As I write, news reports indicate that hundreds are dead and injured in Mumbai. Indian commandos are about to storm the Chabad house there, where it appears that Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, his wife Rivka and an uncertain number of others are being held hostage by terrorists (their small son was reportedly rescued early on). It’s painful but impossible to stop trying to keep up with events as this horrible but familiar story unfolds.
I’m sure when it’s over the ‘mujahideen’ that perpetrated this atrocity will explain that they had important ‘political’ motives. What political imperative made them include the Chabad house as a target? Is Chabad someow a representative of the Zionist entity that is denying ‘human rights’ to Palestinians, who are themselves no strangers to this kind of ‘political’ activity?
No, let’s face it, we know why the Chabad house was attacked.
It would be good if the various camps among Israelis and Jews everywhere would pay attention and understand that after all this time they are not a ‘normal’ people in the eyes of the world. This is why there needs to be a state of Israel that can defend itself and indeed, defend the Jewish people.
Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg
If one pays any attention at all to the messages of extreme Islam one knows that they define all Jews, and not only Israelis, as their enemies. Why this is not wake- up medicine for those on the Left of the political spectrum is a real question?