{Sarah Tuttle-Singer is the Times of Israel New Media editor. - ML}
Tonight is the First Night of Passover and as the news comes in from the Gazan border, I’m thinking about this:Our enemies have dehumanized us throughout the centuries – they call us vermin, they call us filth.
We must not do that
We must not celebrate death.
We should celebrate life.
Because we are a people who believe in the sanctity of life – so much so that we even diminish our joy when we remember the ten plagues during Passover by pouring out wine.
We must not dehumanize and call people “animals” or “garbage.”
Not even terrorists.
No matter how disgusted or how angry we are.
We should mourn our dead together, and celebrate our continued survival as a just and moral people, together.
Because when the Egyptians were drowning in the sea, God told the angels not to sing songs of praise.
I know we are only human – but so is everyone.
Well that's like, your opinion, man
ReplyDeleteTrudy is a fan of the dude, his dudeness, el duderino? Cool.
DeleteI didn't like it that Donny died, but I happen to know there's a little Lebowsky on the way.
Delete"The killing of Palestinian demonstrators by Israeli forces in Gaza is tragic. It is the right of all people to protest for a better future without a violent response." Bernie Saunders.
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/SenSanders
It's not like they want all of Israel and the right to decapitate 3 month old settler babies is it? They're only human , right. Vote for Bernie and get a metal throat protector.
This is a funded propaganda campaign using humans as fodder. "Palestine" is a huge lie.
DeleteIt was evident during the presidential campaign that Bernie hasn't got a clue, so no surprise there.
A Sanders presidency would be a disaster for world Jewry. Because he is so ugly toward Israel himself it would represent a signal to everyone that it's open season on Israel and her defenders.
DeleteIf she did not do this all the time, this could have been a meaningful post. But she is such an apologist for terrorists that this post ends up being another instance of virtue signaling.
ReplyDeleteI bet she comes around. Watch.
DeleteA look at sober look at the pro-Hamas western reporting might help.
DeleteI think we're all too aware that they are humans. Who else pulls such stunts?
ReplyDeleteCan we call them crude, cruel, vicious, inhumane, supremacists, Jew-hating murderers?
May we call them backward, retrograde, medieval? How about ugly?
Well, certainly the guys trying to push toward the fence were ugly as hell.
DeleteIt is a proper sentiment that for the Palestinians to simply show up at the Gaza border is not a reason to kill them. However, it is equally necessary to point out that there is a line that the Palestinians could cross in doing so that would warrant deadly force, as was tragically demonstrated when that demonstration happened. We must also protest those like Bernie and the media who push the notion that there is no such line that they could cross or refuse to examine any evidence of them crossing it in order to condemn Israel for a "disproportionate" response.
ReplyDeleteThat may be the most concise and reasonable assessment that I have seen thus far. If I borrow it, I will give you full acknowledgment.
DeleteOne wonders how many Dems/Leftists, usual suspects pray the Gazans breach the Israeli border. I betcha the numbers are huge.
ReplyDeleteIt's amazing how conditioned some of these people are. To believe the worst about Israel, no matter what, no matter that what others do while they look the other way. Then they complain about human rights, as their anti-Israel partners violate women, children as normal as day. The words of the critics are empty.
ReplyDeleteThey are prey to fake news and so uninformed about fundamentals. Their ability to confront the world as it actually exists, where others are not seeking safe spaces, but purposeful in pursuit of power, is scary to consider.
It's really foolish to think that policy should be guided as if utopia is now here. Especially by people detached from the everyday existence of most, too privileged to understand basic human nature. Thinking whatever they have was stolen. In their utopia, Palestinians love Jews. That should say it all right there.
One should no more trust their views than trusting what a teenager says about the inner workings of democracy and what constitutes morality.
I can imagine in a far off era when there really is a Free Democratic Islamic People's Republic of PLOistan and this is how people settle their disputes with the phone company or a dispute with their neighbor over a fenceline. Just march over their dead bodies by the thousands, burn their houses down, behead the fleeing women and children and then squat in the dust screaming, tears running down their filthy faces that someone owes them recompense.
ReplyDeleteMESA: Make Everything Syria Again !!