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If only Jews were as monolithic as Gentiles think we are when it comes to routinely out-praying, out-smarting and out-performing most cultures on earth.
But especially when there is a crisis — such as Israel-Gaza this week — we never have to search long to discover a fellow Jew eager to throw mud in our faces and obfuscate a picture that rings with moral clarity.
We are absolutely indistinguishable from the best and the worst civilizations when it comes to producing handwringing liberal sob-sissies who just can’t believe there is anyone on the whole darned planet who hates Jews because Jews are different from most people. The present problem must be our fault.
Permit me to diverge for a moment and introduce two crucial, novel facts:
• There is no land of Palestine anymore than there is a land of Noonan.
“Palestinian people” is a phony construct first coined 45 years ago by the original PLO terrorist leader Yasser Arafat. Organizing a band of terrorists who now circle the world, Arafat needed a collective term to cover the disparate Arabs of his adopted land, a term that would resonate with friendly liberal media and government types in the West. (Where else can you look to find a friendlier media that will, unanimously, agree to call terrorists “militants” because “terrorist” feels partisan to them?) Few nation names bear more historicity than “Palestine,” and with that Arafat started on a public relations roll that has been gathering speed and currency since 1964.
• In the Gaza Strip, there are virtually no “innocent civilians.”
This is a loaded, manipulable, highly flexible, entirely political, phrase that surfaces 100 percent of the time in war reporting that involves Israel or the United States. As we are often reminded by left-wing journalists defending Hamas, the terrorists were popularly elected, by the people, to lead the state government of Gaza. Hamas does not operate in the shadows of Gaza but in the open, as publicly as the City Council of Culver City. Hamas brazenly, cleverly, insidiously secretes its vast collection of weaponry and its operatives among the “innocent” people, inside of schools, mosques, universities, grocery stores, homes of ordinary people. The people of Gaza know this. They see the stockpiles. There are two devious reasons for this vile tactic that humanitarians conveniently overlook : First, Hamas counts on Jews’ well-known respect for life, for Israel’s almost obsessive regard for the safety of others, to avoid striking such targets. Second, if Israel does strike the targets, the result will be a worldwide public relations bonanza for Hamas and its many Jew-hating non-Arab friends because of what will be called “Israel’s callous disregard for civilians.” When the Hamas terrorists eschew uniforms and don children’s masks while committing their deadly deeds, how do you tell the terrorists from the “innocents”? My point. The answer is: You can’t distinguish them. That is the game these filthy criminals play.
Did you know that humanitarian Israel sent cellphone messages to thousands of Gazans last Saturday to scurry for shelter before the bombing started?
An Embarrassment to Jews
And so this week’s Most Embarrassing, Self-Inflicted Jewish Story was again essayed by the very emotional Rob Eshman, who genuinely is troubled, weekly, as he struggles to distinguish right from wrong. He is the shallow, insecure, assertedly anti-religious editor of the Jewish Journal, whose self-esteem resembles a flat tire.
As a very liberal public Jew with a wishy-washy viewpoint, he twists his wrists trying to decide who to root for in Israel-Gaza. He opens his weekly essay the following: “If you’re like me, you don’t like to see dead children.” Constantly clearing his throat, Mr. Eshman thrashes from side to side as he anguishes over the image of a 7-year-old Palestinian girl rushing, with her father, from a bombed out building. Even if her father is Hamas, says Mr. Eshman, who cares? She isn’t, and by George, in war that is what counts. He concludes that Israel is unlikely to achieve its objectives. And as long as they keep shooting at Hamas, says Mr. Eshman, it is just going to result in more dead Palestinian children, and that is unacceptable.
Now a Word from the Enemy
Even though he is not to be confused with a thoughtful journalist, Mr. Eshman should re-visit the opening three paragraphs of the Hamas charter that say he and his kind, and my kind, should be wiped out:
18 August 1988
In The Name Of The Most Merciful Allah
"Ye are the best nation that hath been raised up unto mankind: ye command that which is just, and ye forbid that which is unjust, and ye believe in Allah. And if they who have received the scriptures had believed, it had surely been the better for them: there are believers among them, but the greater part of them are transgressors. They shall not hurt you, unless with a slight hurt; and if they fight against you, they shall turn their backs to you, and they shall not be helped. They are smitten with vileness wheresoever they are found; unless they obtain security by entering into a treaty with Allah, and a treaty with men; and they draw on themselves indignation from Allah, and they are afflicted with poverty. This they suffer, because they disbelieved the signs of Allah, and slew the prophets unjustly; this, because they were rebellious, and transgressed." (Al-Imran – verses 109-111).
Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it" (The Martyr, Imam Hassan al-Banna, of blessed memory).
"The Islamic world is on fire. Each of us should pour some water, no matter how little, to extinguish whatever one can without waiting for the others." (Sheikh Amjad al-Zahawi, of blessed memory).
