Arabs Are Fighting The Wrong Fight

You know that definition of insanity which is sometimes ascribed to Einstein: doing the same thing over and over expecting a different outcome? Something Ryan Bellerose posted prompted the following two tweets from me:

Arabs are fighting against an occupation. Except Jews are indigenous, not colonial occupiers so their tactics won’t work. Their single goal is to make the cost of occupation outweigh the benefit. These tactics have worked many times over: against the Russians and the Americans in Afghanistan, in Iraq, and against the British Empire all over the world.

We Jews did this to the British in 1948. After thousands of years we regained sovereignty over our lands and earned the right to defend our ancient nation, culture and identity as a modern nation amongst the other nations. The British ran because they aren’t indigenous. In the end they had no strong attachment to this place.

After Israel’s declaration of Independence, the wars against Israel waged by the Arabs were classic wars of imperial conquest: tanks and professional armies rolling across borders to destroy and conquer. We haven’t really faced one of those since the Yom Kippur war of 1973. What we’ve faced are terror attacks and external delegitimisation.

But one of my Facebook friends who, let’s just say sees things in Israel from a different side, wrote this:

Newsflash, the Palestinians are entitled to the same rights as the Jews, like it or not. And they will get them. Like it or not. The only question is when and at what price. Because they aren’t going anywhere either.

And I thought immediately no. They are not entitled: worse, they’ve done everything possible to de-entitle themselves with their uncompromising violence and hatred. There is no political equality here for a number of reasons. I’m not talking about human equality, but about the equality of political goals. I’m not going to dehumanise Arabs, of course not, but I’m going to strongly criticise them politically.

Zionism is the establishment of a Jewish home in the indigenous lands of the Jews. It is an indigenous return. On the other side we face an Islamic Jihadi desire to re-conquer and re-impose Islamic rule over the people and land they previously conquered. You can’t tell me that the strict requirement NO Jews live in areas controlled by Arabs isn’t their political goal. It is what they’re most proud of!

What my Israeli friend’s statement shows is just how dumb we Jews were to ever call this an “occupation”. This is the return to Jewish control of Jewish lands that Jews died to regain in a defensive battle. We immediately internalised the other side’s lying language of colonial conquest and applied it to ourselves! On land that is most definitely the birthplace of our entire civilisation and which so many of us feel deeply about.

Israeli society is rejecting this false language because deep down Jews who’ve returned know we’re home. The left has shrunk again and again: the last remnants who believe the land for peace lie are shrinking. That line on a map drawn with a green crayon is going away. #EndOfTheGreenLine

Ryan, Brian and Indigenous Israeli hero Murray Greenfield. - Photo: Brian of London
Ryan, Brian and Indigenous Israeli hero Murray Greenfield. – Photo: Brian of London

10 thoughts on “Arabs Are Fighting The Wrong Fight”

  1. The most ironic part of accepting the “green line” as the border of some Arab state is that the Arab nations absolutely rejected it as a border when it was first drawn in the sand in 1949, and have clearly never accepted it at all. It is only now, after they have lost their control of that land, that they suddenly claim to have been satisfied with that border. Absurdity of a totally unimaginable scale.

    1. And the ones to whom these borders should have mattered the most, the “Palestinians”, didn’t worry about these borders for 19 years. Wouldn’t you think they would have fretted about their national identity between 1948 and 1967? Not to mention that Israel lost control of East Jerusalem during that time and, look who didn’t rush to declare it a Capital of any Palestine. Also, apart from the fact that they refuse to recognise the borders in 1948, they did not honour the agreement to keep Jerusalem an international city for all the major religions – Jews were banned. At least it gave Israel a taste of what happens when Israel loses power, even a little. Too bad the leftists (inc Israeli) seem to have short memories. Those photos of Jordanians using ancient Jewish tombstones to build latrines should be shared widely.

  2. Norman_In_New_York

    The 1949 (not 1948) armistice lines were not final borders, nor were they intended to be. When Israel signed peace treaties with Egypt and Jordan, the parties accepted the mandate lines as of the eve of Israel’s independence as the final boundaries. What was left had been designated as a separate Arab state which the Arabs themselves rejected, along with their numerous violations of the Oslo agreements. Accordingly, Israel has a valid legal claim.

    1. but then, in the 80s, the international community decided that they were indeed borders

      if the nascent israelis had known that would happen, would they have signed the armistice? i dont think so

  3. Consider that we are told ad nauseum that the “Palestinians” are SO very indigenous that they simply can’t endure being forced to live anywhere but in their ancestral villages – to move a few miles away from the Negev to Gaza is a human rights violation worse than the Trail of Tears. BUT … watch the behavior of mass Arab and Muslim populations of the Middle East, North Africa, and the subcontinent now. Millions of them are on the move from their “indigenous lands” without a backward glance, and loudly insisting upon their “human rights” to live in Western Europe. The fact is that Muslims carry their “native land” with them wherever they go, which is Islam, which is the culture and milieu of Arabia in the form of a religion. While the Jews wish to return to their native land, the Arabs intend to expand theirs to cover the earth.

  4. This is our homeland – and I do not care how many invaders I have to kill to keep it. They will not have our homeland EVER!!!

  5. There is only one long-term solution to the Palestinian problem: mass deportations of Palestinians from Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank. Anyone who wishes to live or work in Israel should be required to sign a loyalty oath. If a person won’t sign, he or she has got to go.

    It’s interesting that Europe is unable to cope with millions of Arab scumbags, but they want Israel to accept them. The leftists who were protesting in the video are unwilling to hold Palestinians responsible for their actions, the same way they refuse to hold American blacks responsible for what they do.

    Do you think we could send the Arabs back to Egypt, and the blacks back to Africa all at the same time?

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