The Politics of Hate and Destruction

Former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir once said, “We can forgive them [Muslims] for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with them when they love their children more than they hate us.”

And that is the crux of the problem in the Middle East. Too many Muslims hate the Jews more than they love themselves and their own families. That is what prompted the radical Islamists to attack Israel last week. That is what prompted them to blow up their own civilian hospital and blame it on Israel. That is what prompted them to hijack commercial airplanes and fly them into American buildings killing 3,000 innocents. They are driven by hate.

Not only are they driven by hate, they lack the capacity to love, not even the ability to love others, but to love themselves to the point that they would understand that peace is preferable to war. War destroys everyone and everything that it touches. They do not care that when they kill others that they are actually killing themselves because many times they intentionally kill themselves as part of the process of killing others. A suicide bombing is in fact that, a suicide, not only of the individual, but of the entire culture, the entire religion.