Organized, systematic, and continuous terrorism is the worst expected when it is practiced by the so called "state of Israel".

In this essay we quote an act of terrorism practiced by the Israeli Army from an American source which tries to convey the story as it took place in Palestine in the West Bank.

The source is the Palm Beach post Monday, August 28,1989, from an essay written by Joseph Sobran titled as "American Palestinian" boy tortured, slain , is this not terror.

Another American has fallen victim to terrorism in the Middle East, but this time the United States is being careful not to overreact. The president hasn’t interrupted his vacation to fly back to Washington for consultation with his top advisers. The airwaves aren't full of blustering congressmen demanding retaliation. In all likelihood, the killers will go unpunished. They may even be rewarded.

The dead man this time is a 14-year-old boy, Amjad Hussein Jibril. He grew up in Colorado. Three years ago, his parents took him back to Palestine - - the West Bank. A few days ago he turned up dead, his body showing signs that he was tortured and murdered.

A dispatch from Agence France Presse, published in The Washington Times on Aug.21, reported a sequence of events as follows: Amjad left his family on the evening of Wednesday, Aug. 16, to attend prayer services at a mosque in the town where his family now lives, El Bireh. After the service, there was a demonstration. Israeli troops fired on it, and Amjad was among a group of youths who fled.

"What happened to him during the next 48 hours", writes the reporter, Marius Schattner. Some witnesses said Amjad was later seen in an Israeli army jeep. His mother went to Israeli occupation administrators to find him but was told Amjad was not among those who had been arrested. She didn’t believe them. She then went to the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem, since Amjad was a U.S. authorities to investigate the matter.

Amjad’s body was found Aug. 18. It was identified by his cousin, Dr. Walid Tawil, also a U.S. citizen.

"According to Dr. Tawil, a Vietnam veteran", the reporter writes, "Amjad’s teeth had been smashed, his skull had been fractured, his body was covered with cigarette burns, and his left eye was missing".

You may note the disparity in moral indignation between the murder of Lt. Col. William Higgins and the murder of Amjad Jibril. Col. Higgins death caused our politicians and pundits to call for an all-out "war on terrorism". Amjad’s even crueler murder has evoked almost no public reaction, certainly no calls for retaliation - - because any retaliation would most likely have to be directed against our "reliable ally" and fellow champion of "democratic values", Israel. Few of our congressmen even have the nerve to suggest that the United States should distance itself from Israel.

The critic of Israel knows what to expect. The columnist Patrick Buchanan is being assailed as anti-Israel and anti Semitic for asking bluntly just what benefits the U.S. is getting from this costly alliance. Those who revile him have no answer except personal abuse.

Not only abuse, but peculiarly baseless abuse. Mr. Buchanan has never suggested that Israel has no right to exist, or that Jews should enjoy fewer rights than other people. On the contrary, he is applying a single moral criterion to everyone.

The charge ought to be turned around. Anyone who defends Israel’s present laws pertaining to non-Jews and especially its treatment of non-Jews in the occupied territories ought to be asked whether he would approve the similar treatment of Jews anywhere.

To ask the question is to answer it. Any such abuse of Jews would instantly get the infamy it deserved. A torture-murder like that of young Jibril would result in a flood of speeches, articles, probably a book and a movie, not to speak of military reprisal.
And what does our fellow citizen, Amjad Jibril get? As far as I know, one newspaper column, which will probably cause more anger here than his wicked killers. Joseph Sobran is a columnist with the National Review.