Doing It the Arab Way
by Beth Goodtree
Dec 02, '03 / 7 Kislev 5764
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Maybe the reason the Arab Palestinians hate Israel and Jews so much is because Israel treats them differently than their Arab brethren. If Israel were to deal with them in the same way, maybe there would be no problem with Yasser Arafat and his followers. Therefore, I propose that Israel begin dealing with them in exactly the same way as her Arab neighbors.
Let’s start with Arafat’s people who occupy Lebanon. They have no legal status, are prohibited from practicing dozens of professions, lack any social security, are banned from acquiring real estate, and their freedoms of movement and association are restricted. It must be an acceptable way to deal with them, because we have yet to hear a peep from the UN, the EU, Russia or the United States. Nor is Arafat and his gang of terrorists screaming for Lebanon to cut out a piece of herself and give it to them. Israel should follow the Lebanese example.
Syria also deals with the Palestinian Arabs in a manner different from Israel. None of them has citizenship, they are denied the right to vote and they do not get Syrian passports. Sounds good to me. There isn’t a single complaint from the international community and you never hear of any Palestinian Arabs blowing up busloads of Syrian families. Israel should treat them likewise.
Egypt, Libya and Kuwait all have a unique way of handling the Palestinian Arabs. Kuwait expelled tens of thousands of long-term residents in the wake of the 1991 Gulf war. This left the Gazans among them, who carried Egyptian travel documents, with nowhere to go, because the Egyptian government denied them entry. In 1995, the Libyan government demonstrated its displeasure at Arafat's peace negotiations with Israel by not renewing the one-year residency visas of some 30,000 Palestinians and began summary deportations.
Expelling troublemakers or potential troublemakers is an acceptable practice in other Arab countries. Israel should start implementing this same practice, just as her neighbors have been doing. A good analogy would be if one had termites in their house, you wouldn’t give them a portion of your house in exchange for the termites leaving the rest of the house alone. Those termites are never going to leave your house alone, so the only option is to get rid of them.
Also, Arab countries, as well as the Palestinian Arabs, insist on their territories being Judenrein. There are no impassioned cries of ‘crimes against humanity’ coming from Kofi Anan or the UN members, so this must be acceptable. Therefore, Israel should do likewise and make its territory ‘Islamrein.’ No jobs for Moslems, take over their properties, outlaw their religion (like Saudi Arabia does to any religion other than Islam), and use their headstones for urinals and paving blocks. Their mosques can be torn down and recycled into new settlement housing. It should work out fine, since the UN never raised a single objection or resolution when it was done to Jews.
Meanwhile, the Islamic Conference recently called for a boycott of all Israeli goods, products, inventions, etc. It would seem only fair that Israel boycott anything Arab. And while Israel is at it, maybe they can help the Arab-led boycott along a bit. Any new medical breakthroughs - in fact, all Jewish medical assistance - should be withheld from Arabs. Maybe we can grandfather in such medical breakthroughs as the polio vaccine, for starters.
And while at the Islamic Conference, the Malaysian Prime Minister told a summit of Islamic leaders that "Jews rule the world by proxy" and the world's 1.3 billion Muslims should unite, using non-violent means for a "final victory." (Final solution, maybe?) This statement in particular strikes me as ignorant to the point of being tragically humorous.
I looked at the latest statistics regarding world religions and the pie chart didn’t even include Judaism, because there are so few of us. In fact, there are 18 times as many traditional Chinese (in a country that bans religion), as there are Jews. There are 35% more Juche’s than there are Jews – and I never even heard of Juche. (Apparently, Juche is the only government-authorized ideology in North Korea, to the point of excluding all other religions. "Juche" means "self-reliance" in the Korean language. So how does that effect the cost of kim chee?)
While I may have suggested that Israel do things ‘the Arab way,’ for Israel to remain Jewish, it could not. Discrimination, stealing, lying, disrespect of others, murder, forced conversion and thievery are all the things which Judaism eschews. To do any of these things would condemn us as individuals and as a people. On the other hand, it speaks volumes about all the Arab/Islamic states that Israel must deal with. |
