OPINION:
Apologists claim that there are many Arabs who are against terrorism. If this were true, these anti-terror Arabs would humiliate their terrorist brothers and punish them. They would make the thought of terrorism anathema so that no one would burn or decapitate Israelis or Jews. Yet the mood of most of the Arab community is to punish Jews, not to hate terrorists. Much of the Arab world celebrates the killing of Jews.
When I was a child I was told not to play with matches, regardless of my intentions. But Arab arsonists are terrorizing Israel with fires. These fires are not accidental. They are the result of Arabs playing with Jewish lives. They are deathly prejudiced. The fact that a few Arab doctors help wounded Jews is just clean-up after a brutal job. They are not innocent, and they are not exonerated. Their help is a placebo.
The media calls Arab burning of Jews and Jewish homes “wildfires.” There is nothing wild about these fires. They are deliberate, homicidal and conscienceless.
Liberals, including liberal Jewish people, promote the idea that Arabs are good people who are caught in a race war. But for every Arab who speaks up against murdering Jews there is one around the corner who believes wholeheartedly in the practice.
Liberal Jews have been against Zionism ever since Israel was formed. Some would like to see Israel eradicated. Jews suffered near extermination in World War II, and yet there are Jews who are still willing to sacrifice Israel and see the number of Jewish lives reduced by half again.
Liberal Jews want to coddle their enemies, give them solace and rush the rest of us into the fire. Such Jewish people are matches lighting up a community.
The Arab firefighters who help are a shield for those who set the fires. There is no kindness in this kind of anti-Semitism.
DAVID LAWRENCE
New York
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