Palestinians celebrate attacks on Jews.
Gaza’s streets filled with joyous crowds of thousands on Thursday evening following the terror attack at a Jerusalem rabbinical seminary in which eight people were killed.
In mosques in Gaza City and northern Gaza, many residents went to perform the prayers of thanksgiving.
Armed men fired in the air in celebration and others passed out sweets to passersby.
Jews protest attacks on Palestinians—even in France, where Muslim attacks on Jews have become commonplace.
Some 300 people participated Wednesday evening in a show of support in front of a pro-Palestinian bookstore that was vandalized last week in France. The demonstrators called to dismantle the Jewish Defense League, whose members were allegedly involved in the attack on the store. Four young Jews were arrested Wednesday on suspicions of carrying out the attack.
In the event that took place last weekend, five armed masked people broke into the store, smashed computers and set fire to books. The store owners accused the Jewish Defense League for carrying out the attack.
There, in the nutshell, is the difference between them and us.
When the Palestinians start behaving like Jews, there will be peace.
I won’t be holding my breath.
I think the majority of the jews are overly self-critical, what should be a good thing if there is not a “overly” in the context. Many of us (but not all, or even the great majority, obviously) prefer to please the “sense of justice” of others, than to think by self and reach an conclusion. We are more afraid with the possibility of an error by us than with the setbacks of be so acquiescent. But is not only this. We suffer with the suffering of non-jewish people, not rarely as if is our own suffer. As we fight against the racial discrimination in the XX century, as our prophets brought to the world the conception of a great peace between all human beings, we even today are in the front in the battle against all forms of hate, against the misoginy in Islam and against the ethnic massacres in Africa, against the opression of the han majority over the subjugated nations in China and against religious, racial an political discrimination all over the world. And that make us better, because we protest against the injustices (and even, what is not good, the acts of self-defense and protection of our rights) commited by other jews, but make us vulnerable because other people don’t think this way the most of time, especially people drive by an fanatical and fundamentalist vision of the world.
But please. We are not perfect, I did not say that, but we are generally more self-critical than others.
Last, but not least, I totally agree with the conclusion of this post, and make then my words.
“When the Palestinians start behaving like Jews, there will be peace. I won’t be holding my breath.”
Shalom.
Lucas Emanuel