Posted by
Jeff Morton on Sunday, August 10, 2008 12:18:50 PM
Victor Sharpe is a dear friend and someone who's passion, knowledge and wisdom along with his disbelief (with regard to the idiocy in our world) is someone who must be heard> See for yourself<
On September 10
th, 1964, the
Radio
Times, a British magazine, quoted President Woodrow Wilson that, "Right is
more precious than peace." The great humorist, Jerome K. Jerome, suggested many
years before that, "... we all love peace, but not peace at any
price."
In actuality, peace is a paradox, especially when applied to the
world of politics. Peace is only a reality between states that are friendly
towards each other. They, after all, do not need to make peace. But the nation
that strives for peace with an enemy can only find it when both parties have
reached sufficient deterrent power to prevent warfare.
The peaceniks, the liberal groups, the lefties, and all those who shout out
the vacuous phrase, "peace and justice," have turned those once noble words into
soiled and tarnished rags. They have become the very folk who, through one of
life's supreme ironies, shout down other voices - often attended by their own
violent acts - and thus become guilty of the very behavior they claim to oppose.
The universities and colleges have become hotbeds of radicalized students
who chant slogans of peace and justice yet howl down invited speakers with whom
they disagree. Free speech withers on today's university campus while
professors, smiling indulgently, espouse the monolithic message of the Left,
which tolerates no disagreement.
That word, "peace" has permeated the democracies for decades and flowed
from numerous pulpits. But despite untold forests cut down in order to produce
posters, books, banners, placards and learned tomes calling for peace, there is
less peace in the world today and more hypocrites selling it like snake oil
peddlers.
On the banks of the East River in New York City stands the Temple of Peace,
the huge United Nations building that claims to be its repository, but which in
reality is the ultimate Temple to Hypocrisy.
The worshippers of Peace are the supreme idealists who never abandon their
dreams even if their naïve acts lead them to inadvertently make tyrants stronger
and create living nightmares for the very victims for whom they claim they are
bringing peace.
There is no such thing as making peace. If a nation desires peace with its
neighbor, but that neighbor implacably rejects peace, then any imposed peace
process from outside is nothing more than a handmaiden to futility or worse.
The peacemaker often creates a catastrophic erosion of security for the
peace loving nation, which because of its peaceful intentions is the only party
that is then leaned upon to make endless and one sided concessions to a
belligerent enemy. Such has been the curse of the peace process for Israel in
its attempts to survive relentless Arab aggression.
Israel's leaders have sought peace above all else and considered its
attainment with hostile neighbors as the great panacea. But making peace must
never be the goal of a nation when confronted by enemies who look upon peace
with contempt.
For almost a century Jews have begged the Arab world to agree to a lasting
peace. They have offered what no other nation or people would dream of offering
to a belligerent. But they have received nothing for the simple reason that the
Muslim Arab is only interested in a limited ceasefire so as to continue
aggression against the Jews as soon as he feels strong enough.
Deterrence, unwavering strength and deterrence, is the only salvation for
Israel against the Islamic onslaught just as it is for an equally blinded West
increasingly confronted with Islamic terrorism.
To cry peace, peace, when there is no peace, as the Jewish prophet,
Jeremiah, taught us long ago, is not an expression of hope but a foolish and
dangerous abrogation of reality. It dulls the mind and the aspiration of a
people who then become lost and blinded under a veritable veil of
deception.
Peace is impossible for a nation like Israel without its own demonstration
of unassailable military strength and its utter rejection of concessions to an
implacable enemy. The Arab world respects strength. It treats concessions with
complete and utter scorn. It considers overtures of peace as a sign of weakness
and becomes emboldened in its aggression.
When that enemy is an Arab entity unwilling to make any concession
whatsoever, and when the world expects Israel always to give and the Arabs
always to take, then to continue along that same path to nowhere, becomes an
Israeli self-delusion, leading to worse: Self destruction.
It is high time for Israel to be making demands upon the Arabs, starting
with territorial concessions from the vast Arab world. Based upon prior
precedents in Muslim history going back to the time of Mohammed and his dealings
with the Queresh tribe in Mecca, the Arabs will never make peace or accept a
Jewish sovereign state in territory they have previously conquered in the name
of Allah.
Thus, Israel should now begin reclaiming territory it has foolishly given
away since the Oslo "peace" Accords. The Arabs will be forced to accept such
demands if they finally realize that the Jewish state is once again so
overwhelmingly strong militarily, morally and spiritually that they simply
cannot destroy it.
There is no hope for the Jewish state surviving in the nastiest
neighborhood in the world if it presents itself as inwardly irresolute and
unwilling to engage in war. The Arab adversary should always be fully aware that
Israel is resolute, steadfast and more ready to wage war than agree to a
fraudulent peace.
If the Arab and Muslim world rejects Israel, it must live with the
consequences of its enmity and become the ultimate loser. A Jewish state, which
no longer seeks to make peace at any price will prosper and grow. It will also
engender respect from both its friends and its enemies.
As W.B Yeats once wrote, "... peace under a semblance of peace ... is but a
manifold illusion." And discussing self proclaimed peacemakers, A.N. Whitehead
described their efforts as "...a deliberate aim at Peace, which very easily
passes into its b_stard substitute; anesthesia."
Victor Sharpe is author of the book: Politicide - The
attempt to murder the Jewish state.