Day after day, one can hear calls by pro-Palestinian groups
outraged at how fellow human beings in captivity - who happen to be Jewish - are
systematically being starved to death.
Day after day, sympathy is expressed for the families of
hostages suffering the mental anguish of not knowing whether their loved ones
in captivity are alive, or if alive, whether they are near death’s door because
of the brutality of their captors.
Nice to hear words of consolation and support for what the Jewish people are going through from Palestinians themselves and their supporters.
Except that none of this reciprocity is true.
These indisputable facts
are never uttered by Palestinian supporters. They are totally ignored. Instead,
they are busy accusing Israel of genocide against their own people without so
much as a mention of the suffering the Jewish people are enduring right now
because of their own Palestinian terrorists martyring themselves for the
greater glory of Islam.
One might be tempted to forgive Palestinians and their
supporters for being blinded to these realities. After all, their own people
are suffering, and they don’t care to notice whose fault it really is.
So, instead of the world uniting against Hamas and
supporting the real targets of genocide, they are focusing their anger against
the Jews. In their holier-than-thou mission to prove how much more moral they
are than the Jews, they show great concern for the death and (non-existent) starvation of
Palestinians while completely ignoring the suffering endured by Israelis.
And what’s their solution? To recognize the nonexistent
state of Palestine. As if that is suddenly going to feed hungry Palestinians.
One might be tempted to defend these reprobates - leaders of
foreign nations who pretend to be great
humanitarians. After all, are they not simply responding to the plight of
Palestinians in a way that Israel might take note of and thereby change how they are
doing things?
Maybe. But you cannot be a humanitarian by half. In a conflict
between 2 peoples, feeling bad for the suffering of one people while ignoring
the suffering of the other can only mean one thing in this case. It is latent antisemitism that guides their
sense of morality. Even though they surely believe they are following in the
finest tradition of morality in support of one people - the absence of support
for the other people who were brutally attacked first - reveals what drives them.
They can deny it all day long. But don’t believe it! Macron and his gang of progressive cronies don’t care about Jewish suffering at all -even as they might once in a while pay lip service to it! If the emphaisis is on only one side - and the action taken is to reward terrorism against the Jewish people by endorsing a Palestinian state - that is all you need to know about their motives.
History strongly suggests that such a state would quickly turn into another Jihadist run Gaza, only much larger and far more lethal. They afre motivated by an antisemitism they don’t even realize they have. So, as far as I’m concerned, Macron and his progressive cronies in Europe and Canada can all take a long walk off a short plank on a ship in the middle of the Atlantic!
Israel will have to wait until Europe and Canada restores
more sane leadership to their people before they restore support for the Jewish
state. In the meantime Israel will have the support of the only nation that really
matters. The US. (Albeit without progressive Democrats.)
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| MK Meir Porush (Matzav) |
The veteran politician referred to the arrests of yeshiva students for learning Torah:
“I don’t remember that Charedi Jewry, in the 77 years since the state was founded, has ever endured such a blow, such a crisis, regarding life itself and our way of life. We’ve never had anything like this.”
Porush cautioned that the crisis could spiral out of control:
“This will develop and swell, and no one will be able to stop it. Maybe now something can still be done, but later? It will be too late. The message will be clear: people will begin to be afraid. No one will be able to take responsibility for what might happen when fathers see their sons being arrested.”
When their sons get arrested?! How many Charedi fathers have lost a son in battle; or whose son lost a limb; or his eyesight; or suffers from PTSD because of the trauma of war - sometimes permanently?!
Jail
time for draft dodging?! Forgive me if I don’t sympathize all that much with these
fathers for that.
It’s one thing to protest a war that involves so much blood
being shed by the sons and daughters of the nation. But to protest a draft
designed to relieve the burden on those who have already sacrificed so much?!
To protest against drafting just 35% of their community - which would allow the
other 65% to remain in the Beis Hamedrash untouched by this suffering - is not only
something I don’t support. It’s something that itself deserves a very strong counter-protest.
And the theme of such a counter-protest should be to
completely reject the absurd claim that the need for some Charedim to enlist
in the IDF soldiers is in any way an anti-Torah edict. That should be the most
obvious counterpoint emphasized in every counter-protest, with as many
Religious Zionist rabbinic leaders and Roshei Yeshiva as possible making that
case. These ridiculous accusations from the Charedi world must not go unchallenged - publicly and forcefully.
And featured among the speakers at these counter-protests
ought to be the brave IDF soldiers who have already given so much to their
country. Let them stand and embarrass the Charedi world for refusing to
recognize their own failed responsibility to Klal Yisroel. We must not allow their
narrative to be the sole representation of Torah Judaism - they claim it to be.
*Post has been updated