By Harry W. Weber
September 7, 2006
In recent days the government of El Salvador declared that it has decided to follow in the footsteps of its neighbor, Costa Rica, and move its embassy in Israel from Israel's capital, Jerusalem, to Tel Aviv.
El Salvador's decision left the Holy City without even one nation willing to declare, by deed, that it supports the right of the people of Israel -- like every other people on the face of the earth -- to decide for themselves where in their country to locate their capital city, without pressure from outside forces.
On the surface of the matter, it would appear that the world has truly gone mad with irrationalism in its inexplicable compliance with Moslem hatred for Israel and the Jews. For with the exception of the Moslem states and their oil lackies, no one openly espouses the position that Israel is not entitled to decide where to locate its capital. Moreover, no one, except the rejectionist Moslem coalition, denies that the Western portion of Jerusalem -- unlike the eastern portion that was annexed after Israel's triumphant victory over its neighbors in the Six Day War -- is an integral part of the Jewish state, territory eligible to house all the world's embassies in Israel.
So why in the world are all, I repeat -- all -- the planet's states kowtowing to the Arab line that not even Western Jerusalem can ever be Israel's capital? The answer is clear: The price of oil is hovering around $70 a barrel, versus around $40 a mere year and a half ago, and the Arab world controls a hefty portion of the world's oil reserves.
Yet, despite all the seemingly obvious geopolitical interests in not angering the ever-intolerant, anti-West Moslem Mob, don't the Western states realize that in an ever interdependent globally interconnected world, the Arabs need the West at least as much as the West needs their oil? When will Arab blackmail -- oilmail -- end?
The West's Pavlovian capitulation to Arab demands that it deprive Israel of its right to conduct its diplomatic contacts in its capital city, and that it deny Israel the land granted to it by the One Source (The Bible) that all mankind reads and believes was written and/or inspired by God Himself, is the post World War II equivalent to the appeasement of Hitler in the 1930s.
The only head of state in the world who understands that 2006 is comparable to 1936, that Ahmadinejad is today's Hitler, that Arab bullying and terrorism is taken out of Hitler's playbook, but with jihad undertones, is President George W. Bush. He is the first U.S. president in a long time to understand that America's business is not just business; that to stay in business America must redefine its interests to include the creation of a freer world, a world without that peculiarly Moslem export -- terrorism, mass murder and global religious intimidation.
Mr. Bush got it right after 9/11. However, it has taken the U.S.' "allies" five long years, and they still don't see the handwriting on the wall -- that Iran and Al Qaeda and Hizbollah -- have declared World War III on the West! What will it take for Spain, Britain, France and the rest of the World War II shell-shocked states to recover from that trauma and its resultant pacifism, and take up arms against the new menace that threatens their way of life -- no, their very lives?
In the war against Moslem arm-twisting and Moslem terror a small-big step is to tell them: Israel is here to stay! And Jerusalem is firstly Israel's eternal capital, and secondly, the Holy City of the world. Jerusalem the Holy will be shamed no more. Nothing would be more symbolic of the West's resolve against Moslem aggression than the firm declaration of that time-honored truth -- that Jerusalem and Israel are one, forever.
Therefore, President Bush should immediately make good on his promise before his first election as president, to move the U.S. embassy to Israel's capital. Nothing will do more to send the message to Arab blackmailers, terrorists and would-be jihadists that the leader of the West will not kowtow to their demands anymore. This will greatly reinforce the message throughout the world that the U.S. stands of freedom, justice, morality, and the word of God -- the God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Jesus. And Jerusalem shall no longer be like a mother shamed, whose children have deserted her.
Mr. President, please keep your promise and move your embassy to the Holy City. Do it for your place in history, for the sake of history, and for the sake of a better future for all men of good will.
Do it for the justice and peace of Jerusalem.
Just do it.
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