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Obama-Kerry State Department urges targeting price taggers, not terrorists

In yet another disgusting swipe at the Jewish state, in its annual report on terrorism issued on Wednesday, the Obama-Kerry State Department urges the United Nations and NGO's to 'price tag' attacks - which only cause property damage - while ignoring 'Palestinian' terror attacks against Israelis.

The 2013 anti-terrorism report investigated terror activity across the globe in 2013, and was published on its website. The "Israel, West Bank, and Gaza" section, however, focuses intensely on "extremist Israeli settlers" and subtly calls for them to be prosecuted by the UN.
"Attacks by extremist Israeli settlers against Palestinian residents, property, and places of worship in the West Bank continued and were largely unprosecuted [sic] according to UN and NGO sources," the report claims, citing the leftist UN Office of the Coordinator for Humanitarian Affairs.

The report also cited "399 attacks by extremist Israeli settlers that resulted in Palestinian injuries or property damage" and deemed them "violent extremists" - mostly over "price tag" attacks against Palestinian Arab homes and property. 

"Price tag" is a euphemism for politically-motivated vandalism and criminal damage usually attributed to Jewish extremists, carried out either in revenge for Arab terrorist attacks, or in protest of Israeli government policies such as the destruction of Jewish homes in Judea and Samaria. 

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The State Department report also acknowledged terror against Israeli Jews in Judea and Samaria - which, unlike "price tagging", aims to kill people - as opposed to damaging property.

"The Israel Security Agency (ISA, or “ShinBet”) reported a total of 1,271 of what it defined as terrorist attacks originating in the West Bank against Israeli citizens in 2013," the report noted. "Of these, 858 involved firebombs, but the attacks also included shootings, stabbings, grenade and IED incidents, and rock throwing. The ISA identified an additional 126 attacks in Jerusalem, 122 of which involved firebombs."

Unlike the "price tag" attacks, however, the report made no mention of involving the UN or other NGOs.  

There's much more. Read it all. 

A year and a half ago, I warned that John FN Kerry could do a lot more damage to Israel than the Chuckster (Hagel). Do I get to say I told you so yet?

Labels: anti-Semitism, Barack Hussein Obama, Chuck Hagel, John Kerry, Palestinian terrorism, price tag attacks, State Department obsession with Israel

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 12:43 AM