Dean's World

The realization dawned on me long ago, that in relationship between nations, countries and civilizations -- as opposed to highly formalized relationships between individuals or communities within organized commonwealths, might clearly makes right. And to run salt into the obviously raw wound implied by that statement, it is equally obvios that without might, there is no right and can be none.

There is not a single patch of ground on this planet from which a group of inhabitants has not be despoiled, driven out or enslaved, or even murdered outright, by another group that comes to displace them, and in fact does just that if they have the power to achieve it.

All the aggressions in human history -- and for that matter, all the territorial and agressive behavious of the rest of the animal and plant world, operates precisely that way. And there is reason to believe that such conduct is hardwired into all living organisms.

Once you accept the principle described above as a given, at least for all international conduct, then you understand exactly how all the great ancient peoples won and subsequently lost their kingdoms and empires; how in relatively modern times a group of adventurers from northwestern Europe -- our national ancestors -- came to this continent and stole it from its inhabitants of that era; how the 7th and 8th century Arabs conquered and kept a significant portion of the surface of this planet for their frequently hateful and vicious culture and religious belief; how the empires of western Europe were won and lost; how the nazi german attempt at empire spread their power across all Europe and western Asia and then collapsed into smashed-up and burning ruin.

And you can then understand why the blacks of the southern Sudan region made the worst of all possible mistakes in waiting for the United Nations Organization or even the United States and Britain to help them fend off the murderous Arabs of Khartoum. All aid moneys provided to them should obviously have been spent buying weapons or the assitance of trained mercenaries, firstly for immediate defense against the Arab marauders, and secondly to train the blacks to become efficient killers of these Arabs.

I often have given thought to the situation of Israel in regard to the point made above.

On one hand is their continuously nurtured relationship to the west, implying their endless hope to move the western governments into seeing the dangers to their existence posed by being surrounded by a pack of people who act in regard to them like howling wolves, boasting endlessly of their intentions to destroy the jewish state, and frequently vying with one another to move into position along Israel's borders for purposes of sending in suicide bombers or rocket attacks against the israeli cities and villages.

On the other hand, the israeli civil and military leadership has taken the precaution of building a vast and growing thermonuclear arsenal and the means of delivering mass death and permanent radioactive destruction on the entire islamic world and perhaps much beyond that.

My own thoughts on these precautions is that they, along with Israel's superbly trained and equipped ground, air and naval forces, are the sole reason Israel survives.

Had it been up to me, the entire arab population of Judea, Samaria, Gaza, the Sinai and even of southern Lebanon up to the Litani river would have been expelled en masse immediately following the Six Day War in June 1967.

I would have started with the Palestine refugee camps. I would have arrested their UNO administrators and their paid arab staffs, put them aboard armored buses, driven them right up to the final Zahal checkpoint, and put them across enemy lines by force.

Next I would have emptied out all their refugee camps and expelled them right across the Jordan river bridges into the Kingdom of Jordan, where in any case, the population has been about 2/3 "Palestinian" since 1948. That way, they would have gotten their palestinian state a lot sooner and on a much more secure basis.

Then I would have repeated this process on a perhaps more masured scale with the rest of the inhabitants. Each of these would have been interviewed individually by Arabic-speaking israeli officers and asked to pledged to live in peace with the State of Israel. Anyone refusing this pledge would have been put into the usual armored buses and trucked right to the Jordan bridges, and marched across with bayonets at their back. The rest would have been allowed to live in peace.

Then I would have annexed all these territories. Immediately. With no apologies either to the United States, the British, the Europeans, the UNO, and certainly not to any of their islamic enemies.

Then I would have begun even quicker the massive job to spreading the Israeli population on a more or less homogenous basis throughout the newly taken territories.

Then I would have made this proclamation to the Arabs, the Europeans, the USA, and the rest of the world.

"This is exactly what will happen the next time you announce you are going to destroy us, then mobilize armies on our borders awaiting the orders to kill us all.

And if push us too far, you had better find some place other than Mecca to assemble for your annual hajj. Because it will be rendered uninhabitable for the next 25,000 years. You have been warned.

Because you have boasted to us and to the world since you created your arab islamic empire that your might makes right. And now you have made the mistake of convincing us that you are correct, so we have adopted the same islamic principle for our own use."

Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI