Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu linked the brutal terror attack in Paris Friday with another in the West Bank, saying Islamic extremism is responsible for both.
It was the second day in a row Netanyahu connected the Paris attack with the lesser known killing — in which two Israelis were murdered at the hands of Palestinian gunman in the West Bank. The prime minister called for the world to “wake up and unite” to combat and defeat the wave of terror.
“In Israel, as in France, terrorism is terrorism and standing behind it is radical Islam and its desire to destroy its victims,” Netanyahu said prior to his weekly cabinet meeting Sunday.
“The time has come for the world to wake up and unite in order to defeat terrorism. The time has come for countries to condemn terrorism against us to the same degree that they condemn terrorism everywhere else in the world,” he said.
The Israeli prime minister also argued that the nations themselves were not to blame for the duo of attacks — but rather the attackers themselves should receive the blame.
“We are not to blame for the terrorism directed against us, just as the French are not to blame for the terrorism directed against them,” Netanyahu said. “It is the terrorists who are to blame for terrorism, not the territories, not the settlements and not any other thing.”
“The terrorists who attack us have the same murderous intent as those in Paris,” he said.
