Posted on 06/02/2005 5:34:07 AM PDT by SJackson
My daughter, Malki, was murdered in a pizzeria bombing in Jerusalem. How come Oprah's heart aches -- for her killer?
Anyone who has ever watched televisions successful The Oprah Show knows that its host is no ordinary celebrity. The most powerful woman in the world is the way her web site describes her.
When Oprah Winfrey says she has read and liked a book, it rockets to the top of the best-seller lists. When Oprah vents about her childhood sexual abuse, 22 million Americans reach for the tissues. When Oprah urges other victims to proudly speak out, they rush to share their story on her show.
The June 2005 issue of O, Oprah's magazine with 2.7 million readers - features a sympathetic article about an imprisoned 18 year-old Palestinian woman, convicted of conspiring to perform a suicide bombing. The journalist's sentiments will undoubtedly move that impressive multi-racial, multi-religious following.
So here I am at my keyboard.
Immediately after the Beslan massacre, Oprah chatted on her show with several of its victims and declared: "The Beslan terror attack has been a watershed event. The terrorists showed the world that there are no holds barred. Even children are fair game."
Her words bowled me over. My daughter, Malki, and fourteen other innocents including eight children were murdered in a pizzeria bombing in Jerusalem two years before Beslan. By time of the September 2003 Beslan massacre, tens of Israeli children had already perished at the hands of Palestinian terrorists. Had they never blipped on Oprah's radar screen?
In Oprahs world, not all murdered children were created equal. There are those who do not merit a mention provided their murderers define their situation as hopeless, as O magazines Palestinian terrorist defined hers. There are those who do not warrant any tears or tissues since their murderers feel that they have no way to respond against what they see as Israeli military aggression" to quote Oprah's magazine.
When it comes to child molesters, Oprah tosses the psycho-drivel out the window and gets very direct. She holds those criminals accountable for their acts period. But not my daughter's murderers.
Oprah may not be a political figure yet, but TIME magazine named her one of its 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2005 the third year it has done so. Her name has been seriously bandied about as a future candidate for some high office. And if Ronald Reagan, Clint Eastwood and Arnold Schwartzeneger could pull it off, why shouldnt she?
Hannah Laszlo, Israels icon of the hour, aped Oprah last Saturday in her acceptance speech for the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival. She too felt obliged to dabble in politics and offend murdered Israelis. "I want to share this prize with my Mum, who is a Holocaust survivor and also with the victims on the Arab and Palestinian side. It's time we sit and try to solve the problem." The above version of Laszlos remarks, carried by Reuters and such major papers as the Toronto Globe & Mail, was egregiously offensive to Israels forgotten victims. An only slight-milder version, still stinging to Israeli sensibilities, was heard by Jerusalem Post and New York Times reporters. They quoted Laszlo saying: "I dedicate this award to my mother, a Holocaust survivor, and "the victims of both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict", lumping the victims together with their murderers.
I wonder how Laszlo would react if someone leveled the World War Two playing field and memorialized her mother's murdered family in the same breath as "all the casualties from both sides" of that war?
At the close of the O piece on the female terrorist, Oprahs readers are urged to help "prevent Palestinian children from becoming suicide bombers by donating money to Oprah's Angel Network or to UNICEF". Oprah should be told about my fifteen year old Malki's murderer. He was the son of a well-to-do restaurateur and lacked for nothing. Many other terrorists enjoyed lives of comfort. My advice to Oprahs followers: Save your dollars. No amount of hand-outs will convince them to spare the lives of the innocents they intend to kill.
Oprah should be informed of the machine guns the Palestinians distribute to their children like roller-blades, only costing a lot more. She should know about my precious child a true angel who devoted herself to helping disabled children and who was a gifted flutist, a caring sister and a loving daughter.
Once enlightened, Oprah will surely realize that evil can lurk not only in the hearts of sexual molesters but even in those of teen-age girls like the one profiled in her magazine. Because there just is no explanation for murdering angelic children like my Malki -- ever.
Oprah's still waters do not run deep. She is not what one might call a classical "thinker."
They let the leash out one bit at a time....
...and along the way, they do or say some 'good things' that are generally acceptable to all.
Then they snare you!
You think Oprah as trying to see the good in all.
I see her as a tool of the left, and a very effective one !!
On of the best SNL sketches was a parody on the Oprah give-away shows. With each gift that was given out the audience became more and more hysterical. One woman lost a leg, one wet herself, another started to give birth on the riser stairs. It was dead on.
Hannah Laszlo is Jewish, I presume?
Hannah, the Palestinian solution is for you to wade off into the Mediterranean and disappear...drown, swim, whatever. The Palestinian solution is to drive Israelis into the sea. They'll get to rounding up and killing the rest of the world's Jews later on. For now, six million Israelis will do.
Six million more Jews.
Yeah?
By whom and under what circumstances?
The liberal, goody-two shoe birkenstockers?
Not likely, as she would detract from their idiotic message with her own idiotic messages and would draw votes from frumpy, sit-in-front-of-the-TV-all-day-long crowd of stupid cow women, who rarely get off their fat butts to do anything, much less vote.
And if Ronald Reagan, Clint Eastwood and Arnold Schwartzeneger could pull it off, why shouldnt she?
Because she doesn't appeal to the same crowd.
Read the aforewritten assessment of Okra's followers.
Nobody but the mustachioed welfare queens take her seriously and the majority of them are unable to even read the books she "recommends", so her "message" kinda withers on the vine.
And no one on the political action scene takes them seriously, so there ya have it.
She will continue to suck millions from the Colgate-Palmolive and Kimberly-Clark advertising agencies (not that her viewers actually ever use those products) and will continue to promote her simpering silliness on national TV and true conservative men and women will continue to do as I have just done, which is to ridicule her and her followers and render her even more ineffective on the political stage.
Stick a fork in her, she's done.
This must be remembered. People must be reminded of this again and again. Like Osama bin Laden, terrorists simply do not arise out of poverty. They arise out of educated middle-class families.
"Show business kids.....makin' movies of themselves.....they don't give a f*k about anybody else...."
Oprah is smart and talented (which is why people watch her), but sometimes she is exceedingly unwise and blind (which is why no one should take her seriously). Too bad some people forget she's an entertainer and start acting like she is some sort of prophetess. She's just an emotional, confused person who happens to have a successful TV show.
Malki Roth
Just an innocent kid with her whole life ahead of her.
I get so mad I could spit.
"The woman seems totally unaware"
She isn't. She has the same intellectual capacity as a Tickle Me Elmo doll. People seem to like them too. I guess it doesn't take much to amuse the easily amused.
Outrageous! ;0)
Oprah backwards = Harpo
Harpo Marx had the good sense and the great gift never to Grow Up. Oprah has none.
Yes, at a "university" in fact.
Guess who one of the people named was?.......OPRAH! (YUCK!)
Goes to show were a lot of peoples priorities are.
If you start from the position that establishing a state, now, is important to American foreign policy, there's not much else you can do. You have to cleanse terrorist groups like Hamas, terrorists like Abu Mazen, and aid is essential because no one is going to invest in Gaza, thus no economy will develop. Other than Israel, and Israeli investment isn't allowed.
"On of the best SNL sketches was a parody on the Oprah give-away shows."
When Oprah had the show where cars were given to every member of her audience, Oprah purposely did not disclose who was actually giving away the cars so that people would think that she was the generous donor. General Motors donated the cars, Oprah scooped up the glory.
Be nice!
Oops, wrong thread.
I always try to be nice, with people who deserve niceness. :)
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