Hakim Awad: "Hero", "Legend"
Attention all you Western Palestinian supporters, who belong to the Boycott, Divest and Sanctions movement against Israel. Attention all you members of Students for Justice in Palestine. Attention all you human rights groups who demonstrate against Israeli "human rights abuses". Attention all you egghead university professors who use your classrooms to disseminate propaganda against Israel. Attention all you Olive Tree Initiative fools-and those who fund this insane program. The below article in Commentary Magazine describes what the Palestinian media in the West Bank has to say about those who butchered an entire family including an infant asleep in its crib.
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/01/30/palestinian-tv-murder-celebrates-israel/
I ask you: What kind of culture celebrates this kind of atrocity?
Keep in mind these are the "reasonable" Palestinians under Mahmoud Abbas, with whom Israel is supposed to negotiate a peace treaty.
We should also call the attention of the Orange County Jewish Federation and their subsidiary, the Rose Project, which refuse to sign the Fogel Pledge not to contribute to or fund organizations or ventures that are harmful to Israel, such as the Olive Tree Initiative.
If you understand this you will understand why there is no resolution of the Israeli/ Arab differences. If this ceased there could be peace in 24 hours. If this continues, it could be generations.
ReplyDeleteStopping the hatred taught in the schools was one of the agreements the Palestinians made and then reneged on in the Oslo Accords.
So this continues, no matter what,and what has this obsessive strategy gained them? Which people have a thriving society and which one remains in ignorance, poverty, and hatred?
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I wouldn't have taken, approved, or supported this action if I were a strategist for Palestinian statehood. Nor do I appreciate visiting vengeance for political acts on individual families.
ReplyDeleteHowever, to keep this in perspective, during the Nazi occupation of Poland, areas of land were cleared of both Polish and Jewish occupants, so that good German peasant families could be settled on the land. That is what "lebensraum" was all about, remember?
The underground freedom fighters, Jewish and Polish, communist and non-communist, engaged in missions which could only be described objectively as terrorism, to attack these settlements, burn down the buildings, slaughter as many of the occupants as possible, and make it very very unsafe for good German families to come back and try this again.
They were considered heroes by the occupied population(s). Much as we all despise the Nazi regime, I could find it in my heart to mourn for these good German peasants, who were in fact tools of the regime, probably would have had no choice in the matter if they had tried to decline, could have settled down to be good citizens of the German Federal Republic or German Democratic Republic, had they had the fortune to survive that long.
But, as General Sherman said, "War is hell." Settler communities in the west bank are guilty of plenty of bullying at least, sometimes terrorism of their own. They are arrogant. They presume that this is their land for the taking, and the people already living in the vicinity should just get out.
I don't cheer when I read about Native Americans slaughtering whole families of American settlers either... but with 20/20 hindsight, and the dispassionate view that comes with being the beneficiary of past history but not having to commit atrocities with my own hands, I can understand why dispossessed people might have done that.
So it neither surprises nor shocks me that in the exercise of freedom of the press, some might extoll the young teens who committed these killings as heroes.