Common Folk Using Common Sense

Trackbacked at Right Wing News, Hot Air:

I am aghast. Hat tip to Gavriel at AbbaGav for the heads-up.

From the Washington Post, an editorial by Richard Cohen:

The greatest mistake Israel could make at the moment is to forget that Israel itself is a mistake. It is an honest mistake, a well-intentioned mistake, a mistake for which no one is culpable, but the idea of creating a nation of European Jews in an area of Arab Muslims (and some Christians) has produced a century of warfare and terrorism of the sort we are seeing now. Israel fights Hezbollah in the north and Hamas in the south, but its most formidable enemy is history itself.

This is why the Israeli-Arab war, now transformed into the Israeli-Muslim war (Iran is not an Arab state), persists and widens. It is why the conflict mutates and festers.

The underlying, subterranean hatred of the Jewish state in the Islamic world just keeps bubbling to the surface.

But worse than what is happening now would be a retaking of those territories. That would put Israel smack back to where it was, subjugating a restless, angry population and having the world look on as it committed the inevitable sins of an occupying power.

Huh? Jews “coming home” to their Promised Land is a mistake? What history book have you been reading, Comrade Richard Cohen?

By the way, if Israel is a historical mistake, then so are Pakistan and Bosnia, and probably others. Anything noteworthy about them, Sir Cohen? Maybe we should return Iran to the Zoroastrians, Egypt to the Copts, Lebanon to the Maronites, western Turkey to the Greeks, Iraq to the Assyrians, and eastern Turkey to the Armenians. Why don’t we turn the whole world over to the Roman Empire? Or is it just your distaste for those Jews, Richard?

The rule of Israelites in the land of Israel starts with the conquests of Joshua (ca. 1250 BCE). The period from 1000-587 BCE is known as the “Period of the Kings”. The most noteworthy kings were King David (1010-970 BCE), who made Jerusalem the Capital of Israel, and his son Solomon (Shlomo, 970-931 BCE), who built the first Temple in Jerusalem as prescribed in the Tanach (Old Testament).

In 587 BCE, Babylonian Nebuchadnezzar’s army captured Jerusalem, destroyed the Temple, and exiled the Jews to Babylon (modern day Iraq). The year 587 BCE also marks a turning point in the history of the region. From this year onwards, the region was ruled or controlled by a succession of superpower empires of the time in the following order:

- Babylonian, Persian (538-333 BCE),
- Greek Hellenistic (333-63 BCE),
- Roman (63 BCE-313 CE) and
- Byzantine Empires (313-636),
- Islamic (636-1099) and
- Christian crusaders (1099-1291),
- the Mamluk (1291-1516),
- Ottoman Empire (1516-1918),
- and the British Empire (1917-1948).

You did notice the absence of a Palestinian people, didn’t you?

This land, the land that Israel sits on today, has ALWAYS been theirs. As far as “occupying forces” go is would be more correct to assign that characteristic to the Palestinians.

No, Herr Cohen’s missive is a feeble attempt to justify his own anti-Semitism, and nothing more. Israel is home, where she should be, and for the entirety of her existance she has been brutally attacked from all sides by those that want her dead. And when she tried to defend herself Socialists like Cohen simply want her to roll over and play dead. After all, you don’t want to make an Islamofascist terrorist angry, do we?

But this is no surprise from this Moonbat Leftist. He also praises Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” as fact: “We simply cannot afford for Al Gore to lose again.” He also pines away for savior Hillary: “Hillary, help us. Who the hell are you?” He also has no love for the Bush Administration: “Cheney in particular has zero credibility, but his administration colleagues are not far behind. Prominent among them, of course, is the attorney general, a man so adept at crying wolf and mouthing the administration’s line that he simply cannot be believed any more.”

Yep, just another silly Leftist Moonbat making a ton of money by trying to sway the great unwashed towards his Liberal Utopia.

Washington Post, Israel, Jew, Arab, Muslim, Hezbollah, Hamas, Richard Cohen, anti-Semitism

Spread The Word: