ZGram - 3/18/2002 - "Sobran: 'Killing Gentiles'"

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Copyright (c) 2002 - Ingrid A. Rimland

ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny

March 18, 2002

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

Many people will say that with this column, Joe Sobran has crossed the
Rubicon:

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Ariel Sharon has finally gone too far. Israel's thuggish prime minister
thought he could crush the Palestinian revolt with a policy of violence,
killing Palestinians until they begged for mercy. But the policy has
backfired by getting lots of Jews killed too, and the violence on both
sides is escalating dangerously. Even Sharon's indulgent American
patrons, George W. Bush and Colin Powell, have called for a halt to the
madness.

Sharon is acting according to his lights. He has never concealed his
contempt for "the goy" -- the gentile. Israel is based on the principle
that Jews have rights "goyim" don't have. Hence its abuse of Arab
gentiles and its defiance of Western gentiles.

Mark Weber of the Institute for Historical Review has summed up the
situation in one pithy sentence: "The truth is that if we held Israel to
the same standards that we apply to Serbia, Afghanistan, and Iraq, U.S.
bombers and missiles would be blasting Tel Aviv, and we'd be putting
Israeli prime minister Sharon behind bars for war crimes and crimes
against humanity."

Unless I've missed something, even such alleged "anti-Semites" as David
Duke and Louis Farrakhan don't advocate treating Jews as Israel treats
gentiles. Anyone with a spark of decency would be ashamed to treat Jews
that way. Yet a gentile can be accused of anti-Semitism even for the
purely verbal sin of criticizing Israel, whereas a Jew who supports
Sharon's physical cruelty is accused of ... well, nothing. We have no
handy word for even the most brutal Jewish treatment of gentiles.

To challenge the Jews' right to oppress Palestinians is called "denying
Israel's right to exist." Apparently its "right to exist" includes the
right to oppress, and is indeed inseparable from it. Even the "peace
plans" that call for separate Jewish and Palestinian states seem to take
for granted the right of the Jewish state to treat Arabs within its
borders as inferiors.

Perish the thought that Jews and gentiles should be equal! That would be
anti-Semitism.

According to Israel's "amen corner" in this country, Israel can do no
wrong, except to concede too much to the Palestinians. Israel is a heroic
"democracy" even when it treats its minority like dirt, and a"reliable
ally" of the United States even when it steals American military secrets
and sells them to Communist countries.

It's an article of faith among the Amen Corner that the Israeli spy
Jonathan Pollard -- a national hero in Israel, by the way -- has been
punished far too harshly for his crimes, since the United States should
have shared those secrets with Israel anyway. And far from recoiling from
Sharon's brutality, the Amen Corner defends him at every turn, just as
Stalin's fellow travelers in this country used to justify Uncle Joe --
except that some in the Amen Corner think Sharon isn't going far enough.

Not all the members of the Amen Corner are Jewish. Many are Christians --
a shameful fact, since they never raise their voices in defense of
Palestinian Christians. "See how these Christians love one another" This
kind of loyalty might make Judas Iscariot queasy.

The obvious danger is that the United States will once more be drawn into
war with Israel's enemies, chiefly Iraq. If that happens, we probably
won't be as lucky as in the 1991 Gulf War, which ended with an easy
American victory and little cost until last September 11. This time the
whole Middle East could erupt in war and revolution, leaving us with
countless millions of bitter enemies on top of those we already have. It
will be a boon to al-Qaeda recruitment.

The U.S. Government is toying with the possibility of using nuclear
weapons in the war ahead -- the war that the "war on terrorism" may morph
into. We can be sure that the fanatical Sharon won't object, and some of
his American apologists are sounding rather interested in the idea of
nuking Arabs. If the United States does it, Israel won't have to.

We can only hope that Bush, Powell, and the rest of the top echelon of
the government -- which may or may not include Congress these days -- will
come to their senses before they decide to strike Iraq. U.S. support for
Israel has already cost us far too much, and it may yet cost us far more.
Ariel Sharon leaves no excuse for blindness about what we are dealing
with.

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(Source:  http://www.sobran.com/columns/index.shtml, March 12, 2002)

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Thought for the Day:

"Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books."

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