Many people wonder what lies behind the Arab's irrational and bizarre rage against Israel. Compared
to the millions of Muslims slaughtered by OTHER Muslims in Sudan, Syria, Iraq and other countries,
Palestinian deaths in Israel are relatively few. Yet the millions massacred and millions more
repressed by MOSLEMS does not evoke Arab outrage as do the events in Israel. Why the double
standard? This double standard in the Middle East is due to the fact that Arab countries are shame-
based societies, and Israeli repression of Arabs is seen not just as brutal, but also as
humiliating.
Arabs say that, "Israel is a colonial outpost" and that as a result while Israeli Arabs may have
ballots and free speech, they have no dignity. The Israeli presence and simple existence represents
a total humiliation of all the Arab regimes. It's a continuous reminder of the disgusting weakness
of the Arabs as people, of their society and political system, as well as an indication of the
impotence and corruption of their regimes." If the Jew were to shower the Arab with kindness and
charity and make them wealthy and safe, the Arab would STILL try to murder the Jew. The Arab
doesn't hate the Jew for anything the Jew has done. The Arab hates the Jew because he exists. When
the Jew stands side by side with an Arab the Arab is humiliated because he not only looks like a
failure, he is one.
Arab humiliation seems to have become a mainstay since the fall of the Ottoman Empire. The Arab
world can simply not get over their lost pride as a people who once ruled and represented the
epitome of civilization, and now are relegated to crummy Third World status. Israel and America
represent for the Arab world the source of this humiliation - if the Israeli and the American model
of the real world simply exist..then Islam will NEVER have Paradise. The SUCCESS of Israel and
America mean that the Koran is irrelevant. The truth of the Koran is just brand X in a dirty brown
box if an American and his Israeli friends own the supermarket. Yes? Hell, we BUILT the supermarket.
All the Arab has built is a pile of camel [censored]. And he tracks that in and out of the Mosque every
time he prays for God to give him some nuts to go with his limp [censored].
Many other speculations are offered to explain Arab rage and frenzy against Israel and the West.
But essentially the Arab world subconsciously realizes that Israel and America are standing there
ignoring the Koran, because the Koran has nothing to offer people who already have it ALL. The Koran
appeals to beggars and people in jail. It appeals to people who are losers, not people who own their
own swimming pools and drive a Mercedes.
Understanding the underlying causes for Arab sentiments is not academic; it is the only way to get
to the bottom of the issues. Understanding their mentality is the true key to help provide us with a
meaningful strategy. We can never devise a workable plan as long as we focus on the superficial
causes, and do not understand the driving force of our adversary. Does the Arab world just want
justice for the Palestinians? Not really. Equal rights (rights they do not have under any Arab
ruler)? Some land to live peacefully? Or perhaps they want something more that they simply are not
telling us?
I submit that the true reason and core root of Arab anger is religious and not political. The Arab
religious dream is worthless and his world view is POINTLESS as long as Israel and America can laugh
in his face.
The Arab world's opposition to Israel is not due to any Israeli actions, but rather to the very
existence of the Land of Israel and Jewish control over the land. This control is a perpetual thorn
in their side, and the root cause for their "shame" and humiliation.
Why? Because Muslims fundamentally believe that Israel's existence - and Jewish control over Israel
- in what they consider to be their 'conquered land,' is a desecration of their religious vision. It
says God likes Jews. He makes Jews a SUCCESS. And you Arabs are not even noticed by God because you
couldn't pour [censored] out of a boot with directions on the heel. If by some miracle the Arab got Israel
back they would start whining for Spain and Sicily also and Hungary and all the other lands they
once ruled before they were slapped silly and given the boot. Islam would move right into your house
and eat everything in your icebox like they do in France.
This is the reason why Muslims have always built mosques on the sacred land of Jews and Christians
(e.g. the Temple Mount, Bethlehem) to demonstrate their absolute belief that Muslim control over
these lands fulfils and realizes the Divine will. They feel so Inferior they have to take something
away from others to have something themselves. Arabs don't create, they steal.
This religious belief is the true cause for the rage of the Arab/Muslim world against Israel. It is
not about human rights, Palestinian sovereignty, Arab dignity, oil, money, harems, or any other
issue. No amount of land return, no concessions will satisfy them - other than the elimination of
Jewish control in Israel.
As uncomfortable as it may be, we will never be able to resolve the issues until we realize that
this is a religious war not a political one.
Many of us would like to conveniently believe that the issues are political ones, because that would
make the situation a lot more manageable and the problem a lot simpler. We know how to deal with
political challenges. But if this is a religious war, and the Arab/Muslim will never make peace. He
will never share. There IS no peace in Islam. Islam was founded by a man who murdered people who
laughed at him, it isn't hard to figure out what Islam really is.
Our existing modalities are secular ones. Our political systems and governmental institutions have
been built with secular goals in mind, without much consideration to spiritual and religious values,
which we have relegated to the private sector. We therefore do not see the world in context of
religious and spiritual vision. That's why we cannot fathom or understand the rage of the Arab world
today. That is why they appear to be so Looney.
And that is what Islam is, it is a [censored] Ga-ga boogah boogah with a gun.
And this is why a Palestinian state is not possible, and for that matter not do-able. A state will
never satisfy the Arab world. They will simply see it as a step in the direction of their re-
conquest of Israel. They do not want a state for political reasons, but for religious ones. That is
the key to the underlying issues. As much as we wish to make the Arafats of the world our "partners
in peace," we must realize that our secular notions of peace are not part of their agenda at all.
Arafat and all Arabs can't help themselves. They are trapped inside their own humiliated beliefs,
swallowed up in their total incapacity to adapt to the modern reality of the world that left their
limited religion behind centuries ago.
But what lies beneath and behind - what fuels - this Arab rage and passion? To understand this we
need to enter into the secret world of religious passion. And the SHAME of being Arab. As long as
Israel is there as such an OBVIOUS success, then the Arabs have to face the fact that they smell and
that God must be holding His nose.