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To commit such brutal 
violence, a terrorist has to 
possess a profoundly cruel 
and barbaric mentality. It’s 
not that terrorists who use 
bombs or machine guns 
are any less barbaric. But 
there’s something about such 
an up-close act of violence 
that illustrates an attacker’s 
viciousness in a way that 
more “anonymous” types of 
murder can disguise.
Now let’s consider the 
broader implications of the 
attack. If a Palestinian Arab 
state were established next 
to Israel — as the U.S. State 
Department and the United 
Nations are constantly 
demanding — this is what 
Israelis would face: an 
entire sovereign country 
representing the mentality of 
the screwdriver terrorist.
How do we know that a 
state of “Palestine” would 
act in the spirit of such 
stabbers? Because the 
Palestinian Authority regime 

itself constantly says so. The 
official P.A. news media 
relentlessly praises stabbers 
and holds them up to 
Palestinian society as heroes 
and heroines.
Since the stabber was 
shot dead by an armed 
bystander, his family will 
receive a lifetime of monetary 
payments from the P.A. If the 
stabber had survived, then 

he would have been paid a 
salary by the P.A., as it pays 
all imprisoned terrorists. 
The P.A.’s policy of paying 
terrorists is a statement about 
the values that Palestinian 
Arab society holds dear and 
that a state of “Palestine” 
would embody.
One final thought.
It’s been said before, but 
it has to be said again. If 

the attacker had been a Jew 
and the victim had been 
an Arab, the assault would 
be on the front pages of 
newspapers around the 
world. Americans for Peace 
Now and B’Tselem would 
be shouting about “settler 
violence.” (Of course, the bus 
was driving through Ramot, 
a part of northern Jerusalem 
that is beyond the 1967 lines, 
so the critics would have 
called it a “settler bus.”) The 
Biden administration would 
express “concern” about “the 
escalating violence.”
But since the attacker 
was a Palestinian Arab and 
his victim was a Jew, the 
international community is 
silent. And that silence speaks 
volumes. 

Stephen M. Flatow, is an attorney 

and the father of Alisa Flatow, who 

was murdered in an Iranian-sponsored 

Palestinian terrorist attack in 1995. He 

is author of “A Father’s Story: My Fight 

for Justice Against Iranian Terror.”

Security personnel at the scene of a stabbing attack on a bus near 
the Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramot, where a terrorist stabbed a 
41-year old man with a screwdriver, July 19, 2022. 

YONATAN SINDEL/FLASH90/JNS

RIDING THE BUS WHILE JEWISH from page 4

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