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Lois Haron, Allied Member ASID • 248-851-698U
10 July 27 2006
„IN
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his is to the angry young
man waving the homemade
sign at me and 3,500 others
as we left the Israel solidarity rally
at Congregation Shaarey Zedek in
Southfield last week.
You know who you are.
At least one local newspaper inter-
viewed you as you wondered why peo-
ple were honking their horns shouting
obscenities at you. The paper never
reported that your brilliant idea —
making an Israeli flag and
replacing the Star of David
with a swastika — might
get a less-than-enthusiastic
response. Sure, you can
have whatever opinion you
want, but you should know
your facts before giving one
in such away.
Israeli soldiers are not
massed on the Lebanese
border because they want to
occupy Lebanon. They want
to stop an Islamic terror-
ist group from lobbing missiles into
northern Israel, and they want their
two soldiers abducted by Hezbollah
back.
Yes, Israel negotiated the release
of soldiers in the past, and it gave up
hundreds of prisoners to do so, but
this time it's different. Israel is making
a point that it has run out of patience.
It left Lebanon six years ago with a
U.N. resolution that Syria would leave,
too, and Lebanon would disarm pri-
vate militias and build a democratic
state.
When Lebanon couldn't find the
muscle to disarm Hezbollah and let
them occupy the south, Israel waited
patiently for six years, putting up with
the occasional Katyusha rocket (filled
with, .ball bearings and shrapnel) land-
ing in a civilian area.
When Hezbollah dug a tunnel under
the border into sovereign Israeli ter-
ritory to capture two soldiers and kill
several others, they gave up all rights
as a "political party." They became an
invading force once again.
It sad what's happening in south
Lebanon, and no matter how much
you disagree with me, Israel doesn't
want to be doing what it's doing either
It never looks good when you're
blowing up buildings from the air
and killing innocent people below, but
when terrorists are stockpiling weap-
ons in mosques and firing rockets
from residential areas, Israel has little
choice.
It's been said countless times on
many opinion pages: "If Hezbollah
puts down their weapons, returns the
soldiers and vacates the area, the con-
flict will end. If Israel puts down her
weapons, the Jews will be driven into
the sea." I'm still waiting for a rebuttal.
If you get what you want, and the
Israeli "Nazis" cease to be,
what will happen next?
Will peace reign in the
Jew- and Christian-free
(yeah, they want gentiles
out, too) Islamic land of
Palestine?
Well, let's take a look.
Since Hezbollah is
Shiite, and Hamas in Gaza
is Sunni, how long do you
think it will take before
you start shooting at each
other like you already are
in Iraq?
Israel wants peace, and has always
wanted peace, but has been forced to
fight wars about every six years since
the day after its independence.
It's won every war, too, and one
would think that if a war is won,
something is gained, but not Israel:
•
win a war, give up territory.
Jews began to settle at the turn of
the last century and bought a good
portion of the land that Arabs didn't
want long before the British came in
and started drawing lines in the sand.
Nazis didn't buy land; they con-
quered it and began their Final
Solution.
What's Israel's "Final Solution":
conquering Arab countries and taking
them over? I'm not so sure, because
they had their best chances in 1967
and 1973.
What would have happened to Jews
if they had lost just one war in the
Middle East?
Whose flag deserves the swastika: Israel
or Hezbollah?
Harry Kirsbaum's e-mail address is
hkirsbaum@thejewishnews.com .