Last week's explosion of ammunition hidden in a mosque in a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon once again sheds light on the barbaric nature of the Palestinian struggle against Israel.
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Theirs is not a legitimate national struggle that occasionally includes improper methods, but a strategy built entirely on exploiting a people who try not to harm children, innocent civilians, schools, houses of worship – by individuals who have the opposite values.
The problem is not just the terrorists, but members of society who turn these scums into Palestinian heroes and educate the next generation to emulate their inhuman behavior.
The Palestinian struggle presents Israel with a cruel choice: to allow the murder of Jewish children and civilians to avoid targeting a mosque or a Palestinian school where missiles are stored, or to kill Arab children and worshippers in an attempt to prevent such murder.
Like the barbaric regime in Tehran, which sent its children to explode in minefields to clear the day for its military, so too the Palestinians use their children as weapons. This is how a 14-year-old resident of Sheikh Jarrah was brainwashed into attempting to murder a Jewish mother in her neighborhood, who was taking her children to school. The teenager hoped the murder would turn her into a Palestinian heroine and entitle her family to a regular stipend from the Palestinian Authority, courtesy of Europe.
In her bag, she carried textbooks that incite violence against Israelis, used for the same brainwashing in the Palestinian education system and the public discourse in her society. This, too, is sponsored by Europe.
The terrorist activity in Lebanon is led by Hamas leaders who currently reside in Turkey under the auspices of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has recently begun to pretend he wants to improve ties with the Jewish state.
In Israel, Arab lawmakers embrace freed terrorists. Last week, their hypocritical concern for human rights focused on the well-being of a Palestinian terrorist who attempted to murder an innocent Jewish citizen, while ignoring the victim himself.
The distortion of the Palestinian national struggle is not only reflected in its methods but also in its goals. They proclaim to the West that their goal is to establish a state alongside Israel while teaching Arab Israelis to deny the legitimacy of the Jewish state.
Palestinian society and its barbaric terrorism – in Lebanon, the Gaza Strip, Jerusalem, and Israel as a whole – causes more disdain than outrage. Enemies can also be respected, even in times of war.
Because the kind of enemy that does not care about the lives of its children and the sanctity of its places of worship and who praises the murder of its neighbors deserves nothing but contempt and must be deprived of the sovereign tools that a healthy people use to build a state. Based on the Palestinians' history, they will only use them to kill and spread terror.
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