Varda Epstein · @epavard
27th Oct 2015 from TwitLonger
Why Dumbledore went to the hilltop
@jk_rowling This was a disappointing post because it is both one-sided and biased. This, in particular, is heartless in not understanding where the violence comes from, to whom it is directed toward, and where the responsibility lies: "The Palestinian community has suffered untold injustice and brutality. I want to see the Israeli government held to account for that injustice and brutality."
Why? There was no Israel in 1929, when Arabs were incited to murder Jews by the Mufti of Jerusalem, for supposedly attempting to take over the Al Aqsa Mosque. My husband's cousin Yaakov Wexler was among the many Jews murdered in that terror spree.
Who do you hold responsible for that? Is that Israel's fault, too? Even though the State had not yet been created?
Was it just when Arab terrorists murdered Eitam and Naama Henkin in front of their four small children? Who do you hold to account for that?
Was it just when Arabs went into a synagogue and axed to death several rabbis? Who do you hold to account for that? Whose brutality was that?
Was it just when an Arab terrorist drove over Rabbi Krichevsky in Jerusalem and then subsequently hacked at him with a knife? Was this brutal? Who bears responsibility for this attack?
The Israeli government bears no responsibility for Arab terror. People like you, absolutely do, as a public figure, giving terrorists a free pass to murder and maim Jews wherever they find them.
For some reason, people like you think that only Arabs are right and that Jews are always wrong. Else why would you blame the victims?
There is no excuse for wanton violence by Arabs against the Jews of Israel. A million times they could have sat and bargained for peace. A million times, Israel has given things up, has given up land, frozen settlements, thrown 11,000 Jews out of their homes.
And all we get is terror. And people like you who give them a pass and have the fame to make such statements stand.
You could have used your fame for good.
Too bad.