DON’T APOLOGIZE

Don’t apologize. Don’t express sincere regrets. Don’t promise to investigate. Don’t fall into that trap. Apologize in private, in the privacy of the heart, apologize in prayer, ask for divine forgiveness, but don’t apologize to public opinion. Don’t fall into the traps set by vicious jihadis and relayed by unscrupulous media. Investigate, hold to the highest standards, but don’t promise to investigate. Don’t make promises to the cynical birds of ill augur perched on the fringes of the battle, squawking accusations against your brave hearts. Don’t say “we will investigate” because they translate it to “guilty as charged.” Did they ever ask a jihadi to investigate? Did they ever scrutinize a jihadi investigation with their steely eyes? Do they investigate their own misfiring, misjudgments, misleading misinformation?

Don’t apologize to a world that does not share our values. Don’t play into the perverse blood libel game. Your noble words fall into their meat grinder and it’s our own blood and macerated flesh that comes out the other end. Don’t apologize for misdemeanors, for slips of the gun in the heat of battle, because the ears that slurp up those innocent explanations are on fire with lust for our original sin. They are not accusing you of collateral damage, they are accusing us of killing the divinity we brought to the world, accusing us of existing, accusing us of existence itself. The jihad gods belch it out through their beards: you love life, we love death. They want death to win. And their misguided handmaidens pounce on every apology and throw it into the maw of the death worshippers.

The hand trembles to write these words. How not to apologize, how not to suffer their pain in one’s own flesh, how not to have nightmares?

Don’t apologize to public opinion for killing civilians. Because dead civilians are the WMDs of this war. Israel is bombarded with rockets and with alleged civilian casualties. Either Lebanese sources are lying, or Hizbullah fighters are invincible, because every Israeli operation yields a new crop of civilian deaths. And the media take notes, like dutiful stenographers, and the statistics are racked up and turn into more weapons aimed at the total destruction of Israel and the Jews.

These jihad battles don’t begin with military action, they begin with civilian deaths in the jihad camp. Mohamed al-Dura for the jihad-intifada, the Gaza Beach episode for the current Hamas-Hizbullah offensive. They begin with blood libel--Israel is massacring our children--and everything that follows is justified by that initial crime. After the opening act, the jihad campaign segues into a small foray, just one more incident among dozens or hundreds in the never-ending war of attrition. If Israel counterattacks, the jihadis throw up their arms in horror and scream “what’s all this fuss about a few captured [sic] soldiers?” At the same time, their bearded chieftains, who have run for cover, send out credible threats of annihilation of Israel and all the Jews on the face of the earth. The rhythm of attacks accelerates--shahid martyrdom operations after September 2000, rocket attacks now—into a raging wave of atrocities aimed at Jewish civilians, accompanied by uninhibited expressions of genocidal intent. The jihadis are quick to declare victory. And redefine triumph. They begin with the stated goal of destroying the “Zionist enemy,” but as soon as they see that they are losing, they start attacking with dead civilians. The Jenin massacre, the Qana massacre, and countless mini-massacres, an endless series of macabre crime scenes, bloodied bodies, Israeli guilt, and it is all relayed without verification by the very media that pick up Israeli regrets and slather them over the “massacre” to make it look even worse.

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