Mumbai: It’s Never Over
Nov 28th, 2008 | 2 responses
Every time one of the Mumbai attack sites is reportedly pacified and over, there are more gunshots, explosions. Whereas the entire series of terrorist attacks in Mumbai is awful, I have some comments about the attack on Chabad. The Chabad siege with dead hostages is reminiscent of the 1972 Munich Olympics attack on Israeli athletes known as the Munich massacre. Probably the most aggressive thing Rabbi Holtzberg ever did was urge a Jewish man passing by to put on tefillin. This is a declaration of war against Jews worldwide, it has nothing to do with Israeli policies but rather signifies an evil lust for dead Jews. It’s open season on us. I will be having brunch in a restaurant today with other Jews and will be looking over my shoulder.
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2 Responses to “Mumbai: It’s Never Over”
Sadly, it's not the first time these Islamist thugs have targeted Jews – not Israelis, but Jews. The jihadist assumption is that all Jews are Israeli and are complicit in the appropriation of Arab land.
All of this is why we cannot allow Pakistan to sit idly by and let every stripe of jihadist fester inside its borders. Pakistan needs help to ferret out Lashkar, Jaish Mohammed and the genuine article Al Qaeda leaders in the mountains. The political risks of cracking down too hard are great. One can hope that this incident, which has already convinced the ISI chief to visit India, will encourage both Pakistan and India to jointly crack down on religious extremists (including Hindu terrorists).
I just had a thought elsewhere, merits repeating here. What does Noam Chomsky have to say about the attacks specifically on Jews, and who is “really” to “blame” for them, Bush?