This is anti-Semitism

Adele Bennett gave a chilling and depressing account of Saturday evening's stabbing attack in Jerusalem in which she was seriously wounded and her husband Aharon was killed. Bennett recalled being cursed at, spat on and slapped by Arab onlookers as she was stabbed. This is shocking and unacceptable. Nobody deserves this, even those described by international media outlets as "occupiers."

The reaction of the Arab onlookers was nauseating. This is not how things should be in Israel's reunited capital city. Walking to the Western Wall on Sukkot should not be a risky proposition for Jews. Jerusalem was reunited in 1967 so that members of all religions could enjoy the charms and sanctity of the ancient city. But Saturday's attack showed that this vision has not yet been realized.

In the eyes of the perpetrator of Saturday's attack and the Arab onlookers, Adele and Aharon Bennett were criminal trespassers in Jerusalem, making them legitimate targets. Even the sobs of the Bennett couple's child did not soften these hostile Arab hearts. This is both sickening and frightening.

In synagogue on Monday, we read the book of Ecclesiastes. The opening verse is, "The words of Ecclesiastes, the son of David, king in Jerusalem." Yes, this is the same Jerusalem where the Bennetts were attacked. Yet, international media outlets called the Bennetts "settlers."

"Whatever has happened, will happen again; what has been done, will be done again. There is nothing new under the sun," Ecclesiastes said. This applies to the current situation we face, making it all the more depressing.

Some claim that things would change if we were to take our "dirty feet" (the words of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas) out of east Jerusalem and redivide the city -- as if hatred and anti-Semitism did not also exist among the Arabs before 1967. Does anyone remember what happened to Jewish holy sites in Jordanian-controlled east Jerusalem before the Six-Day War-

The true story behind what is going on before our eyes is the radicalization of the Arabs in our neighborhood. The violence in Syria, Yemen, Libya and Iraq is now influencing the Palestinians. Terrorists continue to be role models for the Palestinians.

International media coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is biased against Israel, as usual. We all remember the CNN headline after November 2014 Har Nof synagogue attack that presented the Arab perpetrators as the victims. On Saturday, it was the BBC's turn for shame, when it ran the headline, "Palestinian shot dead after Jerusalem attack kills two." I wonder why such mistaken headlines are always tilted against Israel, and not the other way around.

But it is precisely during difficult times such as these that we must look for the light at the end of the tunnel. While I have watched over and over again the terrifying video of the indifferent Arab onlookers not helping the Bennett couple during Saturday's attack, I also remember the Arab who saved five Jews from a lynch attempt in Hebron last month.

Thank God, there are such exceptions. When these exceptions become the majority, things will be different here. Peace starts with the man on the street. No regional conference or idle chatter about diplomatic solutions will change the situation. Rather, things will only get better when the Arabs come to understand that Jews are not "settlers" in their own land and are certainly not "criminal trespassers" in Jerusalem, the city of David.

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