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| UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay |
I laughed so hard - I almost choked on my doughnut this
morning when I read this little news item on VIN:
Israel may have committed war crimes by killing civilians and shelling houses and hospitals during its two-week-old offensive in the Gaza Strip, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said on Wednesday.
I could not contain myself. Thank goodness my wife knows the
Heimlich Maneuver… you never know.
Is there anyone in the world who takes this woman seriously?
She is either a shill for Hamas or one of the stupidest people on the face of
the earth.
Of course accusing Israel of war crimes is no laughing
matter. But to not mention at all the war crimes committed daily by Hamas -
sending deadly rockets indiscriminately at Israel into civilian populations is mind-blowingly prejudiced. As is not mentioning the fact that
Israel has agreed to a cease fire and actually stopped its offensive, while Hamas
kept firing rockets into Israel. There are so many violations by Hamas, it
would take pages upon pages to list them.
Nor does she take into account the fact that Hamas actually
wants its people to be killed by Israelis so that people like her can be
convinced that Israel is committing war crimes. When a mother from Gaza cries
over her dead family, Hamas privately cheers while publicly ‘showing’ the poor
innocent lives that have been lost; the severely injured lying hospital beds talking
about their losing wives, parents and children, the new homeless whose homes were blown up by Israeli missiles…
This works very well for them. The more damage they have, the more they like
it. Israel has no chance of not killing civilians no matter how much they try
to avoid it.
And they try mightily. Not only that - Israel has set up field hospitals near the
Gaza border for Palestinians that have been injured. How many Jews can be found
in any Hamas controlled hospital? (Hint: Zero). The only thing you can find in
a hospital in Gaza (besides the obvious) is rockets ready for use against
Israeli civilian populations.
And she chooses to criticize Israel implying a threat to try its leaders for war crimes?! If there is anyone to blame for the innocent civilian
casualties in Gaza it is clearly Hamas. They are the war criminals. Period. End
of discussion.
While Ms. Pillay may not be the brightest bulb in the room, Neturei Karta (NK) cannot be accused of being stupid. They are simply brainwashed in
the extreme to the point of being evil. How else can anyone explain the picture in Al Jazeera of a young Chasidic looking man holding a Palestinian flag at a rally protesting Israel’s
attack on Gaza on July 11th?
Of course the constant refrain I hear from the right is that
no mainstream Jewish organization takes NK seriously. Not even the most right
wing ones. Even Satmar rejects them. Typically you will hear comments from the
right like, ‘There are very few of them - probably numbering less than a total
of a hundred or so worldwide and everyone condemns what they do’.
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Dayan Aharon Dovid Dunner of London |
Well, I’m not so sure that that they have no support at all from
the right. Unfortunately there is a very prominent Charedi Dayan in England by
the name of Aharon Dovid Dunner that has absolutely no problem speaking at one of
their protests. I have come across a video from a while back of Neturei Karta in England protesting the disruption of graves at a construction site in Ramat Bet
Shemesh. Dayan Dunner had no problem at all speaking at their rally. This does
not look to me like a rejection of Neturei Karta. This looks more like tacit
approval of the group, despite their disgusting behavior.
I cannot accept any kind of explanation that says he rejects them but only uses their platform
to state his views - which happens to agree with them in that instance. That would
be like joining with Hamas in support of Tznius in women’s clothing. By standing
with them, you imply their legitimacy no less than standing with the
Conservative or Reform movement implies legitimizing them.
Dayan Dunner is a respected figure in the mainstream Torah
world. He actually spoke in Monsey’s Ohr Somayach, a mainstream Yeshiva for
Baalei Teshuva. (Photos of the event are available here).
I call upon the Jewish world to reject not only
Neturie Karta, but to reject Dayan Dunner who by his mere presence on the same
stage with them tacitly approves of them. I would also ask that Ohr Somayach of Monsey
express regret in inviting him to address their members.
