First the good news: Ken O'Keefe is apparently being kicked out of Israel. The Israeli daily newspaper Ha'aretz reported that O'Keefe was ordered deported by a Tel Aviv District Court for attempting to cross the separation fence into Gaza, according to the New York Daily News.
Now the first in a series of bad news. His departure means that he could return to America. I hope he does not live in Philadelphia.
I know what you're thinking. Quit feeling sorry for myself.
If history is any guide, O'Keefe will call the murders of Afik Zahavi and Mordechai Yosefov "the Palestinians' right to resist".
That is the stock answer you will get from apologists for terrorists who have flown thousands of miles - from London, Brooklyn, Roanoke, Va., and Olympia, Wash. - to protect the poor Palestinians from those brutal Israelis.
They are members of the International Solidarity Movement, an organization whose members block bulldozers, set up roadblocks and disrupt construction of the barrier separating Israel proper from the West Bank. Rachel Corrie of Olympia was an ISM member at the time she died, while trying to block a bulldozer from demolishing a home in Rafah along the Gaza/Egypt border. The Daily News story did not clarify if O'Keefe is associated with ISM.
Monday's double murder brings to light this serious distortion: It is nothing new that the Arabs claim all they really want is a state of their own - except that for many of them, said state includes Tel Aviv, Haifa and Netanya - all Judenrein.
Right. At 8:00am Monday morning, some of these brutalized Palestinians exercised their right to resist by lobbing a homemade Kassam rocket from Gaza to in front of a nursery in Sderot, located in Israel proper, two miles from the Gaza border.
Afik Zahavi had never driven a tank, bulldozed a home, fired a gun or lived in Gaza or the West Bank. As he headed to his nursery school, the rocket exploded near him and he died from wounds on his way to the hospital. He was four years old.
His mother, Ruth, was at last report hospitalized in serious condition.
Now, what's this argument that the Gaza and West Bank Arabs are merely resisting the so-called brutal occupation of the Israelis? That they respect the right of Israel to exist?
If they respect the right of Israel to exist, why did they fire anywhere from 200 to 350 rockets into Sederot and environs over the last several years?
In all that time, the missiles caused little more than minor damage? until Monday. Two people died and were buried the same day. The Palestinians refused to respect their right to exist, anywhere.
"We were supposed to go to his end-of-the-year party in kindergarten tomorrow," Afik's father, Yitzhak Ohayan, told Ha'aretz. "Instead, we'll be going to his funeral."
The other victim, Mordechai Yosefov, 49, was an unemployed emigrant from Ukraine, a country notorious for its anti-Semitism. The Washington Post reported that he had two children and five grandchildren.
Yosefov's body lay in the streets with his head split open, according to news reports. A number of children could very well have watched the bodies sprawled in the street.
O'Keefe, Corrie and their friends all claimed they want peace in the Middle East. Afik Zahavi and Mordechai Yosefov now have peace.
Now the first in a series of bad news. His departure means that he could return to America. I hope he does not live in Philadelphia.
I know what you're thinking. Quit feeling sorry for myself.
If history is any guide, O'Keefe will call the murders of Afik Zahavi and Mordechai Yosefov "the Palestinians' right to resist".
That is the stock answer you will get from apologists for terrorists who have flown thousands of miles - from London, Brooklyn, Roanoke, Va., and Olympia, Wash. - to protect the poor Palestinians from those brutal Israelis.
They are members of the International Solidarity Movement, an organization whose members block bulldozers, set up roadblocks and disrupt construction of the barrier separating Israel proper from the West Bank. Rachel Corrie of Olympia was an ISM member at the time she died, while trying to block a bulldozer from demolishing a home in Rafah along the Gaza/Egypt border. The Daily News story did not clarify if O'Keefe is associated with ISM.
Monday's double murder brings to light this serious distortion: It is nothing new that the Arabs claim all they really want is a state of their own - except that for many of them, said state includes Tel Aviv, Haifa and Netanya - all Judenrein.
Right. At 8:00am Monday morning, some of these brutalized Palestinians exercised their right to resist by lobbing a homemade Kassam rocket from Gaza to in front of a nursery in Sderot, located in Israel proper, two miles from the Gaza border.
Afik Zahavi had never driven a tank, bulldozed a home, fired a gun or lived in Gaza or the West Bank. As he headed to his nursery school, the rocket exploded near him and he died from wounds on his way to the hospital. He was four years old.
His mother, Ruth, was at last report hospitalized in serious condition.
Now, what's this argument that the Gaza and West Bank Arabs are merely resisting the so-called brutal occupation of the Israelis? That they respect the right of Israel to exist?
If they respect the right of Israel to exist, why did they fire anywhere from 200 to 350 rockets into Sederot and environs over the last several years?
In all that time, the missiles caused little more than minor damage? until Monday. Two people died and were buried the same day. The Palestinians refused to respect their right to exist, anywhere.
"We were supposed to go to his end-of-the-year party in kindergarten tomorrow," Afik's father, Yitzhak Ohayan, told Ha'aretz. "Instead, we'll be going to his funeral."
The other victim, Mordechai Yosefov, 49, was an unemployed emigrant from Ukraine, a country notorious for its anti-Semitism. The Washington Post reported that he had two children and five grandchildren.
Yosefov's body lay in the streets with his head split open, according to news reports. A number of children could very well have watched the bodies sprawled in the street.
O'Keefe, Corrie and their friends all claimed they want peace in the Middle East. Afik Zahavi and Mordechai Yosefov now have peace.