This is Part III of a running commentary on one of the most significant articles that have come out of Washington in recent years - if not decades.
It appeared in The Weekly Standard, May 29, 2000/Vol 5, Number 35, titled "The Collapse of Zionism" and was written by Charles Krauthammer, a well-known and savvy political commentator.
Below Krauthammer expands on what he calls Israelis intellectuals "exposing original sin" and their insistence that Israel has lived in that sin ever since it was created as a statelet in an ocean of tormented and, hence, furiously vengeful Arabs.
Krauthammer:
Take, for example, the Six-Day War. If ever there was a just war, a war of self-defense, it was Israel's war of June 1967 when its existence was threatened - indeed, its eradication promised - by the ring of states led by Egypt. President Nasser ordered U.N. troops out of the Sinai, where they had been acting as a buffer to guarantee Israel's security after its withdrawal from the Sinai in 1957. He blockaded the Straits of Tiran, cutting off Israel's southern access to the sea - an internationally recognized act of war. He massed a hundred thousand troops, concluded defense pacts with Jordan and Syria, and waited - either for war, or for Israel to collapse under the weight of mobilization. (A country with a very small standing army cannot function when its entire male population is at the front.) Israel struck on June 5 and won the war.
Zundelsite:
Right here is the crux of the matter. A country on a permanent war footage cannot survive financially - much less psychologically!
When the Arabs responded by mobilizing large armies with outdated military equipment, they got beaten every time - until they adopted the intifada-style fighting, which worked on the morale and minds of the young army recruits sent to subdue the 14-year-olds. This made the resistance fighters moving targets, difficult to pin down and expensive to control. It also made for bad press around the world and rattled nerves, and it fatigued the Israeli defense forces militarily and psychologically.
Krauthammer:
Now, observe how this is portrayed in the modern ninth-grade history textbook issued by the Ministry of Education. There's no mention of the closing of the Straits of Tiran. No mention of the blockade. No mention of the expulsion of the U.N. troops from the Sinai. No mention of the military pacts among the countries ringing Israel. What single military event is mentioned as precursor to the war? Israel shooting down some Syrian jets on the northern border in May.
Zundelsite:
That passage seems so far out of character that Krauthammer must be mistaken - or he has relied on secondary information from some alarmist Zionist publication like the Zionist Organization of America or some irresponsible, ultra-Zionist websites that show Barak in Nazi uniform, surrendering all of Zion at Hitler's behest.
Krauthammer:
The textbook is full of other such travesties. The previous textbook had a map of Israel at the time of the War of Independence with arrows marking the invasion routes of the five Arab countries that attacked the infant state. In the new textbook, the map has no arrows coming in, just arrows going out representing Palestinians fleeing the country.
Zundelsite:
Few of the Arab armies ***came in***, before Israel took their land. So they were there on their land and NOT "coming in."
Israel was created because hundreds of thousands of Jewish "refugees" came in first. They, in fact, invaded the land of Palestine like illegal Mexican immigrants who come into Arizona or California. These people then started a state.
How would Americans react if the Mexican illegals suddenly took up arms and declared a state of their own? Would American forces not "invade" Arizona or Southern California to take the land back and protect Americans living there?
Israel chased out hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. Therefore, the maps reflect the actual situation as it was. No "Arabs in" - but lots of "Palestinians out"! And that is not a pretty picture!
Krauthammer:
Another striking omission is any mention of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. This might seem merely odd, unless one understands that antinationalist intellectuals deplore the glorification of that World War II uprising as a fetishistic celebration of the Jew as fighter, and thus symbolic reinforcement of Israeli militarism.
Zundelsite:
Once again, Krauthammer is only right up to a point. The Warsaw Ghetto uprising has been hugely inflated in importance by mainly Zionist propagandists. Its "facts" sit on shaky grounds, similar to most other "Holocaust" claims.
The historical truth is quite simple. The new Israeli state needed fighters - heroes! - and since there were so very few of those in actual fact in recent Jewish history, some artificial ghetto fighter "heroes" simply were created.
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Tomorrow: "Israel the racist, fascist state preaching One-World-Order to the rest of goyimhood"
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Thought for the Day:
"I am not certain what we should fear more, a street full of soldiers who are out to plunder, or a room full of writers who are used to lie."
(- Samuel Johnson)