Tarazi - Genocide equals 'Struggle For Equality'

Clifford May at Townhall.com has a brilliant analysis, a debunking if you will, of the notion that the wars and the terrorism being waged against the Jews by the Arab world have anything to do with a 'struggle for freedom' or a 'fight for a country'.

In 1948, genocidal anti-Semitism took the form of 5 Arab armies attempting to drive Israeli Jews into the sea.

In 1967, a second conventional war was led by Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Iraq. The “Voice of the Arabs” radio station declared the goal: “extermination” of Israel. Ahmed Shuqayri, the first leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization, added: “We shall destroy Israel and its inhabitants.”

Since the collapse of the Camp David talks in 2000 – when Yasser Arafat turned down an independent Palestinian state on 93% of the West Bank and Gaza – radical anti-Semitism has taken the form of suicide bombings in Israel's streets, shops and restaurants.

Former Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Abu Mazen said this month many of those responsible believed that “after the killing of 1,000 Israelis in the Intifada, Israel would collapse.”

Well, about 1,000 Israelis have been slaughtered, but Israel has not collapsed. Instead, the Israelis are demonstrating that terrorism can be defeated.

So genocidal anti-Semitism is taking another form. This week, The New York Times gave Michael Tarazi, an American lawyer who advises the Palestine Liberation Organization, space on its op-ed page to make this audacious argument: That having failed to eradicate Israel with tanks and terrorism, Palestinian leaders are now “being forced to consider a one-state solution.”

Tarazi is the kind of creature (he outwardly closely resembles a human being) that gives lawyers a bad name. He has the mind of a physics Nobel Prize winner, and the morality of a garden slug. This creature would work through laws to destroy Israel. So what is his plan? The 'Palestinians' would be

“forced” to consider demanding a “right” to flood Israel with people who hate Israelis, people loyal to such terrorist organization such as Hamas, and who want to replace Israel with a radical Islamist state.

And if Israelis refuse to willingly become a despised minority in their own country, ruled by people who have been waging genocidal campaigns against them, that will demonstrate, Mr. Tarazi declares, that “Christians and Muslims, the millions of Palestinians under occupation are not welcome in the Jewish state.”

“Not welcome.” Imagine that. The nerve. The chutzpah.

As Mr. Tarazi well knows but neglects to mention, there is only one Jewish state on the planet. It's about the size of New Jersey. By contrast, there are 22 Arab nations and more than 50 predominantly Muslim countries, covering an area larger than the U.S. and Europe combined.

In these lands, Jews are – to varying degrees – conspicuously not welcome. In Jordan, a relatively liberal country that maintains diplomatic relations with Israel, Jews are prohibited, by law, from being citizens.

In Saudi Arabia, no synagogue or church may be built.

Mr. Tarazi forgets to note, too, that half of Israel's Jews have their roots in such places as Egypt, Yemen, Iraq and Iran -- but that after intense persecution they fled what had been their families' homes for centuries. Similarly, Christians have fled from Syrian-controlled Lebanon and from Bethlehem and Nazareth since those cities came under Arafat's control.

Nor does Mr. Tarazi appear to recall that almost 15% of Israel's citizens are Muslims. They enjoy more rights and freedoms than Muslims elsewhere in the Middle East – including the right to free speech, to vote, and to worship as they choose. You do not see graffiti on mosques in Israel.

Israeli Arabs have been elected to Israel's parliament and serve on its supreme court.

Tarazi represents the 'decent', 'civilized' part of the effort to destroy Israel. The very fact that he lends himself to this goal so willingly, coldy and rationally working towards this end is frightening. It can only be compared to a Reinhardt Heydrich, the designer of the plan to exterminate the Jews in an industrial, logistically efficiently manner. So please read about Michael Tarazi, another personification of evil.