By James Wilson
Even
today the cultural tendency for people in authority is to ignore bullying until
the victim protests. After that the
default is to blame the victim; everything was fine until he began to make
others uncomfortable. This is especially
so if the victim has fought fire with fire.
Sometimes – if the victim perseveres – the bullies are confronted. In any case, it should surprise no one that
this dodging of responsibility by authorities translates readily into relations
among nations. The policy makers at the
macro level are the spiritual and cultural siblings of those who make the rules
in family and school communities. And
the first rule is the victim is not allowed to take matters into his own hands
and just fight back against the bullies.
Said victim is to wait upon the goodwill of the very authorities whose
inaction permits the bullies to flourish.
That
said, why – in the name of all that is good – are the United States, Western Europe,
and the United Nations rebuilding the Gaza Strip without so much as a dollar
going to rebuild Israel?
The
destruction in Gaza is a tragedy. This
is especially so when we consider the vast majority of casualties are civilians
and the destruction of homes and schools is a mutilation to the survivors. But the civilians of Gaza elected Hamas to be
their government; they are not innocent.
Truth is the present tragedy began when Hamas kidnapped and murdered
three Israeli teens. Fact is Hamas fires
about three thousand rockets into Israel each year with the sole intent of
killing Israeli civilians; about that number has been fired this summer alone,
and the tunnels destroyed were equipped with handcuffs and tranquilizers meant
to facilitate the murder of many more – after being taken alive. Reality is Hamas – the legitimate authority
in Gaza – places civilians between its weapons and the Israelis in hopes that
many will die and world opinion roast the “ruthless” Israelis for defending
herself. So far the strategy is working
well. The UN investigates war crimes
allegations against Israel without a word about Hamas targeting their own
civilians by using them as human shields.
American journalists report ceasefire after ceasefire shattered without
mentioning who did the shattering.
Apparently our media is too delicate to tell it like it is.
We
give half a billion dollars to the bullies to repair damage done when the
victim struck back. We give nothing to
restore the innocent party. Of course
some will say – and it’s true – there is much less damage done in Israel. But since when does the fact Israel is so
much better defending herself than the Palestinians are at attacking her a
moral failing? Since when is the
sixty-six year absence of Jewish aggression in the Middle East compared to five
wars of extermination and God knows how many murders evidence the Israelis
deserve anything but sympathy and support?
The
predecessors and founders of every Muslim/Terrorist organization were mentored,
supplied and suckled by the remnants of Nazi Germany after the Grand Mufti of
Jerusalem spent the war as Hitler’s guest.
They have proven worthy heirs, and their movement is resurgent in the
Europe from which so many Jews fled after World War II. My Dutch friends told me when we volunteered
together in Israel that if I wore my IDF baseball cap on the streets in
Rotterdam at night I would likely not survive the night.
Yet
the Father God who creates the world and redeems it through His Son in the
Power of His Spirit is sovereign – whether we acknowledge Him or not. This God said in the Old Testament before He
paid for it on the Cross in the New; justice is to roll like a river and He
will save His people. Israel does not
need our help to prevail. We need to
help Israel and so align with Israel’s God if we want His blessing. Yet it remains a matter of simple justice any
intelligent person can comprehend.
People on the
fence over this ought to check out the 1960 film, Exodus. It illustrates the story textbooks only tell,
complete with the Nazi forebears of the Islamo-fascists of today and the
merciless brutality of the so-called Palestinians when one of their own tries
to walk in truth. Some will opine that
this movie is fiction, but the real fiction is the absurd notion that Hamas –
or any of the other Islamo terrorist outfits – have even the remotest claim to
any moral high ground. Or that their
goal is anything but genocide – beginning with the Israelis and moving on to
the people of our land.
James A. Wilson is the author of Living
As Ambassadors of Relationships and The
Holy Spirit and the End Times – available at local bookstores or by
e-mailing him at
praynorthstate@charter.net
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