Thursday, October 21, 2004

Secret

So the secret is out. The Head of the Reform Party of Syria, Faris Ghadry wrote an article in Jordan entitled: "Israel Builds for Nobel Prizes, Arabs Build for Suicide Bombers." At least one Arab finally figured it out.
I don't mind if Palestinians send their children to throw stones at IDF soldiers and tanks. While they think they can solve their problems with primitive violence, our children are playing with computer games, which is a much better way to get the pilots and engineers we need for the future.
While their children are learning how many Palestinian Arabs it takes to
kill ten Jews, our children are learning advanced math. While their young
men are strutting around with masks and guns, ours do their duty in the IDF
and then study at university.
Of the six men who won the Nobel prizes in Physics and Chemistry this year,
three were Israeli and two were American Jews. That is an incredible
statistic if you think about. Jews are about 0.5% of the world's population
(14m out of 3 b), but have won ca. 22% of the Noble Prizes, that are based
purely on the highest kind of merit.
This is not to say that Arabs are in any way incapable of doing that kind of
work and winning the prizes, as a few have done. But, it is their culture
that makes them think that violence is the answer to their political
problems. Their society is immature, they have not yet learnt to co-exist
with other societies nor to blame themselves for their own inadequacies.
In the Government-controlled Egyptian newspaper Al Ahram an article was
published blaming the Sharon Government for the explosions in Sinai.
Specifically rumors that Israelis were kept at the crossing to Egypt and not
allowed to enter in order to save them from the Mossad-set explosions were
presented as fact. In Egypt, taking the blame off the Arabs and placing it
on Israel is a standard way of dealing with problems. The attacks were seen
as a way for Sharon to take focus away from the operation in Gaza and then
blaming it on al Qaeda.
Many people are disturbed by these evident lies and disinformation, but I
accept it. Better that our enemies are not dealing with reality. If they
exist in a fog of denial and misperception how can they deal with reality.
It was this lack of realism that led ultimately to the downfall of Nazism
and Communism, more than just the guns and bullets. Not being able to deal
with reality as it is results in poor understanding and bad decisions. One
who knew the Arabs very well, Lawrence of Arabia, said that the Arabs dwell
in "a dream palace of their own making." The longer the Arabs indulge in
self-deception the greater will be the gap between our realistic view of the
world and their fantasy.

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