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Why, Some of my Best Friends are anti-Semites! | Poem

June 28, 2005 /21 Sivan, 5765

Why, Some of my Best Friends are anti-Semites!

By Julia Gorin

 
"If anyone criticizes Israel for their terrorist attacks and slaughter of the Palestinians, they are immediately labeled "anti-Semitic" and guilt-inflicted for the Holocaust without any regard for Palestinian suffering."

And that is why nearly every writing supporting Israeli action includes the word "holocaust"?

"Anyway, it's the only rational explanation I can think of for why anti-Israel rhetoric has increased "in direct proportion to the growing toll of Jewish casualties from Arab terrorism,"

And forget the news reporting that Jewish casualities are decreasing in the last several months.

"I have faith, though, that the world is committed to the Holocaust "never again" happening to the Jews."

Do you have enough faith to understand "never again" was more encompassing than only for Jews? There was a world wide conviction that the world would not stand by while masses of people were being exterminated. Darfur is only one example of losing THAT moral value.

"...I suffer from what can only be Islamophobia...I imagine there are news reports detailing horrors all over the world  —  car bombings, suicide bombings, even air planes crashing into buildings  —  and in every case, Muslims are the ones executing these acts."

And I suffer from Washing Hands of Blood when death and destruction comes from the sky...if we don't see it we don't have to believe it.

"I am now also open to the possibility that Palestinians aren't responsible for exploding Jews at all."

And the twin possibility that Israelis aren't responsible for sitting behind a computer and pushing a button that explodes Palestinians at all.

"Just look at the disparity between these two Reuters headlines: "Israel Kills Three Militants" vs. "Bus Blows Up in Central Jerusalem." In other words, the Jews are suffering too, but apparently what they suffer from is spontaneous combustion."

Apparently the FACT that BOTH headlines are TRUE should spontaneously combust.

"...exceptional sliver of land that happens to be dominated by Jews..."

Imagine how history might be different if the Brits and US had purchased that exceptional sliver of land instead of pushing Palestinians off of it.

"My computer-programmer husband is actually developing software that will calculate the percentage of Jewish responsibility for everything that happens in the world..."

We can hope he will start with the two books of Kings, maybe cover how war like for the purpose of acquiring land and water and start with King Solomon and King David - their castles and gold et al.

"The resemblance is so great, who can deny we're cousins?"

Maybe Isaac and Ishmel?

"And with the Gaza withdrawal this year, Jew will turn against Jew and spill more blood. Is this not love?"

And a bloody civil war is better than a compromise?

"After international pressure does finally push the Israelis into the sea, though, I just hope no one is disillusioned to see suicide bombers swimming after them to carry out their mitzvah before the Jews can drown."

And the solution is to finally push the Palestinians into the sea? Ask the majority of Israelis and Palestinians if they prefer a compromise to never ending war.

"If the Jews left Israel and moved to Mars, the Palestinians would develop a space program before a constitution."

And the Palestinians are throwing rocks at Israeli tanks because they are saving all their riches to develop a space program?

And that's because if Palestinians woke up one morning without an excuse to kill a Jew, there'd be no reason to get out of bed.

That would be because rational Palestinians and Israelis negotiated peace. There reason to bet out of bed would be because they are no longer referred to as "lazy Arab porters".

"Daniel Pipes cites a Palestinian Christian, who declared that when there's a Palestinian state, "the sacred union against the Zionist enemy will die. It will be time to settle accounts…It saddens me to say so, but Israeli laws protect us." (Goddesses, let's hope that the man who betrayed his people with such candor has since been arrested.)

Indeed! Arrest anyone who understands hate is not born in a vacuum.

"Palestinian state…[in the form of a] stable democracy." They deserve leaders like, well, the Israelis."

Like Sharon who now is being rejected for trying to follow a road to peace?

"...why, some of my best friends are anti-Semites"

Lesson in linguistics: Arabs are Semites too.

"Mahathir Mohamad...it was sort of neat hearing this stuff come out of someone of Mongoloid stock..."

Is that the same as being a lazy Arab porter?

"I spend the rest of my time drinking the blood of Arab teenagers."

From the Blood of the Lamb to the Blood of the Human? The letting of blood does give one human power over another and power gained by blood is an evil power no matter the clothing.

Pleaseeeeee Julia, save the olive trees...we need the branches!

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