I can not begin to understand the mindset of a number of this forum's "traditional Catholic" members. I mean, why 70 or so folks will read about Ayelet Shaked, in a general discussion format, but apparently have nothing to say- no reaction at all. Yet some of you will take, for example, a topic on one of the bishop's ECs and just beat it to death, long after that topic's basic substance has been totally exhausted.
Let me try to prime the pump a bit more. Here is what journalist Jonathan Turley reported about Shaked some time back:
One of this lovely woman's Facebook entries recorded the following:
“Behind every terrorist stand dozens of men and women, without whom he could not engage in terrorism. They are all enemy combatants, and their blood shall be on all their heads. Now this also includes the mothers of the martyrs, who send them to hell with flowers and kisses. They should follow their sons, nothing would be more just. They should go, as should the physical homes in which they raised the snakes. Otherwise, more little snakes will be raised there.”Isn't she a dear? Can't you just see this wife of an Israeli fighter jet pilot home baking cookies, while two young children pull at her apron strings, clamoring and arguing over who shall lick the bowl?
Turley reports:
"Shaked holds degree in electrical engineering and computer sciences and she worked in marketing for Texas Instruments. She has past ties to Benjamin Netanyahu. From 2006-2008, she was the office director for the office of Netanyahu. She then established “My Israel” with Naftali Bennet, but in January 2012 she was elected to serve as the coordinator of Likud. She later became a Knesset member for the Jєωιѕн Home Party, a successor party to the National Religious Party. The party is committed to a nation governed by Jєωιѕн law under the belief that Jєωs are divinely ordained to rule over the Land of Israel. The party has been active in supporting the expansion of Jєωιѕн settlements in Palestinian terrorizes and largely represents Orthodox Jєωs according to news report."Turley reprints a full translation of Shaked’s statement (from her Facebook page?):
The Palestinian people has declared war on us, and we must respond with war. Not an operation, not a slow-moving one, not low-intensity, not controlled escalation, no destruction of terror infrastructure, no targeted killings. Enough with the oblique references. This is a war. Words have meanings. This is a war. It is not a war against terror, and not a war against extremists, and not even a war against the Palestinian Authority. These too are forms of avoiding reality. This is a war between two people. Who is the enemy? The Palestinian people. Why? Ask them, they started (it).
I don’t know why it’s so hard for us to define reality with the simple words that language puts at our disposal. Why do we have to make up a new name for the war every other week, just to avoid calling it by its name. What’s so horrifying about understanding that the entire Palestinian people is the enemy? Every war is between two peoples, and in every war the people who started the war, that whole people, is the enemy. A declaration of war is not a war crime. Responding with war certainly is not. Nor is the use of the word “war”, nor a clear definition who the enemy is. Au contraire: the morality of war (yes, there is such a thing) is founded on the assumption that there are wars in this world, and that war is not the normal state of things, and that in wars the enemy is usually an entire people, including its elderly and its women, its cities and its villages, its property and its infrastructure.
And the morality of war knows that it is not possible to refrain from hurting enemy civilians. It does not condemn the British air force, which bombed and totally destroyed the German city of Dresden, or the US planes that destroyed the cities of Poland and wrecked half of Budapest, places whose wretched residents had never done a thing to America, but which had to be destroyed in order to win the war against evil. The morals of war do not require that Russia be brought to trial, though it bombs and destroys towns and neighborhoods in Chechnya. It does not denounce the UN Peacekeeping Forces for killing hundreds of civilians in Angola, nor the NATO forces who bombed Milosevic’s Belgrade, a city with a million civilians, elderly, babies, women, and children. The morals of war accept as correct in principle, not only politically, what America has done in Afghanistan, including the massive bombing of populated places, including the creation of a refugee stream of hundreds of thousands of people who escaped the horrors of war, for thousands of whom there is no home to return to.
And in our war this is sevenfold more correct, because the enemy soldiers hide out among the population, and it is only through its support that they can fight. Behind every terrorist stand dozens of men and women, without whom he could not engage in terrorism. Actors in the war are those who incite in mosques, who write the murderous curricula for schools, who give shelter, who provide vehicles, and all those who honor and give them their moral support. They are all enemy combatants, and their blood shall be on all their heads. Now this also includes the mothers of the martyrs, who send them to hell with flowers and kisses. They should follow their sons, nothing would be more just. They should go, as should the physical homes in which they raised the snakes. Otherwise, more little snakes will be raised there.
Professor Jonathan Turley is a nationally recognized legal scholar who has written extensively in areas ranging from constitutional law to legal theory to tort law. http://jonathanturley.org
If you're really interested in what Israel is all about and what its real, not to mention ruthless, objectives are, just read this. We all should be, especially you folks who are still associated with SSPX. Because we all know that one of Bp. Fellay's chief advisors and a Menzingen business partner, Max Krah, is an out and out zionist, and apparently enamored of the IDF. Wouldn't you love to get in front of Krah and ask him what he thinks of Ayelet Shaked? Would he agree with her cold summary of the Palestinian situation? I believe he would. Do you?