I have mixed feelings about the Israeli pullout from Gaza. I, like other bloggers feel that it is a no win situation. If Israel stays, they are a continuous thorn in the side of the Palestinians. A thorn which they will use as an excuse to blow up innocent woman and children. If they leave, Hamas and other radical groups will claim responsibility and enrolment into those groups will increase. Leaving also brings the terrorists closer to Israel. At least the settlements were a buffer. The suicide bomber had to get past the heavily armed settlements before entering into Israel proper.

I guess in many ways Israel is doing what is the best short term solution. I am not optimistic about the long term consequences of the pullout.

There is one thing that the world needs to understand, and understand quickly: the radical terrorist, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, al-Aksa Martyrs Brigade etc, WILL NOT STOP FIGHTING UNTIL THE LAST JEW IS LINED AGAINST THE WALL. If you doubt me, then you are blinded to reality.

But all that is not the main point of this post. I was watching the pullout on TV and saw that the army had to forcibly remove some people from their homes. I also saw some soldiers break down and cry. It was killing them to do what they were doing, but they know it had to be done. For the good of Israel, but it still was and is tough on them. The Israeli army has been taking pains to treat its citizens with respect and to respect how hard it is for the settlers to leave. But the Israeli government has decided that for peace, they would take steps that are very unpopular with its own citizens. So far there has been very little if any violence and the Army and the settlers are behaving in a civilized manner under trying circumstances.

Multiculturalists will tell you that all cultures are equal, that one culture is not superior to another. That is the biggest load of crap I have ever heard. There is a difference between certain cultures. It is not even a small difference, it is a gaping chasm. Take a look at the Western culture of Israel, both Arab and Jewish citizens, and compare it to the Dark Ages culture of the Palestinians. Why is there such a gap?

Imagine this scenario: Palestine is a state. The government of Palestine, in order to secure peace with Israel, orders the removal over several thousand Palestinians from a certain area. How do you think THAT removal will go? Times up. Actually, it should have taken you a second to figure out what would have happened. First you have to stop laughing that there is actually a functioning Palestinian state and second you have to stop laughing even harder that Palestine would give ANY concessions to Israel. After you finish laughing, the first thought in your mind should have been utter chaos. It would be a huge blood bath. Crowds of Palestinians would literally tear apart the Police and Army sent to remove them. The Palestinians would slaughter them for being conspirators with Jews. They would burn the place down and kill as many as possible. In the end they, along with the Left here and abroad, would find a way to blame Israel.

The difference is clear: One cultures values life and liberty while the other glorifies violence and martyrdom. I will let you figure out which is which. Why is it so wrong to point out truth in today’s day and age? The Palestinians and their supporters will say that the years of Israeli occupation and the lack of good jobs are the reasons why the Palestinians act like animals. They will excuse the violence and point to Israel. But that is wrong on any and all levels. When Israel was established, the “Palestinians” did not have to leave. They could have stayed and become citizens like the Arab Israelis. But no, they chose to leave and to fight to push all the Jews into the sea. I hate to break it to them, but if they had never left, they would be living the good life as an Israeli citizen. Hell, they could have out bred the Jews by now. Who knows? But to blame someone for something that you voluntarily did is the height of hypocrisy. Also, why wasn’t there a Palestine before Israel was established? Because Egypt, Syria and Jordon did not want one. They ruled with an iron fist and tolerated no dissent. Funny, I though the Arabs loved the Palestinians.

John Derbyshire from National Review had a great piece last year where he pointed out the differences between civilization and barbarianism. Seeing the events taking place in Israel over the past few days brought it back to mind:

For all the conundrums and contradictions, though, the opposition between civilization and barbarism remains perfectly clear to anyone with moral good sense. A few weeks ago I published a piece in which I described Israel as being on the front lines of civilization. This roused the legions of Israel-haters and paleocons, who took a break from cataloguing their collections of Third Reich memorabilia and sticking pins in their Abraham Lincoln dolls to e-mail in and tell me of all the horrid things the Mossad and the IDF are guilty of.

Well, yes, to be sure, civilization has its dirty work to do. “He [Kipling] sees clearly that men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them”-G. Orwell. (He knew what he was talking about, having once worked as a policeman.) Still, it is an extreme kind of moral obtuseness that refuses to notice the difference between a people who strive to minimize noncombatant casualties and a people who do their best to maximize them. I note also that when Arabs are injured in an Arab terrorist attack against Jews, they are cared for in Israeli hospitals, to which they have been transported by Israeli ambulances. Imagine the converse, if it were possible: Jewish inhabitants of an Arab country, injured in a Jewish-terrorist attack on Arabs. They would be torn to pieces by ululating mobs of Arabs, and the pieces would be paraded triumphantly through streets crowded with laughing revelers, the whole thing broadcast on Al-Jazeera to general rejoicing around the Arab world.

No truer words have been written about the differences between these two cultures. I am going to step up and call a spade a spade. For whatever “evils” you feel that Israel has done to the Palestinians, Israel is a civilized country. The current “Palestinian State” is not.