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    Terrorism cannot be justified in any way or form – opinion

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    There could be no two more different documents than the Israeli Declaration of Independence and the charter of the Palestine Liberation Organization.

    The Israeli Declaration of Independence begins: “The Land of Israel was the birthplace of the Jewish people. “Here their spiritual, religious and political identities were shaped.” It continues: “We extend our hand to all neighboring states and their peoples with an offer of peace and good neighborliness, and call on them to establish ties of cooperation and mutual assistance with the sovereign Jewish people settled in their territories.”

    In contrast, the PLO’s charter includes: “From the Arab point of view, the liberation of Palestine is a national duty and seeks to repel the Zionist and imperialist attack on the Arab homeland and aims at the elimination of Zionism in Palestine.” It continues: “armed struggle This is the only way to save Palestine. This is not just a tactical phase, it is the overall strategy. “The Palestinian Arab people assert their absolute resolve and firm determination to continue their armed struggle and work for an armed popular revolution for the liberation of their country and its return to it.”

    The Jewish people, on the contrary,

    Unlike the violent occupation of Palestine, the Jewish people’s commitment to peace does not exist only on paper but can be seen every day in Israel.

    Ta-Nehisi Coates is an award-winning American journalist. His latest book, The Message, grapples with deep questions about how our stories—our reporting and creative narratives and myth-making—reveal and distort our realities. One part of the book deals with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Coates took a ten-day trip to Israel in 2023 and in this short time was able to understand the conflict and conclude that Israel is an occupying power enforcing an apartheid regime that oppresses Palestinians.

    Ta-Nehisi Coates at the University of Virginia during the 2015 MLK Celebration (source: Wikimedia Commons)

    Many MEDIA outlets, which tend to focus on narratives that portray Israel in a bad light, supported Coates’ book and allowed him to promote his slanderous demonization of Israel. Tony Dokoupil, one of the key media figures who asked critical questions of Coates, was immediately accused of racism and bias for daring to point out that The Message lacked essential balance and nuance, and that this would occur in any context other than the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It is called extremist writing. CBS, which employs Dokoupil, was reportedly forced to call a newsroom-wide staff meeting to address the controversy.

    Since its publication, numerous articles and columns have been published listing the many omissions, inaccuracies, and outright lies found in The Message. Coates hasn’t backed down from anything he’s written, and instead has doubled down on it in numerous interviews since the book’s publication.

    In a recent interview that raised the eyebrows of many literary critics, Coates said he was nothing more than taking part in an October 7-style attack. He imagined what he would do if he grew up as a Palestinian in Gaza and the West Bank: “I too am growing up under this oppression, poverty and the collapse of the wall.” Then he wrote without shame: “Am I strong enough myself, or even built to say that this is too far? I don’t know that I am.”

    With his comment, Coates excused and even justified the murder, kidnapping, and rape of innocent Israelis on October 7th. His excuse for the most heinous acts committed against Jews since the Holocaust (and arguably worse) was outrageous. During the four thousand years of Jewish suffering, from slavery in Egypt to the Palestinian intifadas, Jews never considered raping, burning, and beheading the children of their oppressors, as the Palestinians did during their brutal attacks.

    This kind of barbarism is so contrary to Jewish values ​​that the mere suggestion would turn the Jews’ stomachs upside down. Coates demonstrated exactly the type of corruption he valued by imagining himself committing the same actions.

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    Many Coates defenders have pointed to a quote attributed to former Israeli prime minister and IDF chief of staff Ehud Barak: “If I had been the right age (Palestinian), I would have joined one of the terrorist organizations at some stage and fought there.” Coates’ apologists compare Barak’s statement that he acted like a Palestinian terrorist to Coates’ excuse of Palestinian terrorism in the Simchat Torah attacks to excuse his horrific comment.

    Although the two quotes could be dishonestly combined to reflect the same message that justifies terrorist attacks on innocent Israelis, even a little thought reveals the differences between the two statements. Barak was referring to the resistance against Israeli soldiers at the beginning of the First Intifada (1987-1993), when Palestinians attacked Israeli soldiers, often in an attempt to defeat Israel.

    This was a decade before bus bombings and suicide attacks targeting children became a frequent method used by Palestinian terrorists. Coates was talking about killing, kidnapping and raping innocent Israeli civilians.

    Ehud Barak was wrong to sympathize with Palestinian terrorists. At any point after 1948, Palestinians could have chosen to recognize Jews’ right to self-determination in their historic homeland, the Land of Israel. Instead they chose violence and terrorism to destroy the Jewish state.

    For decades they devoted their efforts and energies to killing Jews around the world to end the Jewish state. When they realized their tactics had failed, they hypocritically told the world that they were interested in peace; but over the next three decades, through their support and encouragement of terrorism, they demonstrated that they were more interested in establishing an independent Palestinian state rather than a Jewish state. rather than being around someone.

    The Palestinians’ choice was a disaster for Middle East peace and for themselves. Choosing violence and terror over peace is the choice of savages, not civilized people. It was unforgivable that then-Prime Minister Barak justified this. It is unconscionable for award-winning journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates to promote his latest book by advocating terrorism.

    Many people blame Israeli colonialism, Israeli settlements, and various Israeli military policies for the lack of peace in the Middle East. These are all false attempts to slander the Jewish state. There is no greater obstacle to peace than violence and Palestinian terrorism. Zionism It is one of the world’s greatest liberation movements, and if Palestinians had welcomed Zionism and the Jewish people, their lives would be much better than they are today.

    The author is a Zionist educator at institutions around the world and recently published the book Zionism Today.



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