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Source: http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Why-Israel-needs-its-friends-432878
Murder of Innocent Civilians Can Never Be Justified
(Jerusalem Post) Yair Lapid - Alexander Levlovitz, 64, was murdered on Sept. 14 on his way home from dinner in Jerusalem, just because he was a Jew. And the world said, "The Jews are to blame." A 13-year-old boy was stabbed by two Palestinian children, one aged 17 and the other aged 13. The security forces had to shoot the attackers so that they wouldn't try to kill more children. The Palestinians distributed the photographs of the injured attackers to the world, and they were aired across the Western media without mentioning that they were running with knives and attempting to stab people. The only thing that was published was that "Israeli security forces shot Palestinian children" and the world said, "The Jews are to blame." Those who draw an equivalency between their murderers and our murdered negate the very concept of self-defense. They deny that there is a difference between the attacker and the attacked. Our enemies have no moral boundaries. Terrorists from ISIS and Hamas are medieval people with 21st-century weapons. Faced with these people, if you don't fight without hesitation, you'll die. The murder of innocent civilians can never be justified. There is no justification for 9/11. There is no justification for ISIS burning people alive. And there is no justification for the stabbing and killing taking place in the streets of Israel in the last weeks. From a speech by Yair Lapid, leader of the Yesh Atid party, to the Israel Allies Foundation's European Summit in Berlin on Nov. 9 in commemoration of the 77th anniversary of Kristallnacht.