printMoral relativists desire nothing more than to equate with impunity the rather civilized and way-too-liberal Israeli society with the savage society adjacent to it. Well, to be fair to these equivocators, moral relativism is the least of their problems; outright immorality is. Their general impetus is to delegitimize Israel in any way possible (of course, as I’ve pointed out, Israel may be helping in the effort.) And if this involves ditching the powers of analogy, so be it.
Enemies of Everything Israel sprung into action, concluding that this image is no different to these:
The first is a photo of Israeli little girls from Kiryat Shmona, on the border with Lebanon and subject to many terrorist assaults over the years. The worst was a massacre in which nine children were slaughtered (a family friend—a pathologist—performed the autopsies).
The girls emerged from the shelters after five days of shelling to find their small town crawling with the military and the press, foreign and local. According to Lisa Goldman, one of the parents addressed a tank shell with the words, “To Nasrallah with love.” The kids decorated it with Israeli flags.
Is there anything wrong with this picture? Not to my mind. Nasrallah is a very bad man indeed. I’d gladly add my signature.
The other photos are a slideshow starring future little suicide bombers, dressed in fatigues, carrying arms, or strapped with Toys “R” Us suicide belts, screaming “Itbuch El Yahud”—death to the Jews. This is clearly a communal educational effort, as the tykes are surrounded by immediate and extended family, grandmothers too.
These delightful folks and their progeny are not inveighing against Sharon, Olmert, or the IDF, but against—the Jews. They are dressed to kill.
Contrast that with the little girls in their dainty frocks. They addressed the shell to a man who wants to do them harm, not to the Lebanese people or to all Arabs. Theirs was an act of patriotism. Is it so evil, in this liberal, emasculated, deracinated world to identify with your defenders and hope they win? Apparently so.
And consider this: how likely is it that those girls, now being indirectly maligned, will grow up to be suicide bombers? Yes, you get my drift.
The girls, moreover, do not have the deductive powers to reason that the shell may harm innocents. This is more than can be said for the idiots who equate them with Tots for Terrorism.
The same creeps also disguise their disingenuous unwillingness to draw objective distinctions with simpering, broad-brush generalities: “woe betides me, for all these kids—Jews and Arabs—are victims…”
Repulsive indeed.