Don't Underestimate The Arabs

Too many Israelis and Jews are still blinded by the flash of the 1967 Six Days War military miracles.  The logical rationalists have pegged credited Israel's resounding victory on the incompetence and primitive equipment of the enemy Arab armies.  This was a large ingredient in the unpreparedness of the IDF in the 1973 Yom Kippur War when Israel was taken by surprise and almost defeated.  Unfortunately, many of us still haven't fully internalized the uncomfortable and unpleasant lessons that the Arabs have improved  militarily.


In the post-Six Days War euphoria, Israel received more respect, adoration and friendship than any other time in its history.  Most Israelis and Jews refuse to recognize how short a time that honeymoon actually lasted.  They are not realistic, and that's a very dangerous fault.


Besides the military, the Arabs have improved their public relations.  Actually, they always attracted more adoration than we Jews and Israelis did.  Don't forget the legends of Lawrence of Arabia and Great Britain's giving the east bank of the Jordan, which had been earmarked (Balfour Declaration) to be part of the Jewish State, to that Hashemite sheik.


Jews got some pity when allied soldiers discovered the survivors of the Nazi concentration camps, but long before the November 29, 1947 United Nations vote our fifteen minutes of fame were over.  Contrary to Hillary Clinton's speech, then President Truman wasn't definitely positive about over-ruling State Department recommendations and support voting "yes" for a Jewish state, Israel.  Don't forget that his Jewish friend is credited with convincing Truman to support a Jewish State.  If there was no doubt about American support, the friend wouldn't have had to have been sent.


Israel's Foreign Ministry and Jewish American pro-Israel lobbies aren't on the ball.  Hat tip: Boris.  Today's Arab American population is knowledgeable and sophisticated and well-connected. 

Few American Islamists receive the kind of glowing media coverage given to Dalia Mogahed, executive director of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies, who is sometimes described as the "most influential person" shaping the Obama Administration's Middle East message.


Mogahed, who claims to have played an important role in the drafting of President Obama's historic Cairo speech to the Muslim world, was appointed to serve on the President's Council on Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships. The council released its final recommendations last month.

We had better open our eyes to today's reality and today's enemies, both in the military and Public Relations, lobbying. 

MK Dr. Arieh Eldad MD likes to remind people that Israel's Right is full of scientists, who analyze facts, like himself, while the Left attracts philosophers.