Tears Don't Protect Against Murder
By Daniel Greenfield
SultanKnsih.Blogspot.com
After serving a few years in prison for his role
in the Munich Massacre, Willi Pohl moved to Beirut.
The brief sentence was a slap in the wrist, but Pohl
had still served more time in prison than the Muslim
gunmen who had murdered eleven Israeli athletes and
coaches during the 1972 Summer Olympics. Mohammed
Safady and the Al-Gashey cousins were released after
a few months by the German authorities.
They
went back to Lebanon and so did he.
A decade after the attack, Willi Pohl had begun
making a name for himself as a crime novelist. His
first novel was Tränen Schützen Nicht vor Mord
or Tears Do Not Protect Against Murder.
While Pohl was penning crime novels, Israeli
operatives had already absorbed the lessons of his
first title. Tears, whether in 1939 or 1972, had not
done anything to prevent the murder of Jews. Bullets
were another matter.
The head of Black September in Rome was the first to
die, followed by a string of PLO leaders across
Europe. Those attacks were followed by raids on the
mansions and apartments of top Fatah officials in
the same city where Pohl had found temporary refuge.
By the time his first book was published, hundreds
of PLO terrorists and officials were dead.
European law enforcement had failed to hold even the
actual perpetrators of the Munich Massacre
responsible, never mind the representatives of the
PLO who openly mingled with red radicals in its
capitals. Israeli operatives did what the German
judicial system had failed to do, putting down
Safady and one of the Al-Gasheys, while the other
one hid out with Colonel Gaddafi in Libya.
The Israeli raid on the PLO terrorists in Beirut's
Muslim Quarter missed one important target. Arafat.
And so, on another September day, some later,
September 13, 1993, Israeli Prime Minister Rabin
shook hands with Arafat and proclaimed, "Enough of
blood and tears! Enough!"
But the blood and tears had only begun, as a PLO on
its last legs was revived and built its terrorist
infrastructure inside Israel's borders.
By 1993, the year of the infamous Rose Garden
handshake, 45 Israelis had been killed and 34
injured in Muslim terrorist attacks. A year after
the handshake, the toll stood at 109 Israelis dead
and 456 wounded. By 2002, the year that Israel's
patience finally broke and Sharon sent forces
storming into Arafat's compound, the numbers for
that year were a horrifying 451 dead and 2,348
wounded.
Today, some 40 years after that September in Munich
and two decades after the even worse tragedy of that
September in Washington D.C., with over 1,500 dead
since that fatal handshake, there have been rivers
of blood and tears. And a shortage of bullets.
PLO
officials these days are more likely to die of
morbid obesity or, like Arafat, of AIDS, than of
Israeli raids. They are nearly as likely to kill
each other, like Arafat's cousin, Moussa Arafat, the
former head of the Palestinian Authority's terrorist
forces, who was dragged out of his home and shot by
his own people.
The murder of Mohammed Abu Shaaban, killed a week
after the handshake, by his own people, was the
first of a long string of Fatah on Fatah violence
that is a far more likely cause of death for top
terrorists than the jet planes and tanks of the
hated Zionist regime.
The rivers of tears keep flowing, but tears don't
protect against murder. Neither do peace treaties.
No amount of tears from the tens of thousands
mutilated, tortured, crippled, wounded, orphaned and
widowed by the PLO in all its front groups, splinter
groups and incarnations, including its current
incarnation as a phony government, has been enough
to stop Western governments from supporting, arming
and funding the terrorists.
Tears don't protect against murder. They don't stop
killers from killing. They don't prevent the
authorities from looking the other way when the
killings happen because there is something in it for
them. They don't bring the terrorists to justice.
They don't even ensure that the truth will be told,
rather than the lie that rationalizes the terror.
Tears did not stop the operation of a single gas
chamber. They did not save the life of a single
Jewish refugee. They did not stop a single dollar
from going to the PLO or Fatah or Black September or
the Palestinian Authority or any of the other masks
that the gang of Soviet-trained killers wore. They
will not stop Iran from developing and detonating a
nuclear weapon over Tel Aviv. They will not stop
Israel from being carved up by terrorists whose
demands are backed up by the diplomatic capital of
every nation that bows its head in the direction of
Mecca, Medina and Riyadh, and the old men who
control the oil wells and the mosques.
In 1988, Willi Pohl published another book, Das
Gesetz des Dschungels or The Law of the
Jungle. That same year, PLO terrorists carried
out the "Mother's Bus Attack" taking the passengers
of a bus, filled with women on board, hostage and
demanding the release of all imprisoned terrorists.
The terrorists killed two hostages and Israeli
Special Forces moved in killing the terrorists and
saving the lives of all but one hostage.
In response, Israeli commandos stormed Tunis,
killing Abu Jihad, a former Muslim Brotherhood
member and the number two Fatah leader after Arafat
. The United Nations Security Council met and passed
Resolution 611, noting with concern the "loss of
human life", particularly that of Abu Jihad, and
vigorously condemned the "act of aggression".
Not a single member of the Security Council voted
against it. The United States abstained.
Not one single resolution was passed that year or
the year afterward or the year after that condemning
a terrorist attack against Israel or criticizing any
of the countries that trained, armed and harbored
the terrorists. Instead there were numerous
resolutions condemning Israel for expelling and
deporting terrorists.
The closest thing to a resolution critical of
terrorism was Resolution 579 in response to the
Achille Lauro hijacking, carried out by men loyal to
Mahmoud Abbas, the current President of the
Palestinian Authority, who also provided the funding
for the Munich Massacre. Resolution 579 did not
mention the Achille Lauro, Leon Klinghoffer or
Palestinian Arab terrorists. Instead it condemned
"hostage-taking" in general.
In
1972, the year of the Munich Massacre, there were
three Security Council resolutions condemning
Israel. Not a single one condemning the massacre of
Olympic athletes at an international event. Not a
single one condemning the countries which armed,
trained, harbored and controlled the terrorists. The
countries that had refused that their flags be
lowered in response to the massacre.
This was the law of the jungle disguised as
international law. Against the law of the jungle,
tears are futile. Jungle law cannot be debated away
or subdued with the speechifying of an Abba Eban or
a Benjamin Netanyahu. It cannot be moralized into
decency or signed away with peace treaties.
It can only be met with resistance.
Tears don't protect against murder. Bullets do.