Dear Israel,
Sanctimonious pontification is clearly not reserved to pontiffs. And
self-righteousness arguments for political murder are obviously not limited
to Moslem extremists. You have raised playing the innocent victim to a
cult - literally. This is high art in the Middle East, where both Jews and
Arabs kill with God's encouragement. No wonder your part of the world is
synonymous with hell. Whatever light once existed there has been destroyed
by nauseating death speak. You live by the sword, so stop whimpering.
Carl
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From: "Michel Margosis" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 9:02 PM
Subject: An open letter from Israel
> Proudly, from my dear daughter Leah,
> with love,
> Michel
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>
>
> An open letter from an Israeli to his neighbors, near and far.
>
> Dear World:
>
> It appears that you are just too hard to please. I
> understand that you are upset with us here in Israel. Indeed, it appears
> that you are quite upset, maybe even angry and outraged. As a matter of
> fact, every few months or years, recently, you seem to become upset with
us
> all over again. Today, you are upset because we won't sit down at the
table
> and negotiate (what? Our own demise?) with our neighbors, our intractable,
> uncompromising enemies, even while they continue to attack innocent
> civilians--our children, women, and the elderly. Yesterday it was the
brutal
> 'repression' and 'occupation' of the Palestinians (to whom we gave back
> control over 96 percent of the Arab population); last week, it was our
> security needs in Lebanon; before that, it was the bombing of the nuclear
> reactor in Iraq and the conclusion of the Yom Kippur War in which we
> successfully defended ourselves against the onslaught of massive enemy
> armies on two fronts on the holiest day of the year. In the first few days
> of that sneak attack, when the Egyptians and Syrians were killing three
> thousand Israeli youths, you were silent. It was only when we were at the
> gates of Damascus and the road to Cairo that you got upset again. It
appears
> that, when Jews triumph and, therefore, live, we upset you
extraordinarily.
>
> Of course, dear world, long before there was an Israel,
we,
> the Jewish people, upset you. We upset the German people, so that they
> elected Adolph Hitler, mastermind of the "Final Solution of the Jewish
> Problem" and we upset an Austrian people, who cheered his entry into
Vienna,
> and we upset a whole slew of Slavic nations--Poles, Slovaks, Lithuanians,
> Ukrainians, Russians, Hungarians, and Romanians, who willingly
participated
> in his macabre, hideous orgy of brutal genocide.
>
> And we go back a long, long way in the history of world
> upset. We upset the Cossacks of Chmielnicki, so that they just had to
> massacre tens of thousands of us in 1648 and 1649; we upset the Crusaders
> who, on their way to liberate the Holy Land, were so distressed at the
Jews
> that they felt compelled to slaughter untold thousands of us in
communities
> all over Europe. We upset, for centuries, the Roman Catholic Church, to
> whom we gave our Scriptures, so that it just had to define our
relationship
> through persecution, exile, and inquisition. And we upset the archenemy of
> the Roman Church, Martin Luther, who, in his call to burn the synagogues
and
> the Jews within them, showed an admirable Christian loving spirit and
> 'turning the other cheek.'
>
> We upset every nation in Western Europe to the point that
> they expelled us, and when they let us back in, because they needed our
> talents, they forced us to live in ghettos, in sub-human conditions and
> readily available for repeated riots and blood letting. It is because we
> became so distressed and grieved over upsetting you, dear world, that we
> decided to leave you, in a manner of speaking, to separate ourselves from
> you and establish a Jewish State. The rationale and justification for our
> new enterprise of building a nation was that by living in close contact
with
> you, as resident-strangers in the various countries that all of you
inhabit,
> we upset you, irritated you, and disturbed you. What better notion, then,
we
> proposed, than to leave you and thus show you that we really love you,
> and--we hoped--have you love us in return.
>
> This is how we reached our decision to come home--to the
> same homeland from which we were driven out 1,900 years earlier by a Roman
> world that we also upset. We knew that our ancient land was made a
> wilderness, sparsely inhabited by nomads and poor tenant farmers and made
> home to jackals, wild goats and scorpions. The once fertile valley became
a
> swamp infested by malaria-carrying mosquitoes, the terraced hills were
> neglected and swept barren by wind and rain, and the seacoast was
devastated
> and overtaken by yellow Nile silt-sand. However, we saw the land through
the
> prism of our Book of Books, and resolved to make it once more a "land of
> milk and honey."
>
> Alas, dear world, it appears that you are hard to please.
> Having left you and your Pogroms and Inquisitions and Crusades and
> Holocausts, having taken our leave of the world at large, to PURCHASE our
> land acre by acre (at much inflated rates) from those who held title to
it,
> drain the swamps and defeat the scourge of malaria, drive back the rolling
> sands that the sea brought from the Nile to make the Sharon coastal valley
> fertile once again, we attempted to live alone in our own little land.
> Still, we continue to upset you. You are upset that the 5.5 million of us
> expect, and insist that we have a right, to live here unmolested on our
tiny
> speck of land that was mostly despised desert before we arrived here, when
> your planet has room for over 6 billion people.
>
> You claim that we oppress the Palestinians, impede their natural wish to
be
> a nation among the nations, and that really upsets you. You are deeply
> angered over the fact that we do not give up the lands we took in the war
of
> 1967, which, to you, are clearly the obstacle to peace in the Middle East.
> Washington is upset and Moscow is upset. London is upset as is Paris,
Rome,
> Oslo and even Brussels. Naturally, the Arabs are upset--the despotic
rulers
> of Syria and Iraq, the more civilized autocrats of Jordan and the Gulf
> Emirates and the Egyptian moderates are upset, too, it seems, and counsel
> war.
>
> Well, dear world, consider the reaction of a Jew from
> Israel. In 1920, 1921 and 1929, there were no territories of 1967 to
impede
> peace between Jews and Arabs. Indeed, there was no Jewish State to upset
> anybody. Nevertheless, the same oppressed and repressed Palestinians
> slaughtered hundreds of Jews in Jerusalem, Jaffa, Safed and Hebron. Dear
> world, why did these Arabs--the Palestinians--massacre hundreds of Jews in
> those years? Could it have been because of their anger over Israeli
> occupation of their land? And why were 510 Jewish men, women and children
> slaughtered in Arab riots between 1936 and 1939? Would you suggest that it
> was because of Arab sensitivity to roadblocks at border crossings? And
when
> you, world, proposed a United Nations Partition Plan in 1947 that would
have
> created a Palestinian State alongside a tiny Israel, and the Arabs
promised
> a blood bath and went to war, and killed 6,000 Jews, out of a population
of
> 600,000; was that infraction of international law caused by their extreme
> reaction to Jewish expansionism? And, by the way, dear world, why did we
not
> hear your cry of protest over Jewish victims in all those events?
>
> The Palestinians, who today kill Jews with explosives and
> firebombs and stones are part of the same people who, when they had all
the
> territories they now demand be given them for their state, refused to make
> peace and attempted to drive the Jewish State into the sea. The same
twisted
> faces, the same hate, the same cry of "itbakhun-al-yahud" "Slaughter the
> Jews!" that we hear and see today, were seen and heard then. The same
blood
> thirsty mob who lynched two innocent young reservists in Ramallah last
year,
> proudly waving the blood-soaked hands and arms that committed the atrocity
> to the frenzied crowd--and mutilated the bodies of dead martyrs in the
Hills
> of Hebron in 1948. They are the same people who refused Israel the right
to
> be born in 1948, and today dream of, and scheme, and design, and connive,
> and plan for Israel's destruction. What they failed to do yesterday, they
> fantasize of doing today and envision doing tomorrow--but we are told that
> we must not "repress" them. They must be given a chance to manifest their
> destiny.
>
> Dear world, you stood by and did nothing when millions of
> our people died in the Holocaust and you stood by and did nothing in 1948
> when seven Arab states launched a war that the Arab League proudly
> proclaimed would rival the Mongol invasion and massacres. You stood by and
> did nothing in 1967 (in spite of ironclad guarantees given to Israel by
> Great Britain, the Europeans, and the U.S. in 1956-57), as Gamal Abdul
> Nasser, president of Egypt and leader of the Arab world, wildly cheered by
> wild mobs in every Arab capital in the world, vowed to drive the Jews into
> the sea.
>
> A few weeks ago my neighbor's two daughters, aged fifteen
> and sixteen, were blown to pieces by a misguided, brainwashed young man
who
> was promised an eternity in an X-rated paradise by wicked religious
> teachers, and my American cousin was killed a few days later by another
> misguided youth who disrupted lunchtime business at Sbarro Pizzeria in
> Jerusalem's down town. Where was world outrage then? Where was the UN with
> its resolutions to condemn the perpetrators of violence? Who stood up and
> pointed a finger and shouted 'racists' at these perpetrators and those who
> trained and guided them? There was no sound, no fury, not even a whimper.
> Your repeated silence spoke volumes, to be sure.
>
> And you would stand by and do nothing, again, tomorrow--if
> Israel were facing extinction--as it is, each and every day. Only we will
> not allow it. Since we know that the Palestinians daily dream of our
demise,
> we will do everything in our power to remain alive in our own land. If
that
> aggravates and annoys you, dear world, I sincerely regret it. I am sure
that
> you think you would be much better off if we could just disappear,
evaporate
> like a puff of smoke. Just try to see it from our viewpoint: think how
many
> times in the past you have disappointed us. We have given you so much
love,
> so much progress, so much wisdom, so much blessing. We gave you our ideals
> and our faith, our God and our teaching of mercy and salvation.
>
> Above all, we have taught you the meaning of hope and of
> human dignity. We don't know why you are so short sighted that you don't
> know from where your blessings come. We suggest that you go back to the
> sources. Read the Book. Your Book, which was our Book first. Love God--and
> love your neighbors as yourself.
>
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