Did you hear the one about the Gaza Jihad class? Teacher, strapped in a suicide belt, “Listen up, kids! I am only going to do this once.”

The long term problem Israel faces emanates from the demographic realities on the ground. With 65% of the Gaza population consisting of crazed teenagers, nursed on Jihad ideology from the crib, it is not possible for any leader in Arab occupied Israel to sue for peace. Read more >

It’s not about the foot-baths, stupid! It is about assimilating the West into Islam one foot-bath at a time. Similarly, removing the Ten Commandments from the public square is really about eradicating the West’s Judeo-Christian heritage, one commandment at a time. American leaders, for one reason or another, are unable to see the Islamist forest from the foot-bath trees. Unfortunately, American inaction will, inevitably lead to Arab culture and Sharia Law replacing our way of life. Whether by sudden force or through gradual infiltration, the end result will not be what the Founders envisioned. The prophet Jeremiah would have probably said “Listen up infidels! Surely as night follows day, the Islamic States of America will follow Eurabia.”

The Islamic States of America?

by Daniel Pipes (September 28, 2004)

The hardest thing for Westerners to understand is not that a war with militant Islam is underway but that the nature of the enemy’s ultimate goal. That goal is to apply the Islamic law (the Shari’a) globally. In U.S. terms, it intends to replace the Constitution with the Qur’an.

This aspiration is so remote and far-fetched to many non-Muslims, it elicits more guffaws than apprehension. Of course, that used to be the same reaction in Europe, and now it’s become widely accepted that, in Bernard Lewis’ words, “Europe will be Islamic by the end of the century.”

Because of the American skepticism about Islamist goals, I postponed publishing an article on this subject until immediately after 9/11, when I expected receptivity to the subject would be greater (it was published in November 2001 as “The Danger Within: Militant Islam in America“). I argued there that

The Muslim population in this country is not like any other group, for it includes within it a substantial body of people-many times more numerous than the agents of Osama bin Ladin-who share with the suicide hijackers a hatred of the United States and the desire, ultimately, to transform it into a nation living under the strictures of militant Islam.

The receptivity indeed was greater, but still the idea of an Islamist takeover remains unrecognized in establishment circles — the U.S. government, the old media, the universities, the mainline churches.
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Thomas Sowell wrote a great book, Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One, in which he explains that politicians have no reason to think beyond the first stage of an economic problem. Mayor Jones, who places onerous taxes on businesses headquartered in his city to subsidize public transportation, is unlikely to still be around twenty years later when the total number of corporate headquarters in the city will have shrunk to nothing. By that time Jones will have already served a term as Governor and will have been re-elected for a second term in the US Senate. If, at that time, anybody raises questions about the plight of his former city, Senator Jones will use the opportunity to point out that the city was thriving during his term as Mayor.

One would think that, when it comes to national security, politicians would smarten up fast. After all, a military defeat could be costly, not least to the politicians themselves. But, alas, politicians remain stupid to the very end. For instance, the Oslo accords caused the death of thousands of Israelis. For his role in engineering Oslo, Shimon Peres received a Nobel Peace Prize. For exercising extreme stupidity in tirelessly working to repeat the Oslo debacle, he was elected President of Israel.

Ehud Olmert, the Prime Minister of Israel, is clearly not too bright, even when compared to other politicians. In his opening speech to the winter session of the Knesset, he stated that “Israel must either create an Arab state in Judea, Samaria and Gaza or face a violent demographic struggle.”

If he could think beyond stage one, he would recognize that handing over Judea and Samaria will yield  a more desperate struggle against a highly motivated enemy in control of territory from which to launch a major war. In order to prevent a demographic struggle, great leaders exile the enemy, not their own people.

The rest of the speech was equally embarrassing. Olmert demonstrated that, to his twisted mind, maintaining the Jewish character of Israel isn’t worth a bitter struggle.
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