killing Palestinians until they begged for mercy. But the policy
has backfired by getting lots of Jews killed too, and the violence on both
sides is escalating dangerously. Even Sharons indulgent American
patrons, George W. Bush and Colin Powell, have called for a halt to the
madness.
Sharon is acting according to his
lights. He has never concealed his contempt for the goy
the gentile. Israel is based on the principle that Jews have rights
goyim dont have. Hence its abuse of Arab gentiles
and its defiance of Western gentiles.
Mark Weber of the Institute for
Historical Review has summed up the situation in one pithy sentence:
The truth is that if we held Israel to the same standards that we
apply to Serbia, Afghanistan, and Iraq, U.S. bombers and missiles would be
blasting Tel Aviv, and wed be putting Israeli prime minister Sharon
behind bars for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Unless Ive missed something,
even such alleged anti-Semites as David Duke and Louis
Farrakhan dont advocate treating Jews as Israel treats gentiles.
Anyone with a spark of decency would be ashamed to treat Jews that way.
Yet a gentile can be accused of anti-Semitism even for the purely verbal
sin of criticizing Israel, whereas a Jew who supports Sharons
physical cruelty is accused of ... well, nothing. We have no handy word for
even the most brutal Jewish treatment of gentiles.
To challenge the Jews right to
oppress Palestinians is called denying Israels right to
exist. Apparently its right to exist includes the
right to oppress, and is indeed inseparable from it. Even the peace
plans that call for separate Jewish and Palestinian states seem to
take for granted the right of the Jewish state to treat Arabs within its
borders as inferiors.
Perish the thought that Jews and gentiles should be equal! That
would be anti-Semitism.
According to Israels
amen corner in this country, Israel can do no wrong, except
to concede too much to the Palestinians. Israel is a heroic
democracy even when it treats its minority like dirt, and a
reliable ally of the United States even when it steals
American military secrets and sells them to Communist countries.
Its an article of faith among
the Amen Corner that the Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard a national
hero in Israel, by the way has been punished far too harshly for his
crimes, since the United States should have shared those secrets with
Israel anyway. And far from recoiling from Sharons brutality, the
Amen Corner defends him at every turn, just as Stalins fellow
travelers in this country used to justify Uncle Joe except that
some in the Amen Corner think Sharon isnt going far enough.
Not all the members of the Amen
Corner are Jewish. Many are Christians a shameful fact, since they
never raise their voices in defense of Palestinian Christians. See
how these Christians love one another! This kind of loyalty might
make Judas Iscariot queasy.
The obvious danger is that the United
States will once more be drawn into war with Israels enemies,
chiefly Iraq. If that happens, we probably wont be as lucky as in
the 1991 Gulf War, which ended with an easy American victory and little
cost until last September 11. This time the whole Middle East could erupt
in war and revolution, leaving us with countless millions of bitter
enemies on top of those we already have. It will be a boon to al-Qaeda
recruitment.
The U.S. Government is toying with
the possibility of using nuclear weapons in the war ahead the war
that the war on terrorism may morph into. We can be sure
that the fanatical Sharon wont object, and some of his American
apologists are sounding rather interested in the idea of nuking Arabs. If
the United States does it, Israel wont have to.
We can only hope that Bush, Powell,
and the rest of the top echelon of the government which may or
may not include Congress these days will come to their senses
before they decide to strike Iraq. U.S. support for Israel has already cost
us far too much, and it may yet cost us far more. Ariel Sharon leaves no
excuse for blindness about what we are dealing with.
Joseph Sobran
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