Unjustifed connections

Associated Press issued a retraction for having erroneously reported that PM
Blair in his speech after the London bombings attributed them in part to the
Israel-Palestine conflict. In fact Blair did not mention Israel or
Palestine in his speech, so that was a clear case of journalistic bias and
invention. What Blair did say was "some of the critical issues in the
Middle East" need to be "dealt with and sorted out." In the mind of the
leftist AP journalist Danielle Haas (who is Jewish) this was a catch phrase
meaning Israel. But, there is no objective connection between Israel and
terrorist bombings around the world.
Leftists conveniently use the bombings as an excuse for blaming Israel, thus
avoiding dealing with the reality of Islamic terrorism that is fundamentally
anti-Western. The Muslim assassin of Theo van Gogh in the Netherlands,
stated in his closing speech at his trial that he did the murder out of
conviction and nothing else. The 9/11 murderers in NY and Washington made
no demands, their aim was to violently attack key American targets in order
to do widespread damage and to cause extreme suffering.
In fact, Al Qaeda has had no connection to the Israel-Palestine conflict.
It was developed by Osama bin Laden and others after the Soviet Union was
defeated in Afghanistan. They saw the opportunity to train and build a
Saudi-inspired terrorist network there that would primarily attack the US.
As Israel was making concessions to the Palestinians during the 1990s under
the Oslo Accords, Al Qaeda was growing, and organizing a campaign of terror
that led to 9/11. There was never any connection to the Israel-Palestine
conflict. The attacks on the West come from Islamic antipathy to Western
civilization and perceived American interference in Muslim/Arab affairs
(Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Iraq, etc.). There is no correlation whatsoever
with the Israel situation.
The myth generated by Muslims and many leftist Western journalists is that
if there is progress towards peace in the Israel-Palestine conflict that
will somehow cause al Qaeda to reduce its terrorism. But, the opposite is
the case. Whenever there is a tendency towards a peaceful resolution
between Israel and the Palestinians, the Islamist components in Palestine,
namely Hamas and Islamic Jihad, increase their terrorist attacks in order to
prevent any improvement in relations. Thus, they have fired over 100
rockets and mortars into Israel in the past week, killing one woman and
injuring others, against the orders of PA Pres Abbas and his agreement with
Israel and the US, in order to prevent a peaceful disengagement of Israel
from Gaza. Rationally you would think that they would want Israel to
withdraw from Gaza, but anything that Israel does they automatically
violently oppose. They are against peace with Israel in principle and
together with other Islamist elements celebrated the bombings and killings
in London, as reported in some media. The Gaza based Sut Al Quds radio
station, which identifies itself with Palestinian Islamic Jihad, ran a live
broadcast from a Gaza mosque in which the preacher called the bombings
"blessed acts."
Dori Gold, former advisor to PM Sharon, in an interview on IBA news however,
interpreted Blair's comments as a deliberate coded message to his leftist
opponents. In other words, although he did not explicitly mention Israel,
he was saying to these leftist politicians and journalists in language that
they understood, that Israel is at fault and if we deal with Israel (force
it to make peace with the Palestinians) then the Islamist terrorists will be
appeased and will leave us alone. That is simply not the case. Did British
Muslims kill innocent British citizens of all backgrounds because they want
a peaceful settlement to the Israel-Palestine conflict? That is sheer
nonsense, but it is a deeply held view by the left.
The fact is that nothing the West can do will stop these attacks, short of
everyone converting to Islam. The only way to stop them is to recognize the
perpetrators as an implacable enemy fighting a war to the death against the
West and to respond in kind. Those who haven't yet recognized this reality
will do so in time as the casualties mount up.