Two Different Worlds

I am a reader (and occasional editorial contributor) of the Jerusalem Post. I could not help but to remark on two stories that have appeared there in recent days. One story reports that Israel is ignoring illegal Palestinian construction rather than dismantling it as they so often have done with Jewish building (perhaps not wanting to inflame world sensibilities and the already hostile international press) which can be readily contrasted with what happens when Jews build in the so-called occupied territories, so called because Jew-baiters and their self-loathing Jewish peacenik accomplices call them occupied. If natural growth occurs in Judea and Samaria, families grow with children being born necessitating a bedroom addition, a young couple marries and moves out of the homes of parents into a house of their own, a Jew who has made aliyah is joyous because she has had a family member perhaps from the Commonwealth of Independent States (the former Soviet Union) join them but now requires someplace larger, peace patsies like Peace Now document this as colonialist expansionism and present it to the world as an act of aggression against the Palestinians. The Palestinians hold up this burgeoning which would be deemed normal and celebrated as progress any where else in the world as a crime against humanity. Even the US State Department chimes in with the bloom of new or expanding Jewish life on G-d given land being called "unhelpful" or a violation by Israel of past agreements and an obstacle to peace. When a so-called settler builds a shed, I'm surprised if the Security Council does not call a special session to abhor this reprehensible act. Let me now contrast this report with the story that actually appeared first. Anwar Brigith, a 59 year old Palestinian, is to face the ultimate sanction-death-for selling land to Jews. While this has received some coverage, there seems no great outrage in world public opinion which would surely be hysterical if Jews had a law mandating death for their brethren who had commerce with Muslims. How can there be any peace with so pervasive a genocidal and uncompromising mindset ( as Brigith's plight illustrates) on the Palestinian side? Why is there an international fetish against Jews who build, but virtual silence about Arabs who destroy?