Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Why Bibi is (unfortunately) right about Palestinians accepting Israel as a jewish state FIRST

Gertz:

New security headache: The radicalization of Israel's Bedouin youth

TEL AVIV — Israel has intensified monitoring of its rapidly-growing Bedouin community due to an assessment that young members were turning to insurgency activities.

Officials said young Bedouins in Israel have become more susceptible to recruitment by such insurgency groups as Hamas and Hizbullah. They said the Bedouins have been attracted by money as well as the opportunity for revenge against the Jewish state.

Children play on a dirt mound outside Hura, a Bedouin town established by Israel. McClatchy/Anna Blackshaw
"The Bedouins are no different from other young Arabs who feel alienated from the state, but the Bedouins are living side-by-side with family members who belong to our army and police," an official said.

Over the last two years, scores of Bedouin youngsters have been arrested on suspicion of aiding Hamas and Hizbullah. In April 2009, nine Bedouins from the Israeli city of Shfaram were detained on charges of forming an insurgency cell that planned to attack Jewish motorists. The plot was said to have included downing electricity pylons to block major highways around Nazareth.

"This is a case involving a cell set to commit a grievous act of malice," Maj. Gen. Shimon Koren, commander of the police's Northern District, said. "This was a planned terror attack."

Officials said the Bedouins have confessed to the charges. They said the detainees formed the insurgency squad during the Hamas-Israel war in 2009.

Bedouins were also said to have been working with Hamas and Hizbullah to abduct Israeli soldiers. Unlike other Arabs, thousands of Bedouins have joined the army and security forces.

"The Bedouins did not want to belong to the state, and the state did not want them to belong either," Mordechai Kedar, a leading Israeli analyst on the Arab world, said. "They serve in the Israel Defense Forces because they need a livelihood; they don't share the Zionist ethos. And in the midst of this, some of the youngsters have developed a Palestinian ethos."

Bedouins form the fastest growing community in Israel, with more than 150,000 members. Officials said Bedouin nomads, some of them believed to be working for Hamas and Hizbullah, have sought to infiltrate military bases in the Negev Desert.

"You see an erosion of the Bedouin willingness to be part of the state of Israel," Jonathan Fighel, a former senior army officer and now researcher at the Institute for Counter-Terrorism, said. "This is fertile ground for radical Islam. Israel's Arabs are easy prey in the hands of the terror organizations."

Considering what the Quran and Hadith have to say about the Jews, it's pretty hard to imagine any authoritative muslim Bedouin source making educational headway against the teaching of HAMAS and Hizballah backed by Tantawi at Al Azhar and the freaks from Qom.

More fodder for Vlaams Belang's support of Israel, you can be sure, despite the exceptional nature of the history of the Jews among other nations anywhere in this world.

And in this world, how many societies exist which host multiple societal types, cultures, religions, 'tribes' and ways of living successfully?

USA?
New Zealand?
Australia?
Canada?
France came close but as we saw with the riots, has failed, at least up till now.
Britain is descending into .... something.

One thing is certain, where Islam has once been dominant as a political system (and therefore as a corollary a religious system, OR the other way round if you prefer), only force can establish any other kind of society, change, or expression for protected individual rights. Take a look at the results in southeastern Europe, as well as Israel, and that area has been free of the Ottoman yoke since the 19th century.

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