Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday departed for the US, for a meeting with President Obama and a speech before the General Assembly. As he was leaving, Netanyahu said, “We are in the midst of a very important diplomatic week for the State of Israel. I am leaving now for the United States. There I will first meet with President Obama and I will thank him for the great and important security assistance to the State of Israel over the coming decade. I will then address the United Nations General Assembly. I will present Israel’s case, Israel’s truth, Israel’s justice and also Israel’s heroism – the heroism of our soldiers, our police officers and our citizens, who are waging an uncompromising struggle against brutal terrorism.”

“I expect from the international community a uniform standard in the war on terrorism,” Netanyahu insisted. “Today the entire international community says that there is a need to wage a determined and uncompromising fight against terrorism. And indeed, they must also support the determined and uncompromising fight against terrorism, and this moral clarity is necessary to both fight against – and defeat – terrorism.”

French President Francois Hollande is calling for more resources for his country to prevent, let alone to fight the terrorism in its midst. He made the declaration while speaking at a special commemoration ceremony Monday dedicated to the victims of terror over the past two years in France.

Hollande noted that more than 230 people have been killed in terror attacks since the start of 2015. Hundreds more have been wounded and otherwise affected by the slaughter.

“We must ensure that the action taken is sustained, and here I am talking about all the measures taken to foresee attacks, deter them and stop them. It’s a constant battle and will need still more resources than those I have called for,” Hollande told those gathered.

Radical Islamic terrorists murdered 17 people in January 2015, including a number of Jews who were targeted at a kosher grocery store a few hours before the start of the Sabbath.

But 130 were slaughtered in a multi-site coordinated attack on Paris on November 13, 2015 that prompted the government to declare the country under emergency law.

This year, a lone wolf killer drove a truck into a crowd in the southern city of Nice during the country’s Bastille Day celebrations, leaving 86 dead and numerous others wounded. Other attacks included the murders of a police chief and his female partner, and the ritual murder of a priest on the altar of his own church by an Islamic State terrorist.

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked told the Jewish National Fund in New York on Sunday that the Boycott, Divest and Sanctions movement is the new face of terror.

Shaked, a top official with Israel’s Bayit Yehudi party, addressed the JNF Conference in New York on Sunday, speaking on the issue of the BDS Movement and how its activities impact Israel in daily life. She condemned the movement, likening its activities to the tunneling of the Hamas terrorist organization in Gaza.

“The BDS movement is digging tunnels to undermine the foundations and values of Israel,” she said. “We have to stop these tunnels as well.”

The movement constitutes an existential threat at its core, she added. “Supporters of the BDS movement are attempting to destroy our very right to exist. They refuse to accept our most natural, basic and simple right: the existence of the State of Israel.”

Regardless of what mask terror wears, she said, one simple truth stands out: “You cannot defeat the enemy unless you call it what it is. That is why I am not afraid to do so. We are fighting Islamic extremism,” she said pointedly, underscoring a fact that has not once been uttered during the entire eight years of the entire reign of the the Obama administration.

An Arab woman raised suspicions of IDF soldiers during an operation near the town of Itamar.

As the soldiers approached her, she pulled out a knife towards the soldiers, and then tried to run.

No one was injured.

The terrorist was arrested.

A group of 18 Arabs from the Palestinian Authority without Israeli entry permits were caught Saturday by Israel Police.

Police signaled towards a van in which they were riding on Route 5 in the Sharon Plains on Saturday, directing the driver to pull over.

The driver, however, instead tried to outrun the Israeli police vehicle, which gave chase – but instead came up against a checkpoint which was set up to block the runaways further down the road.

Once forced to stop, the group exited the vehicle and began racing in all directions, but eventually were caught and arrested.

All of the illegals were taken into custody and held for questioning.

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A friend posted an image to Facebook and right away, something struck me as wrong. How is it possible that only two Americans were killed annually by “Islamic jihadist immigrants” and a total of nine were murdered by “Islamic jihadist terrorists (including US citizens)? Something was wrong…until you read the fine print below the table. Then what was wrong is understandable, while at the same time, another problem becomes clear.

No, this table is not about the statistics of 2016, not even 2015, nor 2014 or 2013. What this image does is take into account ten years without considering that in the last few years, Islamic terrorism has shown a sharp rise.

To further encourage the reader to dismiss any concerns, it uses the tactic of hiding the trees in a forest of unrelated statistics. Note that armed toddlers have killed 21 people in the same period of time, lightning has killed 31, and lawnmowers have been involved in the deaths of 69. And by far, the worst seems to be “falling out of bed” (737), which is only beaten by “being shot by another American” with a grand total of 11,737.

What you are supposed to get from that is a sense of calm, unless you are related to the average of nine people killed yearly, and ignoring the 49 murdered in Orlando just this year and the 2,977 murdered on 9/11.

I’m sure they are totally comforted to know that their relatives were more likely to have been hit by lightning. Yeah, I can hear them being comforted…not.

It took me a few seconds to read the fine print at the bottom of this table/infographic, and when I did, I felt equal shares of anger and disgust, both stemming from the same place. Note the first little note. This is a 10 year average. So, it doesn’t include September 11, because that would scare Americans. And, by taking a 10 year average, rather than looking at just 2016, we can somehow blur over the 49 people murdered in Orlando.

Further, we’re only talking about dead, so we can ignore the four people slashed with a machete in Columbus Ohio in February and the police officer who was shot three times “in the name of Islam” in Philadelphia.

What the Huffington Post is attempting to do, almost successfully, is belittle the number of Americans attacked and murdered by Islamic terrorists because, after all, so many more are murdered by lightning and beds and lawnmowers and toddlers with weapons. This seems to be the goal of those who share it on Facebook as well.

I’ll ignore lightning as I doubt there is much anyone can do to avoid a lightning strike (other than staying in basements with no windows while sitting rubber mats during rain storms). What beds, buses, lawnmowers and toddlers have in common are that these are accidents that were not intentional. Hamas fires on a city in Israel, their target is the Israeli citizen; their goal, murder and terror. When they miss, they mourn and we celebrate. When Israel fires on Gaza, our target is a precise military target. Our goal is to stop further attacks. When we miss, we mourn and they celebrate. Our goal is to MISS civilians; their goal is to hit them.

The goal of a bus, a bed, a lawnmower and a toddler is not to murder innocent people. The goal of an “Islamic-jihadist immigrant” and/or “all Islamic-jihadist terrorists (including US citizens” is to murder, glorify Allah and Islam, and cause terror.

The reason that this table bothers me so much is that it is a symptom of what is wrong in America, the need to rationalize away the true dangers of terrorism and minimize and ignore the existential threat these dangers pose to the very fabric of American society. When I pointed out that rates are higher in the Western Europe, a friend quickly reminded me that this was about America. Yes, I guess that makes what is happening in Western Europe – in Brussels and London and Paris and Nice irrelevant, right? After all, it didn’t happen in the US…

Where you can’t change the statistics, apparently the best thing some Americans can do is manipulate the numbers. At least 49 Americans were murdered by Islamic terrorists this year; at least 100 were wounded. For a time, Wikipedia even removed the Orlando victims from this category despite the clear evidence that the attack was motivated by Islam (remember the terrorist yelling Allahu Akbar?). Over 200 people murdered in France, let’s not count them!

Some victims in the US have been viciously stabbed or slashed with knives – let’s not count them!

Almost 3,000 were murdered by terrorists on 9/11 – how does that number translate to an average of 2 per year? I guess it takes a lot of years and a lot of cowardice but apparently, it can be done.

Look at this graph below, but focus on the last four years presented. Clearly, over the last four years, there has been a marked increase in the number of terror attacks in the US.

Yes, more people apparently died over the last ten years because of lawnmowers – likely something really stupid that THEY did. On average, 21 toddlers were armed enough to kill themselves or someone else – again, utter irresponsibility and stupidity. A lot of people were hit by buses – does anyone think there is a conspiracy by bus drivers to murder people?

In the last few years, terror attacks in the US and Western Europe have clearly become more common. I question not the interpretation of the fact, but the almost-desperate need to deny it, to manipulate it into the world of innocuity (and yes, that’s a word). Why?

Why is it so important to put terror deaths “in perspective.” Where is the outrage that these deaths, these intentional murders were perpetrated against unarmed Americans in the streets of your country? How are these murderers mitigated by lightning strikes or people who fall out of bed and die?

Islamic, fundamentalist, extremist violence is on the rise. Even the life of one American is too much, never mind the nearly 50 lives destroyed this year. When American citizens are more upset by what they think Donald Trump said, than the stabbing and slashing and ramming and shooting of American citizens in the name of Islam, I am truly left wondering where the nation of my birth has gone.