‘Deep concern’

I wish everyone in the higher echelons of the political world would speak so clearly and directly as does our UN Ambassador Gilad Erdan (“Islamic Jihad receives orders from Iran – Erdan,” August 9). His demonstration of the international double standard (the treatment of Israel by all foreign organizations, as compared to that of the rest of the world), is pointed out by Erdan in all its stark reality.

When the US assassinates arch-terrorist Ayman Zawahiri of al-Qaeda, the world applauds, but when, only days later, Israel assassinates two-arch terrorists Tayseer al-Jabari and Khaled Mansour, with pinpointed accuracy, thus avoiding innocent civilians, the world is aghast and the UN expresses “deep concern.” Nebich, what a pity!

The UN and many other European states employ the astonishing theory of “proportionality.” If there are fewer Israeli casualties than Arab casualties, then Israel has utilized “disproportionate force.”

What are they talking about? Do they want us to do a body count? Israel, in the last conflagration, destroyed 170 Jihad military targets and only 26 innocent bystanders were killed – and by whom? Well, 11 of them were killed by Israeli fire, mainly because they lived next to a weapons store or factory, strategically positioned in the heart of a civilian residential area.

The other 15 were killed by misfired rockets dispatched by Jihad itself. So, OK let’s do a body count: 15 to 11 in favor of the Arabs – well, now who is using disproportionate force?

Thank the Lord that we have the IDF and the technical brilliance of the Iron Dome. Otherwise, with the 1100 rockets that they threw at us, the body count would be so, so different. Let us all be proud and hope that this national pride may infiltrate the political arena which is in such need of a blood transfusion of social morality and mutual decency.

LAURENCE BECKER

Jerusalem