Inversion of meaning

We are now told that when a woman says "no" she really means it, "no" does
not mean "yes" as it used to. But, when a Palestinian says "peace" does he
really mean it, or have the rules changed there too.
Before WWII anti-Semites, which meant most Europeans, believed that the Jews
had too much power, but when they attacked the Jews and killed them it
turned out that the Jews had no power at all, they were in fact powerless.
It was also commonly believed that Jews were only interested in money, yet
one of the main motivations for the war against the Jews was the German's
own money-grubbing. They stole Jewish money, art, apartments, about
everything they could get their hands on. Nazi loot helped to run the war
against the Jews, they were in fact forced to pay for their own destruction.
Many concepts that apply to conflicts are often the mirror of their true
meaning, and this inversion of meaning can be deadly. Thus, most liberals
believe that Israel is the bad guy because we have a strong army and we
"occupy" Palestinian land. Yet, in fact, the war against Israel has been
motivated not by the Arab desire to establish a State and live in peace with
us, but rather to totally destroy us. And this is clear in all the
statements of Hamas and the majority of Palestinians. But it is very
difficult for a liberal to believe that the Palestinian "underdog" actually
wants to continue the conflict and kill all Israelis. Only the "official"
structure, the PA, that appears to have no control and little support, says
that they want a "two state solution" and peace. But, when they say this
can we believe even them. I think not.
There is no addiction to peace in Palestinian culture, to them peace means
what will be left after they destroy the State of Israel. What happened in
Gaza following the Israeli disengagement is symptomatic. First, they
destroyed everything Israeli they could get their hands on, and specifically
they burnt the synagogues in a spasm of hatred not very different from the
Nazi burning of synagogues in Germany in 1939 and onwards. Then they looted
the remains. Further, they had military rallies in many locations, showing
how by force of arms they had expelled all the Jews. This of course, was a
rehearsal in their minds for what is going to happen when they do the same
thing in the West Bank. Did anyone see a demonstration or a march for peace
in Gaza? (right, you've got to be kidding!) Have they educated their kids
for peace? No, on the contrary, they have trained them for war and to become
suicide bombers is the apex of little Palestinian's ambitions. So the irony
is that the stronger party Israel is the one that wants peace, and the
weaker one the Palestinians is the one that wants war.
It is a matter of culture and ideology. The Jews want peace because Jews
always try to avoid a fight. This has been our main means of survival,
although it didn't work very well in recent history, so we decided that in
order to survive we did indeed have to fight back, and in order to do so we
needed a place to fight back from and a place that we wanted to fight for.
The Palestinians want war, because their religion/culture is based on
violence. If you don't believe me look at their history, and the places in
the world where Muslims live. That's where you find the worst violent
conflicts (and this has nothing to do with Israel, notwithstanding the
propaganda), such as Darfur, south Sudan (recently resolved), south
Philippines, Iraq, East Timor (resolved after much bloodshed), Aceh
(Indonesia), etc. The Palestinians believe that because they have the
backing of the whole Arab and Muslim world they can go on fighting forever,
until Israel is finally defeated. They accept defeat as a temporary
situation, believing that eventually their day will come. Nevertheless, in
an inversion of meaning the western liberals who support them call
themselves "peace activists," perhaps through ignorance or psychological
self-delusion, not recognizing the reality of the situation.
George Orwell described this inversion of meaning in his famous novel
"Nineteen Eighty Four" about totalitarianism and he called it "doublespeak."
It applies just as much to the rantings of Islamists as to the orations of
'Big Brother' and Hitler and Stalin. For example, last Friday an explosion
occurred at a Hamas military rally in Gaza that killed 19 people. Hamas
attributed this to an Israeli attack and in retaliation fired dozens of
rockets into Israel. Yet, the PA agreed with Israel and confirmed that this
was an explosion caused by Hamas itself. Nevertheless a whole series of
attacks has now been unleashed because of this Hamas lie. And most
Palestinians will believe them, since Israel is the scapegoat for anything
that goes wrong for them.
There is no doubt a small minority of Palestinians who really want peace,
who yearn for a time when there will be no conflict in their land, and when
peaceful coexistence with Israel can lead to prosperity for all. But, they
are too few to be a significant factor. The rest of them who claim to be
for peace are poseurs and propagandists taking advantage of the inversion of
meaning.