NY Times Four attacks by Palestinians
in Jerusalem and a city 40 miles away killed three Israeli Jews and
wounded at least a dozen others in two hours on Tuesday morning, the
police said, the most intense eruption so far in two weeks of escalating
violence that has alarmed Israel and flummoxed its security forces.[..]
The
outbreak of violence on Tuesday came after four stabbing attacks on
Monday in Jerusalem, including one in which a 13-year-old Jew riding his
bicycle was critically wounded by two Palestinian cousins, 13 and 15.
The younger assailant was hit by a car and severely hurt as he tried to
flee, the police said, while the older one was fatally shot by officers,
prompting outrage.
Nabil
Abu Rudeineh, spokesman for President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian
Authority, called the killing of the 15-year-old a “heinous crime” and
compared it to an episode widely seen as having helped incite the second
Palestinian intifada, or uprising, in 2000.
“If
the Israeli government continues with this escalation of this dangerous
method of executions, the region will be in a position that cannot be
controlled, and everyone will pay a heavy price,” Mr. Rudeineh said in a
statement reported by Palestinian news outlets.
Riyad
Mansour, the Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations, sent the
Security Council an urgent letter on Monday night listing numerous cases
in which Israeli forces fatally shot attackers, as well as people
protesting against Israel’s occupation in the West Bank and rushing
toward the fence that separates Israel from the Gaza Strip.
“Each
day that passes, more innocent lives are lost, as is any hope to reach a
peaceful two-state solution in the future,” the letter says. “The
violations mentioned above should trigger immediate action by the
international community, including the Security Council, to finally take
measures to provide the Palestinian civilian population with immediate
protection.”
There
have been more than 20 attacks, mostly stabbings, already this month,
killing a total of seven Israeli Jews. At least 11 of those suspected of
being assailants have been shot dead by Israeli security forces or, in
one case, a victim who pulled out a pistol. Most of the attacks have
been in Jerusalem, but violence has also struck in Kiryat Arba, an
Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank; in the cultural and
financial capital, Tel Aviv; and in far-flung, normally peaceful towns.[...]
This is actually completely consistent with the current liberal mindset. To wit:
ReplyDeleteIsrael doesn't belong in the Middle East. It is a colonialist imperialist entity placed there by European and American powers who wanted to give the Jews something after allowing the Holocaust to happen. Now, given that there are 6 million Jews and a whole society with infrastructure there it's useless to simply wish Israel would disappear. However, since it's in the wrong simply for existing any violence committed against it is excusable as legitimate resistance and any efforts it makes to defend itself are crimes because they perpetuate its criminal existence.
And who told you the Jews don't fight back? This typical cries of Kozak haNigzal crying Wolf. They need some more injections cast in lead to calm them down. Jewish blood is not hefker.
ReplyDeleteAre these guys Palestinian or Israeli Arab? In other words, are they coming in from the West Bank or Gaza or are they local?
ReplyDeleteThey are testing their new status of observer in the UN, that is why they have become more brazen.
ReplyDeleteTo them (Palestinians, Europeans, UN, state department, ny times) its the same thing. Palestinians, west bank, gazan, israeli arabs.
ReplyDeleteOkay. But in thinking about how to deal with the problem, it's not the same thing. Hence my question.
ReplyDeleteEdud, you missed my sarcastic point. The reason no one cares when Jews are attacked but outraged when Jews fight back is because... oh never mind!
ReplyDeleteIn South America the newspapers are not even touching this issue... and they mention something, they use a picture of a dead palestinian surrounded by the cops who killed him with headlines like "Palestinian shot dead in wave of attacks in Jerusalem".
ReplyDeleteI ask: where are the jewish reporters? Journalists? Journal anchors? Why they don't make an open letter to report how wrong the international media is holding this issue?????