Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a statement Tuesday evening to reassure Israelis that their government was acting to protect them from terrorist attacks and discourage them from vigilantism. “As a state we will settle accounts with all the terrorists and those who dispatch them, and we have already proven our ability to do this,” Netanyahu said. “It is forbidden for anyone to take the law into their own hands, even if the blood is boiling.” He added a call for national unity, pointing out that Tuesday’s terror attack in Jerusalem was the latest in a long line of such attacks which began shortly after the founding of the Zionist enterprise, but declaring “We have always defeated it, and will do so today as well” but this would take patience and a “will of steel, because our enemies are testing our resilience.” Read More
