Pop-quiz for peace

First there were howls of protest because Jews in Israel dared build a security barrier to shield themselves from maniacal homicide bombers out to kill Jews because they were Jews.

The protesters - the Arabs, the Arabists and the Left - insisted that the problem was that it was not right to build a barrier anywhere that wasn't an international border.

So they decided the 1949 armistice lines should no longer be referred to as the lines at which five (5) invading Arab Muslim armies were fought to a standstill by Israel. Instead, for reasons of political expediency these lines should be re-christened a "border". No negotiation required. The Arab mantra was always "we don't negotiate with Jews".

Problem: the 1949 armistice lines (the Green Line) were not a border. They never were. Those lines simply showed where the Palestinian Jews, who later became known as the Israelis, managed to stop the combined assault of 5 massive Arab Muslim armies aided and abetted by local Palestinian Arabs, whose sole aim was to slaughter Jews.

Jordan then illegally occupied the West Bank. That occupation led to another war, in 1967. This time Israel managed to evict the Jordanians from Judea and Samaria, which the Jordanians had called the West Bank. Again the Arabs, the Arabists and the Left insisted on a return to the pre-1949 lines - the lines from which the Arabs launched their original attack and that Israel had found indefensible even back then.

Now Israel is proposing to build a barrier along its recognised international border with Egypt, owing to countless infiltrations by maniacial mass-murderers wishing to indulge in the sport of Jew-baiting. Guess what? Howls of protest because Jews in Israel are daring to build a security barrier to shield themselves from maniacal homicide bombers out to kill Jews because they are Jews. Even though this barrier is right on the border.

The situation would be comical were it not so serious. The myrid EU- and US-government-funded NGOs that have made a full-time profession out of Israel-baiting fail to recognise the logical absurdity of their position: they are equally enraged whether Israel builds a barrier on disputed territory as they are that Israel builds a barrier within its own recognised terrority.

They just don't want Jews defending their right to live. Anywhere.

Just what is it that these Arabs, Arabists and Leftists want?

They want "Palestine".

To find out what "Palestine" is, do this twenty-step pop-quiz compiled by Daniel Pinner in Arutz Sheva (first part 1 and then part 2). It'll take you just a few minutes, and at the end of that time you will see the truth and realise the path ahead to peace.

Warning: it may not be the truth or the path you've been indoctrinated by the mainstream media to expect.


Links:
To find out what motivates the anti-Israel profession, read CAMERA's account of CSPAN's Washington Journal.
Read about blindness to Christian suffering in the Muslim world while the focus remains on deligitimising Israel's self-defence.
How Muslim Egypt treats its Christian Copts, while consistently aiding Islamists against Jews.
Check out the Open Doors ranking of the countries most notorious for anti-Christian persecution, while the world turns a blind eye and focuses instead on deligitimsing Israeli self-defence.
Read what Steven Plaut has to say about the wide alliance of strange bedfellows who have turned religion into a weapon and who use democracy against itself.

It's all about cause and effect. Cause always comes first.

Israel is receiving considerable criticism today for the construction of its anti-terrorist barrier.

However, this barrier was erected AFTER the launch of the ongoing Palestinian bombing campaign against civilian Jews on buses, in restaurants, on their way to school.

Media commentators refer almost exclusively to the 4% of the anti-terrorist barrier that consists of a wall, ignoring the remaining 96% that consists of an entirely transparent fence.
There are no demands on the Palestinians to stop their wave of homicide bombings and other terrorism – the only reason for building the barrier in the first place.

Despite international condemnation, Yasser Arafat has not shown any willingness to stop Palestinian mass indoctrination that actively encourages gross anti-Jewish violence – indoctrination that takes place via Palestinian schoolbooks, radio, TV and newspapers.
It is scarcely surprising that the Palestinians do not want either the fence or the wall; there are few Israelis who like this monstrosity either. But virtually all Israelis regard the barrier – whatever form it takes – as a necessary evil.

Because the fact is that the barrier works. Today, the only attacks that succeed are those perpetrated where there is not yet any barrier. In the north of Israel where the barrier is already in place, the frequency of attacks has already been slashed by over 50%.
The long-term solution lies in the creation of a Palestinian state. There’s nothing new in that solution – the suggestion of separation into one Palestinian-Jewish and one Palestinian-Arab state was accepted by Israel already back in 1948. Now, however, there is pressure from outside quarters to draw the borders of a future Palestinian-Arab state along the so-called “green line”.


The problem, however, is that this “green line” is only a ceasefire line, it is the line along which Israel back in 1948 laid down its arms in its defensive war against mass Palestinian-Arab terrorism supported by five attacking Arab armies whose aim was to drive the Jews into the sea.
Political borders can only be settled through negotiation. Negotiation requires that Palestinian terrorists stop murdering Israelis. Since nothing is being done, however, to stop this ongoing mass-murder, Israel is erecting a barrier to prevent further atrocities. It is a barrier that can be taken down as fast as it was erected, if only Palestinian terrorism stops. The fact that another 11 Israeli bus passengers were massacred a week ago and an additional 60 civilians were maimed for life by Palestinian terrorists doesn’t exactly do a lot to boost Palestinian credibility when they claim they are in favour of a negotiated settlement.

Not all critics of Israel are anti-Semites. If criticism is also levelled against Saudi Arabia, which is building a barrier with Yemen to keep out Al Qaeda terrorists, or against the Palestinian Authority’s incitement of its own children to the mass-murder of Jews, for instance, then it is of course easier to deal with criticism of Israel’s barrier without any suspicion that this criticism is fuelled solely by anti-Semitism.

However, one-sided criticism of only the Jewish state casts an unequivocal shadow of anti-Semitism. It is only natural to regard one-sided criticism of Israel as anti-Semitism when it may in fact simply reflect devastating ignorance and blind partiality.