A New Shoah: The Untold Story of Israel’s Victims of Terrorism

A New Shoah: The Untold Story of Israel’s Victims of Terrorism is the title of a new book by Giulio Meotti.

The blogger South Capitol Street writes on the importance on remembering the victims of Muslim Jihad:

“The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic,” goes the old adage often wrongly attributed to Joseph Stalin, and it’s true: it is all too easy to forget that behind the each one of the huge numbers of victims of the jihad today is a human story, an individual with a life, with loves, with plans, with hopes.


But it is essential that we not forget this, for our own sake – for the sake of our resolve in continuing to fight against the global jihad and Islamic supremacism. It is essential that we not allow ourselves to become desensitized to the human cost of this great struggle for freedom. It is essential that we realize the full magnitude of what the jihadists are taking from us: the lives they are destroying, and the emotional devastation they are leaving in their wake: the burdens they’re placing on people who are not combatants, who never expected to find themselves in the middle of a war, and who are being let down on a massive scale by those who have sworn to protect them.

The Arab world makes a point of playing down the number of Jews killed by Muslim terrorists, but the severity of that loss can not be ignored:

Israel has lost 1,500 people to the Second Intifada over the last ten years – the equivalent of about 54,000 victims of jihad terror in the United States. Islamic jihadists have murdered them on buses, in restaurants, at synagogues, and anywhere else they could. Meotti interviewed dozens of the victims’ families and survivors of jihad attacks, and introduces us to a few of the ordinary and extraordinary people whose lives were cut short by those attacks. He brings them back from the realm of “statistic” to that of “tragedy,” and in the process, reminds us of the real reasons why we fight, why we resist the Islamic jihad against Israel and the West, why the U.S. must stand with Israel, and why we must prevail.

South Capitol Street concludes:

“The history of Israel,” writes Meotti, “has been buried under a mound of falsehood.” After detailing many of the Israeli attempts to forge a lasting peace with its Arab Muslim neighbors, he concludes that all of Israel’s leaders “have repeated the word that Israel’s neighbors never say: peace.” The people he profiles in A New Shoah have given their lives for Israel – a role in history that most or all of them never expected or intended to play. It is up to us who have survived them to work to ensure that they have not died in vain.

Technorati Tag: Jihad and Arab Terrorism.