Israel Matzav

Israel's heroes

These people are heroes, like the early pioneers who drained the swamps and built the foundations of the land of Israel. They are the builders.

They are the target for the arrows of Israel haters, both domestically and from abroad.

The media paint them as being separate from klal Yisrael. Their villages are branded “illegal”. They are vilified as a needless burdens on the “defense budget”.

Successive Israeli governments offered them money to leave, like the anti-Semitic stereotype promoted by Joseph Goebbels, who predicted that if the Jews get a state they will sell it for money.

They have been chosen as Israel’s scapegoats, the ever-guilty, the Jewish State’s Jews. Their houses have been demolished, their children traumatized, their businesses ruined. They have been portrayed as those who take advantage of all those benefits the government threw at them: low taxes and subsidized housing. Their lives have been condemned to be reversible. A sinister equivalence has been created between their caravans in the wilderness and suicide bombers. Their human and democratic rights are trampled underfoot, their democratic rights disregarded. A blood libel has turned their houses into something even more urgent to dismantle than the Iranian bomb.

Labels: revenants

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 1:35 PM