“Shalom, Motherf****r.”

That’s the title of a really compelling piece I just read right here, written by a Jew in Israel who just defriended a professional acquaintance of his who had been incessantly posting anti-semitic propaganda.

It’s written by Eitan Chitayat, and it’s a brutally honest and raw account of what it’s like for him and his family to be citizens of Israel.  It’s a must read. I don’t even quite know how to pick and choose the most choice quotes from it, because I hate to leave anything out.

But I’m going to try, and then y’all have to promise to click the sourcelink and read the entire thing. 

…I will not apologise for surviving.

For surviving missiles intended to kill me. The fact they didn’t kill me doesn’t mean they weren’t sent with the intention to murder. We have a defence system, shelters, evacuation procedures and governments who take care of us – I will not apologise for living and surviving thanks to being prepared because we have a culture that celebrates our lives and cherishes them instead of sending 10-year old children to be fighters and bombers. I will not apologise for having a business, a home, a family and friends here who want normal lives and to live in peace with our neighbors. I will not apologise for existing and I want nothing more than to co-exist quietly with neighbors who accept me here.

But this is not what Hamas wants.

Let me be very clear. Hamas is trying to kill ME. My family. My baby son. All of us here. That is their purpose. Get it through your heads – that is what is happening. And it’s VERY personal. For all of us here.

Our Israeli civilians – people like me – are being targeted to die. Palestinian innocents on the other side are dying because my army is trying to protect us from thugs operating in those areas who are launching rockets at my populated cities. If Palestinian innocents are dying it’s because of jihadists and terrorists (other names for thugs), but NOT because of the State of Israel that is trying to protect its citizens as any sovereign country would do.

And this:

…anyone who gives a damn about their people would try giving them a future and not use them as pawns in a sick game of death and 72 virgins…

…If anyone doesn’t understand any of the above; if anyone doesn’t get it; if any of my friends are going to post anti-Israel messages in a time where over 500 Palestinians have tragically died in this current conflict yet you remained silent while almost 200,000 Arabs were murdered by Arabs these past few years; if you’re not writing about Assad using chemical weapons against his people; if you’re not writing about ISIS who crucified 8 christians the other day and who are telling Iraqi Christians ‘convert, pay tax, or die’; if you only have criticism for the State of Israel that is doing EVERYTHING in its power to avoid civilian losses to Palestinians during a war; if you’re going to do nothing but sit wherever you’re sitting and just dish out your anti-Israel dirt while rockets are being aimed at my house, family and friends as our boys are fighting to protect us – and you’re going to dish it out simply because we’re living in this land and you haven’t got a clue as to our connection to it; if you’re going to join the anti-semitic and anti-Israel demonstrations flaring up in the world like we’re seeing in France, Turkey, Berlin, most Arab states and even in the US that have nothing to do with this conflict but are really just expressions of hatred directed at Jews and Israelis (and these expressions will be directed at the host countries soon); if you’re going to stay quiet and just accept, then go ahead and unfriend me from Facebook now because you’re probably no friend of mine.

Know this: when someone tries to end my life, IT IS PERSONAL.

Powerful stuff, isn’t it?

But hey, Selena Gomez and Rihanna and other dimwitted celebrities want to #FreePalestine.  So clearly, what this guy says doesn’t matter what with all of the important Hollywood intellectual powerhouses speaking out and whatnot.

To all of those celebridiots, I can’t say it any better than Eitan:

Because you can have the hatred, the twisted, the sick and evil and be a part of that – or you can have me. But you can’t have both.

Shalom, motherf****r.

A couple of final thoughts to add sent to me by a clever and competent reader:

“Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.”  And, “When peace comes, we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our children, but will never forgive them for having forced us to kill their children.” – GOLDA MEIR