"There are no words to convey adequately our condolences to the Palestinian people," said Secretary of State John Kerry, calling the killing of the Palestinian boy "sickening," but he was not sickened by the murder of three Israeli teens and had no words of condolences to the Israelis
The difference in the reaction to the murder of three Israeli teens and the murder of one Palestinian boy is simply astounding. The Palestinians, both on the West Bank and in Gaza celebrated the kidnapping and killing of three Israeli teenagers by their brethren. The Israelis did not hold riotous protests in response to the murders. When a Palestinian boy’s life was taken in revenge by Jewish thugs, the Israelis were shocked and widely condemned the brutal murder. But the Palestinians reacted by throwing rocks and firebombs at Israeli civilians and cops.
A family member of one of the murdered Israeli boys said ‘murder is murder” in condemning the death of the Palestinian boy. But to the Palestinians and the international community, the murder of three Israeli boys pales in comparison to the murder of one Palestinian boy.
The Obama administration’s reaction to the slaying of the three Israeli boys was tepid at best, primarily calling on Israel to show restraint. On the other hand, Obama and Kerry howled loudly over the killing of the Palestinian boy. Shame, shame on Obama and Kerry for not responding to the murders of the three Israelis in the same way.
And the Obama administration wasted no time in condemning the beating of a 15-year-old Palestinian-American boy by Israeli police officers. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki declared, “We are profoundly troubled by reports that he was severely beaten while in police custody and strongly condemn any excessive use of force. We are calling for a speedy, transparent and credible investigation and full accountability for any excessive use of force.”
While the Israeli police should not have beaten the little fart from Florida, Psaki ignored the fact that the masked teenager, a cousin of the murdered Palestinian boy, had in all probability participated in the throwing of rocks and Molotov cocktails at the highly pissed-off cops.
Three of six Israeli Jews arrested as suspects in the Palestinian boy’s murder have confessed and have reenacted the crime for the police. They are being held without access to their attorneys. The Israelis have arrested one suspect and are still looking for two others in the murder of the three Israeli boys.
The hatred of Israel in particular, and Jews in general, is widespread and it explains why the murder of one Palestinian teen is deemed far worse than the murders of three Israeli teens. Muslims have hated Jews since long before the Nazis set about to exterminate the Jewish population of Europe. They celebrated the Holocaust just as the Palestinians celebrated the deaths of the three young Israelis. But the anti-Israel bias shown by the Europeans and the Obama administration is a new low in the West’s relationship with the survivors of the Holocaust.
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The Obama administration views the Palestinians as an oppressed minority, so their rage, anger and acting out are expected and understandable, if not laudable. They view personal revenge killings (appropriately) as uncivilized. That is just their world view.
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