By Barry Shaw
NETANYA, Israel — We are angry.
We are angry at the incitement and the violence perpetrated by all factions of the Palestinians against us.
We are angry at the lies that we are destroying their mosque while they are burning down our Jewish holy shrines.
We are angry at the international condemnation of a crime we haven’t committed, but are silent about the crimes that they have.
We are angry at the slaughter of our people who the media fail to identify as Jews in their haste to name Palestinians killed without mentioning they were carrying out mayhem and murder.
We are angry at the BDS haters whose real aim is assisting in the planned elimination of our country – a hate crime that goes unrecognized by a naïve world.
We are angry at all the United Nation’s institutes that collaborate with the Palestinian plan to eliminate our country while hitting on Israel at every opportunity.
We are angry at European governments for their moral equivalency that compares our defensive efforts with Palestinian terrorism that employs everything from knives to rockets in their fervor to kill Jews and to remove the Jewish presence from the region.
We are angry at the European Union who, even as we are being chased by knife-wielding Palestinian Arabs through our streets, rewards their terror by shamefully introducing a labeling sanction on Jewish products – a discriminatory double standard they fail to apply against countries who have stolen territory from other nations.
We are angry that liberal democracies fail to stand with the only liberal democracy in a dangerous and deadly region.
Israelis are angry because we see the world has learned nothing from its past, and that we Jews still have to depend only on ourselves to survive.
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Shaw is Senior Associate for Public Diplomacy at the Israel Institute for Strategic Studies. He may be contacted via barry.shaw@sdjewishworld.com. Any comments in the space below should include the writer’s full name and city and state of residence, or city and country for non-U.S. residents.