Doc's Talk: When an Israeli Jew Kills: How the Three Jewish and One Arab Child Murders Are Different

Monday, July 07, 2014

When an Israeli Jew Kills: How the Three Jewish and One Arab Child Murders Are Different

Yid with Lid
On June 12 three Jewish Israeli boys were kidnapped; Gilad Shaar and Eyal Yifrach and Naftali Frenkel. Naftali had dual U.S.-Israeli citizenship. Their terrorist kidnappers killed them almost immediately.

Sometime during the evening of July 1/early morning July2 Mohammed Abu Khdeir a Palestinian Arab boy was kidnapped and burned alive by terrorists.

Less than human animals that should spend the rest of their life in a horrible prison killed all four boys. But there is a wide difference between the two incidents.

Immediately after the three Jewish boys were reported missing, Hamas and Fatah websites urged shopkeepers in the area not to cooperate with the authorities by turning over surveillance tapes. The day the Arab boy was kidnapped Israeli authorities were looking at the surveillance tapes from local shopkeepers to help find the murderers.

On June 15, three days after the Jewish boys were kidnapped, the U.S. State Dept. finally issued a statement:

“The United States strongly condemns the kidnapping of three Israeli teenagers and calls for their immediate release. Our thoughts and prayers are with their families. We hope for their quick and safe return home. We continue to offer our full support for Israel in its search for the missing teens, and we have encouraged full cooperation between the Israeli and Palestinian security services. We understand that cooperation is ongoing.”

On July 2 the day the kidnapping and murder of the Palestinian boy was discovered, the State Department condemned the killing in words much stronger than it used for the three Jews:

“condemns in the strongest possible terms the despicable and senseless abduction and murder…It is sickening…There are no words to convey adequately our condolences to the Palestinian people.”

Secretary of State Kerry rushed to conclusions in a statement suggesting that the murder was motivated by revenge for the three killed Israeli boys saying, “Those who undertake acts of vengeance only destabilize an already explosive and emotional situation." He then called Prime Minister Netanyahu to make sure Israel intended to track down the murderer of the Arab boy, despite the fact Prime Minster Netanyahu immediately condemned the murder calling it reprehensible and ordered the police to work as quickly as possible to find the perpetrators and motives.

The EU condemned the murder of Mohammed Abu Khdeir the day his kidnapping and murder was discovered. The EU waited five days to condemn the kidnapping of the three Jewish boys.

The mainstream media largely ignored the kidnapping of the three Israeli children and when they did report it, they weren’t children, or boys, or even teens—no they were teenaged settlers. As if because they may have lived on the “wrong:” side of the green line they were less than human.

The kidnapping of the Arab boy was reported immediately.

Palestinian websites and blogs celebrated the kidnapping of the three boys, they united on a slogan calling the kidnapped boys the Three Shalits (referencing Gilad Shalitwho was kidnapped and held by terrorists. Pictures of Palestinian Children holding up three fingers in celebration of the three kidnapped Israelis were posted on the official Hamas and Fatah websites.

Israeli authorities did not celebrate kidnapping and murder of Mohammed Abu Khdeir. No celebrations were posted on official Israeli websites, and government officials spoke only words of horror at the act.

Four horrible murders of children, but judging by the reaction much of the world including Obama’s State Department, the Jewish children’s deaths were less worthy of horror than the Arab deaths. But not to Israel, in Israel the deaths of all four children were treated with horror. The media looks at the killings as if they were the same. The death of Mohammed Abu Khdeir was just a heinous as the deaths of Gilad Shaar and Eyal Yifrach and Naftali Frenkel, but it was not the same.

Allow me to explain how the Jewish and Arab deaths are different

We know Israel will never ask for these Jewish killers to be released as part of a peace deal. Nor will Israeli soldiers kidnap a Palestinian so they can demand the murderers of Mohammed Abu Khdeir. Whoever they are be they be Jew or Arab they will serve their sentences in prison. The Palestinian Authority will most certainly demand their release and will attempt to kidnap other Israelis as hostages to trade.

The PA leadership has confirmed that they sent Western donor nations' money to pay terrorists and their families. PA government spokesman Ehab Bessaiso explained three weeks ago that instead of funding the salaries via "the Ministry of Prisoners' Affairs" under the PA they will fund them through "the Authority of Prisoners' Affairs" under the PLO to "provide political and legal cover" and "eliminate arguments ... that [foreign] aid money [to the PA] is going to the prisoners."
Once captured the terrorists who abducted and murdered the three Israeli boys will start receiving a salary. Israel will never pay pensions with the killers of the Arab boys, they will be treated like the child murderers they are.

Prime Minister Netanyhu sent his condolences to the Abu Khudair family saying:

I pledge that the perpetrators of this horrific crime, which must be resolutely condemned in the most forceful language. I pledge that the perpetrators of this horrific crime will face the full weight of the law. I know that in our society, the society of Israel, there is no place for such murderers. And that’s the difference between us and our neighbors. They consider murderers to be heroes. They name public squares after them. We don’t. We condemn them and we put them on trial and we’ll put them in prison.”

One person involved in the kidnapping and murder of the three Israeli boys has been captured. The remaining murderers have hid out in the Palestinian territories for 3 weeks because they have a base of support, an organization people to keep their secret, feed them, etc., and the Palestinian Authority had used little more than lip service to try and find them.

Four days after the murder of the Arab boy six people were arrested because they had nowhere to hide. The Jewish community does not accept child murderers.

You see there is no moral equivalence between the two sets of murder. The murderers of the Jewish boys will be celebrated as heroes, will have public squares named after them, are protected by their communities and their families will receive a pension.

The murderers of the Arab boy will be treated like the child killers they are but no one outside of the Jewish community recognizes the difference.

But it more than that, this kidnapping highlights the subtle anti-Semitism that permeates throughout the State Department and the rest of the world. Jewish deaths are ignored, hundreds of rockets sent into civilian neighborhoods are treated the same as Israeli attacks on the rocket bases to stem their tide, children are described as “settlers” not murdered kids.

When Palestinians justify murder of Jews in the name of their grievances it acceptable to western nations including our own, they receiving little if any condemnation. Israel never justifies the death of children theirs or anyone else’s.

Its time for Jews across the world to announce they’re fed up with a world that has indulged anti-Semitism for thousands of years. The scapegoating of Israel and Israel alone is nothing more than a continuation of that anti-Semitism, be it a BDS movement that target Israel, or an Obama administration reluctant to criticize Palestinians for kidnapping three Jews, and a world that find’s moral equivalences that do not exist.

Jewish bloggers are signing a joint letter of condemnation on the murder of Mohammed Abu Khdeir of Shuafat. I have added my name and support to the effort. You can read the letter see the signatories, and add your own name by clicking here.

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The IDF’s Minorities in Numbers and Pictures

In honor of IDF Diversity Week, we present diversity through numbers and pictures. Each year, more and more Muslims, Christians, Druze, Bedouin and immigrants from around the world take on the responsibility of defending Israel.

MUSLIMS:

Muslim Arab Israelis are not required to draft in the IDF, but there are many who volunteer. In 2013, there were over 200 Muslims serving in the IDF and over 300 in the reserves.

Bedouins:

Bedouins are nomadic Muslims who were in Israel when modern borders were set in place and are now considered Israeli citizens. They are not required to draft but a growing number choose to enlist. In 2012, there were over 1,400 Bedouin Muslim soldiers doing regular IDF service and almost 1,500 in the reserves.

Read more:http://www.idfblog.com/2014/02/27/truth-idf-numbers-pictures/#more-34027

Are you aware that in 2013, Middle class taxes go up-significantly?

In January of next year, the federal income tax rate for middle-class taxpayers is scheduled to rise from 25 percent to 28 percent, and the payroll tax is scheduled to rise from 13.3 percent to 15.3 percent… This drives the marginal tax rate based on the aforementioned three taxes to 48.12 percent. Add in state and local property, corporate, excise, and other state and local taxes, and the percentage of each additional dollar that is taxed hovers around 50 percent… When half of each additional dollar earned is taxed away, taxpayers experience a disincentive to start businesses or expand existing ones. This leads to fewer jobs being created.

Why is HAMAS Inside Tampa Schools?

Clare Lopez

Kelly Miliziano, who teaches history classes at Steinbrenner High School in the Tampa, Florida area apparently thinks it’s perfectly OK to invite a senior official of a HAMAS-affiliated organization into her classroom to discuss Islam with her students. According to local media reports, not only has this been going on for years, but in spite of the civil and criminal proceedings that could result from such reckless negligence, the Hillsborough County school superintendent, Mary Ellen Elia, and the chairman of the school board, Candy Olson, also expressed approval for students under their responsibility to be exposed repeatedly to guest speaker, Hassan Shibly, who is the Executive Director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in the Tampa area.
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Did You Know... Ignoring the Call to Islam will Bring Jihad

‘Conquest through Da’wa [proselytizing] that is what we hope for. We will conquer Europe, we will conquer America! Not through sword but through Da’wa.’
-- Yousef al-Qaradawi , Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader The Arabic word ‘Da’wa’ means the “call to Islam.” But do not think that Da’wa is the same thing as an invitation to an optional holiday event. The classical Islamic doctrine of jihad mandates that enemies must be given the opportunity to convert to Islam or pay the jizya tax before it is permissible to attack them.
Clare M. Lopez

Who is being discriminated-facts tell the truth

Religious bias

Hate crimes motivated by religious bias accounted for 1,409 offenses reported by law enforcement. A breakdown of the bias motivation of religious-bias offenses showed:

65.4 percent were anti-Jewish.
13.2 percent were anti-Islamic.
9.5 percent were anti-other religion, i.e., those not specified.
4.3 percent were anti-Catholic.
3.8 percent were anti-multiple religions, group.
3.3 percent were anti-Protestant.
0.5 percent were anti-Atheism/Agnosticism/etc.

http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/hate-crime/2010/narratives/hate-crime-2010-incidents-and-offenses.

On March 31, 1977, the Dutch newspaper Trouw published an interview

with PLO executive committee member Zahir Muhsein. Here's what he said:

"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct "Palestinian people" to oppose Zionism.

For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan."

In March 1977, Zahir Muhsein, a PLO executive, said:

"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct Palestinian people to oppose Zionism."

"For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan."

The Arab Apartheid

Ben-Dror Yemini
In 1948, the Arab countries refused to accept the UN partition proposal and they launched a war of annihilation against the State of Israel which had barely been established. All precedents in this matter showed that the party that starts the war - and with a declaration of annihilation, yet - pays a price for it. Between 550,000 and 710,000 Arabs fled because of the war and a larger number of 850,000 Jews were expelled or fled from Arab countries (the "Jewish nakba").
Population exchanges and expulsions were the norm at that time, occurring in dozens of other conflict points and affecting about 52 million people. In all the population exchange precedents that occurred during or at the end of an armed conflict, there was no return of refugees to the previous region, which had turned into a new national state.
Only the Arab states acted completely differently from the rest of the world. Instead of assimilating the refugees, they crushed them despite the fact that they were their coreligionists and members of the Arab nation - instituting a regime of apartheid. So the "nakba" was not caused by the actual dispossession, which had also been experienced by tens of millions of others. The "nakba" is the story of the apartheid, oppression, abuse and denial of rights suffered by the Arab refugees at the hands of the Arab countries. (Maariv)

International Law and Military Operations in Practice - Col. Richard Kemp

"Islamist fighting groups study the international laws of armed conflict carefully and they understand it well. They know that a British or Israeli commander and his men are bound by international law and the rules of engagement that flow from it. They then do their utmost to exploit what they view as one of their enemy's main weaknesses. Their very modus operandi is built on the correct assumption that Western armies will normally abide by the rules, while these insurgents employ a deliberate policy of operating consistently outside international law. "

Lost Historical Moments

What Rabin’s last Knesset speech really said:repudiation of a Palestinian state

Rabin ruled out a fully sovereign Palestinian state :

“We view the permanent solution in the framework of State of Israel which will include most of the area of the Land of Israel as it was under the rule of the British Mandate, and alongside it a Palestinian entity which will be a home to most of the Palestinian residents living in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. We would like this to be an entity which is less than a state, and which will independently run the lives of the Palestinians under its authority.”

Rabin ruled out a total withdrawal from Judea and Samaria and thus a return to the pre-June 1967 borders :

“The borders of the State of Israel, during the permanent solution, will be beyond the lines which existed before the Six Day War. We will not return to the 4 June 1967 lines.”

Rabin ruled out withdrawing form the Jordan Valley:

“The security border of the State of Israel will be located in the Jordan Valley, in the broadest meaning of that term.”

Rabin ruled out uprooting settlement blocs, like the Gush Katif bloc in Gaza (which was subsequently uprooted by former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon):

“The establishment of blocs of settlements in Judea and Samaria, like the one in Gush Katif.

AND

Rabin ruled out removing any settlement before coming to a full peace agreement with the Palestinians:

“I want to remind you: we committed ourselves, that is, we came to an agreement, and committed ourselves before the Knesset, not to uproot a single settlement in the framework of the interim agreement, and not to hinder building for natural growth.”

Rabin insisted on Israel retaining full security control of the borders with Egypt and Jordan, contrary to Israel’s relinquishment of the Philadelphia Corridor on the border with Egypt:

“The responsibility for external security along the borders with Egypt and Jordan, as well as control over the airspace above all of the territories and Gaza Strip maritime zone, remains in our hands.”

Correcting Oslo Myths-Part 2

3) Kuttab laments that the post-1993 Oslo process resulted in a Palestinian Authority "whose ministers and legislators are not guaranteed passage between Gaza and the West Bank ...."

Before free passage or other perquisites, PA leaders were obligated, among other things, to eliminate the terrorist infrastructure in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, end anti-Israeli, antisemitic incitement in schools, mosques, and communications media, and resolve all outstanding issues through peaceful negotiations. They met none of these commitments, sometimes bolstering terrorism and greatly increasing incitement.

4) Kuttab complains that under Oslo the PA got "lightly armed police ---- but no real sovereignty over the land or contiguity between our communities in Gaza and the West Bank."

Oslo agreements repeatedly were revised, regardless of Palestinian non-compliance, until the authorized number of police grew from 8,000 to 40,000. Though they were to be the only armed forces in the territories, Israeli estimates early in the second intifada put the number of gunmen - police, "security services," terrorists, and armed gangs - at 85,000. Their armament reportedly included not only heavy machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades, but also anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles.

Sovereignty was to be negotiated in the envisioned 1998 "final status" talks - after a five-year period of confidence-building. Palestinian leadership chronically undermined the process. Palestinian terrorism made the 1993 - 1998 Oslo period more deadly for Israelis than the 15 years preceding it.

The United States doesn't have contiguity between the lower 48 states and Alaska and Hawaii; territorial contiguity between the West Bank and Gaza Strip - that is, through the 20 miles of Israeli territory between them - was never promised and would destroy Israeli contiguity.

5) "Palestinians have been made to endure hundreds of checkpoints in the West Bank, an eight-foot wall deep in our territories, and tight Israeli control over borders."

The security barrier is not "deep in Palestinian territories," but rather encompasses less than 8 percent of Judea and Samaria, and is mostly a fence, rarely a wall; the land in question is not "our [Palestinian] territories" but disputed territory to which, according to the authors of U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, Jews as well as Arabs have claims; and there are no international borders, only the 1949 armistice lines with Jordan. Under 242, borders remain to be negotiated. As for checkpoints - like the security barrier and "tight Israeli control" - Palestinian Arabs precipitated these measures themselves. No terrorism and there would be no fence or tight Israeli control and few checkpoints - like before the first intifada.

Correcting Some Oslo Myths

1) In Oslo "Israeli, Palestinian and other world leaders promised that ... Palestinian sovereignty would be solidified."

No, they didn't. The 1993 Declaration of Principles and subsequent Oslo agreements outlined a process by which final status negotiations about the West Bank and Gaza Strip would be reached. The process required an end to anti-Israel terrorism and incitement and a commitment to peaceful negotiations. The PA, Fatah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and other terrorist groups, sabotaged the process from the start.

2) "The reality is that, in defiance of U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, which states that it is inadmissible to occupy land by force, Palestinian territories are still under foreign military occupation."
Wrong again. Resolution 242 (1967) does note "the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war." It also affirms the right of every state in the area "to live in peace with secure and recognized boundaries free from threats or acts of force." There were no "Palestinian territories." Jordan occupied the West Bank, Egypt controlled Gaza. Israel did not have "secure and recognized boundaries," so retention of some of those territories was possible under 242. Israel is not a "foreign" military occupier in the West Bank but, pending final negotiations, the lawful military administrator as a result of a successful war of self-defense.

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