Show me the Jewish homeland, and I’ll find you the crime
Ireland’s once charming association of shamrocks, rainbows and leprechauns has been replaced with an unrelenting obsession to pronounce guilt upon Israel one way or another.
Disappointed by the too narrow definition of “genocide,” needed to implicate the Jewish homeland of a well-carried out plot to ethnically cleanse the people of Gaza, the answer was simple – expand the definition of genocide.
“Ireland’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Michael Martin received government approval for Ireland to intervene in South Africa’s case against Israel at the International Court of Justice under the Genocide Convention, Ireland’s Foreign Affairs Department announced on Wednesday.”
So, if the actions don’t fit the crime, then just lower the threshold until it does. Similar to the well-known statement, attributed to Stalin’s secret police chief, Lavrentiy Beria, “Show me the man and I’ll find you the crime,” Ireland has been struck with a lethal form of the anti-Israel bug, to the extent that it is willing to overstep the law, as it presently stands, in order to accommodate the guilty verdict, it is seeking.
If that doesn’t sound like the classic sign of baseless antisemitism, then what does? When a country is so biased and energized, to think outside the box, as to how they can accuse an innocent democratic nation of crimes against humanity which simply exercised their moral right to protect their citizens and sovereign land, then you know that there’s much more to this.
Ireland, a country who, itself, has experienced multiple invasions and hardships, over its 7,000-year history, has gone to the dark side, by choosing to believe that the massacre of October 7th, perpetrated by bloodthirsty, savage terrorists, upon innocent civilians, who slept in their beds on an autumn Sabbath morning was not the real crime against humanity. Why do they remain blind to the slaughter of whole families, along with the torture, rape, kidnapping and massive destruction that took place?
Some could say that the IDF response, which included warnings of impending danger to Gazans, urging them to leave their areas, before the start of a military incursion, was, perhaps more than they deserved, given the collaboration and joy of so many of them who celebrated our grievous losses. But we, nonetheless, chose to give fair warning. And, just as in any war, unintended casualties are the inevitable fallout, but far less than others, in the case of Israel.
That is because our sense of humanity, along with the high value placed on life, is sacrosanct, even when it comes to our enemies, causing us to save as many of their lives as possible.
Here is what Ireland would do well to remember. We were the ones who preserved the life of mastermind, Yahya Sinwar, some 15 years before he had the opportunity to pull off the worst attack the Jewish homeland has ever known on its soil. Operating on his brain tumor, Israeli doctors saved the man who would later go on to plot the vicious murders of so many Jews, including precious babies and children whose lives barely got started.
Israel is also the country which saved countless lives of Christian Arabs, in the 1980s, as they escaped Lebanon, due to the threatening Muslim influence over the country. Providing many with needed medical care, was what changed Lebanese hearts and minds, once they had a real opportunity to see who the Israeli people were, rather than all the biased and prejudicial propaganda which they heard.
One of those people was American activist Brigitte Gabriel, who came from a Maronite Christian family, also caught up in the Lebanese Civil War. Having been trapped with her family for two days in 1978, they were finally rescued and brought to an Israeli hospital where her mother, who had been seriously injured, got the care she needed.
Gabriel says that it was during this time that her views radically changed about Israel, understanding that all she’d heard about the Jewish homeland were lies. Since that time, she has been a passionate advocate for Israel, telling the truth and debunking the false image which is still being disseminated to maliciously characterize the only democracy in the Middle East as the bad actors who victimize their neighbors. Gabriel’s story can be accesses on JewishPress.com.
Such stories are common as Israel has sought to be in the forefront of those nations who are the first to offer help to others during times of natural disasters, setting up field hospitals and providing aid. Does that sound like the image of a country whose objective is to commit genocide upon its closest neighbors?
So, what conclusion can be drawn from Ireland’s unyielding desire to humiliate and shame Israel, as the chief purveyor of genocide amongst other nations whom they surely know are engaging in real oppressive and tyrannical actions against their people, but, nonetheless, go unaccused and unpunished?
The only obvious deduction is that Ireland has a purpose-driven agenda which, in order to be realized, is, first, dependent upon casting Israel as an evil entity, rejected by all who consider themselves to be from civilized nations. Once that is accomplished, the next step would be to punish Israel for the dastardly deeds it has supposedly done.
Those measures would isolate them as a country, disqualified from receiving weapons. It is exactly the same plan of the Spanish Podemos party leader, Ione Belarra who has also accused Israel of committing genocide in Syria. She says that an embargo and sanctions must be the consequence for Israel’s crimes.
In other words, there is an effort to remove the ability for Israel to defend herself. Knock her down a peg or two, so that she no longer has the military advantage. Then, other countries, or terrorists, have a fair shake at trying to take her down.
It’s the ultimate goal of real Jewish genocide which is at the end of this Irish rainbow, because, if they can cripple Israel with debilitating sanctions, she’s left alone to fend for herself. And that’s exactly where they’re wrong.
Ireland, a country which is 69% Catholic, should go back to their Bible to see that God never abandons His beloved land. Even when all others have jumped ship, it is He who comes and fights for Israel, as recorded in the last chapter of the book of Zechariah, followed by the warning of punishment for those nations who do not come to Jerusalem to celebrate the annual pilgrimage Feast of Tabernacles (Succoth).
Ireland may be seeking to punish Israel, but, in the end, will she be the one punished for her choice to abandon Israel?
A former Jerusalem elementary and middle-school principal who made Aliyah in 1993 and became a member of Kibbutz Reim but now lives in the center of the country with her husband. She is the author of Mistake-Proof Parenting, based on the principles from the book of Proverbs - available on Amazon.
