The Misery Of Gaza Is A Failure Of The Islamic World, Not The West

Everywhere they go, Islamists that believe in violent jihad, their superiority and right to kill, harm, and subjugate, have done nothing but cause mass misery, poverty, killing, mass rape, sexual slavery, beheadings, child marriage, crucifixions, amputations, and the death of millions of Muslims in addition to the mass killings and ethnic cleansing and genocide against certain non Muslim religions. All over the middle east, Christians have been ethnically cleansed. The men of the Yazidi religion have been slaughtered, and Yazidi women and girls have been taken as sex slaves by Islamist ISIS men, where thousands are still held captive and are being raped daily. The religious minorities living in many Muslim majority countries and lands all over the world are at great risk. Some are quick to argue that the Islamists that rule Gaza are not persecuting the few Christians that are still living there, or that Hezbollah, sworn to kill Jews and destroy Israel, is not attacking Christians. Some Islamists are attacking all non Muslims, and some Islamists attack only certain non Muslims. In Iran, for example, members of the Bahai faith are persecuted, while the few Jews still living in that country are left alone, provided they condemn or at least disassociate themselves from the only Jewish homeland in the world. The Islamists that make exceptions as to who they persecute, murder and harm are hardly cause for celebration. Those in the west that applaud selective bigotry and persecution as opposed to wholesale, indiscriminate, widespread persecution and bigotry, are truly morally bankrupt. Hamas that rules Gaza and the other Jihadi Islamist groups in Gaza are sworn to kill Jews. They do not hide this fact. Their apologists ignore Hamas clearly stated intentions to kill Jews, destroy Israel, and create an Islamic caliphate on its ashes. The apologists feel morally secure and smug with a one sided interpretation that ignores reality and that only demonizes israel. I recently was on an airplane, and sat next to a young American Muslim woman that is originally from Bosnia. She said that she is angry about Gaza. I asked her what israel should do? If Israel allows the people from Gaza free travel in and out of Israel, there will once again be a wave of suicide bombings. There is no compromise with Islamist groups like Hamas that believe there can only be Islamist caliphates, and that Jews must be driven out, murdered, or at best relegated to second class status. Even Egypt keeps Gaza sealed on their side of the border with Gaza. Hamas has squandered millions on building tunnels for the express purpose of waging war with Israel, and not on building schools, hospitals, a proper infrastructure. For Hamas, there can be no two state solution, no mid ground compromise. Their position is absolute- Israel must be destroyed and the Jews must be killed and/or driven out. They purposefully wage war from one of the most densely populated places in the world, knowing that the civilians of Gaza will suffer and die. I am not a supporter of the present government of Israel, or how it responds to Gaza. But I asked this young women if Israel's response was any different from how most countries of the world would react to rocket fire and attacks. Russia wiped out entire neighborhoods in its war against Chechnya. Thousands of civilians died when Sri lanka finally overran the Tamil Tiger territory. The mass killings of non Muslims by Muslims raises few eyebrows, as does the killing of millions of Muslims by Muslims. Almost always the outcry that comes from the Islamic world gets directed at the Jews. Hundreds of thousands of civilians have died in Syria, most by the Iranian backed Assad regime. Syrians are caught between a ruthless regime, and completely demented Sunni Muslim Islamists groups like ISIS. I asked the young woman why is the mass killings of Muslims by Muslims acceptable or ignored? Why does the mass killings of Non muslims by Muslims get no outcry? Why is the world's conscience only stirred by what Israel does or does not do? If tomorrow Israel is wiped off the map, and if Islamists rule all of what is now Israel and proceed to kill by the hundreds of thousands other Muslims in Gaza, not one word of protest would be raised in the world. The only way out of this crisis is for the Israelis and Palestinian Arabs to seek a two state solution and separate from each other. There are those that will say that the Palestinians were there first, and therefore all the Jews must go. But it is interesting how hypocritical this position is, considering that most of North America, Australia, and many other places in the world were settled by uninvited European settlers from Europe, and no one tells their descendants to leave or justifies terrorism against them. Or how Muslims conquered and murdered all over the world in their imperialistic expansion, much of it violent, and which continues to this day, and no one asks Muslims to return lands they have conquered by force. In the case of Israel, most Israelis are not of European descent. Most Israelis are the descendants of Jewish refugees from Muslim majority lands in the middle east and North Africa, where many were forced to leave and flee to Israel. There were more Jewish refugees from Muslim majority lands that fled to Israel than there were Arab refugees from the state of Israel. Arab Muslims ethnically cleansed their Jews. Go to Israel, they were told, having to leave behind all of their possessions and homes where many lived for centuries. Now that they are in Israel, they are told, leave from Israel. It is Muslim land. In the 1920's, Jews lived in Hebron until they were massacred. There has always been a Jewish presence in what is now Israel and the west bank. The only way out of this cycle of violence is for both sides to accept the existence of the other, and to reach a settlement with each other that does not mean the forcing out of one side or the other. But how do you make a settlement with Islamists? When Islamists control land, like ISIS now does, like Boko Harem did in Nigeria, like the Islamists in Somalia, like Hezbollah, like the Taliban, like Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines, they cannot stop themselves from waging war, killing and ethnic cleansing. The thing that keeps alive the conflict in Gaza is the elephant in the room that everyone wants to ignore- the bigotry, hate, intolerance, desire for war and killing from Islamists, combined with Jew hatred. Look at any place in the world where there are Islamists. South Philippines where Islamists have been fighting for hundreds of years, and where they just beheaded a kidnapped elderly Canadian man and threaten to do the same to their other hostages. They have already beheaded many others. South Thailand, where like in the Philippines, Islamists have already killed thousands upon thousands of civilians, Muslim and non Muslim. The world is on fire because of the uncontained hatred, bigotry, intolerance, violent jihad of the Islamic world. All over the world, Islamists, whether Shia or Sunni, have plunged this world into war and chaos- Syria. Libya, Afghanistan, s. Thailand, s. Philippines, Somalia, Pakistan, Iraq, Yemen, Sudan, and a thousand other places. Gaza cannot continue to be the excuse for the Muslim world to blame the west, and Jews in particular, and continue to do nothing to combat or at least contain the hatred, bigotry and violence in their own ranks. Gaza cannot continue to be the excuse by which the mass killings in Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan, and a thousand other places, continues to be ignored. The fate of Gaza is in the hands of the Islamists that run it. If they continue to choose war, Jew killing, hate, violence and bigotry, they will get in return war, misery and mass poverty. If they choose the path of peace, then it is peace and prosperity they will receive. Only a demented person can possibly want war and violence, not in Gaza, not anywhere else. Unfortunately, many Islamists want the war and killing, believing this is their path to paradise. Those that excuse, justify or ignore, for whatever pathological reasons, the bigotry and violence of Hamas and other Islamists, only keep alive the war and killing.