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| Map of the nine civilizations from Huntington's Clash of Civilizations |
This is it. From now on we just sit and wait. PM Netanyahu has told the UN that Iran
must totally dismantle its nuclear program or else… Even
Ha’aretz has admitted the PM was right
on Iran. Most Israelis do not trust Obama on Iran.
Several puzzling questions
remain.
How is it that that
the rest of the world does not see what Israel sees? How come they do not see that they too will
be the target of a nuclear-armed Iran? How come the Europeans, especially the Brits, seem
to have forgotten their own history of appeasement and where it brought them to
in the 1930s? Why don’t Americans care that their president is a supporter of the
Muslim Brotherhood? Why don’t
American Jews care that their president supports the Muslim Brotherhood? Why are so many people indifferent to the absurd appeasement policies of their governments, policies which will impact their lives… and
worse, get them killed?
The answer, of course,
is in what Churchill called the confirmed unteachability of mankind. “Want of foresight, unwillingness to act
when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of
counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring
gong “
Israel is different. Israel has been the front line on the bloody
borders of Islam, both Sunni and Shi'a, in the clash of civilizations, for some
time now. Most Israelis have not read Samuel Huntington, Bernard Lewis, nor Winston
Churchill. Their insight is purely empirical. But it makes them see
where others are blind.
That is why Israel’s message to the world is - we are not
going to get killed because of your stupidity and indifference. We will act. We have no other choice except the choice to defend ourselves or be incinerated.
