Benjamin Netanyahu says Israeli and Palestinian terrorism 'cannot be compared'

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Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly claimed that Jewish and Arab terrorism “cannot be compared” after Israeli wedding guests were filmed celebrating an arson attack that killed a Palestinian child.

The Israeli Prime Minister was questioned on the speed of the investigation into the deaths of 18-month-old Ali Dawabsheh and his parents in July.

Extremist graffiti and the word “revenge” was found scrawled on the side of their home after it was set alight by masked men armed with Molotov cocktails in the West Bank village of Duma.

Mr Netanyahu called the incident “a terror attack in every respect” and vowed to deal forcefully with the perpetrators, regardless of their citizenship or religion, but the suspects have still not been charged six months on.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/benjamin-netanyahu-says-israeli-and-palestinian-terrorism-cannot-be-compared-a6787676.html

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Netanyahu: The Arab terror is first and foremost on a much larger scale, it cannot be compared,” Mr Netanyahu was quoted as saying by Jerusalem Online.

Netanyahu: “While here, the government and all the public leaders speak out against occurrences of Jewish terror; they [the Palestinian authorities] praise it…there is a huge difference between the healthy attitude of the Israeli society and democracy which denounces and condemns terror, and the Palestinian Authority which regrettably encourages and incites terror.”

Abbas: “Every drop of blood spilled in Jerusalem is pure, every shahid [martyr] will reach paradise, and every injured person will be rewarded by God. The Al-Aqsa Mosque is ours. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre is ours as well. They have no right to desecrate the mosque with their dirty feet, we won’t allow them to do that."

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