I certainly do not mean to
detract for an instant from the horror and outrage over the Bali
bombing, but at the same time I cannot leave without comment the
dramatic differences in the reactions of the world to the Bali bombing
and the countless Arab atrocities against Jews.
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Not a single media outfit has
referred to the perpetrators of the Bali bombings as “activists” or
“militants”. Not even the BBC and CNN. Indeed, both
uncharacteristically used the “T” word to refer to the bombers.
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If it turns out that the car
bomb was triggered by suicide terrorists, no one in the world will
include those dead terrorists in the total body count of the “tragic
affair”.
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Not a single commentator has
been insisting that if the terrorists resorted to such violence,
then surely they must have legitimate grievances.
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Not a single commentator has
been insisting that if the terrorists resorted to such violence,
then surely they must be fighting for a just cause.
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Not a single commentator has
been insisting that if the terrorists resorted to such violence,
then surely it must be because they are so desperate and mistreated.
And no one demanded that Australia ask itself what it has done wrong
to earn such hatred.
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Not a single commentator has
been insisting that Indonesia and Australia need to open dialogue
and negotiations with the terrorists because – after all – there is
no military solution to the problems of terrorism.
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The Nobel Prize Committee has
not suggested that the perpetrators of the bombing be awarded a
Peace Prize.
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Meretz party chief Yossi Sarid
has not suggested that the poems composed by the perpetrators be
taught in Israeli schools.
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Israeli professors from the
Left have not yet organized petitions to demand that the demands of
the bombers be met.
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Jimmy Carter has not rushed to
Bali to endorse the demands of the bombers.
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Israeli leftist lawyers have
not yet offered to defend any of the bombers caught and indicted.
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Student demonstrators in
Berkeley did not stage mock street theater representations of the
bombings, showing the Australians as villains.
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Britain’s Chief Rabbi did not
declare that only withdrawal from occupied Australia is the
solution.
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Tikkun’s Mikey Lerner did not
refer to the bombings as “unrest” and demand that we all feel the
pain of the bombers.
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The University of Michigan and
Colorado College have failed so far to organize Solidarity with the
Bali Bombers Conferences.
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Canada has not confiscated any
leaflets that declare that Australia has the right to exercise
self-defense against the terrorists.
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The newspapers have not been
telling Australians that they brought it all on themselves for being
racist and insensitive and obstinate.
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No one has yet proposed
allowing the terrorists to set up their own state in New South
Wales.
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No one has described the Bali
bombing as “resisting occupation”.
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No progressive churches or
synagogues have offered to host the spokeswoman for the Bali
bombers.
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No one has described the Bali
bombers as moderates who need to be cultivated lest really radical
Islamist terrorists gain power.
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Shimon Peres and Yossi Beilin
have not yet offered the bombers parts of Jerusalem.
