Hamastan

Sons of Abraham

J. D. Pendry

Democracy works well doesn’t it? The most convincing candidates usually get the most votes. It should not have surprised anyone that the Palestinians who danced in the streets while the World Trade Center towers crumbled voted for terrorists’ promises. Anyone who can persuade a kid that straps on a bomb and blows himself to bits that 72 black-eyed virgins await him in paradise is probably a convincing campaigner.

Every Palestinian that voted knows that Hamas' purpose is the destruction of Israel. Now, a majority of Palestinians have told us that they too are of the same purpose. They made a democratic choice and must accept the consequences of it.

“Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it"

The Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him salvation, has said:

"The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems *[Ishmael] fight the Jews *[Isaac] (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. Only the Gharkad tree, (evidently a certain kind of tree) would not do that because it is one of the trees of the Jews.” (related by al-Bukhari and Moslem). – From the Hamas Charter [*my insertions]

It looks like the United Nations chose sides too, but that’s no real surprise. Is it?

According to the CIA World Fact Book, the population of Israel is 6,276,883. Historical statistics show that the Nazis killed 5,993,900 Jews while the rest of the appeasing world, including America, looked the other way. The Nazis murdered 67 percent of Europe’s Jewish population. Iranian President “Adolph” Mahmoud Ahmadinejad tells us that his philosophical brother’s final solution is a myth and proclaims that Israel should be wiped from the map.

Let Middle East geography add some perspective. Israel occupies a tiny sliver of land. With its back to the Mediterranean Sea, the Palestinian Territories (home to Hamas), Lebanon, Syria (home to Hezbollah), Jordan and Egypt immediately surround Israel. Of these border-sharing neighbors, only Egypt has a formal peace treaty with Israel. After signing the treaty with Israel, Islamic fascists assassinated Egypt’s Anwar Sadat for doing it. Sadat’s killers, the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, including members Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, who was later convicted of conspiring to blow up New York City landmarks, and Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's number two, holds the same ideology and goals as Hamas. If you continue to survey the lay of the land, next door to Jordan is Saudi Arabia and Iraq. The Saudi royals depend on us to pump their oil and defend them because they’re not competent to do either, yet they’re big financiers of terror and spreaders of radical Islam through Wahhabism. We’ve established a democratic beachhead in Iraq. Sitting between Iraq and a hard place – our second democratic beachhead, Afghanistan – is Iran complete with little Adolph and his Revolutionary Guards who are involved in internal and external terror and terrorist training.

We are gambling that the terrorist who made a fool of Jimmy Carter is playing a losing poker hand. Just as the Palestinians did, the people of Iran will decide the fate of their country, by either action or inaction. Our first gamble is that they will not make the same choice as did the Palestinians. Our second gamble is that the terrorist leader of Iran, who feels divinely led, will not attack Israel or his bordering neighbors that are progressing toward secular democratic governments. There are only a few reasons for someone to be as reckless and provocative in his statements as is the leader of Iran. He truly believes divine power is with him, he already has weapons of mass destruction that he can use to “wipe Israel from the map” or he’s incredibly stupid about the military power and intentions of the free nations he threatens.

The battle lines in this war are ancient. They are as old as the world itself. I’ll try to be brief. Abraham had two sons. His first, Ishmael, was born to his Egyptian maidservant, Hagar. God promised Abraham a son, but his wife Sarah was barren. Abraham decided, with the coercion of his wife, to work God’s promise of a son on his terms – thus Ishmael. Some years later, the promised son, Isaac, was born to Sarah and Abraham. Realizing the error of his ways, Abraham sent Ishmael and his mother away. God fulfilled his covenant and made the promised son the patriarch of the Hebrews. Ishmael became the father of the Arab race. Biblical teaching is that the promised son, Isaac (the Jews), inherited the Promised Land, which includes Jerusalem the sight of the Temple Mount. The Koran teaches that Ishmael (the Arabs) is the promised son of Abraham and rightful inheritor of the Promised Land. You cannot understand this conflict unless you look at it through history, which includes the ancient religious history, and understand how deeply it’s rooted.

Here’s America’s dilemma. We are allies of the Jews because of our country’s strong Christian connection and out of guilt that we didn’t act soon enough to prevent Hitler from murdering six million of them. We also consider ourselves allies of the Arabs, because we’re hostages to their oil owed to years of bungling American politicians with no foresight.

I know that it’s tough to impose supernatural ideas over the natural, but when one side has an entire generation totally driven by a supernatural ideology, it’s suicidal not to understand it and its root. Watching the recent death threats over the publishing of political cartoons of Mohamed in Danish and other European newspapers is making it clearer than ever that radical Islam cannot coexist with any modern and free society. Ultimately, one will destroy the other. Ideologies, however, never die. They may be subdued for generations, but never dead. They only end when time ends.

The Bible begins and ends with the struggle between Isaac and Ishmael. If you haven’t read about it, you might want to try it and see how it turns out. Maybe it’ll help you decide which side you and America should pick.

“But the democratic system cannot function if certain groups have one foot in the realm of politics and one foot in the camp of terror.” – US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice

I totally agree Madam Secretary. We cannot have one foot in the camp of Isaac and one in the camp of Ishmael. Let’s firmly place them both in the right place.

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J. D. Pendry is author of The Three Meter Zone.

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