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Posted on 04/09/2004 10:40:47 AM PDT by quidnunc
Most Telegraph readers who celebrate Easter will be doing so in medieval stone churches in leafy shires, as English as anything in our landscape. Like the white clapboard meeting houses in my part of the world, they make Christianity seem so indigenous it's easy to forget Jesus never saw a New England church or an Anglican vicar in a dog collar. Nineteen hundred and sixtysomething years ago, He was celebrating Passover. Christ's Last Supper was the first day of Pesach, the same ritual those Israeli diners were observing on Wednesday when a Palestinian suicide bomber detonated himself, killing 20 and injuring almost 200, but no doubt earning big bonus points with those 72 virgins who will surely pleasure him in Paradise all the more assiduously.
In Jesus's Last Supper, one miracle — the Jews' liberation from slavery in Egypt — prefigures another, Christ's resurrection. Christians have prospered in the two millennia since: they have the luxury of turning a celebration of survival into an excuse for chocolate eggs and toy bunnies. Not so the Jews. Throughout the same period, they have raised a cup of wine each Passover and spoken the same words from the Haggada: "In every generation, they rise up against us to destroy us." And this year, in Netanya, before they could even say the words, they were blown apart. This wasn't a pizza parlour or a bus: the terrorist struck, as The New York Post's John Podhoretz put it, "at the very core of what it means to be a Jew". It made explicit, as if that were necessary, that this particular "liberation struggle" puts a premium on being anti-Jew rather than pro-Palestinian.
Just as revealing was the reaction from the European media. In the American press, you read things like: "An observer to the bomb-blast scene described a dead young girl, perhaps 10 or 12, lying on the ground with her eyes open, looking as if she was surprised." For Europe, on the other hand, the main significance of this development was that it was "unhelpful" to the "peace process". …
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The only question now is whether Bush will realise how disastrous the last month has been in his retreat from the moral clarity displayed after September 11.
The President has been reduced to mumbling Beltway shorthand about the need to comply with "Tenet" and "Mitchell", while Dick Cheney's shuttle diplomacy to shore up "moderate" Arab support for war with Iraq has resulted only in spectacular rapprochements between Iraq and Kuwait, Iraq and Saudi Arabia, etc..
Wednesday's bloodbath should open their eyes: just because it's Easter, that's no reason to lay any more huge eggs.
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