Thursday, March 30, 2017

They excuse one and condemn the other

There was a time during the reign of Begin and Shamir – both of whom spoke English with a heavy East European accent – when we used to hear the biblical expression: “we'll break their bones.” It was the promise and the threat they and their people made regularly to scare the Palestinian kids who were fighting for their freedom battling the Israeli occupation of their homeland.

After a while, someone told the two characters, it sounds bad in English when the Prime Minister of Israel speaks in such vivid terms to scare kids who have nothing to fight with but bare hands and stones, standing up to tanks and helicopter gunships equipped with machine guns and cluster bombs. Driven and piloted by killers, those death machines and their occupants were out in force killing Palestinians and looting their properties. Not only did the Israeli military go after the kids in their domain, it went after them in Lebanon where the military made it a hobby to target the Palestinian refugee camps, murdering men, women and children in cold blood.

That's when everyone who is a red-blooded human being could not help but try to visualize what the Jews were seeing in their mind's eyes when they promised to break the bones of those they were out to rob. It is only now, decades later, that Clifford D. May has offered to help in this regard. He did it by giving a vivid description of what the Jews were seeing when they spoke as they did. May volunteered to help in an article he wrote under the title: “A bloody day in London town” and the subtitle: “The ideologies driving the carnage can't be fought until they are understood,” published on March 28, 2017 in The Washington Times.

Here is what he wrote, apparently quoting someone anonymous: “smashing their bodies with the vehicle's strong outer frame while advancing forward – crushing their heads, torsos, and limbs under the vehicles wheels and chassis.” And that's not to mention the machine-gun bullets and the bombs that did a hundred times more damage than a single vehicle that's out of control. The thing, however, is that Clifford May was not describing what the Israeli military had been doing in Palestine and Lebanon; he was describing what happened when someone drunk and high on drugs, drove a car into a crowd in the city of London.

The reason why Clifford May wrote that article was to say that the driver of the vehicle was a recent convert to Islam, therefore it must be that something about Islam makes people commit this sort of crimes. He neglected to say that the man lived a life of drugs and alcohol in defiance of Islam's teachings. And the reason why May omitted these facts is that to reveal them would have led to the conclusion that being defiant of Islam in the way that he lived, it must be that he committed his ultimate crime also in defiance of Islam – not because of it.

So, the question to ask is this: Could it be that the British born man who committed the atrocity in London was motivated by the same sort of sentiment that drove a Jewish American to call Jewish centers in America, Canada and Australia, and threaten them with bombs? It is clear that the Jew was trying to frame the White supremacists or the Muslims. By the same token, could it be that the convert to Islam was actually a hater of both Islam and Christianity, and that he sought by his action to start a war between them? This would have duplicated the atrocity of the man that gunned down a number of Black worshipers in a church basement in America.

The reason why we're not getting anywhere near understanding what motivates these individuals is that the coverage of the news about them is badly skewed. In fact, the difference between the normal coverage of such incidents, and the coverage that involves Jews or Muslim impersonators is so stark, no one can miss seeing it.

Look what happened with the American Jew. It did not take two minutes after catching him to explain that despite the sophistication of his scheme, the man was said to suffer – not just from a mental illness – but from a tumor that was affecting his judgment. Pity him. It is that when the culprit is a Jew, they always find an excuse to absolve him. They did so by labeling eccentric the Australian Jew that tried to burn a mosque in Jerusalem. Pity him. And they did it when an Israeli doctor went into a mosque at prayer time, and machine-gunned dozens of worshipers. The excuse they had for him was that the pressure of his profession got the better of him. Pity him.

But when it comes to the Arabs or the Muslims, they are said to do what they do because they are driven by a mind that's constantly operating at the highest level of its potential. In the eyes of Clifford May and all those like him, the Arabs and the Muslims must always be held responsible for what they do. No excuse that might absolve them can ever be cited no matter what the evidence shows. This is Jewish style fairness.