Alan Keyes is the only commentator to have had the heart and spine to express the existential meaning of the act of suicide bombing. Keyes delivered a magnificent sermon on his MSNBC television show, analyzing the evil that is buried in the heart of someone who can painstakingly—almost lovingly—pack parcels of shrapnel, ball-bearings, nails and rat poison, to lodge in the bodies of Israeli civilians.
The rat poison is a diabolic touch, intended to intensify internal bleeding. Surgeons must slice the victims of these fiendish devices open, picking from the flesh and burrowing in the bone for embedded shards of shrapnel, ball bearings and nails. Survivors are left maimed and wracked with life-long disfigurement and pain.
Keyes was man enough and moral enough to point out that this premeditated evil—supported by a majority of Palestinians—bespeaks the will to exterminate another and creates a deep and dark reality in the human heart.
Shortly after the Sermon on Slaughter by Suicide, Keyes’ program was axed.
Click on the link, “3 days in Israel,” for a rare glimpse of what he meant. Note that the horrible exhibit ends with a stupid exhortation to fight terrorism. As if what faces Jews daily in Israel is the upshot of some amorphous thing called “terrorism,” rather than a specific and finely honed hate.
Palestinian leadership and its followers are channeling Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Nazi Mufti of Jerusalem. Al-Husseini, Arafat’s hero, “supported the Nazis, and especially their program for the mass murder of the Jews. He visited numerous death camps and encouraged Hitler to extend the ‘Final Solution’ to the Jews of North Africa and Palestine.”