The canary in the mine

Right now we have to go from passive response to active assault. … In the long term, the toppling of the Hamas regime is inevitable.

~ Benjamin Netanyahu, Likud Party leader

In the old days, I am told, coal miners would lower a cage with a tiny canary into a mine to determine if the levels of methane, carbon monoxide or other noxious gases were present. The logic was as long as that canary kept on singing in the mine, the miners knew that their air supply was safe; however, when the singing stopped, it was time to leave that site immediately, for death would quickly follow.

That simple deductive reasoning lasted scores of years and saved many lives, yet in our modern technological age, the nations of the world seem oblivious to the one country that metaphorically speaking is the little canary who daily sings its sobering aria to this perverted, psychopathic world – that canary in the mine are the Jewish people and the nation of Israel.

On New Year’s Eve, the day before 2009, as Israel, three years since giving the Palestinians Gaza, has been repaid with thousands of unprovoked rocket attacks, the canary in the mine is gagging from Muslim hatred, world apathy and U.N. anti-Semitism that surrounds the Jewish state, and after years of forbearance is finally fighting gallantly for her survival.

My questions to my Jewish friends are these:

Why do you continually give your sworn enemies, the Palestinian Muslims, your land – Gaza, the West Bank (greater Judea), Hebron, Bethlehem, half of Jerusalem, which is your birthright given to you by God himself, which is thoroughly chronicled in the Torah?
Why have you allowed the anti-Semitic United Nations and corrupt world leaders who hate your very existence drive you into political madness by the untenable geopolitical policies – “Two State Solution,” “land for peace” and “bilateral diplomacy”?
Israel, has giving land for peace granted you one day of peace? One hour of peace? One second of peace? No, of course not, because Hamas, Fatah, the Arabs and the Muslim nations don’t want peace; they want Israel pushed into the Mediterranean Sea. Israel, you have no friends, no allies in this world but the Israeli army, the will to fulfill your destiny and the God of the Torah.

Israel, you know that the 44 Muslim nations hate you by religious mandate, the socialist welfare states of Western Europe hate you by political mandate, the communist and tyrannical nations hate you by ideological mandate, and virtually the entire world is against you because they don’t believe in the biblical prophecies that the Jews are indeed “God’s chosen people.” Your one ally in the world, the United States, is at best a fickle friend that, as soon as President-elect Barack Obama gets into office, will sell you out to the Muslim states just as President Bush sold Israel out to his Saudi Arabian friends. (Recall Bush strolling through the White House Rose Garden or on his Texas ranch holding hands with Prince Abdullah like two little school girls? – a disgusting spectacle indeed.)

Politics aside for a moment, what rational, civilized nation on earth would tolerate terrorist attacks for eight minutes, let alone eight years of incessant bombings by its neighbor without retaliation? Would England allow Ireland or Scotland the right to launch unprovoked attacks against their country and their citizens in the name of peace? Would America allow Hamas, al-Qaida, the Taliban, Hezbollah or some other terrorist group unfettered access to enter our country, to launch deadly rockets into our country all in the name of peace, and we not exact an immediate, punishing revenge? Would Egypt, Turkey, Germany, Russia, China, Iran, Syria or any of a host of U.N. member states presently criticizing tiny Israel and its desperate attempts to protect its borders allow Hamas to launch 3,000 rockets into one of their countries? Absolutely not!

Indeed, the canary is hacking on fumes in the coal mine while the world says to itself: “It’s safe to go into the mine and work. Just because Israel is dying doesn’t mean we will die.” Really?

An AP story on the Gaza war states:

The assault has sparked diplomatic fallout. Syria decided to suspend indirect peace talks with Israel, begun earlier this year. The U.N. Security Council called on both sides to halt the fighting and asked Israel to allow humanitarian supplies into Gaza. The prime minister of Turkey, one of the few Muslim countries to have relations with Israel, called the air assault a “crime against humanity,” and French President Nicolas Sarkozy condemned “the provocations that led to this situation as well as the disproportionate use of force.”

This world’s bizarre and perverted response to Israel rightly defending itself from Hamas rockets seems to come not from prudent, civilized nations, but from the wards of the insane asylum.

“Liberalism is a mental disorder,” wrote conservative intellectual Michael Savage in his best-seller by the same title in 2005. “Socialism,” Sir Winston Churchill presciently characterized, “is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.” Unfortunately, modern Israel is a socialist state and seems hell-bent on embracing liberalism in its domestic and foreign policy. Israel must forsake liberalism, socialism, egalitarianism, and extricate itself from the self-destructive philosophy of seeking favor of those sworn by allegiances to Islam, socialism and moral relativism.

As the little canary sings her plaintive aria, consider these observations:

Iran is putting the final touches on her nuclear missiles conceived for the singular purpose of the annihilation of Israel;
For the first time ever senior military officials in Russia and China are discussing bilateral agreements via a direct phone link;
China owns the strategically crucial Panama Canal that America built under President Theodore Roosevelt 100 years ago;
Russia boldly and without challenge re-establishes its iron curtain throughout South America, Cuba (90 miles from America’s border), Georgia, Iraq, the Middle East and throughout Africa;
A ragtag band of Somali pirates on speed boats now have de facto control of the Gulf of Aden, extracting hundreds of millions of dollars in ransom payments;
And America’s unflappable secretary of state, Dr. Condi Rice, is meeting with Libyan terrorist, Moammar Gadhafi and in an interview just a few days ago made this remarkable confession: “I’m not a type-A personality” as she is compelled to exert diplomacy with corrupt, totalitarian, murderous type-A personalities all over the world.

God’s solemn promise to Abraham, the father of the Jewish people, clearly delineated Israel’s inextricable connection and fate with the nations of the world – Genesis 12:13: “I will bless them that bless thee [Israel], and I will curse them that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families [nations] of the earth be blessed.”

As this grand Shakespearean tragedy comes to its inevitable apotheosis, unless leaders of goodwill and real men of moral resolve come to their collective senses, then the civilized nations of the world won’t be too far behind that tiny, little canary struggling to sing her elegiac song of life … from deep inside the mines.
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