In Mohammed case, it was our democracy’s subsequent failure to provide a safe environment for him and his family following death threats on his life, born out of his courageous response to the perverse and obscene remarks made by his relative who squandered her moral position of authority.
As a survivor of Palestinian terrorism I hope that I would be forgiven for feeling incensed at MK Zoabi’s irresponsible comments. I hope that I would be forgiven for feeling enraged that it is my taxes, and those of Mohammed’s family, which pays her salary.
Ironically, while Mohammed was hiding in my former home, it was Israel’s democracy that afforded a free state-defense appeal to the Arab terrorist who stabbed me 13-times. It took place in Israel’s Supreme Court, THAT Court, where an Arab judge also presides. My democracy did not see it fit to even award me the $100 that the terrorists stole from me that day, money which my murdered friend had given me as a guiding fee.
She also complained that the Israel National Insurance (Bituach Leumi) medical committee awarded her a disability pension “but until today they refuse to acknowledge that watching someone hacked to death like a cucumber on chopping board brings with it severe life-long psychological disabilities.”
Wilson also had a few choice words for the left-wing J Street lobby and Mahmoud Abbas.
As a survivor of Palestinian terrorism I hope that I would be forgiven for feeling a sense of injustice that the terrorists who tried to murder me are being paid by Mahmoud Abbas (J Street’s partner for peace), an execution stipend of $3500 per month, 12 times that which my own democracy awards me as a victim of terrorism.
Yet despite the injustice, I am grateful that Israel – unlike the PA – has many legal channels where as a citizen, I can pursue justice. I will continue to do this for myself and for the thousands of other Israeli civilians who are both victims of Palestinian terrorism and victims of the abuse and corruption rampant in the Israel National Insurance.
Despite the frustrations I experience, I have no fear to criticize my government…. Unlike those living under the regime of Abbas – I do not face imprisonment or torture for my actions.
I hope that J Street will study this profound photograph….
Although painful and infuriating this failure is not surprising. In part, the government’s inability to act firmly concerning incitement to terrorism is probably due to the likes of J-Street. From the comfort and distance of their own homes they arrogantly and dangerously haul Israel up on the world stage in front of an already-hostile global audience, and seek to berate the only democracy in the Middle East. In doing so I believe that they shackle my government in impotence because of their fears of more international pressure, reprisals and isolation.
Not all Christians love Israel.
Wilson said last January that she asked to speak at a Bethlehem conference of “Christ at the Checkpoint,” but was rejected, among other reasons, because in the words of one of conference officials, “This is not what the Lord wants.”
Judging by CATC activities, it seems the “Lord” wants to hear supporters of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorist group.
As for the possibility of J Street listening to her, J Street leader Jeremy Ben-Ami squelched the opportunity earlier this year when Wilson asked him to attend one of her pro-Israel lectures.
She seized the rejecting as an opportunity to expose as a lie the J Street propaganda against Israel.
“It was an Arab Israeli Muslim surgeon who saved my life,” she wrote on Facebook. “It was my Arab Israeli bus driver who gave me a gift-ring with ‘Shema Israel.’ It was an Arab Israeli Muslim translator in court who wept in the trial and invited me to her house for a meal.”