Jerusalem – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his government will have “zero tolerance” for Jewish extremists.
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At his weekly Cabinet meeting Sunday, Netanyahu said Israel was united against “the criminals among our people” following a pair of attacks that shocked the country. On Friday, suspected Jewish extremists set fire to a Palestinian home in the West Bank and burned a toddler to death. On Thursday, an ultra-Orthodox Jew stabbed revelers at a Gay Pride parade in Jerusalem.
Thousands of Israelis took to the streets over the weekend to protest the attacks and warn against a radicalized and violent fringe growing from within the country’s religious community.
Netanyahu says Israel is determined to fight “hate, fanaticism and terrorism from whatever side.”
You would think that no Arab ever committed a terrorist act. The thousands of Jews, including men women and children murdered by suicide bombs, knifings , roadside shootings, rockets etc barely get a whimper of a reaction from the world and the Israeli left. Surely this terrorist act must be condemned , but let us not lose sight of the fact that not only were thousands of Jews murdered in their homes buses and synagogues but the Arabs and their leaders celebrated these heinous crimes in the streets.Yemach Shemam!
Oh just be quiet.
It’s people like you that allow things like this to happen. Disgusting.
There’s a time for everything.
Killing a 16 year old Jewish girl should horrify you to your core.
Nu, Kiruv preachers, where are you? Maybe had we been mekarev this stabber he wouldn’t have done this, or maybe these G Mamzeirim need a dose of kiruv so this March won’t have taken place?
Natanyahu wins elections by unifying his religious right-wingers with inciting and shameful language to get votes from Jewish settler extremists, pays little attention to violent settler activity, continues to lie to his citizens that he will finally make his uneducated Haredi voting class start contributing to society.
And now because global media has put a spotlight on brewing religious violence that his politics plays a supporting role in, he is making grand standing speeches that won’t translate to any action in a month from now.