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October 24, 2006

First comes Saturday then comes Sunday

There was a time not long ago when Lebanon was an Arab Christian country, a fact that went entirely unremarked in reportage about last year's uptick in a decades long conflict. Of all the voices silenced by terror and our media's collusion with terror none was more so than those of Lebanese Christians. It has become a commonplace on the left to refer to Israel as an "apartheid state". Such is the big lie; a shocking lie in contrast with the explicit religious and racial apartheid of Israel's neighbours. What our media either cannot fathom - or cannot muster passing concern for - is that the Jews are, as ever, the canaries in the coal-mine. The fate of Israel is the fate of liberalism, pluralism and democracy.

Please watch Brigitte Gabriel's lecture to the Heritage Foundation. An hour may seem like a lot of time to invest but it is an eye opener (via No Submission).

I hope it is not only a simple-minded prurience on my part which compels me to point out Brigitte Gabriel is so hot she is made of fireworks and candied ginger or something. Just saying. If even that incentive is insufficient to such a large RealMedia file I should also point to this FrontPage interview. It covers much the same territory.

Even though I was raised in a Christian country, it was still an Arabic country trying to please its neighbors, the Arab Muslims. Even the Christian private school I went to was effected. When we studied the Bible, we only studied the New Testament. I never saw the Old Testament or heard anything about it, because it was considered the enemy's bible. All I heard was Israel is Satan, Israel the devil, Israelis are demons, and they are the source of the problem in the Middle East. The Jews are evil, they are unstoppable and they want to control the world. I heard nothing but hatred toward the Jews.
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My town was 2 and half miles from the Israeli boarder. We in our Christian town were faced with the combined Muslim and Palestinian forces waiting to slaughter us. We knew our fate, knowing what they have done to other Christian towns and cities in the rest of Lebanon. To our back was Israel. The enemy, Satan, the demon possessed Jews. We had no where to turn but one way, to the devil Israel. After all we knew the Jews wouldn’t slaughter us because we had more shared values with them than we had with the Moslems. Under the cover of darkness, few men from our town went to the border, flagged down an Israeli boarder patrol, explained the situation and begged for help.

Israel agreed to help the Christians. Israel became our lifeline. The Israeli military would come during the night and bring food and ammunition to the military and milk for the children. They would take the Christian men anyone from age 13 to 70 and train them to fight; most of them have never held a rifle before. Most of the Christian men had degrees that decorated their walls, but all the degrees in the world can not defend you when an enemy is facing you with a gun, wanting to kill you by what your enemy believes is an order from God.

Posted by Ghost of a flea at October 24, 2006 10:04 AM

Comments

Terrific interview, thanks for highlighting it.

Posted by: Chris Taylor at October 24, 2006 11:55 AM

She is something else. Her story about that Israeli ambulance driver is something I am going to carry with me. I think we are at a tipping-point... in fact, Pope Benedict's recent ostensibly controversial remarks might have been the tipping point.

Posted by: Ghost of a flea at October 24, 2006 01:00 PM

I would have thought we hit that point five years ago, but I am guessing that it is still not quite upon us.

VDH had some interesting and semi-related thoughts two days ago on his Pajamas Media blog.

Posted by: Chris Taylor at October 24, 2006 01:59 PM

I agree September 11, 2001 was the first point at which most people in the West noticed there was a problem. This lead the Bush administration to take up the much maligned neoconservative project of liberation and democratization. I fear the reaction to Benedict's Regensberg speech suggested to many of us that the neocon's Wilsonian optimism may have been misguided. Hence a second tipping point; this one inspired as much by Rome of old as any mild-mannered, scholarly Vicar of Christ now resident in that city.

Posted by: Ghost of a flea at October 24, 2006 02:42 PM

On a similar subject (well a group that most Muslims hate) I recommend all read this overview of the plight of the Kurds.

I have met Lebanese Christians before, the first ones being in Honduras, they are a forgotten group in the Middle East. Much like Palestinian Christians who are literally stuck between a rock & a hard place.

Posted by: Andrew Ian Dodge at October 25, 2006 06:21 AM