In addition to the recent stabbing and shooting murders of Israeli Jews by Palestinian terrorists, there has been a marked increase in rock-throwing, some of it fatal. Its perpetrators tend to be teenagers or children—and this, writes Ruthie Blum, is part of the strategy:
It is precisely due to the young age of these budding terrorists that Israeli security services are in as much of a bind as they are under scrutiny. It is one thing for a soldier to open fire on an adult wielding a weapon defined as such; it is quite another to shoot kids throwing “stones.”
This is . . . why Abbas has not condemned the most recent murders. He is behind them in word and deed. Such violence also gives the Palestinian Authority president a “twofer”: dead Jews on the one hand, and potential Palestinian casualties—that can and will be attributed to IDF brutality—on the other. It is a win-win situation for the otherwise weak and unpopular leader.
Read more on Israel Hayom: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=13879