Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu called on all of Israel’s Knesset members Monday night to condemn Arab terror, also urging MK Bezalel Smotrich (Jewish Home) to denounce Jewish terror.
“We are in the midst of a wave of terror attacks and murders and I expect all parliamentarians to condemn these criminal acts,” Netanyahu demanded.
“Just two hours ago, Osama Saadi refused in an interview to condemn the Henkin murder and said he differentiates between the murder of civilians in Tel Aviv and Judea-Samaria.”
“Terror is terror no matter if it was conducted in Jerusalem, Ra’anana, Hevron, Tel Aviv or Duma,” Netanyahu thundered.
“Terrorism is not determined by the identity of the perpetrators or their goals,” he declared. “I expect all Knesset members, from MK Saadi (Joint List) to MK Smotrich to condemn terrorism wherever it is without hesitation. Terror is terror is terror.”
Netanyahu made the comments following a Knesset Channel interview with Saadi, in which he claimed “there is no Palestinian terror” and suggested there is a difference between attacking Tel Aviv residents and “occupying settlers.”
The personal call to Smotrich comes after the Jewish Home MK asserted there was no such thing as Jewish terror, despite accusations against several Jewish youths for the deadly arson attack in Duma.
Speaking before the Knesset, opposition chairman Yitzhak Herzog said he “completely sympathized with fighting terror without compromise and hitting it from the root. There is not doubt we are all united in condemning it.”
“The question,” he charged, “is how your government deals with this terror. Unfortunately, it is dealing with it with failure and weakness.”
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