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Rachel Neuwirth in ChronWatch satirizes the philosophy behind the Gaza withdrawal by applying the same notions to the United States:
This article is satirical and relates to the current expulsion of Israeli Jews from their homes by their own government. It is written in the manner of Jonathan Swift’s famous satire, A Modest Proposal.America could be facing a potential catastrophe from nuclear weapons that may have already been smuggled inside this country by al-Qaeda. Sleeper cells may already be positioned inside as many as twenty major cities.
The danger is real and awareness is increasing. World Net Daily (www.wnd.com) has reported on revelations contained in the upcoming book The al-Qaeda Connection: International Terrorism, Organized Crime and the Coming Apocalypse, by former FBI consultant Paul L. Williams. Edited excerpts from a World Net Daily report of July 18 follow:
Osama bin Laden is planning what he calls an "American Hiroshima," the ultimate terrorist attack on U.S. cities, using nuclear weapons already smuggled into the country across the Mexican border along with thousands of sleeper agents. The series of attacks is designed to kill 4 million, destroy the economy, and fundamentally alter the course of history.
Al-Qaeda's prime targets for launching nuclear terrorist attacks are the nine U.S. cities with the highest Jewish populations, according to captured leaders and documents.
The cities chosen as optimal targets are New York, Miami, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Boston, and Washington, D.C. New York and Washington top the preferred target list for al-Qaeda leadership.
Our own security officials have also told us repeatedly that it is not a matter of “if” but rather of “when” the next major attack will occur. An update on this threat was published by World Net Daily on 8/18/05.
Many American lives could be at stake here, and what is needed is bold thinking on how to avert such an attack, or to at least reduce its likelihood. In that spirit, this article presents “A Modest Proposal” which advocates a two-part response. Part I proposes to reduce the attractiveness of the potential targets. Part II proposes to make the targets additionally undesirable and to also reduce enemy hostility.
Part I. Nine large, American cities are prime targets because of their size, importance, and their concentrations of Jews. If the presence of Jews in these cities increases their appeal as targets then logically the absence of Jews would decrease that appeal by a comparable amount. The security of three hundred million Americans must not be kept at risk merely for the sake of not inconveniencing Jews who comprise barely two percent of our population. Because the potential danger is so immense and so imminent, the relocation of American Jews must be expedited.
Removal of Jews should not be too difficult. Jews want to be seen as loyal Americans. Most would cooperate, if reluctantly and emotionally, in their removal as their patriotic duty to increase the safety of their fellow Americans. Jews are accustomed to relocating and have done so repeatedly from biblical times. In recent times, nearly a million Jews were expelled from Arab countries and more than a million Jews have also left the former Soviet Union. Even inside America, Jews often move for purely personal reasons. Relocation is a familiar Jewish experience.
Then there is the question of propriety. Is it proper to compel Jews to relocate--especially after they have become so comfortable in this country? Fortunately this question has already been answered. For security reasons, and for the greater good, none other than Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is even now in the process of expelling eight thousand Jews from their homes in Gaza and is using the Israeli army and police to do it. And more than ten times that number of Jews are likely to face expulsion from the West Bank later on.
The number of Israeli Jews targeted for expulsion in both Gaza and the West Bank is proportionally equivalent to America relocating about five million American Jews. This forced relocation has been ruled to be a perfectly legal action taken by the Israeli government, and President Bush, who is considered to be a great friend of Israel, supports it.
Relocating American Jews will be far easier than expelling Jews in Israel. American Jews tend toward pacifism, are highly law-abiding and non-confrontational--except for the highly vocal Jewish leftists who, in this case, would likely support Jewish expulsion.
Furthermore, the American Jewish leadership has already endorsed the principle of forced expulsion of Jews in Israel as the legal right of that government to act in the interests of security and the greater good. Thus American Jews cannot now object to being subjected to the same requirements in the interest of U.S. national security.
Necessary expertise in Jewish relocation procedures can be borrowed from Israel. The Sharon government knows how to recruit, screen, and train thousands of men and women from the Jewish community to form police expulsion units and cope with the related logistics and media management. As in Israel, these expulsion police would be well paid, not be required to identify themselves to the expellees, and the courts will go easy on any charges of police brutality.
Any manifestation of Jewish protest will be quickly put down. Protesters, including teenagers, would be placed in administrative detention and held without charges for up to six months. Unlike in Israel, there are no Palestinian Arab equivalents in America to rain down rockets on the expulsion process and requiring army units to protect the evacuation. As in Israel, there will be at most peaceful, completely non-violent protests, perhaps combined with a little civil disobedience of the most harmless and easily suppressed kind. Since most American Jews will peacefully board the busses and trains carrying them to their new homes, whatever protests may occur will be conducted by evangelical Christians--the most law-abiding segment of the American population, who will easily be dissuaded from violence or seriously disruptive behavior by their ministers.
We cannot deny that 1.3 billion Muslims comprise a formidable world force that is in the ascendancy while Jews are a tiny minority that is in decline, especially in America. America has suffered politically from the general perception that the interests of Israel and Jews are favored over the interests of Muslims and Arabs. This is an opportunity for American policy to become more even-handed and to gain the respect of the Muslim world.
As in Israel, U.S. Jews who voluntary sign up early for expulsion will receive extra benefits while those who object or delay could face fines or even prison. The American Jewish leaders must demonstrate their national loyalty by signing up early and encouraging their followers to do likewise.
American Jews wield influence far exceeding their numbers which is viewed as a provocation to many in the Muslim world. The expulsion must include all Jews, including elected officials and those of influence....
The entire Muslim world would then have to reconsider its anti-American animosity. We will have demonstrated that we are reasonable and respectful toward our Muslim brothers and sisters. We will have shown our willingness to be even-handed in redressing the old imbalance where Jews, being but two percent of America, had wielded such disproportionate influence in the culture, in the business sector, and on its policies. Relocation of Jews would be a very small price to pay for the prospect of avoiding a devastating attack which would consume Jewish lives as well as those of other Americans. We could then open a new chapter in Muslim-American relations and together strive for a more peaceful and just world.
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Posted by Robert at August 28, 2005 7:01 AM
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Not impossible, I'm afraid. It's not like it never happened before.
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at August 28, 2005 8:56 AM
Not so loud. Why is this satire? This is a good strategic option for the Islamic jihadists. They may use the strategy now. Nuke or puke a city. Separate the Jews from Christians so the Jihadists can take each separately. Get them to turn on each other. Tell the Christians if they exile the Jews, there will be no further bombs or threats. The satire talks about relocating Jews and the good natured Americans will do it as the Israelis did to themselves. But what if Allah's faithful demand that the Jews be separated from the rest of the U.S. and thrown out? Can the Islamists get Americans to blame the Jews for all the American misfortune? Is this not what Sheehan, the leftists, the American nazis and her followers are doing, in criticizing the U.S. role in Iraq. Will it become fashionable just to blame the Jews. Will Americans forget that the World Trade Center was attacked twice before the U.S. went into Aghanistan or Iraq?
The demand of the terrorists after further attacks on the U.S. and Britain may be the expulsion of the Jews from the U.S.
Wake up and smell the zaatar. Some Arabic graffiti in Bethlehem ten years ago while it still was a majority Christian town read: "First the Saturday people, and then the Sunday people."
Posted by: David England at August 28, 2005 9:12 AM
think you have to look at the history of the Gaza settlements. Many were built to block an Egyptian advance in the event of a war. A strategy that was very successful in the War of Independence, where there were some Jews located before the War of Independence.
I think Sharon's policy towards the Palestinians in Gaza is as follows:
(1) We don't want anything to do with Palestinians!
(2) We don't want Gaza Arabs working in Israel as 9% of Gaza Arabs did! (At one time 33% of Gaza Arab workers worked in Israel) Let them find jobs somewhere else. You have to realize that there are probably more Arabs who are going to lose jobs in Israel as a result of this disengagement than Jews who are displaced.
(3) We will replace those green houses at Gush Katif with green houses in the Negev!
(4) We don't want to have to keep thousands of troops in Gaza to protect 8,000 Jews and create a massive amount of tension in Gaza.
Basically, Sharon's plan is that complete separation from the Gaza Arabs is best. Very little trade or workers coming in or out of Gaza adds to security.
Posted by: DavidE at August 28, 2005 9:18 AM
"Al-Qaeda would then have to think twice before attacking cities with significant Muslim populations and their newly acquired mosques."
That could only be satire given the reality in Iraq, Pakistan and the infighting between Hamas and Fatah in Gaza a month or so ago.
Posted by: Cynic at August 28, 2005 12:02 PM
"Al-Qaeda would then have to think twice before attacking cities with significant Muslim populations and their newly acquired mosques."
Not necessarily. Zarqawi has repeatedly argued that inflicting civilian casualties upon the Muslim populations in the course of jihad (emphasis added) is permissible, for nothing should stay in the way of jihad fee sabeel Allah.
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at August 28, 2005 1:35 PM
"Zarqawi has repeatedly argued that inflicting civilian casualties upon the Muslim populations in the course of jihad (emphasis added) is permissible"
Also, when ABC reporter John Miller interviewed bin Laden in 1998, he asked bin Laden about the fact that most of the casualties of the August 1997 suicide-bombing of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were (black African) Muslims. According to John Miller when he appeared on Ted Koppel's Nightline, bin Laden told John Miller that those Muslim deaths were permissible and something along the lines of "if they knew what they were dying for, they would have embraced their death".
at August 28, 2005 3:54 PM
A satire that exposes the deepest, most terrible fears of the Jewish people. I have seen that fear surface and then be quickly laughed off, pushed aside and dismissed, but the fact that a fear of this nature exists at all is a miserable shame.
I never thought I'd ever see anti-Semitism surface in my lifetime, but here it is again, coming in from the part of the world where it never went away. Anti-Semitism will never go away so long as Islam remains. It's just that simple.
We need a new word for the Muslim attitude toward Christians, because it is of the same nature. It is not anti-Christianity. It is anti Christian human being.
Posted by: Rebecca JW at August 28, 2005 4:36 PM
I never thought I'd ever see anti-Semitism surface in my lifetime, but here it is again, coming in from the part of the world where it never went away. Anti-Semitism will never go away so long as Islam remains. It's just that simple.
It's unlikely to go away, regardless of the fate of Islam. For centuries Islam was ahead of Christianity in its treatment of the Jews. I'm not for a minute excusing modern Islamic anti-Semitism or endorsing dhimmitude as acceptable in the 21st century. But Christian countries must not forget their own history. To many people this means the Holocaust, but that did not spring out of nowhere. Hitler proposed a "final solution" to a question that had occupied European minds for centuries.
Posted by: Viking5 at August 29, 2005 8:09 AM
Viking 5 - I disagree. Anti-Semitism is not a natural outgrowth of Christianity, and is, in fact, its antithesis. One cannot employ predjudice toward Jewish people without being disloyal to the Jewish Carpenter, His teachings and his human family, his people. Anti-Semitism is anti-Christian.
Posted by: Rebecca JW at August 29, 2005 9:26 AM
If there were to be such a catastrophe as an "American Hiroshima", Heaven forbid, forbid, forbid!, then I should hope that the US's retaliation would be extremely swift and very harsh!
Posted by: Mark
at August 29, 2005 9:36 AM
Viking 5 - I disagree. Anti-Semitism is not a natural outgrowth of Christianity, and is, in fact, its antithesis. One cannot employ predjudice toward Jewish people without being disloyal to the Jewish Carpenter, His teachings and his human family, his people. Anti-Semitism is anti-Christian.
I agree completely, but it took a very long time for the Christian churches and peoples to come to this realization. I probably should have said "Christendom" rather than Christianity.
In Prague, there is a statue of Christ on the cross with a golden Hebrew inscription from Isaiah, "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord". According to my guide, a Jew was forced to pay for that inscription after being convicted on trumped up charges of blasphemy. That statue wasn't the worst thing that Christians did to Jews, but using a crucifix to offend and humiliate Jews shows how closely related anti-Semitism and Christianity once were in people's minds.
Going further back, anti-Semitic violence was a large part of the Crusades. My schoolteachers neglected to tell me about this, just as they neglected to tell me about the Muslim invasions of Italy and Spain that preceded the Crusades. After the Crusades, Jews were blamed for the Black Death. I also never heard about that in school, hmm, seems there is a pattern here.
I'm not raising Christian anti-Semitism to let Islam off the hook in any way, indeed I think an understanding of it undermines the theory of Muslim victimhood that some folks try to pass off as the root cause of jihadist terrorism.
Posted by: Viking5 at August 29, 2005 1:10 PM
Viking 5 - you are engaging in the same kind of moral equivalency as Muslims do nonetheless.
Why?
There is no question that civilization has evolved morally through the gradual putting into practise of the actual teachings of Christ. The religion of Christianity is very a different matter - these teachings often center upon the person of Christ and his place in the "greater scheme" of things as a redeeming sacrifice. His teachings will stand throughout time - the man-made conjecture about Him will likely fall, in my judgment, because they are tied to an earlier time (the concept of assuaging the anger of God) in much the same way Islam is.
The teachings "of" Christ that have been preserved are different from the teachings "about" Christ which arose out of human soil, in my opinion.
Posted by: Rebecca JW at August 29, 2005 2:03 PM
Rebecca,
Your perspective on Christianity is quite interesting, but I don't understand what you mean by "moral equivalency". Could you explain what I equated incorrectly?
Posted by: Viking5 at August 29, 2005 2:57 PM
Viking 5 - you might be right. Anti-semitism in any form at any time is morally equivalent on its face.
Posted by: Rebecca JW at August 29, 2005 6:03 PM
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