By Ryan Jones
August 8, 2005
Israel's broadcast and electronic media Sunday carried disturbing photos and video footage of Eden Natan-Zada, the killer of four Israeli-Arabs in northern Israel last week, being lynched to death by a possessed mob moments after his deplorable act.
Some will debate whether or not it is acceptable to mete out ultimate justice outside the boundaries of the law to those who have committed such senseless murder.
But the fact Zada had already been subdued and handcuffed ? as evidenced by the gruesome photos and film footage ? makes those who took his life no less murderers than Zada himself.
And yet, the Arabs of Israel and many Israeli Jews too feel the barbaric lynch mob should be accorded hero status and under no circumstances stand trial for their actions.
Can anyone imagine the response, both local and international, if Israeli security personnel took a Palestinian Arab gunman who had just finished killing Jewish men, women and children, handcuffed him and let an angry mob of Israelis beat him to death?
Or if Israelis, as the Arabs of Shfaram did, refused to allow the extrication and return of a ?Palestinian? homicide terrorist's corpse to his family?
What if Israeli doctors refused to work feverishly to save the lives of Palestinian Arabs wounded in the act of murdering and maiming Jews?
What if Israeli Jews, instead of behaving in a civilized manner, resorted to the savagery the world unconditionally expects and accepts from the Arabs?
The simple fact is the international community practices a benign racism towards the Arabs by not holding them accountable for their actions.
It is the equivalent of allowing a child to behave in whatever manner he pleases because he threatens to behave even worse if you do not.
This is the mental condition that allowed the international community to award the world's top peace prize in 1993 to Yasser Arafat, at the time the leader of the most prominent global terrorist network.
That in turn led the majority of the general Palestinian Arab public to view terrorist murder as a legitimate means of achieving their goals.
It is a situation created in large part by the West's misguided desire to appear at all times tolerable, and the Islamic world's exploitation of that desire in order to literally get away with murder.
And it is in this atmosphere, under these conditions, that the world expects Israel to give the Palestinian Arabs a state, where they will arms themselves with the best weapons, train in the most deadly tactics, and slaughter with relative impunity more Jews than they can today dream of.
Maybe if Israel's Jews would resort to widespread animal barbarity the world would drop the whole idea of a Palestinian state.
But then, it seems a people's behavior is largely directed by the god they follow.
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