Walker Wings It (Wrong)

Reading EOZ, I was pointed to some lines and I read this:

He could not understand

However

Why I thought Israel should give back

The land it took

From a poorly defended

People in a war that lasted

Six days.

Those lines are part of a poem of sorts penned by Alice Walker.

Let's get things in order.

That "poorly defended people". Who were they?

Jordan had attacked Israel. Invading Jerusalem. Shelling Kfar Saba. An aerial bombing there killed four workers in a factory.

Jordanians, on the east front, were the "people".

They were not the now-known-as "Palestinians" even though ever since 1948 they, too, had been fighting Israel as members of fedayeen and later Fatah terror gangs, all launching their incursions and attacks and sabotage in the name of a "liberation" prior to the 1967 war. There was no "Palestine" either. In fact Arabs from whatever possible national category they were killing and terrorizing Jews since 1920 in the name of an ideology that recognized no Jewish national identity. And since that "liberation" of the PLO began before the war, cannot Alice grasp, then, there as no "occupation" nor any "settlements"? And if so, indeed, there were none, that means they weren't the problem and they need not be part of the solution.

As for "giving back", it's our land, Ms. Walker, the Jewish homeland's heartland.  Jews lived there prior to 1948 until Arab rioters ethnically cleansed them from Hebron, Gaza, Jerusalem's neighborhoods, Gush Etzion, etc. And after they sought to deny us a state in any part of "Historic Palestine", and since they tried to kill us all, and hooked up with Hitler when the Mufti got involved with the Nazis, and refused all diplomatic efforts to resolve their problem including a partition plan, I owe them nothing.

And I do not feel bad about it.

I do feel bad about their unwillingness to cooperate or share or be peaceful.

You should read and study more, Ms. Walker.

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Alice Walker Loves Children???

AP reports:

Pulitzer-prize winning author Alice Walker, who wrote "The Color Purple," is traveling to Gaza along with other female activists to highlight the devastation of the Israeli offensive on Gaza's residents.



"I feel that what is happening in the Middle East is very important because the situation is so volatile," said Walker, speaking by telephone Saturday from the Rafah border crossing as her group waited to travel into Gaza. "I love people, and I love children and I feel that the Palestinian child is just as precious as the African-American child, as the Jewish child."

Who is behind this?

The trip, organized by the U.S. anti-war group Code Pink...

Black, Pink, Purple and, as pointed out, a bit, what, Red-faced:

In 1965, Walker met and later married Mel Leventhal, a Jewish civil rights lawyer. They were married on March 17, 1967 in New York City...The couple had a daughter, Rebecca in 1969...



Walker would later become estranged from her daughter, who felt more of "a political symbol... than a cherished daughter," and would later publish a memoir entitled Black White and Jewish, chronicling the effects of her parents' relationship on her childhood.

An example:

Walker is furious with Rebecca for making such sentiments public, and mother and daughter are estranged with little hope of reconciliation. Rebecca has a three-year-old son, Tenzin, whom her mother has never seen. Their last meaningful exchange, during Rebecca’s pregnancy, ended in Walker sending a terse e-mail in which she resigned from “the job” of being her mother, and told her that in any case their relationship had been “inconsequential” for years.

The depth of her anger was such that she refused to budge even when Rebecca had a difficult birth and Tenzin’s life hung in the balance in a special-care baby unit. “My father called her to tell her what was happening. He couldn’t imagine that she wouldn’t run right over . . . In some ways, I wanted her to — but in other ways, I didn’t. I knew she wouldn’t be able to be there for me in the way I wanted. It would be problematic.”

She loves children???