ZGram - 8/17/2002 - "The tragic reality of Israel"

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ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny

August 17, 2002

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

Ever more people declare:  The Experiment called "Israel" has failed!

An oldie but goodie to ponder:

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The tragic reality of Israel
by A.N. Wilson.
October 22, 2001

Disillusioned optimists, who hoped that the Palestinians and the Israelis
could somehow find a working compromise, nurse bitter feelings against
Ariel Sharon for the provocative policy that he has so relentlessly
pursued. In yesterday's Mail on Sunday, Gerald Kaufman, a Jew and a
lifelong Zionist wrote a courageous denunciation of present Israeli
policies. He said that, having visited Israel over 50 times, he never
intended to go back, so deep is his revulsion against Sharon's
warmongering.

There are still plenty of hawks in the Western media who take the
opposite view. For them, the only way for the Israelis to defend 
themselves is by
constant belligerence. Conrad Black, the recently ennobled peer who owns
the Telegraph group of newspapers, is one of the most vigorous exponents
of this idea. He brands as anti-semitic anyone who hopes that the Jews would
withdraw from the socalled occupied territories, in accordance with UN
resolutions and international law. Black has also said that what critics
of Ariel Sharon, are too cowardly to say is that they do not really believe
Israel has a right to exist.

I have reluctantly come to agree that Lord Black is right - not about the
cowardice or anti-semitism, but about the state of Israel's "right to
exist". Those of us Gentiles who have seen ourselves as friends of Israel
over the years, have gradually watched any hope of a peaceful "solution"
being destroyed by the policy of Israeli settlements in land that no
international lawyer believes to be theirs. This policy, if pursued by
any other nation on earth would be universally condemned and they would be
forced to withdraw.

Until President Bush is prepared to put American ground-troops into the
disputed lands and force out the illegal Jewish occupiers, then no one in
the world is going to believe in American foreign policy in the Muslim
world. What greater act of "terrorism" can there be than Sharon's policy
of invasion, backed up by (American-made) tanks and bombs? Israel is by
definition an aggressor, since it is occupying land that was already
someone else's homeland. Conrad Black and his allies are right.

The logic of supporting the Palestinians is to question the very right of
the state of Israel to exist. It is to that bitterly sad conclusion that
the policy of Ariel Sharon has driven so many of us. Of course we do not
want the Israelis to be "driven into the sea" (as in the ominous
phrase of 1967). But the 1948 experiment, - claiming the "Israelis" had
the "right" to exist as a state just because a few brave terrorists such as
Menachem Begin killed some British army officers - this was lazy
thinking, and it was doomed to failure. One now sees that Israel 
never was a state, and
it can only be defended by constant war. Is that what we want?

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