Bibi’s Nameless Enemies

Sha’i ben-Tekoa

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On the eve of the third anniversary of the invasion from Gaza by “Angels from Muslim Hell,” Israel’s prime minister addressed the nation.

He rightly evoked some of the horror done that day and promised, “We will settle accounts with those who dispatched and carried out the horrific massacre in our towns, our kibbutzim, our cities. There is no forgiveness for the murderers, the abusers, the arsonists. There is no forgiveness for the destroyers, the looters, the kidnappers. We are hunting without letup the human-beasts who attacked us with shocking cruelty, and those who held the hostages with shocking cruelty…We are eliminating them one by one – they are not worthy of walking upon the face of the earth…We will eradicate Hamas’s regime of blood…We will destroy it. That is how one ought to deal with those agents of darkness who aspire to destroy us all.”

Four times, he spoke of “enemies,” their “violent outbursts…the indoctrination of hatred toward Jews and Israelis courses through their blood. They simply imbibe it with their mothers’ milk. The October 7 massacre brought their unrestrained savagery to an all-time low. These sons of Satan filmed their horrific deeds to strike terror and fear into us.”

But he spoke the name Hamas only once.

He spoke of the ‘Axis of Evil,’ of “fundamentalist terrorism,” in addition to the terrorists being “murderers, abusers, arsonists, human-beasts.”

But he was silent on the ideology in the heads of those sadistic, sex-crazed, homicidal maniacs. He said nothing of the beliefs that drove them to such behavior.

He sees in them evil individuals with whom Israel must “settle accounts.”

but said nothing against their religion which is in the very title of their cult: The Muslim Brotherhood. That is what the founders of Hamas said they were in 1988, the local Brotherhood franchise.

But not a word about their religion from the prime minister, which name, Islam, means in English “Submission.” Submission to Allah and his prophet, who they say was the last and greatest after all the prophets in the Jewish Bible, and the destiny for every person in the world is to join the Umma, the international congregation of Believers in the One Tue Faith.

The prime minister that evening spoke of these vicious Hamitic Ishmaelites as if they were common criminals who deserved death for their crimes, but said nothing of what they believe in that drove them to their insane, demonic orgy of cruelty.

At least he did not call them “Palestinians” because there is nothing “Palestinian” about these people. They are members of the Muslim Brotherhood created in 1928 with nary a thought to creating a “Palestinian” state. The purpose was to combat the reforms in Islam by Ataturk toward secularism. As traditional Muslims, their mission in life was jihad, fighting for the messianic goal of a global caliphate, and not to imitate the secular democratic West, Ataturk’s program.

The Hamas employees on October 7 were not “Palestinian patriots” pining for their allegedly stolen patria, but holy warriors driven by their antisemitic religion.

Islam is all about exterminating all the world’s faiths, starting with the Jews’. In the Koran, the Jews are identified as a Believer’s greatest enemy (cf. Sura 5:82)

Israel’s prime minister and the president never have a bad word for Islam or the fiction of a “Palestinian” people with their alleged right to a state in the Palestine created by the League of Nations explicitly for the historic Jewish people.

It was a significant feature of the pioneering, secular Zionists left and right, that both camps wanted religion to have little or no role in their future, enlightened Judenstaat. The first Zionists were, fashionable in their time, post-religious and determined not to define any conflict with the Arabs, as they called them, as religious, because then there could be no hope for a peaceful compromise.

On more than one occasion, this writer heard the famous Dr. Beilin, mastermind of the abominable Oslo fiasco, say, more or less: “Let’s call it a political conflict between two nations that can be negotiated and a compromise reached.” Beilin was a major supporter of the fairy tale of a “Palestinian nation” and its allegedly noble quest for a little state next door to Israel.

The historical record shows that when the League of Nations in 1920 was founded and created Mandatory Palestine, local resistance was led by the Grand Mufti in Jerusalem Haj Amin who furiously and murderously opposed the creation of a jurisdiction called Palestine. He claimed, and rightly so, Muslims had never heard of such a country. The name Palestine was known to Christians and Jews as a synonym for the Bible’s Promised Land, but was never used by Muslims. In the Koran, there is no mention of such a country, no mention of Jerusalem. All the action takes place in the Arabian Peninsula.

In response to the birth of Mandatory Palestine explicitly connected to the Jews, an outraged Haj Amin began publishing a newspaper in Jerusalem to combat this anti-Muslim outrage. He called it Al-Suria al-Janubia/ Southern Syria. That was his name for the territory in which Jerusalem was located. The newspaper’s name was its political line: there is no such country called Palestine; it is all southern Syria whose capital is Damascus. In over thirteen centuries of rule, the Muslims never did anything with a country called Palestine. They built nothing and never cared for Jerusalem as the capital of any country or state.

And for the coming Biblical generation of forty years after Mandatory Palestine’s creation, up to the 1960s, Haj Amin was the leader of the Arabs west of the Jordan River whose vocabulary was exclusively religious.

For sure, it was not “Palestinian” since in that generation, only the secular Zionists were proud to be called Palestinian Jews who established the Palestine Symphony Orchestra and the Palestine Post (today’s Jerusalem Post) and the Palestine Electricity Corporation and countless other enterprises with Palestine in the name.

And with the socialists being the dominant faction who led the Yishuv into statehood, the character and personality of the new state was decidedly anti-religious.

Read Herzl’s “Old-New Land,” his Jules Verne-esque time-travel fantasy of the future state of Jews in which he envisioned the clergy of the three major faiths and their adherents of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, getting along swimmingly. Herzl never imagined the Jews would have to fight and die in war of independence and continued to be bloodied in future wars and terrorist atrocities for decades to come.

It is about time that Israelis outgrow this Paleo-Zionist dream, and one major catalyst for that should be October 7 when the Muslims exposed themselves as never before to be a culture of homicidal sex maniacs and torturers on fire with their hatred of Jews that burns in the nuclear core of the Islamic faith.

And one step toward that healthier aspiration should be dropping the habit of referring to “extremist Islam…radical Islam…Islamism…Islamists…radical extremist Islamists…”

These are all artifacts of psychological defense suggesting Islam is composed of two types: a minority of pro-violence Islamist terrorists, and all the rest who do not support these “extremists.” Sorry, but public opinion polls do not show that. Hamas has no political

opposition, and one reason for that is that anyone who voices opposition to Hamas gets murdered.

Sadly, this truth seems to have been unknown by Trump and Netanyahu after October 7 when they called for destroying Hamas, which would lead, they imagined, to a better life for the people of Gaza who are not Hamas.

This false division is also in the heart of Trump’s peace plan – not that, so far, Hamas has been removed from Gaza, the first step in the plan. They are still there in about a third of the Strip, rearming, recruiting new members. Nothing has changed. And because Israel has insisted nothing will change before Hamas surrenders its weapons, nothing will change.

Netanyahu has forgotten (or maybe not) that in 1982, the IDF successfully drove all the PLO gangsters away from the Lebanon border, retreating into Beirut where the IDF continued hitting them until a ceasefire was negotiated by U.S. diplomat Phillip Habib. The PLO agreed to leave Lebanon altogether but the last obstacle was their refusal to surrender their weapons before boarding ships to take them away. They said they would prefer to be killed in Israeli air strikes than submit to the humiliation of handing over their weapons. And they won that demand.

Ergo, Hamas has also more than once said they have never agreed to turn over their weapons and never will. I reason Trump’s big peace plan will go no further than his “Deal of the Century” for a two-state solution in his first term designed by his know-nothing son-in-law that went nowhere.

The only rational course toward peace for Israel is the complete eviction from Gaza of half the population that is supported by UNRWA, the greatest welfare scam in history. Like the PLO’s gunmen who boarded ships with their weapons in the port of Junieh who were taken away to other Arab countries, so the entirety of the UNRWA scam must be dismantled and their 1 million freeloaders resettled in the fifty-six officially Muslim states who must be pressured to rescue their co-religionists from the rubble Israel has made of the Strip.

Israel must also annex the Strip as per the UN Charter of 1945 that adopted the Palestine Mandate of 1922 whose map assigned all the land “from the River to the sea” to be legitimately the property of the historic Jewish nation. Trump and his JINO tools Kushner and Witkoff envision a resurrected Gaza that would be Judenrein/Jew-free, off limits to Jews living there and enjoying a beautiful beach.

Israel has to face the truth that the conflict is not over disputed territory but religion and that Islam is a form of antisemitism, a Jew-hatred so central to this belief system that is a purloined and perverted version of Judaism. Memri.org has an archive of contemporary sermons in mosques who weekly spew hatred of Jews that is far older than this generation’s fantasy of “Palestinian freedom-fighters.”

Israel needs to attack the cosmic lie of a “Palestinian” nation with alleged rights to a state in the country the League of Nations invented for the Jews,

Israel needs to launch a PR campaign linking Hamas to the same demons who destroyed the World Trade Center, murdered some 3,000 that day but over time another 6,000 as well who died from having inhaled the toxins in the air when the towers crumbled.

Israel needs to link Israel’s fight for survival to the beleaguered Europeans in France, Belgium, the UK. Israel shares with them the same cruel enemy, not fake “Palestinians” but Muslims, the same community that has “oppressed and humiliated” Jews every day (as per the Koran) since its illegitimate birth in the year 622.

Israel needs to slay the Goliath of lies that is the “Palestinian people” and strip naked the fictions of their victimhood and right to a state.

The enemy is not the “Palestinians” but Islam.

PHANTOM NATION: Inventing the “Palestinians” as the Obstacle to Peace is available at Amazon.com in hard cover or a Kindle ebook. Sha’i ben-Tekoa’s podcasts can be heard on www.phantom-nation.com.

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