Posted by
Cary Wesberry on Tuesday, March 11, 2008 12:37:16 AM
Eight young men, unarmed and in the relative security of their Jerusalem yeshiva, are gunned down in cold blood. In Gaza, thousands take to the streets to celebrate. Their government encourages them to do so.
How toxic is a society when the governing party suggests celebrating a massacre of teenaged boys?
The brutality of last Thursday's massacre at the Mercaz Harav Yeshiva exposes some ugly truths about the blood lust that has been fostered by leaders in Palestinian society and the unwillingness of most American Muslim political organizations and the mainstream media to confront it.
When the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF) is accused of raising money for Hamas terrorism, the defendants and their allies say they merely sought to relieve Palestinian suffering. But the silence from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) and others shows their unwillingness to condemn the terrorist act and its glorification.
The best hope to alleviate the suffering of Palestinians is to stand against the cycle of violence, not to be complicit in its continuation. That requires a loud and persistent call from American Muslims for Hamas to stop deliberately inciting Israel. That incitement is not the biased perspective of those of us who oppose terrorism, but of former Hamas foreign minister Mahmoud Zahar:
Rockets against Sderot will cause mass migration, greatly disrupt daily lives and government administration and can make a much huger impact on the government.
No country would accept showers of incoming rocket fire without responding. Israel did just that February 27th, in an operation targeting Hamas terrorists that killed 120 people. Sadly, dozens of civilians also were killed.
This triggered no celebration in Israel and the operation ended within days.
Every life lost is a tragedy. But to pretend there's a moral equivalence between the attacks which set out to kill innocents versus those in which civilians are caught in the crossfire is a cruel joke that serves only to perpetuate the violence and keep any hope of peace. In its rocket barrages and in the yeshiva attack, civilians are the target.
The great evil that is Palestine backed by Hezbollah, Iran, and Syria will be addressed severely or Israel will cease to exist. The Jews of Israel have no leadership and now it appears their army, one of the best fighting forces ever to walk the Earth, cannot help them either. All the while the Palestinian animals murder Jews in the streets and hold celebrations of their murder. Israeli leadership only shrugs at this and does as little as possible hoping not to incur more wrath from inhuman monsters. When Palestinians rally in the streets to celebrate in joy the mass murder of Jews, the IDF should be surrounding them and deporting every one of the immediately. The Palestinians who decide to fight the IDF in that operation should be executed on the spot. Continuing to treat Palestinians as if they are actually people will only get us more dead Jews while Palestine and it's backers grow stronger.