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Irwin N. Graulich is a well known motivational speaker on ethics, religion and Judaism. A child of Holocaust survivors, he has been successful in showing religious and secular people the need for God-based ethics. Irwin considers himself a multi-denominational, serious Orthodox, Conservative and Reform Jew.
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By Irwin N. Graulich
July 9, 2003
It all looks so healthy and wonderful from the outside, just like any cancer patient at the outset. The Israeli soldiers withdrawing happily, while Sharon and Abbas smile from their podiums and shake hands. The cure has finally come to the sick body called the Middle East. However, cancer is silent and deadly. When it eventually spreads, it suddenly engulfs the entire body.
Colin Powell's major success stemmed from following other people's orders during the first Gulf War. Even the great
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Secretary Powell and his European allies worship words, not good actions like Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld.
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General Patton never associated military skills with diplomatic prowess. Somehow, the Secretary now fancies himself as a Winston Churchill, when in fact, there is a closer analogy with Neville Chamberlain. Unfortunately, Jews always seem to endure the consequences of naive politicians whose misguided convictions sincerely believe in negotiating with evil.
Colin Powell suffers from the American Viet Nam Syndrome. Obviously, he experienced war at its worst, and therefore, has a visceral reaction towards it. His illness has similar ramifications to a woman who has been raped and can never see the beauty of sex again. There are good wars and bad wars, just like there is good sex and evil sex.
Had the Allies begun the war against Hitler sooner, many millions of lives would have been saved. As a great military leader once said, "Beware of a military man (or did he say Secretary of State) who later becomes a peace activist." Not understanding the fact that fighting evil in a war is a great moral accomplishment, can have very dangerous consequences.
Powell's obsession with equality and peace, a philosophy he inherited while working with Presidents Carter and Clinton on Haiti, has blinded his judgment. Imagine treating the KKK and their victims equally in order to extract some sort of lynching cease fire. When "peace" is worshipped before "decency," a la Jack Straw and Europe, terrorism and gas chambers cannot far behind.
The Powell belief system reinforces the State Department's essence that the United States must be an "honest broker." This reduces America to the status of referee at a boxing match, although in this particular fight, we are not dealing with two equally moral players who follow the same rules or have the same goals. The truth is that the present Palestinians are made up of largely anti-American, pro-terrorist people led by the founder of modern terrorism Yasser Arafat, versus the Israelis who represent a struggling democracy modeled after America. Of course these two groups must be treated differently, despite the EU rhetoric.
Powell has embraced a European mentality that Jews not be permitted to fight terrorism in the same manner as everyone else. There must be a "negotiated" cease-fire with Hamas, Islamic Jihad and al Aqsa. And if Jews dare kill terrorist leaders, that will somehow hinder peace talks. Powell and Straw are the immoral diplomatic twins, who truly behave in a similar manner. When Syria lashed out at Powell for his comments about their harboring Iraqis, the American "statesman" was speechless. Jack Straw could suddenly find no words for Iran when they raked him over the coals recently. A deafening silence by two leaders who usually love to hear themselves.
The Powell Doctrine is filled with misdirected compassion for the weaker party, because he believes that the more compassionate, the nicer you are as an individual. He has even begun using the old cliché "cycle of violence" to describe the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. That is because Powell's flawed thinking primarily emphasizes even-handedness, no matter who is involved. Any diplomat that does not hate evil above all, will begin to hate the victims that want to destroy evil... in this case, Israel.
Secretary Powell and his European allies worship words, not good actions like Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld. That is the essential reason Powell is beloved by the Palestinians who talk a lot, make promises, yet do almost nothing. They readily admit to no intentions of destroying terrorist groups and insist on the release of group members from Israeli jails; ultimately making them an integral part of the government and police force.
The Powell solution is self evident of a twisted moral equivalency which insists that Palestinians stop murdering innocent Jews, while Jews must absolutely cease building new housing projects. What a road map to peace. In Jericho, the Secretary of State spoke about the mourning of both Palestinian and Israeli lives, as if Israel has even once specifically targeted innocent civilians. The Powell peace process encourages militant Islam because it rewards terrorism with a state.
So mark your calendars. Within 3 months, when another suicide bomber from one of those streets in the West Bank named after a "martyr'" walks into a Jerusalem restaurant and murders another 20 people while maiming 100 others, you can thank the "Colon" Powell peace "cure."
There is symmetry in nature that God has created. The world functions to a large degree like our bodies. Cancerous "evil" blood cells must destroy healthy blood cells. Perhaps that is why the Arab and Muslim world are so pro blood ties and tribal. Whether it is in the "colon" or anywhere else, those bad cancerous cells would rather die than live with healthy cells, not caring if that body is Jewish, Christian or anything else.
Similarly, it seems that Palestinians and other Arab states would rather die than live in peace with a healthy Jewish state. This simple analogy is the reason why virtually every Arab and Muslim nation opposed American intervention in Iraq. They would prefer an evil, cancerous Arab dictator than a healthy American heart.
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