יום שישי, 18 בנובמבר 2016

Imagination and Reality

Imagination and Reality

It was The French writer Jules Veren who described in 1873, in his book, De La Terre De La Lune an imaginary story of a journey from earth to space. Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, flying the Apolo 11 to the moon in July of 1969 converted the famous French writer’s dream to reality.

Over 30 years ago the two Historians, The American Larry Collins and the French Dominique La Pierre [O Calcutta; Jerusalem, Jerusalem; Is Paris Burning] wrote their only “fiction”. The Fifth Horseman. The book introduces a startling story about a terrorist group representing the interests of Libya. The group succeeded in smuggling to Manhattan a rediooactive bomb. Muamar Kaddafi then sent an ultimatum to the Administration in DC. Either Israel vacate the West Bank or New York is going to vanish. The book describes the decision making process in a number of capitals. It was three years ago when fiction almost became a prophesy when a dirty bomb was found in Washington.

Unfortunately, many assume that the Arab Israeli conflict is the source of all danger and the root of all terror we witness. Indeed, this is a very “comfortable” assumption but will lead nobody anywhere.    The Russian Czars used to accuse the Jews of all the ills of the economy. The Flourishing Antisemitism did not save Russia’s economy. Modern times “did not change “the music. When lights in Damascus went off four hours daily, when every Syrian student who studied abroad had a budget of 25 Dollars a month, the Syrian economy was at the edge of total collapse, the Late President Hafez el Assad managed to keep his “reputation” by directing the attention of the Syrian citizenry from internal difficulties, to The Jews in the West. The Palestinians live in most degrading and humiliating conditions, while their “leaders” celebrate by purchasing apartments in the most luxurious places in the West, flying first class and never sending their children as Shahids [or to schools in Palestine, for that matter]. Suha Araft’s [Yassir’s wife] financial arrangement [offering her millions of Dollars] did not reach the attention of the refugees as their attention was directed against the Zionists.

Alas, Al Qaida, Hezbollah, The Muslim Brotherhoods, the extreme Shiites in the south of Iraq, The Wahabbis in Saudi Arabia or The Taliban, now reawakening in Afghanistan and the President of Iran, consider “ Western civilization ”[not just Israel] a dangerous enemy. Indeed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran believes in the return of  the Twelfth Imam, Muhammad al-Mahdi  [the lost Imam].  Following his return, the world will succumb to Islam. To enhance the Yaum al-Qiyamah (literally "Day of the Resurrection"] or the  return The Mahadi, all means are permitted. And if Muslims have to die [Jews and Christians are not even an issue] in order to achieve this goal, so be it. 
This is so as Western civilization cannot survive together with Shiite Islam. Shiite thinking seek the control of the world by any means. So does the al Qaida [although rooted in Sunni Islam] Thus  confirmed Mohammed Machine to professor Amal Sa’ad Gurhayerin from The American University in Beirut to his book Hezbollah, Politics and Religion.

If the West fails to understand the real problem,  if the Sunnis [outside the Wahabbi thinking] fail to understand where the real threat comes from, they will both fail. The West  might  fail because France supported Iraq’s Tamuz  project, The West might fail because it allowed Pakistan to become a non conventional power, and its political stability is shaking, thus its nuclear power might fall to extreme Islamic groups]  the West might fail as Larry Collins and Dominique La Pierre could become prophets. The West might fail as many West European leaders assume they can buy security by offering political support, offering financial and military help to leaders who consider the countries they rule as a private domain [Saudi Arabia, Syria,], and the West might fail as it fails to understand that Israel is the only country that actually fights terror. Thomas Friedman was right when he wrote in The  New York Times that if they do not let Israel win against terror, a new version of terror will arrive in London, in Paris, Berlin and Brussels.

Larry Collins
The West has to decide if it wants to be Chamberlain or Churchill. Czechoslovakia or England. It depends on one element. Determination.   

Zalli Jaffe

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