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I give up on Israel By Joseph FarahMay 15, 2006, WorldNetDaily.comWASHINGTON ,
I have a reputation as one of Israel's staunchest supporters.That reputation is due to several factors:* As an American journalist of Arabic heritage, I have done mybest over the last 20 years to shatter the myths surrounding theArab-Israeli conflict , misperceptions based largely on effectivelies, purposeful distortions and relentless propaganda efforts by Araband Muslim regimes and their apologists among haters of America andIsrael throughout the world.* As a freedom-loving Christian American journalist who had theopportunity to put my own boots on the ground in the Middle East, itis obvious that the Arab and Muslim world is dominated by tyranny,fascism and anti-Semitism , hardly a world we should want to seeexpanded.* As a journalist, I found that Israel was the only country in theMiddle East that respected the free press. This again became obviousrecently to us at WND when our own Jerusalem bureau chief, AaronKlein, was prevented from traveling to Syria because he is Jewish.* The Jews, a people who have survived the deaths of many empiresthat tried to destroy them, including but not limited to theEgyptians, Romans, Babylonians, Persians , have only one homeland,Israel, continuously occupied by them for 4,000 years and never anation-state belonging to any others.Yet, despite all this, I am through defending Israel, at least theregime currently in power in Jerusalem, this useless coalitionseemingly hell-bent on committing national suicide.Next week, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, a man I onceconsidered, like his predecessor, Ariel Sharon, a reasonable,rational, level-headed defender of his country, is set to visitWashington with his hand out.He is asking for an initial commitment of up to $10 billion in directU.S. aid to implement his plan for national retreat, appeasement ofthe global jihad and a new sellout of more than 200,000 Israelicivilians who have made their homes in historically Jewish lands inJudea and Samaria at the behest and recommendation of earlier Israeligovernments.Olmert is coming here to seek administration and congressional supportfor a new round of "disengagement", this time from 90-95 percent of what we often call "the West Bank" and even including large sectionsof the city of Jerusalem, once regarded as the eternal capital of theJewish people.He does this fully knowing that last summer's evacuation of the GazaStrip has been an unmitigated disaster for the Jewish people, WesternCivilization and freedom in general, as the terrorists from Hamas ,kissing cousins of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida and Iran's Hezbollahorganization , now control the territory and more than ever threatenthe lives of Israeli citizens.He does this fully knowing that Hamas is preparing to establish aTaliban-like state through the Palestinian Authority, including thenew territories ethnically cleansed of Jews.He does this fully knowing that these newly abandoned lands will be,like Gaza, used as terrorist staging grounds and forward operatingbases that will threaten not only Israel but neighboring Jordan andLebanon as well and, eventually, liberated Iraq. So I'm through making excuses for Israel. I'm through trying to understand the incomprehensible moves of a self-flagellating nation. I'm through trying to point out the moral rightness of a state and a people who themselves fail to discern right from wrong. Like Jesus 2,000 years ago, I look at Jerusalem today and I weep. I know I speak for many Jews and Christians throughout the world who see Israel's surrender as a cowardly betrayal, a sign that the Jewish state puts more faith in Washington and "international diplomacy" than in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Israel has made the mistake many times throughout history of turning away from their God. Israel has made the mistake many times throughout history of putting faith in kings and men over the promises of Heaven. Israel has made the mistake many times throughout history of compromise with its ruthless enemies who seek not only the destruction of the Jews but the oppression of their own people. Enough of "land for peace." It has never worked , not in Israel's history, nor in any other nation's history. Enough of retreat. Enough of unilateral withdrawals. Enough of staged surrender. Enough of the appeasement with evil. Enough of the madness. Compromise with evil is evil. And that's what Israel is doing. As for me and my house, I will not be a part of it. I will continue to serve the Lord and pray for the peace of Jerusalem. One thing is for certain. That peace will not come under the leadership of men like Ehud Olmert and Ariel Sharon. If the Israeli people want to disengage, it should be from so-called "leaders" likethis , "leaders" in the image, likeness and tradition of Neville