Israel Matzav: Haaretz sees the light?

Thursday, August 22, 2013

Haaretz sees the light?

Let's keep this in perspective: Ari Shavit is one of the very few sane opinion writers at Haaretz. If I'd seen something like this from Gideon Levy or Aluf Benn, I would have put the flying pig graphic on the top. Still, I find it a refreshing surprise that words like these made it into the Haaretz opinion pages without being written by Moshe Arens....

Many in the West and Israel despise Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. But what’s happening in Syria proves the validity of Netanyahu’s warning that the greatest danger to world peace in the 21st century is the combination of unconventional weapons and unconventional regimes. Lunatics really are insane. Barbarians are really barbaric. Huns will be Huns.

Those who act mercifully toward Huns bear direct responsibility for the fact that nuclear weapons are being built in Iran, chemical weapons are being used in Syria and doomsday weapons threaten the future of the Middle East. Those who underestimate the inherent danger of the Huns bear direct responsibility for the deaths of today’s victims, the Syrians, and tomorrow’s victims, the Israelis, Europeans and Americans.

It’s time to break free of the moral relativism, multicultural hypocrisy and political correctness that prevent us from seeing our evil neighborhood as it really is. A terrible warning siren is being sounded in Damascus. Do we hear it? Does the world hear it?

Given the possibility, does anyone really believe that the 'moderate' 'Palestinian Authority' would behave any differently than Assad? If you do, then recall this incident, which happened seven years after the Oslo accords were signed:

On October 12, 2000, two non-combatant Israeli reservists (serving as drivers), Vadim Nurzhitz and Yossi Avrahami, mistakenly passed an Israeli checkpoint and entered Ramallah. Reaching a Palestinian Authority roadblock, where previously Israeli soldiers were turned back, the reservists were detained by PA policeman and taken to the local police station. Hearing rumors that idf soldiers were in the building, a crowd of more than 1,000 Palestinians gathered at the station, calling for the death of the Israelis. Soon after, Palestinian rioters stormed the building, beating and stabbing the soldiers to death. At this point, a Palestinian (later identified as Aziz Salha), appeared at the police station window, displaying his blood-stained hands to the crowd, which erupted into cheers. One of the soldier's bodies was then thrown out the window and stamped and beaten by the enraged mob. Soon after, the mob dragged the two mutilated bodies to Al-Manara Square in the city center as the crowd began an impromptu victory celebration.

Let's go to the videotape.

If Shavit is hinting that we should be wary of the fact that the 'Palestinians' aren't looking for peace with us, then we really have made some progress. But if the 'Palestinians' are to continue being given a pass because they 'only' want to murder Jews, then we haven't learned anything from what happened in Damascus on Wednesday.

Labels: Bashar al-Assad, chemical weapons, Palestinian Authority, Palestinian terrorism, Ramallah lynch, Syria