By Tabitha Korol

Re: “Horror in Israel,” November 18, 2014

The New York Times maintains that “two communities appeared increasingly locked in a cycle of hatred and hopelessness.”  The cycle is driven by Palestinians, descendants of 1400 years of Muslim jihadists who raped, looted, enslaved and killed; Tamarlane’s descendants who continue to sever heads.  Muslims are killing at a rate of 1,000 per month worldwide, yet the Times cannot recognize their millions of victims.

The Temple Mount is Judaism’s holiest site, the location of King Solomon’s Temple built in 957 BCE, long before there were Muslims.  Islam usurps land and destroys or builds over ancient artifacts to allege as theirs.  They are today claiming Moses and Jesus as their prophets and say they preceded Christopher Columbus to America. The Temple Mount is new inspiration to fuel yet another jihad demand.  They seek to possess Israel, just as they are doing in Africa, Europe, and ultimately America.

Mahmoud Abbas’s condemnation of the killings of worshipers while arranging to distribute sweets to the murderers’ families and townsfolk rings as hollow as his words after he bankrolled the 1972 Munich Massacre of eleven Israeli Olympic athletes.

The New York Times is locked in a cycle of “Moral Equivalency.”  It is not moral.