Palestine, The Hell Planet

Caroline Glick writes in The Jerusalem Post about the wonderful world of Palestine. Palestine is, of course, one of those places that the left always tells us about in terms both pompous and dramatic. The Angry Left loves to swoon over the Palestinians and their noble efforts to create their own state. The Palestinians are bravely trying to build their own nation; trying to escape the bonds of oppression; struggling to rise above the cruelty of those pesky Jews who keep them down and so forth. The trouble with this narrative is that the Palestinians are a people who are largely focused on their love of death and destruction. They would rather die and take a bunch of infidels with them, than have a functioning society. And so the predictable result is the uncontrolled mayhem that has ensued now that Israel has withdrawn from Gaza and left the Palestinians to their own devices. They are, for the most part, devices of torture and murder. And they are using them against themselves in a war of all against all. Remember this when an Angry Leftist tries to tell you that all cultures are the same and ours is no better than any other.

In the State of Palestine 88 percent of the public feels insecure. Perhaps the other 12 percent are members of the multitude of regular and irregular militias. For in the State of Palestine the ratio of police/militiamen/men-under-arms to civilians is higher than in any other country on earth.

In the State of Palestine, two-year-olds are killed and no one cares. Children are woken up in the middle of the night and murdered in front of their parents. Worshipers in mosques are gunned down by terrorists who attend competing mosques. And no one cares. No international human rights groups publish reports calling for an end to the slaughter. No UN body condemns anyone or sends a fact-finding mission to investigate the murders.

In the State of Palestine, women are stripped naked and forced to march in the streets to humiliate their husbands. Ambulances are stopped on the way to hospitals and wounded are shot in cold blood. Terrorists enter operating rooms in hospitals and unplug patients from life-support machines.

In the State of Palestine, people are kidnapped from their homes in broad daylight and in front of the television cameras. This is the case because the kidnappers themselves are cameramen. Indeed, their commanders often run television stations. And because terror commanders run television stations in the State of Palestine, it should not be surprising that they bomb the competition's television stations.