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Last year, we wrote an editorial titled “Insults of
the Obscene,” in which we demonstrated that the very people who persist in
calling the Israelis “racists” and “Nazis” were themselves the greatest
racists and genocidal murderers. “Insults of the Obscene” is a verse in
Psalms, 39:9: חרפת נבל אל תשימני
From all my sins, save me, and put not upon me the insults of
the obscene. What this means is: Do not allow me to be accused,
falsely, by the ones who are themselves guilty of what they accuse me!
Since the beginning of the ongoing terror war against
the free world, the terrorists have become more and more outrageous in
their shrill litany of lies against Israel and the Jews. There is no
falsehood too blatant, no comparison too odious, no exaggeration too
bloated, no accusation too grotesque for the media to gobble up and
regurgitate for a worldwide audience, who swallow it all without raising
an eyebrow.
Since the beginning of the Oslo “Intifada,” the
parade of propaganda has included the gamut from the silly (a story a
female Israeli soldier lured Arab youths by performing a striptease, and
then drew a pistol hidden in her underwear to shoot the boys at close
range) to the medieval (the ancient “Blood Libel” resurrected in a Saudi
newspaper) to the downright despicable (the comparison of the Israelis to
“Nazis” for putting “tattoos” on the hands of captured terrorists using
magic marker pens). The “Big Lie” technique invented by Goebbels, of
repeating a falsehood over and over and over and over again, has been
refined and perfected and taken to a whole new dimension of audacity. It
is impossible to keep ahead. For every lie exposed as false, a dozen new
ones, even more outrageous, take its place.
The outrage du jour, just in time for the
commemoration of Israel’s Yom Hazikaron, Memorial Day, concerns a
“massacre” alleged to have been carried out by the Israeli Army against
Palestinians in the Jenin refugee camp. According to British journalist
Phil Reeves, a longtime Palestinian partisan, the Israelis attempted to
cover up a “monstrous war crime” by barring journalists from entering the
camp during “Operation Defensive Shield.” However, Reeves assured his
readers, he heard firsthand from “people desperate to tell what had
occurred” that hundreds of dead bodies were buried underneath the rubble
of their demolished homes and bulldozed into mass graves. Reeves admits
that no mass graves of hundreds of dead bodies have been found, which to
him, only “proves” that the alleged culprits have been very clever in
“covering it up.” He quotes a Professor Pounder from Dundee University,
who is confident, after interviewing “credible” witnesses, that eventually
proof of a war crime will turn up. So far, the documented body count is
less than 100, all of whom have been identified as armed combatants. What
this really means is that the only “hard evidence” any “war crime” has
taken place is the testimony of people who have a reputation of being
pathological liars.
Such is the mindset of the terrorists and their
apologists. First they accuse the Israelis of committing a “war crime” and
then explain the lack of evidence as “proof” of a “cover up.” The people
who jump to compare the Israelis to the Nazis with the most specious of
analogies never stop for even one second to consider what real Nazis
would do in Israel’s situation:
After one suicide bombing, all the immediate
and extended family of the suicide bomber would be executed.
After the second suicide bombing, the entire
village of the suicide bomber would be razed, after the execution of all
the inhabitants.
After the third suicide bombing…but you get
the picture.
Why haven’t the Israelis done this? Well, could it
just possibly be, in spite of all the screaming and the finger-pointing,
that just maybe, they are nothing like the Nazis? That they
are extraordinarily mild, restrained and civilized in the face of
relentless barbarism? In fact, it can be said that the Israelis, who have
been taking the equivalent (for their country) of a September 11th
attack every week, have been less forceful even than the Americans,
who bombed thousands of Afghanis during air strikes on Al Qaeda and
Taliban targets in Kabul, Kandahar and Tora Bora with sub-nuclear “daisy
cutters”.
Do I think the Israelis should become more forceful
in their response to terrorism? Yes. Do I think they should lower
themselves to the level of their enemies by engaging in the atrocities of
which they are being unjustly accused. No!
I don’t have a solution to the Mideast problem. I
don’t have a “peace plan” other than to put my faith and trust in the One
who “makes peace in the heavens, make peace on us and on all Israel.”
Amen!
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