Modern Day Perfidy

by Abbey Gewirtz
March 2003

In the crisis facing America and the world today, there is 
one clear and absolute fact which, in my opinion, cannot be 
ignored or misunderstood by anyone who claims to be an honest, 
moral and compassionate human being of any racial, ethnic or 
religious persuasion.

This simple and undeniable fact is that any call to disarm 
Sadaam Hussein, without removing him from power, is a failure 
and travesty of justice of the highest order. Every government, 
every political leader, every religious organization, every 
peacenik and protester knows two inescapable truths which are:

1) Within a few years or even a few months, the U.N. inspectors
would leave, the troops would go home, and the weapons of mass 
destruction (WMD) would be replaced by even more sophisticated 
toxins, biological and nuclear weapons. Sadaam would funnel these 
to various terrorist organizations with no paper trail, thus 
providing him with complete deniability in the event that these 
WMD are used against the U.S., England, Israel or others.

2) If Sadaam Hussein is left in power, as all these "peace loving"
organizations and their members would have it, he would continue 
to terrorize and brutalize his own people through despicable acts 
of rape, crucifixion, dismemberment, disembowelment and other 
unspeakable methods of killing which have been thoroughly 
documented.

There is no denying this scenario, yet all those who protest and 
chant the mantra of "give peace a chance and let the inspectors 
do their jobs", delude themselves to this present and future horror 
for the Iraqi people and the rest of the world. They, deliberately, 
cast a blind eye to it in their zeal to criticize a decent American 
president who wants nothing more than security for the people he has 
sworn to protect as well as all other freedom loving people against 
this scourge, the "Butcher of Baghdad", for the past, all too long, 
30 years. 

This is an obscene myopia on their part that should never be 
forgotten or forgiven. Without a regime change in Iraq, these 
uncaring hypocrites would have future Iraqi and Israeli blood 
on their hands. Yes, Israeli blood as well, because Sadaam 
rewards terrorists in Hamas, Hizbollah and others, $25.000 for 
each terrorist act that kills innocent Israeli men, women, and
children. So, by all means, " let the inspectors do their jobs" 
and let the killers continue to do their job as well!

It is with all this in mind that I apologize to the memory of 
the courageous French writer, Emile Zola (an exquisite irony, 
don't you think?) who braved anti-Semitism in France 100 years 
ago to bring a Jewish French officer back from the hell of 
Devil's Island.

J'accuse!

J'accuse Jacques Chirac, the government of France, and the 
French people, for their perfidious betrayal of the United 
States and the over 200,000 American soldiers, airmen and 
sailors who gave their lives to free France after they cravenly 
caved in and surrendered to the Germans in World War II after 
only seven weeks of resistance! The beaches and cemeteries of
Normandy cry out in anguish and disbelief at this French 
treachery and ingratitude.

J'accuse Jacques Chirac, the government of France, and the 
French people, for this same betrayal of tens of thousands of 
British and Polish airmen and soldiers who fought and died to 
save France and the free world at Dunkirk, the Battles of Britain, 
El Alamein and many others. They gave their lives willingly while 
history records that the Vichy government and over 50% of the 
French people actually collaborated with the Nazis during the 
entire war!

J'accuse Jacques Chirac and the government of France, for 
willingly and despicably selling Sadaam nuclear reactors and 
materials 25 years ago despite the fact that they knew his 
plans for the future nuclear weapons that those reactors would 
produce.

J'accuse these French politicians and their "elitist" and 
"enlightened" populace of supplying Iraq with the nuclear 
scientists and contractors to design and build these reactors 
which Israel fortunately destroyed preemptively at Osirak in 
1982, despite the world's outcry and clamor. It was only years 
later that the free world reluctantly expressed gratitude for 
Israel's prescient action.

J'accuse Gerhard Schroeder and the government of Germany for 
the outright betrayal of the United States, the country which 
protected them from Russian domination for more than 40 years 
after W.W.II. The same country that, under our Marshall plan, 
rebuilt the cities, industries, hospitals, and infrastucture 
that rewove the fabric of a free and prosperous new Germany. 
It was, and always will be "Deutschland uber alles!" But what 
should we expect from the birthplace of concentration camps!

J'accuse Valery Putin and the Russian government of betraying 
the sincere friendship and trust of a decent and honorable 
American president who offered genuine aid to help Russia 
recover its economy and place in a modern post cold war world. 
But what should we have expected from the home of the Gulags?

J'accuse the countless secular and religious groups in America 
and around the world for their strong support to "disarm Hussein, 
but don't replace him." They, along with their worldwide 
peaceniks and anti-war protestors, care not the slightest bit 
for the continuing suffering of their fellow human beings in 
Iraq. I include in this deluded gathering of diverse clueless 
groups certain Catholic, Protestant and Jewish organizations 
and their followers. They are driven only by their hatred of 
George W. Bush and all Republican and Conservative political 
leaders and thinkers. They are so brazen in their misguided 
purpose that they think they can fool the rest of us when they 
claim " but we support our troops!" They do not, they never 
did and they never will! Instead, ironically enough, they join 
in the shameful and seditious words espoused by their beloved 
and disgraced guru, Bill Clinton, who once was quoted as 
saying, " I loathe the military!" 

J'accuse every so called women's rights organizations for 
never marching or working for the human rights of Iraqi women 
and girls or, protesting Saddam Hussein against them. They are 
hypocrites with no credibility or moral compass.

J'accuse all the so called environmental organizations for 
never protesting Hussein's ruination of the ecological 
environment when he set the Kuwaiti oil fields ablaze after 
the Gulf war, and his present threats to set ablaze 1500 oil 
fields in the event Iraq is invaded. They, too, are moral 
hypocrites.

J'accuse the UN member states who supported Hussein over the 
last 12 years during 17 fruitless resolutions.

J'accuse Hans Blix and Kofi Annan for knowingly giving time, 
aid, and support to the "Butcher of Baghdad" in their craven 
desire to maintain their reputations and UN positions.

J'accuse Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter for deliberately 
undermining a caring and honorable Republican president as 
he sends our military forces off to protect our security and 
values, as well as bringing freedom to an oppressed people. 
Jimmy Carter, a failed president, who claims to be a deeply 
religious man, should reread the book of Exodus in order to 
learn about slavery, oppression and the ultimate joy of 
freedom from a tyrannical ruler. How ironic that he won the 
Nobel Peace Prize although he gave two nuclear reactors to 
North Korea without exacting secure restrictions of their use. 
Then again, what can you expect from a committee who awards a 
Nobel Peace Prize to Arafat!

J'accuse major Democratic leaders like Tom Daschle and Nancy 
Pelosi for their vicious and politically motivated continuing 
criticism of the President at this time of world crisis. 
Daschle finally admitted recently " my timing was bad."

J'accuse Jewish Democrats and liberal senators such as Barbara 
Boxer, Diane Feinstein, Russ Feingold, Carl Levin and Charles 
Schumer for their callous and politically motivated betrayal 
of our president as he seeks to protect us and Israel against 
Saddam's threats to wipe out the Jewish state and threaten 
America in the near future.They would leave Sadaam in power 
to continue financing more killings of Israelis and Americans. 
How pathetic!

J'accuse, finally, and most sadly, all of my liberal fellow 
Jews here in America who have so quickly and conveniently 
forgotten the six million victims of the Holocaust who bravely 
clung to life and prayed to G-d that someone, anyone would 
come to liberate and save them from hell and death. If these 
Jewish peaceniks and anti-war protestors who chant "let the
inspectors do their job" were alive in the 1930's, they would 
surely have also supported "disarming Hitler" instead of 
getting rid of him. Surely Anne Frank and millions of her 
fellow victims would have understood the twisted liberal 
reasoning and peaceful motivation of these fellow Jews!
Never mind that the trains, of course, would have kept 
bringing Jews and countless others to their deaths in the 
concentration camps. Never mind that this is the same message 
today, 60 years later, that they are giving to the hundreds 
and hundreds of innocent Jewish victims' families in Israel 
who have been murdered in part because of the nearly 15 million
dollars given to "martyrs" families by Saddam Hussein. Have they 
learned nothing in 60 years? How sad, how tragic is the 
perfidy of their deeds! 

So much for us being "a light unto the nations"! 
The Talmud teaches us that: " to save even one life is as if you 
save the entire world." In the Torah, G-d commands Moses to tell 
the Jewish people to "choose life." But come on, let's be frank, 
aren't the constitutional rights of all these Jewish peaceniks 
to protest more important than our Torah, our Talmud and our 
centuries old tradition for the sanctity of all human life?

Maybe it is truly the time for the coming of the Messiah, 
if for no other reason than to save us from these misguided, 
hypocritical and callous protestors for "peace and justice".

"Do not make a mockery of justice for it is one of the three 
pillars of the world. Why? Because our sages teach us that 
the world stands on three things: on justice, on truth, and 
on peace.  Know then that if you pervert justice you shake 
the foundation of the world - for justice is one of its
pillars. 
Rabban Simeon Ben Gamliel  
Deuteronomy Rabbah Chapter 5, section 1.