Muslims slaughter Muslims: where's the outcry

The article below is of great significance for our understanding of the true dynamics of the Arab-Israel conflict.

Since the advent of Zionism as a movement, c. 130 years ago, an estimated 60,000 Arabs have been killed by Jews and (since 1948) by Israelis. This number is an estimate of Arabs killed in Israel's defensive wars, as well as those killed when they mounted terror attacks, and civilian casualties. Almost all of these Arabs were armed Arabs engaged in armed conflict against Israel, where the Arab side was the aggressor.

Of that number, about 6,000 thousand were Palestinians, most of whom were armed terrorists killed in the process of committing, or preparing to commit, terror attacks against Israeli civilians, or in Israeli reprisals for such attacks.

Yet these 6,000 are the ''martyred heroes'' of Arab media (and some western media) whose deaths are considered proof of Israel's hatred of, and intent to genocide, the Palestinian people who number somewhere around 9,000,000 (c. 3,000,000 in Israel and c. 6,000,000 in the Palestinian Diaspora). And for the deaths of these 6,000, Israel is excoriated as the world's worst oppressor criminal terrorist state.


YET....

Since 1994, more Palestinians have been killed by Palestinians under the rule of Arafat and Hamas than have been killed by Israel. Both the media and the Arab world are silent.

Recently, the civil war in Gaza has claimed hundreds of civilians on both sides, including innocent children murdered as they sat in the back seat of their father's car. Both the media and the Arab world are silent.

And now, during the Hezbollah and Fatah-el-Islam fighting in Lebanon, the carnage of Arab against Arab is horrendous....and both the media and the Arab world are silent.


AND HISTORICALLY.....
Since 1948, somewhere between 12 million to 20 million Muslims have been killed by Muslims, in endless wars between Muslim states and within Muslim states around the world.

The one single individual who can be credited with killing more Muslims than any other person in the entire world, and across all of world history…..is none other than Saddam Hussein, the Muslim Arab tyrannical dictator of Iraq (c. 1,300,000 Muslims killed during his 32-year reign of terror…including c. 800,000 on both sides in the 8-year Iran-Iraq war).

Yet, across the entire Muslim world, Saddam is adulated and mourned as a great Arab leader, a modern-day Saladin, a hero.

World wide, and across the entire Arab and Muslim world, there is no acrimony, not even any critique, for the tens of millions killed in Muslim vs. Muslim wars. There is no condemnation of Saddam as the butcher of Shi'ites, the mass-murderer of Kurds. There is not even a critical word to be heard anywhere in the Muslim world for the mind-bogglingly obscene child-abuse of the Iranian army's Basiji: the thousands of hapless helpless 10- to 14-year-old boys drafted into Iranian military service and deployed to clear minefields in the Iran-Iraq war, by walking through the mine-fields!(*); or the child-abuse raised to the level of public policy in the Palestinian Authority as a Mickey Mouse surrogate teaches 5-year olds that they must eternally hate Jews and kill Israels and fight for Islam's domination of the entire world.

But there is endless acrimony against Israel for its successful defensive actions; and there is endless acrimony against the USA for its retaliatory defensive and pre-emptive wars against Islamofascist terrorism in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Apparently, the death of Muslims matters to Muslim leaders only when caused by Jews or Americans. This appalling fact of history bespeaks an abysmal moral failure in Islamic society: an inability to challenge evil within the society, and an all too eager willingness to blame others, especially Jews (and in latter day times, Americans) for that evil.

The cause of the Arab-Israel conflict is not Israeli repression of Palestinians -- the Lebanese and Egyptians have done far worse to their Palestinians, and without the need to defend themselves against the endless terror war that Palestinian terrorists have waged against Israel.

The cause of the Arab-Israel conflict is not any fictional hatred that Israelis bear toward Palestinians -- the Lebanese and Iraqis harbor a truly frothing and fomenting hatred of Palestinians, as do Kuwaitis and Saudis, and without ever having been at the receiving end of a Palestinian suicide bomber.

The cause of the Arab-Israel conflict is this obvious, but unmentionable in polite society, abysmal moral failure of Muslim society. No matter what the cause, no matter how great the cost, no matter how horrible the Muslim suffering, never take responsibility for Muslim crimes. Never acknowledge the essentially apartheid nature of Islamic religious discrimination against Jews and Christians. And never allow a Jew to have authority.

This is religiously legislated apartheid, politically legitimized Jew-hatred. That apartheid, that hatred, is the cause of the conflict and the reason for its having become the longest war in world history.

David Meir-Levi
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(*) The boys wore Plexiglas keys around their necks. These were the keys to paradise, and to the 72 virgins, to which the boys would ascend immediately and painlessly if they were killed by the land mines. The maimed, one-legged survivors of such mishaps still live in Iran today...still awaiting their virgins.

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Jenin in Lebanon: So where is the outcry?
Jonathan KayNational Post (Canada)
Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Last week, the Lebanese army attacked a squalid Palestinian refugee camp that's become infested with Islamist suicide terrorists and guerilla fighters. On May 20, government troops surrounded the camp, with tanks and artillery pieces shelling it at close range. Army snipers gunned down anything that moved. At least 18 civilians were killed, and dozens more injured. Water and electricity were cut off. By week's end, much of the camp had been turned into deserted rubble.

Thousands of terrified residents fleeing the camp reported harrowing stories of famished, parched families trapped in their basements.How did the rest of the world react? The Arab League quickly condemned "the criminal and terrorist acts carried out by the terrorist group known as Fatah al-Islam," and vowed to "give its full support to the efforts of the army and the Lebanese government." EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana also condemned Fatah al-Islam, and declared Europe's "support" for Lebanon. And the UN Security Council called the actions of Fatah al-Islam "an unacceptable attack" on Lebanon's sovereignty. As for the Western media, most outlets ignored the story following the first flurry of news reports.At this point, please indulge me by re-reading the first paragraph of this column -- except this time, substitute the world "Israeli" for "Lebanese" in the first sentence.

Let's imagine what the world's reaction would be if the ongoing siege were taking place in Gaza or the West Bank instead of the Nahr al Bared refugee camp on the outskirts of Tripoli, Lebanon.First of all, a flood of foreign journalists would descend on the camp to document Israel's cruelty and barbarism, and the story would remain front page news to this day. Al-Jazeera would be a 24/7 montage of grieving mothers swearing revenge on the Zionist butchers, and rumours would swirl of mass graves and poison gas.

The Arab League, EU and United Nations would condemn Israeli aggression -- as would the editorial board of The New York Times. The Independent would dispatch Robert Fisk to embed with Fatah al-Islam. And the newspaper's cartoonist, Dave Brown, would produce another award-winning rendition of his signature theme: Jews eating Palestinian babies.Actually, we don't need to speculate: What I have just written is exactly what happened when the Israeli army invaded the Jenin refugee camp to root out terrorists in April, 2002, a battle that was similar in scale to this month's siege at Nahr al Bared. (At Jenin, 52 refugee camp residents were killed -- most of them gunmen, according to Human Rights Watch.

At Nahr al Bared, the figure is 45 and climbing.) The main difference between the two sieges is that Israel's army put its troops at far greater risk by invading Jenin with infantry -- whereas the less humane Lebanese army has simply pummelled Nahr al Bared with explosives from a distance. Jews apparently care a lot more about saving Palestinian civilians than do Lebanese soldiers.For years, we have been told that Palestinian suffering and "humiliation" is at the root of the Middle East conflict, as well as the Western-Muslim clash of civilizations more generally. This is nonsense: The 200,000-plus Palestinian refugees who live in Lebanese camps are treated worse than dogs -- with no access to decent schools or good jobs -- and no one in the Arab world cares a whit.

In fact, many Arabs seem to embrace the same blind anti-Palestinian hatred of which Israel is typically accused. When Lebanese armoured personnel carriers rolled through Tripoli on May 20, they got a standing ovation from local residents. "We wish the government would destroy the whole camp and the rest of the camps," one local told The New York Times. "Nothing good comes out of the Palestinians."Just as Lebanon's stew of eternally warring Sunnis, Shiites, Christians, Hezbollah terrorists and militarized clans serves as a Mediterranean microcosm for the political dysfunction of the Arab world, this month's events capture perfectly the utter cynicism of the Islamic world's trumped up vilification of Israel, and the West as a whole. As with the Muslim- on-Muslim slaughter in Darfur, Iraq, Pakistan, Gaza and a dozen other hot spots, the siege at Nahr al Bared shows that what inflames "the Muslim street" (for lack of a better cliche) isn't Muslim suffering, but the relatively tiny fraction thereof that jihadi propagandists and their Western apologists can lay at the feet of Jews and Christians.Muslim blood apparently comes cheap -- but only when it's drawn by other Muslims.

Jkay@nationalpost.com© National Post 2007
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