Barbarians at the
Gate
Two Israeli soldiers were slaughtered in Ramallah by a mob.
Indeed.
I do not deny that tragedies do occur during a war. The
devastating picture of the 12 year old boy in Nezzarim is still a
shocking reminder, although we still have to find out what exactly did the
boy’s father think by bringing him there.
Some Palestinians have a different approach. They intentionally
kill whatever comes about. A whole family in the south, a bus full of
schoolchildren in the north, or a baby in a coffee house in Tel Aviv or
slaughtering the soldiers and then dipping their hands in the soldiers’ blood.
The lynching of the soldiers mirrors the people we have to
negotiate with. These people - and they are not the majority of the
Palestinians - have to be converted from animals to human beings. Indeed, the
‘’Rais’’ permits the blowing-up of innocent people. IDF warned even policemen
in Ramallah to vacate the house that was to be shelled so they would not be
hurt.
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| Yasser Arafat |
The difference between the IDF and Arafat’s mob is that the
former tries to avoid civilians, and even uniformed policemen. The chairman’s
soldiers aim at just that. He simply fails to understand that if we retaliate
against these ‘’Barbarians at the gate’’, ‘’Palestine’’ will not be a state but
one big refugee camp.
And the truth has to be told. The Arab leaders [King
Abdullah, President Mubarak and others] appreciate that Palestinian violence
challenges their own authority and can cause their own downfall. Arafat cares
not. He humiliated The Secretary of State in Paris, he will bring down Arab
stability in the Middle East. He does not care. The Arab leaders have to wake
up to the reality that they are tools in Arafat’s hands. The price they might
pay is beyond their capability to endure.
Zalli Jaffe.
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