Truth and Fiction

August 9, 2006 - 10:36 AM by

Imshin reminds everyone that distortions of Israel are as old as the state itself:

My mother-in-law often tells about life in Tel Aviv during the 1948 war. Many would like to portray that war as the wicked Jewish intruders coming and pushing out the locals. But I hear from my mother-in-law, who was born in Tel Aviv, about how her father went out to get her medicine in the night and was shot at by Arab snipers while crossing Balfour Street. Now if you know where Balfour Street is, you’ll know how very dangerous life in the center of Tel Aviv was in those days.

And she also tells of Bish’s father, who was once walking in Allenby Street, just by Mugrabi Cinema. He was walking with a friend, pushing his bike so they could talk, just two teenagers walking along and chatting. After a while, he discovered he was walking on his own, talking to himself. Arab snipers from Jaffa had shot his friend dead. Again, if you know Allenby Street and the Mugrabi Cinema at all, you will know how incredible this is, how hard to grasp.

And I grew up in Haifa with the stories of street battles between Hadar and the lower city.

That war was a fight to survive. A terrible terrible war, killing one percent of the Jewish population and many newcomers, Holocaust survivors fresh off the boats. It was touch and go. Us or them.

Never since has Israel’s home front been so targetted. Not even when we sat in air shelters here in Tel Aviv during the Gulf War of 1991. Not even near.

This is still a fight to survive. And anyone who thinks differently is deluded.

Still we’re the bad guys.

Brave kids are fighting for us in Lebanon, getting wounded, getting killed. Whole families have been sitting underground for weeks, many others are refugees. People are being killed and wounded in their homes, thousands of homes have been destroyed. By an organization described by some foreign media as a ‘resistance movement’. Resistance against what exactly?

Against Israel’s existence. They are quite clear about that.

The situation is that Lebanon has to burn right now if Israel is to survive. I’m sorry for the people on the other side, but that is the way it is. Us or them. In that respect we are not doing nearly enough for the enemy to get the picture. No, for the enemy to cease to be.

So I’m supposed to be bothered about the usual lies being told about us by our enemies, those who wish us to cease to be? Excuse me if I don’t give a $%^&!

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2 Comments on Truth and Fiction

  1. a lebanese on Wed, Aug 9th 2006 12:34 PM

    2. The holocaust was committed by the Germans and yet the arabs have to suffer from it by losing their homes and lives. Israel did not exist until 1948 and the reason your relative died was because that year determined whether Palestine would exist or not. The reason arabs were becoming violent was because of the many massacres that were happening such as the Deir Yassin massacre (please research it and find out more about it).
    The arabs would have more than welcomed the Jews if they just immigrated to the arab world. But instead the jews went out to search for a Jewish state by eliminating all the arabs and replacing them by jews.
    Hezballah is in fact resisting Israel. It is resisting Israel’s dominance and inhumanity. And when I talk about Israel I talk about the government. Israel has six lebanese prisoners of war which hezballah wishes to get through negotiation and not war. The 2 Israeli soldiers kidnapped by hezballah were evidently worth the many deaths that happened in both Israel and LEbanon…why shouldn’t the lebanese citizens be? Are they not human?
    Finally, what lies are being told by the arabs? And you should care about the lives of every human being in the world because in the end we are all children of Adam and Eve and are all related.

  2. Arnie on Thu, Aug 17th 2006 1:16 AM

    3. When Arab mothers learn to love their children more than they hate the Jews, the Middle East will live in peace. What is forgotten is that in the Bible G-d gave this area to his chosen people. I do not believe those pople were Arabs or those of the Muslim faith. Arguing about who was there first does not serve the interests of those seeking peace. As we say in America, wake up and smell the flowers. For a better education on this subject, people should read Leon Uris book, “The Haj”.

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