Common Sense Sanity of Political Correctness

Any sane person looking at the situation in Israel and the so-called Palestinian areas would have to say peace with Palestinian Arabs is impossible! Every peace initiative the Israelis have extended to them has failed because they want it all. With the Palestinians, giving them anything is seen as a sign of weakness.  Terrorist shooting on a Israeli road recently opened to Palestinians is an example. Palestinian Arab terrorists fired several rounds from their automatic rifles (rifles that our tax money helped buy) at an Israeli army post on Highway 443 north of Jerusalem on Wednesday.  Israeli soldiers combed the area, but the attackers were able to successfully flee to nearby Palestinian-controlled areas. It seems the Arabs are free to use Israeli territory but not visa-versa. If Israel ventures into Palestinian territory, it called an invasion!

Highway 443 was only recently opened to Palestinian traffic, against the firm protests of Jews living in the area and Jerusalem residents who use the highway on a daily basis to reach their jobs in Tel Aviv. In December Israel's Supreme Court ruled that it could no longer keep the road closed to Palestinian Arabs for fear of appearing racist. The road was originally opened to all traffic, but was closed to Palestinians in 2000 following a series of shooting attacks against Israeli motorists. I say closing a road to killers is not racist - it is common sense!

This is a micro-picture of what happens there on an almost daily scale. Israel was recently criticized for even building apartment buildings for Arab in East Jerusalem! But does the Palestinian leadership ever think about doing something to help their people? Yet they have been given billions of dollars to do just that - most of which has gone into private pockets and toward buying more arms.

It is time we take a common sense approach to the situation there. No one who really wants peace with a neighbor continually calls for their destruction, encourages and rewards terrorist attacks against them, or refuses every gesture for peace. Yet that describes the Palestinians. And the United Nations has lost all right to be known as a fair arbitrator of the problem. The United Nations, which never hesitates to bring the full weight of its member nations down upon Israel, took a far much softer approach this week when it implored Egypt to stop murdering African migrants trying to reach the Jewish state. (more). It seems as if civil rights violations only exist in western countries - never in the Arab countries with the UN. No sane person would expect any fair solutions to come from them or expect them to do anything but pad their own nests. If our leaders had any common sense, they would drop the UN like a hot potato.

I remember the many times Israel has reached out to help with humanitarian aid nations that have had disasters but, I also remember the many pictures of Palestinians dancing in the streets and handing out candy over our disaster of 9/11. There were no gestures of comfort from them, only cheers for the terrorists. I want my government to stop rewarding such behavior and to start holding them to account. I want no more of my tax money going to them and I do want them being allowed to immigrate to my country!

Contrary to what Mr. Obama claims, we are a Christian country and our freedoms did not come from Islam, communism, socialism, or any other ism. Our Declaration of Independence, our Bill of Rights, all of our state constitutions declare this. Because of my Christian heritage I care for the oppressed but, I do not feel obligated to yield my faith for their sake! If my faith in Jesus Christ offends them, then they are free to move - we Christians were here first! As our founder John Adams wrote,

"The general principle on which the Fathers achieved independence were the only principles in which that beautiful assembly of young gentlemen could unite ... And what were these general Principles? I answer, the general Principles of Christianity..."

It is time for us to rise up and take our country back to the foundations which made it strong. And with God's help, we can.

Pastor Charles Cooley