Leftist Jews Must Realize: Every Concession for Peace has been a Mistake

Every Concession Israel has made has augmented the power of her foes, whose rage is unquenchable, blood-curdling and bestial.

By

David Gottfried

This past weekend hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah reached  a fever pitch.  I am not going to comment on the latest battle.  Rather,  I want to determine if certain patterns are repeating themselves in the altercations.  I want to know where all these battles are taking us.

The number of missiles at Hezbollah’s disposal keeps rising as Iran continually augments Hezbollah’s arsenals.  According to a report by the bi-partisan CSIS (The Center for Strategic and International Studies) released in March 2024, Hezbollah at present possesses 120,000 to 200,000 missiles.   In 2014, its arsenal was estimated at 40,000 missiles and rockets, according to a report authored by  Anthony H. Cordesman with the assistance of CSIS.  And, before 2000, Hezbollah had no missiles aimed at Israel. 

So at least one fact is plainly discernable:  Arab Offensive capabilities have steadily mounted.    

Many of those rockets can reach almost every point in Israel.    And each one of these points can be blasted into a huge conflagration that, in the aggregate, may result in the death of the Jewish Commonwealth for the first time since Titus and his Roman legions made blood run like water through the streets of Jerusalem.  

Gaza, like Southern Lebanon, also became one armamentarium dedicated to the destruction of Israel, but Israel has been told that it must cease fighting in Gaza because too many Arabs have died.

In this essay, I will explain why every act of conciliation, every ceding of territory and every gesture of good will which Israel bestowed upon Arabs and Muslims has been a mistake because Israel’s foes cannot be trusted and possess nothing but venomous hatred for Israel and Jews. 

At present, we are told that Israel must stop fighting in Gaza because, allegedly, too many Arabs have died.  Therefore, before I explain why Israel cannot make any further concessions to Arabs and  Muslims, I will address the incessant cry of Muslims, and their Neville Chamberlain apologists among the capons and castratos of Cambridge,  that too many Gazans have died.

Who is the Biggest Killer of Muslims ? Their Fellow Muslims, not Israel, not Western colonialists, certainly neither Hindus nor Serbs nor Russians nor the Church of Rome:

Consider:  

1)  From 1980, until the end of the 1980’s, roughly one million Iraqis and Iranians killed each other in their glorious, scarlet and ultimately silly war premised on doctrinal disputes between Shiite Islam and Sunni Islam.    Hell, orthodox Jews and reform Jews disagree about the proper way to follow our religion, but we don’t start a holy war against each other.  By contrast, Shiite Muslims killed Sunni Muslims by blowing up their mosques while Sunnis were praying inside of them. 

As Emile Zola would say:

J’accuse:

CNN, MSNBC, The New York Fucking Times, and that abomination against World Peace, the United Nations, whose roster of secretary generals included a Nazi, Kurt Waldheim, why do you chronicle every alleged death in Gaza while ignoring the criminal malevolence of the enormous rabid, reactionary, ribald Arab world around it. 

2)  In the 1960’s, Egyptian Muslims used poison gas against Muslims in Saudi Arabia.  And let’s not forgot that Sadaam Hussein used poison gas on the Kurds in the 1980’s.  I suppose they have a special yen for Nazi modes of killing. After all, one of the favorite names for Arab boys in Gaza and the West bank is Adolf.

3) From roughly 1453, when the Ottoman Turks conquered Jerusalem, until 1918, when the Ottomans were defeated by Britian and France, the Ottoman Turks, who were Muslims, ruled, brutalized and persecuted the Arab Muslims in Syria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Egypt, Libya, Algeria, Morocco and a few other countries.  

So learn something, you idiot “leftists” (Today’s moronic Leftists, who I largely despise, are bogus Leftists.  Instead of believing in class consciousness and fighting for the poor, they believe in racial consciousness and are a throwback to Hitlerian fascism):

Muslims were not brutalized by Western colonization. Rather, Arab Muslims were persecuted and colonized, for centuries, by Turkish Muslims.

4) Turks. Syrians, Iranians and Iraqis have chronically badgered, beaten and butchered Kurdish Muslims. 

5)  When Muslims don’t kill each other, they find some non-Muslim to serve as a punching bad for their homicidal hate:

a) In 1915 and/or 1916, the Turks killed more than one half of the Armenian minority in Turkey, exterminating about one million people.

b) In Lebanon, Muslims have steadily reduced the Christian presence in that nation, forcing Christians to flee or killing them.

c) In Egypt, Muslims routinely massacre large numbers of their Chrisitan minority.

d)  In Most Arab countries, it is illegal to utter a Christian or Jewish prayer.

e)  When US troops were stationed in Saudi Arabia to defend that nation from Iraq, they were ordered, by their military superiors in Washington, to celebrate Christmas as quietly as possible so as not to offend the sensibilities of the fat and decadent hypocritical bastards who ran Saudi Arabia.

f) In the Balkans, in World War Two, Muslims gravitated to Hitler, murdering Jews, Eastern Orthodox Christians, Serbians, Russians and Roma (gypsies).  Muslim Albania supplied two Waffen  SS divisions to the Third Reich.   

g) For centuries, Muslims persecuted Christian Greece.

h)  The Mamelukes, Muslims based in Egypt, sent ships to Europe, for centuries, to kidnap thousands of Europeans and take them to Egypt to suffer in slavery. 

Speaking of the Mamelukes, for centuries Muslims climbed up the Balkans and at the end of the 17 century Muslim armies stood at the gates of Vienna.  

Muslims also dealt death in Western Europe as they took the whole of Spain and, poised at the Pyrenees, Muslims corrupted Parisan scholarship with the signature blemish of Islamic thought: Their detestation of individuality. The Islamic philosopher Averroes held that all individuality is illusory and that our objective should be the annihilation of selfhood and individual autonomy.     

So perhaps our brilliant anti Semites in Harvard should remember this history and write about the odium and blatant criminality of Muslim colonialism.   And given the legacy of Averroes, perhaps we should have the guts to say it out loud:  Islamic Thought is Incompatible with the clarion call of the West:  Our belief in Human Freedom. 

           

i) Until the United States defeated the Berber pirates at the end of the 18^th Century, those scoundrels from Libya tried to relive the crimes of the Mamelukes, i.e., they sent ships to Europe, and in the middle of the night, rounded-up Europeans whom they slated to suffer in Slavery.  (The Marine Corp Hymn alludes to our defeat of the Berber pirates in the lyric, “From the Halls of Montezuma to the Shores of Tripoli.”      

Why Every Concession Israel Gave the Arabs was a Perilous mistake that has heightened the risk of Israel’s Extermination

Why are there so many missiles in Lebanon ?

Because of the pressures and worthless intercessions of doves, dullards and Arab apologists from Washington.

Very simply, for years Israel occupied Southern Lebanon, more specifically, all territory South of the Litani River.  The terrain in Southern Lebanon thus became a “cordon sanitaire” (A protective barrier or buffer to prevent the infiltration of offensive arms or fighters)  The Israeli presence in Lebanon not only boosted Israel’s safety.  It also aided the beleaguered Maronite Christians.

But the Clinton Whitehouse was so damn intent on pushing a peace agreement and cajoled and coerced Israel to withdraw from Lebanon.  The midget-minded peace-pushers said that Arabs would love the Jews so much for making concessions.  What stupid, stupid counsel.    

In 2005 or 2006, Israel gave up Gaza, and even built factories for the Gazans’ use after the Israel’s departure, and Gaza also became a vast repository for rockets and missiles.

Israel’s mistakes in giving up Gaza and Southern Lebanon are sort of analogous to what Freud called the “repetition compulsion” or a compulsion to relive the traumas of early childhood.   Very simply, Israel has made unwarranted concessions, to please the Arabs, since the modern State of Israel was born in 1948.

At the conclusion of the 1956 Mideast War, Israel gave up the Sinai  Peninsula, which it had captured from Egypt, in consideration for Egypt’s pledge to let Israeli ships pass through the Suez Canal and not to wage war against Israel.  Of course, Egypt never let Israel use the canal, and  in 1967, Egypt, in concert with Syria and Jordan, tried to snuff out Israel.  First it sent half a million troops to the border between Israel and Egypt. 

Of course, Egyptian forces weren’t supposed to make it to the border because UN troops were supposed to be stationed, in the vicinity of the border, to prevent aggression and keep the opposing armies separated.    However, when Nassar, the Egyptian leader, wanted to invade in 1967, he simply ordered UThant, the secretary general of the UN, to remove UN forces. The UN removed its peace-keeping forces, giving the Arabs a green light to wage war. (I had a teacher who thought that Uthant was especially salutary in international problems because he was Asian, and Asians, my teacher said, loved peace more than Westerners because Asians consumed rice, not wheat. Call this for what it is: Anti White racism)

After U Thant removed UN Forces, hundreds of thousands of Egyptians not only streamed to the Israeli border; they also blockaded Israel’s port of Eilat.  The blockade of this port terminated the flow of oil to Israel, and an army needs petrol as a human needs oxygen. 

Initially, United States President Lyndon Johnson advised the Israelis that he would intervene.  However, neither the U.S. nor the U.K. nor anyone else intervened.  Meanwhile, Israel was running out of oil.   Therefore, Israel launched an attack on Egypt, Syria and Jordan, and Israel defeated all three Arab nations in six days.  

After the 1967 war, Israel has been consistently badgered and pressured to give up the territories won in the war, and we have been told that the return of those territories would result in peace.

However the notion that the return of those territories will result in peace is a damnable lie, and the falsity of that assertion is demonstrated by the history of peace proposals made before 1967.

In 1958, Israel truly was a puny, emaciated state.  (Israel was also much less hated then as some non-Jews find the specter of Jews as concentration camp wraiths somewhat reassuring.)  However, back in the 1950’s, President Eisenhower, through his so-called Alpha Plan, tried to pressure Israel to give up much of its territory in the South to Egypt.  Luckily Israel did not have to give up the territory as Egypt turned the US down.  Egypt would not recognize the Jewish state even if it were further truncated through the surrender of half the Negev (Southern Israel). Egypt wanted nothing but the eradication of the Jewish state.   

Of course, Egypt is now supposedly at peace with Israel, but this is not a genuine peace.  It only exists because pursuant to the terms established by Jimmy Carter in 1978, Egypt is at peace with Israel and will continue to recognize Israel just as long as the United States gives Egypt several billion dollars a year.

Also, in the past few years Israel’s relationship with Saudi Arabia and other gulf states has improved, but this also is not to any degree the result of reduced animus between Israel and neighboring states. Rather, it is because the Gulf states, like Israel, consider Iran an opponent.  The gulf states subscribe to Sunni Islam, and they are fearful of the aggressive designs of their cousin Muslims to the East, the Shiites.   

The Wise Hawkish Words of Roger Hilsman, One of America’s Most Illustrious Doves on Vietnam

Years ago, I took a course on world politics at Columbia University.  My professor was Roger Hilsman, a member of the Kennedy Administration who is best known for his crucial decisions visa vis Vietnam.   He left the White House shortly after the death of JFK.  At the time of his departure from the administration, he was Assistant Secretary of State for Southeast Asian Affairs (or Fareast affairs, the names of the departments often change).   He is best known for his recommendation that the U.S. induce various generals, in South Vietnam, to embark on a coup d’etat to oust President Diem.  

For the most part, he was opposed to our involvement in  Vietnam, holding that our efforts to prop-up the obscenely reactionary, anti-Buddhist regime in Saigon would only increase the popularity of the Communists and make it impossible for us to prevail.

Because of his dovish views, Lyndon Johnson threw him out of the administration.   Although Hilsman was sharply critical of our Vietnam policy and possessed a jaundiced view of colonial and post-colonial endeavors,  he was a staunch pro-Israeli hawk on Vietnam.

When the subject of nuclear weapons in the Mideast arose, he flatly said that if he were in the Israeli government, he would advocate the construction of “lots of nuclear weapons.”

Hilsman explained that Israel’s neighbors hate Israel totally and that this hatred could never be appeased or removed.  It was  deeply rooted in the Arab psyche, as rooted as a human liver is rooted to the vessels it is attached to in a person’s body.   Also, he was struck by the magnitude of Arab hate.  He described it as blood-curdling, unquenchable, as something approximating the rage of a rabid dog. 

Also, I will never forget what this famous dove had to say about foreign affairs in general:

Roger Hilsman said that if one is a politician on the stage of world affairs, one must be willing to commit murder.  The general gist of what he had to say seemed to be that world politics and foreign affairs, as it is written about and discussed in our best Universities and in our finest journals, is a prettified, fanciful lie which obscures the truth because we like to pretend that we never lie and never kill.  Hillsman said that if a nation wants to stay alive, it very often has no choice but to kill.

Although America has often been a great friend, in the final analysis Israel can’t count on America

Don’t tell me that Israel can give up territory and then be able to count on the United States if she is attacked.  This essay already cited examples in which America did not live up to her word.  American has a history of abandoning its friends and commitments when friendship became inconvenient.  (We reneged on our pledge to Taiwan to never recognize Communist China; we finally withdrew from South Vietnam and let that nation be swallowed by the communists)

And, as we have seen visa vis Trump and his inclination to abandon Ukraine, all it takes is one rotten election, in which the fickle American people mindlessly fall in love with an anti-Israeli pol, for Israel to expire.