Clash of Civilizations

In the clash of Arabic/Islam (Hamas) and Western/Hebrew (Israel) cultures, the Middle East seam remains one bloody border of Islam. This dramatic differentiation between western respect for and Arabic callous approach to life is revealed everyday on the border and occasionally reaches a head. Usually when the west decides enough is enough and the hate the west media mavens come out in droves.

International law centered around a western perspective as detailed in the "law of armed conflict" and various Geneva accords seek to protect the vulnerable during war. In this world view, a civilian population should not have to worry about either side acting inappropriately. Western protection of civilians includes restricting use of hospitals, schools, and places of worship for military purposes is ridiculed in Arabic placement of arms and installations in and in proximity to these sites. This intentional hazarding of innocent civilians in order to score "PR Points" with the west is reprehensible.

International law is not limited to what has been codified. What is practiced also has a component of legality. While the west considers some Arabic approaches reprehensible, they are not necessarily illegal, only another event that is added to the weight of practical international law. As we see in all wars, the winner makes the rules and in this real sense, might makes right.

My favorite movie, Henry V, highlights the difference in that Harry routinely offered to limit attack and provided protection of the population during war in France. This western approach lacks effectiveness in fighting different civilizations. Even our treatment of enemy combatants in GTMO hearkens back to a value in life. Evil considers valuing life to be weakness.

Arabic use of suicide bombers, including women and children; random rocketing of the landscape demonstrates an intent to bleed a "weak western culture" of the will to fight and use progressives in the EU/US to pressure and thus neuter offensive ability. Certainly expectation of an enemy to march out into the field in nice neat lines for the slaughter is not appropriate. They are limited in their options. Israeli desire to stand side by side with a Palestinian state that respects an Israeli right to exist is well known. It is this very right that is opposed through Arabic civilization continued stated desire to push Israel into the sea.

Western useful idiots, our progressives on the left, have an unnatural infatuation of cultures and "-isms" that are inimical to the very culture which brought them into being and assures their ability to speak out. A run to the media to denounce justifiable western self defensive action is the result of cognitive dissonance resolved in their warped thinking through a loathing of the United States and all it stands for.

Might does make right. Without moral imperative found in valuing life and the physical strength to bear it up, a degenerate view of freedom will become the norm. A strong western defense of culture will restore the weight of international law to one that respects human life. We should support Israel and aid in the military defeat of Hamas in order to establish adn maintain peace in the middle east.