A Study in Contrasts
First, she abrogates any responsibility by Palestinians for their own atrocities by assigning blame to Jews who have “forced them to become animals.” Yet somehow the Jews managed to avoid becoming animals, despite 6 million of them being butchered by the Nazis. Somehow the Armenians did not become animals after the brutality they suffered at the hands of the Turks. Somehow the Kurds of northern Iraq did not become animals after Saddam murdered them by the tens of thousands. And on and on.
Given her own brand of logic, would not the Jews be justified in anything they do to Arabs, because Arabs have been attacking (and even enslaving) them for many hundreds of years? If loss and suffering is adequate justification for barbaric reprisals, how could this woman find fault with any Israeli response to the thousands of rockets that have been fired into her towns, the suicide bombers in her markets, movie theaters, and pizza parlors, or the Jewish men, women, and children who have been victimized and brutalized by Palestinian Arabs since long before the state of Israel was ever formed?
In the same breath, she justifies committing genocide against the Jewish people by her use of the word “eradicating“… because in her eyes, eradicating Jews is a reasonable response to political discontent; however, “occupation” in her mind is a greater evil than genocidal eradication. We’ll leave aside for the moment the historical inaccuracy of referring to Jews as occupiers in Judea and Samaria, their ancestral homeland for millennia.
She then goes on to say she believes in a two state solution — while lauding her own qualities of reason and realism — yet she overlooks the fact that there is but one Jewish state, Israel, while Palestinians already have two, Gaza and Jordan. She overlooks the fact that at Camp David, the Palestinians were handed 95% of what they demanded on a silver platter, yet Arafat walked away and launched the second Intifada rather than recognize Israel’s right to exist. She ignores the reality that the Palestinians could have their own state at any time, but they refuse anything less than all of Israel, “from the river to the sea.”
But she believes in a two state solution — because she is “reasonable and realistic.”
She then crowns her commentary with brilliant moral equivalence: In her mind, there is no difference between slaughtering a Jewish infant, asleep in its crib, and defending against a ship full of armed terrorists and activists, intent on running a naval blockade. In this, she echoes the Palestinian mentality perfectly and tacitly condones the targeting of civilians, even infants, by acts of unspeakable terrorism. In her mind, there is no difference between a sleeping baby and a terrorist attacking you with a dagger.
How can reason possibly triumph over such a mentality? We must find a way, because this cancerous mentality has metastasized, and may ultimately prevail.
“How can reason possibly triumph over such a mentality?”
YOU are making a difference.
By countering lies with the truth.
By spreading the REAL story countering the Paliprop, lies and half-truths from the MSM.
“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.”
There’s really nothing to say to such a person.
You find one culture celebrating life, and one culture celebrating the taking of life.
Too bad they don’t just dress their babies as bomb-wearing terrorist murderers: they support the murderers’ families financially, they name streets and plazas after murderers … They hand out candy when the Twin Towers fall, when little children are murdered as they sleep. …
And they have people in our world who will defend them.
Perhaps the woman who wrote that stupid paragraph on your FACEBOOK page should take a look at the videos of how the Israeli troops were attacked when they boarded those ships in the Gaza Flotilla. As usual, if the people had simply followed orders and stopped, nothing would have happened and nobody would have been killed. But no, as soon as the Israeli troops boarded the ships, they were attacked with knives, clubs, and just about anything else that could be used as a weapon. Had the Palestinians simply done nothing, the Israeli troops would not have opened fire on anybody.
But, that aside, I don’t understand how Palestinians and their cohorts can ever justify bestial behavior like slaughtering a family in their own home. Just shows you when you’re wrapped up in a sick jihadist philosophy, anything can be justified, even murdering kids. And they want their own state? These people should be shunned by all civilized countries. Animals shouldn’t be allowed to have their own state. If they did, though, it would be called North Korea.
Libertyship46: Well said.
Before Purim we read Parshath Zachor. Two words echo in mind from it: Z’chor, al-thiskhach – remember, and do not forget. We will not forget what they have done, are doing and will do to us. The War against the Jews never ends.
Very well stated. However, these egregious biases do not exist solely with the Palestinians – ALL of Europe as well as many in the Western worlds exhibit such outstanding mentality, daily.
Tom Boyce: “ALL of Europe as well as many in the Western worlds exhibit such outstanding mentality, daily.”
Indeed.
’47% of Germans think Israel exterminating Palestinians’
http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=212326
Let’s see:
1) This woman has sympathies for people who celebrate the murder of children all but where is her sympathy for say, the people of Darfur who happen to not celebrate such crimes. Why is that her symapthy goes to such morally repugnant people instead of the Darfuris?
2) This woman is concerned over “the suffering of the Palestians” who in fact are beuing tretaed with kid gloves by Israel and whose stores look like cavens of Ali Baba. All whuile the Darfur ^people are being murdered, ensalve and raped by the thousands, all while they are bing deliberately starved without their sufferings finding their way to the soft and com^passsionate heart of this woman.
Anyone can explain it?
Is she still your Facebook friend? Bet she ‘unfriends’ you soon.
Two Words:
Double Standard
Animals are expected to behave like animals. There is no condemnation (from the media, from themselves) for being exactly who they are.
This will go on forever, until the animals evolve, and begin to act and behave like the rest of us.
After years of having her twisted anti-Israel views validated by the liberal intelligencia your Facebook “friend” can non longer differentiate right from wrong. It reminds me of crazy environmentalists who will defend a the delta smelt’s right to live while starving the migrant workers who used to work the soil for a living by cutting off their water supply.
“How can reason possibly triumph over such a mentality? We must find a way, because this cancerous mentality has metastasized, and may ultimately prevail.”
Your last sentence pretty much summed up what I was thinking. YOu can’t reason with these peoeple and most of the globe is starting to think the same way. It’s insane and poisonous!
Bomb just went off in Jerusalem. Many injured, at least one dead.
At some point the gloves need to come off. Israeli deterrence is breaking down. And I think Bibi should just tell Abbas to forget it. No deals no more jaw jaw. Israel has made enough offers. Palestinians may have the option of surrender under Israeli terms that is it.
Written well, written clearly, and full of the building blocks that a mind needs so that it can think effectively and regard future events with a realistic and informed view.
The tragedy was overlooked.
It is grievous that such mad and murderous behavior was not given the airtime it should have been given.
I am reminded of the three girls in Indonesia (if I am not mistaken – country) who were beheaded. Three 12 year old girls walking to school.
What cowards to attack little girls.
It never reached American ears to the best of my knowledge.
What cowards to raid a home in the middle of the night and kill defenseless people in their beds.
Another story ignored.
Continue to enlighten and inform, giving honor to them, and so their lives would not be lost in vain, but serve as a catalyst of change in the sluggish minds of Americans.
We remember how they kill and torture each other before evaluation of their cruelity towards Jews.Muslims murderer their people for display of compassion on infidels(in Pakistan).Pals dance during disasters of their civillian enemies.In their medieval terrible world the life is simple:Muslims-infidels opposition.Muslim`s weakness in the “world of war”-non-Muslim territory can be hidden in the peaceful-like coexistance.
One must remember that the coexistance is the temporary one.
For people who help the Muslims,it`s not necessary to expect gratitude.
“samaria”? where the hell is that? if it’s land that belongs to the Jews, why doesn’t Israel just annex it, along with “judea” and “gaza,” and give everyone living there the same rights that all other Israelis have?
when is the non-Kahanist part of the Israeli/Jewish far right, the part that rejects a two-state solution but doesn’t call for Arab transfer, going to admit that its natural allies are with those on the far left calling for a single state as well?
A STUDY IN EVIL (No, not a study, . . . just a few lines.)
Although for purposes of exposure and refutation, the tortuous logic of the “friend” is broken on various levels, and at the least, between the worlds pertaining to the physical, the abstract, and the metaphorical or spiritual, I think that, it may be rather easily gutted, and beginning right at the belt line: Where the “friend” tried to say: “Because I’m a reasonable person, I will concede to a 2-state solution.”, because—and, much as where, “Give me a break!” appears, it must suffer hard entertainment where fine distinctions in touching grave issues are required, similarly—nor also, can her “Okay fine,” be included, and, for the simple fact that, as opening the way for serious comment concerning a momentous issue, hers is but a presumptive play in ludicrity (or if you prefer, ludicrousness) against the reader—among several other fundamental errors in construction and logic, at the very least, this.
Now, if that will suffice for a beginning, consider that, although I may actually be possessed of a reasonable mind, as necessary reception for most testimony about oneself, should I stamp myself—my own mind—as “reasonable”, suddenly, many other things which I might say, are thereby opened to suspicion—and, isn’t that so? And simply because, in broaching any pocket of discussion, there must abide that tacit expression of recognition of our place in the social continuum which mankind is, and that with this following, then, whether I possess my being in a reasonable mind, or no, is necessarily to others in the social continuum to decide for themselves—or, when I and that “friend” let you know what we think about ourselves, we might be confounding our opinion and what we think of yours, and in actualization of the whole, end up, confused, . . .
Also, Ken and Barbie are realistic dolls. No true Scot would wish to be spoken of as being Scottish or realistic; and, while Ken and Barbie look realistic, real people look for realistic and workable, or useful solutions.
And so we see, if by these few things only, while in her heart of hearts, the “friend” wishes the eradication of Israel, she makes her grudging and confused acceptance of the so-called, 2-state solution, simply to sustain the universal discussion, and see her confused self, included.
Then, if only approximately, “. . . they have become so heartless that, they see no way out of this . . . . occupation , , , , these Jews forced them to become animals.”: and with this, I lie, cheat, and steal because, some other flesh and blood mortal—an equal—has taken moral and spiritual sensibility from me. And then this, she denies absolute soul competency in matters of religion or moral choice and self-determination; that or else in Flip Wilson’s appropriate mockery of the individual who has abandoned the power of hope and the gift of one’s own will: “The Debil made me do it.”.
Nor also—except in a Picasso sort of way—is her “Okay fine, I believe in a two state solution etc.”, in any way, shape, or form, for comparison or otherwise, correctly put into context with, [what about the Jews who celebrated their soldiers raiding the unarmed flotilla and slaughtering many, many peaceful activists?].
Although her entire presentation–thankfully, only a short bit, here–is in the hysterical form of conception and construction, should we in any wise wish—say, for academic curiosity or, for a comedic moment—to draw some meaning for use in instruction, or comparison, whatever the soldier may have done in the course of stopping those ships from entering his territorial waters, none of that can in any wise be compared to the heinous murder of these children, but which—in the tiring and pathetically weak algorithm which the “friend” embraces—would be, of course, the desired connection for comparison, and thus to break down the powers of reason of her audience.
Except for the fact that, a part of the definition of “arbitrariness” has to do with rationalizations which are generated within or are peculiar to the individual, and not strongly related to the larger world of facts and standards, the realm of confusion in which the “friend” practices cannot properly be spoken of as her own; for, it greatly predates her, than her, is so much more powerful, and it is unspeakably common; and this, not only on YouTube videos, but is to be heard and dealt with from C-SPAN and yes, even to be occasionally found on Pajamas Media; but more commonly, the standard quote “on the street” or of the criminal mentality, being: “If they’re going to treat me like a animal, I’m going to act like one.”.
Finally, as is also to be drawn from this article, one of the most difficult things about the weird world in which the “friend” exists, is that—as for any fraud—in giving a proper answer, even a line or two of expression from the horrid venue can require response equal to many pages, . . .
You are wrong. This person doesn’t wish the mere eradication of Israel. She wants the eradication of the Jews, she wants Hitler’s goal being achieved. The Plaestinians (and that includes the “moderate” PLO) have been well clear that this, not recoveriog “their” land, not even a state where Arabs would rule over Jews, not even expeliing the Jews from there but the complete eradication of the Israelis. New born babies included. These are this womans friends. Tell me who is your friend and I will tell you who you are.
It’s called racism. Deep, profound, virulent, racism. The oldest, most pernicious, most vicious, most mercurial, most amorphic, most insidious, most sanctimonious, most evil, most dangerous, racism that has ever existed in the world, and that exists, still, currently, at this time, in the world: Anti-Jewish racism – Western (culturally Christian-European (Christian and post-Christian)), and Muslim, anti-Jewish racism.
“Anti-Semitism 2.0″, by Mudar Zahran, March 21, 2011; Mudar Zahran is a Palestinian Arab writer and academic; The following is text, from the Biography section about Mudar Zahran, on the web site of this article: “Mudar Zahran is a Palestinian writer and academic from Jordan, who now resides in the UK as a political refugee.”
http://www.hudson-ny.org/1979/anti-semitism-20
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“Israel – A Brief Summary of the History of the Situation”; with maps of the British Mandate of Palestine, and Jordan, and Israel, and “The West Bank”, and “The Gaza Strip”, and surrounding states
http://danielbielak.blogspot.com/2011/03/israel-brief-summary-of-history-of_17.html
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Jewish people who understand the reality of the situation need to start to act like normal human beings, and need to, therein, speak the truth, and need to, therein, charge the lying racist Western and Muslim attackers of the Jewish people, and need to therein, protect Israel from genocide, and protect the well-being of the whole world.
Jewish people who understand the reality of the situation need to seek out, and communicate with, and join with, enlightened Arab people who understand the situation, and with Arab people who are willing to engage in true communication.
She is a product of our current generation of the ‘educated’. I agree with Leah: “It never reached American ears to the best of my knowledge.”
Of course it hasn’t. Thanks for bringing this to our ears. Thanks for educating us.