After the tragic events in Paris on Friday where gunmen affiliated with the Islamic State or ISIS killed 129 people in separate and coordinated attacks, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on world leaders to condemn acts of “terrorism” and “radical Islam” perpetrated by Palestinians, claiming “the terrorists who attack us have the same murderous intent as those in Paris.”
“The time has come for the world to wake up and unite in order to defeat terrorism. The time has come for countries to condemn terrorism against us to the same degree that they condemn terrorism everywhere else in the world,” Netanyahu said at the start of a weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday, further adding Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas should renounce attacks on Israelis over recent weeks.
Since October 1st, Palestinians killed 15 Israelis in the West Bank and Israel, and Israeli forces killed more than 110 Palestinians including alleged attackers and protesters in near-daily demonstrations that have spread across the West Bank under the banner of a “knife Intifada” or uprising.
“It would be proper for Abu Mazen, who condemned the attack in France yesterday, to condemn ruthless terrorism against innocent people in Israel and fight the incitement that motivates it,” Netanyahu said.
Netanyahu underscored that neither the Israeli occupation, nor the settlements are a driving force behind the last six-weeks of violence.
“We should remember – we are not to blame for the terrorism directed against us, just as the French are not to blame for the terrorism directed against them. It is the terrorists who are to blame for terrorism, not the territories, not the settlements and not any other thing. It is the desire to destroy us that perpetuates this conflict and drives the murderous aggression against us,” he said.
Despite on-going turmoil that has had less steam that the previous two Intifadas, both governments held commemorations honoring the victims of the Paris attacks. Israeli leaders lighted the walls of Jerusalem’s Old City and the Knesset in the colors of the French flag, and Palestinian officials held a memorial in Bethlehem.
In response a senior Palestinian official today decried Netanyahu’s public charge of linking Palestinian attacks against Israelis to the actions of ISIS in France.
“Netanyahu is attempting to exploit the cruel and inhuman terrorism of Daesh in order to score cheap political points at the expense of the Palestinian people,” said Palestinian Executive Committee member Hanan Ashrawi, referring to ISIS by its Arabic abbreviation. “His statements are not only fraudulent and politically coercive, they are symptomatic of political and moral bankruptcy.”
ISIS militants have issued warnings of conquest to both Israeli and Palestinians leaders during the past year. In a video address to the “tyrants of Hamas,” last June ISIS warned of their intentions to turn Israel, Hamas-controlled Gaza, and Fatah-run West Bank into districts of the Islamic caliphate by the same brute force used to expand their reign in parts of Syria and Iraq.
“We will uproot the state of the Jews [Israel] and you and Fatah, and all of the secularists are nothing and you will be overrun by our creeping multitudes,” Reuters reported the video statement said, “The rule of sharia [Islamic law] will be implemented in Gaza, in spite of you. We swear that what is happening in the Levant today, and in particular the Yarmouk camp, will happen in Gaza,” the alert continued, making reference to the Damascus-area Palestinian refugee camp now overrun by ISIS fighters.
In October, in a rare move ISIS released a video threat directed towards Israel.
“To all the Jews who conquered our country, the Muslims. The real war has not started yet, and everything you had before is simply called a child’s play compared to that which is going to happen to you in the near future,” said a fluent Hebrew-speaking gunman.
“Do whatever you feel like in the meantime, until we get to you, and then we’ll destroy everything ten times over for the crimes your committed. And we promise you that soon there will not be a single Jew in Jerusalem and throughout the country. And we’ll continue on until we eradicate this disease worldwide.”
The narcissism of Netanyahu is simply astounding. Every opportunity to portray Israel as victim is seized upon, with little, if any, compassion for the world’s current victim, i.e. Paris. Is this approach/behavior historical? And if so, perhaps it could be a reason why Jews of the past never fit in with contemporary society and were therefore persecuted?
why would anyone operating with the benefit of an intellect condemn attacks against a nation that has been attacking it,s neighbours since 1948 .They have been doing so for far longer but not as a state before 1948.
Let,s be honest about what Israel calls attacks.For instance , shooting their most moral army members is “terrrroreesm” as is defending oneself against armed illegal squatter thugs carrying out so called “price tag ” terrorist crimes.T
Would someone stop the world and kick this whining zionist war criminal off. Let him go and create his racist , bigoted rogue entity at the other side of the universe.Maybe he can enlist fellow ass-tronauts from the hasbara brigade that frequent this site with their zionist celestial fantasies. They can use their limitless supply of ziopoop to create sufficient fuel to get far away from all that antisemitism and live in peace and security and total isolation
Well, we all know this was going to happen. The only surprise is that it took him 3 whole days. I wonder if his advisors told him it might not be in good taste to mouth off within minutes, especially after his embarrassing attempt to leap onto the je suis Charlie bandwagon?
But has there ever, in the 70 or so years since the ‘birth’ of Israel, been a time when its leaders did not attempt to link the Palestinians and their allies to the current Bad Guy du jour? The early Palestinian resistance were linked to the Nazis, and Nasser was ‘the new Hitler’. During the Cold War, the Palestinians were Soviet-allied Commies. After the 2001 Trade Centre attacks and the misguided ‘War on Terror’, Palestinians were the tehwoah masterminds – ‘we are fighting the same enemy’ was the slogan of the day. And just when that was starting to get a bit last decade, now we’ve got a new Global Enemy to link to the Palestinians and their allies. Never mind that Hizballah have lost hundreds of members (much to Israel’s glee) fighting IS, and that Israel has done absolutely nothing to aid the (so-called) fight agains them.
Well, there you have it: From the lowly grunts here on MW right up to their President / King of all Jews, hateful and immoral Zio-supremacists see the tragedy in Paris as another excuse to advocate, justify, defend and/or support Jewish supremacism in/and a supremacist “Jewish State” in as much as possible of Palestine, as well as related past and on-going (war) crimes.
Zio-supremacists are truly hateful and immoral people.
Okay, look, I am not in anyway a conspiracy nut but I found that message released by the Daesh guy just weird. Has the translation been vouched fore? I find it odd that he doesn’t mention Palestine or Israel, is this how these guys talk? His threats sound strangly vague. Also why up till now have they avoided declaiming against Israel? What’s changed? They did not seem to have much to say about the Gaza War. Odd.
And don’t get me started on that fake Syrian passport they found intact near one of the bombers.