Our Neighbor and Why We Have to Kill Him

I thought it was showing the foolishness of both sides, I must say.  A great piece.

Hmm. Perhaps a converse view would be good.

Our Other Neighbor

Our other neighbor lives in a hovel. She is a crafty, conniving woman who lives only by stealing from our garbage. She wallows in poverty and ignorance, but that is not our concern. Her sons are starving and desperate. They throw rocks at our windows, begging for our aid. We have made bullet proof windows. We killed her husband and grandchildren so that she would make her sons stop throwing rocks at our windows. They have not stopped. They are the sons of monkeys and pigs.

The problem is that these naughty, starving children are not just brazen, they are also fertile, although they are ignorant and poor.

The whole neighbourhood hates them. They are murderers and fanatics. But no matter how many we kill, they keep breeding more. We tried to demolish their hovel with a bulldozer, but they just built a new one. And we are kept awake night and day by all the rocks our neighbor's children throw at us.

All we think about is her. Our own home is filled with anxiety and noise because all our efforts, all our money and ideas and energy are devoted solely to surviving the desperate attacks of our neighbor's children. We're utterly convinced that we will be perfectly happy just as soon as our neighbor and her pestilential starving children magically vanish.

But lately we have discovered that our neighbor's neighbors are supplying these starving children with food scraps and rocks. We have realized that our neighbor's neighbors, and their neighbors too, are all arrayed against us. None of them will be happy until they break into our house and murder us all.

We must murder our neighbor's neighbors first. That will stop the supply of food and rocks to our neighbor. And then we will all be happy and work hard, as we always have done, despite the fact that everyone in the world does not understand that the problem has nothing to do with us, and is all our neighbor's fault.

@Yaakov,

1. What we do today is what determines what happens tomorrow. If Palestinians are blockaded and starving, what do you think they will do? Just sit there and say, "hey, those Israelis sure had it tough a couple generations ago, so we don't mind our children going hungry now ..."? I mean, sure, your people have endured thousands of years of bloody battlefields. Are you saying you can't think of anything you could do better than continue the slaughter today?
2. Hamas are a bunch of bloody-minded bastards. Didn't you know that? Is there some reason Israelis could not ensure food would be delivered to the hungry? If Hamas stopped food deliveries to your own children, would you just stand around and say, "hey, what a shame, not our fault"?
3. I portray Israelis, not as hating, but as unfeeling. You don't plan for the future of the Palestinians. You just blame them for not figuring out that what they're doing is evil and stupid. And for reacting to the violence that you inflict upon them with violence of their own. I don't think and I don't for a moment mean to suggest that Israelis are any less human, compassionate, or deserving of consideration than Palestinians. I am suggesting that so long as Israelis do not find a way to reach out to Palestinians in brotherhood, rather than thinking of them as mindless terrorists, your problems will continue to grow.

If all Palestinians were Hamas, then it would matter what Hamas teaches children. If you want to shut down Hamas, you must start by teaching Palestinian children a different way to understand Israel. There are many hundreds of Palestinians orphans up for adoption. If you are an Israeli, a giant step toward peace is for you to adopt one and raise her to be a Moslem. Because every Moslem with Jewish parents is a more powerful force for peace in Israel than a thousand tanks. Or a million pointed fingers.

Also, correct me if I'm wrong but judging from your profile picture, I have reason to believe that you are a hacidic Jew. I have never in my life heard a hacidic Jew say "we have to kill our neighbor" Those are some harsh things coming out. If you are, then you should be following the Torah to the tee. According to the Torah, Jews are supposed to be anywhere BUT in Israel.

Would you like me to start quoting from the old testament? As it says that Israel can no longer exist and that its people can prosper around the world but not in the promised land. doesn't matter, you are not Hasidic so you don't follow your own religion to the tee. I have nothing against Jews. Nothing against you or Israel. However, when you speak about "Killing your neighbor" I cant help myself but to compare you the the Germans who almost wiped your people out. Its disgusting.

Perhaps you don't understand how Newsvine works, Antech.  Yaakov is not talking about killing his neighbour, he seeded an article which felt the rest might find interesting.  The author of the article is someone called Leon de Winter, not Yaakov.