Ist Tora Bora
Soon Gomorrah
Osama’s Tora Bora
Marching on black Sand
Hamas plays Palestinian Hand
Palestinians Use the Wrong Demand
Hamas is Implementing a Tora Bora Plan
Winner take all rather than accept 2 state Land
Acting as western aircraft carrier missile site for Iran
Playing out of tune March like an out of step Ragtime Band
June 10, 2008
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
The Palestinians have always been looked upon for hundreds of years, by the rest of the more prosperous Arab nations, as “The Outcasts of Poker Flats.” But when the British Protectorate pulled out more than sixty years ago, leaving the land divided between Israel and the Arabs, then the Arab nations, thinking poor little ole Israel could be wiped out in a few weeks, viciously attacked them.
The Arabs got their rear ends stomped, and ran away like a cur dog running from a pack of wolves with its tail between its legs. This embarrassment was one of the most gut-wrenching defeats ever suffer by Islam in its homeland. It has stuck in their craw like a chicken leg and they will never be able to remove it until the Lord comes and does it for them.
I am sure it would be helpful to describe why “Tora Bora” appears in our heading. Its historical significance, as found in Wikipedia, is as follows:
“Tora Bora (“black dust”), known locally as Spīn Ghar, is a cave complex situated in the White Mountains (Safed Koh) of eastern Afghanistan, in the Pachir Wa Agam District of Nangarhar province, approximately 50km west of the Khyber Pass and 10km north of the border of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) in Pakistan.
During the US invasion of Afghanistan it was one of the supposed strongholds of the Taliban. As the suspected hide-out of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, it was the theater in December 2001 for the Battle of Tora Bora.”
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Dormant Jihad has been around for a very long time since it entered its state of rest with the collapse of the last Islamic Caliphate.
But Osama bin Laden, more than anyone else in the last century, revived it against the Soviets in the last century and drove them out of Afghanistan. The spirit of Jihad awakened, and it has been spreading through the Islamic world like leaven causing bread to rise.
Instead of developing into sustainable democratic governments in the structure of majority populations of those holding the Islamic belief, as have the far eastern countries beyond India, many of those to the west of India are governed so tightly by religious leaders or dictators, that only their survival as leaders is important, and they rule by intimidation and terror. The people can go to hell in a hand basket for all they care, and they constantly have their underlings assure the masses they are ready and willing to be suicide bombers for Allah, but anyone can see their leadership is so important they must continue to direct others to their deaths. The only way those suckers get killed is by assassination hiding in a cave or broom closet, and usually by their own people.
I have extracted the following excerpts from an MEMRI Article by Dr.
Mamoun Fandy. It is well worth the read. I am afraid the desire Dr. Fandy expressed in his article that one day the Palestinians would form a mature state, which could live in peace with its neighbors, will never come to fruition in this end time generation.
Begin Excerpt from Middle East Media Review Institute (MEMRI)
June 8, 2008
No. 1952
Arab Liberal Dr. Mamoun Fandy: The Palestinians Have Chosen the Model Of Tora Bora Over That of Singapore
In an article published April 21, 2008 in the London daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, well-known researcher, writer, author, and columnist Dr.
Mamoun Fandy wrote that the Palestinians must proceed from revolution to state-building, demonstrating that
they are capable of building a prosperous state which will contribute to the stability of the region.
The following are excerpts from the article:
In the Arab World, “Human Life is Not Important; What Counts Is That the Leaders Survive”
“As long as Haniyya is in charge – Gaza is on a winning streak. [Indeed,] presenting defeat as victory is not unique to the Palestinians.
In this way, the June 1967 fiasco was not conceived of as defeat, since Gamal ‘Abd Al-Nasser remained president [of Egypt] after the war; Saddam [Hussein’s] setbacks were not regarded as defeat either, since Saddam remained president of Iraq; nor was Lebanon’s downfall regarded as defeat – [despite] the complete destruction of its infrastructure – since Hassan Nasrallah continued as leader of the uprising. [It seems that] human life is not important; what counts is that the leaders survive.
” The second question is whether the new Palestinian state is capable of strengthening regional security or whether it will become a source of threat and disrupt the security equilibrium.
This is another criterion for assessing the Palestinian leadership’s ability to assure its Arab and non-Arab neighbors that the new state will be the basis for reconstruction rather than destruction, stability rather than [disruption], economic welfare rather than poverty.
“One could say that, from 1996 until the beginning of the 2000 intifada, the PA had begun acting as a state, although it did make a few mistakes. Those in Fatah who made the revolutionary step of moving towards the ‘maturity’ of the Palestinian Authority have made an important qualitative leap, which history will count in their favor. [Indeed,] they initiated the PA into the rites of maturity, and took part in the negotiations in Oslo, Washington, Taba etc.”
In 2000, “Instead Of Declaring A State, [The Palestinian Leadership] Decided to Declare A Revolution… the Palestinian Security Apparatuses Joined the Resistance as Factions… [Thus]… Relinquish[ing] Their Role in Building the State [And] Undermining the Trust of the International Community”
“The Palestinian leadership committed a major error in the beginning of 2000, when it refused to accept the outcome of the negotiations with U.S. President Bill Clinton, who nearly gave them a state in return for certain concessions. At the time, the Palestinian leadership refused to agree to these concessions out of fear that, otherwise, it might find itself up against the [Palestinian] people.
“Instead of declaring a state, it decided to declare a revolution. The Palestinian security apparatuses joined the resistance as factions – in other words, they reverted to the ‘adolescence’ of revolution. By joining the resistance,
the security apparatuses relinquished their role in building the state, thereby undermining the trust of the international community, and the trust of its patron countries. Never again would the Egyptians, Americans, Europeans, and Israelis believe that the Palestinian leadership was truly capable of advancing from the ‘adolescence’ of revolution to the ‘maturity’ of state…
“The only solution left to the Palestinians, including Hamas, is to rebuild their institutions in accordance with the maturity of state rather than with the adolescence of revolution, thereby contributing to the stability of the region, rather than to its destruction.
“This is [how they should proceed]:
“First – [they must] search for new leaders, who are trusted both inside and outside the country,
and in doing so they must apply as criteria, not the ideology of revolution, but that of statehood. [Moreover,] Hamas must come to terms with the fact that it is a political party, and act accordingly. [So far] Hamas’s radical conduct has indicated that it is incapable of acting as a party – rather, it has been behaving like a militia…
“Fatah [C]ould Be Like the U.S. Democrats, and Hamas Like the Republicans; Alternatively, Fatah and Hamas [C]ould Be Like the Conservatives and Labor in Great Britain”
“If Hamas is incapable of acting maturely, as befits a [ruling] political party, the Palestinian political process could be modeled after
the veteran democracies. Thus, Fatah would be like the U.S. Democrats, and Hamas like the Republicans; alternatively, Fatah and Hamas would be like the Conservatives and Labor in Great Britain. Furthermore, the Palestinians should hold new elections in order to form a new leadership. These elections must be free and unhampered by fear – since freedom of choice is the foundation of a free society.
“If the Palestinians cannot elect new leaders who can demonstrate to the international community that they believe in the maturity of state rather than in the adolescence of revolution, and, moreover, [that they believe] in a Palestinian state that can strengthen the stability of the region instead of contributing to its decline and destruction… if the Palestinians cannot rise up to this great challenge, we may be facing another 60 years of Nakba.”
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