“The Day of Resurrection will not arrive until
the Moslems make war against the Jews and kill them,
and until a Jew hiding behind a rock and tree,
and the rock and tree will say:
‘Oh Moslem, oh servant of Allah,
there is a Jew behind me,
come and kill him!’”
Dr. Mohammed Ibrahim Madi
Delivering the Friday sermon on Palestinian TV (April 13, 2001)
Quoting the Hadith recording the words of Mohammed
“The battle with the Jews will surely come…
the decisive Moslem victory is coming without a doubt,
as the prophet spoke about in more than one Hadith.
And the day of resurrection will not come
without the victory of the believers [the Moslems]
over the descendents of the monkeys and pigs [the Jews]
and with their annihilation.”
Official Palestinian Authority newspaper,
Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, May 18, 2001
When the first Gulf War broke out in Iraq in 1991, Iraqi Scud missiles rained down on Tel-Aviv. I happened to be in Israel just before the war broke out visiting some friends at Tel-Nof Air Force Base.
One afternoon I stood on the end of a runway watching Israeli fighter-jets taking off for training maneuvers. In between takeoffs, my Israeli escort, an F-15 fighter pilot, gave me an off-the-record comment as the deafening roar of these incredible machines in full after-burner literally shook the ground. I asked him, “What will you do if Saddam hits Israel with a chemical or biological weapon?” He looked sideways at me rubbing his chin. A smile stole over his sun-wrinkled face, baked by thousands of hours under a fighter-jet canopy. “I tell you the truth” he began, in his thick Hebrew accent. “If that SOB Hussein puts a single drop of chemicals into Israel . . .” He pinched his fingers together near my face as if holding something very small. “Baghdad will quickly be a smoking ruin, I guarantee it!” It was clear that he wasn’t kidding.
Israeli Intelligence was well-aware of the threat Iraq posed. Israel was conducting covert operations in western Iraq with a special team of trained commandos called the ‘Sayeret Matkal.’ These Special Forces, Israel’s elite, were tasked with finding Iraq’s scud missile launchers before they could be used on Israeli targets. This super-secret group has operated since 1957 to conduct top-secret intelligence-gathering missions behind enemy lines. They operated in Iraq just before the second gulf war, and Israeli Intelligence operatives were no-doubt hard at work in carefully identifying specific Hamas targets in Gaza in order to minimize civilian casualties. The mainstream media remain virtually ignorant (willingly?) of Israel’s ongoing efforts to protect innocents where possible.
Most Israelis (except for the appeasing leftists) have learned the hard way that the best defense is a good offense. Just ten years before on June 7, 1981, Israel launched a preemptive air attack against Saddam’s nuclear facility 18 miles south of Baghdad, destroying the Osirak reactor. Israel couldn’t afford to wait for the foot-draggers in the UN to do something about Saddam’s nuclear ambitions. By the time the UN Security Council would move a finger, Israel would be in ruins.
Near the end of the first Gulf war, I strolled a main street in downtown Tel Aviv watching crowds of people and families walking around with their gas masks hanging over their shoulders in readiness for a missile attack even while they celebrated Purim. I looked down at my own gas mask and wondered how long Americans would tolerate such a horrendous situation as Israel has had to endure over the past decades. Although this is a fairly common experience in the only democracy in the Middle East, the unspeakably horrible prospect that a people, whose parents and grandparents died by the millions in gas chambers just a few decades earlier, should have to face the prospect of having their families and homes bombed with sarin or mustard gas.
Now, as Israel defends herself against incessant Hamas rocket attacks into their town and cities from Gaza, the world media and appeasing, Jew-hating governments howl their rage and indignation. Where was their rage when over 4,000 Qassam missiles were raining on Israeli civilian centers? What other nation would tolerate, even for a week, such a blatant act of war against them without retaliation?
The torch of Jew-hatred fell from the hands of Hitler with the fall of the Third Reich in 1945. For a brief time, the world was horrified to learn of the holocaust against the Jewish people at the hands of the Nazis. The stories and pictures of the concentration camps brought about a brief season of sympathy for the Jewish people, and may have been a major factor in the establishment of the modern State of Israel.
However, in my view, the holocaust never really ended . . . it was merely postponed. The spirit of anti-Semitism is alive and well, and is presently enflamed by the fact that the Jewish people have now reestablished a state in their ancient national homeland, built a formidable military as capable as any, and are unwilling to passively lie down and quietly die. How DARE these Jews actually DEFEND themselves?! (I’m speaking facetiously of course)
Each time a Hamas or Hezbollah rocket falls on an Israeli town, it is a missile aimed at the heart of all humanity. Please don’t bore me with the Islamic propaganda about Israeli air strikes against Hamas strongholds killing innocent Palestinians. The terrorists deliberately position their missile launchers in schools, hospitals, and apartment complexes. This cynical disregard for the innocent among their own people is beneath contempt. Israel’s battle against Hamas (and ultimately every other Islamic hate-group that comprises the hydra-headed monster of Islamic extremism) is a battle for the freedom of the Palestinian people, and indeed the entire Western world. Make no mistake about it.
The long history of the world’s hatred and oppression of the Jewish people would fill whole libraries. Suffice it to say that the incessant spewing of the sewage of anti-Jewish propaganda constantly seeks to vilify and demonize the Jewish people. Today, the torch of Jew-hatred is principally carried by Islamic propagandists.
Israel, for all its faults, is a shining beacon of democracy and freedom in the Middle East. Their very existence represents a threat to the brutal Arab-Islamist dictators and self-coronated kings surrounding this tiny country. If the people living under these megalomaniacal dictators ever got a real taste of freedom, these dictators would be dispatched post-haste by their own people to meet their god Allah!
A Final Thought
In 2004, after the Islamofascist massacre of hundreds of innocent school children in Beslan, Russia, I led a modest relief effort to the hundreds of wounded children and family members. While inspecting the scorched and bombed-out ruins of the school, I noticed something among the many flower arrangements and wreaths adorning that place of intense sorrow. Spaced about two feet apart all around the building and throughout the burned-out gymnasium, as well as placed upon each grave outside of town, were beautiful bouquets of flowers with a letter encased in plastic packets. The letters were from the State of Israel and the Jewish people, expressing in several languages heartfelt condolences to the Beslan community.
No other nation, not even the United States, had gone to such pains to so lovingly express solidarity and compassion to the people of Beslan. Who could understand better how the victims felt than the Jewish people? To this day, I have not heard, in any media report whatsoever, a single mention of this amazing act of kindness by the people of Israel.
Israelis have the right to defend their nation! This fundamental human right has never been clearer than now, and the world would do well to support and encourage them!
“All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for enough good men to do nothing.”
Scottish Parliamentarian, Edmund Burke
Bruce Porter is a writer, speaker, documentarian, and disaster responder. He serves as a Firefighter Chaplain, Civil Air Patrol Officer, and frequently responds to such disasters as Columbine HS, and other school shootings worldwide, Beslan, Russia, after a terrorist attack, Sri Lanka after the tsunami, Ground Zero after 9-11 in NYC, Israel during three wars, as a counselor and a search & rescue worker. His blogsite is: brucespeaks.com/myblog, and he twitters at: twitter.com/bruceporter. Bruce can be reached at bruce@brucespeaks.com
