[HANASHIR:9833] Re: From Jerusalem with solidarity

[Ilana and Mark Axel <axelsinchicago...>]

Thank you for that, Shirona. Ilana
--- shirona <shirona (at) bellatlantic(dot)net> wrote:
>   From Jerusalem, With Solidarity 
> 
>   Naomi Ragen 
> 
>   Just yesterday, a day after three suicide bombers
> blew themselves up all 
>   over Israel, killing five more innocent Israeli
> civilians, I sat writing 
>   how I longed for America.  From my home in
> Jerusalem, it shone in the 
>   distance, a beacon of  stability and safety, it's
> shores so secure and 
>   inviting.  Can it be that only twenty-four hours
> later my birthplace, the 
>   City of New York, the place that educated and
> nutured me with its thrilling 
>   diversity and endless promise; the place my
> brothers and their families 
>   still live, is now a graveyard of thousands of
> innocent people cut down by 
>   the same murderers that have been bloodying the
> streets of my spiritual 
>   birthplace,  Jerusalem? 
> 
>   "Vicious, cowardly terrorists," is how Mayor
> Guiliani described them, 
>   "attacking innocent men, women and children going
> about their lives..".   
>   "An attack on freedom and our way of life." 
> 
>   And Tony Blair, who rose to the occasion, talked
> about this being an attack 
>   on the free world, on democracy.   
> 
>   How  we in Jerusalem who have been under attack by
> the same terrorists for 
>   months have thirsted to hear these  words! 
> 
>   In East Jerusalem, the Palestinian celebrations,
> the joy of the man-- and 
>   woman-- in the street at this savage act of
> barbarism, is now broadcast by 
>   CNN and the BBC which has been wallowing in
> sympathy for Palestinian 
>   suicide bombers for months, interviewing their
> parents; examining  their 
>   delicate sensibilities, their noble motives..How,
> I wonder,  do these 
>   networks feel now?  Are they embarrassed?  Are
> they enlightened?  I'd 
>   really like to know. 
> 
>   Just the other day in reporting Sunday's multiple
> suicide bombings in 
>   Israel, the BBC reported: "Eight died in Mideast
> violence." And this is 
>   what they meant:  Three suicide bombers and their
> five Israeli victims who 
>   were murdered in cold blood.  I imagine they won't
> be counting the suicide 
>   pilots in the the body count of the American
> victims, or say that they died 
>   in a continuing cycle of violence.  Not now when
> Britain itself feels that 
>   the ground beneath its own feet is suddenly less
> solid then before.  Why do 
>   we have to learn these lessons of history again
> and again: that tolerance 
>   for anti-Semitism and the murder of Jews
> inevitably leads to  a hundredfold 
>   number of casualties among innocent people of all
> races and religions all 
>   over the world?  That evil and immorality and
> racism always chooses the 
>   Jews as its first target, but never its last?  If
> the attack is tolerated,   
>   it grows in strength and begins to devour the rest
> of the world.   
>   Appeasement, Churchill said, is feeding a
> crocodile in the hope that he 
>   will eat you last.  It doesn't work.  And now,
> just days after the debacle 
>   in Durban which unleashed the most vicious racism
> of modern times, comes 
>   the physical attack on the leader of the free
> world and its people. 
> 
>   I feel no satisfaction that the world which has
> been so blind, so 
>   wrong-headed, in its abandonment of the Jews of
> Israel, feeding us to the 
>   crocodiles, must now  experience the horrors we
> have been living with on a 
>   daily basis for months, even years.  But it is my
> hope, as I wearily type 
>   these words, that a new light will come out of the
> billowing evil smoke of   
>   destruction and darkness that has claimed so many
> innocent lives, destroyed 
>   so many, many innocent families.  A light of
> determination and clear-headed 
>   moral thinking that will allow all the good people
> of the world to gird 
>   their loins and join forces to  defeat the
> embodiment of evil - fanacticism 
>   and disregard for human life dressed in religious
> clothing: Muslim 
>   fundamentalism. 
> 
>   I am so sorry englightenment had to come at such a
> terrible price.  Let it 
>   be the last we pay. 
> 
>   My prayers are with my fellow Americans. May God
> bless you and watch over 
>   you all. 
> 
> 
>   Naomi Ragen - visit my Web page and subscribe 
>    to my Jerusalem Post columns by email at: 
>          http://www.NaomiRagen.com 
>         email: Naomi (at) NaomiRagen(dot)com 
> 
> 
> 
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