[WCUSP] Fwd: FW: Yosef (Tommy) Lapid: Stop the Jewish barbarians in Hebron
yvonne simmons
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Sun Jan 21 15:04:57 CST 2007
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> Subject: FW: Yosef (Tommy) Lapid: Stop the Jewish
> barbarians in Hebron
> Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 21:02:52 -0800
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Montreal Muslim News
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> Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2007 7:46 PM
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> Subject: Yosef (Tommy) Lapid: Stop the Jewish
> barbarians in Hebron
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> Stop the Jewish barbarians in Hebron
>
> Yosef (Tommy) Lapid, THE JERUSALEM POST
>
> Jan. 17, 2007
>
>
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1167467756320&pagename=JPost%2FJP
> Article%2FPrinter
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> That woman, the one who it turns out is named Yifat
> Alkobi, the Jewish woman
> that confronted, cursed, spat on and threatened her
> Arab neighbor in Hebron,
> she who is imprisoned in her own home, seemed
> somehow familiar to me.
>
> Gradually, from the cobwebs of my childhood
> memories, I dredged up the image
> of a Hungarian neighbor in Novi Sad, who used to
> stand at the entrance to
> her home and curse us every time we went into the
> street - just like Yifat
> Alkobi.
>
> When we decide, and rightly so, to never under any
> circumstances compare the
> behavior of Jews to that of Nazis, we are forgetting
> that anti-Semitism only
> reached its height at Auschwitz. It had existed, was
> active, frightening,
> harmful and disgusting - exactly like Alkobi's image
> - in the years that
> preceded Auschwitz too. And behind shuttered windows
> hid terrified Jewish
> women, exactly like the Arab woman of the Abu-Isha
> family in Hebron.
>
> It is unthinkable that the memory of Auschwitz
> should serve as a pretext to
> ignore the fact that living here among us are Jews
> that behave toward
> Palestinians exactly the way that German, Hungarian,
> Polish and other
> anti-Semites behaved toward Jews.
>
> I am not referring to crematoria or pogroms, but
> rather to the persecution,
> hounding, stone-throwing, undermining of livelihood,
> scare tactics, spitting
> and contempt.
>
> It was all of these things that made our lives in
> the Diaspora so bitter and
> harrowing, even before they began the wholesale
> killing of Jews. I was
> afraid to go to school because little anti-Semites
> lay in wait on the way
> and beat us. In what way is a Palestinian child in
> Hebron any different?
>
> EVEN THOSE that justify the occupation for
> ideological or religious reasons
> - or perhaps especially those that seek to justify
> the occupation - should
> be ashamed, as Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said of
> himself, when seeing these
> pictures. We all bear responsibility for the
> suffering of the Palestinians,
> but it would not have been possible to establish a
> Jewish state without
> causing them some harm.
>
> But there is no reason or justification for the
> thuggery of the kind
> demonstrated time after time by the residents of the
> Jewish settlement in
> Hebron toward their Arab neighbors.
>
> The settlement of Jews in Hebron is the original
> sin. Now, they are adding
> insult to injury. And at best, we, the Jewish
> citizens of the State of
> Israel say, "Tsk, tsk, tsk."
>
> We forget that this hounding of the Palestinian
> neighbors in Hebron happens
> not only at the moment we see it on television, but
> rather day after day,
> every day of the year (with the exception of Yom
> Kippur). The truth is that
> I too only pipe up occasionally and pay lip service
> by means of articles
> such as this. Even worse: I reacted with silence to
> this when I was justice
> minister too. We left the task of protest to the
> extreme leftist groups, who
> provoke well-deserved loathing from us all other
> days of the year.
>
> We are familiar with the excuse of "We didn't know."
> So, for the record: We
> do know.
>
> We will never be able to forgive ourselves - our
> consciences won't let us -
> and neither will our children if we do not make our
> army and police put an
> end to the Jewish barbarism in Hebron.
>
> The writer is a former MK.
>
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