Exactly.

Just reading a few excerpts from MEMRI, it’s very clear what would happen if Israel’s enemies were to defeat the Jewish State: Systematic murder of the men and children, rape of the women to be concubines, pillage and looting of all the riches the Jews have worked to build on this land. There is no doubt in my mind that the Serbs would have met such a fate if they hadn’t put up a serious fight against their Islamic imperialist attackers.

So many things are forgotten in the fog of war. In the Israeli War of Independence, Deir Yassin is often brought up as the equivalent of Srebrenica. What a lot of people fail to see is that this isn’t a matter of arguing over what happened, as if this were about Holocaust Denial; it’s about the theater of war itself. Many Arab villages like Deir Yassin were on critical junction points where Jewish convoys with supplies had to pass, so they had to be cleared for the war to be won; usually the Arab villagers fled, but in those cases that they didn’t, like Deir Yassin, what happened was what usually happens in a war: Troops had to get inside the population center and, unfortunately, do the fighting in there. The Islamic warfare tactic of the combatants hiding behind the women and children certainly didn’t help lower the casualty rate. (Jewish Law says the blood is on the hands of the combatants for not putting their own women and children in safety.)

There’s a great chance that what happened in Srebrenica was similar to Deir Yassin: Not that atrocities never occurred, but that the Muslim aggressors made them inevitable by making it impossible to remove the threat without entering the population center, and by putting the women and children in harm’s way.

I, on the other hand, see a strong connection between the readiness to believe the MSM’s lies about the war of 1992–5 (“Serbian criminals,” you said) and the same about Israel. I commend you for not believing the MSM’s lies about “Israeli criminals,” but you’re the exception on the Left. As for me, I disbelieve everything the MSM has to say on conflicts where Muslims are a party, so I don’t take their words on Serbia at face value either.

“Why do you insist on linking the authentic and valid nationist aspirations of the Jewish people with those of a third rate Christian thug stuck in the hills of the Balkans such as Milosovic?”

I don’t care about Serb nationalism or any other nationalism than mine. But I insist on seeing the similarities in the enemies faced in both cases—the Islamic imperialist enemy and its sordid tactics, as well as the worldwide media enemy and its presentation of a libelous fiction to the world.

“Is your hatred of Muslims that great?”

I have the measure of them. I know there’s no level they wouldn’t stoop to in warfare, including mixing their combatants with the civilians in order to reap propaganda benefits. The odds are high that the Muslim civilian casualties in the Balkans War of 1992–5 were victims of the combatants’ policy of putting them in the line of fire, same as in Afghanistan today.

One night, coiled in his saxophone
A viper bit Gilad Atzmon
The snake’s fangs struck his throat exposed
But –o wonder! – t’was the reptile who died – poisoned

Please feel free to make improvements too. In such a way that no one will ever again think of Gilad Atzmon without picturing a snake going for his throat.