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by Uzay Bulut
• February 7, 2015 at 5:00 am
The
Jewish homes in Israel are not an obstacle to peace. The only obstacle to
peace is the hatred of Israel's neighbors.
Many
of us in other countries in the Middle East see Israel as the only light
of freedom and democracy in the midst of darkness, terrorism and hatred
in the region.
The
concept of real freedom and democracy seems foreign to anti-Semites. From
here, it looks as if many of these self-proclaimed liberals have a
self-congratulatory concept of what is right and wrong as closed-minded, un-free
and un-democratic as that of the most rigid tyrant.
When
people show solidarity with the Muslim Brotherhood or Hamas, or with
those who jail, try or flog people for free speech, it just further
proves Israel's rightfulness and legitimacy.
You
would defend yourself against incoming rockets; why shouldn't they?
Israel has nothing to apologize for.
It is really hard to please the Jew-haters.
When Jews cannot protect themselves because they do not have a
military, they are "cowards" and are persecuted in Turkey and
worldwide. When they do protect themselves, thanks to their military,
they are "oppressors."
To anti-Semitic or anti-Israel people, Israel is the problem.
Many of us in other countries in the Middle East, on the contrary,
see Israel as the only light of freedom and democracy in the midst of
darkness, terrorism and hatred in the region.
Just recently, on January 12, Mahmoud Abbas, a Holocaust denier and
terrorism glorifier, met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in
Ankara.
Before that, on December 29, Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal spoke to
the congress of the ruling AKP and said "Inshallah we will liberate
Palestine and Jerusalem again in the future."
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