I am heartbroken over the terror attack in Jerusalem yesterday. I am heartbroken over the response or lack thereof from the world in general. I am heartbroken over the dancing in the streets, the celebrating with candy and cake, with songs that went on in Hamas sponsored activities in Gaza.
Why is it okay to come after men praying in a synagogue, wrapped in their prayer shawls, talking with their G-d, and then hatchet them, butcher them with a meat cleaver and shoot them, all the while yelling Allah hu Akbar. Their god is great? He celebrates greatness via the murders of others by his adherents? Then this is not a god to worship, to follow - unless it is made clear by other Moslems that this is not the Allah that they follow. But can we ever achieve that? Are there any imams brave enough to speak up or are there only those who know how to incite murder and mayhem.
Obama decided to finally react and what a tepid reaction that was. Not an emotional syllable, not an ounce of outrage; just his usual cold or at best lukewarm statements and then the typical equivocation of the Israelis and the Palestinians. Why is it that we cannot list all the terror attacks perpetrated on the Israelis and on Jews worldwide because there are so many and when enemies of Israel mention Jewish extremists they constantly refer back to Yigal Amir, Baruch Goldstein and now the mentally disturbed man and two kids who killed an Arab teenager in revenge for the slaying of our three boys. Yes, extremism is wrong, but please, if we are talking proportionality, then talk with fairness and reason.
Most Israelis do not believe in murderous extremism but how long can one be pushed and murdered, terrorized, hacked to death, watch one's baby being crushed under a car, bury a daughter stabbed to death as she waited for a bus, buried a son stabbed to death on the streets of Tel Aviv or wounded in the streets of Jerusalem.
Why is it impossible to accept that we are here to stay, Israel is the national home of the Jewish people, where they are welcomed. Where millions of refugees from the Holocaust who knelt and kissed the ground when they came off ships, and where Jews from Arab lands - REFUGEES - hounded and pogromed and slaughtered out of lands they had lived in for thousands of years were made welcome and absorbed into the country despite the lack of money, of peace. And why? Because that is what we do so I ask, why are the so called Arab "refugees", most of whom fled on their own or because of urgings by their religious leaders, why are these people and their children still considered refugees after 66 years? Why? Because their own brethren will not accept them, will not assimilate them for they need something to delude their citizens, to keep their minds from the real troubles in Arab lands.
John Kerry, not one of my most favorite people, at least had the decency to speak with emotion, to condemn the act with repugnance and to state clearly that incitement has to end. Abbas's statement about the terror attack means nothing when he is the one who then goes on to excuse it due to "attacks" on Temple Mount. There are no attacks, only the gathering of firecrackers, Molotov cocktails and huge stones and rocks and stored in Al Aqsa mosque to be used to kill people as they stand below and pray at the Wall.
So, with whom are we to make peace? With the people who call us occupiers as we walk the streets of Haifa, of Jerusalem, of the Shomron, of the Galilee, as we BUY property and go live there? With the people who say Arabs can buy anywhere but Jews are not and must only live in certain areas. Really? That was done before - in Europe, in Arab countries, in ghettoes and camps. NO MORE. NO MORE.
Peace needs partners to make and keep the peace. A partner who does not forswear a terrorist partner is not a partner for peace. The existential threat of Iran still hangs over Israel and Obama is ready to sell Israel out and for NOTHING, as even his own party members are uncomfortable with his proposed plans.
We believe in Tikkun Olam - the repairing of the world - and thus all the philanthropy of the Jewish people, their acceptance of all who have need - even to the hospitalizing of family members of the leaders of Hamas!, to the point of having a constant flow of wounded Syrians from their civil war into Israeli hospitals Dear Lord, I do not know what else can be done, how we make people hear and see the truth. Chosen? Chosen for what?
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