There has been a grand total of one Jewish terrorist who’s attacked Arabs in the current, five year war between Israel and the Palestinians. After that attack triggered a period of self-flagellation so intense that even Israeli liberals began to think people were going overboard, the Jewish Agency (an organization which, unlike the Government of Israel, exists for the single purpose of helping Jews) has decided to give money to the terrorist’s Arab victims. That’s how Jews in Israel react when Jewish terrorists murder Arabs.
And this is how Arabs in the West Bank react when Arab terrorists murder Jews:
Thousands of Palestinians took to the streets of Kabatiya, south of Jenin, Wednesday night to celebrate the suicide bombing in Hadera, which was carried out by local resident Hassan Abu Zeid. Chanting Allahu Akbar (God is great), some 3,000 people, including Fatah and Islamic Jihad gunmen, converged on Abu Zeid’s home to “congratulate” his family on the success of the attack, which killed five people and wounded more than 30…
Abu Zeid’s mother, Um Hassan, said she was proud of her son for what he did. Her husband, Ahmed, a blacksmith who was later arrested by the IDF, greeted the well-wishers with tears in his eyes. “I’m proud of my son and hope that he will enter heaven,” the mother declared.
This mass murder inspired religious-nationalist ecstasy in literally thousands of people, who congratulated what should have been a grieving family for their dead son’s crimes (it is a particularly sick society that worships war and death to such an extent that soldiers’ deaths are celebrated rather than mourned – what kind of mother is happy to lose a child in any cause?). Not to be overly heavy-handed, but it seems patently absurd to go on pretending that these are people who can be brought down from their sheer insanity either by giving them more land or by releasing a couple more terrorists from prison.
[Cross-posted at IsraPundit]
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