Sunday, July 30, 2006
From Israel
This letter was sent to As'ad AbuKhalil, proprietor of the great "Angry Arab" weblog.
The "thugs" are the many hate-filled psychopaths, both anti-Jewish and anti-Arab (though more of the latter), who frequent the comment threads at this website. I was heartened, however, to see that many of the regular Muslim and Arab readers/commenters expressed heartfelt appreciation of this letter. There were also, inevitably, many thuggish responses immediately posted, including the following: "Don't forget--there were some Jews who collaborated with the Nazis, even in the concentration camps themselves. The e-mail you posted represented one of their descendents--ideologically if not biologically."
posted by speakingcorpse : 7/30/2006 02:27:00 AM
Dear sir,
I live in Israel and I am a Jew. We don't all support the policies of Olmert or the policies of the Labor party either. And many of us grieve for the loss of lives in Lebanon and Palestine just as deeply as you grieve for those lives. I am sorry that this is happening to your country and I hope and pray that your family and friends will be safe and I hope that not one more Palestinian must die for the crimes of the state, the Israeli state.
I would like to leave Israel before my son turns of age where he must serve in the military, I will not have my child be a part of an occupying army. I don't want my child to have the guilt of the death of your loved ones or of Palestinians on his heart.
Please know that we are all not like the thugs that visit your blog and say cruel and callous things. I abhor the messages they leave on your blog and they are not representative of Judaism. Zionism is not Judaism. One day the Jews around the world will realize this fact and I hope that when they beg you and Palestinians for forgiveness that you will forgive them for the spiritual malaise that has afflicted them.
In peace and in solidarity,
Yossi
The "thugs" are the many hate-filled psychopaths, both anti-Jewish and anti-Arab (though more of the latter), who frequent the comment threads at this website. I was heartened, however, to see that many of the regular Muslim and Arab readers/commenters expressed heartfelt appreciation of this letter. There were also, inevitably, many thuggish responses immediately posted, including the following: "Don't forget--there were some Jews who collaborated with the Nazis, even in the concentration camps themselves. The e-mail you posted represented one of their descendents--ideologically if not biologically."
posted by speakingcorpse : 7/30/2006 02:27:00 AM
