From a review by Claire Berlinski of a book by David Horovitz and an unpublished manuscript by Judith Wrubel Levy:
I met Judith Wrubel in 1991 at Oxford University, where we were both graduate students in international relations. We became friends walking back to Balliol College each week, along the leafy Banbury Road, from a seminar at St. Antony's College on the international relations of the Middle East. Both secular American Jews - the only ones in the class - we found in one another a measure of intellectual and ethnic solidarity against our classmates, who tended to view the region through the prism fashionable in academia: The violence and misery of the Middle East devolve from Israeli territorial expansionism and its abuse of the Palestinians. Once when a suicide bombing in Israel claimed the lives of a number of children under the age of 10 - it is often forgotten how common an occurrence these were even during the Rabin years - a fellow student, upon hearing the news, proclaimed with satisfaction, "Good. They deserve it."Quoting Judith Wrubel Levy:
Two mornings ago I woke up, looked at the headlines and read that the bombing in Petach Tikva the day before had been in a cafe packed with mothers and their babies. I’ll say it again because it's so mind-boggling: The bomber had quite deliberately chosen to explode himself in the midst of a large crowd of mothers and babies. I marvel at the depravity. I knew there had been a bombing, of course, and I knew that a grandmother and her 18-month-old granddaughter had been murdered and that there were between 40 and 50 injured, but I didn't know that a large proportion of those 40 to 50 were small children.Quoting David Horovitz:
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[After Jenin] We go in house-to-house, at maximum danger to our own soldiers and getting a couple of dozen of them killed in the process, and kill only about 50 of the enemy, the vast majority of them armed militants. And we are universally condemned for taking this action in a kind of global orgasm of anti-Semitism...
In early May, 2002, undeterred by the fact that, mere hours earlier, a Palestinian suicide bomber had killed fifteen Israelis in a café-billiard parlor in Rishon-Letzion... the United Nations General Assembly voted, seventy-four to four, to condemn Israel...I urge you to read it all. (Hat tip: Damian.)