The Israeli police have announced the arrests of six Jewish men for the murder of a Palestinian teenager in Jerusalem this past week.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/07/06/israeli-ambassador-killers-arab-palestinian-teen-will-not-be-hailed-as-heroes/
This was an specially horrific murder in that an autopsy indicated that the boy was burned alive.
There is no way to condone this vicious act against an innocent youth. It is suspected that the murder was carried out in retaliation for the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers the previous week. That is no justification.
However it does demonstrate that Israel has a system of justice designed to deal with these crimes-quite unlike their Palestinian counterparts. Israel has charged Hamas with being involved in the killings of the three Israelis and the two suspected killers are still at large.
Notice that they are NOT being hailed as heroes. Unlike the group that killed Eyal Yifrah, Gilad Shaar, and Naftali Fraenkel. Their murderers are heroes to the Fakistinians and the Obama admininstration.
ReplyDeleteExcellent point which I should have made myself. It is the difference between civilized man and uncivilized man.
ReplyDeleteWhole societies cannot be held responsible for the acts of every single member. What counts is how they deal with that aberrant behavior. In a civilized society, murderers are tracked down, and tried. The society does not celebrated them.
ReplyDeleteIn uncivilized societies they don't track down criminals if the behavior is what the society admires.
This is not a clash of civilizations, it is a clash between civilization and seventh century tribal customs.
The link quotes State Dept. spokeswoman Jen Psaki as saying that the U.S. wants "a speedy, transparent and credible investigation and full accountability for the apparent excessive use of force" with regard to the beating of an apparent U.S. citizen.
ReplyDeleteHmmmm. This sounds a little bit (or even a lot??) like Benghazi. Where, oh where, are the continuing and deservedly even stronger U.S. demands for the speedy investigation and apprehension of, and full accountability for, the identified suspects in the earlier killing, which obviously trumps a mere beating, of another U.S. citizen. If there is much of anything going on there I have not read or heard it, but I certainly could have missed something and would appreciate any enlightenment.
As if we needed it, this again, at least in my view, amply documents/demonstrates the anti-Israel, pro-Muslim/Arab, stance of Obama and his administration.