“There is a term,
political correctness. This term I consider to be a euphemism for political
cowardice. Therefore, let me not be cowardly.”
He was right. More than
three weeks after this remarkable speech these words have been validated by the
very country he so valiantly defended - Israel. His speech, as far as I know, has
not been published in full by any Israeli mainstream paper or site. No
political analyst commented on his speech. His speech remains virtually unknown
to Israeli readers. He is apparently considered a hot potato.
The reason jihadists like
Hamas have such an impact on Israel is not their inherent strength but our political
correctness i.e. political cowardice to point to what they believe in. Even today, with Hamas accused of kidnapping the
three Israeli teens, I have yet to see an Israeli paper which would quote Article
7 of the Hamas Charter:
The
Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the
Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees
will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.
Or even less likely, quote the Hadith where Article 7 is taken from:
Narrated
Abu Huraira: Allah's Apostle
said, "The Hour will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and
the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say. "O Muslim! There is
a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him."
When will we see an Israeli politician’s staff answer the way Milos Zeman’s
did?
" For the
president would consider it blasphemy to apologise for the quotation of a
sacred Islamic text.”
