Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon produces yet another excellent video, explaining in short sharp soundbites the real reason why there is still no peace in Israel.
My only caveat: he should not sound so proud about Israel constantly saying “yes” to those recalcitrant murderous Arabs. Perhaps it’s about time that the Israelis said “No” – no to exorbitant demands, “No” to demands that Israel commit suicide by agreeing to indefensible borders, “No” to giving up land to a terrorist entity.
Watch, enjoy and enlighten yourselves. And spread the word!
I have to agree with you about the frustration with Danny Ayalon’s video. There is only one point. The Arabs will not recognize Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state. PERIOD. It is the most basic, and only condition that Israel seeks. The rest is all BS.
Peace is NOT a “process” … it is a state of affairs. I don’t believe the Arab terrorists know what “peace” is … it is just a political word to them. I know a lot of Arabs, non-”Palestinians” all, who do get it, but not the rabid bunch who use religion as a racial and social cudgel. As a former soldier I know what “peace” is not, thereby I can divine what “peace” is … the the advent of total silence on a battle field, by enemy death or complete cessation of hostility. Preferably both\. Momentary “peace” is the morning when no one is left alive to shoot at you, no one left to lob 82mm platoon mortars at you, no one left to try to kill you by any means. Surprise, surprise … you momentarily do not feel the need to kill anyone. You collect your dead, tend to your wounded, and go on to live a while longer. If you are lucky, and to me that is all it is, you go on to return home and continue with life … but you never escape the survivor guilt for your good fortune. In the recesses of your mind “peace” never returns, you just live like it does.
In my war, those moments were short lived, you knew the adversary would return, and war would continue. Ambush was expected. Why not? You set them yourself as well. You didn’t really want to get to know too many others around you because they might be gone in a day or two. You still still defended them as if they were brothers, because in tense moments, they were … and they accorded you the same defense. You even understood some of your enemy’s grievances, historical and current, because if you did not you’d advocate sweeping through villages and towns killing anything and everything that moved … devastation until even worms couldn’t return for 5 years. You could reach a point of immorality that would reduce you to “the only good X is a dead X” mentality … make you more evil than all the worst before you. You were not raised to think that way, so you resist it. Usually you succeed.
So where Israel? She is surrounded by enemies who have lost all morality. Her enemies have little liberal education. Enemies who haven’t a clue what “peace” is, and it they won, they’d immediately set out killing each other. “Peace” is not in their lexicon. Enemies who complain loudly about the “prisoners” Israel holds, even while they continue attacks on Israel … while they hold but one, because the rest are dead … and I’m not too sure about the one anymore.
The only way to deal with such an enemy is to just say NO. Over and over. Give nothing. At the very most, for those radicals who will cease firing, provide small contained “autonomous” areas, never absorb them as they will eat you alive. Didn’t have to be that way, but it IS that way.
The “peace process” is that state of affairs where the enemy no longer had the resources to fight, no longer has the will to fight, no longer has the leadership of insanity, and stops simply by attrition of same. They won’t love you but they must be forced to accept your existence. Or they must die.
Thank you for your beautiful eloquent reply Aridog. I wish you could stand up at the UN and say it out loud. I’m sure all those UN members know what you’re saying – in their hearts and their heads – but they are too cowardly in the face of Arab aggression to say it. So much easier to just make unreasonable demands of Israel and blame her when she won’t concede.
And Israel does concede – stupidly too much and too many times – because she has been browbeaten by all those well-meaning idiots, who then pocket Israel’s concessions and then demand more.
Besides being naive and/or cowardly, they also don’t have Israel’s best interests at heart because after all, in Israel they are only a bunch of Jews. I do sincerely believe that a lot if not most of the anti-Israel feeling internationally stems from a latent antisemitism.