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tants need to defend their families.
Instead of waiting for the Israel
Defense Forces (IDF) to give them
the equipment, some American Jews
are stepping into the breach and pri-
vately paying for it.
It is true that some of the settle-
ments, especially in Gaza, appear to be
militarily indefensible, making them a
danger both to their inhabitants and
their IDF protectors. But most are not.
Though some settlements, like the
enclave in the middle of Hebron, are
hot spots where the Jews are some-
times blamed for violence, the notion
of the settlers as the source of violence
is just plain wrong. Most of the settle-
ments actually get along with their
Arab neighbors.
Yet, even if every Jewish settlement
magically disappeared tomorrow, does
anyone really believe that would mark
the end of Palestinian demands?
Remember, Jewish neighborhoods.
in Jerusalem, which are home to tens
of thousands of ordinary Jews, are also
considered "settlements" by the Pales-
tinians.
Israel's "hopes for peace" aren't
being sacrificed by the settlers; they've
already been destroyed by Arafat.
A Dehumanizing Term
As long as Arafat's forces and their allies
are targeting Jewish children for death,
verbal assaults on the settlers should be
off-limits. Even the label "settler" some-
times seems as if it is just a label used by
journalists and others to dehumanize
those Jews. It's as if saying that a "set-
tler" was killed in a terrorist attack
makes it easier to take than saying an
Israeli or a Jew was murdered, for we
have been trained by the left and much
of the media to believe that somehow
the "settler" deserved that fate. Indeed,
the animus directed toward the settlers
seems at times to be a case of Israel
internalizing the hatred directed at it by
the Arabs.
Even though the settlers' Land of
Israel ideology has run out of steam,
surely, most Israeli and diaspora Jews
must also still be reluctant to ethnical-
ly cleanse Jews from biblical sites like
Shilo, where Jewish history began.
For Israel to get through this latest
episode, it must be made clear to the
Palestinians that the blood of the Jews
living in Judea, Samaria and Gaza, as
well as Jerusalem, should be consid-
ered no less dear to us than our own.
Making the settlers into the scape-
goats for Oslo's failure is playing right
into Arafat's hand. That's a mistake
both Israeli and American Jewry
should avoid at all cost. El
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