08/16/2026
Israeli Jewish settler: “the life of one Jew is equal to that of 10 million Palestinians.”
[The Settlers are the avant-guarde of Zionism – Jewish terror is carried out behalf the Zionist State]
See the whole Haaretz article below.
The Right Is Correct, There's No Jewish Terror. There's Only Israeli Terror
The terror in Qusra, in Tell, is Israeli. Calling this terror Jewish was meant to erase or dilute Israel's direct responsibility
Gideon Levy
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04:01 AM • August 16 2026 IDT
An Israeli like you or I is interviewed by the British journalist Piers Morgan on his eponymous program, and for several long minutes she refuses to answer a simple question: Is the life of a Palestinian worth as much as that of an Israeli?
Morgan asks the question four times, and four times the settler leader Daniella Weiss refuses to answer. She even takes her reply into the realm of sexual equality – anything to avoid a reply.
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Finally, she mumbles something about God who created everyone, in order to rebuff the annoying interviewer. He reminds her of the words of another settler, Yehuda Shimon from the Havat Gilad outpost, who a few days earlier told the BBC that the life of one Jew is equal to that of 10 million Palestinians.
Millions of people around the world hear these statements; what do they say to themselves? That this is Israel. Israelis hear these statements; what do they say to themselves? That this is not what Israel is.
What does Weiss have to do with us? She doesn't represent us. Nor do National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich. The deranged remarks of Defense Minister Yisrael Katz? Nothing to do with us.
The "hilltop youth" also don't represent us. The pogroms in the territories? That's not us. Kahanism? Nothing to do with us? Half of all Israelis even say that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu doesn't represent them.
Israel has become a strange, unique country; none of the evil taking place here represents us. A true wonder. The extremists are not us. The ugliness: not ours. Jewish supremacy: no connection to us. Nothing problematic belongs to us. Even the government doesn't represent us. So who does? Where are the millions of Israelis for whom nothing Israel does is them?
It's time we recognize that Israel is precisely what viewers in Britain and the U.S. see. In their eyes, Weiss is Israel and Israel is Weiss. After the deaths of tens of thousands of Gazans, including thousands of babies, and after the ugly displays of Jewish supremacy in the West Bank, on a daily basis, it's no longer possible to tell the world that "it's not us" and "not in our name." The world simply no longer buys it. (The interesting question is how many Israelis still buy these imaginary distinctions.)
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The first to say this, perhaps unintentionally, was, of all people, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee. From deep within his delusional vision of Israel stretching from the Nile to the Euphrates, he uttered the words "Jewish terror" for the first time.
After years of our saying there is no Jewish terror, that it's an oxymoron, along comes the Arkansas Baptist and calls a spade a spade: Israeli terror. The right, which for years has claimed that there is no Jewish terror, is correct. There is no Jewish terror. There is – is there ever! – Israeli terror.
Calling this terror Jewish was meant to erase or dilute Israel's direct responsibility. This served the state, of course. But it also served Israelis, who could keep telling themselves that there's this group of extremists that doesn't represent the state, much less them.
But then Huckabee came, unpacked the lie and placed the responsibility on Israel, collectively. He is right. The terror in Qusra, in Tell, is Israeli. The State of Israel, not Weiss or Shimon, is responsible for it. It is carried out on its behalf and represents it, and we should wake up and recognize that to the world, it represents us. All Israelis.
The world no longer buys our distinctions between the true (and beautiful) Israel and the (ugly) Israel on every screen in the world, and rightly so. We should accept that from a historical perspective, we are all Weiss, Ben-Gvir and Smotrich.
The terror in Qusra, in Tell, is Israeli. Calling this terror Jewish was meant to erase or dilute Israel's direct responsibility
