D.C. Synagogue will mourn Palestinians, ignore Israeli
Independence Day
Stephen M. Flatow..01 May '19..
A prominent synagogue in Washington, D.C., will mark
Israel’s 71st birthday by mourning “Palestinian losses” alongside Israeli
terror victims, and refrain from holding any kind of Israeli independence celebration.
It’s the latest example of an appalling “both sides”
mentality that blurs right and wrong, good and evil, and Israel and its
would-be destroyers.
On Tuesday evening, May 7, Israelis—and Jews around the
world—will hold solemn Yom Hazikaron ceremonies to remember the approximately
25,000 Israeli Jews murdered by invading Arab armies and Palestinian Arab
terrorists since 1948.
But at the Sixth and I Historic Synagogue in the nation’s
capital, a different kind of ceremony will be held. Called the “Israeli-Palestinian
Memorial Day Ceremony,” participants will gather together for what they
describe as “a memorial based on the values of hope, solidarity and
non-violence. Hear from Israelis and Palestinians as they share their families’
stories of loss.”
Yes, Palestinian Arabs have been killed in the course of the
Arab-Israeli conflict.
But that doesn’t make them all “victims.” And that doesn’t
mean they should all be “mourned.” That doesn’t place them all on the same
moral level.
In the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Arabs,
Israel is the victim and the Palestinian Arabs are the aggressors. Nobody is
saying Israel is perfect. No country is perfect. No army is perfect. But we
still should be able to make the basic distinction between right and wrong. We
still should have enough sense to distinguish between cops and robbers.
( This is a pathetic attempt at moral equivalence without any semblance of understanding of the Palestinian mentality)
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