Raymond Pieters > DIE JODE VAN SUID AFRIKA A letter from a friend.(Jackie Klein) I am now 71 years old, probably slowing down a bit so please bear with me as I share some of my frustrations with you. My parents and teachers taught me to distinguish between right and wrong. It wasn’t very difficult. Most of it was actually straight forward, even intuitive. I was taught to love, not to hate. I was taught to tolerate what I didn’t like. I was taught to respect my fellow man and made aware of my duties to society. I was taught the sanctity of human life. It seems that not everybody was as fortunate as I. Too many people, even those who claim to be intelligent, thinking and progressive, were born to different parents and taught by different teachers. They have been taught to hate and that tolerance is not a virtue. For them, human life is merely a commodity. Their distinction between right and wrong is dramatically different to that which I learned. I read that Navi Pillay, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, has condemned Israel for, among other things, not sharing its life saving Iron Dome air defense system with those who fire missiles at Israel’s civilian population with the sole intention of killing and maiming as many Israelis as possible. Does she require that my taxes be spent on protecting those committed to killing me? I just don’t get it. The media concentrates on the numbers; Israeli dead 66 v Gazan deaths (their figures) 1800, like it’s some football match which should be more equal to show fair play. Every Israeli, by law, has access to shelters, on the first day at school children learn bomb drills. Are we to blame that Hamas uses its citizens as human shields to maximize its death toll. I just don’t get it. In the same way that capital cities around the world compete with one another to host increasingly violent anti-Israel demonstrations supporting Hamas aggression against Israel. Self-styled leaders of the international community make vile speeches to condemn Israel’s actions in defending herself. Their language provides the legitimacy for the racist slogans used on the banners at these demonstrations. I just don’t get it. The death toll in Syria is rapidly approaching 200,000. Surely that’s enough to warrant a demonstration or two in at least one of the worlds capitals? I just don’t get it. Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan uses the most disgusting inflammatory and blatantly anti-Semitic rhetoric against Israel. Who would have believed we would be subjected to this abomination less than 70 years after the Holocaust? The international community condones his comments by its deafening silence. Has anti-Semitism become politically correct? I just don’t get it. Qatar finances state of the art Islamic terror infrastructures. I would have thought this is wrong but Qatar was chosen to host the 2022 World Cup. And by the way, Hamas leaders live in Qatar enjoying a 5 star live style while the poor Gazans are urged to lay down their lives for the cause. I just don’t get it. After finding missiles stockpiled in their schools, UNWRA advises Hamas this is against the rules but hands them back to them away. A UN clinic was booby-trapped and claimed the lives of Israeli soldiers entering the building. Shouldn’t UNICEF be concerned about the Hamas use of children to build their tunnels, some 160 of whom died while doing so? I thought UN agencies had humanitarian responsibilities. I just don’t get it. The UN hasn’t missed an opportunity to claim there is a humanitarian crisis in Gaza. If there are shortages of food, medical supplies, housing, education, transport and their social service infrastructures are sub-standard, how did Hamas manage to construct such a sophisticated network of terror tunnels? The video footage now available has to be seen to fully comprehend this. How were they able to stockpile more than 9,000 missiles, some 3000 of which have been fired at Israel so far this year, not to mention other military hardware? I just don’t get it. Whatever steps Israel takes to defend her civilians are considered by the International Community as being contrary to International Law or, at best, disproportionate (UK remember Desden, US Hiroshina). How does the International Community expect Israel to defend the lives of its citizens against missiles and terror tunnels, this they never tell us? I would have thought that proportionate was what it takes to achieve the objective. I just don’t get it. So many NGOs have been established to promote human rights. Why do many of them support movements like Hamas whose charter is genocidal and advocates ethnic cleansing? Surely that’s wrong. And ISIL sweeping across Iraq & Syria is beyond barbaric, beheading children, crucifying Christians, where are these NGO’s voices on this human catastrophe. I just don’t get it. Am I missing something or could it possibly be because we are Jews? Please stand with Israel. Thanks to Zvi Harris for supplying some of facts.
Posted on: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 07:10:17 +0000
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