I am in no way condoning violence by anyone.
But there is a Palestinian organization, Maata, that eagerly counts cases of Palestinian violence - which it calls "resistance operations."
Are there 100 incidents a month? Well, in July, they counted 1,132.
During the month of July, the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem recorded an escalation in various forms of resistance operations, including shooting operations, armed clashes, and effective run-over and stabbing operations, which led to the killing of (2) Israelis, and the wounding of (50) soldiers and settlers with various injuries, bringing the occupation death toll to rise.The total number of operations that were monitored during the month, according to the Palestine Information Center - Maati - was 1132 acts of resistance, including 97 shootings and armed clashes with the occupation forces....The popular anti-occupation activities also continued, and the number of demonstrations and marches reached 49 demonstrations, 334 stone-throwing operations, 413 direct confrontations with the occupation forces, 14 Molotov cocktail-throwing operations, and 117 attacks response operations.against settlers across the West Bank.
Yes, according to Palestinian reports, there are more Palestinian attacks on settlers than settler attacks on Palestinians!
But to the BBC and Amnesty, only attacks by Jews are worthy of being reported.
During the first half of the year, Maata counted 6,704 "resistance actions" which Maata called "a remarkable and qualitative escalation in the forms of popular and armed resistance." That's not 100 attacks a month - it is 1,100 attacks a month. They claim over 400 attacks of incendiary devices including IEDs, Molotov cocktails and fireworks, and hey say they destroyed 175 Israeli vehicles.
They might be exaggerating. But that is part of the point: they are so proud of attacking Jews that they want to make the militantsappear as effective as they can. To them, these are heroes.
Israelis do not consider settlers who attack Arabs for no reason to be heroes.
Where are the BBC stories about these statistics? Where are the Amnesty memes condemning them?
They are non-existent, and they will remain that way. Because there can only be one set of victims in this conflict, and Jews can never be counted among them.
This is bias. Not that this bothers the BBC and Amnesty in the least..
