Re: But how will the world respond to such action?
Dunno... but if History is any guide... The Berlin Wall lasted more than 30 years, South Africa's apartheid was enforced for a hundred years.
Anyway, here's a showpiece of Judeofascism:
Comment: Don't sacrifice Israel in this war BY MOSHE SHAMIR
Sep. 10, 2002
As an Israeli, I have a much different understanding of the September 11 attacks than the Americans have. Quite simply, they have not been living surrounded by enemies who have attacked them in the past and claim that Washington is their capital. Only I, as an Israeli, can easily understand that the Arab-Islamic world sees itself as the only legitimate part of humanity and has placed the Islamization of the world as its highest aim.
The US has not internalized what happened to it last September 11, because it has not understood who is responsible. Far from being a rogue action by "terrorists" or "Osama bin Laden" or "al-Qaida," the attacks were an expression of the entire Arab-Muslim world.
There is a clash here that can be likened to a collision of tectonic plates, the cause of earthquakes. This is the clash between the Islamic-Arab civilization and the West.
The Arab-Islamic civilization is the greatest danger to the Free World and bears a clear resemblance to the Nazis. It is not by chance that President George W. Bush called the enemy the "axis of evil," recalling the Axis powers Germany, Italy, and Japan of World War II. The enemies today are just as dangerous.
I fear that only a few Americans and they are actually serving at high levels of the US government understand this. But I believe that, because these officials do understand the truth, the Bush administration will not attack Iraq. Quite simply, it is not ready to take on the Arab world.
This unwillingness to engage their true enemies is the result of the intellectual rot of the Free World. The Free World is rotted from within. It is more interested in oil than in democracy. It will not take action against the Arab-Islamic coalition that stretches from the Indian Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean.
In Europe, where they support the Arabs and Muslims in their false claim to be the champions of the anti-colonialist downtrodden of the Earth, the rot is most clear.
In a subtle way, I believe that the European democracies, and to a lesser degree the US's democracy, are creating the hatred directed against them. They are repeating the mistake of Western Europe that strengthened and cultivated German aggression in the period leading up to World War II by demonstrating weakness. By refusing to identify the Arab-Muslim world as its enemy, the Free World is encouraging its aggression. Neville Chamberlain encouraged German aggression, just as Winston Churchill curtailed and contained it.
The Europeans are now betraying the US. Quite simply, the attacks last year against the US and continued displays of Arab-Islamic hatred of the West are not sufficient for them to rock the boat of their comfortable lives, where Arab immigrants do all their grunt work and Arab oil continues to flow.
I do not think that America has understood what happened. It doesn't understand that the incineration of the Twin Towers was a declaration of intent to incinerate America and loot whatever is left standing.
I have a great fear that the US and Europe will decide to sacrifice Israel in order to arrange an accommodation with the Arab states. Just as sometimes when predators lay in wait, you throw them a goat, I fear there will come a day when the West decides to sacrifice Israel.
If the West does not adopt a clear policy that forcefully explains that there is no chance that Israel will be violated in order to calm the Arabs if is not made clear to the Arabs that they will get no concessions whatsoever from Israel then the West will lose the war.
My sense that the West is weak and that the US will not attack Iraq in the face of Arab, Islamic, and European opposition is strengthened when I look at the US's initial response to the September 11 attacks. It was after all limited to Afghanistan, a side player, and was not particularly harsh. Why is that? Because the US does not dare to lay a finger on the Arab world. When the Arab League openly threatens that an attack on Iraq will cause chaos, we see that the Arab world has not been humbled or frightened by the US response to September 11.
To emerge victorious from this struggle, the allies must begin to speak differently. They have to make it clear, for instance, that there will be no surrender of Israel.
If the US stands firmly behind Israel and, for example, tells the Syrians that the US does not support an Israeli withdrawal from the Golan Heights, it will weaken the Arabs. It is true that the Arabs may hate the US more, although it is hard to imagine them hating the US more than they do today, but it will make them lower their demands and that is a victory.
After September 11, I had hoped the Free World would open its eyes and understand that the Arab-Islamic world does not view only Israel and the Jewish people as its enemy, but rather defines all of Western civilization as its sworn foe. While I had hoped that this would occur, I also said that, to my great sorrow, they will try to pay off the Arabs and the Muslims with Jewish blood.
Whether wittingly or unwittingly, every time President Bush speaks of a Palestinian state without mentioning that such a state will be the end of the State of Israel, he is endangering our lives and his ability to successfully wage this war.
The writer, a preeminent novelist who has authored more than a dozen novels over the past 50 years, published Yair, a biography of Avraham Stern, last year.
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