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August 20, 2003 |

20 More Jews Dead.

That is what the headlines should read. But they don’t. The papers and the news sites talk about the Hudna, about Abbas, about Sharon. What I want the world to talk about is that all this is about 20 Jews who are dead. And the hundreds of other Jews who are dead from years of terror while the world watches and debates. Oh how they hate us.

How proud they must be now. Our enemies. Proud of the blood and body parts scattered around Jerusalem. Proud of the confusion and the chaos that the government is going through right now. Do we attack? Do we not attack? Do we tell the US to go to hell or do we keep up the farce while more Jews get killed?

It is not really a unique moment in history. Jews have been getting killed since the beginning of recorded history. Just because our history is now recorded on weblogs instead of on clay tablets doesn’t mean that things are all that different now. Jewish blood is cheap. Always has been.

Don’t kid yourselves, this is not about land, this is not about freedom, and this is not about nationalism. This is about seeing how many times we can punch the Jew-boy in the nose before he either runs away crying or fights back. Any Jew who lives in the Diaspora knows this feeling. We’ve all been there. I had bullies grabbing my kippah and chasing me home when I was 8 years old. We know how it feels. And it makes no difference that instead of someone’s mother telling them that violence doesn’t solve anything, we have Colin Powel and George Bush telling us not to fight back. It is all the same thing. And in case you really think violence doesn’t solve anything, you have no sense of history at all. Violence is the spur that moves history along. More change has come about through violent means than through peace negotiations. You can be sure of that.

In any event, today 20 more Jews are dead and we have to go on living and hoping that we won’t be counted in the next 20.

Boruch dayan ha’emet. Blessed is He who is the true Judge.

Not today He isn’t. Not from me.

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