Arab Israelis: A Preview of Coming Attractions

Israelis have found out the hard way that Muslim Arabs can never be true Israelis, completely assimilated into the Jewish state. They demand all the rights of citizenship, including the vote, while taking on none of the responsibilities including military service that is obligatory for all Jewish Israelis. Those Arabs who do volunteer to fight for Israel are ostracized from their communities and Israel recognizes that they pose a security risk in the military and thus exempts them from service.

Arab Israelis refuse to pay many of the taxes, including property tax (an implicit non-recognition of Israel’s sovereignty) while taking full advantage of state relief. They demand the full protection of the law and take advantage of all the opportunities the state provides while working constantly to undermine it, including openly siding with Israel’s enemies at every single turn.

All the while, the demographic conquest proceeds unabated. As the Muslim Arab population grows in an area, Israel seems to have no choice but to cede that area to the Palestinian Authority. Otherwise, the voting strength of these Muslim Israelis would eventually destroy the Jewish state from within. This is a pattern Muslims have repeated again and again throughout history because Islam is the only religion to require territorial sovereignty. The taking or re-taking of land and placing it under Islamic control is a religious obligation. The phrases, “the kingdom of heaven is within you,” and “my kingdom is not of this world,” are incomprehensible to a people whose religious kingdom is found solely in this world – a religion based in matter, not in spirit. (“The light shown in the darkness and the darkness comprehended it not.”) The control of land is the utmost religious imperative for Muslims worldwide. Witness the no-go areas springing up all over Europe, where police, firemen and ambulances are routinely attacked upon entry. No other immigrants behave in this manner.

There are many reasons why Muslims will remain unassimilable in the Western world, not least of which is their lack of a true Islamic moral structure.

All human beings are subject to pressure from two poles of passion – sentimentality and brutality. Between those two poles lies culture, which informs us how we should feel and should behave in any given set of circumstances. Culture lends refinement to our emotions and informs and enforces self control. The skeleton of culture, the thing that upholds it, is morality – the enjoining of that which is right. Without a cultural morality requiring self control, man lurches from sentimentality to brutality with nothing between to balance them. This is exactly what we see among Muslims. (It is becoming an increasing pattern in secular society as well, but that is the subject of another paper.)

Islamic morality collapses in on itself because it is based on two things: 1) expediency (that which is good for Muslims is good) and 2) the word and deeds of Muhammad (whose words and deeds were often immoral). So, without a true moral structure to uphold it, Muslim culture collapses into barbarism and Muslims exhibit an extreme emotionalism lacking all self-restraint.

Of course this very emotionalism is what causes the authorities in the West to treat Muslims like children and give them any candy they demand so they will stop crying. Especially galling to an Israeli patriot like Professor Israeli, who sees through this game, is when foreigners meddle in Israeli efforts to try to discipline this unruly minority. He writes:

“Recently, a new trend developed among American Jews, of remorse over the fact that they did not “promote” Israeli Arab interests, allowed too great a gap to develop between the Arab minority and the Jewish majority, and thereby, they believe, allowed the enmity to develop and erupt into the October events [the second intifada]. It is true that until now two foundations funded by Jewish philanthropists from America – the New Israel Fund and the Abraham Fund – functioned, inspired by the good-hearted, naïve liberals, who hoped that by cultivating educational activities and joint Jewish-Arab dialogue, they would minimize tensions and improve the situation. However, after twenty years of verbal masturbation, which cost several millions that could have had a much greater impact had it been invested in Jewish education, those naïve benefactors are faced with failure. The balance is clear for all to see: After two decades and tens of millions of dollars, the Jewish-Arab enmity within Israel has not diminished, but it has grown, no Arab individual or organization within Israel has expressed gratitude to any of these foundations for the money that they disbursed, which, more than they support understanding and progress, benefit the bureaucracies that are supported by the activities. All of that massive aid, which was wasted over the course of two decades, was based on the mistaken assumption that promoting understanding between nations, improving the level of education among Arabs and staging meetings of intimacy and understanding between them and the Jews, fail to understand that the Arabs will take any money given to them, even by the Jewish Satan, as long as it is for their personal advancement. However, the moment that politics is placed on the agenda, the rifts are more profound than ever, as it turned our recently, because the tensions do not stem from a “lack of understanding”, but rather from an all too accurate understanding of one another and a mutual understanding of the collision course that the situation presents. The Israeli Arabs side with the Palestinians, period. No money bribe, initiation of dialogue or broad-mindedness will convince them to act otherwise. They derisively, amusedly, and pitifully smile beneath their moustaches at those pious, good, naïve and agonized Jews, who are willing to give them their money. Why not take it?”