AMERICAN THINKER
by Sarah Stern, EMET
July 3, 2014

The entire nation and people of Israel this week has been united in profound anguish. It is an agony so great it is wells up in the cavity of your chest that can only be heaved up in vast oceans of tears, and then one realizes the tears do nothing to diminish the pain, and it comes up again, anew. There is a mood of profound, immeasurable grief and national mourning in all of Israel; one of sensitivity, of compassion, and of unity over the news of the horrific murders of Eyal Yifrach, Gilad Sha-ir, and Naftali Frenkel, three teenage boys who had been kidnapped and murdered by Palestinian terrorists on their way home from school.

All of us have watched with trepidation for eighteen days during the frenetic search for their whereabouts. We all know they could have been any one of our children. Israel is a very small country, and by now, no one has not been touched by the scourge of Palestinian terrorism, be it in one’s own family or in that of a friend or a neighbor. But for most of us, there will be an end to the mourning. For the families of Eyal, Gilad, and Naftali there will forever be a void in one of the four chambers of their hearts.

….For over twenty years now, a small group of us have tried to alert the powers that be in the Washington political establishment of the tremendous propaganda machine that has emanated from the very top of the Palestinian Authority down. They have been using  every means available from the official Fatah website, to the textbooks, to summer camps, to television programs for children exhorting them to become “shihads” (martyrs), and to kill Jews,  to advertisements on their official Palestinian station of “beautiful Palestine from Rosh Ha Nikra to Eilat”, to official government maps which our State Department representatives sit under in the PA headquarters in Ramallah, labeling all of Israel as “Palestine”; to naming athletic contests and squares after the terrorists that have killed Jews; to classic anti-Semitic stereotypes in the P.A. that look like they have come straight out of Der Sturmer.

This culture of hatred and of deification of death has been going on for a generation, has metastasized like a virulent cancer and has taken root deep within the Palestinian body politic…..

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