synagogues mosques and double standards bill coleman writes responding to a discussion about a mosque in jerusalem allegedly having been destroyed by israel bc in today s jerusalem post magazine there is a feature story about the bc ongoing restoration of synagogues in the jewish quarter the author bc leah abramowitz writes that there were fifty seven synagogues in the bc quarter in all of which were destroyed some she says used as bc donkey stables the building shells that is bc bc i still find it really really hard to understand why the demolition bc of the buildings in front of the kotel continues to evoke more outrage bc than this everything is so much cheaper when it happens to the jews bc bc why the double standard of human behavior regarding the jews must be manitained a perfect example is the outcry over the temporary removal of men who advocated murdering jews and destroying the state of israel compared to the deafening silence over the abusive treatment of jews in arab countries during the past years compare the tacit appoval that the world gives to muslims who randomly murder jewish civilians to the righteous indignation expressed if people in the occupied territories are kept from working in israel in an effort to reduce these random murders from occuring while everyone knows that no country is at all required to accept foreign workers except israel of course jewish blood has always been cheap the non jewish world ha never regarded any form of jewish suffering important except when the jews were the models of the powerless victim holding the high moral ground as it had been just after world war however as soon as the jewish people started to take care of themselves the ancient hatred of jews was unleashed again i doubt if the non jewish world is even capable of having any compassion towards jews as anti semitism is so ancient and so basic to both christianity and islam golda meir said that there would be peace when the arabs love their own children more than they hate the jews and while i know that there are more arab parents who love their children than those who would send their children out into the streets to throw rocks at men trained to defend themselves with guns the world is so obsessed by a hatred of jews trying to defend themselves that they have yet to even question the actions of those parents who not simply allow their children to do this but encourage them to throw themselves into harm s way even arab children are expendable if their tragic deaths are used in the neverending propoganda battle to blame israel and the jews for any misfortune befalling arabs in the middle east who is a jew a person whose integrity decays when unmoved by the knowledge of wrong done to other people a j heschel
