Palestinians Send Congratulations To Japan On Anniversary Of Glorious Pearl Harbor Operation

Palestinian leadership has sought to emulate attacking an enemy that stands in the way of questionable territorial and demographic goals, thereby all but guaranteeing eventual humiliation and removal from the echelons of entities whose agendas drive global policymakers.

Ramallah, December 7 – Eighty years after a carrier-based bombing attack on the main American naval base in the Pacific Ocean that provoked US entry into the Second World War, President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority conveyed to the government in Tokyo his people’s admiration for the Empire of Japan’s audacity in provoking conflict with a more powerful, better-armed, and more-technologically-advanced foe that would eventually check, isolate, weaken, bleed, and thoroughly defeat them.

The Palestinian president sent an envoy to the Japanese capital Tuesday bearing a letter of congratulatory commemoration of the aerial bombing of Pearl Harbor, in acknowledgement of an achievement that Japan began attaining in 1941, and which the Palestinian leadership has sought to emulate: attacking an enemy that stands in the way of questionable territorial and demographic goals, thereby all but guaranteeing eventual humiliation and removal from the echelons of entities whose agendas drive global policymakers.

Japan brought its fleet of aircraft carriers undetected to within several hundred kilometers of Hawaii and staged a surprise attack on the US air and naval bases there, crippling the latter’s capacity to mount an effective initial resistance to near-simultaneous Japanese expansion operations in the western Pacific. Japan’s naval and ground forces soon overwhelmed Allied positions and threatened Australia. But Tokyo underestimated American resolve, resources, and resourcefulness, leading to disastrous miscalculations that, by mid-1945, had left the Japanese empire in ruins, its once-vaunted army a shadow of its former self, its navy all but nonexistent, the home islands isolated and threatened with both starvation and invasion, and its cities rubble. Atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, combined with a Soviet invasion of northern Japanese islands, forced the empire’s unconditional surrender in August of that year.

Abbas voiced his people’s ambition to follow in Imperial Japan’s footsteps by continuing to attack Israel, whose resources, determination, and ingenuity the Palestinian leadership has consistently underestimated since at lest the late nineteenth century. That commitment to attacking Jews, regardless of the manifest disastrous effects anti-Zionism has wrought on Palestinian Arabs, Abbas and his frenemies in the rival Hamas movement aim to reach a level of devastation among their own people on par with, or at least analogous to, the deprivation, desolation, and existential terror that characterized the Japanese experience in the waning months of WWII.

Palestinian leaders cannot hope to bring down on their own people actual nuclear weapons from Israel, they acknowledge, but perhaps Iran can supply those.

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