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Leonard Horwin
December 2, 2004
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Questions and Answers are cited below as
"Q" and "A"
This Plain Talk accesses the Commentary by Eric Weiner in the Los Angeles Times of November 10 (copy annexed) that so-called 'Palestinians' Need a Gandhi, Not a New Arafat."
1. Q: What should the "Gandhi" do?
A: He should embrace the tactics of "nonviolent resistance" to the Israelis.
2. Q: Is there any problem with this suggestion?
A: Yes.
3. Q: What?
A: The so-called "Palestinians" are Arabs.
4. Q: How do you know that?
A: Besides the Bible, and 3500 years of history to the present time, the problem is suggested by the fact that the so-called "Palestinians," - are Arabs claiming to be part of an Arab nation totaling 5 million sq. mi. of Mediterranean territory. This contrasts with Israel's position, - left with about 10,500 sq. mi. of territory, - undefendable in its size, as now reduced from 45,000 sq. mi. in a vain effort to gain peace from the Arabs.
5. Q: When did the Arabs start calling those of them who claim a place to live in Israel, - Palestinians?
A: After they had first exhausted the possibilities of destroying Israel in a series of wars from 1948 to the Yom Kippur War of 1973.
6. Q: And, what do they propose now?
A: They now appear to say that they "need a Gandhi" to entitle themselves to a part or all of the remaining Israeli 10,500 sq. mi.
7. Q: Why do they do that?
A: Because they could then persuade the world by such as the L.A. Times' writer, Eric Weiner's "Gandhi," - that the Arabs, in effect, are a smallish David, competing for survival with a Goliath Israel.
8. Q: Has this shift in the Arab claims under the name of "Palestinians" really entitled them to the help of " . . .a Gandhi, Not a New Arafat"?
A: No.
9. Q: Where does the term "Palestinian" originate?
A: When the Israelites revolted against Imperial Rome in the early part of the Common Era, Rome retaliated by changing the name of the Jewish Homeland ("Eretz Yisrael") to the name "Palestine," - as suggesting the Land of the Philistines.
Concurrently, Rome exiled the Jews from their "Land of Israel" ("Eretz Yisrael" or Palestine).
10. Q: Is there a propaganda consequence to the Arabs calling themselves, - what is actually "Land of Israel" ("Eretz Yisrael," - or Palestine, as renamed by the Romans)?
A: Yes.
11. Q: How?
A: Condemnation by enemies of Israel with the help of oil resources, - especially the Saudis- who claim that Israel in occupying the renamed Eretz Yisrael ("Land of Israel") is holding on to Arab territory, called "Palestinian territory."
12. Q: Does the foregoing actual history reflect that the Israelis' - not the falsely called "Palestinians," need a Gandhi?
A: No.
This is because the Israelis know from past experience that the U.N. and its anti-Israel majority is likely, in effect, to war against Israel, - with a blast of resolutions favoring the Arabs, and must therefore count on the United States and other members of the Free World to defend Israel against the Arabs falsely calling themselves "Palestinians." These so-called Palestinians are steeped in self-cultivated hate of Israel, - which can rely on a "Gandhi" posture.
13. Q: Is the Israeli-Arab conflict therefore insoluble?
A: By no means! On the contrary, it is soluble.
14. Q: How?
A: As stated above, we must stop the lying, - as the weapon for progress.
15. Q: That's all?
A: No. Israel and the Arabs must start with the fact that they are in truth Semitic cousins, and worked together in a very creative and productive history, especially in Spain, Morocco and Egypt.
16. Q: What happened then?
A: Warring Christians of Spain overcame the Arab and Jewish Semites in 1492, and exiled them from Spain, Morocco, Egypt and elsewhere.
17. Q: How did the Semitic cousins work together before that?
A: The Semites were the essential bridge by which the huge human progress of the ancient Greeks, - further developed in Spain, Egypt, Morocco and elsewhere, - eventually in the early part of the 15th Century, - was passed on to the Renaissance at Florence, Italy.
This was then passed on through the Age of Enlightenment (reflected by such as Voltaire and Locke and thereafter) to the age of recognition of the "Rights of Man" as illustrated by our own American Revolution, and passed on from that to the American and Free World generally of today.
18. Q: What happened to the Arab Semites and Jewish Semites after their exile from Spain?
A: The Jews relied principally on education, nonviolence and not blaming others for the others' inadequate response to the expulsion of the Semites.
On the other hand, the Arab Semites who had started with a civilization high enough to produce algebra among other creations, have succumbed to a constant self accumulated reign of lies that their troubles originated with their Semitic cousins, i.e. the Jewish Semites, - who must be oppressed or destroyed to provide more room for the complaining Arabs.
19. Q: Has the Arab false name of "Palestinian" created any real advantage for the Arab nation?
A: To the contrary. Two recent United Nations studies of the Arab status and suggestions for improvement, show that the Arab-Semitic tactics to date produced an essentially "sick" Arab nation, - lacking in adequate culture, creativity, productivity, and swept by a tendency to substitute lies for reality, and to the incessant use of violence, including of the most barbarous type such as the "beheading" of hostages, etc. Arab violence against fellow Arabs is incessant, - or more incessant than their violence against their Jewish Semitic cousins.
20. Q: What is the summary of your suggestion?
A: That what the Arabs, - falsely calling themselves "Palestinians," - need, - is not a "Gandhi," but a reassessment of its self-inflicted degradation. The best formula for success in this project, would be a Renaissance in Arab-Israeli relations, - in which both sides would collaborate.
Renewed Arab-Jewish Semite collaboration could produce a new Eden out of the Middle East.
The Arabs thus far have not been willing to cooperate with their Semitic cousins.
21. Q: Does this require a "Gandhi"?
A: No. It does require collaboration instead of confrontation, between the Semitic cousins.
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cc: George W. Bush, President
Richard Cheney, Vice President
John Kerry, Senator & Presidential Candidate
John Edwards, Senator and VP Candidate
Colin Powell, Secretary of State (outgoing)
Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense
Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State Designee
Colonel Oliver North
Tom Ridge, Secretary of Homeland Security
John Ashcroft, U.S. Attorney General
Tony Blair, Prime Minister of Great Britain
Jack Straw, British Foreign Secretary
Newt Gingrich, Former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
Ariel Sharon, Prime Minister of Israel
Benjamin Netanyahu, Economy Minister for the Israeli Government
Israel's "Women In Green" National Unity Coalition for Israel
Arianna Huffington, Syndicated Columnist
Oriana Fallaci, International Journalist, Interviewer and Author
Yohanan Ramati, Chairman, Jerusalem Institute for Western Defense
Gerardo Joffe, FLAME (Facts & Logic About the Middle East)
Mortimer Zuckerman, Editor in Chief - US News and World Report
Time Magazine
Washington Post - Attn: Bob Woodward
International Jerusalem Post
The Weekly Standard - Bill Kristol, Editor
The Wall Street Journal - Editorial and Op-Ed Department
Los Angeles Times, Op-Ed Department
Dr. and Mrs. Jordan Phillips, Medical Books for China International