He even threatened to protect those children by whatever means necessary.
Jerusalem, February 8 – A local father of five continued to insist his three sons and two daughters have the right to live in peace without Palestinian gunmen, bombers, drivers, stabbers, or other attackers threatening their welfare, witnesses reported today, even after others informed him not one minute beforehand that Palestinians view the presence of Jews exercising sovereignty in their ancestral homeland as illegitimate. The man persisted in the stubborn assumption that his family deserves a life free from terrorist violence, the witnesses further observed, strident Palestinian and pro-Palestinian rhetoric characterizing them as “tumors” or “combatants” notwithstanding.
Asaf Poleg, 44, of this city’s Ramot neighborhood, defied logic and expectations today when told he, his family, and his nation do not belong in the land where the national identity of that nation emerged thousands of years ago, and where the scattered descendants of those ancestors have longed to safely return since exiled in ancient times. Instead of accepting the statement of his and their “settler” status as justification for their violent death, Mr. Poleg doubled down on his assertion that his children deserve no such treatment, and moreover, threatened to protect those children by whatever means necessary.
The witnesses proclaimed themselves at a loss to explain the man’s unreasonable position, which flies in the face of arguments by people ignorant or dismissive of international law, but who form the bulk of pro-Palestine activists and funding contributors. “We activists on behalf of Palestine have always legitimized violence against Zionist settlers, because that is what we feel,” explained Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Palestinian Territories. “The fact that no such international law exists, and in fact the human rights of civilian settlers are explicitly protected in international law, should make no difference. He received explanation why he and his children, not to mention everyone part of the society that upholds or tolerates their settler activities, constitute legitimate targets for Palestinian resistance violence. He simply refuses to accept logic.”
Albanese and her colleagues suggested that Mr. Poleg, and others like him who refuse to listen to reason and allow themselves to be killed, or at least raped, maimed, despoiled, and expelled, the way Jews have traditionally been treated when they had no land and no sovereignty, might be made to see reason if force is used to kill, rape, maim, and despoil them, the way Jews have traditionally been treated when they had no land and no sovereignty.
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