Is this graffiti an acceptable practice? Of course not, despite the fact that it is the result of anarchy and despair. It is unacceptable and a big mistake. But somebody here has completely lost direction – or worse, is taking advantage of the hooligans for a very specific purpose.
Internationally known writer Amos Oz calls the Jews the “new Nazis.” Presumably, this statement will win him a few more honorariums and prestigious prizes in Germany. He doesn’t speak that way about the public that produced Shelly Dadon’s murderers. Her blood shocks him much less than some graffiti on a wall.
Time and again it has been proven that many of the graffiti incidents are Arab provocations – as in Tuba-Zangaria (Bedouin village), for example. It is also not farfetched to think that the same people who brought us the pictures of Yitzhak Rabin in an SS uniform – the provocateurs of the Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security forces – have also brought us much of the graffiti. After all their investigations, they have not yet managed to produce any indictments. So what is going on here?
But who cares about the truth? The peace process is stuck and somebody has decided to move forward with the destruction of the settlements and the settlers – the true purpose of the talks – at any price. So just as it was before Oslo and before the Expulsion – just as it always is when the process of destruction gets stuck – they dust off the tried but true witch hunt method. Once again, they try to brainwash the entire country into thinking that their brothers are the worst enemy of all and that the enemy is the enemy only because of their brothers.
“Those who have mercy on the cruel,” say our Sages, “will ultimately be cruel to the merciful.” The result, of course, is Shelly Dadon. Many Shelly Dadons. The bodies are all lined up – rows and rows of sacrifices of peace, the likes of which we never knew before the so-called peace of Amos Oz and his ilk.
And those settlers with their large kippot, beards and farm clothes, those planting vineyards in the mountains of Samaria and shepherding goats on the hills of Judea, whose entire being announces that this is our land – they are very dangerous.
It is not the graffiti. It is the mirror that they hold up to the disconnected generation that we have raised here in Israel. They are dangerous! They are the enemy! We must eliminate them!