09 July '13..
Sometimes you've just got to wonder, but then you remember who you're dealing with and decide to share with the wider world. This has a bit of the "Groundhog Day" quality to it, where he finds himself in a time loop, repeating the same day again and again, except in this case, the same photograph, again and again.
From today's Al-Qassam website:
Two hundred Israeli settlers storm al-Aqsa mosque
09-07-2013,08:38
Al Qassam website - Nearly 200 Israeli settlers stormed Monday morning al-Aqsa mosque under Israeli police protection in flagrant provocation to the Palestinian worshipers and students who started shouting 'Takbir', al-Aqsa Foundation For Endowment and Heritage said.
Since the early morning hours, 5 settler groups stormed al-Aqsa mosque from Mughrabi gate, including youths, children, mentors and soldiers in their military uniforms, the Foundation added. The settlers were shouting and laughing out loud and showed no respect for the place.
Israeli settlers escalated their break-ins into al-Aqsa mosque recently as part of the Israeli plan to divide the mosque and to impose a fait accompli in the holy city.
Pretty fierce looking, although the background doesn't look much like the Temple Mount/al-Aqsa mosque area. Also the M-16 assault rifle, men wearing tefilin and talit, very questionable.
But then again on the al-Qassam website 19 March '13:
Jewish settlers damage Palestinian tractors in Nablus village
19-03-2013,08:19
Al Qassam website - Jewish settlers raided the outskirts of Burin village, near Nablus, on Monday morning and damaged a number of tractors used by Palestinian farmers in tending to their land.
Eyewitnesses said that the settlers, coming from Bracha settlement, also chased a number of Palestinian shepherds and tried to assault them.
They said that Israeli occupation forces arrived to the village to protect the settles and to convince them to withdraw out of fear that inhabitants might retaliate against what they have done to their property.
And before that at Uruknet.info 18 September '08:
Pogrom in Nablus
There is an unsaid understanding between the army and settlers
Khaled Amayreh
September 18, 2008
With ostensibly tacit consent from the Israeli occupation army, gangs of Jewish terrorists, otherwise known as settlers, have been assaulting unprotected Palestinian civilians and their property in many parts of the West Bank.
The most serious incident took place at the village of Asira Al-Qibliya south of Nablus this week when dozens of heavily armed settler terrorists rampaged through the peaceable Arab community, shooting randomly at terrified Palestinians and vandalising their homes and cars.
Fearing for their lives, the villagers had either to flee the village or barricade themselves in their homes as Israeli soldiers refused to make genuine efforts to stop the rampaging settlers. Footage of the incident, obtained from the Israeli human rights group, Btselem, showed Israeli soldiers present at the scene of the rampage, but virtually doing nothing to stop violence.
At the end of the attempted pogrom, eight locals were injured, including two sustaining serious gunshot wounds. ...
And one more step-back in time, The Electronic Intifada, 11 September '06,
Report: Settlers continue to commit violence against Palestinians with impunity
Yesh Din
11 September 2006
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| Israeli soldiers imposed curfew on the Palestinian population of the West Bank city of Hebron to allow Israeli settlers to visit and pray in Hebron, 3 August 2006. (MaanImages/Mamoun Wazwaz) |
While the caption leaves what to be desired, as the city of Hebron was not placed under curfew, this is likely the original photo and date from Maan images. Those pictured are on their way to the burial cave of Otnial ben Kenaz, which is visited once a year on Tisha B'Av.
And now it would seem that we've come to the point of origin, not storming the Temple Mount, or raiding villages outside of Nablus, but according to Maan's caption an activity while not meeting with their approval a tad closer to the truth. Happens sometime, albeit seven years ago, even in the world of Arab journalism.
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