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The One-Sided War

by Ryan Clarke

News from the Middle East is full of reports of violence between the so-called ‘Palestinians’ and the country of Israel. We are constantly hearing about Arab terrorists detonating themselves in Israeli restaurants and hotels and occasionally about some Israel military forces attacking innocent refugee camps. How can anybody solve the endless warring? To answer that question, people must realize what the conflict is about. While the Jews are only trying to form a peaceful homeland in Palestine, the Arab nations are doing anything they can to destroy Israel and the entire Jewish race. This is all a modern portrayal of the ancient struggle between Abraham’s sons: Ishmael and Isaac.

The conflict between the Palestinian Arabs and the Jews is not new and has deep roots. For thousands of years before the birth of Christ, the land of Palestine was the Jew’s home (Isseroff, “Brief” 1). Shortly after Christ’s death, the Roman’s dispersed the Jews all over the known world. After the Roman Empire fell, Moslems ruled Palestine, Arabic and Turkish ones in alternation. By the late 1800s, anti-Semitic feeling in Europe had grown so much that Jews began to look for a homeland, and some immigrated to Palestine. The period following World War I in which the British controlled Palestine was very difficult (Isseroff, “Brief” 3). During those thirty years, Jews flocked to Palestine causing great hate among the Arabs, which started small conflicts. When it was revealed following World War II that Hitler had murdered millions of Jews, the world did something about this quest for a Jewish homeland (Isseroff, “Brief” 4).

When the United Nations acting as the world government created the new nation of Israel, they ignited a problem that burns larger every year. Israel was created in 1948 to the extreme rage of the Arab world. This rage turned into violence in 1956 when Egypt attacked. Groups of Arab nations attacked again in 1967 and 1973, with Israel the clear victor, and ‘official’ villain, all three times (Walvoord, Armageddon 33, 37-38, 43). The clear Arab goal every time was the total annihilation of Israel (FLAME, “Right”). Even today, the Middle East is constantly on the brink of another large scale war.

Before the 1956 war, the Arab nations requested all Palestinian Arabs to leave Israel until the fledgling country was destroyed creating a key piece in the Palestinian conflict. Most of these Palestinian Arab refugees temporarily settled in the West Bank in squalid camps (Isseroff, “Brief” 5). After Israel crushed the Arab armies, the refugees were stuck in the camps with nowhere to go since the other Arab countries did not allow them to enter. Years later, these Palestinian Arabs, wrongly called refugees, are still starving in these camps. They hate their life and the religious leaders tell them it’s Israel’s fault. Why do Arabs force their ethnic brothers to live like this? Because these ‘refugees’ garner world sympathy, creating an emotional argument against Israeli ‘cruelty.’ However, if Israel allowed these ‘refugees’ to come back, they would overwhelm the Jews and effectively end the dream for a Jewish homeland. However, the primary Arab reason for keeping the camps, is that these hate-filled multitudes are perfect place for raising hordes of terrorists (FLAME, “Right”). These ‘refugees’ support the three ways Arabs are trying to destroy Israel: world support, population overload, and violence.

The most visible conflict in Palestine today is the horde of Palestinian Arab terrorists assaulting Israel. The poor ‘refugees’ are taught from birth to vow to the death of Israel. As far back as 1966, Israel asked the U.N. to publish a list of 100,000 “border incidents” which had happened since 1949 (Walvoord, Armageddon 34). People will not be able to understand why Israel allowed such an onslaught to happen without military intervention until they realize world opinion. The pro-Arab U.N. views Israel as the offending party, and the media portrays them that way also (Schmemann, “Mideast” 1). The U.N. did not publish Israel’s list of incidents but instead they loudly protested when Israel struck back at a Jordanian terrorist camp (Walvoord, Armageddon 34). Because of this world pressure not to retaliate, Arab terrorists have killed more than 1,000 Israelis in the last two years, and that is not counting the many times more people whom they wounded (FLAME, “Two-State”). People do not realize that since the U.S. population is more than fifty times larger than Israel’s, this is equivalent percentage wise to 50,000 Americans dead, with hundreds of thousands more wounded (Millennium 210, 212). Two years after terrorists killed 5,000 Americans on September 11, 2001, the U.S. military has overthrow and liberated two Arab countries and there is reason to believe that they will soon attack more. Why then is Israel not allowed to fight, even for its life? Is it maybe because the Arabs do not want it to live?

The whole world is looking for a solution to this conflict, but the Middle East needs something more: a just solution. Justice demands that Israel should deal with the problem in the ways they see are best. They need the right to defend themselves and to attack murderous groups if they feel the need. Since Israel is America’s closest ally, the U.S. needs to stop bowing to the U.N.’s ideology and give full U.S. political support to Israeli military retaliation (Taylor, “Massive”). The solution also needs to go one step deeper by wiping out terrorist sources by forcing the Arab nation to accept the Palestinian Arab ‘refugees’ back into a functional society (Chacour, Blood 5). With these two actions, the U.S. will enable Israel to treat the problem, while the U.S. and Israel will cure the source of the conflict. With the victim fighting back, the Arab/Israeli Crisis will cease to be a one-sided war and a forceful peace will be possible. However, as long as greed, hate, and sin control people, there is no hope for true, lasting peace in the Middle East or anywhere else.

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Schmemann, Serge. “Mideast Turmoil: Ramallah. Palestinians Say Israeli Aim Was to Destroy Framework, From Archives to Hard Drives.” The New York Times, 15 April 2002

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