Analysis: This time, Israelis may have to pay the price tag

Ed-note (Sabba) – Again, notice the wording used in this article and especially in the title.

This time: acknowledging that this is a recurrent activity… May have to pay: they never paid anything before but 7 billions of Gentiles are watching them and they know they have to do something if they want us to continue to believe that judaism is a religion of peace blah blah blah.

They can not openly praise these baby killers only because they can not allow the world to see more in depth what judaism is really about.  Your time is up.

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I24NEWS –

The anger on the right over the killing of a Palestinian baby reflects deep concern about its repercussions

The sight of an Israeli prime minister, surrounded by a phalanx of bodyguards, entering an intensive care hospital unit is a rarity. To see a prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu in this case, by the bedside of a burnt Palestinian child – is unprecedented.

Netanyahu’s visit to the Sheba Medical Center outside Tel Aviv, just hours before the Jewish Sabbath, reflects the deep concern of Israel’s ruling right wing over the burning death of an 18-month-old Palestinian baby in the West Bank and the life-threatening burns caused to his mother, father and brother, by Jewish extremists.

“I just came from the bedside of four-year old Ahmed Sa’ed [Dawabsha],” said a visibly shaken Netanyahu, who handed one of the boy’s relatives a piece of paper with the name and number of a contact person in case the family needs anything. “Sixty percent of his body is burned. We’re doing everything we can to save this young boy, give him a life.”

“This is a terror attack in every respect,” said the PM.

Israeli officialdom rarely describes Jewish attacks against Palestinians as terrorism. The term is almost always reserved for attacks by Palestinians on Jews. Yet this time, the military rushed to use the “T” word and set the tone for the rest.

“It’s a crime, and we are calling it a terror attack for all intents and purposes,” stated IDF Spokesman Maj. Gen. Moti Almoz.

“Terror is terror is terror,” said Naftali Bennett, chairman of the nationalist Jewish Home party. “The torching of the house and the murder of the baby is a shocking terror attack that is unfathomable.”

There is no doubting the authentic anger, shock and dismay voiced by leaders of the right. But the reactions also reflect fear of the consequences for Israel, in general, and for the West Bank’s 300,000 settlers, in particular.

Given the numerous attacks by Palestinians on Jews, the settlers and their representatives in politics – such as Bennett and his party – are used to taking the moral high ground. They are generally the wronged party, their children, wives, husbands and brothers are the ones being killed and injured.

This time, by their own admission, it’s the Jews who are terrorists. Their own flesh and blood.

This realization spawned calls from the right for serious soul searching.

President Reuven Rivlin, himself a Likud stalwart and supporter of Jewish settlement in the West Bank, said it clearly:

“In the face of a wave of terror against the innocent, the loss of life, and the loss of law and order, the State of Israel and Israeli society must conduct some soul-searching,” said Rivlin, who like Netanyahu visited the hospitalized Palestinian boy.

The call for a moral accounting was echoed by one of the younger Likud limelights, Internal Security Minister Gilad Erdan. “A nation whose children were burned in the Holocaust must do a lot of soul-searching if it bred people who burn other humans,” Erdan said.

But the firebombing has more practical implications. It calls into question the attitude of the settlers and their supporters, until now, toward previous attacks by Jewish extremists against Palestinians, providing ammunition to those who have long condemned the lax law enforcement against Jewish vigilantes.

Even the burning death of a Palestinian youth from East Jerusalem by Jewish extremists last summer – although condemned across the board – did not generate the required crackdown.

“To my great sorrow, until now it seems we have been lax in our treatment of the phenomena of Jewish terrorism,” Rivlin admitted. “Perhaps we did not internalize that we are faced with a determined and dangerous, ideological group, which aims to destroy the fragile bridges which we work so tirelessly to build,” he said.

In addition to the domestic consequences, the political reactions to the horrific arson also reflect grave concerns about its external repercussions.

With the Iran nuclear deal off the agenda as far as European leaders are concerned, they are now free to turn their attention to what they regard as a serious danger in the Middle East – known as the Palestinian problem.

From EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini on down, they have all made clear their intention to push for Israel’s return to the negotiating table with the Palestinians. The fact that the Palestinians are far from keen on the idea is, as far as they’re concerned, beside the point.

The killing of the Palestinian baby is just the grim example they need to argue their case about the dangers of a stalemate in negotiations and of Israeli settlements in the West Bank.

Israelis term hate crimes against Arabs “price tag” attacks – committed by Jewish radicals to exact a price from Palestinians for actions against the settlement enterprise. This time, the price might well be paid by the Israelis.