Let’s Mobilize Stone Throwers

Israel Defense Forces, Nachshol Reconnaissance Company

Let’s Mobilize Stone Throwers

By Ilana Mercer

In the United States, even Customs and Border Protection apologizes for doing its job. CBP is supposed to “protect[s] the public from dangerous people and materials attempting to cross the border …”

On one of the networks that wants all people, dangerous or not, to cross the southern border into the U.S., if they so desire, a CBP officer was bending over backwards to appear like a “global force for good.” That, believe it or not, was the U.S. Navy’s motto, between 2009 and 2015!

Tear-gassing rubble-rousing migrants, who were charging his officers and breaching the U.S.-Mexico border, was in the service of protecting … the migrants, especially The Children. Perhaps that’s in the oath of office a CBP officer now takes?

Law enforcement officers entrusted with the safety of the American people struggle to articulate pride in executing their mandate. Attached to the expected self-loathing repartee is, invariably, a declaration of loyalties to The World. Of a piece with this confused loyalty is the typical argument made by the typical TV commentator: illegal immigration must be stopped, so as to … save migrants from the journey’s depredations.

It is instructive to contrast the apologetics around defending the U.S. border and the American people with the absence of apologies concerning Israel’s borders. In May this year, “Tens of thousands of Palestinians massed near Gaza’s border fence, threatening to ‘return’ to the lands their forefathers lost when Israel was created in 1948.” They wanted in.

Israeli soldiers responded not with tear gas, but with bullets. They killed over 60 protesters who threatened to breach the border. The number has since risen to 120. Most of us, this writer included, would condemn such excessive force.

Yet surprisingly, the Economist—a liberal, pro-Palestinian, excellent weekly—pondered but briefly and nonchalantly about Israel’s army having used excessive force, concluding, almost callously: “Every state has a right to defend its borders.” This from the very same editorialists who never tire of protesting any resistance to the Christ-like caravanners, planning to defy the U.S. government, by illegally entering the United States of America.

Moreover, the Economist calmly reports as a matter-of-fact that “Any Palestinian, even a farmer, coming within 300 meters of the fence [with Gaza] is liable to be shot.” And while this august magazine has declaimed dutifully that “Israel must answer for the deaths in Gaza,” its writers have also evinced a good deal of impatience with the M.O.P.E (Most Oppressed People Ever), stating: “It is time for Palestinians to take up genuine non-violence.”

For too long, the world has been enraged by Israel’s refusal to accept the necessity for its citizens to be blown to bits or be overrun demographically by people who’re “only seeking a better life” for themselves and their posterity. Israel paid no attention to the liberal lunatics opposed to its oft-excessive habit of defending its citizenry’s rights.

In fact, the Jewish State has recently gone one better. Israel has automated the process of defense, creating a set of “auto kill-zones” “by networking together remote-controlled machine guns, ground sensors, and drones along the 60-kilometer border.” Bluntly put, Israel has deployed gizmos to Gaza; “Robo-Snipers” instead of flesh-and-blood men and women.

The nation’s “19- and 20-year-old soldiers” are still deployed to the front—but virtually. They sit at a safe distance “behind computer screens,” waiting on “approval by a commanding officer” before “pushing the kill button.” The IDF Southern Command’s rules of engagement along the Gaza fence are, shall we say, aggressive.

Oh, it’s still pro forma for the U.N. General Assembly and Security Council to open every one of their sessions with a rote condemnation of Israel’s actions on its borders and everywhere else. But even the U.N., a cesspit of venality and stupidity, has gotten the message over the decades. And it is this:

Israel’s army is not going to put down its guns and mobilize an army of stone throwers to throw stones back at the persecuted Arabs, in order to avoid using excessive force. Israel’s action on its borders is not unlike action taken by the U.S. Armed Forces in defense of borders not our own.

Ilana Mercer has been writing a weekly, paleolibertarian column since 1999. She is the author of “Into the Cannibal’s Pot: Lessons for America From Post-Apartheid South Africa” (2011) & “The Trump Revolution: The Donald’s Creative Destruction Deconstructed” (June, 2016). She’s on Twitter, FacebookGab & YouTube

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1 Response to Let’s Mobilize Stone Throwers

  1. David Ashton says:

    Israel has rejected the UN “migration” plan, but not the UK. Pouring in from outside the EU, as before – and after – Breaksit.

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