Ending the Year: Hamas into the Brink
I was hoping to end the year on some kind of upbeat note. But on the Israeli Broadcast Authority's Friday's Yoman program Hamas announced that they would be entering the Palestinian government, with the intent to "liberate all occupied Palestinian terrorities, including Yafo and Haifa."
The great experiment started by Faisal Husseini and the Christian Palestinian moderates in the mid-80's is now officially a failure. The "last great hope" on which a number of Israeli governments have risen -- and fallen -- has been hijacked, like the Achille Lauro or American Airlines flight 11 and United Airlines flight 175, to the advantage of terrorists that would rather see the entire world erupt in flames than find common ground and peace.
Israel's radical right has advocated a fascist solution to Arab terror: transfer. This is no longer an even discussable solution, with rockets landing at Israel's doorstep in the south and north, and the great underbelly of the east probably the next front, from which almost no major city is out of range.
On a more organized front, Hizballah's puppet masters in Iran and Syria, under increasing pressure to reform and conform the the norms of behavior of world countries, are stoking the fires of terror against Israel, just as the Bush administration distracts the American public from its felonious conduct with faux warnings illegal immigation as a terror tool and investigations about the exposure of its failures.
My fear is that the next vocalized step by the far right, the economically disaffected, the displaced Gazans and the zealot "hilltop youth" cynically deployed by their parents and "rabbies" will be Kahane's jackals despicable cant: "Death to the Arabs." And, given Israeli military capability and 'Arik, King of Israel's impending ascent to the throne, is no longer just the dream of fascists.
The great experiment started by Faisal Husseini and the Christian Palestinian moderates in the mid-80's is now officially a failure. The "last great hope" on which a number of Israeli governments have risen -- and fallen -- has been hijacked, like the Achille Lauro or American Airlines flight 11 and United Airlines flight 175, to the advantage of terrorists that would rather see the entire world erupt in flames than find common ground and peace.
Israel's radical right has advocated a fascist solution to Arab terror: transfer. This is no longer an even discussable solution, with rockets landing at Israel's doorstep in the south and north, and the great underbelly of the east probably the next front, from which almost no major city is out of range.
On a more organized front, Hizballah's puppet masters in Iran and Syria, under increasing pressure to reform and conform the the norms of behavior of world countries, are stoking the fires of terror against Israel, just as the Bush administration distracts the American public from its felonious conduct with faux warnings illegal immigation as a terror tool and investigations about the exposure of its failures.
My fear is that the next vocalized step by the far right, the economically disaffected, the displaced Gazans and the zealot "hilltop youth" cynically deployed by their parents and "rabbies" will be Kahane's jackals despicable cant: "Death to the Arabs." And, given Israeli military capability and 'Arik, King of Israel's impending ascent to the throne, is no longer just the dream of fascists.
posted by Da Shlom at Friday, December 30, 2005
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