* Meryl Yourish is justifiably up-in-arms over an AP dispatch on Thursday’s killing of four Arabs by a Jewish ‘Kach’ terrorist, Eden Natan-Zada.
* James Taranto of the Wall St. Journal notes the immediate denounciation of the attack from Israeli and Jewish leaders and comments:
In the typical terrorist attack by Palestinian Arabs, Palestinian officials, if they criticize it at all, do so only on the ground that it’s counterproductive, and the parents usually hail their child’s “martyrdom.” So, while Jewish terrorists are every bit as despicable as Arab ones, Israel’s response to this atrocity shows that Jewish civilization is vastly superior to its Arab counterpart.
* Thoughts from Wandering Jew (with screen captures of world vs. Israeli media) and Omri Ceren:
When a Jewish terrorist kills Arabs – and let’s be clear, this one’s a terrorist – Jews condemn him for it. When an Arab terrorist kills Jews, Arabs celebrate.
When an Arab mob savagely lynches a Jew for killing Arabs, the world yawns. When highly trained and disciplined Israeli operatives target a Palestinian terrorist who is literally in the act of terrorism, it’s highly “controversial”.
After a horrific terrorist attack committed by a Jew, it’s just kind of expected that Arabs will violently riot. When Arabs commit the most unthinkable crimes, bombing civilians and then the medical personnel who come to help them, Israelis are urged to consider the day after.
Mired in their own victim-hood, Israeli Arab organizations are of course calling for a full strike. In far more serious situations – with civilian murders sanctioned at the highest Palestinian levels – Israelis were always urged to make one more painful concession for peace.
And of course, the biggest difference is that when a Jewish terrorist kills Arabs, Jews call him a terrorist. When an Arab terrorist kills Jews, he’s something else.
