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Aug. 23rd, 2006 01:38 pmTHEY NEVER LOSE, WE NEVER WIN
(то же на иврите)
By Rabbi Berel Wein
The recent war in Lebanon against the Hizbollah ended, as have all Arab-Israeli wars, in victory for the Arabs and defeat for Israel. This is the message that is rife and almost exclusive in the Moslem world and is also the consensus of opinion of the “experts” of the European and North American media. And of course, this message is aided and abetted by our own peace-seekers on the Left who, at any cost, are eternally convinced that if we only made nice to the Arabs all of our security problems would be solved.
The terrible tendency in the Arab world to never admit defeat or to never acknowledge the negative shortcomings of its own society, hinders any efforts to have reality creep into the their view of the Middle East. If the Arabs never lose, why shouldn’t they continue pursuing the terribly disastrous struggle against Israel’s existence that they have mounted over the past sixty years at? Nasser never admitted defeat in the Six Day war. Sadat and Assad never admitted defeat after the Yom Kippur War. Egypt still celebrates the anniversary of the “October War” as a great victory of Egyptian arms. Sadat’s peace treaty with Israel, six years after that war ended, was at least a tacit admission on his part that Egypt had lost the war. But he dared not say that publicly. And, in any event, because of that tacit admission, he was assassinated by the Arab street.
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(то же на иврите)
By Rabbi Berel Wein
The recent war in Lebanon against the Hizbollah ended, as have all Arab-Israeli wars, in victory for the Arabs and defeat for Israel. This is the message that is rife and almost exclusive in the Moslem world and is also the consensus of opinion of the “experts” of the European and North American media. And of course, this message is aided and abetted by our own peace-seekers on the Left who, at any cost, are eternally convinced that if we only made nice to the Arabs all of our security problems would be solved.
The terrible tendency in the Arab world to never admit defeat or to never acknowledge the negative shortcomings of its own society, hinders any efforts to have reality creep into the their view of the Middle East. If the Arabs never lose, why shouldn’t they continue pursuing the terribly disastrous struggle against Israel’s existence that they have mounted over the past sixty years at? Nasser never admitted defeat in the Six Day war. Sadat and Assad never admitted defeat after the Yom Kippur War. Egypt still celebrates the anniversary of the “October War” as a great victory of Egyptian arms. Sadat’s peace treaty with Israel, six years after that war ended, was at least a tacit admission on his part that Egypt had lost the war. But he dared not say that publicly. And, in any event, because of that tacit admission, he was assassinated by the Arab street.
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