We don't need the world's permission

[shira]

These are sick times we're living in.

To those who don't understand why Israelis couldn't give a FF about what the "world" thinks of Israel, this is the answer. Read carefully. Those who still don't get it after reading this article will never get it. They don't want to get it.

"Now there is one less of them," a Danish Facebook user wrote gleefully after a 13-year-old Jewish girl was stabbed to death in her sleep in her bedroom by a Palestinian man. He thought that the heinous, cowardly murder of an innocent child in her sleep was simply a part of "the resistance" against the Jews.

What kind of human being seeks to justify the cowardly murder of an innocent child in her sleep? Imagine the outcry, if that child had been an Arab and its murderer a Jew. The news would have caused an uproar on the front pages of all the news outlets in the world. Since the girl was Jewish, needless to say, the latter did not happen.

The Israel-Palestine Director at Human Rights Watch, Sari Bashi, could not just do the decent thing and condemn the murder but had to tweet instead that "settlements are illegal, but settlers are NOT legitimate targets." What sickening times we live in, when a human rights organization cannot bring itself to say more than that the murder of a sleeping Jewish child is not legitimate. Bashi had no response to Mark Halawa, who told her, "I was one of those brainwashed Palestinian children. All Jews are our targets. This settler nonsense you speak of is for idiots!" Contrast that with Bashi's tweet from June 27, when she emotionally gushed, "Powerful, chilling research by B'Tselem on boy killed, cousins hurt when Israeli soldiers sprayed car with bullets."

The Palestinian Authority was very quick to honor the terrorist. According to Palestinian Media Watch, Fatah's official Facebook page immediately posted his picture, declaring him a shahid (martyr) -- the highest honor achievable in Islam. WAFA, the Palestinian Authority's official news agency, honored him as well. The murderer's family will immediately start receiving a monthly stipend that the PA pays to the families of all "martyrs."

more...
http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=16571

[6chars]

3. The fact that Jewish lives don't matter to so many

is exactly the reason that the sovereign Jewish state of Israel needs to make its own moral judgments.

[leftynyc]

6. It's inconvenient

to so many to have to think that Israel is not 100% responsible for the problems with Palestinians. The violence and terrorism caused by the Palestinians is excused every single day. It is never acknowledged that it's their leaders that continually let them down.

[shira]

8. Those who blame Israel 100% support the terrorists. They're part of the problem. n/t

[Harry_Scrote]

10. This is not a black or white issue.

That's the problem. Either/or doesn't work - it's not fair.

[deathrind]

2. This is horrible.

The violence from both sides need to stop if there is ever going to be peace.

[MousePlayingDaffodil]

4. And what "violence," exactly, did the 13-year-old who was asleep in her own bed . . .

. . . commit, hmm?

[deathrind]

5. /facepalm

[MousePlayingDaffodil]

7. Another non-answer . . .

. . . from the "moral equivalence" cohort.

[deathrind]

9. Your reply shows clearly

That you are simply not informed on the matter or you are but choose to be bias. Either way both of those positions do not produce any rational or reasoned discussion / solutions for it.

Hope you are having a nice holiday weekend.

[Harry_Scrote]

11. Do you accept foreign aid?

Then how is it that you don't need the world's permission? Folks are supposed to hand you money without any say?