Hate Without End
Mark Steyn hits one out of the park with this column. This one is a must read from start to finish. Please click the link.
In Toronto, anti-Israel demonstrators yell “You are the brothers of pigs!,” and a protester complains to his interviewer that “Hitler didn’t do a good job.”
In Fort Lauderdale, Palestinian supporters sneer at Jews, “You need a big oven, that’s what you need!”
In Amsterdam, the crowd shouts, “Hamas, Hamas! Jews to the gas!”
In Paris, the state-owned TV network France-2 broadcasts film of dozens of dead Palestinians killed in an Israeli air raid on New Year’s Day. The channel subsequently admits that, in fact, the footage is not from Jan. 1, 2009, but from 2005, and, while the corpses are certainly Palestinian, they were killed when a truck loaded with Hamas explosives detonated prematurely while leaving the Jabaliya refugee camp in another of those unfortunate work-related accidents to which Gaza is sadly prone. Conceding that the Palestinians supposedly killed by Israel were, alas, killed by Hamas, France-2 says the footage was broadcast “accidentally.”
In Toulouse, a synagogue is firebombed; in Bordeaux, two kosher butchers are attacked; at the Auber RER train station, a Jewish man is savagely assaulted by 20 youths taunting, “Palestine will kill the Jews”; in Villiers-le-Bel, a Jewish schoolgirl is brutally beaten by a gang jeering, “Jews must die.”
In Helsingborg, Sweden, the congregation at a synagogue takes shelter as a window is broken and burning cloths thrown in. in Odense, principal Olav Nielsen announces that he will no longer admit Jewish children to the local school after a Dane of Lebanese extraction goes to the shopping mall and shoots two men working at the Dead Sea Products store. in Brussels, a Molotov cocktail is hurled at a synagogue; in Antwerp, Netherlands, lit rags are pushed through the mail flap of a Jewish home; and, across the Channel in Britain, “youths” attempt to burn the Brondesbury Park Synagogue.
You can shrug and let the “elites” turn their rage on Israel. You can let a hopelessly corrupted Western media fill in the narrative. You can join the Jew hatred. Or you can experience 15 seconds in Sderot. That is how much time you have to reach shelter when the Hamas rockets begin to fall. 15 seconds.
Steyn link via Memeorandum.
War, World news | Gaius January 10, 2009
By Lars Walker, January 10, 2009 @ 10:43 pm
That just chills me to the bone.
By syn, January 11, 2009 @ 11:43 am
THis creeps me out as well, around the world Jews turning against Jews, a comment posted at a British publication the Observer:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/11/gaza-britain-judaism-antisemitism
“As a Jew I find deeply dispiriting Francesca’s exclusive preoccupation with her own community’s wellbeing, her instinct to defend Israel and her failure to side with Palestinians facing brutal aggression. There is every reason for decent people in Britain to be singling out Israel at the moment: because it is massacring the innocents, and because it proceeds with impunity, protected by, amongst other governments, Britain’s own. Moreover, contra Francesca, the Israel-Palestine conflict really is at the heart of current tensions between the West and the Arab-Islamic worlds. Antisemitism takes many forms, but in its currently dominant form it is a tragic, misguided and retrograde response to the way Israel has pursued its policies of apartheid, colonialism and ethnic cleansing, cheered on by the US, UK and others. Nothing would be more helpful in countering antisemitism than a forceful public proclamation by people like Francesca that what Israel is doing is not in their name. It is certainly not in mine.”
By martian, January 11, 2009 @ 1:22 pm
As I said in an earlier post, the virulently anti-semitic western press absolutely refuses to show this side of the conflict. And they conveniently forget to mention that Hamas started the whole thing. It’s sickening.