Don Krausz to the Daily Maverick

21 August 2016.

 The Letters Editor.

Daily Maverick.

 RE: Analysis: An Arab spring for South African Jews – by Rebecca Hodes – 19/8/2016.

 Rebecca Hodes analyses the viewpoints of S.A. Jewry regarding the Two State Solution,

(2-4-2).

 I have some questions regarding the viability of this 2-4-2. Does it not depend for its success on the willingness of both parties to accept this idea? Where have the Palestinians expressed such willingness? Without that willingness does the concept have any chance of success?

 We are not dealing here with a military or national confrontation, one that can be ended just as the French/German one was after having fought major wars in 1871, 1914 and 1940. Despite their enormous bloodletting, they eventually came to see the futility of their hostility. Today they have open borders, the same currency and are prepared to accept a degree of supervision from Brussels. Common sense and mutual advantage have prevailed.

 Unfortunately this example does not apply to Moslem states. There religion and fanaticism rule. The violence, bloodshed and barbarity in the present Moslem world leave no doubt of what Israel would face if it allowed its guard to slip. Both the Fatah and Hamas charters proclaim undying enmity against not only Israelis but Jews worldwide.       

 Cf. The Hamas Introduction:    

 This is the Charter of (Hamas).

….”For our struggle against the Jews is extremely wide-ranging and grave…”

Article Six:

‘(Hamas) strives to raise the banner of Allah over every inch of Palestine.”

What room does this leave for Israel and Israelis? Palestinian authorities have consistently described the territory they lay claim to as stretching “from the river to the sea.” (The Jordan to the Mediterranean.)

Article Seven:

“…Hamas has been looking forward to implement Allah’s promise whatever time it might take. The Prophet, prayer and peace be upon him, said:

“The time will not come until Moslems will fight the Jews (and kill them);

Until the Jews hide behind rocks and trees which will cry: O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, come on and kill him!…”

 Note how these extracts state “Jews” and not Israelis.

 Article Thirtyone:

            As to co-existence, this article contains the following paragraph:

“Under the wing of Islam, it is possible for the followers of the three religions –  Islam, Christianity and Judaism – to coexist in peace and quiet with each other.

Peace and quiet would not be possible except under the wing of Islam. Past and present history are the best witness to that.”

 

They omit mentioning that in Moslem lands Jews and Christians have been regarded as secondary citizens (dhimmis), treated and penalised accordingly.

 

When confronted with this evidence, Palestinians state that these proclamations in their Charter have long been invalidated. If so, then where is the abrogation?

 

How does one enter into political neighbourliness with people who believe that their religion mandates them to kill unbelievers, that your 3,500 year old history, kingdoms and temples and residence in the land are lies and that any land to which you have proven legal ownership has been acquired through theft? Or when the artefacts of your two-thousand-year old temples on the Temple Mount are promptly destroyed upon discovery by Palestinians?

 

They have never admitted to such aggression and atrocities. Why should they? Does their religion not instruct them to kill the infidel? (Sura 8-12: Remember thy Lord inspired the angels (with the message); “I am with you: give firmness to the Believers: I will instil terror into the hearts of the Unbelievers: Smite ye above their necks and smite all their fingertips off them. It was not ye who slew them, it was God…”

Don Krausz:We’re in danger of creating a witchhunt – by Dr. Firoz Osman. The Star, 8/8/2016.

8 August 2016.

 The Letters Editor.

 Dr.Firoz Osman, writing in today’s Star, opines that we are in danger of creating a witch-hunt. His anxiety seems to have been caused by our authorities taking the existence of Isis volunteers seriously and arrested some of the creatures.

 His main complaint seems to be that it is the FBI, etc. who fingered those youths and that the arrests occurred without the proper documentation. Not that their nearest and dearest failed to warn the authorities of what these kids had in mind, nor the fact that if the information was verifiable, Isis was extending its murderous tentacles into SA.

 A witch-hunt implies witches. Would it not stand to reason that if there were fewer witches the hunt would not be necessary? Osman regards it all as sensational. But in view of the fact that such terrorists are venerated by their friends and families it makes sense that the sooner the authorities clamp down on such a menace the better, irrespective of whether the FBI and police have the proper documentation.

 History of such horrors bears this out. These days one can hardly view a news programme or a newspaper without bloody atrocities featuring all over the world.

Today’s bombing of a hospital in Afghanistan by the Taliban with hundreds of casualties, and 9/11are cases in point.

Osman writes that Islamic State is the result of US support for Arab and Israeli  “tyrannical” regimes. Sure, and why not the tokeloshe? It must be those regimes that taught IS to burn and drown people in cages and to cut throats in public.

Nothing new in that: In Israel Palestinian youngsters that cut the throat of a three-month old infant in the Ittamar settlement or recently did the same to a thirteen-year old girl while she lay asleep were hailed as heroes worthy of emulation.

He objects to the anti-terrorism legislation in SA which he believes was inspired by the US and the “impact it would have on the Muslim community.”

But if this anti-terrorism legislation is effective and saves lives, then why would the Moslem community object? That Osman is unhappy we know, but does that not prompt the question of just whose side he is on?

We have undeniable proof that in Palestinian schools infants are taught to hate. Knives are brandished in pulpits and the believers exhorted to go out and kill infidels. That seems to be happening all over the world now, so let’s hope our security forces are doing their job, not whether they have the right documentation.

Osman recommends that the anti-terrorism laws should be “revisited.” After 9/11 the USA found 3,000 convincing reasons to have such laws. Israel has them and I have read that many countries world wide are now interested in those laws as well.

Osman, you are behind the times.

Victor Gordon to The Times: “Israel to jail 12-year-old “terrorists”

THE TIMES

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Refers:

Please explain why, in the headline to your report that 12 year-old children who randomly murder Israelis will be jailed, you have placed the word “terrorists” in inverted commas.

The body of your report makes it clear that this practise (generally stabbings), which has accounted for the lives of 34 Israelis (and others), are clearly random acts of terror.

By casting doubt on the validity of the word “terrorists”, are you suggesting that the wanton killing of ordinary civilians by what you refer to as “assailants” is acceptable if they occur in Israel, but acts of terror anywhere else? From your headline it would appear so.