Why Are They Such Savages? Krauthammer

Hadas Fogel Age 3 months
What would make someone slaughter a three-month old baby? This article by Charles Krauthammer - written upon the 2001 murder of Koby Mandell and Yosef Ish Ran HY"D (may God avenge their blood) - provides some insight (Hat Tip: Soccer Dad). (This is from the first link).

This is not war. This is not even terrorism. This is bloodlust. It is savagery so grotesque that it might not have been believed had we not all seen that picture last fall on the cover of Time of the Palestinian, having just beaten to death the two Israeli reservists in Ramallah, exultantly holding out his blood-stained hands to the crowd in a gesture of triumph.

People are not born with bloodlust. They learn it. It is no mystery where the Palestinians have learned it.

For years Arafat's mini-police-state has been feeding his people the rawest Jew-hatred since the Third Reich. In television, radio, newspapers, and textbooks, Arafat has created the psychic infrastructure that sustains his endless war on Israel - and gives us the barbarism in the cave.

Nothing has changed since then.

Labels: Fogel family massacre, Itamar, Koby Mandell, Palestinian terrorism

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 8:08 PM

Even Charles Krauthammer Doesn't Get It?

Many Right-wing bloggers (including yours truly) quote him and link him all the time, but does Charles Krauthammer get it about Israel? After this column from Friday's Washington Post, Daniel Friedman argues that even erstwhile Israel defender Charles Krauthammer doesn't get it (Hat Tip: Shy Guy).

Krauthammer must think he's Moses because our hero goes on to dismiss any alternatives with a sweep of his hand. "The Israeli left, mugged by reality, is now moribund. And the Israeli right is chastened. No serious player believes it can hang on forever to the West Bank." Then, assuming a more totalitarian persona, he warn us and the Israelis that resistance to Obama's final solution is futile.. "Might they not resist? Some tried that during the Gaza withdrawal, clinging to synagogue rooftops. What happened? Jewish soldiers pulled them down and took them away." Israel's proudest moment, and since he supported the debacle known as "disengagement, and still does, it must be Krauthammer's too.

Alas, in Krauthammer's parallel universe the stars are all aligned for peace, save one. "The obstacle today, as always, is Palestinian refusal to accept a Jewish state." If only those pesky "Palestinians" would just read from the script... But of course, they won't. Never have, never will. Which brings me to the question I always put to the Krauthammers and the other "friends of Israel" who are waiting for Godot. Is there any limit to your patience with the Arabs? What will it take before you abandon the "land for peace" illusion and its "Palestinian state" solution? Feel free to express your answer as a timeframe or a Jewish body count. Funny, they never get back to me.

Carl in Jerusalem