Inches From Holocaust II

It is complete irony and utter farce that the very institutional guardians who assigned Israel back to its ancestral home after the Holocaust now promote policies which threaten its very existence.

The United Nations, full of consciousness and compassion after the revelations of the fate of countless Jews horribly murdered in Nazi death camps, felt it appropriate that the Israeli people return to their homeland. In 1948 Israeli's began moving back to the land that they had been pushed out of in 70 A.D. by the Romans. The Holocaust was never to be forgotten and the world understood how these people had suffered unspeakable loss. Victorious Allied powers also offered strong and full support of this reunification.

Immediately, however, it was apparent that the Jewish people had been thrown into the lion's cage as all of her Muslim neighbors rallied to war to bring about Israel's swift destruction. Syria, Jordan and Egypt warned other Muslims living within Israel to flee their homes until the annihilation was complete, and then it would be safe for them to come back. Unlike the U.N., apparently not everyone felt that the Jews had lost enough people to the Holocaust, that many more needed to be killed.

Unfortunately for her discontent Muslim neighbors, Israel was not defeated by their aggression. In fact Israel handed her warring neighbors their lunch. What's more, those local Muslims who chose to flee the land until all the Jews were killed, well, not surprisingly, they were not allowed to come back in, for they clearly had sided with Israel's enemy. What is surprising is that none of the countries who hosted the war were neighborly enough to allow the now-homeless Muslim enemies of Israel to live in their own counties. These people, who voluntarily expatriated themselves, but were not allowed back in to the country they had betrayed, are now known as the 'Palestinian Arabs,' or simply 'Palestinians.'

After several more decades and several more wars, all of which saw Israel surrounded, outnumbered and her existence threatened, Israel proved to be a bigger bone than her Muslim neighbors could bite. Furthermore, with every conflict, Israel gained strategic territory that her war-minded neighbors used for their attacks, like the Golan Heights. Israel possessed this land to deny its use to her enemy for their aggression, the outlet of their hatred for Jews, which continued to seethe.

Now, of course, we are in an age of revisionist history. The President of Iran is claiming that the Holocaust never happened. Muslim clerics are preaching and teaching that the Jewish people have no historic claim to the land of Israel, there was no king David, there was no king Solomon, there was no temple, no Israeli people ever lived there, it was always Arabs. To help bolster this claim Muslims are also destroying historical archaeological places that might contradict their fairy tale. And most still refuse to recognize Israel's right to exist.

Israel has been pressured, since the 'intifada' began early this decade, to give up precious land to the Palestinian Arabs for the Arab's autonomous use. "Land for peace!" went the chant, "No land, no peace." The leaders of the insurrection stated that there would be no cessation of violence unless and until Israel gave the Palestinians some land of their own.

Reluctantly, and against sage advice from within Israel, the leaders of Israel sought peace and gave up the Gaza Strip to the Palestinians. So what has the result been? Have the Palestinian Arabs lived up to their word? Have they taken their land and made it into a thriving example of industrious thrift and developed a growing economy?

Well, not exactly. They have taken the established, productive Israeli agricultural fields and turned them into something of a 7th-century, third-world barrenness; the rest of the strip is also similarly trashed. Have they lived peacefully with their neighbors? Well, if you call launching thousands and thousands of rockets at innocent Israeli civilians peaceful, then yes, they have.

And now there is the likes of Condoleezza Rice telling Israeli leaders that not only must they give up more land, which the Palestinians can use as platforms for terror attacks, but to also allow the Palestinians to have their own sovereign state within the bounds of Israel's country. Some are going so far as saying that Israel should give up Jerusalem for a Palestinian capital city.

So do the Palestinians really want peace? Or do they want the destruction of Israel? Their actions over the last 60 years would demonstrate that peace is not their goal, rather, it is conquest.

They claim that they have ancestral rights to the land of Palestine. However, so many have forgotten that their land and people were allied with Germany on the 20th century war stage and the Germans did not win either war, which means that Arabs lost as well; to the victor go the spoils. Hence, Britain, France and the United States, enemies of Germany and her allies, gained control over the land with German surrender.

Therefore, was it Israel's fault that she was subjected to the worst genocide in history? Was it Israel's fault that the powers-that-be planted her back in her former home? Is Israel to be blamed for defending herself against unrelenting enemies? Is it Israel's fault that Palestinian Arabs chose to leave the country so that Israel could be mercilessly wiped out?

And on the other front, when Israel was attacked by the ultra-misguided-Hezbollah's fighters in 2006, it was the United Nations that demanded a cease-fire and guaranteed that the U.N.'s own troops would stop Hezbollah from smuggling more arms into southern Lebanon. They also promised that they would secure the southern border and prevent Hezbollah fighters access to that territory. Israel, under tremendous international pressure to conform, once again relented and ceased their pounding of the Hezbollah army.

But what has become of this situation? Has the shipment of rockets into Lebanon ceased? Are Hezbollah fighters being kept away from the border? The sad answer to both is no. Hezbollah now has thousands more rockets than it did in its pre-war status. Its soldiers have bullied U.N. soldiers and are in battle positions in much of the land.

The United Nations, therefore, is trying to handcuff Israel's ability to defend itself, which threatens the very existence of this seed that the UN planted. And everybody else, it seems is piling on.

It would only take a few Muslim nuclear detonations in Israel to usher in Holocaust II, and it seems that those who hated the first Holocaust the most are setting themselves up to be the ones most culpable in allowing a second. We are mere inches from this being allowed to happen.

May it never be.