The Disproportionate People by Yashiko Sagamori

Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 4:42 pm

http://www.groups.yahoo.com/groups/united-we-stand/

During the
first stage of Israel's war against Hezbollah, when everybody agreed
that the Israeli response to the new, deadly round of unprovoked Arab
aggression was "disproportionate", I suddenly realized that Jews, in
every respect, are an extremely disproportionate nation. Although only
one in 400 people on earth is Jewish, we exert so much influence on
everything that's happening on this planet that most people sincerely
believe that we control the world through some imaginary, evil Zionist
conspiracy.
We have been
disproportionately overrepresented in practically every human endeavor,
from the list of Nobel laureates, to the gas chambers of Auschwitz. Our
contribution to the wellbeing of this planet has been grotesquely
disproportionate, and even more disproportionate has been the hatred the
planet pays us back with.
In recent
days, months, and weeks, there have been a slew of cases when Jews were
accused of murdering Arabs, who were in fact murdered by other Arabs.
For example, does anyone still remember the Arab family that was killed
in an explosion on a beach somewhere in Gaza? It happened just before
the last round of war began in earnest. During the few days it took to
prove beyond any doubt that the explosion was not caused by an Israeli
artillery shell, mankind was enthusiastically mourning yet another batch
of innocent civilian victims at the hands of those bloodthirsty Jews. As
soon as it became clear that the explosion was caused by a mine left on
a public beach by Arabs and, therefore, Israel was innocent of that
particular murder, the planet promptly forgot both the incident and the
victims.
Since that
episode was anything but unique, it must be clear why Jews, rather than
anyone else, killed Jesus. Even today, if someone managed to prove that
Jesus was killed by Arabs (or North Koreans, or Cubans, or the KGB, or
the Khmer Rouge, or the Hutu, or anybody at all except Jews, like, for
example, the Romans), Christianity would end. Within a week, nobody
would remember who Jesus was, no matter how many tables he had
overturned at the Temple. Anybody can kill, but those (allegedly!
allegedly!) killed by Jews automatically become martyrs, saints, and, in
some rare cases, especially when the victim happens to be Jewish (you
didn't think Jesus was an Episcopalian or a Russian Orthodox, did you?),
other people's gods.
That's
disproportionate.
But let's
theorize a little. Let us imagine that, instead of trying to please
anti-Semites, Jews decided to react proportionately to every offense.
The worst Jew-haters, the most avid murderers of Jews in the modern
world are Muslims. They outnumber Jews approximately 100 to
1. Therefore, if we want to stick to the proportion, every time a Muslim
hurts a Jew, we have to hurt 100 Muslims.
For example,
when Arabs destroyed the Tomb of Joseph and murdered Rabbi Lieberman who
was hoping to salvage some of the books that had been kept at the site,
Jews should have destroyed 100 mosques of similar historical
significance and murder 100 mullahs. That, in addition to taking the
Tomb of Joseph back and making sure that no Arab could ever again
approach within shooting distance.
In
retaliation for the recent terrorist act in Seattle, we should have
forced our way into 100 Muslim organizations in the United States,
killed 100 Muslim women and injured 500 others, 300 of them critically.
How should
Israel have responded to the murder of a Tali Hatuel, a pregnant Israeli
woman, and her four daughters, Hila, Hadar, Roni, and Mirav? By putting
to death 100 pregnant Arab women along with 400 of their cute little
children.
When the
cannibalistic mob in Ramallah literally tore apart two Israeli
reservists, Vadim Norzhich and Yosef Avrahami, Israel sent a helicopter
to bomb the police station where the murder took place. As usual, the
Israeli response was criticized as disproportionate, although the
cowards in charge made sure that the building was empty at the time of
the retaliation. What would be a proportionate response to that murder?
Round up 200 young Arab men from the area, tie them up, line them next
to each other on the main street in Ramallah, and slowly roll a
bulldozer over them. If you think that's inhumane, give them some
Novocain before you start the bulldozer.
Sounds
terrifying? Relax, my dear readers, I am not really suggesting you do
it. You are Jews. When you decide to take justice into your own hands,
you write an anonymous letter to the proper authorities. I am suggesting
something entirely different. I am saying that a truly proportionate
response to Arab atrocities would have had an effect similar to that of
the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan, minus the radiation. It would
have forever ended the Arab war against Israel, and, therefore, that
should have been the policy of the Israeli government since the day
Arabs promised to destroy Israel. By the way, a few — very few —
applications of that terribly bitter medicine would, in the long run,
have saved many thousand of both Jewish and Arab lives, just like
Hiroshima and Nagasaki saved an estimated one million American soldiers
and up to three million Japanese civilians.
In response
to my perfectly obvious reasoning, I am anticipating a small avalanche
of e-mails calling me a Nazi and unfavorably comparing me to various
VIPs of the Third Reich. Here's what puzzles me: why do they never turn
their righteous anger against those who openly work to make the next
Holocaust happen? How terribly disproportionate of them!
And,
speaking about the Holocaust that has already taken place, what do you
think should have been a proportionate response to that?

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