Netanyahu for Prime Minister
Larry Carson, Ohio, 22.02.02
Dear BiBi;
Way back in 1973 - '74 I worked as a volunteer to Israel. I witnessed the Yom Kippur War and then during Passover week in 1974 experienced the first of a number of specific PLO attacks targeting specifically schools and children houses, kindergartens, school buses and the like. It started with an infiltration in Quiriat Schmoneh on the Passover weekend, where the perpetrators found the school empty and locked and took over a nearby residential building, shooting people and in the end blowing themselves up.
A few weeks later the worst of this series of incidents took place in Maalot on May 15th: Three PLO gunmen, after making their way through the border fence, first shot up a van load full of workers returning from a tobacco factory, then they entered the school compound of Maalot. First they murdered the housekeeper, his wife and one of their kids, afterwards they took a whole group of nearly 100 kids and their teachers hostage. These were staying overnight at the school, as they were on a hiking trip. In the end, the deadline ran out, and the Israeli Army's special unit assaulted the building. During the rescue attempt, the gunmen blew their explosive charges and sprayed the kids with machine-gun fire. 25 people died, 66 wounded.
I was there, and to this day I can close my eyes and recant the visual gore, the children’s bullet riddled bodies lying on the floor, the blood spattered walls. Several days later I remember the video of Yasir Arafat, with his weapon raised to the sky discharging its lethal load, the manicidal, sick, rejoice in Arafat’s eyes, The look of a dedicated, merciless killing machine, the same look of the SS, Nazi’s, Auschwitz, the public acknowledgement for the deed of rendering death to innocents.
Although it has become almost a routine sight on our television screens, I cannot help but gasp every time I see it: children in front of tanks, throwing stones at armed soldiers. And nowhere, but nowhere, is there a single mother running to grab their hands and lead them home.
Where are the Palestinian mothers? And what in Heaven’s name are they thinking when they let their children endanger their lives, and the lives of others, day in and day out? Because make no mistake about it, when those kids throw those stones, they are making an effort to injure and kill
Yasir Arafat, has abandoned the negotiating table and turned to bullets and thus invited bullets in return from those who had extended their hand in peace. I would wonder what in Heaven’s name he hoped to accomplish, and how many Palestinian children he intended to sacrifice the altar of his monomaniacal dreams of glory?
I know what the well-oiled Palestinian public relations machine will say: These young people are so enraged by atrocities on the Israeli side that their parents are helpless to stop them expressing their fury.
I also have 2 children the same age as the rock-throwers. They are no less enraged by Palestinian atrocities -- buses blowing up, Arabs running amok and stabbing passersby in quiet Jerusalem streets, lynchings, the desecration of Jewish holy places … And I ask myself, why don’t they express a hatred for the arab perpetrators of these heinous crimes. The answer is within their teachers. We teach them not to hate, it gains nothing.
There is a simple answer, of course, which somehow no one is willing to admit: In the last seven years since Oslo, while Israeli children were learning to paint doves and sing songs longing for peace, Palestinian kids were taken to summer camps where they were taught to shoot and sing patriotic war songs. Palestinian preschoolers got treated to a Palestinian version of Sesame Street that taught them the joys of becoming a “shahid” or suicide-bomber for Allah. The children’s textbooks were revised to inculcate democracy and respect for all cultures, post-Oslo Palestinian textbooks show no Israel on the map and systematically demonize Israel and the Jewish people.
Add to this the Goebbels-inspired propoganda films depicting depraved Israeli soldiers raping young Palestinian girls (produced and broadcast by the Palestinian Authority) -- is there any wonder that these kids want to disembowel every Jew and dip their hands in the blood? Or as one crazed and truly scary Palestinian youngster said on camera (I saw this with my own eyes): “Eat Jewish flesh.”
Yasir Arafat, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, is the director of this production which has turned normal kids under his tutelage into murderous, rock-throwing, gun-shooting rabble. And his show is being swallowed by the world press as if they’d never been to Journalism 101, their purple prose wallowing in the “freedom-fighting kids against evil soldiers” cliché as if it were a Shakespearean tragedy instead of the cheesy and obscene exploitation film it is, only one in a series by the same director, who brought us the massacre of Israeli schoolchildren in Maalot, and the murder of Olympic athletes in Munich.
Let me be clear about one thing for sure. Kill 22 children in the United States and leave 66 wounded, and the perpetrators wouldn’t be able to hide under a blade of grass anywhere in existence on Mother Earth.
Yasir Arafat, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, and his movement PLO are responsible for terrible, heinous crimes on innocent civilian population; no mercy, no feelings, and the mode causing these deaths are heinous, truly barbaric, inhumane and meant to leave horrible irreparable scares, without any morality, and against any military code of ethics that exist on this planet. When will the world make Arafat responsible for his deeds, he is not a man of peace, he is a sick, sadistic warlord, a war monger, he kills innocent Jewish and Palestinian children, innocent civilians.
How do we stop this reign of terror? Is there really a chance of a real Shalom for Israel, in which the people of Israel can coexist with their Palestinian or Arab neighbors?
It is my firm belief, that through a government that is only empowered and driven by Binyamin Netanyahu, that a real and meaningful solution can be achieved. A solution that will last, and lay a peaceful foundation to a direction of achievement for all, in this troubled Middle East Region.
A man of all seasons, a person of great wisdom and stamina, and a man who will not succumb to terrorism. A man who will not cave in to dirty politics. Terrorism will not be the key to negotiations of peace.
I can only hope and pray that the next Prime Minister in Israel will be Binyamin Netanyahu.
You are my Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu;
If there is hope, and a will by the people, it will be through your guidance at the Helm, as Prime Minister of a wonderful Jewish Nation, the Land of Israel, and the Jewish people of the world.
I give to you my strength, effort, love and devotion, even my life, for if there is a path to peace it will say Netanyahu.
Shalom,
Larry Carson
Columbus, Ohio
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