The war against the Jews (11)
Americans are aghast at the spectre of Islamist violence in Europe. They had better look to their own. Debbie Schlussel reports that, earlier this week,
four to five Muslims viciously attacked Rabbi Uria Ohana in Brooklyn, New York, while shouting, ‘Allahu Akbar.’ Rabbi Ohana, assistant head rabbi of Chabad-Lubavitch of Massachusetts, was about to get on the F-Train at Fourth Avenue and Ninth Street in Brooklyn. The young Muslim assailants grabbed rabbi Ohana's yarmulke (skullcap), and when he went to them to get it back, they beat him and shouted, ‘Allahu Akbar.’This attack on an orthodox Jew in the US follows the murderous onslaught on the Mercaz Harav yeshiva in Jerusalem. We now learn from the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research that no fewer than 84 per cent of 1,270 Palestinians questioned in a survey said they supported the killings in the yeshiva. As the New York Times reported, pollster Khalil Shikaki was shocked at the results, which also found 75 per cent support for scrapping Israeli-Palestinian talks and 64 per cent support for the thousands of recent rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip on Israeli towns. Shikaki, however, puts this appalling finding down to the recent Israeli action against terrorists in Gaza, an undercover operation in Bethlehem that killed four terrorists and the announced expansion of several West Bank settlements.
The distasteful sub-text —which echoes the comments of Israel-bashers in the western media, and was accordingly reproduced in the NYT story —is that the attitudes revealed in the survey illustrate not the mass depravity of the respondents but are all Israel’s fault for causing outrage by defending itself, and the Mercaz Harav yeshiva had it coming to it because, as the centre of religious Zionism (as we are unremittingly reminded) it is responsible for the ‘settlers’ in the disputed territories.
Now contrast that with what Investor’s Business Daily says of this survey’s findings:
The message we get from this is very clear: The vast majority of Palestinians advocate such acts of terrorism against young innocents because the victims were Jews. Their version of the Final Solution may not entail gas chambers and concentration camps, as Germany's National Socialists did in the last century. But it does apparently include murdering, at random, Jews because they are Jews. Not to say that there was not a clear political purpose behind the choice of target. The Mercaz Harav yeshiva is considered the flagship of the religious Zionist movement, the roots of which date back to a century and a half ago. Religious Zionism holds that Jews have an inalienable and permanent right to the land of Israel because God bestowed the Holy Land upon the ancient Israelites… The Shikaki poll shows that nearly an entire people support the murder of innocent kids because they're religious Jews. The civilized nations once fought a world war to prevent the global dominance of that kind of hate.To which one can only say (and not for the first time): in this degraded era, thank goodness for the decent, rational and robust Investor's Business Daily.