The Mop and the Terrorist

Palestinian Freedom Fighters from the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade

My little sister is a sweet girl, but the first couple of years of her life she had an evil streak that would literally smack you upside your head. One day while I was watching cartoons my sister walked up to me with a mop in her hands. I was completely absorbed with the TV show and didn’t see the mop swing down on my head. Naturally I was enraged so I retaliated by slapping her in the face. This ignited a fit of tears and she ran straight to my father. As a result he wound up slapping me silly while my sister watched. For years I was tortured by a picture that was taken shortly before the incident. My sister was captured in a glorious color photograph clutching a dirty mop with a mischievous smile on her face. I would publish the picture, but it is thankfully lost to history.

Now let’s play a little game. Reread the above paragraph and substitute the Palestinians for my sister, Israel for me and the UN for my father. In reality the UN doesn't have the power to smack around Israel like my father did to me, but they always try their best. Cynics will say that the analogy is unfair because I was not oppressing my sister by occupying her land or killing her people. That kind of criticism doesn’t take into account that Palestinian terrorism started without provocation in 1920 and it wasn’t until nine years later (after the Hebron massacre) that the Jews began to effectively fight back. Up until that time most Jewish militias were almost exclusively formed for self-defense.

There is a golden rule that the Palestinians have continually pissed on, “you reap what you sow”. For generations they have learned to use violence in the place of dialog. Their culture has evolved to the point that violence is viewed as a commodity that should be used as leverage in any dispute. It is absolutely amazing that the greater part of the world overlooks this simple truth. The pattern of senseless brutality that is gripping the Gaza Strip is unmistakable to any person that is not corrupted by anti-Semitism.

This latest wave of Palestinian violence was initiated by the kidnapping of British “human rights” activist Kate Burton and her parents. You would think that it would be ill-advised to kidnap a Western activist who is dedicated to promoting Palestinian propaganda against Israel, but the world has given Palestinian militants a blank check to do as they please. Of course, there was some indignation at the crime, but there will be no lasting repercussions from the West.

Great Britain’s publicly funded appeasement agency, the BBC, published an article reassuring the British that the kidnappings are not motivated by hate, only the desire to embarrass the Palestinian authorities (so I guess its OK). The article is a comical rant about how hostages in Palestine are never harmed and how friendly the Palestinians really are towards foreigners.

In a typical act of subterfuge the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade issued a statement calling for the release of the hostages. Unsurprisingly, late Tuesday evening the Palestinian Authority arrested al-Aqsa Martyrs leader, Alaa al-Hams, on suspicion of carrying out the kidnapping. His followers protested by seizing Palestinian government buildings and shooting at the security headquarters in Rafah. Riding high on their show of strength the militants marched on the Gaza border crossing with Egypt and knocked down a section of a wall protecting it. They then proceeded to attack Egyptian troops who tried to block them from entering Egypt, killing two and wounding 30. I really don’t see the connection between the arrest of their leader and innocent Egyptian soldiers guarding their own border. How long will the West tolerate such behavior?

This article is not a call to hate the Palestinians. It is a call to address what should be obvious, that the Palestinians are obsessed with violence and their apologists are blind to this disease. In a press release Kate Burton’s employer, the Al Mezan Center, stated that incidents such as this kidnapping “deform the image of Palestinians and misinterpret their cause to the world”. Their concern that these senseless acts could harm the Palestinian cause is quite unfounded. The world readily accepts Palestinian brutality towards the Jews and is quite willing to ignore the brutality that they inflict upon themselves or anyone else.