Ruth King

When Prime Minister Netanyahu opened a tunnel alongside the Temple Mount in Jerusalem in 1996, local Arabs erupted in a “spontaneous” rampage which resulted in shooting and stoning throughout Gaza and Judea and Samaria. The international media howled at the “provocation” and much the same ensued in September 2000 when Prime Minister Sharon visited the Temple Mount, setting off what some call the intifada but what was really the dress rehearsal for jihad. All these so called “provocations” were manufactured to coincide neatly with preplanned riots, stockpiled weapons, and a population goaded by the imams, the Arab media, and encouraged by the Eurabians always eager to appease their burgeoning Moslem populations by trashing Israel. In fact the Scandirabians, including Denmark, redoubled their efforts on behalf of the Arab boycott against Israel.

The media routinely referred to the rioting and violence as having been “sparked” by Sharon’s visit and ignored the statements by PLO head of communications Imad Falouji confirming that boulders and stones had been pre-positioned on the elevations of the Mount long before Sharon even applied for permission to visit. This was done at the orders of Nobelist Arafat who then kept proclaiming that the visit was “a grave infringement on Moslem holy sites”, and called on Moslems throughout the world to protest. Does this song sound familiar?

Of course England and France repeated the mantra that “the root cause of the Arab/Israel war is the ‘occupation’ and the only cure will be Arab sovereignty in Gaza, Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem.”

Well, Gaza has been vacated, Jerusalem’s Arabs have been permitted to vote in the Palestinian Authority elections, signaling that even Jerusalem is negotiable, and plans are well under way to dislocate patriotic Jewish citizens from their legitimate homes throughout the Jewish homeland…..and guess what? The Moslems flush with their victory in “Palestine” are now turning on their European hosts with a vengeance that rivals the little jihad known as the intifada.

As Professor Judith Apter Klinghoffer has stated: “It is Intifada Redux. First, mobs and stones. Then, weapons from torches to knives to bombs. The Islamists man the front lines. The Muslim powers feign innocence, shirk responsibility and demand that the ‘spontaneous outrage’ of their mobs be appeased. The pattern is clear.”

In France, where nightly rampages torched thousands of buildings and cars, the “provocation” apologists were quick to blame it on poverty, alienation, rampant gum disease and foie gras…..not a word about Islam and its goals.

In England, whose flaky Prime Minister clutched a Koran to his chest when he appeared in the aftermath of 9/11, British Moslem citizens are parading with placards calling for extermination and holocaust against those who insult Mohammed. In New York, right at the site of the World Trade Center, Moslems parade with posters denouncing the “insult” to Islam and calling for escalating protest and the supremacy of Islam.

Throughout the European Union local Moslems, goaded by their religious and communal leaders are venting their rage in unprecedented numbers and in escalating rhetoric calling for “chopping Danes into bits,” sedition, assassination, terrorism, and beheadings in those very nations that repeated ad nauseum that all problems emanate from the “occupation.”

And the media, so anxious to blame something…..anything….on Israel is paralyzed and cowering with only a few publications such as The Philadelphia Enquirer, The New York Sun and The Weekly Standard daring to publish the “offensive” cartoons.

President Bush and Condoleeza Rice, who at first offered muted “apology” for the cartoons, now denounce the rioters but blame the international Moslem violence on radical imams in Iran and Syria…..a perfect cop out. No one seems to notice that appeasement only breeds contempt.

And Israel? In Gaza and Hebron local Arabs burn Danish flags and attack Scandinavian observers and missions. They riot and plunder and attack and the acting Prime Minister responds by offering escalating concessions to local jihadists at the expense of its own Jewish citizens.

That small beleaguered nation was once in the forefront of the war on terrorism. The Entebbe rescue was the model for the modern war on terrorists. It is where the coming attractions for the present clashes were played out. But Israel is playing the reel backwards and as a result of continuing appeasement, instead of being a role model, Israel is irrelevant, if not worse, in the present war on terror.

Oh yes....I almost forgot. Speaking of the Entebbe rescue....Make sure you revisit the inspiring story before Speilberg/Kushner make a movie about it.