Morris Cerullo - Israel the Blessing and the Curse

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Israel: The Blessing and the Curse

Chapter 1:

The "Refugee" Problem

When dealing with the conflict in Israel, it is impossible to avoid hearing, reading or using the word "refugee."

The Palestinian "refugees," after all, are at the center of the conflict.

But the word "refugees" is a misnomer, indicating that the Palestinians are homeless.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

When the media speak of the Palestinian cities they often refer to them as "refugee camps."

The difference may seem minimal, but it is a subtle play on words intended to deceive people into believing that the Palestinians are living in tents out in the middle of the desert somewhere.

The "refugee camps," however, in any other context would be called another word that more accurately describes them: cities.

The Palestinians living in "refugee camps" are doing so in houses on streets with all the amenities anyone in a first-world country would expect. It doesn't mean they are wealthy, but it does mean that "refugee camps" is a purposeful deception by the world's media elite.

The Palestinians are fully capable of living in Israel alongside the Jewsthis is something the media do not thoroughly report.

There are many Palestinian Israelis who do just that; living, working, playing and peacefully coexisting with the Jews in Israel, making a positive impact on society. These Palestinian Israelis have Jewish friends and neighbors, and they live in peace with them.

The Israeli Legislature even has Palestinian members.

But the "refugees" don't find that equality good enough for them.

And therein lies the root of the conflictthe "refugees" don't want to live as peacefully co-existing Palestinian Israelis. They want to live as self-governing Palestinians with no Israelis around at all.

Partner, for the last several years, the Palestinians who live in Gaza and the West Bank have been governing themselves under the auspices of the Palestinian Authority they make all the decisions that determine their present and future.

But that's not good enough for them.

Israeli citizenship isn't good enough for them.

Self-governance isn't good enough for them.

Just what is it they want?

This is the question too many major media outlets are afraid to answer, because inside the answer lies the awful genocidal truththe reality that nothing will ever be good enough for the Palestinian "refugees" until Israel is driven into the sea and forever eradicated from the face of the planet.

This basic truth is so frightening and offensive, even to those who do not side with Israel, that the media have gone out of their way to make sure it remains hidden.

It is the sort of thing that Adolph Hitler wanted to do rid the world of Jews.

The fact is , the Palestinian "refugees" are simply Arabs who are related to the same people who inhabit all the countries around Israel.

They share a genealogical tie to all the nations around them. They share a religion with all the nations around them. They share ethical ties to all the nations around them.

And yet, with only one exception, none of the Muslim nations around Israel will extend citizenship to the Palestinian "refugees."

Nations like Iran and Iraq will gladly compensate Palestinian terrorists' families after the terrorists have blown up innocent Israeli civilians, but they won't offer citizenship to the Palestinians.

The Palestinian "refugees" are actually refugees from their own people! At least the Israelis have offered them something the other nations refuse to offera place to live and work!

Make no bones about it, Partner, the Palestinians are a defeated people. That's important because the fact is, Israel has won every war it has entered into as a nationall of them defensive wars.

The "refugees" are actually the defeated people who tried their best to destroy the nation of Israeland lost.

Where else do you see the nations of the world winning several defensive wars against an enemy, and then opening up their borders to that very enemy, offering to allow them to govern themselves in the very land from which they had already attacked multiple times?

Nowhere else but Israel.

The nations who have refused to accept the Palestinian "refugees" into their countries are not just cruel, Partner rather, some of them have a purposeful agenda behind their refusal.

If the Palestinians are assimilated into the nations around them, they will lose their national identity. After all, they share a language, a heritage and a religion. There is nothing separating the Palestinians from the residents of the nations around them except for geography.

A Palestinian who becomes a citizen of one of the nations around him will lose his self-identification as a Palestinian. He will then become one of the people of the nations around him.

And that is the fear of those nationsthat with the assimilation of the Palestinians, the cry for the eradication of Israel will begin to fall on deaf ears.

After all, it's nearly impossible to drum up world sympathies if there are no "refugees" to parade before the media demonstrating how they have been "wronged" by

Israel.

In other words, it's in the best interest of the agenda of some of the nations surrounding Israel to keep the Palestinians as "refugees." There's no percentage in it for them to help solve the "refugee" problem; if they do, they lose their public relations trump card.

So the Palestinians remain "refugees" from their own people, longing for land that belongs to the inhabitants of the nation of Israelland they can never have.

Even today, regional tension continues to rise as senseless Palestinian terrorist attacks against Israel go unchecked by surrounding nations.

So there are two solutions to the plight of the Palestinian "refugees:"

Live in peace and govern themselves as so many Palestinians have chosen to do.

The nations around them can open up and accept their brothers with open arms.

Instead, the surrounding nations and Palestinians choose the other, more violent optionfight Israel tooth and nail, killing innocent civilians routinely, and then use the sympathetic media to complain that Israel is the persecutor.

Chapter 2:

The Changing Winds In Israel

The Palestinians compare their plight to that of African-Americans and their leader, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

They claim the parallel is obvious, and that Israel is their equivalent of the racist policies of 1960s America.

They invoke the name of civil rights to justify their struggle and their goal of self-governance.

They appeal to the human rights sensibilities of the nations around the world by complaining about how the Israelis are "mistreating" them.

And the ploy is working.

Almost.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not buying it.

Here's what he said in May of 2002:

"Now, I don't want you to be fooled by the apologists of terror. They tell us that the way to end terror is to appease it, to meet or give in to the terrorists' demands, because listen to their argumentbecause, they tell us, the root

cause of terrorism is the deprivation of national and civil rights. Well, let's examine that proposition. If that were the case, then in the thousands of conflicts and struggles for national and civil rights in modern times, we would expect to have found endless examples of terrorism. But guess what: We don't. Mahatma Gandhi did not use terrorism in fighting for the independence of India. The peoples of Eastern Europe did not resort to terrorism to bring down the Berlin Wall. But one other example; one other example. Martin Luther King did not resort to terrorism in fighting for equal rights for all Americans. In fact, speaking in this city, in this very place, four decades ago, Martin Luther King preached a creed that was the very opposite of terrorismnot violence, non-violence; completely the opposite. So now we must ask ourselves, why did all these people pursue their cause without resorting to terror? Because they believed in the sanctity of each human life, because they were committed to the ideals of liberty, because they championed the values of democracy; simply put, because they were democratic, not terrorists. That's why."