Among the eight terror attacks in which Arabs indulged on last week?s ?Barbarian Sunday? one stands out in its shocking simplicity. An Arab walked up to an Israeli phone company employee sitting in his company truck at a Jerusalem gate. The Arab shot him dead. Then he opened the back of the truck and shot the security guard inside dead. Arabs find it just that easy to kill a Jew, any Jew in Israel ? or, apparently, LAX ? and any friend of Jews, like Druze, Filipinos, foreign workers, American students. Seems Arabs have given themselves license to use guns the way the rest of us use cameras: Just point and shoot. And too many are, much to the delight of their brethren. ?We advise Israelis to prepare more body bags and wait for the coming operations,? a masked Hamas man crowed jubilantly to Jerusalem Post reporters amidst Gaza celebrations, in which 10,000 gleeful Arab-Palestinians, made merry by their daylong Jew-killings, passed out sweets, as at a Sunday picnic, and prayed.
Arabs pretend it?s a ?cycle of violence? but it?s not. It?s closer to a situation in which a schoolyard bully daily hits the one kid he knows won?t fight back ? until one day the kid manages to at least put his arms up to shield his face. So the bully plays to his audience ?Oh, so he wants to fight! Now I?m really going to give it to him.? Thus, Arab-Palestinians can tell their mesmerized world audience that now their random Jew-killing rampages are because Israel vanquished terrorist planner Shehada, a vile barbarian by any civilized standard, with the blood of hundreds of innocent Israelis on his hands no less than the famous Arab lynch mob that proudly displayed their blood soaked hands at the police station window for the cheering crowds below, before dragging the bodies through town, whooping for all Muslims to come kick the dead Jews. Shehada is their hero. ?At the celebrations Sunday night militants shouted through loudspeakers to ?avenge every drop of his blood,?? reported the Jerusalem Post.
Last Sunday?s random Jew-killings were purportedly just the beginning of a ?series of reprisals.? And before that, Arabs? random Jew-killings were due to Israel?s ?occupation,? even though the Arab-Palestinians have been under Palestinian Authority civil rule, not Israeli, since early 1996. And before that their Jew-killings were because the Palestinians had ?no hope? of attaining statehood ? no, no hope whatsoever, except for the numerous offers Israel made to them that were somehow never ?good enough? even when foolishly comprising 98% of Palestinians? own requests. And before that their random Jew-killings were because they did not have a ?real? army, so fashioned a poor man?s one of mass-murdering terrorists.
Are they randomly killing Jews because of ?revenge?, because of ?the occupation?, because of ?no hope of statehood? or because they feel military inferiority grants them license to immorally and barbarically foul all over the country of the Jews as they please ? it?s getting harder and harder to keep all their many ?reasons? straight. However, it is becoming easier and easier to see what these ?reasons?, and many more like them, are - just excuses. Whoppers. Lies, the purpose of which are to turn their socially unacceptable murderous bully urges toward Jews and their country, into socially acceptable ones somehow justified by the Jews? own defensive actions and the jargon of the day.
In fact spectacles such as the one on Barbarian Sunday were common throughout the Arab world this past century. For example on January 27, 1969, while American hippies were planning Woodstock and rhythmically chanting ?make love not war?, it seems Iraqis were planning a picnic of their own. According to Miller and Mylroie?s Saddam Hussein and the Crisis in the Gulf, Baghdad Radio urged Iraqis to ?come and enjoy the feast? as 500,000 men, women and children paraded and danced past scaffolds where, after a systematic two years of expropriating Jewish property, freezing bank accounts, shutting businesses, canceling trading permits, disconnecting telephones and jailing Jews on trumped -up ?spy? charges, the bodies of 11 hanged Jews swung, the mob rhythmically chanting ?Death to Israel.?
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Charlotte West is an Arizona-based columnist. The author can be reached at snoozalarm@hotmail.com.
Arabs pretend it?s a ?cycle of violence? but it?s not. It?s closer to a situation in which a schoolyard bully daily hits the one kid he knows won?t fight back ? until one day the kid manages to at least put his arms up to shield his face. So the bully plays to his audience ?Oh, so he wants to fight! Now I?m really going to give it to him.? Thus, Arab-Palestinians can tell their mesmerized world audience that now their random Jew-killing rampages are because Israel vanquished terrorist planner Shehada, a vile barbarian by any civilized standard, with the blood of hundreds of innocent Israelis on his hands no less than the famous Arab lynch mob that proudly displayed their blood soaked hands at the police station window for the cheering crowds below, before dragging the bodies through town, whooping for all Muslims to come kick the dead Jews. Shehada is their hero. ?At the celebrations Sunday night militants shouted through loudspeakers to ?avenge every drop of his blood,?? reported the Jerusalem Post.
Last Sunday?s random Jew-killings were purportedly just the beginning of a ?series of reprisals.? And before that, Arabs? random Jew-killings were due to Israel?s ?occupation,? even though the Arab-Palestinians have been under Palestinian Authority civil rule, not Israeli, since early 1996. And before that their Jew-killings were because the Palestinians had ?no hope? of attaining statehood ? no, no hope whatsoever, except for the numerous offers Israel made to them that were somehow never ?good enough? even when foolishly comprising 98% of Palestinians? own requests. And before that their random Jew-killings were because they did not have a ?real? army, so fashioned a poor man?s one of mass-murdering terrorists.
Are they randomly killing Jews because of ?revenge?, because of ?the occupation?, because of ?no hope of statehood? or because they feel military inferiority grants them license to immorally and barbarically foul all over the country of the Jews as they please ? it?s getting harder and harder to keep all their many ?reasons? straight. However, it is becoming easier and easier to see what these ?reasons?, and many more like them, are - just excuses. Whoppers. Lies, the purpose of which are to turn their socially unacceptable murderous bully urges toward Jews and their country, into socially acceptable ones somehow justified by the Jews? own defensive actions and the jargon of the day.
In fact spectacles such as the one on Barbarian Sunday were common throughout the Arab world this past century. For example on January 27, 1969, while American hippies were planning Woodstock and rhythmically chanting ?make love not war?, it seems Iraqis were planning a picnic of their own. According to Miller and Mylroie?s Saddam Hussein and the Crisis in the Gulf, Baghdad Radio urged Iraqis to ?come and enjoy the feast? as 500,000 men, women and children paraded and danced past scaffolds where, after a systematic two years of expropriating Jewish property, freezing bank accounts, shutting businesses, canceling trading permits, disconnecting telephones and jailing Jews on trumped -up ?spy? charges, the bodies of 11 hanged Jews swung, the mob rhythmically chanting ?Death to Israel.?
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Charlotte West is an Arizona-based columnist. The author can be reached at snoozalarm@hotmail.com.