A
recent news article
reports "He's Jewish in every way, but on New Year's Eve, Alexei
Shtukin (42) decided to dress up as Santa Clause 'just for fun,' and
paid for his decision dearly. He was set upon by a gang of youths at
the Dome nightclub in Tel Aviv, and beaten in front of his family.
Youths were heard shouting, 'dead Christian.' Alexei and his wife had
decided to head to the Dome night club in south Tel Aviv, in order to
pick up their daughter, Dasha (14), who was celebrating the New Year.
'We went inside to look for her, and then someone yelled: 'Santa
Clause.' ' Alexei was convinced that the shout was one of enthusiasm,
but was proved bitterly wrong. ...the youths 'kept coming after me and
kicked me. I shouted to my wife and daughter: Get in the car fast.
Dasha began to be hysterical. 'Leave us alone,' she shouted, but the
youths gathered around the frightened family members, kicking Alexei,
and yelling, 'Dead Christian.' "
The original article may
have been written in Hebrew, which may explain why it says "Santa
Clause" instead of Santa Claus. Also it seems likely that the Israeli
youth were yelling "Die Christian" instead of "Dead Christian" (unless
they were making a negative remark about Jesus Christ).
This
incident is absolutely inexcusable. The victim could easily have been a
Christian pilgrim visiting the Holyland. The United States is giving
Israel at least three billion dollars per year in financial aid, not to
mention military aid and the occasional multi-billion dollar loan
guarantees, which are thinly-veiled hand outs.
If this seems
like an isolated incident, the Israelis killed an American peace
protestor Rachel Corrie and shot a British peace protestor in the head,
who died months later. The Israeli military killed 34 Americans on
board the USS Liberty in 1967 in a deliberate attempt to sink that
ship. (Five out of six radio frequencies used by the Liberty were
jammed during that attack.) In the 1950s in the Lavon Affair, the
Israelis bombed American facilities in Egypt hoping to blame the
incidents on the Arabs to ruin relations between the US and Egypt.
Would
we give billions of dollars in aid to Somalia where Americans risk
being attacked on sight? Of course not. So why should we give this kind
of aid to Israel?
