by : The Godfather
“To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last — but eat you he will.”
Ronald Reagan was the consummate collector of great quotations. The
one about the crocodile was borrowed and adapted from Winston Churchill.
“Winston Churchill took a dim view of neutrals. For him there were only
two options in the face of Hitler: fight or surrender. Each neutral,
Churchill said on 20 January 1940, ‘hopes that if he feeds the crocodile
enough, the crocodile will eat him last. All of them hope that the
storm will pass before their turn comes to be devoured. But I fear — I
fear greatly — the storm will not pass.’
What was true of Hitler and Nazism is equally true of radical Islam. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu brought the crocodile story up to date when he spoke before the 66th session of the General Assembly at the United Nations on September 23, 2011, following Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ speech:
“To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last — but eat you he will.”
What was true of Hitler and Nazism is equally true of radical Islam. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu brought the crocodile story up to date when he spoke before the 66th session of the General Assembly at the United Nations on September 23, 2011, following Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ speech:
And these critics continue to press
Israel to make far-reaching concessions without first assuring Israel’s
security. They praise those who unwittingly feed the insatiable crocodile of militant Islam
as bold statesmen. They cast as enemies of peace those of us who insist
that we must first erect a sturdy barrier to keep the crocodile out, or
at the very least jam an iron bar between its gaping jaws.
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