This Ongoing War..
04 April '13..
The BBC says this morning
Palestinians shot dead by Israeli fire in West Bank | Two Palestinian teenagers have been shot and killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank city of Tulkarm after clashes between soldiers and youths. One teenager was confirmed dead on Wednesday while the body of a second youth was found on Thursday. [more]
The actual facts, as distinct from the BBC's characteristic way of telling such narratives (in particular: the Palestinian Arabs are always having things done to them, never actually act), involves one specific location, two fatalities and a background of much rioting, violence, growing danger and cynical manipulation.
Last night (Wednesday), a group of Palestinian Arab men and boys launched a hail of Molotov cocktails (firebombs) and rocks at an IDF security checkpoint located close to the Israeli community of Einav, and quite near to a Palestinian town, Anabta, 9 km east of Tulkarem. The soldiers returned fire, and Times of Israel, quoting a spokesman for the Palestinian Red Crescent, says Amer Ibrahim Nassar, 17, took a bullet in the chest and died. A later search of the area turned up another dead Palestinian Arab youth, as yet un-named. Times of Israel says a third Palestinian Arab man was sent to hospital in Tulkarem, and more may have been hit as well. On the Israeli side, a soldier was injured from the onslaught of rocks and explosive material.
The background is that throughout the day on Wednesday, there were dozens of attacks by Palestinian Arab mobs on IDF security emplacements and soldiers in towns and villages, as well as the public roads, throughout the West Bank. Molotov cocktails and burning tyres have been the preferred modes of attack until now, along with rock/cement block hurlings at Israeli civilian vehicles traveling the West Bank's roads. (This includes attacks on ambulances. Why are we not surprised?) In this connection, please see "2-Apr-13: Justice and rocks" to give those cowardly and only-too-lethal assaults some essential context.
The whipping up of furies and frenzies attracted the attention of a veteran commentator, Amos Harel, in Haaretz: "Palestinian Authority using prisoner's death to keep up populist struggle against Israel". He makes some important, and mostly little noticed, points about the death of a terminally-ill, heavy-smoking convicted terrorist prisoner and the rioting staged in its wake:
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