Posted on 03/13/2011 4:15:56 PM PDT by Ari Bussel
Why Should the World Condemn? by Ari Bussel
“We will not rest until we lay our hands on the murderers. This incident is atrocious, its perpetrators capable of beastly crimes. Its scenes are horrific, the viewer unable to really grasp what happened.
“Israel expects the world to condemn the Palestinian incitement to terror and hatred in the strongest terms.” Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz, Israel’s Chief of Staff
Israel expects the world to focus its attention on five members of one family who were murdered on Shabbat evening in their home by a Palestinian Terrorist.
Israel is apparently in shock, but why would she be?
It is Israel that has termed the Jews living in Judea and Samaria “Settlers” and branded them bad, the root cause of evil.
It is Israel that removed most of the roadblocks that minimized the free movement of terrorists. They may have made life more difficult, but it is a small price to pay for security. When I am searched at an airport, my water bottle taken from me, when I have to arrive three hours before a flight, and when my family’s nude images appear on a screen, I am greatly inconvenienced too. What a small price to pay for safety and security.
It is Israel’s leading English paper, Ha’Aretz that participates in the incitement with its leading journalists’ articles used as evidence throughout the world to validate the alleged “Blood Bath” Israel perpetrates on the Palestinians.
It is Israel’s internal calls for the creation of a Palestinian state and the mere possibility that the holiest essence of Judaism, of Israel’s very existence, may soon be divided, torn into parts.
It is Israel’s de facto making Tel Aviv her capital rather than insisting that EVERY Government function be held at her eternal capital, Jerusalem, that sends the wrong signal, allowing every nation that has representation in Israel to be located outside of Israel’s true capital.
It is Israel that does little if anything to send clear signals from the trunk of the tree to every leaf on every branch that she has a right to exist. Her failure to express that she is the only Jewish nation on this planet, rightfully in the Land of Israel, that causes distractive noise to turn into chaos. If Israel does not believe in its own right to exist, why would anyone else?
It is Israel that is embroiled in the self and the personal, rather than the common and the collective that allows the wrong priorities to control. Thus, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was engaged in work stoppage for almost a year, not caring one bit about the damage their actions caused the wellbeing of the Jewish State. Thus, the Ministry of Public Diplomacy and Diaspora is manned at the top positions by political appointments rather than experienced professionals from the front lines and commanders from the ground. Thus, people at the highest levels engage in bickering and internal fighting rather than cooperating and working together to achieve common goals for the good of Israel.
It is in Israel where the Leader of Opposition attacks the Prime Minister instead of standing united in strength and battling foreign enemies.
But most importantly, it is Israel that has allowed a true craving for peace to be degraded into an 18-year-long journey in which every passing day strengthens the enemy and weakens the chances for peace.
Peace will never occur once the enemy has rewritten the past. After they have erased millennia of written history and archeology in favor of a new narrative designed for their own devices.
Peace will not arrive when the Muslim Palestinians have brainwashed their children to hate.
Peace will only arrive once a tremor shakes the area, an earthquake and a tsunami so big that people return to their senses.
Until then, Israel is sick. It is the Israel I love, the Israel I attempt with all my will and might to help. But she refuses to fight for herself, dying in my very hands as I watch the life slowly ooze out of her body.
Until such time that Israel wakes up and fights, do not be surprised that more families will be butchered in their homes, innocent babies only months old.
Until Israel goes on the offensive, déjà vu will be the word of the day, because the Third and Final Intifada has started, the one designed to bring Israel to her knees and then topple her once and for all time.
A vision, once successfully executed by Hitler, is a nightmare we are living over again, with greater intensity than before.
Is it not far more frightening when our children are not marched into death camps to be killed, but butchered in their own beds?
This murder is proof the mindset that others should protect and stand up for Israel must change. Strength is the answer, and Israel must now fight her own battles.
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The series “Postcards from America—Postcards from Israel” by Ari Bussel and Norma Zager is a compilation of articles capturing the essence of life in America and Israel during the first two decades of the 21st Century.
The writers invite readers to view and experience an Israel and her politics through their eyes, Israel visitors rarely discover.
This point—and often—counter-point presentation is sprinkled with humor and sadness and attempts to tackle serious and relevant issues of the day. The series began in 2008, appears both in print in the USA and on numerous websites and is followed regularly by readership from around the world.
© “Postcards from America — Postcards from Israel,” March, 2011 Contact: bussel@me.com
First Published March 13, 2011
Perhaps some people in Israel and some American Jews reflect on what you said. Perhaps you'll persuade a few lost souls.
Stay safe.
Shalom l'hitraot.
WTF is “the World”? 0 keeps mentioning “the World”. He want to constantly consult with them. Whoever they are, they don’t speak for me.
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Haaretz is not Israel’s leading newspaper, any more than the NYT is America’s. You want the real Israeli leading newspaper, show up any morning, early at the Central Bus Station (Tahana Merkazit) in Jerusalem, and get a copy of Yisrael Hayom.
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