The Secretary of State’s Perverse Equivalence between Israel and the Palestinian Authority
On the one hand, a spate of murders; on the other, Jews living where the Biden administration believes they shouldn’t be.
April 8, 2022
The Secretary of State’s Perverse Equivalence between Israel and the Palestinian Authority
On the one hand, a spate of murders; on the other, Jews living where the Biden administration believes they shouldn’t be.
In the past few weeks, Islamic State-inspired attacks—including multiple shootings last night—have left over a dozen dead in the Jewish state, and several others seriously injured. Yet after meeting with Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in the wake of two deadly attacks, Antony Blinken, the American secretary of state, declared that the way to “foster” peace is to “prevent actions on all sides that could raise tensions, including settlement expansion, settler violence, incitement to violence, demolitions, payments to individuals convicted of terrorism, evictions of families from homes they’ve lived in for decades.” Lahav Harkov comments:
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