It is so tempting to hope that Israel is not filled with hundreds of thousands of Arabs who want to kill them. But the reality is the reverse. Israel not only has to grapple with hundreds of thousands of Arabs around their borders who want to throw them into the Sea. It has to grapple with a fifth column inside of it’s borders that wants to do the very same thing.
The roots of Arab hatred of the Jewish people are deep. Much of the animus goes back many generations. It is one of the many versions of the age-old phenomenon that know no borders and defie all logic. However, the more recent trends of Jew-hatred among Arabs living inside of Israel stem more from jealousy and dreams of one day destroying the State of Israel. These Arabs that have these dreams, generally speaking, live a better life inside of the State of Israel than nearly all Arabs in the rest of the Middle East.
But logic does not dictate their opinions. The emotional hatred that has been inculcated into the young minds of Arabs across the State of Israel is not changing any time soon. The only methods that should be applied that will perhaps make a fundamental change in the mindsets of the young Arabs are a total change in the school curriculums and a tough-as-nails attitude on terrorism.
If every terrorist that is caught, while attempting or after committing the act, knows that his family’s home will be destroyed, it will create sufficient disharmony in the home in order to scuffle many terrorist’s plans. If every school inside of the State of Israel must work with a curriculum that does not celebrate terrorists, but teaches basic values of the sanctity of human life and respect for the life of others, then in a generation or so, there will be a fundamental difference among the Arabs within the State of Israel.
For those doubters, the lessons from rebuilding Japan and Germany must be learned. Naziism may not be completely rooted out in Germany, but it is not a major force that wields power anymore. Modern Germany serves as a bulwark against aggression today. It did not take more than 1-2 generations for this to happen. Japan has been modernized and does not pose a threat to the Western world. It is part of it. The Middle East can also go through major tectonic shifts. But, it won’t happen with weak leaders who kowtow to terrorists.