The situation of equating terrorist and victim is totally insane.
The Palestinian jihad has a very evocative expression with regard to the act of slaughtering an Israeli Jew by a knife: “When we will slit your throat, we will slit it for Netanya”. That seaside city is the most fragile border of the Jewish State, with only 5 kilometers separating Netanya from the Palestinian Arab town of Tulkarem. Israel’s retreat to those 5 km would be the world’s dream come true.
Open any European newspaper these days and you will not understand who is stabbing whom in Jerusalem. The knives used by the Islamic State to behead “infidels” have been turned into a symbol of evil but the Palestinian Arab knives are always justified and even deleted from the news headlines. As if the blades of Palestinian Arabs are less sharp. As if the blood of Israeli Jews is less red. As if the Jewish State has to offer the world its throat.
Open any European newspaper these days and you will not understand who is stabbing whom in Jerusalem.
This week an exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome titled “Wallonwall” by the German photographer Kai Wiedenhöfer likens the Israeli barrier to the Berlin Wall. A graffiti bears the inscription “Warsaw 1943”, accompanied by a swastika and the Star of David. Unlike the barrier between the United States and Mexico, which has been built to stop the movement of population, Israel’s fence is the only in the world built to prevent innocent citizens from being stabbed, shot and blown up. But the mainstream media, from the liberal CNN to the conservative Daily Mail, are managing to turn Israel into the aggressor.
It is such a crazy situation that even the former chairman of the BBC, Michael Grade, felt compelled to send a letter of protest to the leaders of his former company: “You promote equivalence between the Israeli victims of terrorism and the Palestinians who were killed by Israeli security forces in the act to carry out terrorist attacks”, writes Grade, who took the command of the BBC after the Hutton report.
But it is not only a problem at the BBC, which should be renamed the “Baghdad Broadcasting Corporation”. All the headlines published by major Western media are horrible. No newspaper in Europe has recognized the reality in Israel. Jewish victims and Arab aggressors are always put on the same level, terrorism is defined as “tension” and the right of Israel to self-defense becomes “execution” in cold blood. After the knives and assaults with guns have done their deadly work, it is always the turn of the anti-Semitic “breaking” news.
Nos, Dutch public television, broadcast only 13 of the 50 seconds of the video of the Nazareth woman wounded by Israeli agents. It edited out the first part where you see this female terrorist holding a knife. The conservative newspaper Daily Mail reported on the attack under the headline: “Palestinian Woman executed in Afula”. After some protests, the word “executed” was changed to “shot”.
The British Daily Telegraph, the Norwegian Verdens Gang and the AmericanCNN all turned the Palestinian Arabs in the victims of Israel’s reprisal.
The New York Times published the worst propaganda with an article on the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism. “Historical Certainty Proves Elusive at Jerusalem’s Holiest Place” is the title of the article in the New York Times, which called into question, just as the false Palestinian Islamic propaganda does, the link between the sacred area and Jewish history.
In Sky News’ reports, the media owned by Rupert Murdoch, the word “Palestinian” does not even appear.
To understand how Europe is totally indifferent or at best complacent about Israel’s blood being spilled, you have to understand how Marwan Barghouti was turned into a celebrity, an icon, a movie star. He is serving 5 life sentences in an Israeli prison not because he was searching for “peace”, but because Barghouti turned many Jews into pieces at the Sea Food Restaurant in Tel Aviv, in Givat Ze’ev and in Hadera.
But the Western press loves him and always compares him to Nelson Mandela: “The Question of Barghouti: Is He Mandela or an Arafat?”(Time Magazine); “The Palestinian Mandela” (Il Sole 24 Ore); “The Mandela of Ramallah” (La Stampa); “A Mideast Mandela” (Newsweek) and “A Nelson Mandela for the Palestinians” (International Herald Tribune). The Guardian, the leftist British newspaper, just gave Barghouti a column to incite Palestinian Arabs to stab and shoot Jews.
The French city of Valenton this summer named a square after him. The French city of Coulounieix-Chamiers did the same: “Barghouti the resister” says the plaque. Twenty French cities have granted him honorary citizenship. There are too many streets named after this butcher of Jews in cowardly Europe.
A few days ago, Pope Francis opened the work of the synod on the family with a prayer for “Syria, Iraq, Jerusalem and the West Bank”. Isn’t there a state missing on this list? Meanwhile, at Unesco’s headquarters in Paris, the Palestinian Arabs were allowed to submit a proposal to include even the Western Wall of Jerusalem in their Al Aksa Mosque.
Europe has turned into an enemy of Israel and the Jewish people. Shortly before the writing of this article, Scandinavian Airlines suspended its flights to Tel Aviv for “security reasons”. But the sky over Europe is sick.
I strongly disagree with you that there has been hate on all sides. Luther? What do JEWS have to do with your examples??
There is no ‘new’ hatred being nurtured here. Where is rongrand? He is a regular Catholic contributor to Israpundit and very loved by many. He understands the difference between exposing the Vatican doctrine and promoting hated towards Catholics. Too bad you don’t see the difference.
The church has never owned up properly to the persecution of the Jewish people – this is why it continues and spills out into other people – ie the North American Indian!!
Are you going to deny the strong anti-Semitism the church has promoted and never rectified? We are not who you think we are. We will be exonerated – for that I am certain!!
There’s been plenty of hate by all sides for 2000 years, through the Andalusian times, Luther, and the communist spin-offs. Only a fool would suggest no one is attacking the Catholic church. The Marxists, the Nazis and the EU (run in part by Marxists) have aimed their hate towards Catholics for decades. Nurturing new hatred against Catholics and the Popes is a strategic folly but enjoy the dung flinging, dove. Should Israel cease to exist, it won’t be by the hand of Catholics or even Muslims. Ironically, Marxists will expunge Israel….and you’ll likely figure a way to blame it on Catholics. Pathetic.
A disproportionately high percentage of the best people I have met are Catholic. I have an extremely high opinion of Catholics.
I have a much less favorable view of the Church, which like all bureaucracies exists merely to perpetuate itself. For example, the pedophilia scandal did nothing to diminish my favorable opinion of Catholics, but reaffirmed my darkest suspicions of the Church.
The Catholics whom I know are gung ho pro-Israel whereas the Church is pro-Pali. Let’s not confuse the parishioner with the parish.
The Israel analogy is specious. No one is advocating the destruction of the Catholic Church (at least no infidels are).
Paddy Said:
Would you not agree that the RC Church is the ultimate source of the deep-rooted hatred of Jews in the West, started with the false charge of deicide?
Even if that European Jew-hatred found its present form in two non-Christian ideologies – Marxism and Nazism – it was 1500+ years of hatred bred into European culture by the Church that allowed these ideologies to exploit the hatred.
@ Paddy:
If that is the case then I suppose there are some things we are suppose to hate!
By the way…..you are full of crap. Catholicism is a religion – it is not a race! A person can have a strong dislike or even hatred for an ideology or theology that is detrimental.
It would be immoral of me if I didn’t.
@ Paddy:
Read “The Forward” there are many Jews who hate the present government of Israel.
Sadly,the hate is palpable. The Roman Catholic Church is one; if you hate the institution, you hate the membership. It’s the same as saying, “I like Jews but not Israel!”
@ dove:
Good idea.
@ honeybee:
lol. I guess next time you will have to be more specific and just ask for a moderate amount.
@ dove:
Had dry hot weather through Sept and Oct praying for rain and got it in spades. Careful what you pray for.
@ honeybee:
We have had a beautiful warmer than usual fall. Did you get some of Patricia in Texas?
@ dove:
Thank you Dove, how is the weather. We got Patricia.
@ honeybee:
Bingo! Well said HB! In my area former Catholics make up the majority of new converts to Judaism.
Paddy Said:
I don’t hate Roman Catholics. I know many who have extraordinarily good to me. What find fault with is the Church Institutional , which I believe to corrupt .
@ Paddy:
That is not how your NT says to pray. When you pray your suppose to do it in private – go into a closet and not be like hypocrites who pray in the streets for men to see. If you pray in private you will be rewarded publicly. If you pray like the hypocrites it is like a noisy gong and G-d will not hear you or answer you. Isn’t that what your NT says? When are you going to start practising what is preached?
The Pope is about as holy as my brand new trouser socks.
So called catholic hating monsters are not as bad as Jew-hating monsters (many of them being catholic actually). Have they systematically tortured, raped or burned 6 million catholics? Did I miss something?
Catholic-hating monsters are just as bad as Jew-hating monsters. Some are too ignorant to even realize this. Prayer may help; blind bigotry won’t.
@ babushka:
Stay tuned, coming to a Jew-hating continent near you!
Too late. This pope has already revealed himself to be a Palestinian terror groupie.
Not yet.
When Europe is littered with massive piles of emaciated Euro corpses that have tattooed numbers on their arms and from whose teeth gold has been extracted, then Europe will have received its just desserts.
Not to worry Europe has received and is receiving its just deserts. With influx of the muzloid hoards, there is no more Europe. So we can expect more of the same from their muzloid overlords but at least bask in the satisfaction that those Jew-hating monsters have been destroyed by their own suicidal magnificence and misplaced generosity!
More and more of the world is turning into an anti Jewish lynch mob which is calling for Jewish blood. Yet the Jewish left is calling for more suicidal concessions. The Israeli leaders still refuse to even announce that the land of Israel belongs to the Jews. So much of the blame for all this is the fault of our own demented Jewish leaders who we keep re-electing.
@ Paddy:
The Pope should pray for Europe which being over run by a Muslim Army sans uniforms.
@ dove:
Good post
If your expecting 3 cheers for the Pope you are on the wrong web site. He is a political menace and loves to have sovereign nations foot the bill for the churches transgressions.
Please stop justifying. Do you even know the history of the Palestinian people? Perhaps you should look it up.
Do you know the true history of the Jewish people?
Good points, overall. Yet, a simple prayer by the Pope for “Syria, Iraq, Jerusalem and the West Bank” is now bad? By avoiding “Israel” and “Palestine”, the Pope was trying to avoid the politics of the Near East and pray for Peace for all peoples. Comparing that semantic construction to anything anti-semitic (like the anti-Catholic NYT, the anti-Catholic UNESCO, or the pro-Marxist EU) is confabulation.