On Monday afternoon, while Eliyahu Kay, who was killed in a terrorist attack in the Old City, is laid to rest, several ministers and Knesset members from the left gathered to discuss the issue that seemed most urgent to them at this time: "Stop the settler violence." Minister Nitzan Horowitz explained that "the boys of horror do not feel sorry for women and children." MK Musi Raz added that "Palestinians living in the territories are in danger of death." MK Abtissam Maraana concluded that "terrorism against the Palestinians should be stopped."
It was a kind of Israeli Durban conference. A gathering of hate-laden people, who are willing to go with their lies to the end to achieve their political and political goal. They are of course not alone. At the same time, the various European countries are promoting, with a large sum of money that they are transferring to the left-wing organizations here, a broad-based propaganda campaign aimed at portraying the settlers as violent.
This week I took the numerical data of the events that Jews and Palestinians have encountered in recent years in Judea and Samaria, and summarized them.
I went for the House Appraiser version.
If the police data indicate a decrease in operations against Palestinians, and the data from the defense establishment indicate an increase, I chose those of the defense establishment.
If some of the so-called "friction events" occur through the fault of the Jews, and some of them occur through the fault of the Arabs, I counted them all as if they were carried out through the fault of the Jews.
If in some cases the friction begins and ends in a confrontation in which nothing terrible has happened, and no one has been harmed in it, and no one has raised a hand in it, I have chosen to treat it severely, as if it were a violent and criminal incident.
Perfect madness.
Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz (Photo: Reuven Castro)
To explain how ugly and false the generalization perpetrated by leftists and Arabs, when they called for "stopping settler violence," I conducted a small exercise. After summarizing all the numbers, and going as stated on the strictest number, I checked how many sexual offenses are committed per year in Tel Aviv. Then I checked how many Jews live in Judea and Samaria and how many residents there are in Tel Aviv. Well, the analysis of the numbers shows that in Tel Aviv, many more sexual offenses per capita are committed every year, than perpetual acts of violence perpetrated by Jews against Palestinians in Judea and Samaria
in other words
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Spring. If it is permissible to generalize, it is permissible to generalize everyone.
This is how propaganda works. This is how the worst propaganda in history worked. Take a factual figure, however small, inflate it as if it were the story, and concentrate only on it. After all, every decent Israeli, right-wing or left-wing man, knows that if there is Jewish violence against Palestinians, and there probably is, there is numerical idleness compared to the opposite violence. The settlers of Judea and Samaria have over the years buried a hundred times more children and friends and neighbors, as a result of Palestinian violence, than the Palestinians buried as a result of reverse violence. Even Horowitz knows that.
He also knows that the violence that exists among the hill boys in low numbers has no public support, while the Palestinian violence has huge support. He also knows that after the murder of a Jew there are Palestinian joyous processions and the distribution of candies to the celebrants, while such processions do not take place in Ariel after the murder of an Arab. He also knows that a Palestinian from the Jilzon refugee camp can walk around Beit El, but if a resident of Beit El accidentally enters Jilzon, he will be torn to pieces.
Before another settler is arrested, Horowitz's sexual offenses must be stopped.
Protest over the death of her beloved godfather, January (Photo: Reuven Castro)
Horowitz, too, inwardly knows that there is no factual basis for any of the allegations he makes.
Horowitz, by the way, asked me this week in an interview on the B network what I have to say about this violence, of the hill boys, and I did not have time to answer him.
Here I do it now.
I am appalled by the violence of Jews, and think it should be treated in the proportions in which it is carried out.
If for every attack on Palestinians by Jews there are a thousand Palestinians' attacks on Jews, then I am a thousand times more shocked by Palestinian violence.
very simple.
False propaganda
It is important to fight against this method of propaganda, which seeks to create symmetry where it does not exist. MK Mansour Abbas also tried to paint such a false symmetry earlier this week, after the murderous attack.
Let go of the fact that this is a false message. Ra'am members did not oppose harming innocent Jews. On the contrary. They gave a warm and supportive hug to more than one killer of innocent Jews. But that is not the important thing right now. The important thing is that Abbas saw fit to talk about "harming innocent Jews on both sides. To say, there is no one side that deals with terrorism, and another side that is its victim. There is "harm to innocent people on both sides."
If it had ended in some of the far left ignoring tunnels of Jewish blood shed as a result of Arab terrorism, and in some Palestinian nationalists, and in some organizations that make a living, literally, from defaming Israel and Israelis around the world, it would have been. Where does the problem start? Where this false propaganda penetrates from the bizarre fringes to the holy of holies of the defense establishment. To where the decisions are made.
Last Thursday evening, Defense Minister Bnei Gantz posted a picture of him sitting in his office, serious-minded, surrounded on both sides of the conference table by the Shin Bet chief, the police commissioner, the chief of staff, the commander-in-chief of the Central Command, the chief military prosecutor and the operations coordinator. "The government is in the territories. All of these have convened for an emergency discussion on the subject of" nationalist crime in Judea and Samaria. "And when we talk about" nationalist crime, "we mean, of course, what the Jews are doing. What starts with wood,It can end in injury to body and mind. "
At the conclusion of the discussion, it was stated, the Minister of Defense instructed to conduct "joint work for all organizations", "focus efforts in the centers of friction", establish "dedicated teams", carry out "pooling forces for missions", and promote "legal work that strengthens forces in the field" .
Ganz also appointed Deputy Defense Minister Alon Schuster as a kind of projector who will be responsible for dealing with the issue.
For him, there is no one side that deals with terrorism, and the other side that is its victim.
MK Abbas in the plenum (Photo: Reuven Castro)
Well, this yeshiva, and the senior and broad forum convened for the benefit of a small group of hill boys, some of whose people are breaking the law, are evidence of perfect madness, confusion of concepts and a reluctance to differentiate between the main and the secondary.
The image that was important for Bnei Gantz to publish from this event, together with the detailed press release, were his cynical political use of the top security of the State of Israel, in order to signal to the left wing, the one that puts constant pressure on this issue: Here, I did what you asked.
On Sunday evening, a few hours after a Jew was murdered in the Old City, I went over the reports of terrorist attacks carried out by Palestinians in recent hours. Only one evening reports. pay attention. Here are the events, in order: Arabs threw three Molotov cocktails at the gate of Kibbutz Migdal Oz; A bus traveling from Jerusalem to Ma'ale Adumim was pelted with stones, a brick penetrated into it, its windows shattered, the glass was scattered everywhere, and the driver was slightly injured in the eyes by shrapnel; Three Molotov cocktails were thrown at a bus between Anatot and Hizma, the bus driver became anxious and was treated by MDA; a man was injured by a Molotov cocktail in the Ben Hinnom Valley in Jerusalem and was taken to hospital with burns.
Another Molotov cocktail was thrown at a bus on Anatot-Hizma Road; Two Molotov cocktails were thrown at the gate of the settlement of Beit El; Three Molotov cocktails were thrown at vehicles near Ofra; A Molotov cocktail was thrown at a vehicle near the Chumash. I skipped reports related to throwing stones at Jewish vehicles. All this, as stated, in a few hours of one evening.
The GSS reports show that in September and October, the Palestinians carried out six stabbing attacks, two trampling attacks, 39 arson attacks, 14 shooting attacks, 28 bombings, 311 Molotov cocktail attacks. These are insane numbers that Israeli media consumers are not even aware of. Can anyone compare the actions of Jews against Arabs, to actions in the opposite direction? Can anyone think of any similarities? Can someone who sees himself as sensible use the same terminology as the two groups?
And when the defense minister adopts the narrative of the EU and of Abtissam Maraana and tells himself that there are two violent sides here, we are in trouble.
Because it may serve Ganz in some audiences, but it mostly confuses the defense establishment, whose message is that there are two problems here: Jewish terrorism and Arab terrorism.
And in the face of this crooked perception, the obvious must be said. The IDF has actually identified a decrease in the number of attacks on Palestinians in recent times.
But when the defense minister, for political reasons, decides to mark this small group in the hills, as if it were a strategic threat, he becomes a harmful defense minister.
Curved worldview
Where are the defense minister's real problems? His problems were expressed in an interview given by Major General Itzik Turgeman to Tal Lev-Ram in Maariv (12.11.21), from which we learned that the defense establishment does not know how it transfers tanks in Wadi Ara in the next war without Israeli Arabs tailing it. His problems are that the glorious IDF is looking for bypass roads, because it is afraid of the Westerners of Israel.
Instead of inflating the interest of some boys, whom the law enforcement system should treat as it treats criminals anywhere else, Gantz should respect and explain how it is that in an Arab neighborhood in the Israeli capital, marches are held with Hamas flags and hand out sweets to celebrate the murder of a Jew, and our law enforcement system is afraid intervene. Explain how only last May the security of so many Jews, in Lod and Acre, the Galilee and the Negev, was abandoned.
Yes, any harm done by a Jew to an Arab is bad, and any case in which a Jew kills an Arab is horrible and terrible.
But how many such cases are already occurring here so that they will cause the system to treat them disproportionately, as a coup d'etat?
I remember hundreds and thousands of Jews being murdered by Arabs.
How many reverse cases do you remember?
When was the last of them?
Can anyone even compare?
It is this false narrative, about the dangerous violence of Jews, that brings the system to check with a magnetometer the Jews ascending the Temple Mount, while at the same time allowing Muslims to move around the place with a submachine gun.
why is it happening?
Because the State of Israel - the one whose defense minister is Bnei Gantz - is afraid of the Arabs.
I wrote the same things at the time, here, also in his case.
In the next war, a problem with Israeli Arabs is expected.
IDF tank on a carrier (Photo: Reuven Castro)
It is this crooked worldview that leads the defense establishment to waste precious energies and resources and forces, to confront hill boys about one building here and another there, while at the same time allowing the Palestinians to eat our C zones through illegally planned, organized and well-funded construction.
How distorted should the attitude of those who choose to chase after some planks put together by a hill boy, when the Palestinians are stealing your land on a huge scale, be distorted?
Reverse reality
And what's most terrible? That in parallel with this disproportionate move by Gantz, in front of some hill boys, he has no problem meeting with Abu Mazen - who encourages the murder of Jews, who finances terrorists, who will pay a monthly salary of NIS 2,900 to Eliyahu Kay's killer family - and give him Israeli respect and legitimacy.
This eclipse of the luminaries is not the sole responsibility of the Minister of Defense. We all remember the Commissioner of Police, who in the face of Arab terrorism in May declared "we have divided between the hawks", as if there are two sides attacking each other. We also remember the Central District Commander, who then concluded that "we are after a difficult week Lod lost their lives, "when he wrapped together Yigal Yehoshua, who was killed in an Arab lynching, and Muhammad Hasson, who was shot inside a group of rioters who attacked Jewish neighborhoods with stones and Molotov cocktails.
And if you add to that the video that accompanied the last police exercise, a video that was revealed on the "Jewish Voice" website, in which the police made sure to talk about the need to deal with violators "on both sides", and add to that the words of Minister Yoaz Handel. "We need to make sure that armed people, Jews or Palestinians, do not enter Jerusalem," it is easy to understand that something is wrong here.
And that will not change as long as those in charge of our security find it difficult to differentiate - whether out of political considerations, whether out of damn politically correct - between good and evil, between attacker and victim, between colleague and predator, and between criminal delinquency and large-scale murderous terrorism.
