(Substack) Melanie Phillips - The murder of Maia and Rina Dee and their mother Lucy (Leah) was an unspeakable atrocity that has united Israel in horror. Once again, Israeli Jews have been murdered for nothing other than the fact that they are Jews living in their ancestral homeland. Once again, a quiet, wholesome, blameless family has been shattered forever by the forces of evil bent upon exterminating Jews. Since September 2000, Palestinian Arabs have murdered at least 1,420 Israelis. Over the past year, at least 30 Israelis have been murdered in such attacks. For months, there have been multiple attempted attacks against Israeli citizens almost every day. What makes this atrocity all the more unbearable is the reaction from so much of the West. The Dee family lives in Efrat and the attack happened in the Jordan Valley, all part of the disputed territories of Judea and Samaria. Israeli Jews who are attacked in these territories tend to be dehumanized by Western commentators as "settlers" in the "occupied territories" who were "asking for it"; or they are airbrushed out of media coverage altogether. This is even though the Palestinian Arabs have been murdering Jews in Israel and these territories for more than a century, decades before the so-called "occupation of the West Bank" after the 1967 Six-Day War. The West disapproves of Israeli Jews in these areas because so many Westerners have fallen for the ludicrous fiction that the Palestinian Arabs were the indigenous people of the land - a status that belongs to the Jews alone. The British government continues to sanitize or ignore fanatical Palestinian Arab Islamic incitement to murder Israeli Jews and steal their land; it continues to refuse to exert any pressure on the Palestinian Arabs to cease its war of extermination against the State of Israel. Instead, it calls on both sides to "de-escalate" - an obscene moral equivalence between the terrorists and terrorized. The writer is a columnist for The Times-UK.
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