Doing the Islamic terrorists' job
Op-ed: While the international community is forced to defend itself and the Jews against Islamic terror with one hand, its other hand is busy pointing an accusing finger at Israel through the ICC.
I visited the second synagogue on Friday evening. It was an odd sight. There were two soldiers standing at the entrance. Two others inside. "Where are you from?" one of them asked my son. "From Israel," he replied. "For you this is a normal situation," he told him. "On the contrary," he replied. "In Israel we don’t have soldiers at every synagogue."
At the end of the prayer they joined us for wine and refreshments. A small show of gratitude and an attempt to break the ice.
Last Monday, the first day of school after the terror attacks, many students did not show up at the Jewish schools. The fear became real.
The tiger-striped soldiers arrived later in the week. Considering the fact that we are talking about hundreds of schools, community centers and synagogues, it's not an easy task. The feeling isn't very pleasant. In order to live under military protection in Israel, one must move to an isolated settlement.
Past experience shows that at a certain stage the tight security will be lifted. Until the next attack. The French government wants to defend. It doesn’t want Jews to leave. But more than anything, the need for soldiers point to the new situation. Why in Tel Aviv those same Jews feel much better.
"Why are we under guard, while those who attack us need no guard?" one of the worshippers asked me. The answer is clear. Because one can't remember a single terror attack carried out by Jews against Muslims or Christians in Europe.
The master of history deceives us. There was a time when Jews had to be protected from Christians. Today the Christians are the ones protecting the Jews from the Muslims. Not all Muslims. Not even the majority of them. Far from that. But the threat is there. Sometimes it materializes.
In the past few decades, after the Holocaust, Europe was kind to the Jews. They integrated. They prospered. But the old anti-Semitism was in the background, joined by the new anti-Semitism – the new anti-Semitism of some of the anti-Zionist elites and the new anti-Semitism of some of the Muslims. The former turn Israel into a monster. The latter want to crush the monster's head. According to them, Europe's Jews are also part of the monster.
While the international community is forced to defend itself, and the Jews, against Islamic terror with one hand, its other hand is busy pointing an accusing finger at Israel through the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Hamas welcomes this situation. It's the same Hamas which calls for the annihilation of Jews, which carries out attacks against Jews and which welcomes every terror attack against Jews.
When Jews need protection, when the international community points an accusing finger at Israel, and when Hamas welcomes it – the Kouachi brothers and Amedy Coulibaly can smile from their graves. They won. The enlightened Europe is doing their job for them, intentionally and unintentionally.
