I am grateful to Gloria Fischel for sharing her thoughts with me on this subject. It sparked me into highlighting a theme that has been emanating from Palestinian schools, Palestinian television shows, and Arab mosques around the Middle East and Europe.

Everything written here is factual or declared publicly by our Arab neighbors. Indeed, many of the religious imams incite their congregation to go out and kill Jews without any reason or justification save for the fact that they are, simply, Jews.

Just think back when, under the premiership of Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel opened an exit to an already existing tunnel by the Western Wall. It caused a riot by the local Arabs, and was condemned worldwide. That tunnel door has remained open for years with no earth-shattering consequence. So, share with me and Gloria some of the justifications given by our neighbors to come and kill us:

• A Jew visiting the Temple Mount, Judaism's holiest site, is justification for the recent three year violence, and for Arabs to kill Jews.
• Jews growing tomatoes near Gaza is a reason for Arabs to kill them.
• Jews building homes in Judea (from where comes the name Judaism) is reason to kill Israelis.
• A handful of Jews living in Hebron is reason enough for Arabs to attempt to repeat the massacre of Jews in the 1920s.
• Jews worshipping at Joseph's Tomb is reason to kill them and to destroy this holy Jewish shrine (then rebuild it as a mosque).
• Jewish children eating pizza in Jerusalem is offensive enough for Arabs to kill them.
• Jewish teenagers at a Tel Aviv disco is enough to make them a target for death.
• Jews gathering to observe the Passover tradition in Netanya is justification for a massacre.
• Not freeing Arab murderers (who wish to return to kill more) is justification to kill Israelis.
• Building a security fence to protect innocent women and children is sufficient justification for killing Jews.
• Declaring Israel to be the sole Jewish state is reason enough for Arabs to kill us.
• Not allowing four million Arabs, who have never set foot here, to enter Israel and swamp us demographically, is justification to kill Jews.
• Our very existence is justification for them to kill us in rage.

Gloria and I am sure that you have your own contribution to this list. Pro-Palestinian supporters will, no doubt, add falsehoods like 'occupation', nonsense like 'settlements', or fabrications like 'refugees' to the list of justifications for killing Jews.

Yet, these are the people that the world is pressing to establish their cursed springboard of a state alongside a weakened Jewish nation.

If the truth were not so tragic, it would be insane.

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[ Published: 09 August 2003 ]