Monday, August 01, 2011

The Oslo Condition


By Jason Gold

1995: Yigal Amir aims and fires a pistol at Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin as the latter emerges from a peace rally in support of the Oslo Accords. The rally takes place as the Accords, which resurrected a rapidly fading Arafat/PLO and brought them into the heart of Israel was in serious trouble. Rabin subsequently dies of gunshot wounds in the hospital emergency room. Arafat, YM”S, and his murderous cohorts, continue to rain death and destruction upon Israel and its naive, peace-hungry, deceived people with wave upon wave of suicide bombings since the initiation of Oslo. Many on the Right see what a sham the Oslo Accords are, but have been cowed into silence by the intimidation and fascist policies of Israel’s Leftist government. These policies consist of intimidation and dehumanization of the settler bloc, as well as silencing of peaceful counter protests with beatings, arrests, and use of water cannons at anti-Oslo rallies. Implantation of Shabak agents into the settlements to report on leadership movements are commonplace. It is one of those agents, Avishai Raviv, that browbeats, teases, and ultimately goads the religious, kippah-wearing Amir into proving his manhood by shooting Rabin. Collective blame for by the Left for Amir is assigned to the Right, with Rabbinical leaders, or anyone with a religious/nationalist background caught in a near-complete speech clampdown and victims of hyper-political correctness. Much unnecessary hand wringing on the Right takes place. Free speech repression of the Right gets worse for a time but out of the Oslo disaster comes the birth of Manhigut Yehudit as a lone bright spot.

2011: Anders Behring Breivik goes on a homicidal rampage in Oslo, bombing two government buildings in Oslo proper killing eight people, and then opening fire at a summer indoctrination camp (yes it is a communist/socialist Labor Party camp; not some innocent summer play camp; eerily similar to the “red diaper” indoctrination camps that used to be in the US) for Norway youth killing 69 children and young adults. The media makes much noise about Breivik being a violent “Christian” fundamentalist whose main reading sources consisted of right-wing authors and bloggers. The Left along with its pliant minions in the mainstream media nearly foam at the mouth assigning blame to the aforementioned authors/bloggers (Bat Yeor, etc) while comparing the right in the US (Tea Party, etc) to Nazi’s, fascists, etc and blaming them collectively for Breivik’s killing spree. Unlike 1995, however, with the proliferation of right-wing media and blogs, the pushback against the Left is considerable although the leftist media is more partisan than ever before.

Notice the similarities? Wondering where to lay the blame for these incidents? Before even trying, let me state emphatically that in no way shape or form do I condone the actions of Amir or Breivik. Let me also risk stating the obvious that these were both mentally unstable men, on the edge. Yet the events that pushed them over the edge were frighteningly similar and in the end, understandable, although not condonable.

Anyone who studies the Jewish faith knows that there is no such thing as coincidence. Nothing in Gd’s world happens randomly. So it is far more than coincidence that the country/city that gave birth to the accords that were responsible for the deaths/injuries of thousands of Jews and the genesis of the suicide bomber (shahid) tasted violence by a man who saw, in his view, his world being eaten alive by accommodation to the Arabs much as Oslo was allowed to proliferate like a virus initially by the Israeli elite. Breivik’s actions, like Amir’s ultimately must be laid at the feet of the Left. How? Because, as we well know, Israel may cloak itself in the veneer of democracy but democracy and free speech in Israel is allowed only if one agrees with the leftist agenda of the government/judiciary/media. The stifling of the Oslo debate by the Left when the Accords were first given the light of day with its accompanying vicious campaign against the Right, with the result of not allowing contrary points of view to be openly expressed, was bound to cause an emotional explosion in a frustrated unbalanced mind who feared for his and his country’s safety and felt the only way to respond was violently. Call this the Oslo Condition. Make no mistake; Amir’s action was a creation of the Left. He was the bomb but the Israeli government lit the fuse. It was surprising/perhaps even a miracle that there not more like him.

Similarly, Brievik saw massive Muslim progressiveness in Norway, where it is a crime to criticize religious/points of view and where permissiveness towards Muslim immigrants has led to massive increases in Muslim perpetrators of crime especially rapes of young women which have gone up exponentially. Yet, with this, there is silence on the part of the Norwegian government. Far better to have its youth learn Gaza flotilla exercises and how to boycott Israel at the Otoya Island camp than speak about Muslim-related crime in Norway. Like Amir, Brievik surmised that his world was dissolving around him without a peep from the authorities. So, he took it upon himself in a twisted and violent way to call attention to the situation. And again similar to Israel, rather than do some serious soul-searching, the Norwegian and the mainstream media have pointed fingers at the Christians and Right collectively. And of course, the Norway government have seized upon the fact that Breivik also admired Israel’s anti-terror policies to renew calls for a holy BDS (boycott, divestiture, sanctions) movement to make sure what happened with Brievik never happens again. Unfortunately, unless the Norwegians practice true honesty and self-introspection and abandon the near-epidemic levels of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic attitudes in order to view their situation objectively and allow honest debate, it appears that no change will be forthcoming. This "Oslo Condition" may yet claim more innocent lives as who knows how many other "on the edge" people are out there waiting to be pushed over by the clampdown of the Left. Moshe Feiglin had the honesty and courage to speak out against Oslo in Israel. In the Netherlands, Geert Wilders showed similar courage and stood up for honesty and against the Left and the media who attacked him for speaking the truth about sharia and creeping Islamization. Is there a Feiglin or Wilders in Norway to counteract the Oslo Condition?

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