Al-Amur later died of his wounds. The Palestinians boil with rage in the face of this double standard. There can be no doubt that Palestinian children are a sub-human species in the eyes of the West. But when the Palestinians take revenge on the Israelis for these murders, by bombs or others means, suddenly the whole machinery of condemnanion and outrage is brought to bear on the Palestinian killers of Israelis. This sly racism informs the establishment's reporting of the Middle East.
Arab blood is cheap.
Israeli army terrorism against Palestinians is met with overwhelming complacency in America. When Israelis shed the blood of Arab children, the West shrugs. Attacks on Jewish or Arab civilians are equally heinous, part of an endless cycle of tragedy which can only be averted when the Israeli aggressors who have stolen the Palestinians' land and shot thousands of them to death, begin to treat them as human beings with inviolable human rights. The murder of adult Palestinian civilians and Palestinian children must cease being business as usual. It is state terror pereptrated by the Israeli government and made possible by American tax dollars, weapons and munitions.