HISTORY LESSON FOR PRESIDENT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA by Emanuel A. Winston, Middle East Analyst & Commentator
Dear President Obama,
Your speeches in Cairo and in Buchenwald were like the proverbial onion which must be peeled back layer-by-layer to get to the truth of the matter.
Your comparison of the 6 million dead Jews at the hands of Adolph Hitler and the Europeans with the suffering of the Arabs for 60 years was worth peeling deep into the core.
Since the Holocaust has been so well documented by historians, let us move to the 60 years of pain for the mix of Arabs from the surrounding countries who were NOT called Palestinians until 1964 when Yassir Arafat began to head up the new PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organization). The Jews were called Palestinians - pejoratively - until the birth of Israel in 1948 when they were finally proud to be called "Israelis". After the British Palestinian Mandate was voted to be partitioned into a Jewish State and another Arab/Muslim State by the United Nations November 10, 1947, and when Israel declared her independence May 14, 1948, Muslim Arab leaders made blood-curdling pronouncements of how they would kill all the Jews in Israel. The street mobs of Muslims in the 22 Arab States and in the 35 other Muslim countries, marched and met in cafes, their conversations were laced with what each would do with an axe or their bare hands or a sword when he could get his hands on a Jewish man, woman or child.
Their Mullahs (village leaders) encouraged the build-up of rage and joy for the great opportunity to kill and, in doing so, to be killed and thus become a Shahid (martyr for having killed an infidel - non Muslim).
In the military echelons of Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, Yemen and Saudi Arabia, etc. they boasted to each other of how they would "Dance in the blood of the Jews". They spoke of gathering their personal loot from the Jews and the mass rape of Jewish women which they planned as an Arab/Muslim way to dignify their macho testicle-driven blood culture. They knew Jewish women were unusually attractive - not like their own, often fat and ugly women. (We are watching this in Darfur as the Muslim Arabs are raping the black women whom they view as merely sexual beasts.)
During the 1948 War of Independence the Muslim Arab peasantry were told to move out of the way by the command of the Arab armies so the tanks and trucks of seven Arab Muslim armies (helped by the British army) could get through and over-run the Jewish Israelis. The fellaheen (Muslim Arab peasants) were told, not only would they get a bit of land they had worked, which was owned by out-of-state Muslim Arabs but, they could get the houses of the Jews and all the farms, businesses, universities, and schools the Jews had developed.
Above all, they too could have the white Jewish women as their bonus!
One is reminded of Jomo Kenyatta, Chief of the Mau Mau, who virtually promised the same rewards to his Mau Mau killers. They could have the land and the farms of the white settlers and also their white wives and daughters. Strangely, much of that came true as the black leader, Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe did, indeed, take the land of white farmers - which he turned into trash. Zimbabwe is now a failed nation, plagued with cholera, HIV, Aids, among other diseases, as well as famine, while Mugabe lives in opulent splendor.
As for the poor, pained Muslim Arab Palestinians in 1948, they either left, awaiting the glorious victory or they joined in the fighting. Their intentions were to have a "glorious" victory, equal to the army of the Muslim Kurd Saladin in the 12th century. But, that victory eluded the 7 Muslim Arab armies attacking Israel on all fronts in 1948. They wanted desperately to massacre the Jews but ended up running from the field of battle, even leaving their boots in the dirt so they could run faster.
The orgy of anticipated slaughter turned out to be an embarrassing defeat for the Muslims who had 7 well-armed Armies. The Arab Muslims called their defeat their "Nakba" (catastrophe) - all of which they brought upon themselves.
Keep in mind that the Jewish army in 1948 was only a rag-tag army, made up of raw, untrained recruits, some of them just off the boats from Europe's concentration camps, who had never even fired a rifle. Their training might have been to fire 3 bullets from World War I and II scrap piles of weapons. When the British left their Palestinian Mandate, they abandoned their Taggart Forts, field artillery, rifles and handed them over to the Arab Muslims. Although they had contempt for the Arabs, calling them "Wogs", they hated the Jews even more.
The pain of those who came to be known as the Palestinians which you spoke about for over 60 years, Mr. President, was the pain they brought upon themselves. After seven later lost wars wherein they gambled away the land, it was always their intention to re-arm their forces and slaughter the Jews in Israel in another Holocaust.
In between the actual wars, they pursued continual Terrorism against Jewish men, women and children in Israel and around the world. As a macho, testicle-driven society, they could not bear to surrender, make peace, enjoy life which the Israeli Jews made good for them in the land they shared West of the Jordan River. Anything short of "dancing in the blood of the Jews" was inadequate because they, as all loyal Muslims, must obey the Koran and Mohammed's teaching of making false peace agreements ("Hudna" or temporary peace agreements) and then coming back to slaughter those who believed his tricks.
The day after Yassir Arafat signed the Oslo Accords at the White House in 1993, he said in Arabic that they were like the Hudabiya Treaty which Mohammed made with the Jewish Banu Qurayza Tribe in Medina. Mohammed agreed to peace for 10 years in order to enter and pray in Medina. But, after 2 years when he was stronger militarily, he came back in 627 CE, slaughtered all 600-750 Jewish men, selling all the women and children into slavery, thus bringing an end to Jewish life in Medina.
Clearly, the radical Arab Islamists are a low, murderous and suicidal people who live by conquering others and then feeding off the work of others like parasites. They have envied what the Jews have produced in a relatively few years and simply want it now for themselves..
Mr. President, you are a Christian who was born a Muslim. You wish to give the Muslims what they could not win on the battlefield. They also wish to recover their lost manhood, having been beaten repeatedly by a Jewish adversary whom they hold in deep contempt.
Since you, Mr. Obama, are an educated man and since you have enough court Jews in your employ, you should be aware that your Palestinians are the same cultural savages who make up your Islamic religious and cultural heritage.
We as Jews, having experienced centuries of deadly experience at the hands of Muslims in the Middle East and Christians in Europe, can smell the stench of Jew hatred once again fouling the air of Planet Earth.
Our Jewish antennae (of at least some of us) are not fooled by your charismatic ways and the spoiled honey that coats your promises. You have gathered about you "Poison Dwarfs" who sit on your shoulder, whispering advice on how to have the Muslims over-run Israel. You think your Islamists will give America peace IF you betray the Jews of Israel but, you will be wrong - dangerously.
Hopefully, you will be only a one term President IF for nothing more than what you are doing in ravaging the American economy. You are, indeed, a fool for confronting the G-d of Israel and His messengers.
Moreover, your hostility to the Jewish State masked by friendly words shames America and Americans. You are telling all nations that you cannot be trusted. Strangely, you are acting like a clone of Mohammed who taught Muslims that you could cheat with false promises and then, as approved in the Koran, then break all agreements.
All Presidents and Congressional members before you, expressed their unending commitment to the Jewish State of Israel. You have broken this continuous commitment and made an indelible impression on history as an enemy of the Jewish State, in deference to your Islamic upbringing.
No nation (including America) can trust you and your gang of hateful advisors. Now, it's just a matter of how much damage you are going to do to America and Israel before you leave office in disgrace.
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Dear Mr. President,
You face difficult challenges in matters such as achieving peace in the Middle East and protecting America from the threat of radical Islam and terrorism. These are challenges that have vexed past presidents, going as far back as our second president, John Adams. I have no doubt you appreciate both the gravity of these challenges and the enormous obstacles that exist to solving them.
I also have no doubt that you and your staff understood that, no matter what you said in your speech last Thursday in Cairo, there would be those who would take issue with you. That is always the case when attempting to solve problems that are as deep and emotionally-laden as these challenges are.
I am assuming it is your sincere hope that the approach you have chosen to take, as evidenced by what I'm sure was a carefully crafted speech, will ultimately prove successful. However, it pains me to say this sir, but, while you said in your speech that you are a "student of history," it is abundantly clear that, in these matters, you do not know history and thus, as Santayana noted, you are doomed to repeat it. In doing so your efforts, however well-intentioned they may be, will not produce what you profess to hope they will produce.
A wise man once said that if you start with the wrong assumptions, no matter how logical your reasoning is, you will end up with the wrong conclusion. With all due respect Mr. President, you are starting with certain assumptions that are unsupported by history and an objective study of the ideology of political Islam.
You began in your speech by asserting that "tensions" exist between the United States and Muslims around the world, which, of course, is correct. Unfortunately, you then proceeded, incorrectly, to lay virtually all the blame for these tensions at the feet of America and the West. You blamed western colonialism, the Cold War, and even modernity and globalism.
A student of American history, who is not trying to reconstruct it to fit a modern politically correct narrative, would state that tensions between America and Muslims began with the unprovoked, four-decades long assault by the Muslim Barbary pirates against American shipping in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. I find it telling that you mentioned the Treaty of Tripoli in your speech but ignored the circumstances that led to it. That treaty was but one of numerous attempts by the United States to achieve peace with the jihadists of the Barbary Coast who were attacking our shipping and killing and enslaving our citizens and our soldiers – and who by their own admission were doing so to fulfill the call to jihad.
These jihadists were not acting to protest American foreign policy, which was decidedly isolationist, and there was no state of Israel to scapegoat. They were doing what countless Islamic jihadists have done throughout history – acting upon the hundreds of passages in the Qur'an and the Hadith that call upon faithful Muslims to kill, conquer or subjugate the infidel.
A student of world history would know that, for all the acknowledged evils of Western colonialism, these evils pale in comparison to the nearly 14 centuries of Islamic colonialism that began in Arabia under the leadership of Mohammed. The student of history would know that Islamic forces eradicated all Jewish and Christian presence from Arabia after Mohammed's death, and then succeeded in conquering all of North Africa, most of the Middle East, much of Asia Minor, and significant portions of Europe and India – eventually creating an empire larger than Rome's was at its peak.
The number of dead and enslaved during these many centuries of Islamic imperial conquest and colonialism have been estimated to total more than 300 million. What's more, the wealth of many of the conquered nations and cultures was plundered by the Islamic conquerors, and millions of millions of non-Muslims who did survive were forced to pay onerous taxes, such as the "jizya," a humiliation tax to the Islamic caliphs. Indeed, in some areas Christians and Jews were made to wear a receipt for the jizya around their neck as a mark of their dishonor.
These facts have not been invented by Christian or Jewish historical revisionists, but were chronicled by Muslim eyewitnesses throughout the past 14 centuries and are available to be researched by any person seeking an objective understanding of how Islam spread throughout the world.
You say in your speech that we must squarely face the tensions that exist between America and the Muslim world. That is a laudable notion with which I agree, but by casting Islam as the historical victim and the West (and by implication, America) as the aggressor, you do not face these tensions squarely, but alleviate the Muslim world from coming to grips with the jihadist ideology embedded in its holy books and acted upon for 1,400 years.
Even worse, you empower and embolden militant Islamists who regard your gestures as signs of weakness and capitulation.
The issue is not that all Muslims are terrorists or radicals or extremists. We all know that the majority of Muslims are not. We also know that many peace-loving Muslims are victims of Islamist violence.
The issue is this: what drives hundreds of millions of Muslims worldwide to call for the death of Jews?
What drives millions of Muslims to riot, destroy property, and take innocent lives in reaction to the Danish cartoons?
What drives tens of thousands of Muslims to demand the execution of a British teacher whose only "crime" was allowing her students to name their teddy bears "Mohammed"?
What drives countless Muslims worldwide to actively participate in, or fund, or provide nurture to, terrorist organizations?
What drives Muslims in mosques in America to proclaim and distribute materials that call for hatred of and the destruction of infidels?
What drives entire Islamic countries to prohibit the building of a Christian church or synagogue?
To assume, as you apparently do, that what drives these actions is not an ideology embedded in the holy books of Islam, but rather other "root causes," most of which you lay at the feet of America and the West, is at best naïve and at worst dangerous.
Lastly, I must address your statement that "Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance." Unfortunately, the examples you gave are the exception rather than the rule.
Historically speaking, I seriously doubt the Egyptian Copts, the Lebanese Maronites, the Christians in Bethlehem, the Assyrians, the Hindus, the Jews, and many others who have been persecuted by Islamic violence and supremacism, would agree with your assertion.
For instance, Christians and Jews became "Dhimmis," a second class group under Islam. Dhimmis were forced to wear distinctive clothing; it was Baghdad's Caliph Al-Mutawakkil, in the ninth century, who designated a yellow badge for Jews under Islam, which Hitler copied and duplicated in Nazi Germany nearly a thousand years later.
I witnessed first-hand the "tolerance" of Islam when Islamists ravaged my country of birth, Lebanon, in the 1970's, leaving widespread death and destruction in their wake. I saw how they re-paid the tolerance that Lebanese Christians extended toward them. My experience is not an isolated one. When you make an unfounded assertion about the "proud tradition" of tolerance in Islam, you do a great disservice to the hundreds of millions of non-Muslims who have been killed, maimed, enslaved, conquered, subjugated or displaced – in the cause of Islamic jihad.
Mr. President, those of us like me who are ringing the alarm in America about the threat of radical Islam would like nothing better than to peacefully co-exist with the Muslim world. Most Americans would like nothing better than to peacefully co-exist with the Muslim world. The obstacle to achieving this does not lie with us in America and the West. It lies with the hundreds of millions of Muslims worldwide, including many of their spiritual leaders, who take seriously the repeated calls to jihad in the Qur'an and the Hadith. Who regard "infidels" as inferior and worthy of conquering, subjugating and forcibly converting. Who support "cultural jihad" as a means to subvert non-Muslim societies from within. Who take seriously the admonitions throughout the Qur'an and the Hadith to convert the world to Islam – by force if necessary – and bring it under the rule of Allah.
Unless you are willing to courageously and honestly accept this, your aspirations for worldwide comity and peace in the Middle East are doomed to fail.
Sincerely,
Brigitte Gabriel
