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Hamas in Gaza Claims to Be Protecting Jerusalem by Firing Rockets at It, and Other Ironies of the War by Matti Friedman Tabletmag.Com May 11, 2021 Jerusalem of Glue Selected articles concerning Israel, published weekly by Suburban Orthodox Toras Chaim’s (Baltimore) Israel Action Committee Edited by Jerry Appelbaum ( [email protected] ) | Founding editor: Sheldon J. Berman Z”L Issue 8 8 8 Volume 2 1 , Number 20 Parshias Beha'aloscha May 29 , 2021 Hamas in Gaza Claims to Be Protecting Jerusalem by Firing Rockets at It, and Other Ironies of the War By Matti Friedman tabletmag.com May 11, 2021 Jerusalem of glue . has only expanded in detail and reach with the triumph of The idea of a complex place i s anathema to the current social media, which marries elite prejudices with activist mood in America and the West, where many people seem fervor and the passion of the mob. Hamas rockets are no to be regressing to a world of childhood, of heroes and longer being fired at Israeli civilians, as they were 20 years monsters. As I sit here typing by a window in Jerusalem, ago. Now they’re being fired at “Israeli apartheid.” ma ny seem to believe that Israel is attacking Muslim Being an observer in Jerusalem always means gauging worshippers at prayer and ethnically cleansing the Arab two opp osing forces: the one pulling the city apart, and the population of this city, which is more than a third of our glue keeping it together. population and growing. For years, Arabic papers have Being an observer in Jerusalem always means gauging described routine visits by Jews to the Temple Mount, or two opposing forces: the one pulling the city apart, and the Israeli policing efforts there, as Israel is “storming” the Al - glue keeping it together. The former gets plenty of Aqsa compound; this wording has now spread to the attention f rom observers, and the latter almost none, but Western press. both are always in play in this city of nearly a million In the spirit of 2021, exciting video clips are ripped people. The glue is on display in malls and taxis and from their context here and injected into ideological hospitals, the places of no interest to journalists or circulatory systems to prove whatever needs to be proved. politicians, where Jews and Arabs of differ ent ideological Exp losions in the Al - Aqsa Mosque could mean that Israeli stripes interact carefully in their daily lives to a greater police are firing tear gas inside, desecrating the holy site, or extent than ever before, moving things forward to a future that Muslim rioters are shooting off the stores of fireworks that’s unknowable but could be better. That has been the they hoarded i nside to use against the police, desecrating trend here in the past few years. But it’s the other force, the holy site. An Israeli driver hitting a Palestinian man the destructive one, that we’re seeing now. near Lions’ Gate on Monday might be attempted murder, Because millions of people see this place not as a real or a driver losing control of his car while escaping city but as a symbol, events here tend to spread far beyond Palestinians who were trying to kill him. A v ideo of Israelis the city limits. My work on this short dispatch was dancing at the Western Wall as a fire burns o n the Temple interrupted on Monday evening, for example, whe n a siren Mount is evidence of satanic intent, or of the coincidence went off and I had to join my family in our apartment’s that the annual Jerusalem Day celebrations at the wall were safe room, because Hamas in Gaza had pledged to protect going on at the same time that one of the firecrackers set Jerusalem and did so by firing a barrage of rockets at it. It off by Palestinian rioters ignited a tree in the mosque was a good demonstration of the disconnect between the compound above. expressions of su pport the city receives from people who The subtleties seem beside the point when the villains aren’t from Jerusalem, and the way those people’s and the heroes are so clear. The condemnations of Israel actions — and I’m not referring only to the Arab side — are pouring in from the strange coalition that gathers with disregard the actual human beings who must find a way to increasing freq uency for this purpose: the Turkish live together. authoritarian Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Massachusetts The immediate causes of the current flare - up are Sen. Elizabeth Warren, both of whom used the word numerous, and the ones you choose depend on the case “abhorrent” in their tweets, the dictator of Chechnya, the you’re trying to make. There were the gleeful TikTok Saudis, the Iranians, New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio - videos of Palestinian teenagers assaulting ultra - Orthodox Cort ez. It’s hard to follow whether Israel is supposedly Jews on public transportation a few weeks ago, which attacking Islam or attacking liberalism; in Israel’s case, the circulated on everyone’s smartph ones. There were two seem to be oddly interchangeable. When some provocations by Israel’s own homegrown hooligans, Westerners see dozens of green Hamas flags in the Al - including the new Knesset member Itamar Ben - Gvir, Aqsa Mosque, they seem to perceive a civil rights protest, elected in a sordid deal engineered as part of the survival and when a Hamas leader calls on his peopl e to buy “five - strategy of Benjamin Netanyahu. (Like many of the shekel knives” to cut off Jewish heads, demonstrating with Jerusalem provocateurs on bot h sides, Ben - Gvir doesn’t his finger exactly how this should be done, some hear a live here, but rather stirs things up and then goes home.) call for social justice that Israelis should try to There’s the eviction case pursued by a settler accommodate. organization against several Palestinian families living on It helps that plenty of Western activists, including property taken from Jewish families in 1948 in the East many who identify as journalists, have spent the past Jerusale m neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, near the tomb decade or so rebranding this conflict to suit the ideological of Simon the Righteous, and later reclaimed through fantasy world in which they operate. That fantasy world Israel’s legal system — which offers no parallel means for Foc us o n Is rael May 29, 2021 Page 2 Palestinians to reclaim their own property in West used to be a happy way of celebrating the reunification o f Jerusalem from before 1948. The evictions are un j ust and this city under Israeli control in 1967, but which has inflammatory, and Israel needs these properties like a hole become a festival important to the religious right and in the head. But the case has been moving through the avoided by nearly everyone else. There’s the fact that many courts for years, and was about to be decided in the of my neighbors in this city, the Palestinian ones, have Supreme Court when the hearing was postponed at the last been in legal limbo for 54 y ears, residents but not citizens, minute because the gove r nment — distracted by the caught in a conflict beyond their control. There’s the fact, political infighting that has paralyzed the country for the never easy to swallow, that an important Muslim site, the past two years, and by the possibility that Netanyahu is Al - Aqsa Mosque, is under the security control of Jews. about to lose power — belatedly realized things were Hovering over all of this is the Muslim holy m o n th of spinning out of control. Ramadan, with more than a third of the city fasting in the There’s the Palestinian election, the f irst in 15 years, heat, religious consciousness elevated and national fervor which was recently called off by the Palestinians’ perpetual sharpened. president, Mahmoud Abbas, when he understood that his The forces of disintegration, the ones pushing us Fatah party was probably going to lose to Hamas, just like backward, are strong, and not confined to the limits of it did the last time an election was actually held. Hamas is Jerusalem. Wh e n this latest round of violence began, a new th e key player here. Without an election to win, it needs a Israeli government coalition appeared to be in the process way to demonstrate that it, not Fatah, is the real leader of of formation, one that would rel y on the votes not just of the Palestinians and the real threat to Israel. It must show an Arab party, but of the Islamic Movement. That would that its ideology of perpetual religious war is the way have been a remarkable step forward, o ne reflecting the forward not just her e but across the Middle East, as welcome trends many of us see on the ground in opposed to the path of compromise and normalization Jerusalem, in Arab communities across Israel, and in that we’ve seen in parts of the Sunni Arab world over the countries like Mor occo and the United Arab Emirates. past year. For Hamas, the brave new world of Israeli bridal Now the violence has frozen the coalition talks. For parties in Abu Dhabi can potentially be undone by an u gly progress to happen and take roo t , the glue of daily life round of violence that galvanizes Muslim sentiment. All of needs to hold. Right now, a lot of people are doing their those reasons lie behind the launch of hundreds of rockets best to make sure it won’t.
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