give peace another chance

"Mighty tanks sit at all the intersections." Thus
describes Gideaon Levy of HA'ARETZ the sight of
Bethlehem on a Sunday, when, according to the
article's leaderline, it "was the only armored city in
the world."

But that might also have been an article about 1939
Warsaw, Poland. The Palestinians firing small arms
hopelessly at tanks could easily have been confused
for the Polish Home Army in an eerie deja vu!

Also conjuring up similar images was Levy's account of
the fate of the Palestinian resistance: "The
[Palestinian] heroes in the Israeli prisons have just
been joined by a thousand new detainees, men of
Deheisheh, who are arrested wholesale. Terrorists and
students, fighters and dreamers, suicidal men and
others who thirst for life, educated people and
enraged people-- all in a long and humiliating
procession under the shadow of Israeli rifles. When
will they return home? And what will they take with
them from their false arrest?"

But don't worry, no one will dare invoke the seeming
similarities, for according to Ha'aretz, Zion has
decreed that, while Jews can feel free to invoke
inventive terms like "Judeo-Nazis" or "Zionazis,"
should a "gentile" (a term equivalent to the Moslem's
"infidel") dare to invoke the analogy between the IDF
and the Hitler's army of occupation, the label with
deadly concequences--"anti-semite"-- will be affixed
to him/her. So, though an old SS-man decrepit in a
nursing home may complain: they even stole our excuse
for such assault, "secirity," none would dare face
Sharon's HASBARA shock troops in America-- the
Anti-Defamation League. The ADL will ink the issues
with wimpers and whinnes about the Holocaust and how
any doubt or querry betrays lingering "thoughts of
extermination."

In the meantime, Amir Oren, also in HA'ARETZ, reports
that before entering the Palestinian zone, Israeli
officers were advised to study the German occupation
of Warsaw: "The officer indeed succeeded in shocking
others, not least because he is not alone in taking
this approach. Many of his comrades agree that in
order to save Israelis now, it is right to make use of
knowledge that originated in the terrible war, whose
victims were their kin."

I am reminded of Henry Kissinger as Secretary of Stae,
confronting the Washinton Israeli Embasy's Military
Attache and asking: what have you people made of our
beautiful peaceful Jewish tradition?

No, Mr, Kissinger, not to worry, for the Israelis are
not at the level of being "good Germans." They are--
STILL TO THIS DAY-- each man or woman or child, a
debating society onto themselves. None fails to see
the helplessness of most Palestinians, none fails to
see the indecency of punishing the many for the
actions of a few. 

Israelis have always lived on the edge of an economy
with very narrow margins. They have struggled all
their lives to make due. Their precarious position,
therefore, as providers for family and parents (much
like their Palestinian counterparts) does not permit
them the luxury of hesitating to open the door of
their homes when going to work, for fear that a
suicide bomber may be outside ready to detonate. So
they demanded action...But they meant POLICE action,
not another Normandy invasion!

The slim resources of Israel are fast dwindling as the
"all out" war on HAMAS terror consumes all of the
nation's savings-- and still there is no security, as
terror bombers detonate, and detonate, and detonate...

Sharon is now desperately now, finally, trying to find
another way...A CHEAPER WAY...A way of holding on to
everything at little cost. But, once again, yet
another avaricious Zionist has found that Jabotinsky
was wrong...No matter how many you kill, how many
homes you destroy, how much you starve and lock up,
the "martyrs" keep comimng...And the innocent victims
of the Israeli army's retribution silently bear
through the invasion and occupation. For these
Palestinians know that no matter how safe the Israeli
trooper is invading their homes in a tank or
bulldozer-- lording over the defenseless unarmed
Palestinian women, children and old men-- the
soldier's family is no more safe than them, the
occupied Palestinians; sadly, these families will
soon,, no doubt, be visited by the self-detonating
"martyrs"; it is ironic that the soldiers' families
are far less safe in the "rear" than the soldier at
the "front."

It is little wonder then why that one time humane Arab
weeping whenever death visits children, when men
cowardly kill women, when old people are not left in
peace to face death with dignity, is muted and dry
eyed; the Israeli soldiers are dancing to the devil's
tune, they think, and the "martyrs" are Allah's angels
of vengence visited on those whom the bulldozer and
tank operators value above all else.

HATE BEGETS HATE...INHUMANITY IS ALWAYS
RECIPROCAL...AND DEATH IS FINAL AND UNEQUIVOCAL...this
is EQUALLY for both sides. So why does all this
absurdity go on?

It goes on because America is afraid to act, lest its
political balance be upset. As outsiders looking in,
America's leaders remember our attempts at
"polarization" of the population with terrible
machines-- APC, "Puff, the Magic Dragon" and f-16s--
in Vietnam; our machines rusted in the humidity and
broke down in the heat, but the Viet Cong kept
coming--and so Americans know how hopelessly foolish
is Sharon's "big show" of foce. But, alas, it takes so
few votes to change just a few seats in the US House
of Representatives or Senate. leading to majority
leadership by one party or the other, that no one
wants to stop the slaughter by stopping the flow of
bombs and helicopters and planes. It might change
Jewish votes, and in the slim margins those may be all
that's needed to mean control or minority status in
both legislative bodies. In their moral collapse,
American politicians figure: Hey Mr. Jew, give me
$1000 for my campain, and I'll vote in Congress $1
billion for the Israeli army!

Meanwhile, HAMAS sends young boys to die as human
bombs, encouraged by our "peace loving allies," the
Saudis; and with every incident HAMAS leaders turn to
the mullahs in Iran, asking: do we qualify now...How
many more boys need to blow up before we get to play
with alQaeda and the big boys?  

There are Israelis and Palestinians who see this
tit-for-tat as a useless nightmare, a crime against
God's gift to man-- their children! Now even Sharon
wonders how he can get off this tiger without being
replaced on its bloody back by Crazy Bibi, the smooth
talking Israeli "Dapper Don," or without being
misjudged by the Palestinians as weak and wavering!

It takes courageous Palestinians who believe in their
children's future to go to Sharon and say: Hey, we
know that you are a soul-searching Jew who
regrets...We are soul-searching Palestinians who also
regret...Don't worry about your shame for what YOU did
being seen as weakness that only encourages HAMAS
further...You show courage, we'll show courage...You
replace destruction with building, we'll replace
violence and corruption with order and reson!

God does NOT send angels with political messages to
save nations...If he did they would all end up like
Janne D'Arc, burned at the stake as witches! But God
gives light to good men and women-- especially women--
now on the earth so they can see the way...Sharon is
being touched by God through his son...Who is sending
THE HOLY MESSAGE to the Palestinian leaders?

Find that Palestinian champion of right, reason and
peace; put him in touch with the blessed young Sharon
and let humanity begin to seize the reins, pulling
away from the fists of man's evil nature. God is
trully great, God is trully almighty..God loves us
all...TRULLY ALL!!! 

Now prove YOU love him too by stretching out your
empty hand in order to, once again, give peace a
chance!