444.hu tells its readers a completely different story, just to demonize Israel and delegitimize its right to self-defense.

Supporting, justifying or normalizing the killing of innocent Jewish people is nothing more than the banality of evil, writes Tamir Wertzberger, director of international relations of the European Action and Defense League (APL) on the website of the Action and Defense Foundation.

A week ago, the Israeli Defense Forces managed to capture the terrorist who murdered two Israeli brothers on February 26, near Nablus. Together with the perpetrator, five other terrorists were killed during the firefight that took place in Jenin. 444.hu and the liberal media once again point the finger at Israel, the Israeli army, while presenting the terrorists and random people who were killed in "another" Israeli aggressive action.

444.hu has completely adopted the narrative of Hamas and Islamic Jihad when it tells its readers a completely different story to demonize Israel and delegitimize its right to self-defense.

Political philosopher, writer and Holocaust survivor Hannah Arendt was sent to Israel in 1961 by The New Yorker magazine to cover the Eichmann trial. He coined the term "banality of evil" when describing the Eichmann phenomenon. He was struck by the man's ordinariness, the demeanor of a short, slightly balding, boring bureaucrat in the face of the heinous crimes he was accused of. "Terribly and frighteningly normal," Arend described the figure in front of him.

The main question is how normal can someone be while being accused of killing innocent people? Or how normal can someone be who supports or justifies this?

Abdel Fattah Hussein Kharousha, 49, was such a normal person. He was from the town of Hawara near Nablus and had a wife and children. On February 26, he took up arms and targeted Israeli vehicles. 21-year-old Halel Menachem Yaniv and his 19-year-old brother Yagel Yaacov Yaniv were killed in the shooting. Their only "crime" was being Jewish.

Kharousha's sons, who are probably the same age as their father's victims, immediately fled to Jenin to hide from the Israeli army. Thanks to armed terrorists, he managed to hide for ten days, and finally he and five of his bodyguards were liquidated in a firefight by the Israeli army. Kharousha was a member of the terrorist organization Hamas. Islamic Jihad and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade have already promised revenge. Both terrorist organizations are on the US and EU terror lists.

Like other countries, Israel has a duty to protect its citizens. Putting a state committed to Western democratic values ​​under the same umbrella as terrorist organizations exhausts the concept of absurdity.

This is not a territorial conflict, but a century-old clash of civilizations steeped in anti-Semitism. People who hate others so much because of their religion or race that they are ready to kill them are not normal people. Justifying violence of any kind based on racism is not normal.

People tend to think that the Jewish Holocaust ended in 1945, but the "silent Holocaust" has been going on in Israel for 75 years. They keep killing Jews because they are Jews. This cannot be looked at differently, it cannot be understood. Killing innocent people just because they are Jews is pure anti-Semitism. To support, justify or normalize this is nothing but the banality of evil.

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