Arab MK: Failure to nab Duma attackers ‘authorizes the next attack’

MK Aida Touma-Sliman (Arab Joint List) slams Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon for failing to arrest the perpetrators of the Duma firebombing.

The defense minister told a closed meeting of Likud party members Wednesday that the defense establishment knows who bombed the Dawabsha home, killing three members of the family, in the West Bank village, but that the person was not under arrest in order to avoid exposing intelligence sources in court.

“The Minister of Defense has turned a blind eye towards the extremists who are behind the death of the Dawabshe family. Now he continues to maintain this ugly and contemptuous policy, and states that although he knows who is behind the murder – the atrocious criminals will not be prosecuted. Would that also be the case if a Jewish family was murdered?” Touma-Sliman said in a statement.

“Ya’alon’s statement reveals the system’s tolerant attitude towards settlers’ terror, thus authorizing the next murder. Ya’alon and the system he is heading are fully responsible for the atrocious murder of the Dawabshe family and for the ongoing settlers’ terror against Palestinians.”