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RECENTLY, a brother in Islam (and friend of many years) shared a very astute observation made by the imminent Muslim scholar Tariq Ramadan several years ago. "Empirically reprehensible, but contextually understandable," is how he termed the periodic terrorist attacks committed by a small number of Palestinians against civilian targets within Occupied Palestine (aka, Israel).
These words came to mind after I learned about the most recent terrorist attack at the rabbinical seminary in Jerusalem - empirically reprehensible, but contextually understandable. Not only does this description seem fitting for the crazed gunman who went into that yeshiva, it may also apply to the reported “joyful reaction” among oppressed Palestinians in that largest open air prison in the world called Gaza.
In the coming days the world is going to be inundated with a litany of reports, analyses and commentaries, accented by political and religiously charged denunciations from an assortment of “leaders” and commentators of various stripes - all emanating from this admittedly tragic attack in Jerusalem . As detestable as this attack on a religious school is, however, it must be placed into relative context, in order for it to be properly understood and appropriately analyzed.
According to an Associated Press report by Aron Heller (released earlier today from Jerusalem ), this was “the first major militant attack in Jerusalem in more than four years.”
When one juxtaposes this reality against an observation also made by [former] U.S. President Jimmy Carter, when he was making the promotional rounds for his provocative book (Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid), “No Israeli has died since August 2004 because of a so-called terrorist attack from Hamas. Almost all of the casualties in recent months have been inside Gaza …” – one is inclined to see such shrill and unbalanced denunciations as those coming out of Israel right now, for what they truly are: crass attempts to gain political and propaganda advantage from a tragedy that didn’t have to be!
(Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev reportedly stated: “Tonight’s massacre in Jerusalem is a defining moment. It is clear that those people celebrating this bloodshed have shown themselves to be not only the enemies of Israel but of all humanity.” What gall, for any representative of Zionist Israel to say such a thing!)
It has also been reported that after the attack ended, hundreds of seminary students demonstrated outside the school chanting, “Death to the Arabs!” This is precisely what instigated this tragedy in the first place; the daily deaths, and the living hell, of Christian and Muslim Arabs at the hands of unrepentant Zionists!
The seminary has been identified as the Mercaz Harav yeshiva, located at the Kiryat Moshe quarter at the entrance to Jerusalem . It is said to be a “prestigious center of Jewish studies,” identified with the leadership of the infamous Jewish settlement movement in the West Bank . (The school reportedly serves high school students and young Israeli soldiers.)
Rather than exploiting this tragedy in a manner that continues the never-ending cycle of death and destruction, it would behoove sincerely inclined peace and justice loving workers on both sides of the dividing line (but especially on the Israeli side) to reflect more deeply on the causative factors behind this mayhem…before more [Israeli] chickens come home to roost.
NETUREI KARTA of THE ORTHODOX JEWRY JERUSALEM, PALESTINE
P.O.Box 5053 Jerusalem
E-mail: nkp@neto.bezeqint.net
Mar. 01/08
URGENT STATEMENT FROM ANTI-ZIONIST ORTHODOX JEWS IN ZIONIST-OCCUPIED PALESTINE
We Orthodox Jews cry out to the world to stop the wild beast of the Zionist State from destroying the Palestinian People!
We Orthodox Jews condemn the murderous terrorism and gangsterism of the Zionist murder machine!
For sixty years the Zionist butchers have been expelling, occupying, ghettoizing, terrorizing and killing Palestinians who simply want their rights restored in their homeland of historic Palestine !
How long will the World Powers stand silent at Zionist terrorism and barbarism? Will the world wait until millions of Palestinians are finally starved to death to mourn the extinction of the Palestinian People, G-d forbid?
We also condemn the current onslaught of the Zionist military machine in its wicked and cannibalistic campaign on the suffering and innocent occupied people of Gaza in violation of all international concepts of law, justice and peace!
We call on all peace-loving nations to take every measure to stop the madness unleashed by the Zionists and to restore the rights of the Palestinians, thereby ending all suffering and bloodshed of all people in historic Palestine
The Zionist terrorist machine and its regime in occupied Jerusalem do not represent the Jewish People and religion. They may call themselves Jews, but they are not following the Jewish religion. They are barbarians and butchers! They defile and desecrate the holiness of our religion, of our Torah!
We pray for the rapid restoration of the rights of the Palestinians throughout historic Palestine , and for the establishment of a free Palestine throughout historic Palestine , and for the Zionist regime to be dismantled and expelled from the entire Holy Land .
We offer our deepest condolences and sympathy to the entire Palestinian People who must constantly face the effects of Zionist terrorism, and specifically to the families of all those who have been wounded and killed due to the Zionist war machine, may it soon be obliterated.
May we all see the revelation of G-d in the entire world and serve him in truth and peace. Amen. INSHALLAH!
Neturei Karta
Jerusalem , Palestine !
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