"Palestinian incitement is to blame for current wave of terrorism ...only way to fight lies is to "tell the truth"...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the media, Thursday
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Photo credit: Dudi Vaaknin  |
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday said Palestinian incitement is to blame for the wave of terrorism that has swept over Israel in recent weeks....
"The current terror campaign in Israel is a result of continuous Palestinian incitement. First, on the Al-Aqsa mosque and the outrageous claims that we are changing the status quo there or intend to destroy it, and now we have a new big lie.
"That new big lie is that Israel is executing Palestinians. Yesterday, [Palestinian Authority] President Mahmoud Abbas accused Israel of putting to death, executing, an innocent Palestinian boy.
"First of all, he's not dead -- he's alive. Second, he's not innocent -- he tried to kill, murder, knife to death an innocent Israeli youngster, 13 years old, riding a bicycle. This Palestinian terrorist is now being treated in Hadassah hospital in Israel.
"The only way that we can fight this big lie and all the other lies that are hurled at Israel and spread in the Palestinian social network and from there to the world, is to tell the truth. This is what we will do today. We expect all our friends and anyone concerned with the facts and the truth to look at these facts, to see the truth and not to draw a false symmetry between Israeli citizens and those who would stab them and knife them to death."
Earlier on Thursday, pictures and videos were published showing Ahmed Manasra, the Palestinian teen who Abbas lied about, alive and receiving treatment at Hadassah Ein Kerem Medical Center in Jerusalem. Dr. Asher Salmon, deputy director of Hadassah Ein Kerem Medical Center, said,
"[Mansara] is hospitalized with us in light-to-moderate condition. He is being well taken care of. From a medical standpoint, I believe we can release him in the coming days."President Reuven Rivlin said Thursday,
"Truth is not relative. You can't turn murderers into victims and blame the victims for defending themselves. We are a state of law and justice. Israeli democracy is based on law and justice. The State of Israel will never compromise law and justice."...
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