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Imagine if Israel really did the same

April 18th, 2006  ·  95 Comments

As with any terrorist attack, the aftermath of Monday’s Tel Aviv bombing is fraught with heart-rending stories of personal tragedy.

The most tear-jerking of the lot involves a father, Philip Balhasan, who was visiting Tel Aviv with his two youngest children after promising to take them to the city to buy some CDs and computer games as a treat for Passover.

As soon as the “Palestinian” killer detonated himself, sending a piece of shrapnel into Balhasan’s heart, the loving father embraced his children tightly, told them to call their mother, and collapsed. A short time later he was dead.

Now, the Palestinian Arabs and their apologists the world over will attempt to draw moral equivalency with, say, the unintentional killing last week of a nine-year-old Arab girl during an Israeli strike on known terrorists in the Gaza Strip - an event certainly no less tragic for that girl’s family.

The difference of course lies in the fact Israel was targeting terrorists, most of them armed at the time, who were cynically using civilians such as that little girl as cover - a war crime under the Geneva Conventions.

Monday’s “Palestinian” bomber, on the other hand, intentionally targeted civilians, including children, out on the town en masse during the Passover holiday.

Imagine if Israel really did carry out acts equivalent in their moral repugnancy to those perpetrated by the “Palestinians.”

Imagine if an Israeli, willing to give his own life for the sake of slaughtering as many “Palestinians” as possible, and enjoying the consent of his government, walked in to a crowded Ramallah eatery one Ramadan evening and mowed down scores of Muslim patrons.

Can anyone imagine the enormity of the international outcry?

Again, the “Palestinians” and their apologists will point to Baruch Goldstein and Eden Natan Zada as evidence that such attacks are carried out by Jews against Arabs.

But Goldstein’s Hebron massacre and Zada’s Shfaram bus attack were isolated events, whereas the “Palestinians” have mass murdered Jewish civilians almost more times than can be counted. Nor did either Goldstein or Zada enjoy the support of their government or countrymen, but were rather treated posthumously as criminals and traitors.

There simply is no moral equivalency between the combatants in this conflict, or between the two peoples and their governments. For the world to continue treating Israel and its Arab foes on equal moral footing is only perpetuating the bloodshed.

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