Crossing a threshold

THE PALESTINIANS have crossed a threshold. Described as the deadliest attack in Jerusalem for five years; two Palestinian cousins managed to infiltrate a Jerusalem synagogue  killing five people including a British citizen Avraham Shmuel Goldberg, a rabbi, killed at the age of 68, who came from Golders Green in North London, who leaves behind a wife and six children along with grandchildren . He was a publisher in London before emigrating to Israel in the early 1990s. Another victim was an American Jew, also a rabbi.

            

            This attack will probably prove the final straw for Israel. The attack was celebrated among the Palestinian communities in Gaza and on the West Bank – as was the case with the 9/11 attack on New York and the Pentagon; the ordinary Palestinian people either celebrated openly or within their hearts for the actions undertaken by the two cousins who committed this atrocity; leaving many to wonder how innocent Palestinian civilians really are. Are any Palestinian civilians innocent when it comes to the destruction of Israel and the Jewish state? I think not.

            

             Israel has always gone out of its way at the behest of the West (particularly the USA), and its own humanist impulses to attack the PLO in the past and Hamas today, as agencies separate from the people they represent…in other words, Palestinian civilians. But if those civilians nurture to their breast the same desire as Hamas does, to rid the Middle East of the Jews and are prepared to use themselves as 'innocent' civilians in Gaza as human shields; then what is the conscience ridden liberal West to make of it?

THE PALESTINIANS have always been, what we in the UK would describe as  'a travelling community': called by the West's various politically incorrect as, gypsies; but within a Middle East context; they have no statehood to attach themselves to, except probably Jordan. In the 1980s they effectively, under Yasser Arafat's leadership, brought about Lebanon's bloody civil war between Muslim and Christian; soon to be blamed, yet again, on the state of Israel.

            

            They also, while being given sanctuary in Jordon, fought to make the kingdom a Palestinian state. In the following conflict that erupted between the Palestinians and the Jordanian army to make Jordon their natural state, some 20,000 Palestinians lost their lives -  more Palestinians have been killed by their own kind than have been killed by the Israelis.

           

            The Palestinians are the Western Left's modern black slaves. Victims not of slavery, but of Israel's refusal to hand over their country to them. Israel is the Jewish state, which over a thousand years spent within the Diaspora, they paid a heavy price to return to.

           

             Israel belongs to the Jews, and have been so for over two thousand years. Years of long entitlement. Entitlement that goes beyond any grip the Palestinians lay claim to. The land occupying the State of Israel represents the boundaries of the Jewish state. The state where the Jews can safely harbour themselves from the everyday anti-Semitism of today's world.

            

            The Israeli state is the Jewish fortress protected from bigotry and prejudice that for nearly two millennia they have had to suffer culminating in the Holocaust – that seminal event in world history which spurred the Jews of Europe to seek their ancient homeland once more and create the state of Israel.

IN RESPONSE TO the latest Palestinian atrocities; president Netanyahu has ordered the destruction of the houses belonging to the families of those who launched their bloody assault on the Jerusalem synagogue. Such retaliation was deemed counter-productive in 2007 and was stopped, simply because Middle East tyrants such Saddam Hussein paid the Palestinian families for their loss. Now Saddam has gone, and so has the source of such compensation; which Israel believes will make Palestinians think again before committing such terrorist acts in the future…we wait and see.

            

             Fairness does not come into it when the lives of your people and the continuance of the very state you live in are concerned. This practice will upset many Western liberals who like nothing more than a soothing night's sleep that does not disturb their delicate conscience. But the criteria should be the deterrent value of the policy as far as the average Israeli citizen is concerned, and nothing else – if it works fine; if it does not, then back to the drawing board. But in the war against Palestinian terrorism which has designs upon your country, such practices must be implemented for their possible deterrent value.

THE SLAUGHTER of the Rabbis could not go ignored by the West, unlike Hamas' missiles launched on Israel; until that is, the state of Israel had had enough and launched its response against them by initiating an assault on the Gaza Strip to try and stop the missiles  -  as well as Hamas' tunnel digging that was being used to attack civilian targets in Israel. Then, and only then, the Western media sat up and took notice - but only to attack Israel for its 'disproportionate' response.

           

             In the case of the massacre of the Rabbi's, the Western media and politicians professed outrage and indignation. But as soon as Israel retaliates; the Western media skewers their reporting back toward sympathy for the Palestinians, as happened during the Gaza conflict when Israel responded to the thousands of rockets landing in Israel that went ignored by the Western media.

            

             The Jewish state has every right to exist. The UN has codified this right, and therefore, like every other free nation on this planet, Israel has the right to defend itself from enemies that seek to conquer them, and, in the case of the Palestinians - to eliminate all Jews from the Middle East; which is their intended purpose if you read their websites which presumably few liberals do - unless, that is, they do indeed read them and concur with their sentiments… as would the BNP.