Hamas War

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Provocation?

Tonight's news keeps mentioning "provocation."

They don't refer to Arabs like these waving enemy flags in what is technically and legally an Israeli city, Umm el-Fahm. Instead they're referring to Jewish Israelis, led by Baruch Marzel, who walked in that city with Israeli flags.

My Israeli tax money goes to Umm el-Fahm, which is part of Israel. But it's not governed by the same laws. The Arabs there consider it offensive, provocative to be reminded that they are living in the State of Israel.

If they don't like it, they should leave. There are over twenty Arab countries in this world. Israel is the only Jewish one.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is insanity. What else can we say.

Anonymous said...

I posted a similar comment on another blog, but I'll say it again anyway....

Being a Jew is the offensive crime they committed--and there is no other way to put it.

It's a shameful tragedy, but it's the facts. If Arabs had been stoned in a Jewish village, the global media outrage would be deafening.

But, we are Jews, and therefore we apparently deserve to have rocks thrown at us for that reason alone.

It used to be inflammatory to display a swastika or a white robe--but now all it takes is a kipah and tzitzis.

It's a dangerous web the non-Jewish world weaves when they rally against us as they do--because it is not us whom they are against but a instead a battle with Hashem that they are inching towards.

I dread the thought of being in such a person's shoes on that day when His anger boils over.

Things are as they always have been with between us and them.

The world turns, and the seasons change, but "there is nothing new under the sun".

Kae Gregory said...

It certainly seems like things are picking up speed.

Batya said...

Shiloh, comrade, kae, yes, it's insane and very dangerous. After the elections I posted about the cheating that went on in the Arab cities, "How do you report ballot stuffing?"
Nobody seemed to have read it or commented.
The voting results from those cities shouldn't have been counted in with the others.

Anonymous said...

what was the point of the march? for what were they demonstrating, just to prove a point? that is very close to provocation in my book.
and please, let's stop with the canard that 'they' have so many countries. just because arabs are not jews does not mean all arabs are the same. like it or not, there is a palestinian sense of nation. i dont have to like it, but it is a reality.

Batya said...

a, if waving an Israeli flag in an Israeli city is provocation, then we're in a dangerous state. And that's the entire point. Something drastic must be done. Lieberman got a lot of votes for saying so.

Hadassa DeYoung said...

Shalom!
Anonymous, they were determining a very important point: Does a Jew have the right to fly the Jewish flag anywhere in Israel, a Jewish country? No-one ever said that all Arabs are the same. The point being made is that no Arab has the right to Jewish land. The fact that they have over 20 countries is repeated to show that the Arabs do have a home to which to return. Palestine does not exist. The term is derived from a Roman word, Palaestina, meaning "land of the Philistines" and was coined in an attempt to change the name of Israel. The Philistines are long gone and the Jews have returned to Israel. Before the founding of the State of Israel, Palestinian meant Jewish and Arabs were insulted by the adjective. There isn't a Palestinian sense of nation. The Arabs living in the southern region of Israel are mainly from Egypt. The Arabs living in what is erroneously called the West Bank are mainly from Jordan. The Arabs in the north are mainly from Lebanon and Syria. Palestine is a modern myth that only people who want the destruction of Israel believe.
Hadassa

Batya said...

Hadassa, thanks for your contribution! Excellent points, as usual.