Posted on 09/04/2010 1:18:53 PM PDT by bsaunders
Yitzchak and Talia Emes, 47 and 45 years old, along with 24-year-old Avishai Shindler, married just a year, and 37-year-old Kochava Even Haim were recently murdered while returning to their homes after a day in Jerusalem by Hamas terrorists in a drive by shooting. Over three-dozen bullets had been fired at their vehicle, including a number from point blank range to assure that the attack had killed and not merely wounded its targets. The response in Israel was one of shock and abhorrence while in the Palestinian areas of the West Bank and Gaza there was much celebratory dancing and passing out of sweets and candies. These reactions have become so expected that they hardly get much coverage, usually simply a passing reference if anything. But the real story was the reaction through much of the so-called civilized world and the misplaced emphasis at the root of many of the statements following this cold-blooded barbarous act.
The concern for these murders was seemingly more about the timing than the loss of innocent lives. An overriding theme was to stress the necessity for the process of the launching and pursuit of the Israel Palestinian peace negotiations to be continued and not allow this inconvenient event to cause even a moment of delay, not even to properly mourn the passing of these four Israeli Jews. Even Israeli leaders joined in the call for the negotiations to move along without even a moment for silence to mourn, respect and commemorate the grievous loss. As the callous world cynically expressed, the talks must go on. Many also advised Israel to show restraint and not to foolishly take any steps to avenge the lives of these newest victims of the peace process.
Imagine for a moment had the terror attack have been made by an Israeli against four Muslims, any Muslims. The peace talks would be over, done for, put a fork in them finished. The world would have united as one to condemn Israel demanding they make restitutions and concessions to placate the offence and the suffering it caused the Palestinians and the Muslim world. The world would have flowed with sympathy for the poor bereaved of those who claimed even the most tenuous and obscure of relations with the departed. But it was not Muslims who were heartlessly shot for no reason other than being Muslims.
These were four Jews who were maliciously and cruelly slaughtered in a hail of bullets simply for being Jewish. Then, for additional ferocity assuring the fate of the victims, their bodies were filled with rounds fired from immediately outside their vehicle after it had crashed and stopped. But, as has been the truth through far too much of our near six-thousand-year history, the price of Jewish blood is negligible. Jewish blood does not even rate postponing the grand dinner and afternoon meeting with Secretary of State Clinton for long enough to bury the Jewish dead. It was simply four more dead Jews in an obscenely long historical list of dead Jews whose lives were only considered worthy of note if it might upset the plans of the rest of the world. If these Jews had been murdered at any other time, there may have been little if any attention made to mourn their passing, let alone actually honor them by pausing and showing the slightest modicum of true sensibility.
So, let the peace talks continue undelayed. Quickly move on and allow the world to forget these four inconvenient Jews murdered simply for being. In truth, the real reason behind their murder was the fact that peace talks were to be held. The fact that these talks could reach a point where Israel and the Jews are actually recognized as a legitimate country was the reason for this slaughter. Because of that fact, many will argue that by not delaying the peace process, their passing was honored. This is such a vulgar argument that it is an insult to my ears. The so-called peace process has been dragging on and on seemingly forever. A simple one or two day delay to allow Prime Minister Netanyahu to do the honorable thing and return to Israel for the funerals of these Israeli victims, dare I say, Israeli Martyrs, would have been the decent action to take. These four martyrs, and that is what they are, true martyrs, not terrorists masqueraded as martyrs as is often done by the Palestinians in misusing the word martyr, these martyrs deserved better than a mention immediately followed by the insistence that Israel not react by avenging her dead. What other country on the face of the Earth would such a demand be made? What makes this even worse is that this is the norm when it comes to Israel and only for Israel. This world has fallen to a very sad and impersonal place, so very sad.
This demostrates that the MSM is next to worthless with respect to reporting the news in a balanced manner.
They celebrate cold-blooded murder, and the Israelis are supposed to give them a state?
...as has been the truth through far too much of our near six-thousand-year history, the price of Jewish blood is negligible. Jewish blood does not even rate postponing the grand dinner and afternoon meeting with Secretary of State Clinton for long enough to bury the Jewish dead. It was simply four more dead Jews in an obscenely long historical list of dead Jews whose lives were only considered worthy of note if it might upset the plans of the rest of the world. If these Jews had been murdered at any other time, there may have been little if any attention made to mourn their passing, let alone actually honor them by pausing and showing the slightest modicum of true sensibility.
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