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How the funeral of the Bibas family highlighted the stark contrast between the defining worldviews of Israelis and their jihadist foes.

The grave of Shiri Bibas and her children in Tzohar in southern Israel. Photo: Chaim Goldberg/Flash90
The grave of Shiri Bibas and her children in Tzohar in southern Israel. Photo: Chaim Goldberg/Flash90

The funeral of Shiri Bibas and her two boys, Ariel and Kfir, and in particular the eulogy offered by grieving husband and father Yarden Bibas, touched the entire world, including many Palestinian Arabs.

Social media commenter “Palestinian Girl,” who says she grew up in Gaza and now lives in what she calls the “West Bank,” reacted to the Bibas funeral by noting its stark contrast to the funerals of Palestinians killed in this war.

“I can’t help but reflect on my own culture,” she wrote on X. Yarden Bibas made “no call for revenge, no death to the Arabs; just endless pain and sorrow from this modern day Job.”

It should be stressed that there is no moral equivalence between innocent victims like Shiri, Ariel, and Kfir on the one hand, and the many Palestinian civilians who have died in this war. Israeli victims like the Bibas family were dragged from their homes and brutally, intimately murdered. The Palestinian victims were the kind...

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