Predictably, Land Day Protests Turn Violent
The ensuing calamity resulted in visibly frustrated Palestinian aggressors largely retreating from Israeli security forces. The protesters who remained after most of the crowd dispersed were unable to sustain any cohesive momentum to continue their violence. By nightfall, only infrequent reports of rock-throwing and verbal incitement were being reported on Israeli radio and television.
The underlying failure of the Palestinian cause has been and continues to be its inability to look inward and to contemplate the underlying reason of their discontent. The crowds, led by political demagogues, misdirected their anger at Israeli authorities in the wake of their own leadership’s failings and dabblings in folly-induced, faux-nationalist events.
Revolutions in other Arab nations have not acted as catalysts for popular protest or civil disobedience in the West Bank and Gaza against their respective ruling regimes. The political leadership of Hamas and Fatah allow their citizens to wallow in mediocrity. The respective leaders of both organizations jockey amongst themselves for power, further the status quo by refusing to negotiate with Israel, and manage to distract their people by allowing the Palestinian street to vent its steam when needed, usually at Israel’s expense. These displays almost categorically lead to injuries, and sometimes cost Palestinians their lives.
The Palestinian leadership devotes years to planning and hundreds of thousands of manpower hours to these displays of false national victimhood — protests that spiral into violence, incitement, terrorism, and other grand plans of subterfuge that always end in grandiose failure to obtain their number-one goal: a state of Palestine. Recognition and realization of a Palestinian state will only come when Palestinians recognize the source of their anguish does not come from Israel, but from within their own ranks.
Shortly after the PLO was formed in 1964, the black separatists, Marxists, and Islamists who wrested the Civil Rights movement away from Martin Luther King and retain control of the remnants of that movement to this day made common cause with the newly-invented “Palestinians.” Indeed, King spoke out against the antisemitism and anti-Zionism which he saw growing in the movement after this common cause was made. King, however, was unsuccessful in stopping this trend and, after his death, sympathy for the “Palestinians” continued to grow among the increasingly racist “leaders” of the movement as it morphed into a “human rights” movement based on “gimme” rather than the civil rights movement King had led.
It is important to remember this as we watch the “Palestinians” engage, yet again, in a riotous kabuki play of faux-nationalism—for we are seeing the same drama enacted now across our own nation, centered upon Sanford, Florida. The race-hustlers of the United States rely for their existence upon a dependent populace nourished on grievance; the same is true for the race-hustlers of Hamas and Fatah. It is no accident that there is such kinship between the bogus “liberation movement” of the invented “Palestinian people” and the “no justice/no peace” lynch mobs periodically ginned up by Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.
Complete agree Buzzsawmonkey, great observation.
This is excellent….
….”..It is no accident that there is such kinship between the bogus “liberation movement” of the invented “Palestinian people” and the “no justice/no peace” lynch mobs periodically ginned up by Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.”
And, so is this which was your preface….
….”It is important to remember *this* as we watch the….” [ fill in here the protest du jour] ……*this* being recent History itself; it’s essential that we somehow re-acquire our attention spans amidst our marketing-inspired Tweeting and Messaging and I-Padding and I-Tabletizing of this-and-that, and by “recent” I mean the History since the 1960′s which was the gestation or pre-natal period of the entitlement mentality that was instantly absorbed by those targets of the vote gathering efforts of the Liberals.
Why am I so adamant here?
Because I spent the 1960′s in East and South East Asia and when I came home in January of 1969, it was a culturally shocking re-entry. One has to experience this to appreciate what so many now dismiss with a shrug of the shoulders as “That’s the way it is…” in those prescient and submissive words of CBS’s Walter Cronkite.
We simply must rid ourselves of the likes of these faux Affirmatively Actioned Obama clones. Easier said than done, of course, but we can start on Election Day.
Technically, it turns out MLK never wrote the famous letter about how anti-zionism is antisemitism in the form it is usually written. However, it is certainly true that this was his view.
Yes, I have seen this vacuous thinking first hand in the ME. Whenever the topic of Israel, USA support, or religion in general came up, their eyes would almost glaze over and immediately blame “the Zionist Jews” for all worldly ills.
They refuse to believe that if left alone (no attacks, suicide bombers, etc…) Israel and its neighbors would enjoy peace. If Hamas, MB, et all had their way, there would be a blood bath against all persons non-Muslim, then they would turn the sword on those who aren’t “Muslim enough.”
I had a quaint conversation in the West Bank with a young (early 20′s) fellow. He was very nice, but kept insisting that Jews must leave Palestine, but he could not state where they could go, as he couldn’t figure out where any boundaries should be. The rationale that they must go is “if somebody broke into and stole your home, would you want peace?” However, he couldn’t state which of his family lost land, and WHY they lost it if they had it in the first place.
Centuries of tit-for-tat, revenge, and faux honor run deep in ME blood, which is why when we said “Peace to you, and may you find peace,” the lad had no answer, just a confused look on his face.
A few hours ago I watched an Iranian TV propaganda piece rallying the morons for the march to the border of Israel. The rhetoric in the propaganda was absolutely
hateful, totalitarian and violent (the U.N. is fine with it though)… not to mention downright scary. Nobody mentioned that this ‘march’ started right after a little incitement in the local mosques. By the way … where exactly is “palestine” and who exactly are the “palestinians”?? Iran is funding much of this moronic and demonic parade. Buzzsawmonkey is exactly right, but I would add that participation with evil is the main cause of strife.
“The political leadership of Hamas and Fatah allow their citizens to wallow in mediocrity. The respective leaders of both organizations jockey amongst themselves for power, further the status quo by refusing to negotiate with Israel, and manage to distract their people by allowing the Palestinian street to vent its steam when needed, usually at Israel’s expense.”
I’m just surprised that, after all these years, the arabs and the Palestinians are still falling for all of this. Do they always want to wallow in mediocrity, eeking out a living from handouts from other arab nations, like Saudi Arabia? When will they get tired of playing victims and actually decide to end this, realize that Israel isn’t going anywhere, and simply try to co-exist with Israel? The Palestinians that co-exist with Israel (mostly on the West Bank) are finding that their economy is better, their standard of living is better, and their future looks a lot better if they decide NOT to fight and work with Israel for a better future. But it’s the people in Hamas and Hezbollah that have made a living off of violence and murder. And as long as these killers are around, the same leaders who have as little respect for Israel as they do for their own people, the arab and Palestinian people will always be wallowing in mediocrity.
You know the story about the Frog and the Scorpion, don’t you?
Culture matters. And they have a primitive culture based on revenge and personal honor. Their first choice is always, kill the enemy. They always respect the most radical suggestions. Times haven’t changed for them since Nasser, or maybe even since big Mo. It’s the reason why Palestinian Peaceful Demonstration is an oxymoron.
Don’t forget the incredible amounts of cash and goodies they receive from their enablers in the UN, The EU and the States and most of the world… where would all those bureaucrats get a job these days? they have a system to prop up and they make good money… and perks … and conferences in New York, Dubai, Paris, Geneva, Durban… Brazil…
To be honest, I thought this was going to be a heckuva lot worse, and a heckuva lot bloodier.
I think after the Israels killed 15-25 people last year in June when they tried storming the border, the Islamofascists realized that the Israelis were dead serious. (Pun fully intended.)