The Other Side of Canada

In connection with the husband's previous article on Canada's rediculously absurd petition against people moving to "settlements" in East Jerusalem, I wanted to present that there was another side to America's drunken uncle to the North. Canadian Jews have to suffer with an incredible left wing liberal epidemic that is plaguing the territories. I blame this partially on the incredibly stupid open immigration policy that they have. I also think that they're just so starving for anybody to move there that they're trying to adapt every loony political opinion that exists, e.g. legalizing homosexual marriage. The Jews up there have to suffer with a population that protests the occupation of "Palestine"! The Israel Action Committe in Canada was designed to counteract these devastating opinions. I have been on other blogs sharing the facts with naive people who think they know the know about Israel; not knowing that all they know is what their media throws at them. One of the facts that have gotten the biggest resentment and outcry is when I say that there is no such thing as a "Palestinian" and that there has never been an independently sovereign governed state of Palestine that has been controlled by the Palestinian people. That is why being Palestinian is only defined as your state of mind. If you feel and have a nationalistic mental and emotional connection to the "Palestinian" culture, then you're Palestinian. There is no real legal status for it. There are hundreds of thousands of Jews and Christians that can also be classified as Palestinians because they lived in Israel before it was Israel. But, enough of the history lesson. I was scouring the internet aimlessly one day, and I found a very humorous commentary on The Israel Action Committee's website, in response to an article written by Elliot Choddof, called "Rantisi Gets His Wish". Elliot's website, Mid-East On Target, can be found to the right under the links. It describes what I've been trying to say in what that I could not. Enjoy:

A brief overview of the situation is always valuable, so as a service to all Americans who still don't get it, I now offer you the story of the Middle East in just a few paragraphs, which is all you really need.
Here we go:
The Palestinians want their own country. There's just one thing about that: There are no Palestinians. It's a made up word. Israel was called Palestine for two thousand years. Like "Wiccan," "Palestinian" sounds ancient but is really a modern invention. Before the Israelis won the land in the 1967 war, Gaza was owned by Egypt, the West Bank was owned by Jordan, and there were no "Palestinians". As soon as the Jews took over and started growing oranges as big as basketballs, what do you know, say hello to the Palestinians," weeping for their deep bond with their lost "land" and "nation.".
So for the sake of honesty, let's not use the word "Palestinian" any more to describe these delightful folks, who dance for joy at our deaths until someone points out they're being taped. Instead, let's call them what they are: "Other Arabs Who Can't Accomplish Anything In Life And Would Rather Wrap Themselves In The Seductive Melodrama Of Eternal Struggle And Death." I know that's a bit unwieldy to expect to see on CNN. How about this, then: "Adjacent Jew-Haters." Okay, so the Adjacent Jew-Haters want their own country. Oops, just one more thing. No, they don't. They could've had their own country any time in the last thirty years, especially two years ago at Camp David. But if you have your own country, you have to have traffic lights and garbage trucks and Chambers of Commerce, and, worse, you actually have to figure out some way to make a living. That's no fun. No, they want what all the other Jew-Haters in the region want: Israe l. They also want a big pile of dead Jews, of course --that's where the real fun is -- but mostly they want Israel. Why? For one thing, trying to destroy Israel - or "The Zionist Entity" as their textbooks call it -- for the last fifty years has allowed the rulers of Arab countries to divert the attention of their own people away from the fact that they're the blue-ribbon most illiterate, poorest, and tribally backward on God's Earth, and if you've ever been around God's Earth, you know that's really saying something.
It makes me roll my eyes every time one of our pundits waxes poetic about the great history and culture of the Muslim Mideast. Unless I'm missing something, the Arabs haven't given anything to the world since Algebra, and, by the way, thanks a hell of a lot for that one. Chew this around and spit it out: Five hundred million Arabs; five Million Jews. Think of all the Arab countries as a football field, and Israel as a pack of matches sitting in the middle of it. And now these same folks swear that if Israel gives them half of that pack of matches, everyone will be pals. Really? Wow, what neat news. Hey, but what about the string of wars to obliterate the tiny country and the constant din of rabid blood oaths to drive every Jew into the sea? Oh, that? We were just kidding.
My friend Kevin Rooney made a gorgeous point the other day: Just reverse the Numbers. Imagine five hundred million Jews and five million Arabs. I was stunned at the simple brilliance of it. Can anyone picture the Jews strapping belts of razor blades and dy namite to themselves? Of course not. Or marshaling every fiber and force at their disposal for generations to drive a tiny Arab State into the sea? Nonsense. Or dancing for joy at the murder of innocents? Impossible. Or spreading and believing horrible lies about the Arabs baking their bread with the blood of children? Disgusting. No, as you know, left to themselves in a world of peace, the worst Jews would ever do to people is debate them to death.
Mr. Bush, God bless him, is walking a tightrope. I understand that with vital operations in Iraq and others, it's in our interest, as Americans, to try to stabilize our Arab allies as much as possible, and, after all, at can't be much harder than stabilizing a roomful of supermodels who've just had their drugs taken away. However, in any big-picture strategy, there's always a danger of losing moral weight. We've already lost some. After September 11 our president told the world and us he was going to root out all terrorists and the countries that supported them. Beautiful. Then the Israelis, after months and months of having the equivalent of an Oklahoma City every week (and then every day) start to do the same thing we did, and we tell them to show restraint. If America were being attacked with an Oklahoma City every day, we would all very shortly be screaming for the administration to just be done with it and kill everything south of the Mediterranean and east of the Jordan. (To our knowledge, Mr. Miller is not Jewish. He is more supportive of Israel than some of our fellow Jews.)
-OC