Israel vs Arabs

We need to remember the statement of Golda Meir: “If Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be peace. If Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no Israel.”

Rabbi Michael Barclay, The War of Good vs. Evil Starts in Israel.

Where a Loss of Moral Compass Started

The loss of a moral compass that distinguished good from evil started with a hatred towards Israel that became accepted and then encouraged in society.  Equating the heinous acts of Hamas terrorists, who deliberately hide behind innocent children, with the actions of IDF soldiers, who defend all civilians—especially children—has led to a loss of the ability to distinguish between good and evil. 

There are only 15 million Jews worldwide, comprising less than 0.2% of the world's population, but condoning anti-Semitism—even or especially when couched as anti-Zionism—opens the door to a world without boundaries or ethics. When we turn the world upside down and pretend that Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas are "good" and Israel is an "evil colonizer" (an especially ridiculous claim, given that Jews have lived in Israel continuously for over 3,000 years and are the indigenous people of that land); when we deny the Holocaust; or when we blame the death of Kennedy or the pedophilia of Jeffrey Epstein on Israel, we are leading ourselves down a pathway that will accept any form of evil and then pretend that it is righteousness.

Rabbi Michael Barclay, The War of Good vs. Evil Starts in Israel.

Israel is the Front Line of Defense

Most educated people recognize that Israel is the front line of defense in a war against the West. The enemies of Israel would attack the United States just as vehemently as they attack Israel if they could. They call Israel the “Little Satan” with America being the “Great Satan.” Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East. It is the only place in the region where people can observe any religion they choose, be it Muslim, Christian, Jew, Druze, or atheist, and live by any personal sexual standard they embrace, whether straight, gay, or even transgender/gender fluid.

Rabbi Michael Barclay, The War of Good vs. Evil Starts in Israel.

Jews Are the “Coal Mine”

This is not about anti-Semitism, even though there is truth to the old statement that “Jews are the canary in the coal mine.” Historically we can see that if a culture accepts anti-Semitism, it soon accepts all forms of hate. And this is what we are now finding in Western culture, as evidenced by the AP article, which portrays Hezbollah as innocent victims, denying the many thousands of attacks that they have launched at Israel and their repeated commitment to destroying that nation.

Rabbi Michael Barclay, The War of Good vs. Evil Starts in Israel.

Hamas Are Proud of Their War Crimes

On October 7, 2023, Hamas attacked Israel in ways more brutal and evil than anything seen since the Middle Ages: murder, rape, torture, and the kidnapping of over 1,200 civilians. It was even worse than the Nazi regime, which tried to conceal its atrocities in concentration camps, because these Hamas perpetrators proudly recorded and shared their acts as if they were admirable. The entire world was shocked, condemning them as the ultimate manifestation of evil in human form for the heinous crimes they committed.

Rabbi Michael Barclay, The War of Good vs. Evil Starts in Israel.

Western Civilization Values Found in the Bible

Western civilization is not based on industrialization. Rather, it is founded on accepting and integrating the values found in the Bible—both the Hebrew and Christian scriptures. At the most basic level, this includes the Ten Commandments, the Torah, and the many teachings of Jesus: the rejection of enslaving other human beings; acting rightly and righteously; and, most clearly, recognizing the difference between good and evil and fighting evil whenever it raises its ugly head.

Rabbi Michael Barclay, The War of Good vs. Evil Starts in Israel.

United Nations vs Israel

The United Nations, an institute built on ideals of fairness and equality, has become a breeding ground for relentless, one-sided attacks on Israel—a democratic state in the Middle East. Let’s call it what it is: institutionalized antisemitism. While Israel is held to impossible standards and vilified in hundreds of resolutions, some of the world’s most oppressive regimes walk away unscathed.

O. Isaac, The Palestinian Lie: Shattering the Myths, pg.75

Palestinian Identity?

The so-called “Palestinian national identity” is a modern construct, engineered for political exploitation and weaponized as a strategic tool against Israel. Unlike most nations that emerge from shared history, culture, or language, the Palestinian identity was cobbled together in the mid-20th century, not out of genuine heritage but as a calculated move by Arab powers to foster opposition to the Jewish State. It was an artificial project, devoid of organic roots, and aimed squarely at delegitimizing Israel’s existence.

O. Isaac, The Palestinian Lie: Shattering the Myths, pg.59

The Value of Jews/Israel to the Western World

You don’t have to like Jews individually or as a group. But if you are an honest and moral person, you will concede that Jews and the Nation of Israel are inextricably intertwined with the Old Testament (the Torah). That book introduced the world to God and laid out God’s commandments (both Noahide and the Ten Commandments), defining people’s moral obligations to God, to each other, to themselves, and to the natural world around them.

When evil people deviate from those core moral values, the first group they attack is the Jews because the Jews remind them of their moral failures. And after the Jews—always—the evil doers go after everyone else. (As the saying goes, first they come for the Saturday people and then for the Sunday people.)

Because Jews are the canaries in the coalmine whenever tyranny becomes ascendant, everyone, Jewish or not, should worry about the venomous blood libel that alleges that Charlie Kirk, rather than being killed by a trans-loving leftist, was a victim of shadowy Jewish terrorism.

By Andrea Widburg, Antisemites are going to town with Charlie Kirk’s death.

The United Nations Hate Israel

The United Nations, an institute built on ideals of fairness and equality, has become a breeding ground for relentless, one-sided attacks on Israel—a democratic state in the Middle East. Let’s call it what it is: institutionalized antisemitism. While Israel is held to impossible standards and vilified in hundreds of resolutions, some of the world’s most oppressive regimes walk away unscathed.

O. Isaac, The Palestinian Lie: Shattering the Myths, pg.75

"Palestinian" is a Modern Construct

The so-called “Palestinian national identity” is a modern construct, engineered for political exploitation and weaponized as a strategic tool against Israel. Unlike most nations that emerge from shared history, culture, or language, the Palestinian identity was cobbled together in the mid-20th century, not out of genuine heritage but as a calculated move by Arab powers to foster opposition to the Jewish State. It was an artificial project, devoid of organic roots, and aimed squarely at delegitimizing Israel’s existence.

O. Isaac, "The Palestinian Lie: Shattering the Myths," pg.59

Palestinian Arab Aggression Long Before 1948

It’s also important to highlight that Palestinian Arabs weren’t passive bystanders in 1948. They actively fought against Palestinian Jews, both before and during the war. The Arab Liberation Army and local militias coordinated attacks on Jewish towns and settlements. Even before the war officially began, there was a civil conflict starting in November 1947. Palestinian Arab fighters imposed brutal sieges on Jewish cities, such as Jerusalem, cutting off food and supplies. Groups like the “Army of the Holy War” led heavy assaults and controlled critical routes, including the main road between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.

But Arab hostility didn’t start 1947. Violence against Jews in Palestine has a long and bloody history. The infamous chant “Itbah Al Yahoo” (“Slaughter the Jews”) predates the establishment of Israel by centuries. Let’s not forget the 1517 massacres by the Ottoman Empire or the 1834 Safed pogrom, where hundreds of Jews were raped and murdered. The 20th century saw a string of atrocities, from the 1920 Nebi Musa riots to the 1929 Hebron massacre and the anti-Jewish violence of the 1936-1939 Arab Revolt.

O. Isaac, The Palestinian Lie: Shattering the Myths, pg.56

Double Standards in Sympathy

Here’s the hard truth: The world has largely ignored the Jewish refugees because their story doesn’t fit the convenient narrative of Israel as the villain. This is especially glaring in the global context of World War II, when 30-40 million people were displaced or expelled across Europe and Asia. While the international community worked to resettle these refugees, it became obsessed with the Palestinian refugee issue.

Palestinian refugees were place in camps in Jordan Lebanon, and Syria and denied citizenship by Arab countries—a policy designed to keep the conflict alive. Meanwhile, Jewish refugees were welcomed and absorbed by Israel, where they rebuilt their lives and contributed to the nation’s success.

O. Isaac, The Palestinian Lie: Shattering the Myths, pg.56

Israel's Detractors

There is something grotesque about people living thousands of miles away, in safety and comfort, loftily second-guessing and trying to micro-manage what the Israelis are doing in a matter of life and death.

Thomas Sowell

About Israel

Since everybody seems to be criticizing Israel for its military response to the rockets being fired  into their country from the Gaza Strip, let me add my criticisms as well. The Israelis traded land for peace, but they have never gotten peace, so they should take back the land.

Thomas Sowell, Dismantling America, pg.14

The Immortal Jew

The Egyptian, the Babylonian, and the Persian rose, filled the planet with sound and splendour, then faded to dream-stuff and passed away; the Greek and Roman followed; and made a vast noise, and they are gone; other people have sprung up and held their torch high for a time, but it burned out, and they sit in the twilight now, or have vanished. The Jew saw them all, beat them all, and is now what he always was, exhibiting no decadence, no infirmities of age, no weakening of his parts, no slowing of his energies, no dulling of his alert and aggressive mind. All things are mortal but the Jew; all other forces pass, but he remains. What is the secret of his immortality?

Mark Twain, Concerning the Jews, Harper’s Magazine, 1899

What is the Jew?

The Jew is the symbol of eternity. … He is the one who for so long had guarded the prophetic message and transmitted it to all mankind. A people such as this can never disappear. The Jew is eternal. He is the embodiment of eternity.

lLeo Tolstoy, What is the Jew? printed in Jewish World periodical 1908

The Importance of Jews in World History.

I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I  were an Atheist, and believed in blind eternal Fate, I should Still believe that Fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential Instrument for civilizing the Nations.

John Adams, second U.S. President, in 1809 letter. Cited by Dennis Prager,The Rational Bible, Deuteronomy: God, Blessings, and Curses,  pg.428.

Israel and the United Nations

Israel is one of 193 members of the United Nations. As such, Israel is at a significant disadvantage. There is only one Jewish state in the U.N. as opposed to 56 Muslim states, virtually all of which take positions aimed at isolating, demonizing, and delegitimizing Israel whenever possible. The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is the largest single block of U.N. members, and its positions on issues vis-a-vis Israel are almost uniformly hostile.

American Center for Law & Justice, Israel’s Fate, Our Fight, pg.33-34.

No Such People as “Palestinians”

In order to destroy the impression of the tiny Jewish state’s facing enormous Muslim Arab foes and prevailing, the Soviet KGB (the Soviet Committee for State Security) developed the fiction of an even smaller people, the “Palestinians,” menaced by a well-oiled and ruthless Israeli war machine. In A.D. 134, the Romans had expelled the Jews from Judea after the Bar Kokhba revolt and renamed the region Palestine, a name they plucked from the Bible, the name of the Israelites ancient enemies, the Philistines. But never had the name Palestinian referred to anything but a region, not to a people or an ethnicity. In the 1960s, however, the KGB and … Yasir Arafat created both these allegedly oppressed people and the instrument of their freedom, the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO).

Robert Spencer, The History of Jihad from Muhammad to ISIS, pg. 309