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Letter From Israel
by Ran HaCohen
Antiwar.com
January 24, 2002
David Horowitz's Virtual Israel
First, a comment about style. If there's one lesson I learnt from
Jewish history, it is this: never show tolerance towards racism. I
wonder what American legislation would have had to say if Mr.
Horowitz had written that African-Americans were a community of
suicide bombers. When he writes � about the very people with whom I
share a common land � that "the Palestinians are a community of
suicide bombers," he is a racist for me. This is why, unlike Mr.
McConnell, I refuse to address him directly. My only aim is to warn
the readers of him, not to engage in any communication with him.
Having said that, I wish to apologize to Antiwar.com readers for my
article. It was based on the assumption that Mr. Horowitz was writing
about Israel, the Palestinians and Jewish history. I now realize �
his reply makes
it obvious � that his subject is Virtual Israel, Virtual Palestinians and Virtual
Jewish History. I stand corrected: On these issues, the "Jewish Virtual Library" is
indeed the ultimate authority, and Mr. Horowitz is righ
t to stick to its virtual facts, virtual figures and to his own virtually Islamophobic
prejudices. If the Jewish Virtual Library mentions "more than 1,000" virtual Israeli
victims between 1993-1999, it is certainly more r
eliable than an Israeli web-site listing names, dates and circumstances for each and
every of the 395 actual victims. The rest of Horowitz's narrative is just as reliable;
his main line of argument is insisting on his mis
takes.
This was the point I wanted to make: Not only that Mr. Horowitz has no idea of actual
Mid-Eastern realities, but that he doesn't even wish to have any. His facts are
fictitious, his narrative of hatred is a fairy-tale. He
is an expert on the Virtual Middle-East (his "Islamo-fascist Middle East"), and those
who doubt it are either Nazis (like the Palestinians) or Leninists (like myself). For
information on the actual Middle East, you'll ha
ve to look somewhere else.
A final remark regarding the claim that I am an "ungrateful and treacherous citizen of
a western democracy." Mr. Horowitz failed to notice that I live in Israel, not in
Virtual Israel. Unlike the virtual one, actual Israe
l is not a western democracy (I hope to elaborate on that later); it's a pseudo-
democracy run by a junta specializing in war crimes but unable to give its own
citizens � including my family and myself � even a minimal se
nse of security. I admit I am doing my humble best to change it. A non-Zionist
American Jew preaching Israeli patriotism to an Israeli: Horowitz's virtual reality is
fantastic indeed.
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