Here are
some recent headlines you might have missed. These stories come from December
27 – 29, 2013.
The war
against Israel
-Court Won't
Intervene, Release to Proceed on Schedule (12/30/13, Arutz Sheva)
-Murderer of
16 Israelis Among Terrorists to be Freed (12/29/13, Arutz Sheva)
- Dozens of right-wing activists
protesting prisoner release block J'lem streets, burn tires (12/29/13, Haaretz)
-IDF
fighting new brand of Palestinian terror (12/28/13, Ynet)
- PA Report Predicts: 3rd Intifada in
2014 (12/29/13, Arutz Sheva)
-As 2014
dawns, Israel keeps a nervous eye on regional jihadist groups (12/27/13, Haaretz)
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When the
current round of Arab-Israel peace talks began in August, 2013, the United States
(the brokers of the talks) felt that Israel should free 104 Arab prisoners.
Most of these prisoners were in Israeli prisons because they had murdered,
helped to murder—or plotted to murder—Jews in Israel. The US premise was,
Israel should do this as a gesture for peace.
It was a
curious concept because no such ‘gesture’ was required of the Palestinian
Authority (PA). No one required the PA to condemn the killing of Jews. No one
demanded that the PA condemn all attacks against Jews. Even as the number of
attacks against Jews jumped from 87 in July to 167 in November, no one demanded
that the PA condemn such attacks.
But
everyone—the US, the EU and the PA—demanded that Israel stick to its release
schedule--26 prisoners every couple of months until all 104 would go free. Jewish
bloodshed meant nothing. The ‘gesture’ was a ‘requirement’.
Jewish blood
is that cheap: the Jews must free killers even as Jews are attacked. But the
Arabs must not be pressured, reprimanded or warned, even as they incite against
Jews.
Before each
of the previous two releases, Jews in Israel went to the streets to protest the
releases. Jews also went to Israel’s Leftist High Court to seek an injunction
against each release.
No one
stopped the releases—not the Court, not the Prime Minister, not the Justice
Ministry.
Everyone
agreed: Israel was required to release Jew-killers.
Israel’s
leaders favoured their ‘peace gesture’ over the well-being of their own people.
Israel’s leaders neglected their own people in order to bow to nations which do
not cry over Jewish blood.
Clearly,
Israel fears the powerful. Clearly, Israel fears the Arab. Clearly, cowardice
trumps Jewish safety.
Israel continues to release murderers even as
Jews are stabbed.
Israel seems
to be the only country in the West to release unrepentant killers. The US, by
contrast, holds 158 ‘detainees’ in Guantanamo Bay who have not killed Americans
on US soil. These detainees have never received the benefit of trial in a US
court. Some have been tortured.
The US has
not closed this prison. It won’t close it even as the United Nations wants it
closed. The current 158 detainees do not appear to be ‘release-able’ any time
soon.
The
prisoners in Israeli jails are different. They are not battlefield combatants
fighting in armed conflict. They are civilians who kill Jews—including women
and children-- in cold blood for political reasons. They vow to kill
again.
The US will
not release its detainees, most of whom have never set foot in America. But
Israel must release Jew-killers who will walk again in Israel.
Israel is
indeed different. Jewish blood is cheap.
Israel may
be the only nation in the UN with a distinctive, identifiable national homeland
that dates back more than 3,000 years. Israel may be the only nation in the UN
with archaeological evidence to support its homeland claims.
Nevertheless,
Israel is different.
Israel is
the only nation is the UN whose identifiable ancestral homeland is denied to
them by international acclaim. Israel is
the only country in the UN whose leaders deny their own heritage and homeland
because enemies make their own—unprovable--claim to that same land.
Israel is
different.
Israel is
the only country in the world where leaders chose to believe the claims of
enemies over their own heritage. Israel is the only country in the world where
leaders choose cowardice over heritage. Israel is the only country in the world
that tolerates the demonization of close to 500,000 Jews--simply because of
where those Jews live. Israel is also the only country in the world actively
considering the ethnic cleansing of half-a-million Jews.
Israel is very
different.
Israel is the
only country in the world actively waiting for a pogrom. It is the only country
in the world expecting a pogrom. It’s also the only country in the world not
doing a damn thing about that pogrom, except waiting for it.
Read the
news. Terror is in the air. Attacks against Jews are up. The IDF has announced
that it is facing a new kind of terror against Jews (“IDF fighting new brand of
Palestinian terror”). PA Arabs predict more terror (“PA Report Predicts: 3rd
Intifada in 2014”). Israel expects more terror (“As 2014 dawns, Israel keeps a
nervous eye on regional jihadist groups”).
‘Terror’ is
the 21st Century’s ‘pogrom’.
Israel is
different. It is the only country in the world that actively advertises it sets
the stage for the spilling of Jewish blood. Jewish blood will spill because
that’s how these peace talks will end, with attacks to kill Jews.
Read the
news. It’s all there.
Funny thing
about Israel today: it may be the most anti-Jewish country in the world.
We’ve got
work to do. We are Jews. Israel is our homeland. Israel is the homeland G-d gave
to us—and to us alone. It is our only homeland. We have no place else to go.
If we don’t protect
Israel, no one else will protect it for us. If we want Israel, we will have to
fight for it.
Funny thing
about fighting over Israel: this is how our Final Destiny begins.
Are you
ready?
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