The news items which are still fresh, in this place of ever-generating news, include the murder of Eden Atias, 19 year old new IDF recruit, on a bus in Afula. Eden was on his way home for Shabbat and had dozed off in the bus, when he was attacked and stabbed repeatedly by a 16 year old youth from Jenin, Hussein Rawarda. The only motive for this crime was political. Hussein killed Eden, a sleeping stranger, because he was wearing an IDF uniform, and was therefore probably a Jew, and certainly an Israeli. And where does a 16 year old learn to foster such hatred? In school. At home. In the mosque. Wherever there is unfettered incitement. Where the schoolbooks deny the existence of Israel, where the legitimacy of Israel's existence is continually questioned and denied and where the Jew is despised as a descendant of 'apes and pigs'. Just as with the murder of the Fogel family, stabbed to death by two Palestinian teenagers while sleeping, the words of hatred led to actions of hatred, perpetrated in the most heinous way imaginable. How do you stab to death a sleeping youth, sleeping children, a sleeping baby? How can a person hate so much? Well, he can. And it's been taught to him.
Meanwhile John Kerry continues to thrash around, desperately trying to broker a peace deal between the Israelis and the Palestinians, against all logic parroting the bullshit about how this conflict is the major cause of unrest in the Middle East, against all facts in front of his face, resorting to bribing the Fatah leadership with millions of US taxpayers' dollars - talk about throwing good money after bad, considering that the money will probably buy more weapons and hate education, via UNRWA- while having his Neville Chamberlain moment in his handling of Iran. I'd feel sorry for him if I didn't think he was such a malevolent buffoon. And that the future of the world might rest on his skinny shoulders.
And in the midst of all this shit and horror, the feel-good story of the IDF in the Phillippines, post Typhoon Haiyan. 148 IDF personnel have put up a field hospital in Bogo City, capable of treating 500 patients at a time, with facilities including X-ray, pediatric and maternity services. A baby boy born there yesterday has been named 'Israel' by his grateful mother.
So besieged little Israel, surrounded by hostile countries, eaten from within by hostile forces, whether from the Palestinian Territories or leftist Israeli journalists - I don't equate them, g-d forbid, but I did read an article in HaAretz yesterday where the terms 'Jewish terrorists' and 'Hamas military activists' were used, so you really gotta wonder- can still provide real humanitarian aid for no reasons except humanitarian ones. Any humanitarian relief from Saudi Arabia or Qatar or any oil-rich nations? I haven't heard, have you? But I do believe there is some financing of school book printing going on.
Rock on, Mr Kerry, just try to make sure it's not yourself that you're throwing under the bus along with Israel.
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