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letter from an israeli student
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ryan R Klimczak)
Wed Apr 10 17:11:23 2002
Message-Id: <200204102110.RAA27715@mitsh23.mit.edu>
To: peace-announce@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 17:10:42 -0400
From: Ryan R Klimczak <klimczak@MIT.EDU>
I think this best explains why my brother continues to live in Israel
Subject: FW: letter from an israeli student
> Dear World:
> It appears that you are hard to please. I understand
> that you are upset over us, here in Israel. Indeed, it
> appears that you are quite upset, even angry and
> outraged?
>
> Indeed, every few years you seem to become upset over
> us. Today, it is the brutal repression of the
> Palestinians; yesterday, it was Lebanon; before
> that it was the bombing of the nuclear reactor in
> Baghdad and the Yom Kippur War campaign. It appears
> that Jews who triumph and who, therefore, live,
> upset you most extraordinarily. Of course, dear world,
> long before there was an Israel, we, the Jewish people
> -- upset you.
>
> We upset a German people who elected a Hitler and we
> upset an Austrian people who cheered his entry into
> Vienna and we upset a whole slew of Slavic nationals -
> Poles, Slovaks, Lithuanians, Ukrainians, Russians,
> Hungarians, Rumanians. And we go back a long, long way
> in the history of world upset. We upset the Cossacks
> of Chmielnicki who massacred tens of thousands of us
> in 1648-49; we upset the Crusaders who, on their way
> to liberate the Holy Land, were so upset at Jews that
> they slaughtered untold numbers of us. We upset, for
> centuries, a Roman Catholic Church that did its best
> to define our relationship through Inquisitions. And
> we upset the archenemy of the Church, Martin Luther,
> who, in his call to burn the synagogues and the Jews
> within them, showed an admirable Christian ecumenical
> spirit.
>
> It is because we became so upset over upsetting you,
> dear world, that we decided to leave you-- in a manner
> of speaking -- and establish a Jewish State. The
> reasoning was that living in close contact with you,
> as
> resident-strangers in the various countries that
> comprise you, we upset you, irritate you, and disturb
> you. What better notion, then, than to leave you and
> thus love you -- and have you love us? And so we
> decided to come home --to the same homeland from which
> we were driven out 1,900 years earlier by a Roman
> world that, apparently, we also upset. Alas, dear
> world, it appears that you are hard to please. Having
> left you and your Pogroms and Inquisitions and
> Crusades and Holocausts, having taken our leave
> of the general world to live lone in our own little
> state Israel; we continue to upset you.
>
> You are upset that we repress the Palestinians.You are
> deeply angered over the fact that we do not give up
> the lands of 1967, which are clearly the obstacle to
> peace in the Middle East. Moscow is upset and
> Washington is upset. The Arabs are upset and the
> gentle Egyptian moderates are upset.
>
> Well, dear world, consider the reaction of a normal
> Jew from Israel. In 1920, 1921 and 1929, there were no
> territories of 1967 to impede peace between Jews and
> Arabs. Indeed, there was no Jewish State to upset
> anybody. Nevertheless, the same oppressed and
> repressed Palestinians slaughtered hundreds of Jews in
> Jerusalem, Gaff, Safe and Heron. Indeed, 67 Jews were
> slaughtered one day in Hebron - in 1929.
>
> Dear world, why did the Arabs - the Palestinians
> -massacre 67 Jews in one day in 1929? Could it have
> been their anger over Israeli aggression in 1967?
> And why were 510 Jewish men, women and children
> slaughtered in Arab riots in 1936-39? Was it because
> of Arab upset over 1967? And when you, World,
> proposed a UN Partition Plan in 1947 that would have
> created a Palestinian State alongside a tiny Israel
> and the Arabs cried an d went to war and killed 6,000
> Jews - was that upset stomach caused by the aggression
> of 1967? And, by the way, dear world, why did we not
> hear your cry of upset then? The Palestinians who
> today kill Jews with explosives and firebombs and
> stones are part of the same people who -- when they
> had all the territories they now demand be given them
> for their state -- attempted to drive the Jewish
> State into the sea.
>
> The same twisted faces, the same hate, the same cry of
> "idbah-al-yahud" -- "Slaughter the Jews!" that we hear
> and see today, were seen and heard then. The same
> people, the same dream -- destroy Israel. What they
> failed to do yesterday, they dream of today -- but we
> should not "repress" them.
>
> Dear world, you stood by the Holocaust and you stood
> by in 1948 as seven states launched a war that the
> Arab League proudly compared to the Mongol massacres.
> You stood by in 1967 as Nasser, wildly cheered by wild
> mobs in every Arab capital in the world, vowed to
> drive the Jews into the sea. And you would stand by
> tomorrow if Israel were facing extinction. And since
> we
> know that the Arabs-Palestinians daily dream of that
> extinction, we will do everything possible to remain
> alive in our own land. If that bothers you, dear
> world, well -- think of how many times in the past you
> bothered us. In any event, dear world, if you are
> bothered by us, here is one Jew in Israel who could
> not care less.
>
>
> Heather Halickman
> Vice President, Human Resources
> and Secretary
> Phone: 514-738-7300 (206)
> Fax: 514-735-7039
> Email: heather@friscobay.com
> URL: www.friscobay.com
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