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Europe's Real "Resistance"
by Bassam Tawil
• January 28, 2015 at 5:00 am
Europe's
policies of encouraging groups such as Hamas, which constantly espouse
violence, demolishes the Palestinian effort to achieve a responsible
Palestinian state that finally could end the conflict with Israel.
The West
has been duped. The French have naïvely taken the bait: they now associate
Palestinian "Resistance" with the courageous French underground Résistance
that fought the Germans in World War II. They incorrectly assume that the
Palestinian "Resistance' must be a good thing, too.
But the
Palestinian Resistance bears no resemblance to the French Résistance
of Word War II. There is no way to compare them. The Palestinian
"Resistance" is nothing more than terrorist organizations
repressing their own people. They do not resist an evil force; they are
an evil force.
The truth
is that the Europeans do not really care about the Palestinians, only about
destroying Israel.
Now the
International Criminal Court is planning to investigate Israel because it had
the gall to defend itself against terrorism, while what did Europe do?
Europe, in the face of terrorism, invited every terrorist-sponsoring dictator
to join it in a march to protest the very murders that these dictators had
paid for.
There is
no difference between Hamas's aspirations to be "liberated from the
Zionist occupation," and radical Islam's aspirations to be liberated
from the "Christian occupation" of Europe.
All
"Resistance" should be against radical Islam as embodied by groups
such as Hamas, Islamic Jihad, al-Qaeda, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the
Islamic State, among others. They are the ones we should resist. They should
not be allowed to rule us in some Islamist "Palestinian State."
Europeans, both civilians and law enforcement personnel, may well be on
tenterhooks, wondering what thousands of young Muslim men and women, who left
their countries of origin to join the Islamist terrorist organizations in
Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Africa, will do when they return. Europeans have
reason to be concerned: many of the returning jihadists were trained to
murder civilians.
When they come back to the countries to which their parents fled to
escape the political and economic distress of the Arab and Muslim world, many
of these mujahideen plan to kill their hosts in the name of extremist
Islam. They will call their hosts "infidels," and kill them for the
"crime" of not being Muslims.
Oh Dear, It's Greece Again
by Malcolm Lowe
• January 28, 2015 at 4:00 am
The new
Prime Minister actually believes the economic nonsense that he spouted on his
path to power. He now proclaims that "the troika belongs to the
past." That is, the Eurozone must continue to hand over money to keep
Greece afloat, but on terms dictated by Greece itself.
Just as
Turkey's current government is paralyzing NATO policy, the new Greek
government may begin to paralyze the ability of the European Council to adopt
a common foreign policy.
The world is surprised and horrified by the result of the Greek general
election. Readers of this website, however, will not be surprised. To quote
from May 2014:
"One consequence of polyglossia is that most Europeans have little
idea of what is happening in other EU countries than their own. For example,
the Greek crisis has long disappeared from European headlines everywhere
except in Greece, where it is in the headlines every day. Nor is it
surprising, since this is the first Greek government in history to have seriously
tackled the institutional problems that have plagued the modern Greek state
ever since its inception in 1832."
So much for the good news of yesteryear. The bad news is that it may
have been the last such Greek government.
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