Even in Israel, the media won’t call jihad jihad

Jihad Watch ^ | 9-30-2014 | Robert Spencer

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Nathaniel Roi Arami fell to his death at a construction site in Israel. An “Arab co-worker” was questioned and released, but now the “incident is now being investigated as a possible nationalistically-related murder.”

There is nothing unique about this story. It is one of many just like it that have come before, and many more like it will surely follow. But it epitomizes the willful ignorance that blankets not only Israel, but the U.S. and the West in general, on this issue. If Nathaniel Roi Arami was murdered, it wasn’t because his killer was an “Arab” who was acting for “nationalistic reasons.” The foes of the Israelis are not the Arabs. There are Christian Arabs in Israel who are loyal to the state, and who are joining the IDF in increasing numbers. The foes of Israel are Muslims who believe, in the words of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood that are quoted in the Hamas Charter, that “Israel will arise and will remain until Islam obliterates it.” These Muslims are not opposed to Israel for “nationalistic reasons.” If they were, they would have taken numerous opportunities to establish a “Palestinian” state, beginning with the UN partition in 1948. If this were a “nationalistic” struggle, the “Palestinians” would have fought against the Egyptians and Jordanians with the same fury and tenacity with which they fight Israel when Egypt occupied Gaza and Jordan occupied Judea and Samaria (the “West Bank”) from 1948 to 1967.