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Israelis must fight

The well-respected Israeli legal organization Honenu claimed that the two youths arrested for the fatal arson attack on a Palestinian Arab house were tortured into making confessions.

This would not be surprising since both the Israeli police and the Israeli secret services are left-oriented and have a history of falsely arresting and torturing religious national Jewish youth and sometimes holding them for months for crimes they didn’t commit.

Thus, we will probably never find out what really happened, as one of the Honenu lawyers said.

Even if the youths are guilty, one can understand their frustrations.

Jews are being attacked and killed on a daily basis, encouraged by Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority.

In spite of this, the Israeli government does nothing against these murderers.

Since the government will not protect its citizens, the citizens themselves have to find a way of fighting back. The major responsibility for the arson attack and deaths lies on the shouldersr the arson attack and deaths lies on the shoulders the Palestinian Authority and the Israeli government.

Peter E. Goldman,

Hollywood

This story was originally published January 11, 2016 at 8:17 PM with the headline "Israelis must fight."

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