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by Dr. Rafael Medoff, historian and author
Some important new statistics about the Arab-Israeli conflict were released this week by Rescuers Without Borders, an Israeli NGO.
Attempts by Palestinian Arab terrorists to stone Jews to death in the Judea-Samaria (West Bank) region in 2025: 3,299
Attempts to burn Jews to death with firebombs: 458
Incidents in which Arab terrorists tried to cause Jewish motorists to crash by using laser pointers to temporarily impair their vision: 655
Arab bomb attacks: 286
Arab shooting attacks: 19
Jewish casualties as a result of those attacks: 24 dead, over 400 wounded
Total number of Palestinian Arab terrorist attacks in the territories last year: 5,051
And a few additional numbers from 2025 to think about:
Number of editorials in the New York Times demanding that the Palestinian Authority ban, arrest, or extradite terrorists: Zero.
Number of governments that used their aid to the Palestinian Authority as leverage to press the PA to stamp out terrorism: Zero.
Number of UN resolutions condemning Palestinian Arab terrorist attacks: Zero
Does the wrong doing of others give us permission to do the same?
And if we feel we can do eye-for-eye, does it solve the problem?