How Elias Rodriguez Gave the Game Away by Yelling ‘Free Palestine’
“gives a patina of nobility to a movement driven not by liberating Palestinians but by annihilating the Jewish state”
These fanatics don’t care about freeing Palestine, they want to kill Jews, which is just what this evil person did.
David Suissa writes at Jewish Journal:
How Elias Rodriguez Exposed the Hoax of “Free Palestine”
Elias Rodriguez could have yelled words like “genocide” and “apartheid” after he murdered two young Israelis in Washington last week. Instead, he uttered the “Free, free Palestine” chant that has inundated college campuses and city streets since the Hamas massacre of Oct. 7, 2023.
Why did he go for “free Palestine” rather than more lethal accusations? After all, if he was hoping to justify his monstrous act, shouldn’t he try to make Israel look like a genocidal monster?
“Free Palestine” does none of that, but it may be more lethal.
We can use facts to debunk libelous claims like “genocide” and “apartheid.” Debunking “free Palestine,” however, is more difficult because it’s emotional and sounds reasonable. Who doesn’t deserve freedom?
“Free Palestine” gives a patina of nobility to a movement driven not by liberating Palestinians but by annihilating the Jewish state. That’s precisely why if we must debunk anything in the defense of Israel, “free Palestine” should be on top of the list.
The anti-Israel DNA among Israel’s neighbors has been around for a long time. Years before anyone heard of an occupation, British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin had this to say in a 1947 speech:
“For the Jews, the principle was the creation of a sovereign Jewish state. For the Arabs, the principle was to resist, to the last, the establishment of Jewish sovereignty in any part of Palestine.”
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My new chant is: Fry Elias Fry Elias!
Doesn’t the federal government use a needle like most of the states that have the death penalty?
I was talking to a cousin who is lefty but a supporter of Israel. She claimed that all violence–in rhetoric or in acts–came from the right/Trump/Republicans. I pointed out Elias Rodriguez’s gunning down Jews. She denied that Elias was a leftie, claiming that those against Israel are to be found equally on the right as on the left. Oh well.
The Bernie Sanders guy who shot up the Republican softball practice? Also a Republican?!
What violence, whether rhetoric or acts, has come from the Right/Trump/Republicans?!?
Oh there was that minor Charlottesville thing which included a minority of a minority chanting ‘Jews will not replace us’ or something like that I think? But Trump was clear those were not ‘very fine people’!
Yes there are folk who are against Israel on the Right, maybe, possibly, but rabid anti-Semitism and violence as seen is near exclusively from the Left.
‘Gas the Jews’ or ‘From the River (and in)to the Sea’ is not being chanted by anyone on the Right as far as I’m aware.
Of course suggesting Arabs abandon native Palestinian land and return it will be met with screams of Islamophobia, Zionism etc. Apparently native Palestinians aka Jews, are the one native people group the Left refuse to support, well them and the ‘natives’ in Europe.
The Arab principle was “to resist, to the last, the establishment of Jewish sovereignty in any part of Palestine” or to resist to the last, the existence of any native Palestinians aka Jews, in Palestine aka Judea aka Israel?