A little lengthy but worth the read. Emphasis in bold is mine.
Quote:I posted the following on Facebook:
“After Russia invaded Ukraine, I safety-pinned a Ukrainian flag to my backpack. I wear the flag everyday, on the back of my backpack, as I walk. Ukrainians stop me and thank me. I tell them I am praying for a just peace in their homeland.
After October 7, I searched for Israeli flags. And then I realized that if I wore an Israeli flag on my backpack in the same way that I wear the Ukrainian flag, people would hurt me. If I wore an Israeli flag, I would risk being pushed, hit, spat on, having rocks thrown at me, and even killed.
Friends, imagine how many Jews feel now. In America. The land of the free and the home of the brave. They see that Jews are targets for deadly and sadistic hate. They see that too many stand by silently. Jews are less than one percent of the world’s population. Without allies, Jews are doomed. Looking the other way at a moment like this sends the wrong message. Do something, please. Post a picture of a menorah. Call the White House. Say, simply, ‘This is horrible.'”
This post got a few likes, mostly from Jewish friends. But no more than that.
No, I do not think that my friends who are remaining silent are anti-Semitic. But their silence makes me rethink the definition of “anti-Semitism.” Choosing to look the other way when a vulnerable minority is targeted isn’t the same as seething hatred, but it can contribute to the same final outcome, the same final solution.
I don’t know if the silent ones buy the narrative from National Public Radio and other powerful media. In this narrative, jihadi atrocities on October 7 were sad, of course, very sad. But, “both sides.” But, “proportional.” But, “1400 Jews” versus the death toll in Gaza, now put at 8,000 by the Gaza Health Ministry. The ladies who posted peace doves are very upset by that number.
Here’s what NPR refuses to say. If Muslims recognized Israel, war would cease. The only ones who rejoice at Muslim death tolls are Hamas and other anti-Semites. To Hamas and other anti-Semites, dead Muslim Arabs have only one purpose: to inflame more hatred against Jews. Israel would gladly fight Hamas by the rules of conventional war, but Hamas fights an unconventional war because unconventional war is to its advantage. NPR does not say that Hamas is a genocidal movement whose stated goal is, ultimately, to kill every Jew in the world. Hamas insists that this genocide is the duty of every Muslim, as outlined in sacred texts. See here. I’ve tried to speak these truths in comments to the New York Times. I am civil. I quote canonical texts. The New York Times, though it posts other comments by me, does not post these comments. As long as these basic truths are unsayable in mainstream media, Israel must be depicted as the bad guy.
NPR insists that Gaza is a terrible place to live. NPR blames Israel for Gaza’s poor living conditions. Here’s what NPR will not mention: Muslim countries in Africa, including Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Somalia, Sudan, and Chad, and Muslim countries in the Middle East, like Syria, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Yemen, and Muslim countries in Central Asia, like Pakistan and Afghanistan, and in South Asia, like Bangladesh – are terrible places to live. They all host terror cells. Countries with Muslim minorities, including the US, and in Europe, in the UK, France, Belgium and Holland, and the Philippines and Thailand in South-east Asia, all host Muslim terror cells. The one thing they all have in common is a shared belief system: Islam. There’s a reason there are Muslims protesting in Europe, America, and Australia. All those Muslims wanted to be someplace other than their Islamic homelands, so they are now in Europe, America, and Australia. The problem is not Israel. The solution is not two states or even the eradication of Israel that Hamas demands. The solution is telling people the truth about Islam and liberating Muslims from the ideology that ruins their lives.
Worldwide protesters don’t care about dead Muslims. We know because worldwide protesters remain silent about China’s extreme oppression of Uighurs. Over a million Uighurs have been detained in camps by China. There has been no significant street protest against China. The Muslim Rohingya have been violently persecuted in Myanmar (Burma) and are unwanted in countries to which they have fled, including Bangladesh and Thailand. Thais have towed Rohingya out to sea. There have been no significant street protests for the Rohingya, nor for Iranian women, or Syrian victims of government torture, or for stateless Kurds, or for the Circassian diaspora, forever exiled from their homeland by Russia.
The protesters hate Jews. They are animated by that hatred. They are not shouting or texting or writing signs about the great new Muslim homeland they will create. They are fantasizing about gassing and raping and beheading Jews. We need leadership that has the courage to articulate these truths.
There is still one thing that nobody considers. There is no viable two-state solution because there are not two viable states there. The pre-1967 (not the "1967" as so many mis-name it) borders leave Israel 11 miles wide and indefensible at its narrowest point and a Palestinian state with no hope economically, and you can't make either better without making the other wosrse.
Given that, there is really no possible outcome except for the one we have.
(11-05-2023 03:40 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote: There is still one thing that nobody considers. There is no viable two-state solution because there are not two viable states there. The pre-1967 (not the "1967" as so many mis-name it) borders leave Israel 11 miles wide and indefensible at its narrowest point and a Palestinian state with no hope economically, and you can't make either better without making the other wosrse.
Given that, there is really no possible outcome except for the one we have.
Actually, the other state in the so-called "two-state solution" already exists: Jordan. People forget that Israel took the West Bank from Jordan after the Six Day War. (Or was it the Yom Kippur War in 1973?)
(11-05-2023 03:40 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote: There is still one thing that nobody considers. There is no viable two-state solution because there are not two viable states there. The pre-1967 (not the "1967" as so many mis-name it) borders leave Israel 11 miles wide and indefensible at its narrowest point and a Palestinian state with no hope economically, and you can't make either better without making the other wosrse.
Given that, there is really no possible outcome except for the one we have.
Actually, the other state in the so-called "two-state solution" already exists: Jordan. People forget that Israel took the West Bank from Jordan after the Six Day War. (Or was it the Yom Kippur War in 1973?)
Took it in Six Day, held on to it after Yom Kippur.
If the Brits had just named their mandates Israel instead of Palestine and Palestine instead of Trans-Jordan, a lot of this might have been avoided. Although today's Jordan is relatively stable by MidEast standards, and trying to make it a Palestinian homeland might have serious destabilizing results.
(11-05-2023 03:40 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote: There is still one thing that nobody considers. There is no viable two-state solution because there are not two viable states there. The pre-1967 (not the "1967" as so many mis-name it) borders leave Israel 11 miles wide and indefensible at its narrowest point and a Palestinian state with no hope economically, and you can't make either better without making the other wosrse.
Given that, there is really no possible outcome except for the one we have.
Actually, the other state in the so-called "two-state solution" already exists: Jordan. People forget that Israel took the West Bank from Jordan after the Six Day War. (Or was it the Yom Kippur War in 1973?)
Took it in Six Day, held on to it after Yom Kippur.
If the Brits had just named their mandates Israel instead of Palestine and Palestine instead of Trans-Jordan, a lot of this might have been avoided. Although today's Jordan is relatively stable by MidEast standards, and trying to make it a Palestinian homeland might have serious destabilizing results.
Thanks. I was unsure about that. And yes, I agree with you. But nothing we can do about that now.
(11-05-2023 03:40 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote: There is still one thing that nobody considers. There is no viable two-state solution because there are not two viable states there. The pre-1967 (not the "1967" as so many mis-name it) borders leave Israel 11 miles wide and indefensible at its narrowest point and a Palestinian state with no hope economically, and you can't make either better without making the other wosrse.
Given that, there is really no possible outcome except for the one we have.
There is no viable two state solution for two reasons only. Separate states make unrestrained attacks on Israel more likely, especially if adherent Muslims fear accidentally killing one of their own. It is why on Israeli tour buses the driver is Arab and the Guide is Israeli. It is at minimum a means of protection from Muslim attack, unless those Muslims are Hamas.
Second, no country who takes in Muslims is safe. The Koran teaches them to be peaceful while in the minority, but it teaches them to put those who will not convert to the sword if they (Muslims) are in the majority. It is why so many English have been expelled from cities now under Muslim rule in England.
Hindu, Siek, Jewish, Tao, Buddhists, etc., all other religions peacefully assimilate and share. Not Muslims. The issue isn't Jews. The issue is the xenophobia of Muslims. There is no Islamophobia, there is only a recognition that living among them in places where the become the majority is impossible if you don't become Muslim.
(This post was last modified: 11-05-2023 06:56 PM by JRsec.)
