by Dror Eydar
It's not a matter of
Right and Left, assuming that the sane part of the Left still sees
united Jerusalem as the capital of Israel under any arrangement. It's
time to acknowledge that we are facing an Arab-Palestinian war of the
"popular uprising" type orchestrated by factors in the Palestinian
Authority and the Islamic Movement in Israel along with Islamist players
throughout the world, including leftist groups with a vested interest
in destroying the vision of the city's unification.
There is nothing
spontaneous in these riots; the security apparatus is very familiar with
the sources of terrorism in the capital and must address them
methodically. We cannot "contain" any further disturbance. Rock throwing
should be treated like shootings: with zero tolerance.
Arabs in the region and
in the world read those voices from among us that always blame us for
any of our neighbors' acts of villainy. In their view, we are guilty of
the murder of the 3-month-old baby last Thursday, because we settled in
the land of our forefathers: in Kfar Shiloah (Silwan), in the City of
David, and in east Jerusalem. This claim is fundamentally racist, as if
the Arabs aren't responsible for their actions, and are behaving
according to their nature by running over infants or firing rockets at
day care centers every time the Yahud (Jew) doesn't do what they expect.
These marginal voices
don't determine how we live and we shouldn't pay attention to them, even
if the world gives them a bigger stage than they deserve. The
international media likes self-hating Jews, because if Jews admit that
they are guilty, they have "permission" to add their own fuel to the
fire, and besides, the turmoil becomes more tolerable.
Don't apologize, don't be afraid
If Jews can't buy homes
they paid for in full and live wherever they desire in sovereign
Jerusalem where Israeli law applies the same as it does in Tel Aviv, we
have lost the right to claim any of the land of Israel. If Jews cannot
visit the Temple Mount and are forbidden to murmur the verses that the
Levites recited there thousands of years before anyone had heard of
Islam, there is no alternative but to close the entire mount -- to
Muslims, too.
The Arabs in the area
have to pay a heavy price for their behavior on the Temple Mount, as
well as their behavior in the capital in general. We Jews have made
Jerusalem what it is today. We returned home, and have to behave like
owners -- not apologize and not be afraid. The return to Zion and
rebuilding of Jerusalem is the interest not only of the Jewish people;
it's the historic vision of the entire free world.
Dror Eydar
Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=10351
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