The deputy foreign minister of Israel , who goes by the name Tzipi
Hotovely, is trying to tell us that the Palestinians are unique in the sense
that they have an ongoing love affair with what she calls the culture of death.
But instead of doing that, she ended up demonstrating that the Palestinians are
similar to the rest of the human race in the sense that they have an ongoing
love affair with freedom.
Hotovely made her views known in an article she wrote under
the title: “Abbas: We Welcome Every Drop of Blood Spilled in Jerusalem ,” and the subtitle: “Palestinian
leaders have created a culture of death that is motivating the latest violent
terrorism.” It was published in the Wall Street Journal on October 19, 2015.
She begins by accusing the Palestinian leaders of explicitly
calling for the spilling of blood, and that the current cycle of clashes in the
West Bank of occupied Palestine
is a well-orchestrated campaign by those leaders. She ignores the talk that is
emanating from her own government to the effect that the clashes are caused by
what they call self-motivated lone wolves with no one to organize them.
The government source further explains that such loners are
inspired by material they gather from social media. To counter this revelation,
Hotovely seeks to buttress her argument – which she must know is false and
absurd – by saying that Palestinian children are taught to kill Jews, and
taught to regard their own death as the pinnacle of their aspirations. Well,
there is only one thing to say about that:
It appears that the lady was reading the words of the French
national anthem known as La Marseillaise before writing her piece or maybe
while writing it. She must have been impressed by this passage: “Arise, children
of the motherland, the day of glory has arrived. Bloody banner is raised; they
are coming to cut the throats of our sons and our women. Form your battalions;
let an impure blood water our furrows. To arms, citizens...” And so she
attributed to the Palestinians the revolutionary fervor expressed in those
words.
Still, conscious of the fact that the Palestinians she is
talking about are of the third generation, born and raised under the influence
of the Jewish culture imposed on the Palestinians for half a century; Hotovely
tries to place the blame for what the children have become, not on the roots of
the Jewish culture, but the roots of the Palestinian culture. And so, she says
this: “Such violence has deep roots. It goes back to the rampages at the behest
of Haj Amin al-Husseini, a Muslim activist and at one point grand mufti of Jerusalem , in the 1920s,
'30s and '40s.”
This forces the question: Why not Che Guevara? Better yet
why not Maxmillien Marie de Robespierre? After all, these were great revolutionaries
who actually achieved independence for their people … unlike al-Husseini who
lost the Palestinian motherland to the Jewish hordes that came from the sea.
But like they say: Ask me no question and I shall tell you no lie.
Convinced by now that she made a brilliant presentation, the
deputy foreign minister of Israel
takes on the international media for failing to see things her way. This is how
she does that: “The apathy shown by the international community and the manner
in which violence is treated by the media is doing long-term, irrevocable harm
to generations of Palestinians.”
Note that she says she wants to media to change and get
better – not to benefit the occupation which is her only motivation – but to
benefit future Palestinian generations about whom she could not care less. Like
they say, hypocrisy comes without shame but always reveals something new about
its practitioner. This time it is revealing that the Israelis have no intention
to end the occupation and get out of Palestine .
Immersed in a fantasy-land that delivers all that she wants
for now, an important concept escapes her. It is that Israel 's
soldiers who may be criminals in the eyes of Palestinians are heroes in the
eyes of the Israelis. When they die while on duty, they are honored by their
government. Likewise, when Palestinians who may be called terrorists by the
Israelis are honored like heroes by their people.