How Not to Apologize
That might be as apt a title to
Alan Dershowitz's article in the Christian Science Monitor. Here's what I'm refering to:
With Hezbollah, Hamas and Iran all vowing to eliminate Israel's existance, we need people of all political persuasions speaking clearly as to that unholy trio's goal is. The extreme left all too often takes the moral equivalency path and tries explaining that we aren't saints, therefore, Hezbollah's, Hamas' and Iran's actions are ok. THAT'S NONSENSE. It's never ok to kill people. EVER.
Posted Saturday, August 12, 2006 3:04 AM
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Sometimes an apology can be quite revealing. Consider the one recently issued by Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hizbullah. He apologized to the families of two Israeli children who were killed by a Hizbullah rocket that hit the Christian holy city of Nazareth. He called them shahids , martyrs, even though they did not choose to die at the hands of Hizbullah terrorists. The apology was issued not because they were children or innocent bystanders, but because they were Israeli Arabs and not Jews. Hizbullah's rockets are aimed at Jews, and earn cheers whenever they kill a Jewish baby or grandmother. No apologies there.Professor Dershowitz is pointing out a key point that might otherwise go unnoticed and I thank him for pointing this out. If ever there was a time that we needed this type of clarity, it's now.
With Hezbollah, Hamas and Iran all vowing to eliminate Israel's existance, we need people of all political persuasions speaking clearly as to that unholy trio's goal is. The extreme left all too often takes the moral equivalency path and tries explaining that we aren't saints, therefore, Hezbollah's, Hamas' and Iran's actions are ok. THAT'S NONSENSE. It's never ok to kill people. EVER.
The collaboration between neo-Nazis and Islamic terrorists to murder Jews should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with the history of the collaboration between the Palestinian leadership and Hitler during World War II.I'll admit that I'm not a scholar when it comes to the Israeli-Palestinian war but I can't say that this history lesson shocks me, either. It's time that more people, myself included, learned the true history of what started the entire conflict.
The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, who was recognized as the official leader of the Palestinians during this period, was a virulent anti-Semite whose hatred of Jews was both religious and racial. He became a close ally and adviser to Adolf Hitler, and an active supporter of the "final solution," the mass murder of European Jewry. In 1940, he asked the Axis powers to settle the Jewish problem in Palestine in accordance with the "racial interests of the Arabs and along lines similar to those used to solve the Jewish question in Germany." He urged Hitler to extend the final solution to the Jewish refugees who had reached Palestine, and he advised Hitler, in 1943, when it was well known what was happening in Poland's death camps, to send the Jews to "Poland, in order thereby to protect oneself from their menace."
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