While waiting in a line during Mardi Gras, a graduate student from Tulane University expressed her views regarding Israel and Palestine. She said that all of the students in Tulane's graduate school programs are pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel.
When sked about October 7 Hamas atrocities, she defended it by deflecting to 1948, in which according to the anti-Israel narrative, Arabs were forced out from Palestine.
Even if this narrative were true, she was asked if committing murder, kidnapping, sexual crimes and other atrocities against civilians, including babies, can ever be justified.
She answered by saying that pro-Israel Americans are privileged and have no idea about Palestinian suffering. She was asked, how are the pro-Palestinian American protestors not privileged, including the many that attend prestigious, expensive American colleges and universities?
She was asked again if anything can ever justify the atrocities Hamas committed against civilians, including babies, women, girls, children, on October 7. Again, she deflected.
There are things in this world that are black and white, no shades of grey. Murdering, sexually abusing, kidnapping, committing atrocities are indefensible.
Victimhood and grievances do not legitimize atrocities. Murder, sexual abuse, kidnapping, mutilation, atrocities, are cruelty, not resistance.
The anti-Israel crowd is absolute in blaming Israel for everything, and holding Arabs responsible for nothing, including the flight of Arabs from the 1948 war. The Arabs that did not flee are now 20 per cent of Israel's population, with full and equal rights.
In 1948, Israel was attacked by Arab armies and Arab militias within Israel. This was a war that Arabs, not Israelis, started.
Most of Israel's population are Jews from the middle east and North Africa and their descendants, where many of these Jews were ethnically cleansed and forced to flee to Israel. On lands where Jews had lived for centuries, even for thousands of years, there are no longer Jews.
The existing Palestinian cause is not about creating two states or even one state of different peoples, including Jews and Arabs, living in harmony. It is about slaughtering Jews and creating a Jew free Palestine, the name for a country that never existed.
This woman was asked directly that if a two-state solution is not acceptable to her and her crowd, then what about one state, an Israel/Palestine, or Palestine/Israel, where Jews and Arabs share the land.
Even this was not acceptable to her.
Long before Israel existed, there were massacres of Jews in lands across the middle east and North Africa, including all over British controlled Palestine and what is now Israel.
The Jews of Israel, Israel's majority population, are Jews that survived the ethnic cleansing and massacres of Jews throughout the middle east and Africa, and also the holocaust in Europe. These Jews had their lands and properties stolen from them. They do not use this as an excuse to murder the children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren of the ones that did this.
The effort to exterminate Jews never ended with Hitler. The head mufti of Jerusalem, an ally of Hitler and relative and inspiration for Arafat, wanted the genocide to spread to the Jews of Palestine and across the middle east, a sentiment still widely held across the middle east and elsewhere.
Hitler lost the war finally. But the effort to exterminate Jews never ended. The Jews in Israel from Iraq, Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Egypt, Algeria, Iran, and more, know that they have no home except for Israel. Their descendants know that nothing awaits them in the lands where their parents, grandparents or great grandparents escaped. Only death and persecution.
A person truly concerned about Arabs, including the Arabs now called Palestinian, would insist it is enough of the violence, war, hate, terror and demonizing.
Jew and Arab are stuck with one another on a small piece of land. Just because countless millions hate Jews and want to see Jews slaughtered does not make the destroy Israel cause right.
The woman complained about Israel bombing Lebanon. She was told, if Hezbollah did not shoot rockets and artillery into Israel on October 8, that would never have happened.
Lastly, in a world full of real genocide and terrible atrocities, including genocide in the Sudan, horrific atrocities in Syria, Yemen, Somalia, DRC, Myanmar, North Nigeria and in many more places, no one cares because there is no Jew to blame.
Palestinian Arabs get center stage, not because their suffering is greater than that of hundreds of millions of people that suffer in war zones, extreme poverty, famine and more, but because their enemy is the Jew, and therefore Palestinianism is used as the cover for an ancient, pathological, demonic hatred.
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