Were we really just discussing the poor Palestinians?

Shabbat has just ended here in Israel, and the first glimpse at the news is horrifying.

Last night in the town of Itamar, at least one palestinain terrorist (do I really need to be so redundant?) cut or climbed over the fence that surrounds the small town, broke into a private home through a window, and proceeded to fatally slit the throats of five members of a sleeping family in their beds.

Among the dead are both parents, and three children aged 11, 3 and two months. Two other child sleeping in another room survived, as well as their 12 year old sister who returned from a Bnei Akiva (youth group) event to find her family slaughtered.

Itamar is in an area where several key IDF checkpoints had been removed in recent months as a 'confidence building gesture' to the Palestinians.

The following statement from the Palestinian Authority's foreign minister al-Maliki, pretty much sums up who we're dealing with:
 
"No Palestinian in the past killed an infant and butchered people in such way based on a nationalistic or vengeful motive," he said. "This raises doubt as to Israel's rush to accuse the Palestinians of committing this act." [source]
 
While I stand by most everything I wrote over the past couple of days, I don't for a minute regret any of the inconvenience caused to the Palestinian population in the name of security. Their leadership fills the news and education curriculum with hateful incitement, and then when the inevitable terror occurs, they refuse to even own their own blood-soaked history.

Not surprisingly, most of the countries who closely follow Israel's real and imagined transgressions must have missed this latest murderous rampage. Or so it would seem by their silence.