Salim Muwakkil’s “Mideast war now more than words, Brutal occupation stirs Arab rage” (Commentary, Oct. 23) offers an agonizingly contorted twist of the facts regarding the ongoing carnage in Israel. Laundering Palestinian rage in the street as an understandable reaction to the alleged “double standard” by the United States, which, Muwakkil claims, has overlooked the occupation of the Palestinian territory by Israel, is an abhorrent inaccuracy with revolting moral implications.
Yes, Israel and the United States do share a special relationship, but that relationship is based on a foundation of moral principle that holds the sanctity of human life above all else, and the rule of law and democracy as an inviolable truth.
The most disturbing aspect of the recent carnage is the large number of Palestinian teenagers and children who have been systematically sentenced to their deaths by Yasser Arafat.
Incited by Palestinian Authority-controlled television and religious clerics, beautiful children have been intoxicated into frenzies of rage and heroism and sent forth against the IDF (Israel Defense Force), which must defend a terrorized Jewish population against this violent onslaught.
That Arafat and Palestinian leaders would seek to build the number of Palestinian casualties for the sake of diplomatic gain, that is, another UN resolution blaming Israel for everything, reflects a deep, dark hole in the very soul of the Palestinian cause.
Similar to Stalin’s system of extermination or the Cambodian killing fields, this form of political terrorism is, to all Americans, absolutely revolting and speaks all too loudly of a brutality, but not the brutality that Muwakkil would have us believe.
Arafat, his henchmen and his cheerleaders from Iraq, Libya and Syria, also members in good standing of the “Society of Totalitarians,” must understand the grotesque implications of using their own brothers and their very own children as cannon fodder and the resultant hollowness of promises made in treaties, the intended purpose of which would be to guarantee the safety and security of Israelis.
Try joining the ranks of civilization–stop killing your children.
