The West does not understand that the Palestinians do not want a state or to make progress. They just want to kill Jews.
One of the major problems that the West has is that it does not understand many of its adversaries. One often hears the word “senseless” used in the press to describe acts of terror or violence against civilians. When six hostages, including one American, were murdered in cold blood after nearly a year of brutal captivity (Israel said that they could no longer stand when they were slaughtered), their deaths were described as “senseless”. This description is correct in the eyes of us Westerners. But let’s look at the event from the eyes of the Palestinians, both the terrorists and their supporters. Their goal is to kill Jews, and they killed Jews. There is nothing senseless about it. It is rather a job well done. And we in the West cannot understand this. We see 20 somethings murdered and we say senseless; they see six dead Jews and declare success.
I first became aware of the demented Palestinian view of life and death when I read the indictments of those involved in the suicide bombing in which our son and I were wounded. Those who prepped the bomber, a Palestinian policeman, exhorted him to kill at least one Jew. If he sees that they are closing in on him, he should set off his charge so that at least one Jew is killed through his actions. In practice, he killed three Jews, two being a young married couple, she being pregnant with twins. Over eighty others were wounded.
When news spread of the death of the six hostages, those marching on campuses and through the streets of Western capitals were nonplussed. They did not condemn the executions and some specifically said that they were happy with the announced deaths. One can learn from the slogans spouted by these two-legged pieces of garbage that the Palestinians have no goal of having a state or becoming a nation. Their sole purpose is to kill Jews and beyond that there is nothing more. Let’s look at the top three campus slogans.
Intifada Revolution. Let’s go back to the dark days of the second intifada, circa 2000-2006. The Palestinians committed thousands of acts of terror. I am not making up that fact; it was recorded in a full report on the events of that period. Suicide bombings, stabbings, vehicular attacks, stonings, and more occurred throughout Israel and the West Bank/Gaza. Around 1,100 Israelis were killed and over 10,000 were injured. There was no person in Israel who did not know somebody killed or injured. When we lay in Hadassah Hospital, hundreds of friends, family, and colleagues were made aware of our plight. But did the Palestinians gain anything from the bloodletting? Thousands of Palestinians were killed, wounded and incarcerated. The Palestinian Authority (PA), whose associated paramilitary groups stood behind many of the attacks including our own, gained nothing during this period. They did not add any land. They made no progress towards statehood. They lost a lot of their policemen and paramilitary forces as they were ultimately terrorists in official clothing. The intifada was therapeutic for the Palestinians as they saw Jews dead and their relatives crying. But they gained nothing. So the current call for “intifada revolution” is simply a call to kill more Jews and gain nothing.
1948. The marchers always seem terribly concerned about rhyming chants. One of their jingles demands a return to 1948. So let’s go back to 1948. From January through early May, the British had firm control of Palestine. They ruled with an iron fist and had full governmental, police and military authority. The British left and five Arab armies and the locals fought the Jews. The Jews won and established the state of Israel on the land held, while the West Bank was taken by Jordan and Gaza was held by the Egyptians. There were not even five minutes during the entire 12 months of 1948 when there was a state of Palestine run by local Arabs. So the call for “1948” is meaningless. Do they want to go back to harsh British colonial rule? Do they want a replay of the Jews defeating combined Arab forces? This chant, like its predecessor, has no relationship to having a country called Palestine, because they don’t want a country. They just want to kill Jews.
From the River to the Sea. This is the main mantra at most of the protests, violent or otherwise. Many of those marching have provided social media with great fodder by not knowing from which river to what sea. But the Palestinians, if they really wanted to realize this vision of “from the river to the sea”, would need to kill or deport around 9 million Jews. The Palestinians do not have the means to defeat Israel militarily. Yes, they can fire rockets or undertake terror attacks, but they do not have a real answer to F-15’s, F-16’s, F-35’s, hundreds of tanks and nine advanced German submarines. The cry "from the river to the sea" is just one more way of saying, “Let’s kill as many Jews as possible. We are not interested in two-states or coexistence. We want the whole enchilada and don’t want one living Jew anywhere in the region."
Senseless with respect to murder would be appropriate for a botched mob hit where the target got away safely and a 4-year-old girl was killed. The death of the girl is a tragedy and even in the eyes of the killers, there is no value to the girl’s death in the place of the target they had in mind. But the next time you hear or read about a senseless death here in the Middle East, put yourself in the mind frame of the terrorist: in his mind, was it senseless or did it accomplish the goal of killing Jews or other enemies? Because we cannot penetrate the blood-soaked mind of the West’s enemies, we see the death of young people as senseless. If we could simply transfer our brains into the terrorists’ bodies, we would understand that they felt that they had succeeded. The guy who blew up behind me did not know anyone whom he harmed. He did not care who the dead or injured were.
The West needs to understand that the Palestinians have no goal of statehood or coexistence with a Jewish state of Israel. They simply want to kill Jews, and if they can make Jews suffer instead of smiling and singing, then they have accomplished their goals. The West should understand the Palestinians and give them nothing.
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