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Gilad Shalit - Human Weakness in the Face of Terrorism

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 07:48 PM PDT

Muslim terrorists pride themselves on their amorality. On
having no individual sense of right or wrong, only the abstract codes of
Islamic law that can be modified at will to allow terrorists to do
virtually anything to anyone, so long as it is in the name of the
Jihad.

The atrocities of Jihadists around the world, whether it is
beheading schoolgirls or contractors, murdering teachers, blowing up
buses, murdering babies, torturing hostages to death or blowing themselves
up in cafes; is not simply about achieving a tactical goal. In most cases
there is no practical goal to be achieved through these acts except
terror. And that is the point. The goal of terrorism is terror, to
intimidate your enemies through monstrous and inhuman acts. And Muslim
terrorists pride themselves on being monsters, on transforming themselves
into creatures capable of the worst bestial acts, culminating in the
ritual of human sacrifice that has become so vital to the cult of death
that is Islam's Jihad, the suicide bombing.

By contrast Muslim
terrorists sneer at the human weaknesses of their enemies, their genuine
love for their families and their fear for their safety, their love of
life and their willingness to show mercy and to trust. And Muslim
terrorists and infiltrators are the first to take advantage, to play on
and exploit these qualities. Qualities which they themselves only mime. A
true committed Islamist will show love or concern for his family, mercy or
trust for non-Muslims only as a propaganda ploy. This ploy will be set
aside in seconds when it suits him. The father who moments ago was
bewailing his wounded child, will grab and use him as a human shield. He
will plunge a knife into the neck of his Western friend and co-worker who
has been at his house dozens of times and played with his children. He
will feel nothing while doing it, only a sense of triumph and pride in his
devotion to Islam.

All this has happened over and over again, and
will go on happening, because Islamists are taught and trained to only
have one love and one passion, Islam. Any human attachments are purely
secondary and easily discarded. Any human concepts of guilt or morality
are buried.

Islamic law frees the terrorist from all human norms.
He may kill, rob or rape. He may take on any disguise, drink alcohol,
curse and commit every act explicitly prohibited by the Koran or the
Hadiths. He can indulge his appetites in every way, so long as in exchange
he is willing to kill and die in the name of the Jihad. That is the
devil's bargain that forges an active Islamic terrorist, an amoral cunning
entity who has only one ultimate goal, to corrupt, divide and kill the
enemies of Allah.

It is vitally important that we understand this
because every sign of human weakness we show to Islamic terrorists is
exactly like cutting our arms and lowering them into shark infested
waters. The Jihad thrives on human weakness, because its acolytes are
militarily incompetent, but compensate for it in sheer ruthlessness.
Mohammed did not turn his combination of desert hallucinations and
shameless plagiarisms into a dominant religion by legitimately defeating
his enemies. He used lies, deceit, treachery, false promises, terror and
banditry to win his way to the top, in a region already excelling in lies,
deceit and treachery. Modern day Muslims are his inheritors in that
regard.

Every sign of human weakness is another drop of blood in
the water. If we begin an investigation when a Muslim child is killed in a
firefight with terrorists, there will be a dozen children being used as
human shields in the next firefight. If a dead soldier causes us to
question our purpose, then they will do everything possible to kill
individual soldiers, even though there is no useful tactical purpose and
their losses in such encounters vastly exceed ours. If a Muslim being
removed wrongly off a plane triggers protests, then the next time there
will be a dozen Muslims, pushing and testing our security. If we are
willing to do everything possible to get our hostages released, then
hostage taking will dramatically increase.

The Jihad zeroes in on
human weakness. The more human weakness we show, the worse we will bleed.
At one point Israel understood this, but no longer. The tragic farce of
Gilad Shalit's captivity is likely to end shortly at the cost of freeing
terrorists with blood on their hands, giving Hamas a definitive victory,
and Israel a definitive defeat. The same Israeli left wing media that has
made it so hard for IDF soldiers to operate against terrorists, have
turned Shalit's captivity into a circus, transforming him from warrior to
martyr. And when Hamas scores its vital victory, it is unknown how many
Israeli soldiers and civilians will once again wind up paying the
price.

Israel's willingness to do anything to bring a soldier home is
laudable, it expresses higher humane values as well as true religious
ones, but it is also inherently self-destructive. Armies exist as part of
a bigger picture. To treat every soldier as a civilian, is to preemptively
surrender any conflict. To make every soldier into a negotiating counter
for X amount of terrorists, only insures further attacks against IDF
soldiers. If Gilad Shalit is released, it will not be long before Hamas
begins planning to seize more soldiers. And that is inevitable, when you
pay the ransom, you motivate the kidnappers.

Latin America, the
Middle East and parts of Asia and the Caucasus have a thriving market in
kidnappings. The market thrives because there is a profit motive. If you
keep paying off kidnappers, the kidnappings will keep on coming. The key
difference between Mexico and the United States is that when kidnappings
happen in Mexico, the family cuts a deal, while in the United States they
call the police. Israel's willingness to cut deals for the bodies of its
soldiers has created a thriving market for terrorists in Israeli soldiers.
Dead or alive.

The Jihad against Israel has not resulted in
military victories, only in victories of terror. Arafat and his cronies
did not win territory in a war. They won it through the classic two-faced
approach of terrorism, by showing a demonic killer's face to the general
public, and a conciliatory "Let's Negotiate Approach" to foreign diplomats
and the press. That approach paid off. It continued to pay off as Arafat
brought in his henchmen and then spent the next decade or so terrorizing
and murdering Israelis, while living off European and American foreign aid
and political support. It was only when Sharon turned the tables by going
on the offensive after the Passover bombings that Fatah imploded. And now
Hamas has taken its place.

Hamas is a crossbreed of the worst
strains of Jihadism. Emerging out of the Muslim Brotherhood, kissing
cousin to Al Queda, and backed by Shiite Iran, it is just not just an
Iranian proxy, its DNA is also comprised of the original strain of the
Will to Caliphate. For Muslims that represents the Kingdom of Heaven on
earth, a perfect political state that functions according to the pure will
of Allah as embodied by Sharia law. Hamas has demonstrated patience,
waiting out Fatah's decline, pushing it into competitive terrorism against
Israel that eventually brought down Fatah, leaving it as little more than
a European and American puppet. That makes Hamas extremely dangerous. And
it makes showing any weakness toward it, deadly.

It is tempting for
Netanyahu to try and untangle the Gordian knot of the Iranian bomb abroad
and Hamas terrorism at home, highlighted by the plight of Gilad Shalit
with a deal. Having gone this far, it's all but certain that his
government will go all the way. Captured soldiers have always held a
special place in the hearts of Israelis, and that kind of moral
omnipotence that Israelis believe will allow them to defend themselves
without ever sullying the purity of arms and bring back every man at any
cost, has been precisely the weakness that terrorists have been exploiting
for much too long.

Meanwhile Hamas is all too aware of the
political weaknesses of democracy, of Netanyahu's need to shore up his
position with something tangible. It is politically cheaper to trade
terrorists for a captured soldier, than to try to once again send in
forces into Gaza in the hopes of finding one man. And that sort of
weakness too is what the enemy is counting on. Netanyahu will need the
backing of the Israeli public when he has to make the tough call on Iran,
but gaining that backing the cheap way by bargaining for Gilad Shalit is
likely to prove to be a mistake. Appeasement may seem like a politically
convenient shortcut, but its full price weighs heavy with time. By
negotiating with Hamas, Israel has legitimized the idea of negotiating
with it as if it were a legitimate entity. That same approach is how
Arafat and his thugs ended up running a sizable portion of
Israel.

What must be understood is that we cannot compromise in the
face of terrorism. We can only defy it with our every breath. In the face
of a ruthless and amoral ideology that lives only to conquer, plots to
undermine, enslave and destroy... any compromise with terrorism is a
surrender to it, and a way of enabling its final goals. Terrorism can
never be tolerated, appeased or surrendered to. Only pushed further and
further back at any cost. The Jihadist must understand that every one of
his actions will result in an unequal reaction by a factor of a
thousandfold. Against his attempt to transform himself into a monster into
a thing without conscience or morals, he should be prepared to be treated
as a thing, not as a person. And no weakness can be shown to it, nor can
it be negotiated with any more than one can sit down and talk with a rabid
dog. There is only one solution to a rabid dog problem. There is only one
solution to a terrorist problem. The difference between the two is that
the rabid dog cannot think, the terrorist can. And he waits for any sign
of weakness to tell him the best way to strike at you. To strike at
us.