Dear Mr. Dershowitz, I will not attempt to joust with you. Your reputation precedes you as an eloquent writer, speaker and no-nonsense fighter for equality. Who am I to attempt to compete in a war of words with a champion of the written word?
Please accept my apology in advance if you find my response offensive. But I can think of no other way to do so.
I am sure that your reading ability is at least as proficient as your writing skill. I suggest, therefore, that you begin to read – thoroughly – some of the written truths that you and other liberals are so apt at pretending do not exist.
Read about Arab threats to eradicate any and every Jew in every inch of what they have coined as Palestine.
Read, Mr. Dershowitz – read their school books, the way they indoctrinate their youth, the mission statements of their terror organizations. Tell me, Mr. Dershowitz, have you read even one line from them that would suggest ‘peaceful co-existence’ with Israel?
When they vow to throw us into the sea, what exactly does that mean? How do you interpret the anti-Semitic speeches thundering in mosques around the world? Is there something wrong with your comprehension, or have you turned on your selective-hearing mechanism? What part of ‘kill the Jews’ don’t you understand? How long will you pretend that what you hear is not what is really meant?
Wake up, Mr. Dershowitz. Your liberalism offends my sensibilities because it assumes that everyone on the other side of the political road is infected with gullibility, whereas it is a sickness inherent on the Left. And gullibility does not become your persona. You don’t seem like the type of person who believes that hiding one’s head in the sands of ignorance will eliminate the problem – yet you insist that our enemies march to the beat you set. But pretense cannot replace truth.
Welcome to the real world, Mr. Dershowitz.
My political leanings are the exact opposite of yours. I do not believe in compromising our land. I do not believe in giving up an inch of our G-d-given territories. I resent and reject the idea of Jews being transferred against their will. I believe in the slogan ‘Never Again.’ And, far from considering the presence of Jews in Judea and Samaria to be some sort of ‘occupation,’ I view the return of Jews to their land after 2,000 years of exile as nothing short of the liberation of our ancestral inheritance.
Despite our differences, Mr. Dershowitz, they hate you as much as they hate me, because creating another terrorist state is not the issue. Nor is the above-mentioned ‘occupation.’ Nor are the settlements. The issue, Mr. Dershowitz, is the mere fact that we Jews exist.
In the minds of our enemies, the unfortunate fact that we have survived the Holocaust must be corrected, and the Final Solution must come to its delayed but inevitable conclusion. Anything less, Mr. Dershowitz, is seen as an affront to the glory and the truth of Islam. According to the worldview of the Islamofascists, the Jew must be eradicated in order that Allah be properly sanctified.
Perhaps the concept is new to you, but they kill us because we are Jews, Mr. Dershowitz, not because of settlements, fences or presumed and imagined atrocities.
Perhaps it’s time to register for a refresher course titled “Reality and Facts for Dreamers,” designed to be a wake-up call for those who remain in a deep, self-induced slumber. The benefits derived from said course may become the catalysts in reviving Jewish self-worth and preservation.