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The same Islamist terrorists who attacked Paris are trying to destroy Israel and those who don’t acknowledge that are hypocrites, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Nov. 19.

Netanyahu made the comment after a pair of fatal terror attacks on Israelis in Tel Aviv and Gush Etzion that claimed five lives.

“This struggle did not begin yesterday, and will not end tomorrow,” he said. “There is no immunity for the terrorists, we will settle accounts with them, extract a price from their families, destroy their homes and revoke their residency.”

Netanyahu said Israel’s security forces will not hesitate to use any effective measure to defeat terrorism and ensure residents’ security.

“Those who will not learn the lesson of the power that we will use now, will pay a heavy price,” he warned.

UN Middle East coordinator Nickolay Mladenov, who has been critical of Israel’s methods of fighting Islamists, on Nov. 19 extended his “deepest condolences and sympathies to the families of the victims of the abhorrent terrorist attacks in Paris, Beirut and the Sinai.”

While not mentioning terror attacks against Israel, Mladenov went on to “reiterate” the UN’s “resolute condemnation of all terrorist attacks.” He specifically mentioned seven Palestinians, “injured in settler-related violence,” but said nothing of the Israeli motorists wounded in rock-throwing incidents last month throughout Judea and Samaria, according to a Jerusalem Post report.

Mladenov also said “punitive demolitions” of the homes of alleged terrorists are “illegal under international law.” He also criticized Israel for arresting terrorist suspects in hospitals, adding “the use of firearms by Israeli security forces should be employed only when less extreme means are insufficient to address an imminent threat of death or serious injury.”

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin said on Nov. 19 that “our hearts are pained and broken. The pain is the same pain. The mourning is the same mourning in Tel Aviv, in Paris, in Gush Etzion, and in the Sinai. The pornography of death is striking across the world.”

Meanwhile, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls on Nov. 18 said its is a “French tradition to fight jihad and radical Islam in every way possible.

“Terrorism has struck countries in the region; Israel, of course, but also other countries in the Middle East. The first victims of terrorism are the Muslims themselves. Therefore, we have to fight terrorism in the name of universal values.”

Valls said that after the attacks on Paris on Nov. 13, “the international community is waking up. Europe, Russia, which was directly harmed by a Daesh attack, and the U.S., of course, which is at the head of the coalition – we are working with them closely,” he said.

Member of Parliament Meyer Habib, a French-Israeli who represents French citizens abroad in Israel and other countries, said it was time for the free world to “put an end to jihad, once and for all, Sunni and Shi’ite.”

Habib said that radical Islam developed in France because of logistical support from Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Qatar sand said it would be a mistake for anyone to choose a side against Sunnis or Shi’ites, as opposed to radical Islam in general.

“Can you promise that, as long as these countries are involved in terrorism, France will not promote treaties with them, like we have in the last 40 years in the Middle East?” he asked.

  Manuel Valls, Netanyahu: Those who don’t condemn terror in Israel as they do in France are hypocrites, Nickolay Mladenov, WorldTribune.com