Bush never punished them for the last such celebration...on September 11, 2001...
Posted on 03/09/2008 9:19:57 AM PDT by knighthawk
The pictures from Jerusalem were horrifying: Dead and injured students being wheeled out of a Jewish religious school after an Arab gunman went on a rampage. Other images were disturbing in a different way: These were the pictures of Palestinians celebrating the massacre.
They shouted jubilantly from cars and danced in the streets of Gaza. Men fired bursts of automatic weapons skyward. Some kneeled on the ground to pray. In Lebanon, crowds of Palestinians also rejoiced, with a Reuters photo showing a man holding a startled looking child in one hand and a pistol in the other.
We have gotten so numbed to the endless violence in the Mideast that we often close our minds as well as our eyes. If we have any response at all, it is something like, "Why can't those people just get along?"
The answer lies in the sickening contrast of Thursday's massacre and celebration. They can't get along because too many Palestinians embrace a culture of death. It is a culture stuck in the Dark Ages of ancient hatreds and unspeakable violence.
The evidence lies in missing pictures. Why no photos of Palestinians marching to condemn the massacre? Where are the Palestinian young people sympathizing with dead and maimed students their own age? Where are the Palestinian parents grieving for the Israeli parents who lost their children?
Unfortunately, those are the easiest questions to answer: There were no pictures of sad Palestinians because there were no marches or wide expressions of sympathy.
Apart from the obligatory disapproval mumbled by the government, there was no condemnation. More typical was a message from Hamas, the terror group: "We bless the operation. It will not be the last."
Every society has its madmen, its gangsters and killers. But in functioning societies, they are shunned and punished as an example of how not to behave.
Not so in Palestinian society or in too much of the Muslim world. Celebrations of death, as they did Thursday, soon become odes to martyrs. In less than a day, pictures of the lone gunman in the massacre appeared on posters glorifying his death. Behind his clean-shaven, ordinary face were a mosque and messages of heroic defiance.
In fairness as well as fact, most Palestinians were not in the streets celebrating. They were silent. Perhaps these "good" Palestinians are too frightened to express their disapproval of the terrorists. Or perhaps even they secretly approve of such heinous acts in the bizarre hope that they will somehow lead to peace.
Either way, how is Israel supposed to make peace with them? This is, after all, a society that perverts Mickey Mouse into a hate-spewing children's character. It turned a cuddly rabbit character into a monster who says he will "eat the Jews."
Both of those images were broadcast recently on mainstream Palestinian television. Other shows glorify songs and dance about jihad and martyrdom. Children are taught that it is their religious duty to kill themselves and as many Jews and other "infidels" as possible.
You can't really make peace with that culture. You can, as the Israelis and Americans have and must, try to broker a deal with those who nominally renounce violence and who profess a desire to live in mutual peace. It is an effort embodied in the road map and the American policy over several administrations to create a Palestinian state.
You try to forge that state, if you are the Israeli and American governments, despite the civil war between Islamic extremists and the more secular Palestinians. You try despite the barrage of rockets that come from Gaza and slam into Israeli border towns every day. You try even when the rockets get larger and slam into major Israeli cities, a literal rain of terror on civilians.
You understand the Israelis must retaliate, using their air force and superior firepower to demolish buildings where the terrorists hide among women and children. And you grieve when some of those innocents are caught in the line of fire.
Above all, as an American and an Israeli of good will, you never give up and you never give in. Because to do so is to turn the world over to those who would destroy it. That much you know.
But on days like Thursday, peace seems hopeless. For try as you can, you can never understand a culture that celebrates death.
I sure hope a tidal wave doesn’t sweep over Gaza and drown everybody.
Bush never punished them for the last such celebration...on September 11, 2001...
By the way, Google is absolutely burying the Obama muslim uniform image. I defy you to to easily locate this image.
‘Doom hopes for peace.’ ????? The Palis do not want peace. Their hopes are not doomed, they are buoyed up by the murders. They have what they want. It might not be what they say they want, but it is what they truly want. Blood, mayhem, murder, chaos, beheadings — all for their moon god.
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They largely support the aspirations of Muslim palestinians.
At What Price For A Legacy???
Sheesh!!!!
Why would anyone be surprised by this? The Palestinians are animals. ANIMALS. Israel cannot make a peace treaty with them. They must be crused into submission and their ability to inflict terror must be permanently crippled. Olmert is too weak and stupid to see the truth.
Sadly most of the Christian Palestinians have either been killed, driven out, or are living in fear for their lives to be of much help.
Good news, did a Sen. Obama search using words such as Islam and Al Qaida connection and did get results. Here is the proof:
Also see post number 30.
It is also true that there are those Arab Christians who do support the Muslim Palestinians.
That is the last time the Palis took to the street in celibrations.
The few Christian Palestinians that are left in the Palestine areas, have to keep their concern for themselves because they have also been victimized.
Everything for their god allah, the moon rock god.
If you (Israelites) do not drive out the inhabitants of the land, those you allow to remain will become barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides. They will give you trouble in the land where you will live. - Numbers 33:55 (God's Word, circa 1450, B.C.)
“Even then, they’ll find someone else to kill — or each other.”
Yeah.
I was going to write that too, but that would be just too much reality from me in one posting.
The Christian Palestinians support the Muslim Palestinians. While generally not as violent, they do also occasionally participate in terrorist groups. See George Habash, Azmi Bishara, & Nayet Hawatmeh, for example.
Sure, they get some harrassment from the Muslims, but not as much as you think. Their hatred of Israel is sincere, not coerced.
Is it accurate to condemn just the Muslim Palestinians (the way some here seem to do) for this reaction/behavior?
Muslims are usually the ones who carry out these attacks & the most vocal about celebrating them. Christian Palestinians are the enemy of Israel in that they support in spirit the attacks, thus giving comfort to the enemy. I myself don’t usually bother condemning the Christians simply because as a group, they have no power & aren’t really the root of the problem.
On the other hand, if Israel was strong & eliminated the Muslim Palestinian threat, the Christians would simply accept living under Israeli rule & not bother anyone. Israel’s weakness encourages them to take the side of Muslims, with whom they already sympathized in the first place.
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