Dayenu By Ron Dermer rdermer@jpost.co.il (March 26, 2002) When the British gave three-fourths of Mandatory Palestine to the Arabs in 1922, it should have been enough for us. When in 1929, the incitement of local Arab leaders falsely accusing the Jews of trying to destroy the Temple Mount sparked riots across the country and led to the massacre of the Jewish community of Hebron, it should have been enough for us. When the mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, called on Hitler to allow the Arabs to solve the "problem of the Jewish elements in Palestine? by the same method that the question is now being settled in the Axis countries," it should have been enough for us. When the Arab world rejected the 1947 partition plan that would have created both a Jewish and an Arab state, it should have been enough for us. When five Arab armies invaded the newly-established State of Israel in 1948, it should have been enough for us. When the Palestinians neither demanded a state nor decried the "occupation" during the 19 years that Jordan occupied the West Bank and Egypt occupied the Gaza Strip, it should have been enough for us. When all Israelis - Jews, Christians and Muslims - were prevented from praying in Arab-controlled Jerusalem, it should have been enough for us. When the PLO was founded in 1964, a time when there was not one Jewish settlement in the "territories," nor any Jewish "occupation," it should have been enough for us. When the United Nations silently complied with Nasser's order in 1967 to remove its Emergency Forces from Sinai, it should have been enough for us. When three Arab states launched a "battle of annihilation" against Israel in 1967, it should have been enough for us. When the PLO slaughtered Israel's Olympic delegation in Munich in 1972, it should have been enough for us. When Egypt and Syria launched a surprise attack on Yom Kippur, it should have been enough for us. When it took 25 years for the Saudis to match Israel's contribution to UNRWA, the UN agency charged with alleviating the plight of the Palestinian refugees, it should have been enough for us. When the PLO outlined its "phased plan" to destroy Israel in 1974, it should have been enough for us. When the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution in 1975 equating Zionism with racism, it should have been enough for us. When the State of Israel was condemned by the entire world, including the United States, for bombing Iraq's nuclear reactor in 1981, it should have been enough for us. When the Saudi delegate to the 1984 UN Human Rights Commission conference on religious tolerance declared that "the Talmud says that if a Jew does not drink every year the blood of a non-Jewish man, he will be damned for eternity," it should have been enough for us. When Arafat supported Saddam Hussein during the Gulf War, and Palestinians danced on their rooftops as Scuds rained on Tel Aviv, it should have been enough for us. When a few months after signing the Oslo agreements, Yasser Arafat called on the Muslim world to wage "jihad" and compared the agreements to a treaty Muhammad once made and then abrogated, it should have been enough for us. When in 1996, Arafat told Arab diplomats that the PLO's strategy was "to make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion," and that its objective was "to eliminate the State of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state," it should have been enough for us. When PA-controlled television featured children singing "when I wander into Jerusalem, I will become a suicide bomber," it should have been enough for us. When during a papal visit to Syria, Bashar Assad accused the Jews of trying to "betray and kill Muhammad" like "they betrayed Jesus Christ," it should have been enough for us. When Yasser Arafat's wife accused Israel of using poison gas against the Palestinians, it should have been enough for us. When Yasser Arafat told president Bill Clinton at Camp David that there never was a Jewish Temple in Jerusalem, it should have been enough for us. When the Palestinians rejected Ehud Barak's offer at Camp David and unleashed their orchestrated campaign of terror, it should have been enough for us. When two Israeli reservists were savagely lynched at a Palestinian police station in Ramallah, it should have been enough for us. When the United Nations refused to give Israel all the information it had on the three soldiers kidnapped by Hizbullah, it should have been enough for us. When an Arabic translation of Mein Kampf became a bestseller in the "territories," it should have been enough for us. When suicide bombers massacred Jews before September 11 at the Dolphinarium and Sbarro, it should have been enough for us. When American declared its war on terror after September 11, it should have been enough for us. When during that war, Palestinian terror continued to claim the lives of scores of Jews on our roads and buses, in our shops and cafes, north and south, east and west, it should have been enough for us. One has to ask: when will it ever be enough for us?