A reader has
sent me an essay. It wonders what would happen if the Arab Cause succeeded—and
Israel was wiped off the map of the world.
Although the
essay was published originally on July 11, 2015 at Israel HaYom, my
reader found it on the aish. com website. I’ve rewritten parts and have
edited parts to fit my format:
By Mudar
Zahran: “Awaiting Israel's Demise”
-What would
happen if Israel were to disappear and be replaced by a Palestinian state-
Since 1948,
we Arabs have been taught that all we need to do is get rid of the Jewish
state, and everything else will go well after
that. Our dictators take advantage of this idea. For example, Iraqi President
Saddam Hussein adopted the Palestinian flag and had it printed,
distributed and flown alongside his own flag. He’s even said, "Palestine
and Iraq share the same identical cause." Our dictator
leaders keep telling us that we await that "glorious
day" when we defeat Israel and "feed the Jews to the fish."
That day hasn’t
come, nor does it seem to be coming. As Jordanian
opposition figure Emad Tarifi once told me: "It seems the fish in the sea are
not betting on us feeding them Jews."
In addition,
we Arabs have given our dictators carte blanche to impoverish, terrorize, oppress
and destroy us all in the name of
"the great Arab struggle to end the Zionist entity." The outcome of
this has been clear: While Israel made 10 new
breakthroughs in cancer and cardiac treatments in the last two years alone, we
Arabs developed new execution methods. The latest is death by drowning in a
cage, as shown in an Islamic State video two
weeks ago.
We Arabs
have wasted seven decades of our existence awaiting Israel's demise. It’s time
to think of the future. It’s time to ask if Israel's "disappearance"
should be our ultimate wish.
Being the
son of two Palestinian-Jordanian refugees, I find myself inclined to fear for
the future. Regardless of my stance toward Israel, I have to think: What would
happen if, one day, Israel were to disappear? While it does not seem feasible,
it’s the day around which entire Arab political, social and economic systems
revolve.
It’s not
only Arabs who want Israel gone. There are others who seek the same. For example,
anti-Semites in the West want Israel gone. Just last week, neo-Nazis marched in
London with swastikas and the Palestinian flag. The organizer of the march
claimed it was a protest "by all of those who have
suffered because of Israel." There are groups calling for a boycott of
Israel "for the sake of the Palestinian
people." There are countries whose entire foreign policy seems to revolve
around opposition to Israel. We Palestinians might have believed that
these groups and countries actually care about us, but they take no interest in
the fate of the 150,000 Palestinians being starved to
death in Syria's Yarmouk refugee camp, nor in an estimated 5.8
million [I think this is a grossly inflated number] Palestinians in Jordan who
live as second-class citizens and are banned from
government jobs and any form of state benefits while paying full taxes.
If these
Israel-haters got their wish to see Israel disappear, what would happen?
First,
Israel is the only reason Iran does not yet have nuclear weapons. Iran could buy
the technology to produce them, or could
learn it quickly the way Pakistan did. Why has Iran been slow in doing so?
Because it learned a lesson from the experience of Saddam's Osirak reactor,
which Israeli jets reduced to rubble in 1981.
Then, almost
everyone, including George Bush (the first) who was vice president of the
United States at that time, was furious with
Israel's move. But 10 years later, when the U.S. fought to liberate Kuwait, the
situation would have been totally different if Saddam had kept his nuclear
program – and the only reason he did not was Israel.
Further,
Iran already controls at least a third of Iraq and its resources through a
pro-Iranian regime. If Israel were to disappear,
Iran would extend its influence into Jordan, Kuwait and Bahrain the next
day, as it would not have to fear an Israeli reaction. Iran could then bring
the world to its knees by reducing oil production.
Iran is not
the only evil power in the Middle East: we also have Islamic State, which has
now spread across Iraq, Syria, Sinai and Libya, with
clear ambitions to enter Jordan. Islamic State has not entered Jordan yet, and
this is not because of any fear of the Jordanian
army. After all, the Global Firepower website ranks Jordan's army at the same
level as the Iraqi army, which Islamic State has defeated many times. Islamic
State does not dare enter Jordan for one reason only – its fear that Israeli
jets would catch up with it 15 minutes later.
If Israel
were to disappear and be replaced by a Palestinian state, the Palestinians
would most likely end up with another Arab dictatorship that
oppresses them and reduces them to poverty. We have partially seen that
with the Palestinian Authority and the "liberated" areas it rules. I
regularly visit the West Bank and have interviewed scores of
Palestinians there. I can confirm that, as much as they hate Israel,
they still openly yearn for the days when it administered the West Bank. As one
Palestinian told me, "We prayed to God to give us
mercy and rid us of Israel; later, we found out that God had given us
mercy when Israel was here."
To those
Arabs, Muslims, Westerners and others insisting that Israel must be erased from
face of the planet, I say: Don't bet on it, as
Israel is becoming stronger every day through its democracy and innovation,
while Arab countries are getting weaker through dictatorship and chaos. And be
careful what you wish for, because if you
were to get it, you too would most likely disappear, unless you yearn to be
ruled by Iran or Islamic State.
In short, if
the day were to come when Israel falls, Jordan, Egypt and many others would
fall, too, and Westerners would be begging Iran for
oil.
We can hate
Israel as much as we like. But we must realize that without it, we too would be
gone.
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My Comment:
like the essay I posted yesterday, this one tells a story very different from
what you see from the hate-Israel industry. That industry is robust. It works
hard to make sure anti-Israel articles are in your face every week, if not
every day. This article above is part of the antidote to that industry.
Israel is
not the new Nazi. Arab dictators are.
Israel is
not Apartheid. Dictator-led Arab countries are.
Israel is
not brutal to ‘Palestinians’. Arab dictators are.
Israel
doesn’t kill Arabs ‘with complete disregard for human life’. Arab dictators and
jihadists do that.
Israel
doesn’t go to war with a policy to kill civilians. ISIS and Arab dictators do
that.
Israel is
not evil. Arab dictators, ISIS and anti-Israel Jihadists are.
Read the
original article. It’s on aish. com. It appeared there July 13, 2015.
May this
article be the beginning of your journey to the truth about Jewish Israel.
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