OpEdNews - Diary: Israelis Have Closure; Arabs Have Turmoil

We can erase the sight of them. We can safely dial out the noise from them. Unfortunately, they seek attention with terrorist incursions and by a regular barrage of missiles. Wrongly, the Arabs have deemed this the resistance. They have nothing to resist but the shackles of their own making.

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Israelis Have Closure

Israel has achieved closure putting all things Arab out of sight and out of mind. The Israeli wall is both the symbolic and the practical expression of this. With each Palestinian incursion, the wall lengthens cutting down on their movements and claiming more land for Jewish settlement.

Qalqily Wall

We leave to the Arabs the inflation of threats, the perpetuation of fears and the retreat into victimhood.

We can erase the sight of them. We can safely dial out the noise from them. Unfortunately, they seek attention with terrorist incursions and by a regular barrage of missiles. Errantly, the Arabs have deemed this the resistance. They have nothing to resist but the shackles of their own making.

Attacking Israel will not remove the Arab shackles mind and body.

Roger Cohen has similar interpretations to mine, but he places them at the Israeli doorstep.

Israel Iran and Fear

Roger Cohen, NYTimes

Roger Cohen

Cohen writes.

"Closure is the overcoming of horror. It is the achievement of normality through responsibility. It cannot be attained through the inflation of threats, the perpetuation of fears, or retreat into the victimhood that sees every act, however violent, as defensive."

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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/20/opinion/20iht-edcohen.html

After three years of deliberation, the Israeli Supreme Court outlawed torture in all its forms. A week later a suicide bomber destroyed a Jerusalem bus blowing 43 passengers to bits. The Police rushed to the Court to ask permission to torture an alleged bomb maker. The Court lifted the torture ban and the bomb maker revealed information that foiled several plots to kill Jews.

That was the end of the torture ban.

To Resist is to Exist

Most of us have a conscience the ability to distinguish right from wrong. Under certain circumstances we can suspend this ability to reason. Consuming passions such as fear and anger come to mind.

As long as these delusions persist in the Arab mind, they will not have closure.