Can someone please convince the Bush Administration that these truths also hold true in Israel:
In Iraq and around the world, we will never peacefully dissuade those dedicated to violence against us. They must be captured or killed.
Nor are the actual terrorist murderers the only problem:
sympathetic local populations…sustain the insurgency with cash, weapons, and intelligence.
And, in the case of the Palestinian Arabs’ overwhelming elecion of Hamas, with international legitimacy.
The article also provides logic that perfectly explains how and why Hamas managed to score its electoral coup:
Hamas is an “enemy who thrives by delivering empowerment and vengeance to [a population] drowning in poverty, social humiliation, and political marginalization. These masses in return sustain the enemy — passively with cover and actively with fighters.
Where I disagree with the authors is in their view that overwhelming firepower is not part of the answer, but rather greater involvement of local law inforcement.
If the Israeli-Arab conflict has taught anything, it is that in the Muslim world the perception of strength carries much weight.
When the enemy is perceived as strong, the terrorists are deterred. When the enemy is perceived as weak due to its failure to respond strongly to the terrorists’ threat, those terrorists are better able to convince local populations of their own strength, and so gain greater support.
The authors get back on track with their assessment of the need for a re-education of the local population.
The overall strategy, however, should be closer to that implemented again Japan in World War II - a strategy that worked perhaps better than any expected.
The Japanese were a people unquestionably dedicated to war on behalf of their deified emperor. It was overwhelming American firepower that convinced them of their own weakness and the need to lay down their arms, leading to the ability to carry out a true re-education of the general population.
Israel’s approach should be no different - the outright defeat of its enemies, followed by a concerted Israeli-controlled campaign to win the hearts and minds of the local Arabs through education.
This, of course, is unlikely to happen in the current liberal atmosphere of appeasement.
Fortunately, all hope is not lost. One day the overwhelming firepower of the Messiah will defeat Israel’s enemies, and a divine program of re-education will transform not only the Arabs’ hearts and minds, but their very souls.
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12 comments so far ↓
1 Frank // Mar 30, 2006 at 8:13 am
“Behold, Damascus is about to be removed from being a city, and it will become a fallen ruin.”
“In that day the Egyptians will become like women, and they will tremble and be in dread because of the waving of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which He is going to wave over them.”
Moab, Edom and Ammon will also feel the hand of the LORD. And then….
“In that day Israel will be the third party with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth, whome the LORD of hosts has blessed, saying, “Blessed is Egypt My people, and Assyria the work of My hands, and Israel My inheritance.”
Maranatha Amen
2 outspoken2 // Mar 30, 2006 at 12:08 pm
Peace will occur when Messiah returns and only then. Until Messiah returns these terrorists need to be dealt with on their grounds. The greatest desire of the jehadists is to die and go be with the 72 Harlots, well, it is up to the militaries of the world to make sure the jehadists keep their appointments with death.
3 Helovesall // Mar 30, 2006 at 2:00 pm
It is true that only when hearts and minds are changed can true peace come through SAR SHALOM. He is here in the empowering work of the RUACH HAKODESH to do that even before the actual appearance of Messiah. When we are at peace with G-d, He makes our enemies at peace with us….pray for the shalom of Yerushalaim.
4 Commander Johnson // Mar 30, 2006 at 4:49 pm
Click on the following website for the 83rd Psalm Power Point prayer for Israel.
http:/www.acwitness.org/psalm83english.html
5 deafisraelite // Mar 30, 2006 at 7:15 pm
Really…
Genesis 16:11-12
Tame a wild man?
Roy
6 Mike Orpaz at: mikesorpaz@sbcglobal.net // Mar 30, 2006 at 11:04 pm
These are two great points: “firepower and re-education”! They will surely come to pass!
We can read the full, graphicly described, scenario of the 4,000 year history and future of the Israel/Arab conflict in the latest most shocking/fascinating bestseller on the Middle East, titled: “Middle East: Blueprint For the Final [ultimately rosy] Solution,” subtitled: “The Coming Fall and Rise of Western Democracy.”
I previewed/ordered it from: www.1stbooks.com/bookview/16130.
It contains the most fascinating and shocking big surprises about the history of the conflict; its hidden roots and players; the best way to neutrilize Islamic terror “without firing one single shot.”
I understand everyone in the Bush administration has a personal copy of this monumental work.
Mike Orpaz
7 texlux1@yahoo.com // Apr 1, 2006 at 2:33 pm
As soon as the unilateral Israeli withdrawals from Judea and Samaria are complete then you will see overpowering military violence used by Israel to annihillate all Palestinians, men, women and children: there will not be one single Palestinian left alive in fulfillment of Obadiah 15-18. The trap is set, and the blood-thirsty Palestinians have fallen into it headlong. In the future they will resort to one last horrendous terrorist act, and then the IDF will wipe them out once and for all. The prophecy in Obadiah will be fulfilled to the letter just as every prophecy about the Suffering Messiah have been fulfilled 2000 years ago and all the prophecies related to His coming as King of Israel and Prince of Peace will be fulfilled to the letter in the not so distant future. Come quickly Yeshua HaMashiach.
8 texlux1@yahoo.com // Apr 1, 2006 at 2:33 pm
As soon as the unilateral Israeli withdrawals from Judea and Samaria are complete then you will see overpowering military violence used by Israel to annihillate all Palestinians, men, women and children: there will not be one single Palestinian left alive in fulfillment of Obadiah 15-18. The trap is set, and the blood-thirsty Palestinians have fallen into it headlong. In the future they will resort to one last horrendous terrorist act, and then the IDF will wipe them out once and for all. The prophecy in Obadiah will be fulfilled to the letter just as every prophecy about the Suffering Messiah have been fulfilled 2000 years ago and all the prophecies related to His coming as King of Israel and Prince of Peace will be fulfilled to the letter in the not so distant future. Come quickly Yeshua HaMashiach.
9 arielvleora@kansasi.com // Apr 2, 2006 at 5:17 pm
My Comments are on www.amisraelchai-eretz.com
10 outspoken2 // Apr 14, 2006 at 10:36 am
Commander Johnson wrote Psalm 83——AMEN.
11 Hideyoshi Toyotomi // May 27, 2006 at 10:06 pm
Yes, good one imbecile. Blow them up enough and they’ll learn to love you.
Here’s a little hint about why the Arabs don’t like Israel:
Israel’s been screwing them over for the last 50 odd years.
That’d put a bee in pretty much anyone’s bonnet, if you think about it.
Withdraw to pre ‘67 borders. That includes taking away those silly little settlements that have been put on stolen land since then. Treat them with dignity, give them hope and they’ll probably stop blowing up your buses and nightclubs etc.
And your strange assertion that Muslims are afraid to attack strong targets, well er, last I heard Al Qaeda was in the habit of attacking the mightiest nation the world has ever seen (the US, incase you’re wondering).
OK, take care fellas, good luck with the whole “chosen people” thing and seriously, try to relax sometimes and just let the good times roll!
12 Max // Dec 30, 2006 at 7:19 am
A Israeli withdraw to pre ‘67 borders is suicide.
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