The Killing at Nablus

Sunday, on the way home from praying at the Tomb of Joseph in Nablus in the West Bank, 5 Israelis were shot at in their vehicle. Four were injured, one was killed. So far in Canada only CTV has reported the incident.

At a time when the West Bank Palestinians are asking for an independent state, both the action and the lack of reporting in the Canadian press are highly significant.

This was not an action by a deranged person or an individual terrorist. The killer was a
Member of the P.A. police force, a representative of the Palestinian government, someone who was undoubtedly armed either directly by the U.S. or indirectly through U.N. funding.

After the murder, Joseph’s Tomb was desecrated by Palestinians. The Palestinian
Government refused to apologize, blaming the settlers for coming to pray without
authorization, something that apparently happens quite often.

There are three important points to consider. The first is how are Canadian supposed to
understand what is really happening in the West Bank if the media reports only killings
and attacks by Israelis but not the consistent mortar attacks from Gaza, and the killings by the Palestinians. The Canadian media also does not report the anti-Israeli and anti-Semitic Arabic Palestinian press releases. The answer to the question is that Canadians can’t make a proper judgement without all the facts, and like Goldstone, they assume that Israel is targeting Palestinians instead of vice-versa. They assume that Palestinians do not kill families including children, as happened only a few weeks ago to the Fogel family and do not kill people coming from their prayers as happened yesterday. Knowledge of these atrocities would help them understand the true nature of what would be a Palestinian state – a land dedicated to the destruction of Israel and Jews, and that with Gaza would promote worldwide terrorist activity. Only without knowledge of the internal and external violence of the Palestinians could one assume that a Palestinian state would be beneficial to world peace.

The second related point is the nature of the Palestinian government and its people. Both are supposed to be moderate Muslims. But do moderate Muslims kill a family that is
sleeping peacefully in their beds? Do they kill Jews returning from prayer? Do they desecrate holy places and do they excuse their actions by saying that the injured were really at fault? The answer of course is that neither the Palestinian people nor their government are moderate in any sense of the word, except that they are more moderate than the Islamists who live in Gaza and who wish to share their Palestinian state.

The third related point is, considering the nature of the Palestinians and their government,
do we really want to help them establish a state or even fund them in their ultimate pursuit of wiping out Israel and Jews and ultimately, with Gaza, promoting worldwide terrorism . I would think that the answer is no, but strangely enough there seems to be little support for that opinion.