Updated August 2nd 2015:
The media, UN even the State Department are having a field day condemning Israel. Finally they've got another atrocity allegedly by 'settlers' (i.e. the indigenous Jews of Judea and Samaria) to lambast the Jewish State with.
The media, UN even the State Department are having a field day condemning Israel. Finally they've got another atrocity allegedly by 'settlers' (i.e. the indigenous Jews of Judea and Samaria) to lambast the Jewish State with.
Israel's politicians as usual fall
headlong into the trap and are scrambling to outdo each other with
the sack cloth and ashes, even invoking the Holocaust!
Someone needs to step back and take
stock, which is what I am about to do.
This was a murderous attack, probably
but not definitely by Jews. Plenty of Arabs read and write Hebrew to
a high level, and it won't be the first time village feuds have
been blamed on Jews.
The blood-libel does after all have a
long history.
But even if it was Jew who threw that
fire-bomb we as friends of Israel have to step back and consider a
number of things, without of course intending in any way to justify
this attack on innocent Arabs:
- Why has this one murder so energized the international community when daily atrocities against the Jews of Judea and Samaria pass without notice?
The BBC let the Fogel family atrocity
pass until Israel made a reprisal raid. Eden Atias slaughtered by an
Arab while he slept on a bus is still unknown to BBC audiences ditto
baby Adele Biton and Shelley Dadon, a young woman dragged into an
orchard, raped and murdered by an Arab on the way to work last year.
These were Jews and not worthy of world notice, sympathy or
understanding.
- What were the antecedents to this attack?
Where Arab criminals, terrorists and their
foreign instigators such as the foreign nationals of ISM are allowed
to feel immune to Israel's forces of law and order, to perpetrate the whole gamut of crimes against innocent Israelis wherever they can be found, and especially in Israel's ancient homelands of Judea and Samaria it is obvious
that the conditions for Jewish vigilantiism to fester and grow are
being met.
Where Jews such as three year old Adele
Biton who succumbed to her injuries (after an Arab's rock throwing caused the car she was traveling in to crash) can not travel the
roads without being in danger of death at the hands of an Arab
terrorist anger in the community is bound to grow to such an extent
that some amongst them will however wrongly take the law into their
own hands.
If the vigilantes took the life of a
terrorist then their action would be understandable e.g in light of
the fact that 6 Jews have to date been killed by Arab terrorists
freed in the Gilad Shalit deal.
That the blood of Jews has become so
cheap an Arab can reckon on spending only a few years in jail for
murder is a continuing outrage against any sense of decency. Arabs contemplating terror know that whilst in prison he will be paid a handsome salary,
his family will receive benefits, and he will be appointed to a paid
position commensurate with the seriousness of his terror act once he
gets out of an Israeli jail.
An Arab who murders a Jew rarely serves the prison sentence given to him which exasperates the citizens of
Israel who demand that Arabs who attack Jews must serve their
sentences.
The Jews who may have killed the Arab
child in Duma may reason that in the absence of justice for Arab
terrorists, they will take the law to them. If they can not find a
terrorist to kill, then any Arab will serve the purpose. This is not
seen as being a civilized way of non-Arabs to behave nowadays but
Arab culture fully accepts this reasoning. If someone from your
village kills someone from mine then I have the right / duty to kill
someone from yours. Ditto with a family killing. Arab culture is
seeped to the very core with blood and feuds can be carried on for
centuries. Let us not even get into the domain of 'honor killing'.
So Arabs understand when someone from
another tribe or family or village will take bloody revenge. They
just object when Jews do it. Jews as Christians are after all Dhimmis with no right to life or property,
still less any claim to waging a blood feud with Arab muslims.
So did anyone from the Arab village
murder a Jew for those Jews to wish to take revenge on someone from
their village. It would be interesting to find out?
Giulio Meotti has today written that not far from this village a Jewish hiker was murdered, a name that never made the headlines in the West that counts only the very few real Arab victims of Jews, and has no interest in the steady stream of Jews who have been foully murdered.
Giulio Meotti has today written that not far from this village a Jewish hiker was murdered, a name that never made the headlines in the West that counts only the very few real Arab victims of Jews, and has no interest in the steady stream of Jews who have been foully murdered.
"Not far from where an Arab child was killed last week, Arab terrorists killed a Jewish girl, Tirza Porat, while she was on a hike. She was the first Israeli civilian to die in the first Intifada. The Western press and many Israeli journalists blamed her for not staying away “from restive Palestinian villages”. Not a word of condemnation of Arab leaders for encouraging 5-year-olds to join mobs throwing stones and Molotov cocktails, but they condemned Tirza for being victimized. Nobody remembers her name. "
In any case we as a civilized society
reject blood feuds, but Britain when dealing with Palestinian Arabs
1936-39 did blow up houses in villages from where terrorists emerged
and summarily executed Arab terrorists found with arms. The RAF
machine gunned suspected terrorists from the air whilst the army
implemented a harsh regime:
Collectivepunitive measures suchas “destroying villages, carrying off livestock and trampling down crops and soon,” already well established in irregular “small” wars against guerrillas by thetime Callwell wrote his book, were used in the Boer War (1899–1902), duringthe Egyptian and Iraqi revolts (1919–20), in India, and during the Irish War ofIndependence (1919–21).3In the 1930s, Major General Sir Charles Gwynnand Colonel H. J. Simson—the latter served in Palestine during the revolt—developed Callwell’s lessons, applying them to imperial hot spots such asPalestine and arguing that such situations required firm military rule.
Rather than Israel's leaders tearing their hair over the rare incidence of Jewish terror, they should be learning from how the British suppressed Arab terror in the 1930's, revisit their failed policies which see Arabs terrorizing Jews, Christians and others throughout Israel, and of course in Jerusalem and Judea-Samaria.
Jews can no longer walk onto their ancient cemetery on the Mount of Olives for fear of Arab attack. Hundreds of graves have been desecrated with rubbish and smashed to pieces.
Tourists visit the Mount of Olives now in fear of their lives from Arab rock throwers.
Jews are regularly attacked on the Temple Mount.
Israel has lost its grip on Arabs bent on its destruction. The human rights of Arab terrorists take precedence over peaceful Jews.
I can understand that antisemitic leaders of Western governments led by the Obama-Kerry duo will howl at Israel at every opportunity.
But why must Rivlin, Herzog and even Netanyahu make public displays of contrition calling for the whole of Israel to be ashamed for the actions of a few errant Jews who represent nobody but themelves?
How can Israel's leaders be complicit in the western media led demonisation of Israel's public?
Is it fair to demonize the whole Judea-Samarian community?
Representatives of Jews in Judea-Samaria have overwhelmingly condemned this attack on the Arab family. We need to keep perspective that whereas Palestinian Arabs constantly incite for murder of Jews, all the Jews of Yesha wish for is peace to get on with their lives in their ancestral homelands. That never happens though. The Palestinian Authority and its media incite against Israel and Jews, rarely disguising their wish to destroy Israel utterly.
Jews can no longer walk onto their ancient cemetery on the Mount of Olives for fear of Arab attack. Hundreds of graves have been desecrated with rubbish and smashed to pieces.
Tourists visit the Mount of Olives now in fear of their lives from Arab rock throwers.
Jews are regularly attacked on the Temple Mount.
Israel has lost its grip on Arabs bent on its destruction. The human rights of Arab terrorists take precedence over peaceful Jews.
I can understand that antisemitic leaders of Western governments led by the Obama-Kerry duo will howl at Israel at every opportunity.
But why must Rivlin, Herzog and even Netanyahu make public displays of contrition calling for the whole of Israel to be ashamed for the actions of a few errant Jews who represent nobody but themelves?
How can Israel's leaders be complicit in the western media led demonisation of Israel's public?
Is it fair to demonize the whole Judea-Samarian community?
Representatives of Jews in Judea-Samaria have overwhelmingly condemned this attack on the Arab family. We need to keep perspective that whereas Palestinian Arabs constantly incite for murder of Jews, all the Jews of Yesha wish for is peace to get on with their lives in their ancestral homelands. That never happens though. The Palestinian Authority and its media incite against Israel and Jews, rarely disguising their wish to destroy Israel utterly.
If the Jewish State wishes to stop
revenge killings by a few misguided individuals then the root of the
problem must be addressed, the feelings of Jews of Judea and Samaria
that they are targets in an Arab firing range, picked off at will and
having to live in a state of terror for many years now.
Hardly a day goes by without another Arab terror attack, most of which such as the rock throwings on the Mount of Olives and attacks on Jews there go on unhindered by police.
Hardly a day goes by without another Arab terror attack, most of which such as the rock throwings on the Mount of Olives and attacks on Jews there go on unhindered by police.
The increasing Arab terror in
Judea-Samaria must be suppressed if harmonious relations between the
communities are to be restored.
Arab terrorists need to know that if
they do survive arrest, which should never be a certain thing, they
will have to pay their debt to Jewish society in an uncomfortable
prison cell, not one where they can take masters degrees paid for by
the Jews they wish to annihilate.
A beginning in restoring security to the Israeli public is to relax the rules on Israelis opening fire against their attackers. Rather than doing their utmost to arrest attackers, the stress must be on doing their utmost to keep themselves and their peers safe. The Arab terrorist's life must the the lowest of priorities when considering arrest options.
A beginning in restoring security to the Israeli public is to relax the rules on Israelis opening fire against their attackers. Rather than doing their utmost to arrest attackers, the stress must be on doing their utmost to keep themselves and their peers safe. The Arab terrorist's life must the the lowest of priorities when considering arrest options.
We also need to realize that Palestinian Arab society which celebrates children only as far as they have future value in being 'martyrs' in attacks on Jews, is not shocked by the violent death of a child. The only regret in their evil society is that the child did not take Jewish lives with it on the way to paradise.
We whilst regretting that a human life, even that of an enemy has been taken, should not weep overly much for a child intended to grow in a system of overarching antisemitic indoctrination intended to use education to teach how to harm Jews in ever more fiendish ways.
Rather than join in the chorus of world
condemnation and visit families of enemy Arabs, Mr Rivlin and
Netanyahu should show the community of Judea and Samaria that they
are also cared for, and loved. Yesha Jews are carrying out the heroic
task of defending the densely populated coastal region around
Tel-Aviv frequently at the cost of their lives whilst normally exercising the utmost
restraint.
The least the indigenous Jews of Judea and Samaria can expect is support
from Israel's politicians at a time when the world is baying for
their blood.
We can expect nothing from a world which even as Islamic terror is being stepped up throughout western countries and which is conducting terror operations on a world wide basis now, is every ready to condemn Israel.
Israel's leaders must learn the lesson of Gaza that when Jewish homes and villages are sacrificed, Tel-Aviv, Ashdod and Jerusalem are next in the firing line.
We can expect nothing from a world which even as Islamic terror is being stepped up throughout western countries and which is conducting terror operations on a world wide basis now, is every ready to condemn Israel.
Israel's leaders must learn the lesson of Gaza that when Jewish homes and villages are sacrificed, Tel-Aviv, Ashdod and Jerusalem are next in the firing line.