Updated Dec. 6, with video link post jump.
Envy, we’re told, is a sin. I’m full of it. I lust for recognition as an enemy of the right. When, many years ago, Mr. Nixon’s enemies list came out, I and many of my cohort were were enraged. We were omitted from the list and we envied those who made it.
Recently events conspired to bring me back into touch with a former girlfriend. Catching up, complaining of the wear that time and children had worked upon us, she found something important to brag about.
Her brother – also a Jewish lawyer named Danny – active in favor of peace between Israelis and Palestinians, had been placed on a list of Self-Hating or Israel Threatening Jews (you can work out the acronym without help from me). A cabal of right-wing “greater-Israel” fanatics – Masada 2000 - put him on its list of enemies. I blush to write about it now, but I was jealous. I wanted recognition as an advocate for middle-East peace, for a two-state solution. But, I confessed to myself, I hadn't done near enough to merit promotion to the kooks’ enemies list. And then, and then…
I got the call. I hadn’t been overlooked. My mild efforts, my few petition signatures, my blog posts opposing Israeli use of cluster bombs and assassination had not been ignored. I was on the list . Are you? If not, why not?
In order to ensure that I deserve the honor, here is a link to video footage of Jewish settlers attacking and then one of them shooting Palestinians.
The footage shows a settler firing a handgun and injuring two Palestinians, Hosni Abu Se'ifan, 40, who was hit in the chest and is now in a stable condition in hospital, and his father, Abd al-Hai Abu Se'ifan, 65, who was hurt in the arm. Others from the family then overpower the gunman until armed Israeli security guards from the Kiryat Arba settlement arrive and shoot several rounds over the heads of the Palestinians. The Abu Se'ifan family have frequently been targeted by settlers in the past.
