By Victor Sharpe
IHC Abstract from 2002
This article emphasizes how the recent Palestinian massacre of Jewish worshippers at Hebron was labeled by CNN and Associated Press as having been carried out by “militants” against “settlers”.
The writer further notes how the victims of these massacres were “shamefully made a hot potato between two leftist political rivals.” By this, he means that the deaths were a direct result of the IDFÂ’s withdrawal from the Arab occupied hills surrounding the Jewish community. This withdrawal was ordered by the ex-Israeli Defense Minister and Labor Minister in the coalition government, Benjamin ben-Eliezer, in order to win points in his battle against left wing rival Amram Mitzna for leadership of the Labor party.
A suggestion is made in this article that every time an act of Palestinian aggression takes place, Israel should permanently take over the area from which the attack was launched as a deterrent to further aggression. Here is Victor Sharpe’s article.
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I heard about the Palestinian atrocity in Hebron just before the Sabbath began. I also saw the yellow journalism of the media.
The vileness of the Palestinian massacre of Jewish worshippers is bad enough, but the egregious insult to the victims by the CNN and Associated Press usage of the term Palestinian militants is unbearable.
Are the Moslem hijackers who flew the planes into the Twin Towers called militants? Are the Moslems who bombed the Bali nightclub called militants? No, they are rightly called terrorists. Yet when Jewish worshippers are murdered, the media calls them militants. Equally the use of the pejorative term “settlers” instead of “worshippers” speaks volumes about the unbridled bias and insensitivity of much of the media towards the Jewish State.
There was an earlier massacre of the ancient Hebron Jewish population in 1929, when an Arab mob systematically slaughtered over 60 Jewish men, women and children. That was when the territory was under the British Mandate. Now a new Arab massacre of Jews has taken place seventy-three years later. This time the terror came, as the beleaguered Jewish community in Hebron warned it would, from the Arab occupied hills overlooking the tiny Jewish enclave. The Abu Sneineh hills are from where a Palestinian gunman recently murdered the little child, Shalhevet Pass, as she was held in her mother’s arms. The Israel Defense Force (IDF) later controlled the hills and held them for several months, thus providing relief and safety for the Jewish civilians below.
But the ex-Israeli Defense Minister and Labor Minister in the coalition government, Benjamin ben-Eliezer, ordered the withdrawal from the hills in order to win points in his battle against left wing rivals for leadership of the Labor party. The Defense Minister then precipitated a political crisis by withdrawing Labor from the coalition to win votes against his extreme leftist challenger, Amram Mitzna. This slaughter of Jewish worshippers could have been avoided if they had not been shamefully made a hot potato between two leftist political rivals.
The salutary lesson to the Palestinian Arabs must now be a complete and permanent liberation of the terror infested hills, which dominate the embattled Jewish community below. The area should be annexed to Israel and Jewish communities established on its heights. The hills should be renamed the Shalhevet Pass Hills and Israeli flags should fly as a reminder to all Arabs that there will be permanent territorial consequences if they continue to murder Jewish civilians.
If the Israeli government displays such courage, it will, without doubt, come under enormous international pressure – in particular from the morally bankrupt European Union, the United Nations and, alas, the present US State Department. But an Israeli government that stands firm and does not blink first, may yet reap an enormous blessing.
An armistice with the Arab world – never a true peace while Arabs remain loyal to Islam – can be achieved when, and only when, ancestral and Biblical Jewish land is systematically recovered from Arab occupation each time there is an act of Palestinian aggression.
Equally, the loathsome puppet master, Yasser Arafat, who pulls the demonic strings of Palestinian terror, must be plucked from his lair in Ramallah and dropped somewhere within the vast Arab land mass. There is no other way to finally end the horrific slaughter of the Jews.
Source: Original article contributed by the author, an IHC member, 16 November 2002.
The author writes on Jewish history and the Arab-Israel conflict.
© Victor Sharpe
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