Thursday, August 24, 2006

Freedom isn't something you ever really have; it's something you have to constantly work to have. It you ever stop, it's gone

Sunday, August 06, 2006

IS ANYBODY SAFE?

Racism is a plague that runs deep in people, even beyond their own awareness. Those who criticize Israel for a "disproportionate" response should be viewed as dangerous, stupid , or both. Dangerous because their racism has flushed away their capacity for common sense. Stupid because they don't recall that:


  • It was a disproportionate response on D-day that liberated Europe from the mad Nazi 's and spared our country from suffering the same fate as the Europeans. Sadly and ironically, now the Europeans cry "disproportionate".

  • It was a disproportionate response at Hiroshima and Nagasaki that brought a quick end to a war fought by a nation who believed their Emperor to be God, saving Asia, half a million US soldiers' lives, and sparing our country from suffering he same fate as the Koreans, Chinese, and Indonesians. Now many of those people cry "disproportionate".

  • It was the lack of disproportionate response that caused us to fail in Korea, Vietnam, and now Iraq.


There is an old racist "joke" about a black man arrested by a Texas sheriff for the crime of being black. The sheriff said, "Boy, I'm gonna give you a fair chance to go free. I'm gonna bury you up to your neck, and if the coyotes don't get ya' tonight, I'll let you go in the mornin'." In the morning, the sheriff was surprised to find his "prisoner" still alive, holding onto the screaming coyote's genitalia by his teeth. The sheriff kicked the black man in the head and said, "Fight fair, n-------r."

Racists aren't just bigots. Bigotry is attitudinal. Racism is taking action against someone else for their detriment because of their race, religion, nationality, gender etc. The worst kind is when it is institutional--- the sheriff, the UN, foreign governments, and even NGO's like the International Red Cross. Ironically, many Christians know that if the Jews are ever driven out of Jerusalem, the Christians will be next. All you need to know are three Muslim (Arab) words---- Islam means "surrender", infidel means "unfaithful", and Jihad means "We're gonna wipe out ALL infidels". Treaties with infidels need not be honored by Muslims, because their holy book says that a lie to an infidel to advance the "cause" is not a lie in the eyes of Allah. Now just to be perfectly clear, these interpretations are from the "radical Islamists who have highjacked the peaceful religion of Islam". Not the moderate ones though.... Unfortunately, even moderates have been subjected to a Nazi form of indoctrination and few, if any, are ever heard from as they passively watch the highjacking before their very eyes. Every once in a while, a rational Muslim voice comes forward to expose the hypocrisy of cease fires, resolutions, and treaties. The speech below is encouraging, but a million voices short of significant. Maybe this isn't the beginning of World War III, but it sure feels like it. Before it gets to the point where you will need to grab an AK47 or Uzi, try the weapon of words. Please read her speech below, and forward it to your friends and family who you want to be safe.



Brigitte Gabriel Speech at Duke University


Remarks of Brigitte Gabriel, delivered at the Duke University Counter Terrorism Speak-Ou

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I'm proud and honoured to stand here today, as a Lebanese speaking for Israel , the only democracy in the Middle East . As someone who was raised in an Arabic country, I want to give you a glimpse into the heart of the Arabic world. I was raised in Lebanon , where I was taught that the Jews were evil, Israel was the devil, and the only time we will have peace in the Middle East is when we kill all the Jews and drive them into the sea. When the Moslems and Palestinians declared Jihad on the Christians in 1975, they started massacring the Christians, city after city. I ended up living in a bomb shelter underground from age 10 to 17, without electricity, eating grass to live, and crawling under sniper bullets to a spring to get water. It was Israel who came to help the Christians in Lebanon . My mother was wounded by a Moslem's shell, and was taken into an Israeli hospital for treatment. When we entered the emergency room, I was shocked at what I saw. There were hundreds of people wounded, Moslems, Palestinians, Christians, Lebanese, and Israeli soldiers lying on the floor. The doctors treated everyone according to their injury. They treated my mother before they treated the Israeli soldier lying next to her. They didn't see religion, they didn't see political affiliation, they saw people in need and they helped.For the first time in my life I experienced a human quality that I know my culture would not have shown to their enemy. I experienced the values of the Israelis, who were able to love their enemy in their most trying moments. I spent 22 days at that hospital. Those days changed my life and the way I believe information, the way I listen o the radio or to television. I realized I was sold a fabricated lie by my government, about the Jews and Israel , that was so far from reality. I knew for fact that, if I was a Jew standing in an Arab hospital, I would be lynched and thrown over to the grounds, as shouts of joy of Allah Akbar, God is great, would echo through the hospital and the surrounding streets. I became friends with the families of the Israeli wounded soldiers: one in particular Rina, her only child was wounded in his eyes. One day I was visiting with her, and the Israeli army band came to play national songs to lift the spirits of the wounded soldiers. As they surrounded his bed playing a song about Jerusalem , Rina and I started crying. I felt out of place and started waking out of the room, and this mother holds my hand and pulls me back in without even looking at me. She holds me crying and says: "it is not your fault". We just stood there crying, holding each other's hands. What a contrast between her, a mother looking at her deformed 19 year old only child, and still able to love me the enemy, and between a Moslem mother who sends her son to blow himself up to smithereens just to kill a few Jews or Christians. The difference between the Arabic world and Israel is a difference in values and character. It's barbarism verses civilization. It's democracy verses dictatorship. It's goodness verses evil. Once upon a time, there was a special place in the lowest depths of hell for anyone who would intentionally murder a child. Now, the intentional murder of Israeli children is legitimized as Palestinian "armed struggle". However, once such behaviour is legitimized against Israel, it is legitimized every where in the world, constrained by nothing more than the subjective belief of people who would wrap themselves in dynamite and nails for the purpose of killing children in the name of god.Because the Palestinians have been encouraged to believe that murdering innocent Israeli civilians is a legitimate tactic for advancing their cause, the whole world now suffers from a plague of terrorism, from Nairobi to New York , from Moscow to Madrid , from Bali to Beslan. They blame suicide bombing on "desperation of occupation". Let me tell you the truth. The first major terror bombing committed by Arabs against the Jewish state occurred ten weeks before Israel even became independent.
On Sunday morning, February 22, 1948 , in anticipation of Israel 's independence, a triple truck bomb was detonated by Arab terrorists on Ben Yehuda Street , in what was then the Jewish section of Jerusalem . Fifty-four people were killed, and hundreds were wounded. Thus, it is obvious that Arab terrorism is caused not by the "desperation" of "occupation", but by the VERY THOUGHT of a Jewish state. So many times in history in the last 100 years, citizens have stood by and done nothing, allowing evil to prevail. As America stood up against and defeated communism, now it is time to stand up against the terror of religious bigotry and intolerance. It's time to all stand up, and support and defend the state of Israel , which is the front line of the war against terrorism.Be sure to send this one out to everyone you know.