Jerusalem Mayor: Don’t Talk So Much about Terrorism

INN ^ | 9/21/2014, 8:21 PM | Gil Ronen

[Olog-hai]

Faced with increasingly brazen and numerous daily Arab terror attacks on Jews, Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat thinks the media should not talk about the problem too much.

The terror wave has become so unbearable of late that even leftist media sources have begun reporting it, after years in which nationalist sources like Arutz Sheva were almost the only ones who carried the news of rock attacks and firebombs against Jews. […]

The mayor can be heard saying: “In my opinion, if people are too afraid—and we know that the problem exists—this can serve the interests of the terrorists and rioters who want to disrupt our lives. We are must make a great effort to put the city back on routine tracks. We are not ignoring the problem. We are aware of it. This discourse does not advance us, media-wise…not the city of of Jerusalem, Every time there is a discussion and great fear about some matter, immediately the merchants and the businessmen and the cultural institutes will tell you that their income is down.” …

[Olog-hai]

. . . and if you downplay the trouble, then how many people will die?

Thanks for playing up to the stereotype of those who are allegedly “money-hungry”, putting the economy above public safety.

[cloudmountain]

I don’t get it. Why would the major say that?

[SunkenCiv]

> Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat thinks the media should not talk about the problem too much. The terror wave has become so unbearable of late that even leftist media sources have begun reporting it, after years in which nationalist sources like Arutz Sheva were almost the only ones who carried the news of rock attacks and firebombs against Jews.

IOW, let the leftist surrender monkeys cover it, and Arutz Sheva can concentrate on getting the gov’t reelected. Thanks Olog-hai.