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By Morton A. Klein
(AUGUST 31, 2023 / ISRAEL HAYOM) The U.S. State Department and left-wing Jewish organizations' moral compass is backward. They remain silent about the Palestinian Authority's top leaders inciting and incentivizing anti-Jewish terror – but wrongly condemn Israel's National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir's statements about the need to protect Jews from the ongoing wave of Arab terror attacks.
It is evident to anyone with a shred of compassion and decency that innocent Jews have a right to be protected from Arab terrorism, even if Arabs are inconvenienced. To put it succinctly, Jewish lives matter.
Saying this moral truth is neither racist nor inflammatory. But what is racist and inflammatory is paying Arabs to murder Jews, inciting the murder of Jews with antisemitic blood libels, teaching Arab children to hate and murder Jews, honoring and celebrating terrorists who killed Jews – all of which is done by the PA and its top leaders.
Ben-Gvir was right to say, "My right, the right of my wife and my children to move around Judea and Samaria is more important than freedom of movement for the Arabs. The right to life comes before freedom of movement."
Jewish lives matter. It matters when a Jewish child sees her mother gunned down and murdered by Arab terrorists shooting at cars carrying Jews on the road – as happened just last week, and has been happening too often in recent months and years.
Stopping the murder of innocent Jewish lives must outweigh convenience to Palestinian Arabs.
Yet, the morally bankrupt current U.S. State Department told the Times of Israel that Ben Gvir's Jewish-life-preserving comments were "inflammatory" and compared Ben Gvir's comments to racist rhetoric.
In addition, the American Jewish Committee blasted Ben-Gvir's comments, and shamefully, the far-left Israel Policy Forum and the Democratic Majority for Israel called his life-saving statements "racist."
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