The leaders of Israel expressed their condolences to the victims of the Paris terror attacks last Friday, and they also stressed out that France and Israel have the same enemy in radical Islam, with Israel as the frontline.
According to the Washington Post, Israeli officials suggested that the intelligence agencies and units of France have failed the public and that they should have a tougher response to the militants, like the way Israel treats terrorists.
Israel is also trying to connect the recent uprisings in their country to the terror attacks in Paris.
"The time has come for countries to condemn terrorism against us to the same degree that they condemn terrorism everywhere else in the world," said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. "The terrorists who attack us have the same murderous intent as those in Paris."
In a report from ABC News, Netanyahu also expressed his condolences and said, "Israel stands shoulder to shoulder with French President Francois Hollande and with the people of France in our common battle against terrorism."
Netanyahu also used the killings in Paris to defend the strategies that he used against terrorism in his hometown. These strategies are composed of aggressive policies "to control the ground, go into the villages, demolish terrorists' homes and take preventive action against the infrastructures of terrorism."
Palestinian peace negotiator Saeb Erekat also showed his condolence to Paris and pleaded the international community to cooperate.
"As a nation that has suffered from decades of state-sponsored terror, we call upon the international community to cooperate in order to ensure that justice is served for all," said Erekat.
The Washington Post also reported that Ben Caspit, a columnist of the Maariv newspaper, said that it is time for French officials to forget about their liberal traditions.
"As long as the bodies piled up in the ruined cities of Syria and in what had been Iraq, Europe clicked its tongue, condemned, sent a squadron and a half to the ridiculous coalition that is bombing 'ISIS objectives' and hoped for the best," wrote Caspit. "It will have to forget a large part of the values of individual freedom, human rights, and the right to privacy, and it will have to allow the intelligence agency unrestricted invasive surveillance abilities on everyone."
