I’ve made a really big stink about the Times of Israel refusing to publish an article I wrote.
I’ll tell you a secret. I have been a journalist for over 30 years; I have been a blogger for more than eight. This blog has passed over 800,000 visitors. My writing is regularly featured on many sites and I get so many people telling me that I have found words to express their feelings, that I am helping them understand what is happening in Israel.
I’ve had people tell me that I helped them make the final decision to come to Israel; that I have offered them comfort. I laughed…really and truly…when the Times of Israel rejected my post.
Well, I’m not laughing now…
I’ve put in another post – you’ll see it soon here…I give it a 60% chance of being rejected but in the meantime, low and behold what they did allow.
“The settlers are winning, the settlers are winning!” reminds me of the movie “The Russians are coming, the Russians are coming” – but of course, they weren’t.
It was just misguided fear and when the people of the town finally got to know the settlers…I mean…the Russians, they realized that they were really just like them, decent people who just wanted to live, and maybe get home to their families. They loved and wanted to be loved. All normal.
But what amazes me, just days after the Times of Israel found my list of Arab terror attacks to be offensive (note: if that is not an accurate assumption, I can only offer the disclaimer that I have repeatedly asked and been ignored and so I am left to assume their motives in light of their failure to answer my questions)…but, what amazes me is that they consider what I wrote to be offensive, but not what this man wrote.
“The most enlightened of the settler leaders see a final solution where Palestinians, or Arabs as they are seen…”
You’d think that a man who says he is 77 years old would have more sensitivity to the memory of the Holocaust victims and survivors than to use the word “final solution” in this inaccurate and cavalier way. Short of sudden senility, I can’t figure out what would possess a Jew, even one living in New York, to write these words in relation to the actions and thoughts of Jews.
Final solution, Mr. Rothberg? Really? Have you ever actually been to Israel? Have you ever been to a “settlement”? Are you aware that over 6 million Jews were murdered by the Nazis as part of Hitler’s Final Solution and so, as Jews, there are certain words we hold sacred. We do not abuse the word, “Holocaust” and we sure as heck don’t abuse the words, “final solution” either.
As for the Times of Israel, I am genuinely shocked and disgusted. YOU people should know better. How is it that you allow the left wing to offend the right so easily, but cringe if we dare to list Arab terror attacks and note, in the words of their own prayers, that they are doing this in the name of Allah.
How is it that the Times of Israel allows such disrespect to the Prime Minister of the State of Israel (Netan-Yahoo)?
Shame on you, Mr. Rothberg for insulting the memories of 6 million. Shame on you for offending the survivors…and shame on the Times of Israel for letting you!
