The major difference between the chaos of the Palestinians and order of the American 13 colonies is Islam versus Christianity. While the modern Atheist movement would strongly contest Christianity’s positive role in America’s development, but for almost 200 years this view was commonly understood by Americans and uncontested. America was successful because Americans held a common Judea-Christian world view. The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and English Common law were all Christian-influenced constructs. They formed the foundation for success, common justice, and the development of wealth.
I have been skeptical from the beginning that a Iraqi Democracy could succeed absent Christianity. The closer that Iraq (or in this case, the Palestinians) draws towards Islam and Sharia law, the more murder, disorder, tyranny, and disorder will be realized. Democracy cannot evolve from an Islamic world view. This observation is as much based on history as personal conviction.
Offtopic: It’s one reason Christian conservatives are embroiled in America’s “culture war”. While we really don’t care how liberal humanists live their lives individually, unfortunately, they seem to need the validation of law to assuage their personal guilt. In other words, unless all American’s endorse humanist principles and repudiate the “superstitions” such as Christianity, the liberal humanists will not be content. From the Christian-conservative viewpoint, such anti-Christian world destroy America and everything that made American free, rich, and a successful nation.
Israel’s only option is to remove both Hamas and the Palestinians from Gaza and North Lebanon, and push it’s borders out to where Israel’s borders meets those of responsible Nation-states. Those are the only “defensible” borders possible for Israel. Israel cannot tolerate attacks by land based entities which are not accountable nation-states. Future conflicts would then become conventional. Israel would hold Egypt, Jordan, and Syria accountable for it’s actions henceforth. Second, Israel declares that if it is attacked, it will never relinquish territory gained via Israeli blood while responding to an attack. Hang out the fig leaf backed by the sword, and declare to her neighbors that they can choose peace and prosperity or war and dismemberment.
Israel sows the seeds of her own destruction and the death of many Jews, by compromising to save face with the International (and specifically, anti-Semite European) community. She cannot compromise with those who deny her right to exist. But again, Israel has history but no unifying world view (Christian or Jewish). While it’s citizens share a common history and heritage, it is not truly a “Jewish” country in the way that early American was a “Christian” country. God must be blessing the Israeli people in spite of themselves, for I see no rational way that Israel could have survived this far beset with Socialism, multiple factions, and the folly of it’s political decisions.
