Gaza residents from the southern city of Rafah hit the streets Saturday to celebrate the terror attack in the West Bank settlement of Itamar where five family members were murdered in their sleep, including three children. Residents handed out candy and sweets, one resident saying the joy “is a natural response to the harm settlers inflict on the Palestinian residents in the West Bank.” — ynetnews.com, Israel
What I am about to say should be as unnecessary as keeping your car doors shut while breezing down the freeway.
No matter how many times I read, re-read and re-re-read the identical xeroxed editorial in one of America’s most dreadful dailies, it quickened my heartbeat in an angry direction.
The revulsion I feel this morning, a day later, is wretchedly unappetizing.
It is the custom of the pompous, ranting, Jew-hating left-wingers who create the op-ed section of the Los Angeles Times to spit with disgust whenever Israel suffers a tragedy.
The Times’s attitude:
Why can’t those hot-tempered Israeli Jews calmly accept a spot of terrorism, why can’t they be satisfied to shrug when only one family is massacred? One household out of a whole country. Not even a whole family. Three children lived. Jews, get on with your pathetic lives instead of making a big banana out of every little disaster?
The gall of these disgusting journalists to glance impatiently at a story barely long enough to realize that five members of the eight-person Fogel family of the West Bank town of Itamara were stabbed to death in their sleep — Udi 37, Ruth 36, Yoav, 10, Elad, 4.
As for 3-month-old Hadas, she was beheaded.
Beheaded by night-crawling Arab beasts.
Beheaded. This is what modern Muslims do when the Koran is betrayed.
But a 3-month-old Jew?
The Jew-haters at the Times could not wait for the five bodies to be in the ground for 48 hours before they began prancing, shamelessly, back and forth across the graves, asking — in print — why must pesky Jews insist on fighting back?
Surely I have read this same gut-twisting, barbarically reasoned theme a hundred separate times over the years — the Israelis are screwing up the holy peace process with the saintly Arabs by chasing revenge just because a few Jews got slaughtered. It is Israel’s fault for causing what the Times calls “a cycle of violence.” Dead is dead, don’t you know. When Arab terrorists assault you, be gentlemanly enough to go quietly on your way instead of demanding payback.
Yesterday’s editorial, headlined “A fatal Israeli-Palestinian flaw,” sags under the weight of lies, partial truths and tortured reasoning you would commonly encounter in a radical madrassa.
Swallow just the first 30 sanctimonious words:
“One of the most depressing characteristics of the dysfunctional Palestinian-Israeli relationship is the self-destructive tit-for-tat mentality that often seems to keep the conflict alive rather than to end it.”
Condescendingly, the Times admitted that that last Friday night’s crime was a terrorist attack. But — continuing to be smitten with Arab and Muslim culture — these heartless liberals can’t acknowledge the barbarity was inflicted by thirsty terrorists. That would be confessing Jews have a case for striking back.
The gutless liberals at the Times polished the murderers’ identity to a high gloss, saying the perpetrators “presumably” were “Palestinian militants.” Militants? Gives both the newspaper and the attackers legit cover, you see.
The message of the editorial was uncomplicated:
When a Jew is killed, no matter how, he should stay dead.
Do not seek to avenge the crime.
After all, it’s only one death, no matter how brutal, in a whole country.
