Liberal Indifference Over the Murder of an Israeli Family

As far as the depraved, degenerate leftists in the western media are concerned, the murder of five members of the Fogel family is not really an evil act or an act of terrorism at all since according to them they were “settlers” and “occupiers”. This is why there has been scant coverage and the coverage this has received has been met with indifference or has been focused on “settlements”. So, for the leftist media the real victims aren’t the Fogel family but those who cut the throats of this family in their sleep. And of course the slaughter of a Jewish baby and children as other such murders, are celebrated by the “palestinians” by passing out candy.

There are also those who make the pathetic attempt to equate such a horrific act with the IDF killing of “palestinians”. But there is no moral equivalence. The IDF doesn’t purposely target civilians, they do not go into homes and slash the throats of infants. This view exemplifies the morally bankrupt state of liberalism.

Melanie Phillips, The Spectator:

And still western ‘liberals’ support these people



The Palestinian terrorist slaughter overnight of an Israeli couple Rabbi Udi Fogel and his wife Ruth and three of their children, 11-year-old Yoav, four-year-old Elad and three-month-old Hadas who were stabbed to death in their house in Itamar in Samaria — three other children aged under 12 survived — has received scant coverage in the British and western media.

True, the Japanese tsunami is driving out much other news. But there can be little doubt that the sluggish reaction is due in no small measure to the fact that the British media and intellectual class think – and sometimes even say – that the Israeli ‘settlers’ deserve what they get. Thus Israelis living on land to which they are legally entitled are dehumanised, and even their murders are shrugged off as of little account. Thus the moral cesspool into which Britain’s intellectual elite has sunk.

We don’t yet know who perpetrated this latest atrocity. What must be emphasised however is that, quite apart from the open calls to genocide of the Jews by Hamas, as Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has said the ‘wild incitement’ by the Palestinian Authority against Israelis, perpetrated without remission through its educational materials, in its mosques and on PA-controlled TV, is directly to blame for creating the incendiary atmosphere of hysterical and fanatical hatred that gives rise to such savagery. Through these channels the PA indoctrinates its people into hatred of Jews and the glorification of mass murder of Israelis. As CAMERA has noted:

The brutal attack comes only days after a West Bank Palestinian youth center announced a soccer tournament named after Wafa Idris, the first female Palestinian suicide bomber, who killed an 81-year-old man and injured over 100 other Israelis… The killer undoubtedly internalized the message, reinforced time and time again, that it’s noble and heroic to kill Jews. The same goes for the person who planned the attack, and the one who transported the killer, and any other enablers.

In the light of this, the sickeningly ambiguous response by the Holocaust-denying PA ‘President’ Mahmoud Abbas was all too telling:

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