The Left cannot ignore violence against Jews

[oberliner]

Excerpt:

The incident in Hebron could easily have mirrored the grisly scene in Duma. Instead, the five Jewish students were led out of the car by another young Palestinian who took them up a steep dirt alley. Another Palestinian man rushed them into his home to shelter them. The Jerusalem Post reported that he used one of the students’ phones to call the Israeli security authorities, who came to get the yeshiva students out about an hour later.

The close timing of these attacks creates a sense of helpless symmetry to the violence: Israelis and Palestinians kill or try to kill each other.

Yet that paralyzing sentiment too easily gives way to something worse: each side quickly exploiting the events to prove the evils of the other side.

It is troubling to me that the Left does this too. Even here on +972 Magazine, we reported the settler attack on Palestinians in Hebron, without mentioning the mob that nearly killed the Jewish students just a few days earlier.

http://972mag.com/the-left-cannot-ignore-violence-against-jews/111458/

[JDPriestly]

1. K&R.

We are witnessing in Europe the welcoming on the parts of many nations of refugees from Syria.

Contrast that with the attitude of the Palestinians and other Arab nations to the refugees from Israel following WWII.

It is important to welcome strangers who are escaping persecution, in the case of Jews, centuries of persecution culminating in the Holocaust in Germany and Eastern Europe.

The answer to the conflicts between Palestinans and Jewish refugees and immigrants in the area of the former Ottoman Empire is reconciliation, negotiation and respect for the needs of all the people who are now living there and will live there in the future.

Migration, the movements of people from one location on the planet to another is quite normal. How we handle it, how we deal with it, determines whether our children live in peace and prosperity or in conflict and poverty.

Both sides need to wise up. But as Syrians "invade" Europe (that's a poin of view, not necessarily how I see it but a possible way of seeing it), and as they are welcomed in spite of the potential danger that some of them could pose to the countries of their hosts, it is time for people in the Middle East and especially in Palestine to think back to the way they treated the persecuted Jews who were given land in the Israel/Palestine area by the United Nations after WWII. The Syrians and the Jews of that period were and are refugees.

What goes around comes around.

Let's all work together, and help Palestinians and Jews to work together.

[Little Tich]

2. Interesting OP that somewhat reflected my own thoughts. n/t