Those of a liberal mind are appalled and morally offended by Israel’s militant intransigence in the face of hostile acts by its neighbors. For the most part, their solutions suggest that Israel must adopt a more peaceful and passive approach to accommodating the aspirations of its neighbors. Their recommendation is for the Israelis to seek a series of stepping-stone solutions by which to achieve a final solution. Give a little, get a lot.
Stepping-stones to where?
In Germany during the 1930′s and throughout Europe as a whole during the 1940′s, there were numerous stepping-stone “solutions” to what was called, the “Jewish problem”:
- Stop gathering
- No flags
- Relinquish national service
- Relinquish citizenship
- Stop shopping at non-Jewish businesses
- Stop teaching
- Relinquish professional activities
- Stop fraternizing with non-Jews
- Wear identification badges and carry “papers”
- Relinquish personal property
- Move residences to areas within prescribed borders
- Stop complaining, no protection of law, no right of habeas corpus, no self-defense
- Relocate to “work” camps
The world outside of Europe stood by and watched as the Jews, little by little, took all of the steps “recommended” as solutions, and when these were not enough, the world stood by while the Germans and complicitous others implemented their Final Solution. Six million Jewish men, women, and children, give or take, obediently marched into gas chambers disguised as showers.
Fifty-five years later, the Jews that survived the Holocaust have moved and set up shop in a tiny region of the Middle-East ceded to them by the world community as another “solution”. Today, five and one half million Jews live closely surrounded by half a billion people who have also declared their intention to implement their own version of a “Final Solution”. By various and sundry means, these people have been diligently and consistently trying to work their Final Solution since 1948.
The difference between the 30′s and 40′s and now is that the Jews have learned through the bitterest of experience that the little by little “solutions” offered by people are often just stepping-stones to someones Final Solution.
The harsh reality of life is that sometimes when you are outnumbered and surrounded, with your back to a wall, the only possible solution when confronted by those who openly profess a desire to destroy you, is a strong and even peremptory offense.
As recent history demonstrated with absolute clarity, the alternative is death, little by little. From this experience comes the resolve, “never again”.
