Breast-Beaters, Naysayers, And Finger-Pointers

Yesterday, the police issued a request asking for help in solving the July 31 arson attack on a home in Duma, an Arab village. The attack led to the death of a baby, Ali Dawabsha, and serious injuries to Ali’s mother, father, and brother, who are hospitalized and fighting for their lives. Because the arsonist left Hebrew graffiti on the Dawabsha home, an assumption took hold that the arsonist was Jewish.

Israel Police Request for Help
Translation: Israel Police asks the help of the public in the investigation of the arson incident and murder in the village of Duma, on July 31, 2015. All who have any information that might help solve the murder are requested to phone 050-838-6626. (Screenshot)

Public figures and at least one organization, Tag Meir, decried Jewish terror and paid condolence calls to the surviving family members.

Six days later, however, the police still don’t have any serious leads. They have rounded up the “usual suspects,” for instance, the grandson of Meir Kahane. They’ve confiscated surveillance camera footage from the village in question. But the fact is that they, the police, have a grand total of zero hard information regarding the who and what of the attack.

"King Messiah Lives"
“King Messiah Lives”

There is really no conclusive evidence that a Jew perpetrated this arson attack. There is also no conclusive evidence that an Arab did it. Because there is no evidence, period.

Except for the Hebrew graffiti. Spelled correctly.

"Revenge"
“Revenge”

What you do have is three camps:

  1. The Jewish breast-beaters who publicly denounce the Jewish arsonist
  2. The Jewish naysayers who insist that no Jew could have done such a thing.
  3. The finger-pointers as in the rest of the world which points its collective finger at the Jews. Because Zionists.

Now, the case could play out any number of ways going forward. The Duma arson could become a cold case and we’ll never know what really happened. Or, the police might get a real lead and we might yet discover the identity of the arsonist, be he Jew or Arab.

It’s also possible that the outcry may demand some result, any result, so that a Jew like Ettinger, who after all is Meir Kahane’s grandson, could end up taking the fall, in spite of a lack of any evidence to actually tie him to the event. Not pretty, not nice, but unfortunately, not something we can discount.

No matter what does happen with this case, it may not much matter. The perception that Jews did this may remain whether or not we find out who did it, and whether or not he was a Jew. Duma might become the next Al-Dura case: the end result exonerated Israel, but that didn’t matter to the gazillion people in the world who never really cared about the truth, but only cared about finding another reason to hate the Jews.

In all of this, the really sad thing is the fact that a baby was murdered and the camps don’t care. The camps care more about breast-beating, insisting a Jew couldn’t have done it, or insisting that only a Jew could have done it. The campers care only about sticking fast to their respective chosen camps.

Meantime, you have the police admitting they have no leads; an apparently less-than-cooperative village in helping to run down the murderer of one of its own sons (witness the need for the police to confiscate the village surveillance camera footage); the odd fact that the burnt home is situated in the center of the village (which means that a Jew would have had to successfully navigate to the center of an Arab village without getting caught—as opposed to choosing a target that skirts the edges); and graffiti closely associated with the Chabad movement (a decidedly nonviolent religious group whose message covers billboards, highways, and bus shelters all over Israel).

Personally, I have no patience for any of the camps, be they breast-beaters, naysayers, or finger-pointers.

The breast-beaters? Why are you so quick to damn your own people with no evidence? Don’t we have enough people to trash the Jews without doing it to ourselves on the basis of no hard evidence?

The naysayers? My, aren’t you going to look stupid if it turns out some insane Jew DID do it. Better for fools to remain silent than to remove all doubt.

The finger-pointers? Well, any excuse to hate a Jew. They’ll post their dead baby memes to up the fever and encourage open-season on the Jews. Which it already is, especially since this poor baby was killed. The finger-pointers don’t need much of an excuse to malign or even firebomb Jews who had nothing to do with the murder of Ali Dawabsha.

Because Jews.

21 thoughts on “Breast-Beaters, Naysayers, And Finger-Pointers”

  1. All true, but as my son-in-law, who looks like a classic Hilltop Youth said, “Abu Khdeir destroyed my innocence.”
    Always entertaining though, how people manage to blame Meir Kahana even though he’s dead. That’s some mojo!

      1. I was not talking about the graffiti. Are you certain it was an arson attack and even if it was how do you know if it was the arsonist that left the Hebrew graffiti on the wall?
        Can you explain the white paint on top of the graffiti? Could it be an old one?
        http://oi58.tinypic.com/34xgumt.jpg

        1. I think the one thing we are certain of is that it was arson. That is something you can tell from examining the scene. Since we do know it was arson and that the graffiti is fresh, it was almost certainly done by the arsonist.

              1. It may not have been there long. They may not have been inclined to remove it immediately as it was “evidence” of Jews being mean. And it may have been planted there for that purpose.

                Regardless of all that, it is not necessarily the case that the arsonist or his/her possible accomplices is also responsible for the graffiti, is it?

                1. I see two possibilities:
                  1) The Jewish arsonist(s) did it.
                  2) The Arab arsonist(s) did it.

                  It was a big fire, and people were called in to contain it. It had to already be there and there wouldn’t be any reason for the graffiti to be there MUCH BEFORE the arson attack.

                  1. I totally agree that those are the two most *likely* possibilities however they are not the *only* possibilities.

  2. I side with the folks who want this solved quickly, not only for the sake of those hurt directly, but also for those innocent. Pointing fingers is useless until we do have some facts to go on.

  3. ahad_ha_amoratsim

    Yes, we have our monsters too. But thankfully not many, and we don’t make heroes of them — Israel arrests and convicts them. Unlike those who murder Jews, they will not be released years early to kill again, in order to serve the cause of false peace negotiations. Nor should they.

    The world demands that Israel do something to curb ‘settler violence.’ How do they know it was a Jew, and if it was a Jew, how do they know it was a ‘settler”? And why is it seen as minimizing the horror of this murder to point out that the same people demanding that Israel DO SOMETHING never seem to care when Jewish children are murdered in equally horrific fashion? Instead, the murders of Jewish children are ignored or even justified.

    In Europe, if a Christian child was found dead, it was immediately and conclusively presumed that he was murdered by Jews. Because Matzoh. This does not strike me as all that different.

    Does this make me a naysayer? I think not.

  4. There is a fourth camp.

    4. Those of us that do not know who did it and believe that those responsible for this war crime need to be punished to the maximum possible regardless of the religion or citizenship

    1. ahad_ha_amoratsim

      Yes, the perpetrator needs to be caught and punished. Why are you so sure it was a war crime? There is just as much reason to think it is a crime between two Arab families. Until someone is caught, we won’t know. And if it turns out it was an Arab and not a Jew, don’t hold your breath waiting for an apology from those who said it was a ‘settler’, and don’t expect the Arabs or Israel’s enemies to accept that it was not a coverup.

  5. I have a friend who came 10 yrs ago to the U.S. from Morocco he was21 yrs old at the time not because of being mistreated or anything like but because of his job.Anyhow he speaks Heb,French, Spanish and Arabic.He can speak Arabic as good as any Arab so if he decided to write something in Arabic he would have no problem.I’m sure many Arabs can write and speak Heb as well.

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