The Arabs Have Never Gotten Over Being Humiliated By A Bunch Of Jews In The 1967 Six-Day War
"...The collective Arab disbelief and humiliation following the swift, crushing defeat of Egypt, Syria, and Jordan at the hands of Israel in six days."
Hisham Melhem, at FP, contends the Arab world has never recovered from their loss to Israel in the Six-Day War.
More from the piece:
Initially, most Arabs sought refuge in denial, refusing to admit that their military rout was emblematic of deeper rotten cultural maladies and social defects and instead calling the disastrous defeat a temporary "setback." Many wanted badly to believe that Israel's victory was achieved only because of Western machinations and deception, since it was almost an article of faith among many Arab nationalists, leftists, and Islamists that Israel was an "artificial entity" -- an extension of imperialism in the Arab East.The belief among Arabs that their armies would prevail in the war was almost universal. I was 17 years old then, and I still vividly remember the searing pain I felt, mixed with unadulterated rage directed mostly against the self-appointed guardians of Arab patrimony.
Fifty years after the defeat, the brittle world the Arabs built is unraveling in civil wars fought with abandon by cruel men supported by equally cruel foreign and regional marauders. Ancient cities that survived many an invader now lay in ruins in Syria, Iraq, Libya, and Yemen. Schools and hospitals, places of worship, bakeries and pharmacies -- all were repeatedly violated by governments and rebels. Millions of bereft souls wandered over large swaths of scorched earth before fleeing their countries, by choice or by force, forming rivers of refugees and spilling over into neighboring lands and then scattering across Europe. A tragic modern version of the "Middle Passage" has taken place in the Mediterranean, whose deceptively calm waves became the watery graves of many a refugee braving the sea on rickety, overflowing boats operated by greedy seamen, the slave traders of yesteryear. In the second half of the second decade of the 21st century, Arabs -- who barely constitute 5 percent of the world's population -- burdened the world with more than 50 percent of its refugees.
...The Arab defeat in June 1967 instantly transformed Israel, the little Sparta, into the region's military superpower. Fifty years later, Israel has a first-world economy with a high-tech industry capable of competing with other corporations from technologically advanced states.
There's a difference between Judaism and Islam -- and it is how Judaism is a religion in which there is debate and questioning. Islam is a religion where questioning the motives of Mohammed or what is said to be science written in the Quran can be a death sentence.
There's also considerable inbreeding in Islam; that is, between Muslims. Cousin marriage was encouraged by Mohammed. We now know that this leads to horrible birth defects and it also seems to lead to declines in intelligence.
Psychologist Nicholai Sennels notes at the link above:
A legislative ban on first cousin marriages is a logical and compassionate imperative for both the Muslim world, for EU and our Western national governments.
via @evolutionistrue
Again, you are eqating Arab culture with Islam. The two are not synonymous, and never have been.
Isab at June 16, 2017 6:35 AM
This led me to read up again on the Yom Kuppur war, which was fought in 1973. It lasted about three weeks. And although the Arab states were humiliated again (the Israelis crossed the Suez Canal and had the Egyptian city of Suez under siege at the time of cease-fire), it started an anti-war movement in Israel, which led to the "peace process" which has so badly unraveled since about 1990. It was also a sort of proxy war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union (Egypt was a Soviet ally at the time), which eventually resulted in a lot of pressure on both combatants to accept a brokered peace.
What we're seeing happening in the Arab world now is something that leaders all over the Western world feared, and worked to try to prevent, throughout the 20th century. Although we can blame Obama and Hillary Clinton for the final unraveling of that, it was Europe's fecklessness starting in the 1970s, when they started funding Arab extremists and attempting to negotiate with Yassir Arafat (dangling Israel as a carrot to Arafat), that got the wrecking ball started. In a way, Europe is now getting its just desserts, as millions of uncivilized refugees invade their countries. Watching Angela Merkel try to hand-wave away the problem in Germany has been kind of amusing, in a pathetic sense.
At this point, I only see two possible solutions for the Arab world: (1) Re-colonization, or (2) fence the region off and let them settle things among themselves. The former will inevitably face insurgent movements, which will become a protracted, low-intensity generational war -- which is exactly the sort of thing the American and European public has no stomach for right now, even though it could have long-term benefits to the West. The latter would be very expensive to make it work effectively, and would cause a humanitarian crisis in the region, which the international Left would exploit to its own political ends.
Cousin Dave at June 16, 2017 6:52 AM
The Arabs consider Israel to be Europe's atonement for the Holocaust - a debt paid by the Europeans with Arab land. Six-Day War or no, they resent having to give up land that was theirs to pay for Europe's genocide. This is their position.
Conan the Grammarian at June 16, 2017 6:52 AM
Say it.
Say it, Amy, SAY THE WORD.
Say it!!! Say IDEOLOGY, Amy!!!!
You KNOW you want to.
Crid at June 16, 2017 7:05 AM
"This is their position."
Yes, indeed. Of course, that's historically inaccurate, but it is what they believe. But there's still the fact that they possess all of the Middle East regions which have oil, a historical opportunity which they have fumbled, and it's now coming to an end. But there's also this: at what point should it not matter anymore? The U.S. has been involved in land and border disputes in the not-too-distant past. At one time, not all that long ago, we were on the verge of war with Great Britain over the Columbia Valley area of the northwest portion of our continent. But it is what it is now, and "Fifty-four forty or fight!" isn't a slogan you hear very often these days.
Israel already tried trading land for peace, returning the Sinai to Egypt. Fat lot of good that did, in the long run. Of course, it seems to be embedded in the Arab culture that grudges must be carefully nourished forever. It's long past time that the West should have told them "Stop that". But I fear that the window has now closed, and a regional catastrophe is now inevitable.
Cousin Dave at June 16, 2017 9:09 AM
Crid, I couldn't care less about how much spittle you get on your monitor, but when you start spraying mine, it is a problem.
Jeff Guinn at June 16, 2017 10:02 AM
Yeah, but if you want to come across as credible to them, you need to understand their position, flawed though it is.
The Arabs and their apologists ignore the fact that the Israelis purchased much of the original land that made up Israel in 1948, at inflated prices too.
They ignore that Jews have lived on that land since antiquity, even after the Diaspora (the Romans did let some Jews remain).
To the Arabs, once conquered is always conquered, that is if they're the conquerors. Osama bin Laden demanded the return of Andalusia (much of modern day Spain)because it was once Muslim.
That sentiment is a real barrier to a peace settlement. The Arabs will accept nothing that doesn't leave them in complete control, even though they're negotiating with zero leverage.
Conan the Grammarian at June 16, 2017 10:07 AM
Islamic scholars have questioned many things about their religion over the centuries. Through study and questioning, they've divided the hadiths into three categories: probably true, likely true, and probably false. They've, however, failed to expunge the religion of the "probably false" hadiths, the ones cherry-picked by ISIS and militants to justify brutality and murder.
Modernist Islamic scholars hold that "jihad" is about struggle - i.e., self improvement (kinda like Judaism and Christianity's focus on atonement for sins and wrongs). Fundamentalist Islamic leaders would agree in principle, but encourage missionary and militant jihad against the infidels instead.
Self-improvement gets short shrift in the jihad department. Semi-literate tribesmen aren't exactly going to picture themselves covered in glory for quitting smoking, but can easily picture themselves glorified for killing infidels, especially when the mayor names a street after the most recent martyr to blow himself up on an Israeli bus.
Conan the Grammarian at June 16, 2017 10:48 AM
> but when you start spraying
> mine, it is....
Idddd..........
Eeeeeee...........
Ooollllll...........
Crid at June 16, 2017 12:13 PM
Let's just evacuate all the Israelis and watch the Arabs AND the Muslims return to slaughtering each other and their family members for the impudence of breaking their soft-boiled eggs from the wrong end.
Or whatever the hell drives that iron-age thought process. Tired of these bloodthirsty idiots.
Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at June 16, 2017 1:13 PM
At this point, I only see two possible solutions for the Arab world:
I see two more
1 Drop a plane load of rotting pig carcasses on Mecca during the hidaj
2 Drop a plane load of rotting pig carcasses infected with the 1918 Spanish flu on Mecca during the hidaj
lujlp at June 16, 2017 4:43 PM
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