| "The Naked Truth" Ellen W, Horowitz April 15, 2002 "Lots of children grow up as orphans." What a warm, nurturing thing for a mother to say. The Palestinian mother who came up with that one got caught before she could trigger her suicide belt. Another female bomber met with success (sic!) last Friday in Jerusalem, when she detonated what appeared to be her pregnant stomach. We have indeed entered another phase of what Saddam called, "The Mother of all Battles" or the "War of the Wombs" (I coined that one). In one corner we have the Palestinian Mother who lovingly straps TNT to her ten year old son, while her six year old sits and plays with grenades instead of lego. Meanwhile, her four year old daughter robotically and methodically snaps the heads and limbs off of barbie dolls. And in the other corner, we have a Jewish mother in Jerusalem. She is teaching her three year old to say a morning prayer, thanking G-d for giving him life. At the same time, she is packing a care-package for her son in the army (with enough clean socks and brownies to keep him and his entire battalion happy for a week). Her daughter isn't home, because she's a national service volunteer and at the hospital comforting victims of the latest terror outrage. Does something seem a little off here? Are your insides churning a bit? You don't have to be an anthropologist to know that civilization's consistent prioritization of the life of women and children during times of crisis has to do with averting an existential threat to the continuance of mankind. In other words, children represent the future and women represent a source of life. My husband had a friend who once discovered two grenades hidden inside the bra of an Arab woman. I guess this guy had a finely attuned sense of female anatomy. So when faced with a choice of either a military prison sentence for sexual impropriety or death, he quickly stripped off the veils off this devout, modest young woman and exposed her deadly secrets. It seems that even the very religious among us will have to open their eyes and take a good look around them. In light of the current situation, I assume that's it's one hundred percent permissible for a young Charedi woman to run up to a police officer, point out an Arab and scream, "Is that a gun is his pocket or is he just happy to see me!" Are you embarrassed yet? There is another way. We can rid our streets of the problem. But then the world will call us Nazis, accuse of apartheid, fascism etc..., etc.... Boy, do we Jews hate to be called "Nazis". Heck we'd rather die than be called that word. But in case you haven't heard, they're already calling us all of those nasty terms. Once our security services have to start yelling, "drop your jeans" at every suspicious Arab male in the streets, and those ravenous media monsters start snapping pictures, you can bet that the name "Nazi" will stick. We could sit on the problem, negotiate and mull it over a bit. Or come up with some temporary fix. But what happens when they whip out even bigger phalluses equipped with bio-chemical or nuclear warheads. You can try to get past this one with every psychological, sociological or philosophical rationalization that's ever been written. But trust me, no matter how many times you attempt to work it through, you can't. Because, what we are dealing with here is absolute, unadulterated evil. We're talking about something so purely profane that the Islamic nations couldn't even agree to slightly dilute the concept and come up with a luke warm condemnation of suicide missions. Because, they worship death. When countries and nationalities start corrupting sacred ideas like the purpose of creation and advocating the use of reproductive organs for unproductive or destructive purposes, then the world is on the brink. I bet even the Pope can't argue with that. And yet, Palestinian gunman continue to hold a site sacred to Christianity hostage. I suggest that the powers that be recommend blasting these demons out, even if it means some damage to the woodwork. Suicidal maniacs should not be negotiated with or allowed to remain in our midst. They need to be sent far, far away to "Never, Never Again Land". In the meantime, the rest of us had better wake up and grow up. And we'd better do it quickly. ----- Ellen lives in the Golan Heights with her husband and six children. She is a painter, writer and political activist |
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