Katsav on Memorial Day: Arab leaders Must Fight Islamic Terror
Excerpts;
Katsav, speaking at Mount Herzl, said leaders of the Arab and Muslim World Must Fight Islamic terrorism.
“Is it possible that the Muslim world continue to hold its tongue while murders act in the name of the Koran, in the name of Islam – butchers, murders, crushers of skulls – and not one of you opens his mouth?” Katsav said.
“Today we will expel all quarrels and disputes from our midst,” Olmert said in his address.
He added that all of the soldiers that were killed in Israel’s campaigns were “brothers in arms, unified in sacrifice, whether they were from villages or cities, settlements or development towns, Jews, Druze, Muslims or Christians.”
In the past year, 138 members of the security forces have been killed in the line of duty, bringing the total of men and women killed defending the state since 1860 to 22,123.
Commentary;
This author thought that the lesson of last week in the remains of the German Concentration Camps was, as Ehud Olmert spoke; “… appeasement, concessions, and weakness are a recipe for a holocaust,” and that, as a result, we can depend upon no one, that we can’t entrust Jewish security and wellbeing to anyone else but ourselves. For context; click here. Israelis have been brainwashed in recent years and, due to a lack of a Torah perspective of history among numerous sectors of the Israeli public in our generations, have lost the sense of connection and perspective between the Holocaust and the modern-day State of Israel. The statements of President Katsav at Mt Herzl exemplify the lost of connection and perspective and failure to extrapolate the lessons of the Holocaust, i.e. Interim Prime Minister Olmert’s words last week on Holocaust Rememberance day.
What kind of moral equivalence do we have in making statements like “leaders of the Arab and Muslim World Must Fight Islamic terrorism”? Why should the Moslem world fight terrorism? Some higher morality? Their national interests as sponsors of terrorists and terrorism against Israel and against Jews? Their Islamic machismo? The Koran?
As this author wrote last year after the expulsion, there can no longer be any sense of moral indignation among Israelis at whatever the Arab, Islamic enemy does to us, for the government of Israel, elected by most Israelis, have beaten, expelled and persecuted our own, our fellow Jews.
Katsav’s speech today at Mt. Herzl rivals former Prime Minister Ehud Barak’s letter to the bereaved on Yom HaZicharon, 2000 in it’s abject abbrogation and abdication of responsibility. Barak wrote in 2000; “Heavy, maybe too heavy, is the price we bear for our independence and building the 52 years of the State of Israel.” MB