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Over Ukraine, They Side with the Victims. Over Israel, They Side with the Aggressors

(Substack) Melanie Phillips - Not only the Western media but also the Biden administration, which unequivocally condemned Russia for attacking Ukraine, refuse to condemn the Arabs who have been hurling boulders and firebombs at Israeli Jews this past week and instead hold Israel responsible for the escalation in violence. The Palestinian Authority has been inciting hysteria and violence by claiming that the "evil Jews" - note "Jews," not "Israelis" - are "defiling" al-Aqsa and intend to destroy it (a baseless claim which the Arab and Muslim world has used to incite murderous attacks on Jews for more than a century). The demand is not just that Jews should stay out of the al-Aqsa mosque itself (where Jews have no interest in entering), but that no Jew should be allowed onto the Temple Mount - an area of more than 35 acres. The Palestinian Arabs demand that Jews be barred from the most sacred site in Judaism, the site of the Jews' two Biblical Temples. The writer is a columnist for The Times-UK.
2022-04-21 00:00:00
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