Kent,
An agenda is the menu of politics.
Having traveled in the Middle East I have a degree of sympathy with you at the Palestinian plight. An unhappier situation for them at this moment in time, it would be harder to imagine. As you know over the centuries, these two arch-enemies, Islam and Judaism, have developed an ideology that precludes any possibility of peace between them, rather like the Protestants and Catholics in NI.
The problem lies with the Islamic agenda. The PLO have publicly admitted on numerous occasions that they will not live side by side with the Jews. They have vowed by any means to either displace or destroy the Jews and have the backing of almost all the Arab states and peoples in this ultimate goal. Why do they wish to do this? Exclusively due to a religious ideology which has as its final aim world ‘conversion’ by any means. The battle against Judaism and its sympathisers is just stage one in World conquest.
The Jews however, have no intention of converting to their own form of religion the rest of humanity, especially not by force, but this clearly is the goal of Islam. If the Arabs were as well trained and armed as the Jewish state they would destroy Israel completely and have made no secret of their intentions that this is their ultimate prize. So one has to ask themselves, do the Jews have a right to defend themselves vigorously given the clear and sinister intentions of their neighbors?
Read transcripts of the communications between the Nazi party and Arab states before and during WWII and you will see their clear intention was to aid the Nazis in the international destruction of every Jew and Jewish sympathiser.
As to the point made in Farkel’s post describing ‘Arabs are barbarians’ , well just a cursory study of the history of Islamic art and culture would undermine this viewpoint quite quickly. What has to be said is that Islam is impossible to comprehend unless it is understood against the backdrop of its own tribal history, a sustained ethic which it has never really outgrown since its early history and which is now clearly under threat.
The C21st is the enemy of Islam. Its religious leaders realize that ‘tribal’ Islam is doomed as we move further into a technological culture, no precept is contained in Islam which allows for a modernizing of its doctrine. Their clear agenda is to demonize anything that is attached this ‘modernistic’ enemy, destroy its ability to reproduce and subsequently safeguard Islamic culture. It is fighting a losing battle, but a battle that will see much more grieving and pain. One thing is certain, a truce will not happen unless hearts change and the experience of history precludes that one happening - the better armed will win the day.
My best to you all - HS