The New, Updated, Alice In Wonderland

It had to happen, sooner or later. In fact, it was inevitable. The original Alice in Wonderland, as interpreted by author Lewis Carrol, has the PC crowd, PETA and environmentalists in a froth.

Alice, that white, Christmas celebrating bitch, has been replaced. New friends and appropriate villains have been added to the mix.

Of course, there are some things that could not be changed. Wonderland had to be a place where up was down, wrong was right and there needed to be the Mad Hatter, making no sense at all.

The real world rewrite covers all that.

In what has to be one of the most hyocritical and spectacular displays of chutzpah, Palestinian writer Lucy Nusseibeh write in the Daily Star that the Israelis must address media fed misconceptions of Palestinians. In her moronic piece, she takes offense that some innocuous remarks may have been 'misunderstood'.

Nowhere does she address the rabid hatred, anti-Semitism propensity for violence seen on the nightly news. Nowhere does she address the blatant remarks of hatred, taught in schools, preached from mosques. Nowhere does she address the public statements of Hamas and Jihad, extolling the violent 'liberation' and 'rivers of blood', nor does she address the incessant broadcast on Palestinian Authority TV of vile, hateful programming. She carefully paints an image of the Palestinian as victim, once more (see this, for a further explanation). She shakes her head and asks, 'Can't we all get along?'

The only reason we just can't get along is because of the hatred- Arab and Muslim hatred, plain and simple. See MEMRI, MEMRITV and PMW, to hear and see it, in their own words. Ask yourselves why our media refuses to report on what is being said about Americans, Jews and Christians. If you think you have a reason to distrust the MSM now, spend a few minutes on those sites.

What the real world, high priced analysts won't tell you is a millennia old truth: The Jews just want to be left alone. They have been slaughtered by those who have hated them and slaughtered by those who have claimed to love them. The world was happy as long as that paradigm was valid. Now that Israelis and Jews defend themselves, they are hated with even more ferocity.

The Arabs could not beat the ragtag Jews, shell shocked from the Holocaust, into submission. The Arabs had never seen Jews defend themselves and they could not imagine a 'dhimmi' not acceding to their demands. The Arabs were seen for what they really were- failures. The one thousand year decline of Islam was now visible for all to see- including themselves. The blame game began in earnest. Someone had to be blamed for the failures. That 'someone' was the Jews. That is something else Ms Nusseibeh neglects to tell her readers.

Nowhere does she address the issue of the persecution of Christians, by the Palestinians. The author of the article, The Last Christmas in Bethlehem, is clear:

The population of Bethlehem was at one time over 90% Christian. Today, as a direct result of persecution, their numbers have dropped to below 25%. Today, less then 2% of the population in Palestine are Christian compared to over 20% in 1948. Various official and unofficial tactics have been used throughout Palestine to force the Christian population to flee to Israel...

In addition to economic oppression, Palestinian Christians face a far greater threat in the form of violence from their Islamic neighbors. The worst recent example of such violence has taken place in Palestine’s only all Christian town of Taybeh. In what has been described as a pogrom against the town a’s 1,500 Christians, a group of Muslim youths from the neighboring village of Dair Jarir carried out a two-day assault on Taybeh. According to a report by Daniel Pipes in the Gamla Intelligence Newsletter, the Muslims "broke into houses and stole furniture, jewelry, and electrical appliances. They threw Molotov cocktails at some buildings and poured kerosene on others then torched them. The damage included at least 16 houses, some stores, a farm, and a gas station. The assailants vandalized cars, looted extensively, and destroyed a statue of the Virgin Mary." "It was like a war," one Taybeh resident told the Jerusalem Post. Hours passed before the Palestinian Authority security and fire services arrived. Fifteen of the Muslim attackers, who were arrested, spent only a few hours in police detention and then were released.

Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Catholic Custodian of the Holy Land, reports that Christians in the Bethlehem region alone have suffered 93 cases of injustice. One such case was the murder of two teenage sisters from the Christian Amre family at the hands of Muslims. The children were shot by their Islamic attackers and they had been tortured by having lit cigarettes applied to their genitals before they were executed.

Despite daily reports of alleged abuse of Palestinian Muslims in the mainstream media, the newspapers of the Western World have turned a blind eye to the violence and persecution that their fellow Christians and Jews are today suffering at the hands of the Palestinians, whom they attempt to portray as victims. This Christmas, as we celebrate in the comfort of our homes and churches, it would be more than fitting to remember the Christians who are dying for their faith, in the birth place of Christ.

Ms Nusseibeh believes the media might be treating the Palestinians unfairly- and that is the problem, the impediment to peace in the region.

The world has gone mad.