Cutting through the BBC deception, Naomi Ragen tells the story of sudden Jihad in Jerusalem the way it should be told. She gets at the big picture through the little details of the lives involved in the attack – terrorist, victims and heroes. Naomi’s style is reminiscent of Peggy Noonan. She manages to project an uplifting, though sad, message into what is essentially a tale of horror and despair.
The last two paragraphs should be carved in stone and permanently displayed wherever people congregate in the West. You should read the whole article but here is the conclusion.
Duwait’s family has not expressed sorrow for the victims. But what they do want to know is why it was necessary to have killed Duwait. That way, I suppose they’d be waiting for another Israel soldier to be kidnapped and murdered to set their darling free.
What is the moral of this story? As Rabbi David Booth said: “It was a case of someone turning a plowshare into a sword.” The killing here yesterday was no random act. It was deliberate and personal. It was – and is – family against family. On one side, there are their families that raise their sons to be mass murderers and child killers, instilling in them a hate-filled culture and a religion with no respect for human life, encouraging them to kill and be killed.
And then there is our family, which raises our sons to risk their lives to save the lives of others, instilling in them a culture and religion filled with the true love of G-d and mankind and life. Our family will triumph over their family. Our sons over their sons. And when they sit in their tents of mourning, keening over their dead, perhaps they might reflect on how it is they have raised sons who must be hunted down and killed like mad dogs. Perhaps, if that happens, they will need to mourn no more.
