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Revenge is underrated and denigrated in the post‑Christian Western world, but expected within unadulterated (or unmoderated) Muslim culture. Properly maintained expectations for Muslims allow the Israelis to persist within the world of Muslim honor- and shame‑driven societies. Quick reactions also permit Israelis to obtain some comfort in the deaths of their loved ones, because those left behind are able to say to themselves that many other lives were saved through their personal tragedies. The deaths of the three Israeli teenagers led to the 2014 summer’s full-scale conflict with Hamas in Gaza who took full responsibility for the boys’ abductions. By the time the conflict was over, the attack tunnels from Gaza into Israel had been discovered and destroyed so that much larger atrocities in the southern part of the country were averted. One such tunnel opened into Israel within a few hundred yards of a kindergarten, so the three Israeli teenagers can take credit in their deaths for saving the lives of the kindergarten children. This is not wishful thinking. Anyone who denies this chain of causality is lying to themselves and others.
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To a subgroup of Muslims, dying while taking the lives of the enemy is called martyrdom, an exalted act. It is a great strategy for success in war, but not very good for the survival of the individual.
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Anti‑Semites know it is the Jews’ irritable over‑reactions to death that make them responsible for any current conflicts and all others to which they were party in the past or will be party to in the future. The mechanism underpinning this belief is “Jews believe that Jewish lives are so much more important than other lives.” Such people get tired of hearing about the Holocaust and may openly resent or deny it. Every anti-Semite concerned with matters in the Middle East knows as well that the Jews’ sensitivity to loss interferes with a final solution to the problems there. If the Jews would just have the sense to lie down and shut up, death could again take on its more limited, less emotional meaning and its effects in the political realm could be minimized to the point that it was again just a matter of business. What in Netanyahu’s speech to Congress has most frightened worldly and important people was his insistence that he really and honestly and fervently meant “Never Again.”
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/03/why_its_always_israels_fault.html
March 15, 2015
Why it's always Israel's fault
By Jerold Levoritz
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