I’m trying to mint the term "religious left." This Thursday night the religious left is having a hoe-down at the Grand Hyatt in New York, a fundraiser for the Jewish settlers who who have colonized central Hebron, the second-largest Arab city in the West Bank, and whose children throw rocks at Arab girls trying to go to school. Imagine if someone held a fundraiser in New York for the Afrikaner regime during South Africa apartheid days! Would that have been news?
Meanwhile, the Hebron settlers, led by Kiryat Arba’s David Wilder, who made aliyah to Israel from the U.S. years ago, have written a letter to Condoleezza Rice in advance of Annapolis:
We wish to
remind you, Dr. Rice, that in the Bible this land was promised to the
Jewish people some 4,000 years ago. Abraham, the Jewish patriarch,
purchased Hebron more than 3,800 years ago. The Jews left Egypt in
order to go to their country, the Holy Land, the Land of Israel, 3,500
years ago. There they established a state 3,300 years ago. This state
became the kingdom of the Jewish King David, 3,000 years ago. The
Temple stood in the center of the country, Jerusalem, and after being
destroyed by the Babylonians it was rebuilt some 2,000 years ago. In
all of those generations, this land was the sole homeland of the Jewish
people.Please bear in mind that by the time
Arabs reached this country, it had belonged to the Jews for thousands
of years. The Arabs destroyed the country and caused its inhabitants
much suffering. They never established an independent state in this
country and never contributed a thing to its development. Under Arab
rule, most of the country was unpopulated and desolate, covered with
marshes and deserts… The
Holy Land remained abandoned, as if loyally waiting for its offspring
to return. The Jewish people, too, remained true to its land for
millennia and aspired to return to it. Jews began to return to the Land
of Israel about 140 years ago and started to make it blossom, cultivate
its soil, and build it.
I’m sure Ms. Rice knows the word for this. Racism.
