By Beryl Wajsman
Sunday, July 16, 2006
The war that broke out in the Middle East this week is unlike all previous conflicts in that region. For the first time the rival terrorist thugs of Hamas and Hezbollah who had challenged each other for supremacy in the leadership of the Middle East's "Murder Incorporated" have come together in a united front. They have gone beyond their homicidal bombings and have opened a formal two-front war against Israel.
The best intelligence indicates that the reason they did it now was that the theocratic tyranny of Iran, and the fascist regime of Syria - with the blessing of the Wahabbi clerics of Saudi arabia who have been major funders of al Qaeda - pushed them together to use them as a client army to stop any attempt at peace and stability in the region.
They are threatened by the nascent growth of democracy in afghanistan, Iraq and Palestine and they fully realize that once the door to freedom is opened -even ever so slightly - it is impossible to shut, and their own imprisoned peoples' transcendent yearnings for redemptive change will spread like wildfire. That possibility is something that these regimes and murderous gangs cannot countenance.
Their goal - openly stated from Bin-Laden, to Iran's ahmadinejad to Hamas' Meshaal and Haniyeh to Hezbollah's Nasrallah - is Islamic hegemony over the free world. In these killers minds Israel, precisely because it is the front-line defender of western liberalism and freedom, must be destroyed. Israel, this tiny bastion of liberty, is to these Islamo-Fascists what republican Spain was to Hitler. But unlike the Spanish Republicans Israel will not fall. If the western world flags in its support for a sister democracy, its own consciences will.
Israel understands full well the meaning of "carpe diem" — seize the day! That precisely at a time of siege, a free people must seize the tide and turn it towards the destruction of the mightiest walls of oppression. To keep faith with the immortal words of Thomas Jefferson to "…pledge eternal vigilance against any attempt at tyranny over the mind of man…"
The invasive aggressions on Israel's national sovereignty, from Kiryat Shemona in the north to Kerem Shalom in the south, were clear violations of international law that permit the use of full retaliatory response by Israel. Canada's own sponsored International Commission on State Sovereignty and Intervention added another dimension to the prevailing international legal doctrine of "self-help" - "the responsibility to protect". It permits attacks against any nation that allows violent operations by any group from its own territory against another state. and the host state can be dealt with as if it had participated in them itself.
as a free people, who had twice the number of servicemen and women in uniform as a proportion of population than america did in both World Wars, we should be proud of Prime Minister Harper's unwavering support of Israel as a sister democracy; unswerving condemnation of homicide as a tool of policy; and unyielding determination to remind Canadians of our own proud legacy of engagement in the expansion and defense of freedom.
It is instructive to note that the Israeli counterattacks against Hamas and Hezbollah escalated on Thursday July 13th. That day, in the Jewish calendar, is the fast day of the 17th of Tammuz. It was on that day, in the year 70 of the Common Era, that the walls of Jerusalem were breached by Roman invaders. Everyone knows the story of the 900 Jewish rebels who fortified themselves on the mountaintop of Masada and killed themselves rather than submit to Roman domination. Today, Israeli tank commanders take their oath on that mountaintop with the pledge that "Masada shall never fall again."!
Hitler and Franco may not have feared "La Passionara's" singing of "No Pasaran" — "they shall not pass" — when the Spanish Republicans challenged the fascists and Nazis. Those European thugs knew that the Republicans were militarily weak particularly after the slaughter at Guernica. But modern Israel is not weak. This small oasis of the free is no Guernica. and the leaders of today's Islamo-Fascist axis should tremble at the coming of Masada's heirs.
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