Israel Matzav: Gall: US demands explanation for terrorist liquidation

Gall: US demands explanation for terrorist liquidation

The Obama administration has demanded an explanation from Israel for the liquidation of three terrorists who were involved in Thursday afternoon's drive-by murder of Rabbi Meir Chai HY"D (may God avenge his blood).

Senior Obama administration officials requested on Saturday that National Security Adviser Uzi Arad explain an Israel Defense Forces raid in Nablus during which undercover commandos killed three Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terrorists.

Arad shared intelligence with the officials that Israel had received about the militants, who belonged to the military wing of the Western-backed Fatah movement, and the details of the operation on Saturday that led to their deaths.

The national security advisor, a key aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, stressed that this was a case of self-defense, since the three were behind a terror attack on Thursday in which a settler was shot dead.

I think we should demand an explanation from the US the next time they execute a murderer or the next time their cops are involved in a shoot-out trying to arrest a suspect and end up killing him. What gall! Is there any other country in the world that would be treated with such condescension and contempt by the Obama administration? (Okay, maybe Honduras).

Friday night's action also had a message in it for the Netanyahu government: Two of the three terrorists had been released from Israeli jails:

The dead militants are Raad Sarkaji, 38, a Tanzim activist formerly of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades in the Nablus area, who was arrested in 2002 and released at the beginning of this year; Ghassan Abu Shreikh, 40, who was also a former prisoner in Israel, and Adnan Subuh, 33. Security officials said Subuh had four weapons and a hoard of ammunition when he was killed.

You can look for more stories like that if Israel trades a thousand or more terrorists for Gilad Shalit. But the government will ignore that because it's unpopular to talk about it.

Israel Matzav: Gall: US demands explanation for terrorist liquidation