Op-ed: Why do we return terrorist bodies, seek peace talks with anti-Semitic Arabs who hate us?
Had Adolf Eichmann been executed during Benjamin Netanyahu’s term, the Nazi war criminal would not have been burned and his ashes would not have been disposed of at sea. Instead, the body would have been preserved and handed over to the German president upon his visit to Israel, so it can be buried in Germany with full military honors.
Does this sound delusional? No more so than the ceremony where “President” Mahmoud Abbas and his top brass received the coffins of 91 terrorists who murdered more than 200 people; indeed, the bodies of these “martyrs” were saluted with wreathes and the firing of volley shots.
Yet there is one difference: Had the German president and establishment still viewed Eichmann as a national hero, he would not have been received here, and there would be no diplomatic ties with Germany.
So why haven’t we disposed of the ashes of the terrorists at sea? Why are we providing “holy places” for the ethos of Jew-hatred and murder, which has turned into the essence of their national existence? Who do we seek to make peace with, and what kind of peace can we expect of someone whose heroes are the murderers from Jerusalem Machne Yehuda Market (16 fatalities,) the buses in Beersheba (17 fatalities,) or Jerusalem’s Route 2 (23 fatalities)?
Does one make peace with enemies? Most certainly: With yesterday’s enemy, who was defeated or reconciled itself to one’s existence. Germany, for example. How, on the other hand, does one make peace with an enemy whose hatred keeps growing, here and now? With a “national band” that sings in their official media that “we have replaced our jewelry with weapons, this is the day of Jihad, squeeze the trigger”?
How does one make peace with those who name schools and kindergartens after Dalal Mughrabi, the commander of the Coastal Road terror attack where 37 people were murdered, 12 of them children? With a ruling party declaring that “the armed struggle is a strategy, not a tactic, for eliminating the Zionist presence”? With those who write textbooks that erase any sign of Israel’s existence?
What was Bibi thinking?
How does one make peace with those who sentence countrymen who sell land to Jews to death, and who view the designation of the Cave of the Patriarchs and Rachel’s Tomb as Jewish heritage sites as a “grave provocation,” threatening to launch a religious war?
Had current-day Germany been as Nazi as “Palestine” is an anti-Semitic, anti-Zionist terror sponsor that denies Jewish existence, would we grant Berlin such “gestures?” When barely 10 people gather at Baruch Goldstein’s gravesite, Israeli media outlets are horrified. Yet what would they say had President Peres, as a gesture, placed a wreath on Goldstein’s grave in the presence of an IDF guard of honor?
And what was Prime Minister Netanyahu thinking when he decided on the “gesture” of handing over 11 terrorist bodies to Hamas in Gaza? And as to the rulers in Ramallah, if the intention was to revive the peace talks, then woe is on such peace, which is replete with wreathes and monuments for our murderers.
The “peace camp” has kept peace slogans to a minimum as of late, as not to humiliate itself. They prefer to play the bi-national state card and the risk of “losing our Jewish character.” The one who still beats the drums of peace is Netanyahu, who in a recent speech at the Institute for National Security Studies went back to the flower children of the ‘60s and to their song “Give peace a chance.”
He forgot that in the meantime, we buried some 1,500 peace victims, and that the Palestinian enemies are only willing to receive “peace gestures” from us of the type that sanctifies their war against us, such as the handing over of their terrorists for the purpose of a martyr’s burial. So to those who make decisions on our behalf I say: In what world are you living
@ NormanF:
A legacy of the circumstances of her creation.
Scarcely had the San Remo Resolution been concluded in April 1920 — ear-marking the Palestine region, on both sides of the Jordan, for the planned & projected Jewish National Home — than the major players almost immediately set to work at nullifying & countermanding their own solemnly & unambiguously accepted obligations to the Jewish People under international law.
And it hardly stopped there.
Each-and-every successive White Paper from “on-high” turned out to be yet another outrage to the rule of law.
As a consequence Israelis have learned over the decades to take the very notion of legality with something of a “grain of salt.”
Can you imagine that (notwithstanding the flatly stated purposes of the Palestine Mandate in its Charter) the attempt by Jews from 1939 to 1945 to flee the charnel house of Europe & find a haven in Eretz Israel
— was actually characterized, at the time, by those formally charged in the Mandate Charter with regency, tutelage, and protection over the Land of Israel and its people, as. . . . (wait for it) . . . . “ILLEGAL” IMMIGRATION?
@ Mrs. Nina M. Lawrence:
Sorry Nina but in the interest of truth as opposed to propaganda our leaders usually chose the wrong the easy solution as opposed to the more difficult correct one. It’s not the American banal scandal as a bridge to nowhere, here mistakes cost lives and destroy needlessly, whole families.
@ Bill Levinson:
Our problem is the Levinsons no less than the terrorists. Fools like Levinson are more dangerous, they get other innocents killed.
You don’t know what you are talking about. Israel is forever being blamed for all the other countries misdemeanors. I am not Jewish, but I love the Jewish people, and my Saviour was Jewish. It greatly disturbs me that humanity is so anti Jewish.
God Almighty, please forgive us.
Nina
@ Bill Levinson:
I agree that freeing live terrorists is a crime beyond comprehension, but burying terrorists in an Israeli military cemetary is an equal crime because it encourages similar acts. The writer is on target with his outrage and I commend him for putting so well and accurately.
@ NormanF:
I abhor your statements. It seems to me that no matter what Israel does, they are wrong. Why don’t people understand that they will one day have to give an account to Almighty G-d? I, for one do not want to stand guilty before Him.
Nina M. Lawrence
1. So that Israel needs not take care of them
2. Israel needs the space
3. We may find many reasons to get rid of dead weight …
etc…
He will try anything to induce the Pal because that is what the West wants.
There must be an end to this STUPIDITY.
To show humanity to other humans is one thing, to Islamists barbarians, nihilists is a waste of time. They belong to another planet. With the help of Alon Musk perhaps …..
As Bill Levinson already noted, Israeli leaders have released THOUSANDS of unrepentant Muslim terrorists from Israeli jails. Jails where the barbarians lived like rock stars, with many special privileges and eating the very best food.
I’m surprised that Israeli leaders, as an added, extra good will gesture didn’t give the released, living Muslim terrorists a cash reward and a weapon with which to wage war against the hated Jewish infidels.
One should expect insane acts from mentally affected people and we elect them time and time again.
For example…
It has just been reported as declared by the Minister of Police that THE STATE pays for the bus fare of illegals to go to the destination of their choice in Israel… (on the nus).
As to the rest.
I would suggest again to the pathetic if not useful idiots “from withiners” to cut bait from the combina. Or alternatively watch and video tape the bulldozers destroying every Jewish home and family.
Israel is a country without the rule of law or justice.
Why should we be surprised Israel’s politicians are crooks and idiots?
They know exactly what they’re doing and while their stupidity may or may not lead to sound results, its not a crime.