Op-Ed: Must Read: The Cheesemaker Occupation Must End

Arutz Sheva ^ | 4/9/12

[Eleutheria5]

I have seen many news reports about the murder of a settler family by an unknown intruder, but none of these reports have made note of the real tragedy in this case. That of the knife. Jewish children are a dime a dozen. One can hardly walk through Jerusalem without being able to throw a stone in the direction of half a dozen of them. But knives are a vital part of Palestinian culture. A good throat slitting knife may be handed down through the generations.

When I visited Gaza in July, I met a brave fighter who showed me a knife which his grandfather used to slit the throat of a Jew in Hebron in 1933, and his father used in a raid on a farmhouse in 1962 and which he hopes to use one day as well. There is both romance and practical necessity in this.

The criminal Israeli siege of Gaza allows through food and clothing, but not knives. Many Gazans must make do with a single knife for the entire family. Only one of them is able to use the knife at a time. If the grandmother of a large family wants to slice bread while her grandson breaks into a settlement to slit a baby's throat-- she has no choice but to starve. That is the real tragedy here.

The blood of children is hazardous to knives. So the Sheikh of Wadi Al-Zebel, a picturesque village nestled at the foot of an ammo dump, told me once. The blood of children is more acidic than that of adults and etches the blade. Each time a brave Palestinian fighter sinks his knife into a Jewish child, he damages the knife. It is an act of great self-sacrifice and some knives have been lost that way.

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[Eleutheria5]

This is dark humor on a new level.

[Bullish]

God will surely use HIS knife on the entire muslim population of this earth. Count on it.

The chaff will be separated and the wheat will be spared.

[ApplegateRanch]

To lose to the American army is somewhat respectable. But to lose to a thousand villagers in Ithamar, to shepherds and cheesemakers, is intolerable. The diplomats and politicians are almost ready to give in, but the cheesemakers and herders refuse. Outrageous! So something is done. Murder a family of them and perhaps the cheesemakers and shepherds will leave. And the day of the knife will draw closer. The day when the humiliation of the Nakba will be lifted from the descendants of Mohammed.

Goliath also had a big knife, and a young, cheesed off, Hebrew shepherd used it to remove his head from his corpse.

[submarinerswife]

brave Palestinian fighter

This article could have been written by a Democrat.

[House Atreides]

brave Palestinian fighter
This article could have been written by a Democrat.
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In which case it would not have been satire!

[Eleutheria5]

They are getting increasingly harder to parody, because they keep saying stuff like this with a straight face and in deadly earnest. But this time it’s satire.

[SJackson]

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[sauropod]

Yep.

[muir_redwoods]

Jonathan Swift reborn as an Israeli

[Eleutheria5]

Yes. Why waste good food, Palis. If you slaughter infants like sheep, why not utilize them? It’s a modest proposal.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

This is not easy satire.

My initial inclination was that he “pounded it in and broke it off”, and that it would have been improved by greater wit, and some degree of vulgarity.

But in reflection, that would have been wrong for this purpose. Had it been a general subject, then yes, but this was based on a particular, violent, heinous and abhorrent event. And inhuman and evil act.

Thus it will only tolerate carefully blunt sarcasm. Call it “the sarcasm of the hempen widow”.

In truth, it should be replaced by a harsh editorial, one that calls on Jews to change their attitudes toward things like the death penalty, and treating gently and with respect the religious beliefs of those Muslims who in the name of their religion carry out such bestial acts.

That is, why *not* sew them up in pig skins, then hang them, and bury their cadavers in cesspits? If what they are doing is so “not-Islamic”, then other Muslims should not care that they met such a fate, for they would have strayed from “real” Islam, as other Muslims hypocritically spout.

There is no defense to behaving like rabid dogs, so they should be treated as rabid dogs. Given no quarter, no respect to them or their beliefs, but killed and tossed in the filth and trash to rot and go to Hell.

If his fellow Muslims wish to honor him, let them pray at the cesspit in which he is interred.

For Jews to insist on consideration and respect for rabid dogs and their sickness borders on insanity.

[American in Israel]

This really is not all that sarcastic, it is far more true to life than America realizes.

Your new Muslim “neighbors”? Yes, they cradle the knife... Go talk to them, see if you get to view them with the mask off. Carry concealed.

[Terry L Smith]

Palestinians are nothing more than an OWS faction, brought to the world eye by a now-dead and rotting Yasser Arafat. They are the unwanted children of both Egypt, and Jordan.
“What they need are more blankets, just like the Seneca needed them.”

Israel has been, and shall ever be, Israel, period.

[RobinOfKingston]

This article could have been written by a Democrat.

Not in this way. This is in the same vein as "A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift.

[Eleutheria5]

The Blues Brothers are still in prison. It’s not too late for them to receive the fate they deserve, before they’re freed for another Israeli soldier kidnapped. It’s unlikely given the present legal system, but we can hope.