While the news has been fixated on the Japanese disaster, rightly so, the fact that this story has gotten little airplay is upsetting.
On Friday night some terrorists cut through a security fence and entered the Israeli town of Itamar in the West Bank. They then picked a house, this time the house of Udi and Ruth Fogel, and proceeded to stab to death the couple along with their 3 month old daughter and two sons (3 and 11)
As the attackers used knives rather than rifles or pistols, and because of other characteristics of the killings, the IDF believes it was not carried out by an organized terrorist infrastructure but more likely was the work of one or two people who could, though, be affiliated with one of the larger Palestinian terrorist groups.
The New York Times wrote about the murders but pretty much whined about Israel’s response.
Israel responded defiantly Sunday to a bloody Palestinian assault against West Bank settlers by approving construction of new settlement housing, retaliating for the stabbing deaths of a father, mother and three small children with a measure that infuriated Palestinians and, together with the attack, threw already shaky peace efforts into a new tailspin.
The Palestinians weren’t too infuriated tho….they took time out of that “infuriation” to celebrate the murders of these little kids:
Gaza residents from the southern city of Rafah hit the streets Saturday to celebrate the terror attack in the West Bank settlement of Itamar where five family members were murdered in their sleep, including three children.
Residents handed out candy and sweets, one resident saying the joy “is a natural response to the harm settlers inflict on the Palestinian residents in the West Bank.”
Natural response?
What bulls**t. Building a wall or building some new homes is NOT the same as stabbing a 3 month old baby to death. Anyone who tries to compare the two is an animal, plain and simple.
And Melanie Phillips writes about the lack of airplay:
But there can be little doubt that the sluggish reaction is due in no small measure to the fact that the British media and intellectual class think – and sometimes even say – that the Israeli ‘settlers’ deserve what they get. Thus Israelis living on land to which they are legally entitled are dehumanised, and even their murders are shrugged off as of little account. Thus the moral cesspool into which Britain’s intellectual elite has sunk.
Exit question….how long until Obama asks for restraint from Israel?
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