This article is based on two articles posted on Saturday dealing with the murder of a Jewish family in the West Bank. Yahoo News posted the Associated Press story on the murders. Ynet News posted a story about the celebrations in Gaza following the murders.
The Associated Press story reports:
"Media reports said a baby girl of three months, two children aged three and 11, and their parents Ehud and Ruth Vogel were all stabbed to death in the Friday night attack in Itamar near the Palestinian town of Nablus.
"Army radio said two other children had been spared and a third, a girl of 10, had arrived home late and alerted neighbours that something was wrong."
Ynet News reports:
"Gaza residents from the southern city of Rafah hit the streets Saturday to celebrate the terror attack in the West Bank settlement of Itamar where five family members were murdered in their sleep, including three children.
"Residents handed out candy and sweets, one resident saying the joy "is a natural response to the harm settlers inflict on the Palestinian residents in the West Bank.""
To be fair, the story at YNet did report:
"...Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said he "clearly and firmly denounces the terror attack, just as I have denounced crimes against Palestinians.
""We are against all types of violence," Fayyad said during a tour in Bethlehem. "Our position has not changed. As we have said many times before, we categorically oppose violence and terror, regardless of the identity of the victims or the perpetrators.""
This may be a politically incorrect statement, but I don't want to see a Palestinian state until the culture of the people of Palestine changes. Regardless of what the Palestinian Prime Minister said, the actions of the residents of Gaza say more. Where is the compassion for innocent children? Slitting the throats of an innocent family as they are sleeping is not a civilized activity. The world does not need another rogue nation--regardless of how small that nation is.
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