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Source: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/israel/2024/05/rude-and-crude-but-definitely-justified/
Israeli Author Answers Critics of Gaza War
(Quadrant-Australia) Dina Rubina - Pushkin House in London, in collaboration with the University of London, recently invited Israeli author Dina Rubina to a literary discussion on Zoom about her books. Then she received an email from the meeting's moderator who demanded she state where she stands "on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict." Rubina responded by cancelling the meeting, with the following message: My beloved country currently lives (and always has) surrounded by ferocious enemies who seek to destroy it. My country is waging a just war today against a rabid, ruthless, deceptive and cunning enemy. On Oct. 7, the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah, the ruthless, well-trained, well-prepared and well-equipped Hamas terrorist regime attacked dozens of peaceful kibbutzim and bombarded my country with tens of thousands of rockets. Hamas has committed atrocities that even the Bible cannot describe, atrocities that rival the crimes of Sodom and Gomorrah. For hours, thousands of happy, blood-drunk beasts raped women, children and men, shooting their victims in the crotch and heads, cutting out the babies from the wombs of pregnant women and immediately decapitating them, tying up and burning the small children. Judging by the utter joy of the population (captured by thousands of mobile cameras), Hamas is supported by almost the entire population of Gaza. While the international community has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into Gaza, Hamas used this money to build an empire with a complex system of underground tunnels, stockpiled weapons, taught schoolchildren from primary school to disassemble and assemble Kalashnikov assault rifles, printed textbooks in which hatred of Israel is indescribable, in which even math problems call for the murder of Jews with every word: "There were ten Jews, the martyr killed four, how many are left?" The academic community was not concerned about the massacres in Syria, nor the massacre in Somalia, nor the mistreatment inflicted on the Uighurs, nor the millions of Kurds persecuted by the Turkish regime for decades. Now, this very worried community, which wears keffiyehs, the trademark of murderers, around their necks at rallies, calls to "Liberate Palestine from the river to the sea," which means the total destruction of Israel (and Israelis). It is this same public which asks me "to express a clear position on the issue."