DesertPeace, nor any of its Associates are not defenders of terrorism or terrorists….. on either side. I was questioned by many readers this week about a certain post that appeared on this Blog. Some had the impression that the post was in support of what appeared to be a terrorist attack on the part of a Palestinian. Nothing is further from the truth.The post was a condemnation of an attack by settlers on that man in the Occupied West Bank.
The Palestinian in question allegedly stabbed a Jewish woman at a gas station, resulting in the woman’s husband running him down with his car TWICE.
This incident occurred outside one of the most vicious settlements of all, Kiryat Arba. This particular settlement is home to the Rabbi Meir Kahane Memorial Park, in memory of the founder of Kach, a Jewish religious and nationalist right wing organization designated as a terrorist group by the US, the EU and Israel. The grave of Baruch Goldstein, who perpetrated the Cave of the Patriarchs massacre lies across the street from the park and has become a place of pilgrimage for the Far Right.
If this had occurred anyplace else, I might have overlooked the key word ‘allegedly’, but in this case there is no way that I am prepared to take the word of the settlers in question. They are desperate at the moment, trying to get as much sympathy towards their ‘plight’ due to a ‘settlement freeze’. There is no reason whatsoever to trust or believe anything they say. The largest concentration of thugs and murderers live in that particular settlement. They will do anything in their power at the moment to show the world that it is they who are the victims, not the Palestinians. This is NOT the case.
Hebron should serve as an example of a city where Israelis and Palestinians can live together in peace. It is the city that our common Father Abraham chose as His final resting place. His tomb serves both as a synagogue and a mosque. But instead of the peace that should prevail we have seen nothing but hatred and bloodshed over the years.
So, no, DesertPeace does not support or defend terrorism. It is not the answer and will not lead to the establishment of a Palestinian State. Trust and understanding is what is needed, not hatred. Both sides have to learn this or nothing will change. Just because the tomb of Abraham and His Family is called the Cave of the Patriarchs does not mean we have to behave as cavemen.
Below is a video which shows the type of ‘people’ that live in Kiryat Arba…. you can see what the Palestinians are up against. Also watch the related videos listed.
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Aufzuleiden said,
December 4, 2009 at 16:14
It is deeply disturbing that you should take the comments from the article in question and recast them as assertions that you – or your associates – are, in some way or other, supporting terrorists or acts thereof. What you conveniently failed to mention is that, in essence, your son was vehemently disagreeing with the manner in which you were presenting something which you were purporting to represent ‘facts’ and, at the same time, contradicted said facts with the very information you presented (the video in which the presenter made reference to the ‘aftermath of a stabbing’).
You have now gone through great pains to point out that the settlement (illegal, immoral, disgusting and perverse that it may be) is, perhaps, the worst of all settlements – I will not disagree with you – anything that has to do with Kahane is tainted with the memory of that criminal mamzer. If this settlement was built in dedication to him, well, I want nothing to do with it: but that is not the point, is it? The point has always been the corroborative relation of the material which you chose to report this story. You selected one print source and one video source that are contradictory in their presentation of the ‘facts’; as a ‘consumer’ of the material, I found – and still find – this to be disturbing. As someone who considers themselves to be a ‘blogger journalist’, as you also seem to represent yourself (you regularly post ‘DesertPeace Editorials’, implying some element of journalistic integrity at play) I find these contradictory sources even more disturbing for they represent a story that cannot – with this material – be corroborated.
All I have been saying is that with the ‘evidence’ that you have presented we are NOT getting the entire story. Key questions have not been asked or answered, and that is totally unsatisfactory – or, at least it should be to anyone who is at all sensitive to the issue of journalistic integrity. Who is the man (the Palestinian), and why was he at the gas (Petrol) station? If this settlement is as terrible as it is made out to be (I have no reason to doubt that it isn’t, in fact, worse than it is described – I’ve yet to meet a Zionist that hasn’t been able to impress me with the depths of their ability to sow hatred and strife into a situation) why then would this Palestinian man voluntarily enter into the area?
Again, I am NOT – in any way – saying that what happened to the victim was pardonable – he was treated in an inexcusable manner (a manner that befits the reputation of that settlement). What I am asking, however, and what I have been asking from the beginning, is this: WHY did this seemingly normal man allow himself to go into the center of an area full of people who would (by virtue of their predisposition to hate Palestinians) want to do him harm? There may be many answers, but one possibility – as postulated by the video that you posted – is that he was there because he had attacked two people.
Does that make what happened to him right? Certainly not. Does it excuse any of the actions of the settlers? No. Does it excuse the settlers for their imperialist ways (a nod to the batlady) – no, but the two have nothing to do with each other in the sense that you don’t right a wrong by committing another wrong. Murder, assault, or other forms of violence will never solve the problems in Israel/Palestine – they will only amplify them, as has been demonstrated countless times.
This is an excerpt of the email I sent to my father – DesertPeace – earlier:
I find it rather dismaying that you did not take me at my word: I was not contesting the conditions of the settlement, nor was I contesting the attitude of the settlers – may the fleas of a thousand camels infest their crotches. I WAS contesting the veracity of the report you posted given the TWO reports contradicted each other in the presentation of FACTS. The beginning of the video opened with the words: “This is the aftermath of a stabbing”. The article, on the other hand, discusses ‘a stabbing’ as though there was one (a stabbing) and then there happened to be this poor Palestinian man who ALSO happened to be run over, twice, by these brutal settlers – may God rain the curses of Egypt upon their heads. That, my dear father, is two different things. I have only been concerned with the presentation of corroborating evidence in the matter of the story. I only want to know WHY this man (the Palestinian) WAS AT the petrol station to begin with; what compelled a seemingly rational man to, as you called it, go to the most fascistic settlement in the West Bank? Was he mentally ill? Was he compelled by some form of masochism? Did he have a death wish? Or … did he want to attack some settlers? Now, if he wanted to make an attack that would – perhaps – explain the reason that he was himself attacked. I’m not excusing the attack, but I am saying that we have to look at the situation from all sides – that is the way a writer (journalist) works. If you aren’t willing to do that, stop posting things that say ‘DesertPeace Editorial’ – which implies a ‘journalistic’ ideal is being represented on your blog.
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I never accused this site of siding with terrorists, by the way, nor did I accuse you of being sympathetic to them: I did, however, accuse you of not fully checking everything that you were posting, and that you were posting things that were not necessarily of the same caliber as the majority of your postings. There is a rather large difference which you should be able to recognize – particularly since you have the emails that we exchanged regarding this matter.
That’s all; it’s only about the facts, nothing else.
For the record, you’re still my father – even if we disagree at times.
Wie viel ist Aufzuleiden!