Friday, July, 14, 2006 9:09 AM
Copperfox
writes:
Let's try to make people understand
Here's an article I wrote several months ago
which is relevant to Israel's predicament...
AN ILLUSTRATION BRUCE LEE
WOULD HAVE UNDERSTOOD
Let us turn our minds away from what is turning my stomach,
namely the nomination of Pukebarf Mountain as Best Picture,
and use an illustration from Chinese movies to address an issue
of concern to Americans in real life.
Step with me into the world of low-budget kung-fu movies,
pre-Crouching Tiger. Who's that we see walking up the road?
Why, it's our young hero, known as Young Hero. His father,
Cowardly Noodle, has sent Young Hero to look for his sister,
Innocent Maiden, who is overdue returning from the rice market.
Topping the ridge that looks down into town, Young Hero is
in a position to see from a considerable distance what happens
next. A terrified scream in a familiar voice directs his eyes to
a distressing sight below. His purehearted, mild-mannered sister
has been slung over the shoulder of a low-ranking thug, known
as Low-Ranking Thug. This cheap hoodlum and five of his even-
cheaper pals are loudly and coarsely boasting to each other of
their manly achievement in overpowering one girl who has no
kung-fu training, and mocking the victim with declarations of
their unspeakable intentions toward her.
In scenes prior to this point, Young Hero and Innocent
Maiden have bent over backwards trying to turn the other
cheek in encounters with Low-Ranking Thug. Obviously,
however, these crooks reflect a different place in Scripture:
Isaiah 26:10, which says, "If favor is shown to the wicked, he
DOES NOT learn righteousness." Young Hero, in any case,
is a Buddhist; but right now, he forgets all that Buddhistic
stuff about not having any attachments to anything, and
remembers family instead.
This being low-budget kung-fu, we don't get to watch
Young Hero flying through the air in one unbroken take to
reach his endangered sister half a mile away. Instead, he
jumps ten inches up in the air; the camera cuts before he
comes down from this jump; and the next shot shows him
springing from off-camera into the midst of the bad guys.
But the fight action that follows makes up for the lack of
Peter Pan wire-work, as Young Hero singlehandedly pounds
Low-Ranking Thug and the other would-be rapists into dim
sum. Once making certain that Innocent Maiden is safe,
Young Hero picks up the one bad guy still conscious enough
to be spoken to, and snarls at him, "Tell your evil master,
Intimidating White-Haired Villain, that we won't put up
with you hoodlums anymore!"
But when the good guy and his sister get home, they
find out why the script calls their father Cowardly Noodle.
Knowing, absolutely KNOWING, that Young Hero did
what he did only because there was NO other way to save
his sister from being raped and possibly killed, Cowardly
Noodle nonetheless yells curses and rebukes at his son:
"You idiot! You're always making trouble! This will provoke
Intimidating White-Haired Villain!" Never mind that the
villain already came to their town from 200 miles away with
advance intentions of preying upon it, and has already been
terrorizing people WITHOUT any "provocation;" Cowardly
Noodle finds it easier to yell at his son, who he knows won't
kill him for it, than to face the truth. He even accuses
Innocent Maiden of supposedly enticing Low-Ranking
Thug; then he goes off to grovel at the feet of Intimidating
White-Haired Villain.
Fortunately, despite Cowardly Noodle's craven self-
deception and ingratitude, Young Hero, with the help of
Eccentric Old Master, will kill Intimidating White-Haired
Villain in the end (and the words "The End" will appear
over freeze-frame before the villain's dead body even
hits the ground). Unfortunately, Cowardly Noodle will go
on to become a United Nations official, or maybe (without
ceasing to be a Buddhist) assume a leadership role in one
of America's liberal church denominations.
In his new capacity, Cowardly Noodle will review the
facts of the Middle East: Israel's people outnumbered
more than twenty to one by their enemies, Israel's efforts
at concession and compromise INVARIABLY rewarded
with more terrorist attacks, Hamas taking control of the
Palestinian Authority with advance declarations of its
intention to destroy Israel entirely, and Russian tyrant
Vladimir Putin taking time away from suppressing
journalists to cozy up to Hamas. What will Cowardly
Noodle conclude? Of course--blame Israel!
Trying to play on American sympathy for underdogs,
Cowardly Noodle will talk about Palestinian poverty...
while willfully pretending not to know that this poverty
would not even exist if Yasser Arafat (that "Palestinian"
leader from Egypt) had not siphoned huge amounts of
aid money to his own Swiss bank accounts. Above all,
he will play the moral-equivalence game, speaking of a
symmetrical "cycle of violence"--as if there were Israelis
talking about killing every Muslim in the world, the way
Islamo-fascists DO talk about killing all Jews. And, as
ALWAYS happens when this game is played, he will
progress rapidly from "both sides being equally guilty"
to the relatively-innocent side being MORE EQUALLY
guilty. So what if, during the Desert Storm campaign,
Israel did what NO other nation was ever asked to do
--refrain voluntarily from retaliating even as it was being
FIRED UPON with missiles? That won't stop Cowardly
Noodle from saying that Israel is the stubborn, rigid,
unreasonable side in the situation.
The mullah-crats of Iran are stating openly their
desire to obliterate Israel. These are the same thugs
who committed a clear and unmistakable ACT OF WAR
against the United States when they unlawfully seized
our embassy in Tehran; and Jimmy Carter's Cowardly-
Noodle-style diplomacy did nothing to discourage their
malice. What, then, is the current solution offered by
so many liberal churches and university faculties in
America? Why, of course--yell at Young Hero, grovel
at the feet of Intimidating White-Haired Villain, and
disinvest in Israel!
Not that the Republican side is entitled to a free pass
at this point. I'm still trying to figure out just what reason
Mr. Bush can possibly have to make his deal with the
United Arab Emirates, which gave diplomatic recognition
to the TALIBAN while refusing to recognize Israel's
right to exist at all.
But maybe Mr. Bush is looking ahead at possibly
being forced to take action against the Iranian regime.
In such a crisis, we might well need to use air bases in
a place like the U.A.E. We certainly could not expect
help from "allies" like Turkey--not with Turks crowding
to watch the movie "Valley of the Wolves," which was
made to promote the LIE that American soldiers are
psychopathic murderers.
While Hollywood whimpers and sulks about imaginary
threats of McCarthyism and homophobia, the real world
is serving up some REAL dangers. Things could get a
lot worse very quickly; and when they do, there won't be
time for us to be only just beginning then to understand
world politics. If we don't realize NOW who the good
guys are and who the bad guys are, sudden panic may
easily stampede us into blaming the innocent while
brown-nosing the guilty.
For decades, Muslims in Israel have in FACT enjoyed
more civil liberties than they would in MUSLIM nations.
Also for decades, wealthy Muslim oil states could easily
have provided for the Palestinian people--but purposely
chose to leave them in limbo so that Israel would be
blamed. Something is going on here that's been going
on since Muhammad plundered the Jewish merchant
colonies of Arabia in the name of Allah. But even if God
actually allowed all Jews living today to be killed off by
Islamo-fascists, does anyone really think that those
fascists would then say, "Okay, that's all we wanted,
now we'll leave everyone else in peace"?
Fundamentalist Muslim doctrine has one term which
identifies all territory NOT ruled by fundamentalist
Muslims: Dar al-Harb, which is Arabic for "House of
War." That means that ANY place not under Sharia
law is fair game to be attacked whenever it suits Muslims
to do so. No amount of appeasement by Cowardly Noodles
will EVER change this view of the world on the part of
creatures like the Hamas gangsters. Conversion of the
gangsters to faith in Jesus WOULD change it; but a
postmodernist liberal church that refuses to see anything
wrong with those gangsters is not likely to try hard to
convert them, is it?
If evil can be overcome with love and grace, that's the
most desirable outcome. I never start out assuming that
we're so far into the End Times that nothing more can be
done. But how can love and grace transform evil if we're
not even clear about what and where the evil is? Isaiah 5:20 contains these important words: "Woe to those who call
evil good and good evil!" Condemning Israel for trying
to defend its own existence, while making excuses for
terrorists who lay their genocidal plans on the table
face-up, is not Christian peacemaking. It is cowardice.
Yours for Jesus and America,
Joseph Richard Ravitts
Columbia, Maryland