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They Say They Believe In Peace
-Frank
Salvato
In France a newly
released best-selling novel, Rever la Palestine (Dream of Palestine),
compassionately portrays a young Palestinian who becomes a suicide bomber.
The author, a fifteen-year-old Egyptian named Randa Ghazi, who lives with
her family in Italy, writes about a young Palestinian who fights 'bloodthirsty
Jews, who assassinate children and old people, profane mosques, and rape
Arab women.' Dream of Palestine is being touted as 'surprisingly mature'
and 'a great text of suffering and hope.' One of the book's heroines calls
for Jihad against the Jewish people who are 'a doomed people' and to 'kill
all Israelis.' The main character is mentally hijacked and programmed
'to kill hundreds in his suicide bombing' and
later does along with five Israelis. Released to greet the world along
with the Christmas season, and priced inexpensively, Dream of Palestine
has been a quick sell in major bookstores in Paris. It is published by
Flammarion, the third largest publishing house in France, and a subsidiary
of the Italian media giant, Rizzoli Corriere della Sera, which also owns
one of the largest Italian daily newspapers and Rizzoli bookstores in
the United States.
And with this we see how committed the Palestinian people are to the peace
process and how accommodating the French are to world peace.
The Palestinian’s leader, Yassar Arafat, has claimed for years that
the Palestinian people want to embrace peace within their region yet year
and year, week after week their sect created suicide bombers wreak havoc
on the civilians of Israel. Please note that I said civilians, not the
Israeli military. The would-be Palestinian suicide bomber knows that the
Israeli military would extinguish any threat posed to them by such an
act resulting in the loss of only one human life, the suicide bomber’s.
Instead, the cowardice of the Palestinian cause defines itself with self-anointed
clerics who advocate violence and martyrdom, the killing of the innocents
and the terrorizing of the common man all under the guise of religion.
Very simply stated, the Quran does not condone the killing of innocents
in the name of Allah. It’s a fact and it is indisputable. It does
not direct all of the followers of Islam to slaughter those that do not
believe in the Islamic faith. Quite to the contrary, it philosophizes
the conversion of people to the religion not unlike the Catholic faith.
What is happening today to the Islamic faith, at the hands of these “clerics”
is a bastardization of the intent of its scriptures not unlike the bastardization
of the Catholic faith during The Crusades. Looking back at history we
now see how amazingly wrong The Crusades were. It is easier to disseminate
the truth with the passing of time. I also believe those who come after
us will understand the true desire of these so-called “clerics”
to be a lust for power by those who would be too weak to lead in the modern
world. They lead their people into the past because they are afraid their
status would decline if they walked into the future and what better way
to maintain their power than to keep their people from growing as human
beings using fright tactics, religion and rhetoric to scare their people
into living in the past?
Then we have the French and the Italian companies who would allow this
venom to be published all in the name of business. It boggles the mind.
As we listen to the United Nations plead for sanity in the Middle East
we see France, one of the UN Security Counsel members, hosting an Italian-held
company that would publish, distribute and profit from a piece of literature
that is being used to insight violence, to promote terrorism and to justify
what can only be described as an attempt at ethnic cleansing. Are we seeing
these two countries aid the world community in the quest for peace or
are we seeing these two countries hide behind the American principle of
freedom of speech, something that their constitution-like documents chartering
their existences do not even address, for the sake of profit and corporate
gain; for greed’s sake? While these two governments spout their
opposition to the atrocities that are happening in the Middle East they
silently condone their own people’s evolving hatred toward cultures
other than their own. While one voice of the two-headed beast cries for
peace the other is condoning the violence that creates the turmoil. As
has been displayed in the past, these two countries will do anything and
say anything to make sure that their best interests are secured before
the security of the rest of the world. We saw it as late as World War
II* and we are seeing it again.
It is clear that in order to eliminate the tensions in the Middle East
at least two things have to happen. First, the world has to expose the
self-anointed Islamic clerics as the false prophets they really are. The
world community must rescue those who have been mentally hijacked by those
who are propagating hate and violence in the name of the very religion
that they are bastardizing. And two, the world community must shun completely
countries who would turn a blind eye to those who would profiteer from
the misery and the murdering of others. It is only then that we, the citizens
of the world will be able to start to correct the wrong that is happening
at this very moment to the people of the Middle East, on both sides.
* This excludes those affiliated with the French Resistance who fought
valiantly and bravely alongside those who conquered the Axis powers during
World War II.
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