Obama Administration Refuses to Condemn Murder of Israeli Civilians

Four Israeli’s were murdered in cold blood on Tuesday. Quoting the Jerusalem Post:

The four were two couples – one aged 25 and the other 40. One of the women was pregnant. According to eyewitness reports, the terrorists succeeded in hitting the passengers in their initial fire but then approached the car and shot them occupants at close range.

“When we arrived on the scene, all four doors of the car were open and four bodies were strewn on the road,” Magen David Adom paramedic Guy Ronen told The Jerusalem Post. “We saw that the vital organs had been struck by a very large number of bullets, and that there was no chance of saving their lives,” he added.

Unfortunately, this is not shocking news.  This type of barbarity happens so frequently that we have come to accept it as part of the price of religious tolerance.

Nonetheless, it is moral cowardice to refuse to condemn such acts — and  that is exactly what this administration has done.

Quoting from the daily press briefing from 31 August:

QUESTION: And do you know enough about the incident to be able to condemn the deaths or the killings?

MR. CROWLEY: Well, anytime one human being takes out a weapon and fires and kills other human beings, it’s a tragedy. We just don’t know the circumstances under which this occurred.

The murders of these men and women was not a “tragedy.”  A tragedy is when a terrible accident happens.  This was not an accident, this was cold-blooded deliberate murder performed as a religious and political act.

Tragedies should create sadness in human beings.  Deliberate cold-blooded murder should not create sadness, it should create anger.  We don’t condemn volcanoes, tornadoes, floods, or other acts of nature.  We do condemn murder and other acts of barbarism.  This s a very simple distinction which only a liberal politician could screw up.

Stating “We just don’t know the circumstances under which this occurred” is simply creating excuses for terrorists.  Maybe the Muslims had a bad day at the mosque?  Maybe one of their wives left them?  Maybe their cat Skittles was hit by a car?  We just don’t know. We don’t need to know.  There is no possible justification for the ambush and murder of four innocent civilians — including a pregnant woman.  These actions should be condemned in the strongest possible terms — which s exactly what the administration has refused to do.

Hamas spokesman Abu Obeida told The Associated Press “The Qassam Brigades announces its full responsibility for the heroic operation in Hebron.” Hamas, you may remember, is the organization which former president Jimmy Carter is campaigning to have removed from the State Department’s list of terrorist organizations.  This latest set of murders provides even more proof of Mr. Carter’s completely dysfunctional moral compass.

Approximately three thousand Muslims celebrated the murders with a massive party in Gaza. The American administration should distance itself from those celebrations by firmly and unconditionally condemning this attack.