Irresponsibility invites bad things. Most people understand that. Most people can also apply that to many situations and point and say, 'ah-ha,' that was a result of poor choices and decisions. But why can this same human standard not be understood as the world looks at the Palestinians?
Look, when you start crossing boundaries, you start affecting other people's lives. And when you start raining down rockets onto a civilization, you are forcing them into a position of deciding upon three alternatives. Either they could, first of all, let you kill their people and do nothing. This would allow you to grow in power and strength until you eventually conquered them.
Or they could exercise restraint and exert a limited reaction upon you. This would contribute to a prolonged continuous tit-for-tat affair.
Finally, they could cross over and knock the crap out of you. If you have crossed the boundary of attempting to inflict harm and death upon them, then such a mauling would be one that you most certainly have deserved.
As this applies to the Palestinians (the Biblical Phillistines), the world today is rich with enablers and very short on responsibility-enforcers. The United Nations continually surmises that both Israel and the Palestinians are morally-equivalent cultures and creates resolutions which expect Israel to behave humanely, yet it ignores the great depravity of the Palestinian Muslim culture. (This tendency alone should be enough evidence to abolish the farce that is the UN.)
Egypt recently jumped in as the most recent enabler by allowing the Palestinians to cross its national border, barge into the country, and rampage about as they chose. How did the Palestinians respond? Well, they flooded Egyptian soil with armed terrorists, they sent in suicide-bomber teams into Israel, and they purchased millions of dollars worth of goods from Egyptian vendors with counterfeited money! That's how the Palestinians treated Egypt, their welcoming host, by fleecing its merchants with toy money to the tune of over two million dollars!
Is it ever incumbent upon a guest to actually behave and act respectfully to its host? Is that ever appropriate in this world? Of course it is, it is universally understood. For all cultures except the Palestinians, of course. Surely there are those who will still flock to their bankrupt cause; maybe a few will be standing in front of Israeli tanks, who can't be that many days away from exercising a few moves of their own.
The world has gone blind. It is drunk with moral equivalency and multi-culturalism and is reeling badly. It has put pagan third-world misery-pits on the same footing as advanced industrial societies. It has given the voices of murdering despots, deluded dictators and demonic megalomaniacs a platform upon which to speak and treated their dark agendas as if they were legitimate propositions worthy of option or consideration.
The world is blind because it cannot tell good from evil. It gives evil's ideas and manipulations as much credence as good's. It cannot make a value judgment on something because, it says, the value is relative to the evaluator. There is no absolute standard of right and wrong, good and evil, in the world's eyes.
The same world that was absent as rocket after rocket slammed into Israeli towns, will certainly be in every Palestinian household here in a few days when Israel rolls in, and reporting on the terrible ordeal Palestinian families had to undergo at the hands of the mean Israeli soldiers.
But nobody wants to say that the way for a society to keep another out of its neighborhoods is to behave responsibly and stop trying to kill citizens of that other society. Nobody wants to point out that leadership is a tremendous responsibility and when the leaders do not confront and restrict the evil of its citizens, bad things are going to fall upon the heads of all its citizens. Ask Sadaam Hussein about that principle. Much of one's power is ahead of the irresponsible decision, not after it.
When are people going to recognize that the Palestinians' power is related to the decisions that they make that establish them as a good friend and neighbor? Once they have murdered their neighbors, or stolen from them, the choices about their future are no longer in their hands; they are in the hands of those they have offended. And it will only be the extension of undeserved mercy that keeps this culture from getting the severe pounding their actions have asked for.
People better hope that Israel has more compassion and mercy that the Palestinians.
But that, of course, would mean that they were not morally-equivalent societies....!
K. O. (Knock Out)
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