Israeli Double Standard Time, terror attack version

Say, remember when I wrote about a call for revenge by a rabbi that the world media mostly ignored?

“The biggest revenge on the goyim is for them to see how much God loves the people of Israel,” Rabbi Ovadia Yosef said Thursday at a mass memorial service held for the eight victims of last week’s terror attack at the Mercaz Harav rabbinical seminary in Jerusalem.

That was the Shas spiritual leader. And the Chief Rabbi had this to say:

Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger said during the ceremony that “we hear calls that are not in line with the way we were brought up. Underground organizations of any kind are unwarranted, according neither to the Halacha nor to any other worldview. The call should be aimed at the government and the prime minister, to do everything so that the killers and their friends are brought to justice, literally.”

Two very important spiritual leaders of the religious Jews of Israel telling their followers that exacting revenge personally is wrong. These statements go almost completely unnoticed by the world press. But these? These go viral.

Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, the chief rabbi of the northern town of Safed and the son of a former chief rabbi of Israel, issued the call in a newsletter distributed to synagogues around the country.

“A country that really cares about its citizens should hang the 10 sons of the terrorist from a high tree,” he wrote, quoting the biblical Book of Esther. The original text referred to the book’s villain, Haman, who plotted to kill all the Jews in Persia before he was foiled.

In an interview with The Associated Press, Eliyahu said he was using the reference as a “metaphor,” but said he supported taking revenge against people who attack Jews. “I don’t apologize for anything and stand behind everything I wrote,” he said.

Tensions already were high before the harsh comments by Eliyahu, a relatively mainstream rabbi.

What a load of crap. Two of the most important rabbis in Israel specifically do not call for revenge, and the press leaps on the case of a much less important rabbi, and pumps it up to make it look like the Israelis are as bloodthirsty as the Palestinians. Moral equivalence and hypocrisy of the highest order are in evidence. And it gets worse, because Rabbi Eliyahu was not calling for personal revenge. He was calling for the state to punish the organizations responsible for the terror attack. But only the Israeli press carries those quotes—not the AP, which is spreading yet another negative story about religious Jews.

“We have to take horrible revenge for the terrorist attack at Mercaz Harav Yeshiva,” Eliyahu said.

“I’m not talking about individual people… I’m talking about the state,” he continued.

“[The state] has to hurt them to the point where they scream ‘Enough,’ to the point where they fall flat on their face and scream ‘help.’

Once again, the AP proves it will go to any lengths to blacken Israel’s name, all the while whitewashing the depravity of the Palestinians, who held all-night celebrations on the night of the terror attack, and gave out candy in honor of the murder of seven teens and a 26-year-old man. Does it mention that in this article? No. Instead, we read this:

There has been a chorus of calls for revenge since the March 6 attack, in which a lone Palestinian gunman entered the library of the Mercaz Harav seminary and opened fire, killing eight young students and leaving a scene of bloodstained holy books before he was shot dead.

Just after the attack, hundreds of Jewish seminarians gathered outside the yeshiva and chanted: “Death to Arabs.” Days later, a group of mourners marched toward the home of the Palestinian shooter, smashing car windows before being stopped by police.

As if this is the equivalent of Palestinians smiling, celebrating, and whooping it up over the murders of children.

I’m beginning to wonder why any Jew would work for the wire services at all.