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There Is No Comparison between Palestinian and Jewish Violence in West Bank

(Jerusalem Post) Editorial - On Monday, Mevaseret Cohen, 27, was wounded when terrorists fired on the car in which she, her husband, and their six-week-old baby were traveling near the Jewish town of Ateret in Samaria. The foreign media don't report on the hundreds of monthly attacks on Jews living in Judea and Samaria, including rocks thrown regularly at cars, ramming attacks, and drive-by shootings. Yet since Oct. 7, world leaders, led by President Biden, have sprinkled their condemnations of Hamas with an obligatory talking point about quelling "Jewish extremist violence" in the West Bank. By no means should Jewish extremist violence be whitewashed. It does exist and needs to be condemned and stopped. But it is also by far not the main source of violence in the West Bank. If you are a Palestinian driving in Judea and Samaria, you are concerned about being stopped at an IDF checkpoint. You are not, however, worried about being gunned down randomly in a drive-by shooting. That is the unique preserve of Jews. Jews are not waking up in the morning thinking about how to go out and murder innocent Palestinian civilians. But the terrorist who shot Mevaseret Cohen was thinking exactly about how to go out and murder innocent Jews. Hallel and Yagel Yaniv; Elan Ganeles; Lucy, Maia and Rina Dee; Meir Tamari; Ofer Fayerman; Harel Masood; Elisha Anteman; Shmuel Mordoff; Aviad Nir; Shai Migreker; Batshvea Nagari; and Elhanan Klein are all Jews who have been murdered by Palestinian terrorists on West Bank roads since the beginning of the year. Yet that type of violence doesn't rile up the world. There is no comparison between the level of Palestinian-perpetrated violence in Judea and Samaria and that carried out by Jews there. None whatsoever. Not even close. To suggest otherwise not only betrays the truth but also creates a perverted moral equivalence.
2023-12-21 00:00:00
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