Let me get this straight… a crazy couple goes nuts and tosses firecrackers into a Christian church in Nazareth, sparking riots, and the Arab “leaders” scream that it’s the Israeli government’s fault. The Vatican even gets in the act of protesting the random senseless act as an Israeli failure, despite the fact that Israel did its best to capture the malicious pranksters and will bring them to justice.
But when trained terrorists are sponsored, equipped, and dispatched by terror groups under the PLO’s umbrella to kill Jews on buses and shopping malls and restaurants while their families are rewarded for their “martyred” relative’s efforts and various schools, events, and streets are named after them, it’s also Israel’s fault for “occupation” crimes?
When PLO terrorists attack Jewish holy sites, scorching millenia-old tombs of the patriarchs, or when the Waqf orders the excavation and systematic destruction of priceless artifacts dating back to the original Temples, silence.
When various terrorists occupy the Church Of The Nativity, brutalize the priests held hostage within, threaten to burn the site down, and destroy priceless artifacts and use holy books as toilet paper, all is forgiven?
When a group of cold-blooded murderers and terrorists hole up with their demigod terrorist in his shattered bunker for months, the overwhelming demand by the world is to let them go free.
Something’s seriously wrong with this, folks. It’s ugly, and if nothing is done about it now, it’s only going to get worse.
It’s anti-Semitism, Lair.
Notice two things: When Israeli Jews capture a palestinian terrorist who has just knifed a busload of old people, he is not beaten by the crowd. He is held for the police or IDF to take him away. Israeli Jews do not riot. Israeli Jews do not prevent the emergency services from helping the wounded. Israeli Jews do not burn police vehicles.
The palestinians like to say that Israelis think palestinian blood is cheap. I would posit that the world has proven, over the past two thousand years, that it is Jewish blood that it deems unimportant.
Comment by Meryl Yourish — 03/04/2006 @ 11:02 am
I remember that a friend of mine, raised Episcopalian, was deeply distraught when the Church of the Nativity was being occupied, and could not understand out why the reaction was so bland.
I tried to explain, but I don’t think it helped much…
Comment by Balabusta in Blue Jeans — 03/04/2006 @ 11:46 am
Yeah, but his wife is a Christian
The opportunistic reaction to the nut-ball couple and their daughter who made a ruckus in the Church of the Anunciation in Nazareth must almost be seen to be believed. Projection from traitorous MK’s, rioting locals…even Islamic Jihad is getting int…
Trackback by Solomonia — 03/04/2006 @ 11:54 am
Don’t forget that the the Vatican had a dignitary in the area, Hilarion Capucci, who was caught smuggling arms and explosives for the PLO in his black Vatican Mercedes.
Plenty of symbolism in that.
And this after Arafat and his thugs were responsible for the bestial massacre of more than 500 inhabitants of the Christian town of Damour in Lebanon in 1976.
Comment by Cynic — 03/04/2006 @ 12:56 pm
The Christians occupy a big tent, where there’s lots of room for different viewpoints. Sort of like the Democratic Party. Some like Israel and Jews, and others would just as soon see the Pal Arabs slaughter them.
Comment by Li'l Mamzer — 03/04/2006 @ 3:00 pm
It’s the old “moral equivalence” thing. The build-up of suicide bombers versus Baruch Goldstein was beginning to tip.
This saved the media, the pundits, the Anointed, the mainstream churches, etc. the bother of having to denounce the Palestinians.
Yes, one madman on one side makes an entire culture of death on the other side acceptable because it shows that “both sides do it”.
Comment by Joseph T Major — 03/04/2006 @ 4:55 pm
One of “our” madmen had firecrackers, which hurt exactly nobody.
Comment by Li'l Mamzer — 03/04/2006 @ 4:58 pm
Firecrackers in Nazareth: Terrorism or “Prank”?
Defenders of Israel have dismissed the incident as the random senseless act of a couple of malicious pranksters and complain that the anti-Israel media is all over this as a terrorist attack… Does that mean it wasnt a terror attack afte…
Trackback by On the Contrary: Don's Mideast Musings — 03/08/2006 @ 9:41 am