Pittsburgh and Har Nof: Two massacres, and the contrast between two societies - by Stephen M. Flatow

One cannot help but note the difference between how American society and its leaders responded to the Pittsburgh massacre, and how Palestinian society and its leaders responded to the Har Nof massacre.

Stephen M. Flatow..
JNS.org..
02 November '18..

For friends of Israel, the scenes from Pittsburgh were all too familiar. Terrorist attacks on Israeli synagogues, yeshivahs, Passover seders and other religious sites and events have been a tragically frequent feature of the Arab war against the Jewish state.

This month marks the fourth anniversary of one of the most notorious attacks in Israel in the past few years. On Nov. 18, 2014, Palestinian terrorists burst into the Kehilat Bnei Torah synagogue in Jerusalem’s Har Nof neighborhood, and shot or axed to death five rabbis (four of them American citizens) at prayer, in addition to an Israeli Druze policeman.

One cannot help but note the striking difference between how American society and its leaders responded to the Pittsburgh massacre, and how Palestinian Arab society and its leaders responded to the Har Nof massacre.

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