Another victory for peace!
After a week of Arab riots at the Shechem Gate in East Jerusalem, the police finally gave in.
They removed the barricades that were established to facilitate orderly and safe traffic through the major thoroughfare. That was the ostensible excuse for the mass violence and attacks on Jewish passersby.
The "youths" got their way.
Did the appeasement to violence win the hoped for quiet?
One guess.
The riots continue.
Police were injured and their weapons were pulled from them by rioters. The howls of the violent Arab victory demonstration announced a turning point in the fate of Jerusalem; or should I say yet another turning point.
There is an accumulative effect. It progressively gets worse.
Jews do not dare show their faces in the Shechem Gate area and other parts of the eternal capital of our Jewish state.
It turns out that it is actually easy to prevent attacks on Jews.
Remove the Jews and, like magic, no attacks.
The police employ this perfect strategy to keep the peace between Jews and Arabs.
I remember another time and another reality.
My first visit was in 1971. The aura of the miraculous victory of the Six Days War was still in the air.
I recall observing how even a little old Jewish lady could walk in any part of the city. Arabs would respectfully make way for her.
That seems like a long time ago, far longer than the calendar years would suggest.
What happened?
We can begin with Moshe Dayan's decision to give the keys of our just liberated holiest site to the (astounded) Arab occupiers. It all started there and then. The holy of holiest sites is the heart of the rest of the holy land. The effect of the heart on the other parts of the body is a given.
To grasp this basic truth, one must have a Jewish heart and soul.
Dayan was in the wrong place and time for Jewish history.
He also urged and ordered the fleeing Arabs to return to Eretz Yisroel.
He thought there was wisdom and mercy in that decision. He believed that should win appreciation and good neighborly relations with the conquered Arabs.
Today their grandchildren express their gratitude by attacking and humiliating Jews in Jerusalem.
Their preferred targets are the perceived most defenseless Jews and those who are most identified as Jews.
They target Haredi Jews, preferably the lone very young or the elderly.
The scenes of their humiliation are exactly what other Jew haters did in other places and times not so long ago.
The calls, "there goes a Jew", ``Get him”! are the same.
Today the blood curling words are in Arabic; then it was in German, Polish and Russian.
(The Haredi politicians, especially Gafni, still prefer the time-honored strategy that worked so well in Poland. Don’t anger the Goyim. Whatever will assure government money for the "world of Torah" is sanctified. Nothing else matters. No wonder his party is losing some of their youth. They have had enough.)
Wasn't the nightmare of pogrom yells supposed to end when Jews came home to their own land and holy city?
The Israel police solution of creating Judenrein, parts of our land in favor of quiet is a real challenge in Israel.
There are just so many Jews in Israel!
What to do?
Shalom Pollack is writing a book: “Despite ourselves, an eyewitness account".
2 comments:
It's the kinah and sinah! Isn't it strange that the Jews want to be many in numbers and, B'H, multiply in their own Land and wouldn't it really be nice, normal and right not to have alien enemies within 'their borders'? To the world, this is unthinkable, because to them, Jews are different and what gall they have to want to live peacefully & securely in their 'own' Land (which happens to be one of the smallest of lands); what chutzpah. This 'right' is only for the rest of the world but not the right for G-D's chosen (c'v)! But, G-D has a different opinion and His Will will be done! Amen! Moshiach is on the way!
You are right. And I like how you phrased it.
But one must remember that very often HaShem warns and criticizes us thru our enemies’ words and claims. So we must examine how this reflects on us and what might be the message. That goes for all our enemies.
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