ajwps
Active Member
The nations a busy trying to tear down Israel's cities, nothing really new, but like the article says, ants rebuild their homes every time someone knocks down their structures.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/article.php3?id=4007
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/article.php3?id=4007
The quote in the title is from former Mayor Teddy Kollek, who helped build modern Jerusalem and restore the old. The mayor was responding to a question from a reporter. The journalist wanted to know why Israel should bother building Greater Jerusalem, since 'the world' would sooner or later tear it down, through the UN or by some other means.
Teddy Kollek's answer was very existential and very (old-school) Israeli. We'll build, that's what we do. They can destroy what we build, that is what they do. When they're done, we'll start again.
Of course, 'they' build, too. But when it comes to Jewish building, ancient suspicions are aroused. Non-Jews start to fear the worst. So, builders themselves, most governments and international organizations busy themselves assisting the masters of destruction in our world, Arab Muslims.
And so, the UN orders the destruction of another improvised Israeli edifice, the security fence. All, of course, in the name of peace. France leads the charge and simultaneously bans Ariel Sharon from Gaul because the Prime Minister of Israel identifies with French Jews under duress and wants them home.
Even as another crescendo of Israel-bashing peaks, counter-currents start to emerge. So Terje Larsen, former promoter of blood libel (the Jenin 'massacre'), begins to speak against Yasser Arafat and tyranny and anarchy in the Palestinian Authority. So do some Palestinian Arabs. True civil war looms in Gaza and perhaps in the 'West Bank' - not the virtual, verbal civil wars of the Jews (and Americans at this stage), but the actual thing. The whole Arafat family is now mobilized to save the kingdom, but alas, the kingdom is broken down into fiefs. Muslim Arab criminals feed off the misery of the Muslim Arab masses.
That's right - misery. It is a way of life, and as civil war comes to the PA and the dream of 'Palestine' crumbles in stages, so it will come also to Iraq. In a weird way, some on the American Left will have been vindicated: American soldiers will have died for very little.
One of my Israeli cousins, Dudu, told me once that the saying "the Arabs are the sons of the desert" was incorrect. It need be amended to "the Arabs are fathers of the desert." If you doubt him, just look at the Jordan Valley rift and see how Israelis helped make (part of) Jordan bloom. Then look at Gaza.
Now look at Jerusalem and remember Teddy Kollek's words: "We build like ants. That's what we do."