Is It Time For The Diaspora To Reconsider Support Of Israel ?
by Gerald A. Honigman
It’s like a broken record…the same story being replayed over and over again…truly, ad nauseam.
Israel captures live Arab disembowelers, plotters, and murderer wannabes of Jews, and other Jews have to pay to keep them alive in Israeli jails.
That is, until the inevitable happens, and Arabs later capture some more live Jews. They then offer a swap in exchange for hundreds of their comrades. If the Jews are lucky, they get back a live prisoner or so. In just one example, in 1985 they exchanged almost 1,200 Arabs for three of their own. In January 2004, Israel handed over more than 400 Arabs in return for one Israeli businessman and the bodies of three soldiers abducted along the Lebanese border in 2000.
Usually, the deal involves a few dead Jews for hundreds of Arab killers and collaborators–who are soon back in the Jew-killing business.
And I bet you thought Jews were smart…
Well, guess what? Here we go again.
This time, the potential swap is for a few more Israeli soldiers kidnapped from within Israel by Hizbullah in another cross border raid. Recall the war that this triggered back in 2006.
Among the other prizes Israel holds alive is Samir Kuntar, a Lebanese who the Jews have supplied room and board to for almost three decades. Good way to spend Jewish Diaspora funds, heh?
Kuntar’s relevant bio is educational–and only emphasizes how dumb Jews really can be.
On April 22, 1979, Kuntar led a team who entered Israel from Lebanon by boat. All were members of the Palestine Liberation Front.
Around midnight they reached the coastal town of Nahariya. After killing a policeman, the team entered a building and split into two groups. One of these next broke into the apartment of the Haran family. Danny Haran was taken hostage along with his four-year-old daughter, Einat. Danny’s wife, Smadar, hid in a crawl space with their two-year-old daughter, Yael, and a neighbor.
Kuntar’s group next dragged Danny and Einat down to the beach, where a shootout with Israeli forces erupted.
Kuntar shot Danny at close range in front of his daughter and drowned him in the sea to ensure that he was dead.
Next, he smashed the four year old girl’s head on beach rocks, crushing her skull with the butt of his rifle.
Meanwhile, back in the crawl space, 2-year-old Yael Haran had been accidentally suffocated to death by her mother’s attempts to quiet her whimpering so as not to reveal their hideout…a story right out of the Holocaust.
While Kuntar’s exploits rank “up there” with Arabs as far as his heroics against Jews go, he is by no means an exception to the rule.
Back in May 2004, Arabs gunned down a pregnant Jewish mother and her four terrified little daughters in their station wagon.
After spraying the car with gunfire, they next ran up and blasted each of their victims’ heads to make sure they had finished the job.
One of the Arab heroes next deliberately shot the swollen belly of the eight-months pregnant mother, Tali Hatuel, at point-blank range. Rescuers found Tali’s dead baby still strapped in her car seat.
Note, please, that all of these Jewish victims were/are deliberately targeted–not accidentally caught in the middle because their own folks used them as human shields–a favorite tactic used by so-called Arab “militants.” And Jews don’t throw Arab children out of school windows, blow them up on buses, in pizzerias, ice cream parlors, shopping malls, and restaurants, murder them in their beds, and so forth.
Now, combine the above lunacy (knowing the costly predictable blackmail that awaits, the Samir Kuntars should never be taken alive, and if they are, after a quick trial, should be executed soon afterwards) with the additional death wish of still too many Israelis who believe that if they just keep on making concession after concession to Arabs on crucial security issues (checkpoints, territory, etc.), the Arabs will finally let their microscopic Jewish rump state live in peace.
Peace alright…peace of the grave. And it’s that obvious.
That others pressure Israel to act against its own basic needs and interests is no surprise–the American State Department, Dhimmi Europe, and so forth. So the Jewish State should be used to this by now.
That Israel allows itself to be bullied this way–regardless of the aid issue and such–is beyond pathetic. It truly borders on suicidal, and such behavior should not be repeatedly rewarded.
Why is Olmert still in power, for example? Why can’t the selfish portions of his fragile coalition not see the forest of their miniscule State’s survival and existence for their own individual trees?
How much longer must it take before a new Israeli leadership arises which will not behave like someone else’s collective stooge and fool?
Olmert now seeks to appease Baby Assad–the late Butcher’s son–with the gift of all the territory Syria has repeatedly used to attack Jews from –the Golan.
Think of how borders constantly have changed all over the world due to such aggressive, murderous behavior as Syria’s…not to mention the fact that the Golan was to be part of the original 1920 Mandate Of Palestine after World War I until the Brits and the French did some imperial trading. Or that numerous peoples besides Arabs ruled the Golan Heights over the centuries…including Jews.
And what of Syria’s oppressive shenanigans in Lebanon, burying the hopes of those who wanted a better, independent, and more peaceful path for their country? Or their continued murderous suppression of millions of Syrian Kurds?
Should Israel also simply ignore all of this too in its quest to become a state like all others, with no friends, just interests? That’s where it’s anti-Jewish, post-Zionist path has been leading it.
So, how to get the message across that such consistent self-destructive behavior cannot continue?
Think about it…
Perpetually victimized and demonized Jews waited for millennia to finally live to see the Hebraic Prophetic resurrection of Israel, only to see spineless leaders with head-in-the sand Jewish supporters undo the dream.
Perhaps the time has come to send a real wake up call…and it will indeed be a hard one for Diaspora Jews to deliver.
Yet I do believe that such things as the refusal to enact the death penalty for the deliberate butchers of innocents (and please don’t sing me the tune about allegedly stooping to their level) and the refusal to demand the reasonable territorial compromises which were allowed by UNSC Resolution 242 require drastic action at this time.
Diaspora Jews have poured many billions of dollars into Israel for well over a century now.
While this doesn’t give them the right to tell Israel what its policies should be, on the other hand, the Diaspora does not have to continue to support policies which are obviously dead end, both figuratively and literally.
Israel doesn’t have to continuously prove how much “better” it is than much of the giant dung heap which surrounds it. Yet it continues to act this way…not that it makes any difference to the world’s hypocrites. If Samir Kuntar was a Jew, Kurd, Berber, Copt, Black Sudanese, etc. and committed these acts against any of those “Arab” states in which those non-Arab people live or have lived, he would not have lived to see the light of day.
Yet as I write this, Islamist student organizations are intimidating Jews on Israeli college campuses, Jews are being attacked by Israeli Arab neighbors, treasonous Arab members of the Israeli Parliament side with Hamas against Israel and so forth. Again, imagine any of the almost two dozen Arab countries allowing anything like this…
The Diaspora does not have to continue to pump money into a post-Zionist state which insists it’s going to out Christian the Christians by turning cheek after cheek after cheek to enemies which will never accept a permanent Jewish neighbor, regardless of size. Forget about those Arab Knesset members…The actions of recent Israeli leaders who have played along with the Arabs’ well-known destruction in phases plans borders on treason itself–regardless of who is tightening the screws from abroad.
Something is needed to open up the eyes of too many in Israel who have forgotten what life was like for Jews all over the world before the miraculous Phoenix arose from the ashes of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Perhaps a severe shock is what’s really needed right now to bring the forest back into vision…and one long enough to drive home the message.
I realize it’s controversial. It’s hard to say “no” to the many worthy charities and such pulling at Diaspora heartstrings.
But if business stays as usual regarding current Israeli behavior, Iran’s Ahmadinejad will be correct regarding his death forecast for the Jewish State. And the Jews will largely have done it to themselves.
If Israel can no longer count on Diaspora money to fill the many gaps in society which depend upon it, and it then has to use funds targeted for defense and elsewhere to cover those costs, perhaps the message will finally get through.
The heirs of Ben-Gurion, Jabotinsky, Golda, Begin, and a younger Arik must now come to the fore and take their rightful place. And an Israeli public finally awoken from its slumber must know how to respond.