It stands that only a small minority of Muslims can be considered as being extremists; those who wish to implement asphyxiating and harsh Sharia Law upon the entire world, and are willing to kill themselves and those around them, in their attempts to see it. Unfortunately for millions around the world, this philosophy has penetrated the minds of many as well as the governments of entire authorities and countries. (Gaza, cough-cough)
About a week ago, the world media foamed at the mouth in a now-typical frenzy of anti-Israel, anti-Zionist and anti-Settler articles and reports. Such was their response to a disgusting attack on a Mosque in the West Bank. Now to put this in perspective, some extremists (Yes, there are even extremists on the Israeli side, we're not that biased), spray painted anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian hate messages on this mosque. They even went as far as to burn the carpet in the Mosque entrance. However, nobody was hurt and in actual fact, no Muslim was even present during the attacks.
It is not possible to vindicate the crime of those settlers and their hate, because it would be wrong for our moral standards to plummet as low as those of Palestinian terrorists who see attacking civilians as a legitimate means of political expression. The Israeli government agrees.
IDF spokesman Peter Lerner condemned the acts on behalf of the Army and the State of Israel, saying “The incident is deplorable on every level. It's against basic moral standards and jeopardizes safety and security and the stability the IDF is working hard to maintain.” Feelings? Moral standards? Condemnation and deploration of terrorism in a clear way? "Weaklings!" laughs the Palestinian Authority. The response to terrorism on the other side of the literal fence could not be more of a contrast to the principled and respectable response of the IDF.
Let's take a typical crime committed by an average Palestinian terrorist (or martyr, if you're high on Paleganda), and let's look at the Palestinian reply.
In November of 2013, a 18 year old Israeli Soldier, Private Eden Atias was asleep on a public bus in the Israeli city of Afula. A 16 year old Palestinian from the West Bank city of Jenin boarded the bus and in broad daylight, fatally stabbed the soldier. Now, the murder of an 18 year old soldier who had never even been deployed actively is substantially worse than burning the carpet of a religious building. For carpet burning, the IDF issues a very clear and serious condemnation. Hamas, the ruling party of Gaza, replies to murder with:
“Congratulations to the Palestinian West Bank hero who killed an Israeli soldier in Afula this morning. This is a heroic act of resistance showing that all methods of oppression and terror have not and will not succeed in stopping our people from carrying out jihad and resistance.”
As you can see from this, the Palestinians and Israelis have conflicting attitudes when it comes to small things, like their willingness to actually accept the other's right to exist and the readiness to actually live in peace with one another. How can you expect the pipe-dream of peace to become a reality when the mindset of one of the main Palestinian negotiating parties is bent on the murder of Israelis?
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