Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Israeli Collective Amnesia ???

Take a look at this opinion piece in the Jerusalem Post:

Armed with guns, knives and a meat cleaver, our “partners in peace” shot, slashed and stabbed their victims, leaving pools of blood and horror in their wake, before being eliminated by the police.

It is difficult to conceive of a more despicable deed.

This act of Palestinian brutality was so heinous that even Israelis hardened by decades of terror responded with disbelief.

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Fundamentally-Freund-A-Palestinian-pogrom-in-Jerusalem-382193

"It is difficult to conceive of a more despicable deed"?

Really?

The Israelis apparently have forgotten about some of their despicable deeds. Here's a reminder:

From September 16 to 18, 1982, Israeli-backed Lebanese Phalangist militiamen entered the Sabra and Shatila Palestinian refugee camps in West Beirut, and slaughtered at will. Age or gender were never a consideration, as the elderly, women, children, and even toddlers became easy prey. The death toll has never been verified, ranging from 800 to 3,500, which is testimony to the destruction wrought by the Phalangists that many bodies were never uncovered.

The massacre occurred under the watch of the Israeli Defense Force, who at the time had gained control of West Beirut, guarded the entrances to the camps, and lit flares at night to provide visibility to their Lebanese allies. An Israeli investigation, the Kahan Commission, found then Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon personally responsible, and recommended his resignation from the Israeli Government. Sharon earned the moniker "The Butcher of Beirut", yet twenty years later he became the prime minister of Israel.

[The massacre was] so awful that people who know about it cannot forget it. The photos are gruesome reminders – charred, decapitated, indecently violated corpses, the smell of rotting flesh, still as foul to those who remember it as when they were recoiling from it all those years ago. For the victims and the handful of  survivors, it was a 36-hour holocaust without mercy. It was deliberate, it was planned, and it was overseen. But to this day, the killers have gone unpunished.

Sabra and Shatila – two Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon – were the theatres for this staged slaughter. The former is no longer there and the  other is a ghostly and ghastly reminder of man’s inhumanity to men, women, and children – more specifically, Israel’s inhumanity, the inhumanity of the people who did Israel’s bidding and the world’s inhumanity for pretending it was of no consequence. There were international witnesses – doctors, nurses, journalists – who saw the macabre scenes and have tried to tell the world in vain ever since.

Each act was barbarous enough on its own to warrant fear and loathing. It was human savagery at its worst and Dr. Ang Swee Chai was an eye witness as she worked with the Palestinian Red Crescent Society on the dying and the wounded amongst the dead. What she saw was so unimaginable that the atrocities committed need to be separated from each other to even begin comprehending the viciousness of the crimes.

http://www.necef.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=67&Itemid=28

Israel - you reap what you sow. And you have sown hatred and violence for the past 66 years.

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