Once in a while you read something so powerful, so heartfelt, so enlightened that you can’t help but think about it for days and weeks. Alpher’s commentary below is not entirely positive or hopeful, but it is the truth.
It is a reply. He is responding to those self-serving idiots who politicize tragedies to score cheap points and advance their own agenda — that agenda remarkably similar to that of ISIS: To drive a wedge between the Muslims and westerners in order to justify a generations-long conflict that they think they can win.
Israeli extremists, desperate to avoid the demographic “threat” that could one they force them to recognize Palestinians as human beings, have been using just about every excuse imaginable to argue that Jews should move to Israel. The Paris episode is no different.
This is Haaretz’ Ragel Alpher, speaking to the French Jews.
Jews of France, there is Nothing For You in Israel
The Muslim zealots who want to massacre you are fascists. Israel is controlled today by a government that includes Jewish zealots, whose ideology is riddled with the trappings of fascism.
Fleeing to Israel is to escape from the arms of Muslim fascism into the arms of Jewish fascism.
You live in a democratic country. The prognosis for France is good. Even after the terror attacks on the Twin Towers in New York, there were voices of lamentation eulogizing New York as we knew it, claiming it would never return to the way it was. Have you visited Manhattan recently? It is even more like Manhattan than the city at the foot of the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, 2001. Paris will recover, too.
He points out the obvious. If you leave Europe thinking you are “escaping” extremism, guess again. An extremism of a much more powerful nature awaits you in Israel.
Even after you immigrate to Israel, you will still be subjected to terror attacks. But not because you represent enlightened values. Just the opposite: Because you will represent the fascist values of Jewish zealots – occupation, racism, apartheid, messianism, dark barbarity. These are not values worth fighting for.
He’s also spot on about the long term trends in Europe with respect to Israel.
The troubles of the French are the troubles of Europe. And as the European Union labeling of products from the settlements has proven, Israel is not Europe. Despite Islamic State, the European boycott of Israel will grow stronger. In its own way, exactly like ISIS, Israel will find itself outside of Europe. Jews of France, remain in France. Here, all is lost.