Gerald A. Honigman is a Florida educator who has done extensive
doctoral studies in Middle Eastern Affairs. He has created and
conducted counter-Arab propaganda programs for college youth, has
lectured on numerous campuses and other platforms, and has publicly
debated many Arab spokesmen. His articles and op-eds have been
published in dozens of newspapers, magazines, academic journals and
websites all around the world.
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March
28, 2012
No sooner had a young Jewish girl been run down
while at school by a rabid beast who grabbed her by
the hair and then blew her brains out, a European
Union's spokesperson offered the following wisdom…
On March 19, Baroness Ashton, the EU’s High
Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security
Policy, compared the murder of a young rabbi and his
two little boys and the little girl mentioned above
in Toulouse to what happens at times to children in
Gaza.
While it's horrific when any children are killed,
there is no such valid comparison.
Israel repeatedly goes out of its way to endanger
the lives of its own young soldiers --by
telegraphing its punches in advance (dropping
leaflets, making cell phone calls, etc.) to warn the
non-combatant population of pending retaliatory
strikes and arranging payback as surgically pinpoint
as possible. How many other armies do that?
Committing the double war crime by the Geneva
Conventions (the Perfidy Clause, etc.) of
deliberately targeting Israeli civilians, the Arabs
fire from and hide behind the skirts of their women
and the carriages and homes of their own babies.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded
that there was no “… comparison between a deliberate
massacre of children and the defensive, surgical
actions” of the Israeli military that were “intended
to hit terrorists who use children as a human
shield.”
Baroness Ashton--like the others--knows this…but
that does not matter. Indeed, it rarely does to such
folks.
The world lost an exception to this all-too-typical
European degeneration late last year with the
passing of Czechoslovakia's Vaclav Havel--one of the
true giants of the past century. The Washington
Post's Michael Gerson did justice to Havel in his
December 23, 2011 op-ed, A Cold War Hero, which also
graced the pages of my local Florida paper.
Revealed within that op-ed were some other telling
comments. Follow these excerpts…
"In his speech before Congress, Havel urged
Americans to put 'morality ahead of politics' and to
foster 'responsibility--responsibility to something
higher than my family, my country, my company, my
success'…American intellectual Noam Chomsky called
Havel's speech an 'embarrassingly silly, morally
repugnant Sunday School sermon.' "
Now, for those who do not know, Chomsky--a
linguist--has become a self-proclaimed Middle East
expert and demi-god of academia among the Left and
the masses of adoring, but largely innocently
ignorant, students.
Chomsky likes to pontificate about Israel's alleged
sins. The problem is, those very sins he--like much
of the rest of academia--are not shy about
scrutinizing and taking Israel to task over are
committed in far greater severity by the so-called
Arab world which surrounds the Jewish State. Yet,
for decades, it has been Israel and the Jews which
have received the overwhelming brunt of his
duplicitous wrath. He does not hesitate to speak of
racist Zionists, yet I've yet to hear or read about
his lectures about who the real victims of racism
are in the region and who their real abusers are.
While Israeli society is not perfect, compared to
what scores of millions of non-Arabs face daily in
many of the almost two dozen member states of the
"Arab League" (not to mention abuses elsewhere in
the realm of Islam), Israel is indeed a virtual
dream society. If you doubt this, do some easy
research on the Internet regarding the plight of
Kurds, black Africans, Copts, "Berbers," native
Jews,www.ekurd.net
and so forth in the region…all at the hands of their
(often genocidal) Arab subjugators. It's no accident
that the President of the Kurdistan National
Assembly of Syria wrote the Foreword to my own book
about this very subject http://q4j-middle-east.com,
and some of the major jacket comments are written by
an Amazigh ("Berber") publisher. Together, those two
men alone represent some 70 million, subjugated,
truly stateless, non-Arab peoples. And there are
many others as well, all with similar stories to
tell. Yet, who--besides a few authors like myself
and those oppressed people themselves--has been
telling those stories? Not the Chomskys, nor the
Baroness Austins--that's for sure.
As just another Chomskyism to consider, he typically
speaks of justice in "Palestine" while ignoring the
fact that purely Arab Jordan indeed sits on almost
80% of the original 1920 territory gifted to Arabs
in 1922 by the Brits. He ignores the masses of Arabs
who poured into the Mandate from elsewhere (Arab
settlers setting up Arab settlements in
Palestine)--documented by the League of Nations
Permanent Mandates Commission and other valid
sources--and refers to these folks simply as the
only true natives instead.
While demanding Israel take steps towards suicide so
that Arabs may get their 22nd state and second, not
first, in "Palestine," Chomsky, the world-renown
linguist, remains linguistically-challenged when it
comes to demanding similar rights for scores of
millions of subjugated, truly stateless, non-Arab
folks in the region. And I am aware of some bland
comments he has made about Kurds and such. But,
where are his books, lectures, pontifications, and
articles on those subjects? They're reserved only to
attack Jews and their sole, minuscule, resurrected
nation instead.
Chomsky's views about Israel should be given the
same respect as his comments about Vaclav Pavel
deserve.
Alas, as with Baroness Ashton, none of this makes
any difference to Chomsky. It's only an admittedly
imperfect Israel that either really care about. Both
simply accept the Arab narrative hook, line, and
sinker--despite the well-known propensity of Arabs
to engage in blatant lying for the cause…taqiyyah.
Now, also related to the above, think about what has
been going on in Syria for decades--let alone just
this past year. The current Butcher of Damascus
still has lots of catching up to do to match Papa
Assad.
Yet, one would be hard-pressed to know this until
very recently…
Scores of thousands of fellow Arabs, non-Arab Kurds,
Jews, and others have been slaughtered and many
others victimized in assorted ways over the past
half century--most of it under Assad rule. All while
Israel was being condemned for such things as
building a security barrier to protect its kids from
deliberately being disemboweled by their Arab
neighbors.
And, given what we've seen from the two other folks
already mentioned, why should Bashar al-Assad's
glamorous wife, Asma, be any different?
Keep in mind that before the current bloody mess
this past year and other incidents in between, in
one month alone in 1982, Hafez al-Assad slaughtered
between twenty thousand and forty thousand opponents
in what came to be known as "the Hama Solution" for
taking care of business. That's more dead Arabs than
in all the wars Israel has been forced to fight for
its survival in over sixty years.
During that same time period, the title of Ismet
Cherif Vanly's book, The Syrian Mein Kampf Against
The Kurds (Amsterdam 1968), also speaks volumes as
to what Syrian Arabs were involved in. Etc. and so
forth…
But, again, none of this matters.
For Asma, it's Gaza that's the real issue, and what
those nasty, barbaric Jews are up to. The latter are
simply expected to allow themselves to be targeted
by missiles, mortars, rockets, and other acts of
terror without doing anything about it.
Unfortunately, this is the world in which Israel
must survive today--one filled with Chomskys in the
Ivory Tower, Baroness Ashtons in leading world
organizations, and numerous versions of hypocritical
airheads like Asma al-Asad in Hollywood and
elsewhere.
It is long past time for those who truly care about
fairness and justice in the region to stand up and
be counted.
http://www.youtube.com/user/HonigmanG?feature=mhee
Gerald A. Honigman is a Florida educator who has
done extensive doctoral studies in Middle Eastern
Affairs. He has created and conducted counter-Arab
propaganda programs for college youth, has lectured
on numerous campuses and other platforms, and has
publicly debated many Arab spokesmen. His articles
and op-eds have been published in dozens of
newspapers, magazines, academic journals and
websites all around the world. Visit his
website at
http://www.geraldahonigman.com/
Gerald A. Honigman, a longtime contributing writer
and columnist
for ekurd.net. Honigman has published a major book,
"The
Quest For Justice In The Middle East--The
Arab-Israeli Conflict In Greater Perspective."
By Gerald A. Honigman for eKurd.net, March 28, 2012. You may reach the
author via email at: honigman6 (at) msn.com.
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