Vandalism on Safed Synagogues

Ynet:

Two 16-year-old teens were arrested in suspicion of spraying slogans reading "death to Jews" on four synagogues and vehicles in Safed.

During their investigation, the two admitted committing the acts and claimed they did it to protest the mosque arson in Tuba Zangaria. The two will be brought in front of a judge on Thursday for a remand hearing.

That's called "price tag."

Maybe I have terrible hearing... But I just can't seem to hear the world shouting over this.  I can't seem to hear the UN Human Rights Commission screaming about this either.  I don't see any op-Eds on Ha'aretz condemning the attack and trying to alert us to this trend of terrorism.

Ooops! Just re-read the Ynet article. It appears that a Jewish holy site was vandalized - NOT a Muslim/Palestinian holy site.  In that case, it is apparent the world won't care one bit, nor will Abbas issue any condemnation or visit the synagogue or meet with their leaders (as President Peres met with leaders of the Muslim community, visited the mosque, and other top officials, including Prime Minister Netanyahu, deeply condemned the attack, and saying justice will be delivered).

Double standards in vandalism: Mosques vs Synagogues

Jonothan S. Tobin:

The arson attack against a mosque in the village of Tuba Zanghariya in Northern Israel has been widely condemned throughout the world. Israel’s government and the Jewish state’s president also condemned the despicable incident, which has garnered wide attention in the international press, and both of its chief rabbis have gone to the mosque to express their sorrow.

But a Jaffa synagogue that was struck by a Molotov cocktail on Saturday after Arab protests against the Netanyahu government cannot expect the same solicitude. Nor should we anticipate a similar outpouring from Palestinian Authority figures after swastikas were painted on the Jewish shrine of the Tomb of Joseph in Nablus last week.

The willingness of a tiny minority of Israelis to engage in violence against Arabs is reprehensible. The so-called “price tag” assaults on Arab targets in the West Bank are an outrage and have rightly engendered a full-scale effort from Israeli police and military officials to find and prosecute the perpetrators. But the fact Arab violence against Jewish targets is not considered worthy of much indignation is of great concern.

Read the rest here.

The shock and outrage that the Israeli community has sent when dealing with these "price tags" and vandalism against mosques shows that Israel has no tolerance for thugs who do that, and it is shocking that this has happened.  Those who did it will be put to justice.  But by contrast, the periodic vandalism from Arabs warrants no international condemnation, no apology from the Palestinian Authority to Palestinians, and often not even to Israelis unless they're urged to (Abbas and other Palestinians even had the nerve to say that Palestinains couldn't have done the Fogel family murder, it's not representative of the Palestinians, and then a few weeks later they found out it was Palestinians indeed who did it), and instead, you get chants of "We'll Fogel you."

Why doesn't the world say anything about this?  If you're going report about one, then report on the other.  And make sure it's clear that Israel has no tolerance for this vandalism, as opposed to the Palestinians praising violence and martyrdom and the PA expressing no apology over vandalism or attacks.