Once Israel used the Star of David symbol on the Israeli Air Force’s coat of arms and in the “kanfey tayis” (aviation wings), the coveted pin worn by IDF pilots, it lost the ability to claim that critics of Israel who use the traditional symbol of Judaism are anti-Semitic.
Benjamin Netanyahu visited a classroom of first-graders in Ashkelon on the first day of the Israeli school year. Or Amit translates his message to the 6 and 7 year old students: “Hamas is teaching its children the opposite of peace and occasionally it tries to shoot at us, at you, and my policy is clear: zero restraint, zero containment, zero tolerance for terrorism. We respond to every launch into our territory, whether by overt or by covert operations, and we also foil terrorism.”