President Reuven Rivlin
Source: Yahoo News
Jerusalem (AFP) – Police have opened an investigation into online threats against Israel’s president following his condemnation of “Jewish terrorism” after a firebombing killed a Palestinian child, a presidential spokesman said on Monday.
President Reuven Rivlin had written a Facebook post following Friday’s arson attack by suspected Jewish extremists on a Palestinian family’s home in the West Bank village of Duma.
The attack killed 18-month-old Ali Saad Dawabsha and critically injured left his parents and four-year-old brother.
“More than shame, I feel pain,” Rivlin wrote in Arabic and Hebrew. “The pain over the murder of a little baby. The pain over my people choosing the path of terrorism and losing their humanity.
“Their path is not the path of the State of Israel and is not the path of the Jewish people. Unfortunately, it seems that so far we’ve dealt with the phenomenon of Jewish terrorism limply,” he wrote, calling for concrete measures against such extremists.
Rivlin’s post evoked a wave of more than 2,000 comments, some positive but others attacking him and recalling Israelis killed by Palestinians.
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