I wanted to clarify some realities in today's world. Anti-Semitism in the Middle East has reached proportions far greater than what was happening in Europe in the 1930's. The school textbooks, television programs, the news, the newspapers, and university lectures, not to mention the teachings in mosques, are full of the lowest, most vile, most explicit forms of Anti-Semitism. Jews are descriped as descendants of monkeys and pigs who drink gentile blood and eat Arab babies. We are presented as conspirators to every bloody conflict on Earth, in control of the military-industrial complex and world banking, which we use to enrich ourselves and to impoverish the rest of humanity. Cartoons, both in newspapers and on TV, continually portray Jews with blood-dripping fangs and claws, committing dispicable acts towards the innocent.

In western nations, Islamo-fascists have found common cause with leftists, anti-globalists, Neo-Nazis, liberal intellectuals and groups supposedly concerned with human rights. Together, these disparate groups agree on one agenda - that Israel is an evil and immoral occupier of Palestine, commiting genocide on a regular basis. They completely ignore the fact that the Arabs in Palestiane lived as a minority under Turkish rule for over 500 years, were content to be a province, and never fought for independence. They didn't have any "nationalist feeling" until 1967, even though they fought the Jews from the 1920's until 1967. The "Palestinian national narrative" is a recent invention, much like the concept of "Syrian" or "Jordanian" or "Egyptian" Arabs. These were all created by Western powers and are not separate nationalities. The Arabs are one large nationality of 300 million stretching from Iraq to Morocco. Up until the 7th century, the Arabs only existed in the Saudi Arabian peninsula, from where they conquered the Middle East. The word "Palestinians" under the British Mandate actually referred to Jews in the region, lending even less credibility to the term.

Meanwhile, the world ignores Jewish national claims in a land that hasn't had any political claims since the Crusaders laid a religious claim between the 11th and 13th centuries. Instead, Israel, whose religion and culture are organic to the land in question, is viewed as a foreign implant, compared to Hitler's Germany, and its destruction urged from every quarter. Iran holds massive Holocaust denial conferences, and the 70-odd Islamic nations continually agree on their mutual hate of the Jews and their State. Iran's continual statements that the intended goal of the regime is to destroy the Jewish state through whatever means possible is not criticized in the UN or by the EU. The general view in most of the West is that Israel is a bother, an annoyance that prevents a "reconciliation" between the West and Islam. Meanwhie, the hate spewed by all media, publishing and educational outlets in the Moslem world is mind-boggling. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a hoax proved to have been composed by the Russian tsarist secret police the early 1900's, has been translated and is a best seller throughout the Middle East. As an example, Saudi Arabian schoolbooks contain explicit summaries of the Protocols as factual:

"The Protocols of the Elders of Zion: These are secret resolutions, most
probably of the aforementioned Basel congress. They were discovered in the
nineteenth century. The Jews tried to deny them, but there was ample evidence
proving their authenticity and that they were issued by the elders of Zion. The
Protocols can be summarized in the following points:

• Upsetting the foundations of the world's present society and its systems, in
  order to enable Zionism to have a monopoly of world government.
• Eliminating nationalities and religions, especially the Christian
  nations.
• Striving to increase corruption among the present regimes in Europe, as
  Zionism believes in their corruption and [eventual] collapse.
• Controlling the media of publication, propaganda and the press, using gold for stirring up disturbances, seducing people by means of lust and spreading wantonness.

The cogent proof of the authenticity of these resolutions, as
well as of the hellish Jewish schemes included therein, is the [actual] carrying
out of many of those schemes, intrigues and conspiracies that are found in them.
Anyone who reads them — and they were published in the nineteenth century —
grasps today to what extent much of what is found there has been realized. (^ CMIP report: The Jews in World History according to the Saudi textbooks. The Danger of World Jewry, by Abdullah al-Tall, pp. 140–141 (Arabic). Hadith and Islamic Culture, Grade 10, (2001) pp. 103–104.)"

According to Freedom House 2006 report, Saudi "textbook for boys for Tenth Grade on Hadith and Islamic Culture contains a lesson on the "Zionist Movement." It is a curious blend of wild conspiracy theories about Masonic Lodges, Rotary Clubs, and Lions Clubs with anti-Semitic invective. It asserts that the Protocols of the Elders of Zion is an authentic document and teaches students that it reveals what Jews really believe. It blames many of the world’s wars and discord on the Jews." (^ 2006 Saudi Arabia's Curriculum of Intolerance Report by Center for Religious Freedom of Freedom House. 2006 PDF)

This is just the beginning, but I don't want to beat the proverbial dead horse and tire my readers. What is more shocking than what is being systematically implanted in the minds of Muslims and Iran's explicit threat of "wiping Israel off the map," is the fact that these nations and their leaders, are welcomed members in most international organizations, especially the UN. The UN fawns over their Moslem members, and, in order to appease them, spends more time passing anti-Israel resolutions than doing any other single item of business. The media, universities, intellectuals, journalists, politicians and opinion-makers in the West either support this demonization of Israel or are silent about it. This is no different than the events leading up to World War II. Just as the world then did nothing, so it will again sit back. Israel is in no one's particular strategic or economic interest to defend. There are over 6 billion people in the world, a tiny spec of a country with 5.4 million Jews is utterly meaningless. The world has never stepped in to save us, nor should they be expected to. It's up to one but us.

I know most liberals would scoff at such assessments. Especially Jewish ones. But they are going to get killed just like the rest of us if we don't look reality in the face and confront it with determined force. There is a time to bend over backwards for peace, and there is a time to realize that the enemy is absolutely not interested in peace, but rather in a phased destruction of our country. The utopian models built by liberal globalist thinkers in the 1990's included the gradual erasing of borders, the dissolving of national groups, the creation of continent-sized economic blocs and a single, powerful world government that would ensure safety and a good business climate. While this may appeal to some on an intellectual level, it is clearly a universalist theme with a strong foundation in the internationalism preached by the communist movements of the 20th century. Childish dreams of the enamored idealist few are quickly brought under the control of the violent, the brutal and the power-hungry.

But then again, humanity loves to repeat its mistakes, and no one should be surprised. In our little corner of the Middle East, the current drama is playing out, a rehearsal for the bigger show yet to come. Maybe, if we can stop the enemy here and now, the threat will recede and we can prepare for a tomorrow. If not, at least we can fight hard enough, for long enough, until the moment comes for a greater scale conflict. The battle, in very real terms, is being fought here by the Israel Defense Forces. The following are online videos of Jewish soldiers who have to risk their lives to ensure that this little State of ours keeps growing strong, despite all odds.

1) This is video is a tribute to the sacrifices made this summer in Lebanon.
http://israelrules.blogspot.com/2006/10/soldiers-part-four.html

2) This is a video of battalion 97, Kfir brigade, in training. This is the only all-religious battalion in the IDF.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fh2vS2g7tM

3) This is a video of battalion 931 of the Nahal brigade on a mission in Lebanon. This is intense and 25 minutes long. You can't click on the link, you have to copy and paste it into the address part of your browser. Then, your video player will pop up and play it. It should play in a large screen version. Again, this is very real, shot by a reporter embedded with the battalion command team.
http://switch248-01.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?ClipMediaID=209947&ak=63628786

Those of us who are true Jews must pray to G-d that the IDF, and the society from which it draws its men, its moral support and its motivation, will weather the many storms to come.