Jihadi Du Jour

Webster’s Dictionary provides various definitions for the word culture, among them, these two stand out:
the set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution or organization
the set of values, conventions, or social practices associated with a particular field, activity, or societal characteristic.

If we look at the circumstances and situations pervading life in the PA today, we immediately recognize how the first of the above two definitions has taken over over everyday life. Not only do children’s programming on TV extol the virtues of killing Jews and dying for Allah, not only do official PA institutions (whether they are run by Hamas , or by “moderate” Fatah), glorify murder and suicide, but these seem to become more and more the set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution or organization. What the PA leaders do not seem to realize (or if they do they are certainly cynically malicious mind manipulators) is that when you preach death and suicide against an enemy that hatred engenders another hatred worse by far and that is hatred for those who do not agree with the particular gang’s leadership. When life is of little value, then so is the life of foe or friend also… of little value.

Hence, we see a situation within the PA where their society is fast deteriorating and destroying whatever achievements they have made. Yet the MSM around the world does not focus on the these culture that may yet lead to the total disintegration of Palestinian society and their aspirations for an independent entity. The MSM ignores the fact that murder, kidnappings, and hatred for both the Zionist Entity and for one’s opponents competitors have become the set of values, conventions, or social practices associated with a particular field, activity, or societal characteristic. The institution that was supposed to alleviate the problems and lead to an improvement in everyday life, has instead created a new hell on earth.

The PA, as it exists today may be a threat to Israel, but it is no less a threat to itself. In the last elections, the Palestinians grew tired of the greed and corruption rampant among Arafat’s heirs, cronies and relatives in Fatah. Hoping for a healthy change, they voted for Hamas. Yes Hamas was known as a terror gang vis a vis the Zionist Entity and that might present a problem in the future, reasoned the average Palestinian, but Hamas’ hands were clean and they represented a new approach to domestic problems. They did present a new approach… indeed!

Claiming that there was no money coming in (although the amount of foreign in 2006 exceeded 2005 by 250%), they pulled out of all the civilian programs that were going active when they came in. We all remember how barely 6 weeks ago there was a massive sewage break down in one of the main villages in Gaza. Even though money had been earmarked for that project, before Hamas came to power, and work had actually started. The corruption that the Palestinian electorate had voted to stamp out, not only did not disappear but now greed and corruption acquired a much bigger appetite!

After some serious and dangerous infighting, the Mecca agreement seemingly managed to produce a unity government between Hamas and “moderate” Fatah. The kidnappings, the murders did not stop however. After a very brief lull they continue with greater frequency, with greater fury… while the Palestinian street suffers. Schoolbooks contain more passages of hatred towards Jews, more passages extolling the virtues of shihadism than they do about the three Rs. TV programming in spite of assurances and signatures to the contrary continue to bait the Zionist Entity, continue to praise and glorify murderous suicide bombers. Their families receive stipends after their shihadis deaths, as the families of heroes. Mothers speak of their happiness that their sons died while fighting and/or killing dem Jooz little caring that the whole point of bringing their children into this world was not for them to serve as cannon fodder. Every normal intelligent, caring, hard working parent (regardless of ethnicity, regardless of religious creed, regardless of skin color) wants and toils for happiness and prosperity for his/her offspring. Here, instead, we meet a culture where death seems to be the ultimate goal!

Can a culture of death, truly endure? Can a people exist where life has little value, because it is hell? While the ruling elite live in brand new majestic villas, the average Palestinian family makes do with a few rooms in very simple structures too small for most families. In a society where almost 14% of the population is “employed” by the government and most are not receiving their wages, it’s no wonder lawlessness reigns supreme! In a society that cares little for cultivating the land (yes, folks the land is capable of producing much. Until Olmert’s disastrous disengagement, Jewish farmers were enjoying a $100,000,000.00 a year economy!!!), but cares more about religious instructions that teach it to kill, there is no future.

Yet we can not in all fairness put a 100% of the blame squarely on the shoulders of the PA. The fact is, they have strong allies… the “useful idiots” in the West - also known as the mainstream media! Kassam rockets have been raining on the Israeli town of Sderot (well within the pre-1967 Israeli borders) from the Gaza strip non stop since the beginning of last summers truce. Over the last two days it has intensified as never before. There is serious material damage to buildings, there are dozens of wounded, hundreds evacuated, schools are closed, as are many businesses in Sderot, but the Western MSM has not chosen to cover this. In the last two days of Hamas-Fatah clashes there have been 41 dead among both forces, there have been hundreds of wounded and a freshly brokered truce has been shattered by Hamas’ killing six bodyguards of the Fatah’s Chief of Security. Wednesday alone, the fire exchanges throughout Gaza claimed 20 dead and 35 wounded. Yet the Western MSM did not bother to mention any of this in their headlines, in their front pages. Instead they only mentioned that Israel launched an air strike that killed 4 Palestinians. Not much mention of why, that obviously was not important, in fact to mention that Israel was aiming to stop the Kassam attacks would not be in keeping with the MSM culture of bias, its culture of lies, its culture of appeasement.

Western MSM would not even mention Israel’s helping hand towards the Palestinian wounded. It might show Israel in a favorable light, how could the mainstream media continue to demonize the Zionist Entity, then?

Magen David Adom paramedics were cooperating with Palestinian rescue workers on Wednesday to evacuate Palestinian victims of the increasing Hamas-Fatah violence.

MDA ambulances waited at the Erez Crossing to Gaza to pick up an evacuate a 10-year-old girl suffering from a head wound, as well as three others wounded in their lower body, to Israeli hospitals.

Had the MSM told the whole story as it happened, without skipping any details (no matter how inconvenient!) the result might been to add pressure on the corrupt Hamas and Fatah leaders and foce them to change their ways by exposing them. Had the MSM relentlessly told the truth, it might have paved the way for a new Palestinian leadership that might actually work towards the goal of bettering the plight of the average man on the street. A new leadership that might stem the exodus of Palestinian youth and intellectuals for whom the corruption and violence make life hopeless and unbearable. When one fails to condemn oppression, corruption, greed and violence, the very silence becomes an encouragement for the perpetrators to continue. The violence in the PA is not only part of the PA culture, by extension that very culture permeates the Western MSM, too cowardly to mention it.

Chaim

Cross-posted at: Freedom's Cost