Israel: The canary inside the coal mine.

If somebody is unfamiliar with the saying, here’s how the story goes: when the miners go to the coal mine, they take a canary bird with them. Should there be any toxic gases, the canary will be the first to die and the miners will know to leave the mine immediately to make it out alive.

In both the World War II and the current global war on terror, the attacks on the Jews were precursors to broader attacks that were in the planning stages on a truly massive scale.

Hitler was oppressing Jews back in 1933. But the world was pretty accustomed to anti-Semitism, wasn’t all that outraged by it, and so, amid all the signs that this guy was a monster, decided to give Hitler a pass. Hitler took advantage of the time allotted him, built up his army, and ended up killing millions of Russians, British and Americans … in addition to half the world’s Jews.

It is clear that the same thing has now transpired with global, Islamic terrorism. When Arab terrorists first started killing Israeli schoolchildren back in the 60′s and 70′s, the world turned a blind eye and dismissed it as a regional conflict. Dead Jews were not big news. The world, which had already absorbed the idea of 6 million more dead Jews, didn’t take terrorism seriously. The reaction of the world community was to view the Arab attacks as legitimate skirmishes with Israelis – an outrageous notion, to be sure, given the fact that the Arabs were directly targeting civilians and non-combatants.

A truly outrageous case in point was the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic games of 1972. So casually was this tragedy taken that, amazingly, the games continued the very next day. Unbelievably, the German government released the three captured hijackers a few weeks later, and they promptly returned to a hero’s welcome. One must seriously wonder what would have happened had the dead athletes been American, German or British. Would their deaths have been treated so cavalierly? Would these governments have allowed the games to continue before the victims were even buried?

The legacy of the Munich Olympics was not even one of sympathy for Israel, but of a heightened awareness of the Palestinian cause. In this respect, the Munich massacre was a watershed in the history of terror because it taught the terrorists that they actually further their cause – with publicity and public sympathy – by killing innocent civilians.

The same was true of the horrific murder of wheelchair-bound passenger Leon Klinghoffer aboard the cruise ship Achille Lauro in 1983. Here, the world barely reacted to a truly gruesome murder involving an invalid being shot in his wheelchair in front of his wife, and then pushed overboard into the ocean. Shockingly, the Italian government later released the terrorists who perpetrated this unspeakable crime. And through all this, the world largely remained silent.

That is, until the terrorists stopped killing only Jews and began killing people on the streets of New York, Bali, Madrid and Moscow. Now everyone recognizes that terrorism is an evil that threatens the entire world, not just Jews.

Jews have served as an almost infallible early-warning system, alerting the world’s leaders to the next great evil that will stalk the earth. If the world would just learn to be sensitive to Jewish life, it would save its own behind as well.

Even if we ignore the idea of the Jews as the chosen people, the fact is the Jews have, unfortunately, served as an effective early-warning system precisely because thugs, bullies and murderers usually attack the most vulnerable targets first. People who crave unbridled power always start with the weak. Jews have been easy targets. They are a tiny nation whose refusal to adopt the religious mores of their neighbors have branded them as outsiders. They have therefore been attacked and scapegoated by evil regimes throughout the generations, and had the world simply looked at who was picking on the Jews, they might have easily identified the next great threat to their own security.  R.S. Boatech and Moises Mizrachi

Beating Israel with Peace

This is the recipe to finally beat Israel, if this gets to the right hands, it might change something.

First and foremost, do not mix religion and politics, these two subjects do not go well together, they literally are an explosive mix. ISLAM IS NOT THE SOLUTION. It never was.

Use all of your energy, and focus not on destroying Israel, but on building Palestine, and by building I mean build. You need hospitals, good schools, roads, commerce and most importantly institutions that support a democratic system. Forget about Israel and their land, it has been lost and will not be part of Palestine anytime soon. Focus on Gaza which is by all standards an independent entity that could flourish in to a successful state. It has a coast, an international recognized border, its own population with language, culture and a type of government.  The world has poured billions in aid and all this resources have been tragically lost, in part because of a rampant corruption but mainly because of Hamas's fixation on destroying Israel. Very little has been dedicated to actually building a State, while destroying Israel is center stage. All of which has played into your enemy's advantage (See Thank you Hamas! ).

First step, demilitarized the place.
Once you have developed Gaza into a peaceful state,  Israel will have no option but to open the blockade. No more rockets, kidnappings, or any kind of cross border attacks. I know it will be hard to change this old habit, and probably a great source of income from all the countries that support terror and the destruction of Israel, but this in not for the short term, this is for the future stake of your people.

Then stop incitement while investing in education.
For your own sake, Palestinians need to embrace Peace, stop adoring murderers and killers. Martyrs they are not. You will have an identity crisis, and this is normal. Palestinian violence has been woven together with other aspects of culture, that once out, it will form a void. This must be filled with your own ways. I am not preaching you have to become western by any means, you just need to become peace loving, which is a human gift not a western value.  

Then commerce and tourism will start to flourish, Gaza has beautiful beaches, and a great locations, exploit your advantages.

Then you can start to compete to beat Israel, it will take years but Americans, Europeans and even Israelis will invest in your land, you can attract investment by having lower taxes, rule of law, educated work force, if women can have a voice, good for you. Play all of this to your advantage, if this falls in to the right hands, 20 years from now Apple will be opening its newest plant in Gaza and not in Ramat Gan. And thats how you beat Israel with Peace.    :)

Thank you Hamas... Sincerely Israel

Hamas has been one of the largest supporters of Israel and it's economic development comparable only to the United States.

This sounds like a foolish sentence, but ironically it has become true,  how can an Islamic radical government sworn to destroy Israel be responsable  for such a huge bonanza?

20 years ago, Hamas introduced to the Israeli Society a new version of terrorism, it started by blowing up buses and suicided bombings, this human tragedy was transformed by Israel into a screen and security system that reduced the amount of incidents in the recent years to nearly zero. As a consequence, Israel has become a powerhouse in security and information technologies. It has become Israel's number one export. Hundreds of thousands of Israelis have jobs because of this and it's only growing.

The next great ideas from the Palestinian leadership were sporadic attacks and kidnappings. The last decade Israel became a world leader in Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAV's), exporting billions and developing a new industry.

The newest idea is rockets, well oddly enough there is an Israeli response, and an app for that too. The iron dome with the help of the US, has become a great success, it has intercepted hundreds of rockets, and it has been battle tested. The only country in the world that has experience destroying a missile mid air is Israel. So now a new industry is born, and again the world leader... Israel. Not only are the rockets inefficient killing machines, they are send to civilian centers in Israel, a war crime itself, giving Israel the right to blow whatever target it deems necessary in Gaza. With all the support of the world and rightly so. Thank you Hamas! But the buck does not literally stops here, Israel is developing 2 other mid air defenses as of today. One is Lasers and the other is rapid fire, each will become a whole industry employing thousands and exporting billions.

And the media plays along, every informed person on planet earth knows about this, and so do the leaders of every county, so the media acts like a huge free sponsor for Israel and its newest industries.

So Hamas is partly responsable for this economic miracle Israel has experienced, being Israeli ingenuity responsable for the other half.

Israel was one of the only countries in the world that did not experience a recession, in late 2008, and it's economic numbers in unemployment, debt, inflation and exchange rate are nothing short of impressive.

So Hamas keep up the good work, Israel depends on you.