{"id":1413503,"date":"2022-03-31T16:15:17","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T20:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1413503"},"modified":"2022-03-31T16:15:30","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T20:15:30","slug":"biden-admin-slammed-for-being-tone-deaf-amid-terror-wave-in-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-slammed-for-being-tone-deaf-amid-terror-wave-in-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Admin Slammed for Being &#039;Tone Deaf&#039; amid Terror Wave in Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-admin-slammed-for-being-tone-deaf-amid-terror-wave-in-israel%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1413503&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">The Biden administration has come under fire for being \u201ctone deaf\u201d in its reaction to a slew of terror attacks in Israel over the past week which have seen 11 people killed and dozens more injured.<\/p>\n<p>Former Israeli envoy to the United Nations, Danny Danon, wrote on Twitter: \u201cWhile U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken was speaking about \u201csettler violence\u201d we received another sad and painful reminder of the radical Islamic terrorism that threatens us daily.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Danon was referring to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/middle-east\/2022\/03\/28\/islamic-state-claims-responsibility-for-terror-attack-that-killed-two-police-officers-in-israel\/\">shooting attack<\/a> carried out on Sunday night\u00a0in the southern Israeli city of Hadera\u00a0by two Arab Israeli terrorists who swore allegiance to the Islamic State terror group that killed two Border Police officers and injured 12 others. The attack followed a stabbing and car ramming attack a few days earlier, also carried out by an Arab Israeli Islamic State supporter, that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/middle-east\/2022\/03\/22\/four-people-killed-in-terror-attack-in-southern-israel\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">killed four Israelis<\/a>\u00a0in the city of Beersheba.<\/p>\n<p>Blinken,\u00a0who was in Israel for a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/middle-east\/2022\/03\/27\/blinken-touts-unimaginable-summit-between-four-arab-fms-in-israel\/\">summit with top diplomats<\/a>\u00a0from Arab countries when the second attack occurred, seemed to draw a moral equivalency between Palestinian terrorism and \u201csettler violence\u201d in remarks made at a press briefing alongside Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett.<\/p>\n<p>A day after the summit, five more people were killed in a shooting attack in the central Israeli city of Bnei Brak, marking the third terror attack within a week and bringing the death toll to eleven. On Thursday, another Israeli was seriously wounded after a Palestinian stabbed him on a bus with a screwdriver.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>CEO of the International Legal Forum and human rights lawyer Arsen Ostrovsky slammed the Biden administration for being \u201ctone deaf\u201d in putting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/settlers-ram-troops-assault-palestinians-near-homesh-idf-alleges\/\">settler violence<\/a> on par with murder.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20466758\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/03\/IMG-1953.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Arsen Ostrovsky: The Biden administration must demand an end to the Palestinian Authority\u2019s so-called pay-for-slay policy of rewarding terrorists and their families which leads \u201cdirectly led to the kind of unhinged mass slaughter.\u201d (Image supplied)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe singling out of purported \u2018settler violence\u2019, at the same time as Palestinian and Islamic terrorists were carrying out a spate of massacres across Israel, suggests that some in the Administration, notwithstanding their intentions, are tone deaf to the realities on the ground and seeking to deflect from the real issues at hand \u2013 the ongoing and relentless Palestinian terror and incitement,\u201d Ostrovsky told Breitbart.<\/p>\n<p>Ostrovsky acknowledged the Biden administration\u2019s condemnation of the attacks, but added it would be of \u201cgreater imperative\u201d if the U.S. would call out the Palestinian leadership for its \u201csystematic infrastructure of incitement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also called on the Biden administration to demand an end to the Palestinian Authority\u2019s so-called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/middle-east\/2021\/06\/07\/palestinian-authority-pays-42000-to-family-of-terrorist-who-murdered-israelis\/\">pay-for-slay<\/a> policy of rewarding terrorists and their families, which he said, \u201cdirectly led to the kind of unhinged mass slaughter, we saw in Bnei Brak and across the country in the past week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his remarks on Sunday, Blinken delivered a laundry list of Palestinian transgressions interspersed with Israeli ones.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>We will work to \u201cprevent actions on all sides that could raise tensions, including settlement expansion, settler violence, incitement to violence, demolitions, payments to individuals convicted of terrorism, evictions of families from homes they\u2019ve lived in for decades,\u201d Blinken <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.il\/en\/departments\/news\/statements-by-pm-bennett-and-us-secretary-of-state-blinken-27-mar-2022\">said,\u00a0<\/a>warning against an uptick in violence ahead of the holy Muslim month of Ramadan when tensions traditionally heat up.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Palestinians in multiple cities came out to celebrate a shooting attack by a terrorist in a Tel Aviv suburb on Tuesday evening. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/q9uTOd59er\">https:\/\/t.co\/q9uTOd59er<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1509294309861904387?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 30, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Regarding \u201csettlement expansion,\u201d Israel\u2019s decision to build homes for Jewish Israelis in the West Bank has long been a point of contention for Democratic administrations. Israel \u201cSettler violence\u201d refers to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/settler-attacks-on-palestinians-are-on-the-rise-but-justice-remains-elusive\/\">recent rise in vandalism<\/a> and acts of violence, such as throwing stones at passing Palestinian cars, by a fringe group of Israeli extremists in the West Bank. The Biden administration was accused by senior Israeli officials of being \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/obsessed-biden-administration-put-settlements-on-par-with-iran-nukes-688721\">obsessed<\/a>\u201d with settler violence when Blinken insisted that equal time was devoted to discussing settlements as the Iranian nuclear threat during a meeting with\u00a0Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz.<\/p>\n<p>In his remarks on Sunday, Blinken also made mention of Israel\u2019s policy of demolishing the family homes of Palestinian terrorists, which the Biden administration has called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/middle-east\/2021\/07\/08\/u-s-condemns-punitive-demolition-of-home-of-palestinian-terrorist-who-killed-teenager\/\">punitive<\/a>\u201d but\u00a0which Israel says has proved to be a deterrent against future attacks.<\/p>\n<p>A report on the Second Intifada, in which hundreds of Israelis were killed in a wave of Palestinian terror attacks,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/scholars.huji.ac.il\/eklor\/publications\/counter-suicide-terrorism-evidence-house-demolitions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">found\u00a0<\/a>that house demolitions \u201ccaused an immediate, significant decrease\u201d in the number of attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Blinken also equated the PA\u2019s \u201cpay-for-slay\u201d program rewarding terrorists with a monthly stipend to the \u201cevictions of families\u201d from their homes, an apparent reference to a recent decision \u2014 that was subsequently overturned by Israel\u2019s Supreme Court \u2014 to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/middle-east\/2022\/02\/14\/violence-in-sheikh-jarrah-between-israelis-and-palestinians-hamas-warns-will-explode-in-israels-face\/\">evict Palestinians<\/a>, who had never paid rent nor owned the title deeds to their propoerties, from their homes in the flashpoint east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20448002\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-1239598104.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20448002\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-1239598104-1024x684-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"661\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Israeli security forces and emergency personnel gather at the scene of a shooting attack on March 29, 2022 in Bnei Brak. Attacks in different locations near the Israeli city of Tel Aviv killed at least four people, emergency responders said. (JACK GUEZ\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The incident turned into a symbolic event of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ngo-monitor.org\/sheikh-jarrah-property-claims\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">international proportions<\/a>\u00a0and played a large part in Hamas\u2019 decision to kick off the 11-day conflict last May and launch thousands of rockets at Israel.<\/p>\n<p>According to Ostrovsky, Blinken\u2019s call on Israel to calm the situation was misplaced and the onus should be on the PA to subdue terrorism and curb incitement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPerhaps instead of reflexively calling on Israel to take steps to \u2018de-escalate\u2019 or \u2018calm\u2019 the situation on the ground, especially before the upcoming religious holidays of Ramadan, Easter and Passover, the international community, led by the United States, should unequivocally call on the Palestinian leadership to reign in the terrorists committing this wave of terror and end the\u00a0relentless and systematic\u00a0Palestinian infrastructure indoctrinating hate and inciting violence, that only enables, abets and empowers such mass slaughter we are witnessing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration has come under fire for being \u201ctone deaf\u201d in its reaction to a slew of terror attacks in Israel over the past week which have seen 11<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1413503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1413503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1413503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1413503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1413503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}