Richard Silverstein and Jerry Haber have started a petition seeking American Jews who are "shocked and appalled" by the Gaza slaughter (which gets props from JTA on religious grounds). Silverstein asks:
Killing Said Siam, interior minister in the Hamas
government?? Have they entirely lost their minds? Do they want
Olmert assassinated? Or Barak? Do they want to create a bulls=eye
on the back of every Knesset member who ever leaves Israel’s shores so
that any Islamist around the world will only be too happy to take a potshot?
Do they think the Shin Bet will protect them indefinitely? Do they think
they’re not vulnerable? Do they have the faintest idea what they
are doing? This is classic hubris of Greek tragic proportions.
government?? Have they entirely lost their minds? Do they want
Olmert assassinated? Or Barak? Do they want to create a bulls=eye
on the back of every Knesset member who ever leaves Israel’s shores so
that any Islamist around the world will only be too happy to take a potshot?
Do they think the Shin Bet will protect them indefinitely? Do they think
they’re not vulnerable? Do they have the faintest idea what they
are doing? This is classic hubris of Greek tragic proportions.
