Reframing the Conflict

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YOU CAN’T DEFEND ISRAEL UNLESS YOU TALK ABOUT ISLAM

_Are Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, and Atheists all the
problem? Or is Islam the issue?_

Daniel Greenfield
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Frontpage Mag | 8-12-2024

WHAT DO THE STABBINGS IN ISRAEL, THE ASSAULTS ON HINDUS IN BANGLADESH,
THE MUSLIM MOBS ROAMING ENGLISH CITIES AND THE MASSACRES OF CHRISTIANS
IN NIGERIA ALL HAVE IN COMMON?

_The politically correct answer is nothing._

AND THAT’S WHY THE POLITICALLY CORRECT ANSWER CONDONES, JUSTIFIES OR
IGNORES THE VIOLENCE.

Islamic attacks on non-Muslim majorities in India, Europe, America or
Israel are justified as resistance by the oppressed, but violence by
Muslim majorities against non-Muslim minorities in Indonesia, Nigeria
and Bangladesh were justified by claims that the Muslim majority was
economically disenfranchised. Muslim violence is always excused by
false claims of victimhood.

Within Islam, Jihads are billed as a campaign to unify the world under
the Islamic ‘Ummah’, to impose Sharia law on all mankind, and
eventually usher in a global caliphate. Externally however they are
tethered to local and political causes of groups that happen to be
Muslim.

MUSLIMS SEE THEM AS ISLAMIC WARS, NON-MUSLIMS ARE TOLD THAT THEY’RE
EVERYTHING ELSE BUT…

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Patterns define how we react to things. The question is what is the
pattern?

IS THE PATTERN THAT DISPARATE GROUPS OF VIOLENT MEN SHOUTING “ALLAHU
AKBAR” ARE KILLING PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD FOR SOCIOECONOMIC AND
POLITICAL REASONS HAVING NOTHING TO DO WITH ISLAM?

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OR IS THIS A RELIGIOUS WAR?

Hamas launched Oct 7 on the final days of the Jewish High Holy Days
after originally scheduling them for the first day of Passover. What
the world knows as Oct 7, Hamas and its supporters called ‘Al-Aqsa
Flood’ after the mosque that the Muslim conquerors planted on
the   Jewish Temple Mount. Anti-Israel rallies use the ‘flood’
term such as ‘Flood Brooklyn for Gaza’.

HAMAS LEADER ISMAIL HANIYEH, who was recently assassinated, told
the 
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Union of Muslim Scholars in Qatar and the “sons of our Islamic
nation” that “THIS IS THE BATTLE FOR JERUSALEM AND THE AL-AQSA
MOSQUE, AND NOT THE BATTLE OF THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE, OR GAZA.”

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This runs completely counter to the official narrative that the entire
war is about Gaza.

The reams of media and expert commentary discuss Oct 7 in terms of
everything except Islam.

To do that they had to ignore what Hamas was saying just as they had
to previously ignore what Al Qaeda and ISIS were saying. To Hamas, Oct
7 was a religious war. The failure to recognize that is a catastrophic
setback to Israel’s strategy and cause as it was to America’s
after 9/11.

AFTER OCT 7, ISRAEL, LIKE THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION, CALLED ON A LIBERAL
CONSENSUS THAT NO LONGER EXISTED, and tried to rally public opinion
against “BARBARISM” and “SAVAGERY”. BUT NEITHER OF THOSE ARE
MOTIVES. Rather than acknowledging what the enemy was and trying to
build a coalition with other countries struggling against Islamic
terrorism, Israel tried to appeal to liberals. And lost.

ISRAEL HAD FAILED TO DEFINE THE ENEMY. Terrorist supporters stepped
into that vacuum. Their narrative, easily familiar from even the
briefest exposure to media and social media, is that Israel was
oppressing a minority that had struck back as an act of resistance and
liberation.

This is the same excuse used to justify religious violence by Islamic
groups around the world against not only Jews, but Christians, Hindus,
Buddhists and numerous cultures and religions.

THE BIG LIE THAT ISLAMIC VIOLENCE IS SOCIOECONOMIC AND NOT RELIGIOUS,
LOCAL NOT GLOBAL, ONLY WORKS WHEN NO ONE TALKS ABOUT ISLAM OR
RECOGNIZES THE LARGER PATTERN OF ISLAMIC VIOLENCE FOR A THOUSAND YEARS
THAT IS BEING PERPETRATED ON NEARLY EVERY CONTINENT AND AGAINST EVERY
CULTURE.

Are Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, and Atheists all the problem?
Or is Islam the issue?

When we fail to ask this fundamental question, we lose the argument.

The enemy had once again defined Israel following the familiar pattern
of two centuries of class warfare rhetoric and a century of
orientalist third world liberation theory. The Israelis were the
English in Africa, the Spanish in South America and the French in
Algiers. They were imperialists and colonialists being driven out by
the heroic native resistance fighters.

ISRAEL COULD HAVE TOLD ANOTHER STORY: A tale of Islamic imperialist
armies roaring out of the desert, exterminating entire civilizations,
wiping out their cultures and religions, and selling their children as
slaves. It could have connected the dots to the oil-rich Muslim states
like Qatar that traffic in slaves and fund Jihadist conquests around
the world. It should have told the story that the Jews were the last
indigenous people in the Middle East standing in the way of a new
Islamic empire.

BUT THAT STORY WAS TOO DANGEROUS AND CONTROVERSIAL. IT WOULD RISK
ALIENATING ISRAEL’S LAST LIBERAL SUPPORTERS. The Biden
administration and the EU would completely turn on it. The Abraham
Accords would fall apart. Instead, Israel tried to once again tell a
story of a multicultural liberal society, a place where gay men can
hold hands even if one of them is Muslim, standing up to
“barbarism”. It’s the same story that America, Europe and every
liberal western society have been telling themselves and each other
after every Islamic terrorist attack.

“IF YOU KNOW THE ENEMY AND KNOW YOURSELF, YOU NEED NOT FEAR THE
RESULT OF A HUNDRED BATTLES. IF YOU KNOW YOURSELF BUT NOT THE ENEMY,
FOR EVERY VICTORY GAINED YOU WILL ALSO SUFFER A DEFEAT. IF YOU KNOW
NEITHER THE ENEMY NOR YOURSELF, YOU WILL SUCCUMB IN EVERY BATTLE,”
SUN TZU HAD SAID.

WESTERN NATIONS CHOOSE NOT TO KNOW THEMSELVES OR THE ENEMY AND SO WE
CONTINUE TO LOSE.

How could Israel fail to predict Oct 7? How could we fail to predict
9/11? How can so many nations fail to predict each new Islamic
terrorist attack? Because they do not know the enemy.

When civilized people meet with soft-spoken terrorist emissaries who
wear fine suits, they assume that they can be dealt with because
they’re not “barbaric” or “savage”. They negotiate peace
accords and ceasefires with them. They assume that their word can be
trusted.

For two years, Hamas kept the deal it had negotiated until it was
ready to attack and carry out barbaric and savage atrocities mandated
by its religion. No amount of economic benefits from the ceasefire
dissuaded it from the attack. Predicting the attack was impossible for
those who understood Hamas as a political and social movement rather
than a religious movement.

Islamic terrorism is always unpredictable if you ignore the Islamic
part of the equation. It’s also inexplicable, impossible to defeat
and impossible to even win an argument against.

CALLING MUSLIM FORCES “BARBARIC” OR “SAVAGES” IS UNCONVINCING
RHETORIC THAT EXPLAINS NOTHING.

A tiny minority of criminals might break with society to commit
crimes, but millions of people, whether in Nazi Germany, Imperial
Japan, the USSR or the Muslim world will not engage in deviant
behavior: they will commit atrocities only because they believe they
are right.

Israel lost the argument long ago because it allowed the conflict to
be defined as a local issue. And it’s not a local issue but as Hamas
and many terrorist leaders have asserted, a global one.

Why is what happens in a tiny strip of land in a relative backwater a
global issue?

Because it’s not about Gaza and it’s not about Israel; it’s
about Islam.

No one would care about Gaza if it were really a local territorial
conflict, but every conflict between Muslims and non-Muslims is a
religious war that draws in Muslims worldwide.

THAT IS WHY HAMAS LEADER ISMAIL HANIYEH COULD CALL ON THE RELIGIOUS
SUPPORT OF THE INTERNATIONAL UNION OF MUSLIM SCHOLARS IN QATAR.
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That’s why Muslim mobs rallying in support of Hamas vandalized
Washington D.C. and are assaulting random British people in the UK.

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It’s not a local conflict. It’s not a ‘Palestinian’ conflict.
It’s an Islamic religious war.

The Islamic invasion, colonization and subjugation of non-Muslim
nations and peoples is the foundational mission of Islam. It was the
means by which Mohammed brought Islam into being. But for political
palatability, the Muslim colonists are disguised as a ‘native’
population.

In Israel’s West Bank and Gaza, the Arab Muslim colonists who had
invaded and ethnically cleansed the Jewish population were rebranded
as Palestinians. The Muslims who had brutally purged the Hindu
population of Kashmir became the ‘Kashmiris’. And the campaigns
were reduced to somehow irresolvable territorial disputes between a
majority and a Muslim minority.

But why are these territorial disputes irresolvable? Because they’re
not about territory. Land can be negotiated, but a religious dispute
in which one side’s religion tells it to kill the other cannot.

That’s why no matter how much territory Israel has given up, the
fighting only gets worse.

Diplomats and the media blame Israel for not giving up enough
territory, but where has a conflict between non-Muslims and Muslim
terrorists ever been resolved except by force? Democratic elections,
foreign aid, territorial concessions have been tried with no success.

The failures are never blamed on the Islamic terrorists only on those
who resisted them. The terrorists were the oppressed and the onus was
always on the oppressors to change that.

Locked into the same spiral of failure, civilized nations continue
trying to appease their way out of a clash of civilizations. The
pattern is right in front of them, but they refuse to see it.

After 9/11, those in the government and the defense community who knew
it was a religious war told the rest of us that we had to keep quiet
about it to avoid escalating the conflict. But lying about the War on
Terror being a religious war did not fool them: it fooled us. Western
nations committed to the lie until they could no longer see the
pattern that was killing them.

There’s a good deal at stake in the question of pattern recognition
for Israel.

Israel cannot win the argument by contending that it has been trying
and failing to compromise with the so-called ‘Palestinian’ people
who for some unaccountable reason won’t negotiate. A minimalist
argument cannot defeat a maximalist position. Agreeing to peace
negotiations did not give Israel the moral high ground: it was an
admission of guilt that destroyed it. The Islamic refusal to
compromise in the decades since validated their position and their
terrorism.

The complete failure of the liberal establishment to see that has
brought us to this point.

Appeasing and negotiating with Islamic terrorists does not discredit
them when they in turn refuse to negotiate, make concessions or keep
their word. It only discredits the appeasers and locks them into a
disastrous cycle of concessions that empowers the terrorists, but
never addresses the fundamental issue which is not territorial,
national or socioeconomic.The core issue is religious. And a religious
issue can’t be solved with land swaps.

To win the argument, Israel must reject the false claim that it is
involved in a territorial and national dispute with a local
‘Palestinian’ minority and instead correctly define this as one of
the flashpoints in a global religious war between Islam and the rest
of the world. These flashpoints have already touched every single
major power, America, Europe, Russia and China, and every continent,
Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas, and every major and many minor
religions.

Israel does not have to be alone in this fight. None of us do. We have
to see the pattern.

Treating Islamic terrorism as a local problem doesn’t actually
isolate it: it isolates us.

When we recognize that we are all in this together, that our problems
are not local, but global, then we have some hope of standing together
against the greatest conflict of this century.

The decision to tell the truth about the war we are in is both
difficult and necessary. Israel is the canary in the coal mine in more
ways than one. No major country has told the truth plainly and
clearly. Decades of mumbling about “moderates”, “democracy”,
“misunderstanding Islam”, “root causes” and “extremism”
led us to one defeat after another in the War on Terror.

Time is running out. Telling the truth doesn’t guarantee victory,
but living in a fantasy world ensures defeat.

There is no way to defend the cause of Israel (or any free nation)
against Islamic terrorism without talking about Islam. Without seeing
the larger pattern, every conflict will be local, Israel will be
depicted as a bully beating up on a weaker Muslim minority, and no
amount of photos of Israeli beaches and gay bars, Bedouin IDF soldiers
and Hebrew U students in hijabs will change that. That brand of
liberal ‘hasbara’ has been tried and failed because it is not the
solution.

The liberal reading of the world is the problem. That is why liberal
nations have fallen. No liberal nation has been willing to stand for
its own people against the Islamic invasion. Why would it stand up for
Israel? Tolerance, multiculturalism and integration, foundational to
Israeli ‘hasbara’, are exactly why Western nations will not defend
themselves and similarly reject Israel’s defense.

Israeli resistance to Islamic terrorism is not the subject of
admiration in Europe, but humiliation. It serves as a bad example.
Prime Minister Netanyahu’s insistence on total victory turns back
the clock to before Obama eliminated the entire idea of victory from
our cultural vocabulary. The more Israel wins, the more it loses
Western liberals who believe that victory is reactionary.

To win, Israel must reframe the conflict. Some half century ago, the
Islamist-Marxist alliance reframed the conflict between Israel and its
Arab Muslim neighbors from a struggle between one lone country
standing up to a regional evil empire to a rogue state oppressing a
minority group.

Israel must uncompromisingly reframe the conflict back to where it
began. And there is more at stake than just its own existence. The
future of civilization rests on whether we will all see the pattern,
the great bloody wave rising above us, or whether we will go on
pretending it’s a drop.

Oct 7 is not just in Israel, it’s in India, America, Russia, Africa
and in Europe. Our governments have lied to us for too long and fooled
us into not seeing the pattern that is killing us.

Unless we see the pattern, Islam will drown civilization in its own
blood.

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