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This seems like a good time to ask this question. Since the “two State Solution” is the best permanent solution to the present state of intermittant warfare between Isreal and it’s arab neighbors, and since the west bank settlements issue will be a major stumbling block in achieving such a peace, why is it that Isreal continues to allow unauthorized settlements to be built and even provide logistic support for such settlements. There was a recent article in the journal about such an illegal settlement that was under investigation for fraud in the acquisition of land, yet it still received, roads, essential services and security.

Comment by robert arnold on 1/01/09 at 8:44 pm

Brad, I will beat you to it, it is Israel not Isreal. Having said that, the battle for the moral high ground is being waged in America and around the world, and for non-jews, getting the facts rights is an important part of understanding the origins of the violence that you now report.

Comment by robert arnold on 1/01/09 at 9:01 pm

From the Associated Press:

The attacks continued Friday. Before dawn, Israeli aircraft hit 15 houses belonging to Hamas militants, Palestinians said. They said the Israelis either warned nearby residents by phone or fired a warning missile to reduce civilian casualties.

Comment by The Web Guy on 1/01/09 at 10:30 pm

Robert Arnold, “getting the facts rights is an important part of understanding the origins of the violence that you now report” sounds good but you have no clue about the facts, the origin of the dispute, an effective policy, or anything else. “Since this, and since that, why is the other?” Ridiculous. I love watching political dilettantes pontificate on matters they have no knowledge about or involvement with. Say, Bob, what’s your take on the Tamil Tiger situation?

For moral clarity, you can’t do better than John Bolton

I think that this is a circumstance where the pursuit of the so called two-state solution has come to the end of the road.”

And that ‘west bank’ ‘settlement’ had a super duper crystal clear bought and paid for, documented and proven ownership of that building but has been blocked by corrupted politics. But the fact is that there will be Jews living in the ‘west bank’ after there no longer Arabs living there, whether by the easy way or the hard way.

Comment by Ben Plonie on 1/01/09 at 11:18 pm

The WHY? of Terrorism in Islam (and Hamas)

I am an American living in Asia. I am not Moslem, but I am a writer and historian. I would like to share some information with you: information concerning Moslem violence and terrorism, and why the United States and its military allies must continue to be vigilant, and when appropriate, respond to individual acts of violent Islamic terrorism with relentless, overwhelming, and deadly force. 

This information may help you understand what is going on not only in Israel and the entire Middle East as well as India, Pakistan, and China, along with other parts of Asia,  Africa, Europe, and (soon) even the United States. In the not too distant future, Moslem extremists hope to involve you and your loved ones, as well as a vast number of other innocent victims in a man-made catastrophe: an organized and violent calamity of biblical proportions that is based on teachings that were deliberately added to the Koran, decades after the faith was founded.

Disregarding the social, economic, and political factors that serve as underpinnings for Islamic terrorism, I will address the more fundamental issue: the religious teachings that sanction violence against non-Moslems and AGAINST ALL WOMEN.  Here are seven verses from the Koran.  These scriptures have been translated into modern English.

…murder, crucify, or cut off the hands and feet of non-Moslems…Chapter 5 Verse 33 - The Koran
…create terror in the hearts of non-Moslems …cut off their heads…Chapter 8 Verse 12 - The Koran  
…and fight non-Moslems until Allah’s religion is the only one…Chapter 8 Verse 39 - The Koran  
…of all the loot you plunder from non-Moslems, 20% belongs to Allah and to Mohammed. Chapter 8 Verse 41- The Koran (Author’s note: Loot included kidnapped female sex-slaves.)                                 
…Take as many as four wives from the women you are sexually attracted to … Chapter 4 Verse 3 - The Koran
…God has made men superior to women… Virtuous women are obedient. If a woman becomes disobedient, beat her.  Chapter 4 Verse 34 - The Koran
…When it comes to marriage, Allah makes it legal for you to take as wives, women whom your right hand possesses. Chapter 33 Verse 50 - The Koran (Author’s note: This verse talks about the “loot” non-Moslems call… kidnapped female sex-slaves.)
 
Most people in the western world have never heard of these astonishing scriptures, but they are in the Koran … along with a relatively short list of others, just like them. This is important because not all Moslems are the same; there are two very different types. Militant Moslems view these verses as commandments from their god – a primitive desert god, from an ancient land of heat, sand and scorpions.  Militant Moslems think these teachings apply to life in the Twenty-first Century and they try to use them, regardless of the suffering and mayhem they create, whereas moderate Moslems ignore such verses because they were uttered a long time ago, when the Arabian peninsula, from whence Islam came, was a wild and savage place. 

Historians tell us these terrorist teachings are part of a cluster of ferocious beliefs that were deliberately added to one specific part of the formerly peaceful and tolerant Koran.  These startling changes were made, decades after Islam was first founded in the Arabian city of Mecca.  By the time of these changes the original (and real) prophet of Islam was dead. Thereafter the religious headquarters was uprooted and moved to the city of Medina.  In its new environment, with new leadership at the helm, Islam mutated; it turned cruel and predatory.

In fact, historians also tell us Islam didn’t simply fall from the sky as a full-blown religion, but rather evolved from a persecuted sect of Jewish-Christians. The first Moslems in the city of Mecca were actually part of a larger group of Jesus’ followers called the Ebionites.

Ebionites were peace-loving disciples of Christ, who shared their wealth with fellow believers, and taught that a man should marry only one wife.

In fact, women were much more independent in the Ebionite Jewish-Christian days of Islam.  They were more influential too. I say this because my research has determined that the first prophet of Islam may have been someone other than Mohammed: I believe the first prophet was a very special Arabian princess named Khadija the Pure.  Khadija was Mohammed’s first and only wife for twenty-four years. Khadija was fifteen years older than Mohammed.  She was considered to be fabulously wealthy, and she was Mohammed’s employer, before she became his wife. 

Mohammed on the other hand, before he became Khadija’s employee, was an impoverished youth who had been raised as an orphan. Ultimately Mohammed worked his way up to a position as Khadija’s business manager. With time, Khadija grew fond of Mohammed. She even married him.  However, Khadija was a liberated woman.  In fact, Khadija was the one who initiated the marriage proposal to Mohammed! And after their wedding,  she never allowed Mohammed to take other wives, or have other women into her house.

Throughout her lifetime, even though Khadija had already converted to Christianity, Mohammed’s first and only wife for twenty-four years remained an important Arabian princess in the ruling family that controlled worship in the Kabba Temple, with it’s pantheon of more than three hundred pagan gods and goddesses. Clearly, in the early days of Islam, Khadija was a person of great influence in Arabian society: and clearly Mohammed, her husband… was not. http://www.TheMoslemInstitute.com

After Khadija’s untimely death from a terrible illness, Islam was hijacked by a cartel of corrupt men, headed by Mohammed himself. The faith was abruptly relocated to the city of Medina and new beliefs were added to the Koran; at the same time, old beliefs were deleted or relegated to unimportance, and the religion was changed beyond recognition. In the end, Islam abandoned many of its Ebionite Jewish-Christian teachings. Women suffered the most: they became the focus of repression, scorn, and violence.

Today, although moderate Moslems are loath to admit these ideas, and many of them are terrified to voice criticism of their militant Islamic brothers, because of fear that violence will come to them and their families, the fact remains that these added teachings are not the original beliefs of Islam; they are amendments: They are the terrorist teachings of Islam.

In the near future, militant Moslems hope to unleash a Jihad: a Moslem holy war upon the non-Moslem world; not only upon Israel, the United States and Western Europe, but also throughout parts of Asia, including India and maybe even China, and Japan. Because the terrorist teachings of Islam sanction treaty breaking, deception, and war, as well as looting, murder, kidnapping, terrorism, and human slavery (including sexual slavery), so long as these crimes are directed against non-Moslems, there is no limit to the things these fanatics can do.  But the scariest part: Militant Moslems will do everything… in the name of their primitive desert god.

Once victory is attained in this violent holy war, these fanatics believe Allah will bless them with harems of kidnapped sex slaves taken from destroyed cities and nations, as well as enormous fortunes of loot plundered from the non-Moslem world.  They believe this because of the terrorist teachings that were added to the Koran.  These terrorist teachings even say ransoms paid to Moslem terrorists, to redeem stolen property (like hijacked oil tankers and cargo ships) as well as kidnapped men, women, and children, are part of the Islamic loot these vicious criminals are entitled to receive. 

These same terrorist teachings even allow Moslem men to force their kidnapped female sex slaves to marry them in Moslem wedding ceremonies, and bear children for them: whether the women want to or not. Terrorist Moslem teachings mandate only two requirements:  The women must come from Christian or Jewish backgrounds, and secondly, if the unfortunate women resist, these same terrorist teachings say the Moslem husbands must beat them, and imprison them in their own homes.

If the Moslem fanatics die while committing these crimes against humanity,  as an eternal reward for their cruel deeds Islamic extremists believe their fierce desert god will admit them to paradise and bless them with luxurious palaces filled with riches and populated by seventy-two virgin brides, who are exquisitely beautiful, yet modest enough to struggle to control their unbridled lust to have sexual intercourse with a dead Moslem terrorist.

With these stinging indictments against terrorist Islamic doctrines entered into the record, it is important to remember that the majority of Moslems are moderate, decent people who love God and practice acts of charity and kindness to their neighbors, both Moslem and non-Moslem. Such moderate Moslems recognize these violent teachings as obsolete and out of place in the Twenty-first Century. In the author’s opinion, in spite of enormous cultural and ideological differences that exist between the non-Moslem world and the followers of Islam, it is with this moderate Moslem majority that any long-term resolution to the Islamic terrorism issue will ultimately be negotiated. 

However, given the massive population increases taking place in the Moslem world, at a time when poverty, chaos, criminality, and religious fanaticism are burgeoning, the numbers of Moslems worldwide who declare themselves militant is increasing; the influence their growing networks of terror cells exert on Islamic governments throughout the world has reached crisis levels. Because of the terrorist teachings of Islam, modern civilization faces a nightmarish future; the attacks on Mumbai, India, the World Trade Center in New York, and the subway bombings in Spain and London are simply previews of things to come.  In this ferocious Jihad, nuclear and biological weapons are almost certain to come into play.

To paraphrase Winston Churchill: The road before us will be long and dangerous and terrifying; the United States and Europe and Asia must be resolute… and take courage. We must work together to neutralize militant Islamic movements… and if necessary… wage war against the governments that sustain them. At the same time, the non-Moslem world must also nurture moderate Islamic states and establish strong alliances with them. The very survival of our civilization depends on it.

Are you are interested in learning more about an array of Islamic topics including: 
1. Who are The Seventy-two Virgins of Islam and how did they become part of militant Moslem dogma?
2. What role did the Ebionites and Khadija the Pure play, in founding the original (peaceful) religion of Islam?
3.  What role does militant Islam play in modern human slavery?

Visit The Moslem Institute website:      http://www.TheMoslemInstitute.com

Regards,
Dane Dahl
Author and Historian

Comment by Dane Dahl on 1/02/09 at 5:51 am

Ben, ““the fact is that there will be Jews living in the west bank after there are no longer arabs living there, whether by the easy way or the hard way” sounds like a threat, not to me, but to those arabs that now live there. Now does this add to a peaceful solution to the present situation?
Dane, Thank you for the thoughful response. I will check it out. Militant Islam is clearly a global threat that may be beyond reasonable dialog. Survival of the state of Israel, even within the 1967 is probably something they will never accept. It is interesting how quickly an email about west bank settlements became a conservation about history, global militancy, and tightly held ideas about historical rights.
Thanks to all

Comment by robert on 1/02/09 at 12:54 pm

Robert,
I am not in a position to threaten anyone. Just understand that this is a conflict of ideology and history, not of politics. The West Bank, Judea, or the tribal lands of Judah were the first place entered by the Israelites and the last place they ruled and were exiled from. The Bible clearly states it will be an eternal inheritance for the Israelite nation. The Koran says it as well although we won’t go into that now. The Bible is never going away, and I didn’t write it.

The point is that there is no middle ground. Someone will be keeping their ideology and someone will be giving theirs up. Your opinion may be interesting to your loved ones if any and your acquaintances, but is essentially irrelevant in light of the above.

Thanks to all as well.

Comment by Ben Plonie on 1/02/09 at 5:25 pm

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