(Video) The Aftermath of Thwarted Riot: Continuing Muslim Temple Mount Violence

...In recent years the pre-planned Muslim riots have gone unopposed by the Israel police, who have responded by closing the Mount to Jews. This week the aggressive police actions took Muslims by surprise. Today's violence was part of a continued effort to keep Jews off the Mount. The violence seen in these video clips took place while Jewish worshipers were on the Temple Mount.

The Temple Institute..
16 September '15..





Video footage from Wednesday, September 16, Tzom Gedalia (the Fast of Gedalia), shows violent altercations between Muslim supremacists and Israel police on the Temple Mount.



On Sunday, September 13, police forcefully crushed a premeditated Muslim violent riot (click here for video) on the Temple Mount. Local Muslims are incensed that the Israel police made short shrift of their annual violent riots designed to keep Jewish worshipers off the Temple Mount on Jewish holy days. In recent years the pre-planned Muslim riots have gone unopposed by the Israel police, who have responded by closing the Mount to Jews. This week the aggressive police actions took Muslims by surprise. Today's violence was part of a continued effort to keep Jews off the Mount.

The violence seen in these video clips took place while Jewish worshipers were on the Temple Mount.

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Surprise! More misleading BBC reporting on Tisha B’Av Temple Mount rioting

...Johnston’s messaging is of course symptomatic of the BBC’s general approach to this issue. After the rioting on July 26th, Hamas issued calls for one of its ubiquitous ‘days of rage’ this coming Friday (July 31st). BBC audiences have of course been told nothing about that by the media organization supposedly committed to building “a global understanding of international issues”.

Hadar Sela..
BBC Watch..
30 July '15..

In addition to the written report (since slightly, but not significantly, amended) about the rioting on Temple Mount on July 26th which appeared on the BBC News website’s Middle East page and was discussed here, BBC television news audiences saw two filmed reports on the same topic.

Both reports also appeared on the BBC News website. The earlier one – by Mariko Oi – is titled “Palestinians and Israeli police clash at al-Aqsa mosque” and, like the written report, its synopsis misleads audiences on cause and effect, erasing the premeditated nature of the violence.

“Palestinian youths have clashed with Israeli police who have entered the al-Aqsa mosque complex in East Jerusalem.

The Palestinians are understood to have barricaded themselves into the mosque on Saturday.

Israeli media said the Palestinians had intended to disrupt visits to the area known to Jews as the Temple Mount.”

The filmed footage in that report does not show the rioting on Temple Mount at all. Nevertheless, Oi’s commentary is as follows:

“Palestinian youths have clashed with Israeli police at the Al Aqsa complex in East Jerusalem – one of Islam’s holiest sites. The Palestinians occupied the mosque on Saturday and Israeli police said they were planning to disrupt visits to the area which is also sacred to Jews, who call it Temple Mount. When police moved into the mosque they were hit by a barrage of stones. They then forced the Palestinians to back into the mosque and away from the area visited by Israelis.”

Once again this report fails to make any mention of the fact that a high volume of visitors to the Western Wall and Temple Mount was expected on that day due to the fast of Tisha B’Av. Like the written report, this one too leads audiences to believe that violence came as a result of the arrival of the police at the Al Aqsa mosque rather than the other way round.

Later on in the day, viewers of BBC television news programmes saw a second filmed report on the same subject – this time from Alan Johnston. Despite being headlined “Fighting flares at Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa mosque“, that film too includes no footage of the actual rioting on Temple Mount.

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Misunderstanding Democracy and the Police Commandant

Excellent question. Will he resign or be forced to do so?

Police Insp.-Gen. Yohanan Danino

Yisrael Medad..
My Right Word..
25 November '14..




The 'wisdom' of a police officer, the most senior in the force:

It's a mistake to allow right-wing MKs on Temple Mount, Police Chief Danino says

“Anyone who wants to change the status quo on the Temple Mount should not be allowed up there,” Police Insp.-Gen. Yohanan Danino said Tuesday, criticizing Attorney General Yehudah Weinstein for enabling right-wing politicians to incite Arab unrest by visiting the disputed holy site.

...Citing an “extreme right-wing agenda to change the status quo on the Temple Mount,” Danino made his position clear: “We say leave the Temple Mount alone.”

The police chief, whose force has been beleaguered by months of rioting and terrorist attacks, added that declarations by politicians, such as Moshe Feiglin, to change current policy does little more than incite the “Muslim world.”

First, he clashes with another government official.

Second, he misunderstands democracy.

Finally starting to see this is not some passing wave of disturbances

...Those who want to "re-liberate Jerusalem" must understand that sovereignty in all parts of the city, including the most remote Arab neighborhoods, cannot be only defined in a rule book alone, it must be seen in the streets, everywhere, over time, by the renewal of Jewish settlements in all parts of Jerusalem, even if it makes Obama angry.

Nadav Shragai..
Israel Hayom..
23 October '14..

An intifada is breaking out in Jerusalem. Wednesday was its 112th day. It may be a (semi) popular movement but it has long not been spontaneous. The disturbances and continuous attacks on Jews in Jerusalem's periphery is organized and funded by elements identified with Fatah and Hamas.

Many of the 900 arrested in this intifada enjoy legal defense funded by the Palestinian Authority. The huge number of incidents, more than 10,000, their wide distribution over Jerusalem's periphery, their nature, the use of "cold weaponry," such as stones, Molotov cocktails and fireworks -- are all reminiscent of the First Intifada.

This time there are no popular resistance committees, but many small organizations that operate on the neighborhood level. They all carry the slogans of a "popular resistance," preached to them by the Palestinian Authority its president, Mahmoud Abbas. The car attacks, like Wednesday's, may be on one man acts for which intelligence cannot be gathered, but their inspiration comes from the general atmosphere in the city, the loss of deterrence, the continued riots at the al-Aqsa mosque that police seem unable to put down.

There have also been isolated incidents of gunfire, primarily from Shuafat into Pisgat Zeev, which could be seen as the next stage in the third intifada in Jerusalem and the transition to using guns, which are present in the Arab towns and have stopped only being used for "celebratory gunshots."

How About Control and Dismantle, in Place of 'Contain'

...Today is Sukkot. Our ancestors used to take to the streets of Jerusalem and the Temple Mount on the holiday to pray for world peace and a rainy winter. We must eradicate the disgrace to our people and do away with the absurdity of a Jew not being able to murmur prayers in the place about which it is said: "My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations" (Isaiah 56:7).

Dror Eydar..
Israel Hayom..
14 October '14..

We know the rules of the Middle East. The fear of "setting off riots" led to "restraint" on our side, which led to escalation by the Arab rabble rousers who turned the holiest place to the Jewish people into a den of iniquity -- a description by the prophet Jeremiah that perfectly characterizes what a group of familiar Muslims are doing on the Temple Mount, with almost no objection.

The ones who control the Temple Mount control the country. Local Arabs understand that better than we do. They aren't gathering on the Temple Mount because they were seized with an attack of piety. Even there, when they pray, they turn their backsides to the Dome of the Rock, the place of the Holy of Holies of our Temple.

Well-known Islamist groups goad Arab rioters, who regularly humiliate Jewish visitors and threaten a "firestorm" and other old jihadist favorites from the Gaza school of propaganda.

If Jews cannot visit the Temple Mount in peace, Muslims shouldn't be able to, either. The police can absolutely enforce total quiet on the mount. A few dozen rioters aren't a reason to close the site. It's possible to break into the mosque and get control of the bunch of bullies who have barricaded themselves inside. If the Muslims don't respect their own house of prayer and turn it into a bastion for attacks, why should we respect them?

Jerusalem's Silent Intifada

...The world watches Israel as it watches no other nation. One false arrest, one injury or death of an Arab during attempts to make arrests, will result in headlines and international protests. It feels safer to go easy. But it is exceedingly important for Jews to make their presence known in all parts of Israel’s capital; and they must be able to do so free of harassment or physical risk. Protecting its citizens is a primary responsibility of the government.

Arlene Kushner..
Frontpagemag.com..
06 October '14..

The perpetrators in the main of the new silent intifada are male Arabs, mostly young, with Jerusalem residency cards. They have the right to live in Jerusalem, and receive the perks of citizens, but – tellingly – for political reasons have declined to become full citizens.

With increasing frequency in recent weeks, they are out on the streets of eastern Jerusalem and at key eastern Jerusalem locations, actively participating in violent and destructive behaviors. Sometimes they wrap scarves around their faces so they cannot be identified.

Some Arab “unrest” occurs from time to time in the city. Perhaps a demonstration protesting a perceived grievance suddenly turns into a riot. Molotov cocktails might be thrown, or rocks large enough to kill. Municipal infrastructure might incur some damage.

None of this is acceptable, but for the most part, these have been intermittent and localized occurrences. What is happening now is something else: a form of behavior that is more persistently violent and more pervasive.

It comes as a shock to learn, for example, that at least 30% of the cars of the Jerusalem Light Rail are out of commission because of vandalism that takes place at the Light Rail station located in Shu’afat, an Arab neighborhood. This is not a matter of delinquent kids with time on their hands. This is focused behavior intended to undermine the authority of the municipality.

This past week, on the second night of Rosh Hashana, Chanan Kupietzky, 25, and two others were walking towards the Kotel (the Western Wall) when they were accosted by some four Arabs, who began by calling, “Dirty Jews!” At a signal from yet another Arab, they approached Kupietzky and his companions and launched a physical attack. Other Arabs in the area began throwing rocks at the three, and at other Jews who were nearby, wounding one man in the chest.

“It was like an ambush,” Kupietzy said. One Arab came at him with a two-by-four that had nails protruding from it, which was used to strike him repeatedly; ultimately his hand was so badly fractured that he required surgery.

One of the locations that has been most problematic is Har Hazeitim – the Mount of Olives. This is the site of Judaism’s most ancient cemetery, with 150,000 graves. This past week, on one night alone, 40 graves were vandalized.

Who firebombs a grave? Like to guess?

Paula R. Stern..
A Soldier's Mother..
21 May '13..

It's an amazing concept. Why would someone firebomb a grave...and an ancient one at that?

I just read a news article that Arabs have thrown 290 firebombs (and or planted explosive devices) at Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem in the last six months alone (that doesn't count hundreds, perhaps thousands, before that).

I actually know the answer as to why - it comes back to that concept of hating all that is different from them and worse, an attempt to erase any one else's past. Okay, I got that...sick...but I got it.

But seeing that headlines also reminded me of an article I wrote a decade ago. Only, it wasn't about Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem, but her son, Joseph's tomb in Nablus (Shechem).

In February, 2003, Arabs rioted and burned the grave/tomb of Joseph, son of our patriarch, Jacob and his beloved wife, Rachel. Joseph was buried in Shechem after his bones were exhumed by the Israelites as they were leaving Egypt - a promise fulfilled not to leave his bones in a foreign land. His bones were carried through the desert, until they were brought home to rest in the land of his fathers. Only today, his tomb is found inside a Palestinian city. To get there is nearly impossible and only accomplished with an army escort, under strict protection.

Rachel was buried, according to tradition handed down over the centuries, in Bethlehem. You can get to her grave site, but you need to leave your car in Jerusalem and take armored buses - silly...it's only a few hundred yards. The area around the tomb has been fortified, cement barriers erected to protect those wishing to pray beside her grave.

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He is about to throw a bottle of homemade napalm directly at you

Fresnozionism.org..
05 April 13..

Most ordinary Americans are sympathetic to Israel. This is actually surprising, when you consider what the media pushes at them, day after day. For example, this morning my local Fresno Bee newspaper contained part of an article from the NY Times headlined “Palestinians Erupt in anger at Israel,” which began like this:

JERUSALEM — Days before Secretary of State John Kerry’s return to the region, anger and defiance continued to flare across the West Bank on Thursday as Palestinians buried two teenagers killed by Israeli soldiers during protests triggered by the death of a prisoner with cancer while in Israeli custody. …

Clashes between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian youths hurling stones and firebombs erupted there and in other West Bank locations for the third straight day, as Palestinian leaders accused Israel of escalating tensions in order to thwart Washington’s efforts.

“It seems that Israel wants to spark chaos in the Palestinian territories,” President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority told leaders of his Fatah faction at a meeting in Ramallah. “Israel on every occasion is using lethal force against peaceful young protesters, and peaceful demonstrations are being suppressed with the power of weapons. This is not acceptable at all.”

Although firebombs are mentioned, the Times article does not mention that the two “youths” (aged 17 and 18) who were killed were shot while throwing them at soldiers until the 17th paragraph. The excerpt in the Fresno Bee only included the first 8, so local readers did not get the benefit of even this:

The Israeli military said that the youths were hurling firebombs at an army post late Wednesday, and that soldiers responded with live fire; it is investigating the episode.

Here is another account of the incident, from Arutz Sheva, a right-wing Israeli source:

IDF soldiers opened fire on Wednesday night at two terrorists who approached an IDF position near the community of Einav in northern Samaria.

As the two terrorists approached the soldiers, they hurled a firebomb at them. The soldiers returned fire, killing one terrorist and wounding the other.

Personally, I prefer the second version. But even the first is better than the description of the “peaceful young protesters” presented by Mahmoud Abbas, which is all that Fresno Bee readers saw.

Helping Stoke Israeli-Palestinian Tensions at the NY Times

Leo Rennert..
American Thinker..
04 April '13..

Tensions are rising between Israel and the Palestinians in the West Bank and across the Gaza border, fueled by baseless accusations by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas that Israel was responsible for the death of a jailed Palestinian prisoner afflicted by cancer.

So how does the New York Times report this event? With equal, balanced coverage of hard medical evidence pitted against the Abbas-led Palestinian hue-and-cry campaign? Forget it. The Times long ago shed its "all the news that's fit to print'' motto, substituting an all-out pro-Palestinian agenda to shape its news coverage.

A glaring example of this agenda journalism can be found in an article by Jerusalem correspondent Isabel Kershner in the April 4 edition ("Tensions Rise As Israel And Gaza Swap Strikes" page A8).

Here is Kershner's lead paragraph: "Israeli-Palestinian tensions rose sharply on Wednesday with a resumption of clashes at the Gaza border as Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails declared a three-day hunger strike to protest a fellow inmate's death, saying Israel was responsible."

Is Israel responsible for the death of Palestinian terrorist Maysnia Abu Hamdiya, serving a life term for sending a suicide bomber to a Jerusalem café? To say the least, this is a highly inflammatory charge. But does it stand up to further scrutiny? And what does Israel have to say about it? And what evidence is there?

Given the highly-charged accusation against Israel in the lead paragraph, one might expect prompt placement of Israel's response and the actual medical findings. Say in the second or third paragraph? But not at the Times.

Rioting, the firebombs and the dead Palestinian Arabs. Serving whose agenda?

Frimet/Arnold Roth..
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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PA making sure we're on the road to "things" getting "out of hand"

Outside the Ofer prison in north Jerusalem
this week [Image Source]

Frimet/Arnold Roth..
This Ongoing War..
22 February '13..

President Barack Obama is due to visit our neighbourhood very soon. This has implications for the safety of ordinary people in a variety of ways, including massive traffic tie-ups on some of the country's most heavily-traveled roads, to judge from past experience.

But there's a different kind of impact that the Arab/Israeli journalist Khaled Abu Toameh describes in an article today on the Gatestone Institute website.

Palestinian Authority officials have in recent months expressed concern over the lack of interest in the Palestinian issue both in the US and Israel... The Palestinians have been absent from speeches delivered by Obama over the past few months, and the majority of parties that ran in the last Israeli elections did not even mention the Palestinian issue. But now that all eyes are once again turned toward the Middle East in anticipation of Obama's planned visit, the Palestinian Authority is working hard to draw the world's attention to the Palestinian issue, and hoping to achieve its goal by encouraging clashes between Palestinian protesters and the IDF and Jewish settlers in the West Bank. Although the violence has thus far remained on a low flame, it is expected to intensify as the date of Obama's visit approaches [more]

He believes the PA is probably not seeking full-scale between Palestinian Arabs and Israelis but rather a "mini-intifada" so that

scenes of daily clashes between Israeli soldiers and Palestinians in the West Bank will prompt Obama to exert pressure on the Israeli government to make far-reaching concessions to the Palestinian Authority [more]

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Israeli Arab MKs - Which part of living in a democracy is too difficult for you to understand?

LOTL..
04 October '12..

As should be obvious, context must always be the determining factor when examining incidents that have taken place, hotly contested or otherwise. A yasher-koach to the JPost editorial staff for give the bigger and necessary picture of what occurred during the October 2000 riots, that after 12 years may no longer fresh in many people's memory.

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...It behooves the leadership of Israel’s Arabs to remind its electorate that those who wish to enjoy the perks of Israeli citizenship cannot claim the liberty to abuse that citizenship in order to facilitate the brutal murder of fellow citizens and eventually destroy the state itself...

JPost Editorial: Sakhnin incitement
03 October '12

The country’s Arab parliamentarians managed this week to surpass even their own most strident incitement against the state that bankrolls them and guarantees their rights to subvert it. Speaking in Sakhnin at the 12th memorial to the 13 Arabs shot dead during the October 2000 riots, MKs Ahmed Tibi and Taleb a-Sanaa in effect agitated for violent vengeance, thereby ramping up already inordinately confrontational rhetoric.

This wasn’t just more of their by-now-pervasive in-yourface insolence – the sort to which we’ve already grown inured. This time there were exhortations for an operative translation by fellow Israeli Arabs of the escalated bellicosity.

Not much could be left to the imagination when Sanaa railed: “If the government fails to do justice, we shall. If it fails to punish the criminals, we shall.”

Tibi was hardly more circumspect: “We shall not forget and we shall not forgive. The criminals must be prosecuted and punished. A state which kills its own citizens, and rewards their murderers, is a state which conducts itself with criminal racism.”

This isn’t inconsequential nattering, enunciated today and evaporated tomorrow. Sanaa in effect urged Israeli Arabs to take justice into their own hands – or what they claim to be justice.

Tibi honed a fraudulent sense of victimhood and concomitantly the delegitimization of Israel as both criminal and racist. This follows countless provocative acts and statements, including junkets to Mideastern capitals where Israeli Arab MKs unequivocally sided with the existential enemy of the state whose taxpayers foot their bills and in whose parliament they serve.

THE INFLAMMATORY oratory, moreover, willfully promotes a skewed version of the 2000 riots (which not incidentally coincided with the launching of Yasser Arafat’s intifada just then). Falsehoods are elevated to an axiomatic historiography when all mention is omitted of the fact that rampaging Israeli Arabs besieged dozens of communities within Israel 12 years ago.

A Jewish civilian, Bechor Zhan, driving south from Haifa, was killed by a rock that Jisr e-Zarka youths hurled at his car. Throughout the North, motorists were violently dragged from their vehicles, asked if they were Jews and forced to show their IDs to ascertain their ethnicity. This is what happened to Ya’acov Ben-Hamo of Kibbutz Beit Alfa when driving between Umm el-Fahm and Afula. Fifteen masked Arabs pulled him from his automobile, burned it and kicked him mercilessly. He was barely rescued by a passing bus driver.

The ambulance eventually summoned to treat Gershon Adani’s severe wounds couldn’t get through the Arab mob’s roadblock. Adani was assaulted while driving to his home, near Acre. When his Jewishness was established, a whooping war cry went up: “Yahudi [Jew]!” It was immediately followed by the bloodcurdling “Itbach el-Yahud [slaughter the Jew]!” Adani was pelted with bricks and rocks and beaten to a pulp for being a Jew. He somehow managed to flee, with his attackers in hot pursuit. He hid, bruised and bleeding, in a fruit grove while they prowled about, trying to locate him and finish the job.

Simultaneously other Arabs, in Jaffa – a hop and a skip from Bat Yam and downtown Tel Aviv – singled out Jewish stores to vandalize. They marked the windows of businesses not owned by Arabs, so that only Jewish property would be ransacked.

These weren't isolated incidents. At the Nitzanei Oz Industrial Park in the country’s Center, which provides employment for Arabs from nearby towns, frenzied men burned four plants to a cinder.

It behooves the leadership of Israel’s Arabs to remind its electorate that those who wish to enjoy the perks of Israeli citizenship cannot claim the liberty to abuse that citizenship in order to facilitate the brutal murder of fellow citizens and eventually destroy the state itself.

Incendiary speechifying from Israeli Arab public figures does a grave disservice foremost to their own communities.

Reiterated lies trap ordinary folk in a vicious cycle of self-deception and self-imposed isolation. Disingenuous politicians confine their voters in a subjective counterfeit reality, which provides fertile ground for further incitement, violence and terror.

The radicalization of the Israeli Arab sector becomes a cynical vote-getting formula, and this is foremost that sector’s homemade tragedy.

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Wilder - 'September' in Hebron

David Wilder
www.hebron.com
21 September '11

The long awaited 'September' is upon us. The so-called war for 'palestinian statehood' is being fought by teenagers, (and younger) throwing rocks (as seen in the video and photos below) in Hebron. These pictures and video (all filmed by myself) were taken behind Beit Hadassah, where I live, from one of our bedroom windows, looking north.

These scenes are not new or necessarily unusual. They are quite redundant, occuring any time the Arab leadership decides that the kids need a day off from school with something constructive to keep them busy and, no, not keeping them off the streets, rather, keeping them on the streets, out of their homes. Nakba Day and other such occasions are great excuses to allow Arab kids to get their arms in shape.

A week or so ago, rocks hurled from the same area, via slingshots, hit outside my daughter's window, on the top floor of the building. During the
'2nd intifada' aka the Oslo War, we were shot at from these areas, with bullets actually hitting inside the apartment.

From nearby rooftops, Israeli soldiers watch the action, occasionally shooting stun grenades or teargas at the attackers, chasing them away for a few minutes. And as can be seen in the first photo, the so-called 'palestinian police' are stationed nearby, standing around, watching the fun, probably wishing they too could participate. Unfortunately, experience has taught that all too often they do participate, but not with rocks. Bullets are much more effective.

This is democracy in action, a 'piece process' in motion, education at its highest levels, helping and assisting Abu Mazen create 'palestine' in the UN.

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Facts and logic do not work on the ideologues

Elder of Ziyon
09 January '11

Ha'aretz this morning (09 January) has another article that twists the facts of the Abu Rahma case. This one, by Gideon Levy, blames the IDF for what he thinks is clear evidence that Jawaher Abu Rahma's death, and he calls the IDF spokespeople liars.

Now there is no doubt that the IDF has not handled this as well as they should have. But what is even more clear is that there is no way that a healthy person with no other medical condition will be killed by a weak concentration of tear gas that hovered for a few seconds from between 150 and 500 meters away, depending on the version of the story.

So I commented on the story:

Never in history has anyone been documented of dying from CS tear gas inhalation outdoors - let alone from 150 meters away from the gas source. Never. It is essentially impossible to breathe in a lethal concentration of CS gas for the amount of time necessary for a healthy person to die in a ventilated area. Levy and Haaretz, by insisting otherwise, are the liars.

I received two responses. The first one was from Darwish:

Thank you for clearing that up. Now can you please list your credentials to lend support to your stated "facts."

So Ha'aretz has scientific credentials that I lack. I didn't know that.

The second one was:

How do you know all this? Researched intensively on tear gas use over the past 50 years have you? Doctorate in the subject? Even if this poor girl did have an underlying condition, it was evidently the gas which led to her death. Whether 99.9% of the population would not have died under the same circumstances is really not the issue. THe IDF should step up and take responsibility. Their constant evasion of responsibility is totally counterproductive.

So I answered:

Sources? Sure!
Physicians for Human Rights 1989 paper on tear gas
Archives of Toxicology vol 77 number 10 (misquoted by Haaretz on Friday)
BMJ June 2009
And, finally, Prof. Dr. Uwe Heinrich in his paper on CS at Waco said "There are no reports on human death related to CS exposure" in 2000.

Haaretz apparently doesn't let me put in URLs, but the reports are out there - IF you care about the truth and not simply finding fault with Israel.

(I had first tried putting in URLs to the blog, which Ha'aretz rejected.)

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Murder, Mayhem, and a Strange Case of Mandate Inertia

Daphne Anson
10 October '10

On the afternoon of 11 July 1938 Lily Tobias (née Shepherd, 1887-1984), from a Yiddish-speaking immigrant family in the Swansea valley, was at home in Mount Carmel putting the final touches to her novel The Samaritans. An aunt of the future famous Welsh-Jewish poet Dannie Abse and his flamboyant politician brother Leo, she was already a published writer. Her The Nationalists, and other Goluth Studies, a book of short stories, had appeared in 1921; her novel In My Mother’s House, which tells of a Welsh-born Jew who rejects, and then reclaims, his heritage, in 1931; her anti-war novel Eunice Fleet, about a conscientious objector, in 1933; and The Tube in 1935.

Lily had made aliyah in 1935, the year before the eruption of Arab disturbances in Palestine, with her husband Philip Vallentine Tobias, who was originally from South Africa, and her widowed father, a retired furniture dealer from Poland. Philip Tobias, who had been active in the Cardiff Jewish community before moving with Lily to London, where he was a founder and leading member of the Finchley Hebrew Congregation, ran a glass company in Palestine. And on that afternoon, as Lily was at work on her latest novel’s closing chapter, he was alone in his car en route to Haifa.

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Security guard blamed for east Jerusalem riots

Just Journalism
23 September 5771

Just Journalism reported yesterday on the BBC online coverage of the violence in East Jerusalem, which started after a security guard shot and killed a Palestinian man. The BBC’s initial account ignored Israeli reports that ‘the guard encountered a preplanned ambush which put his life in danger, prompting him to open fire’ (Ynet), and even an updated version concentrated on tensions caused by settler activity, rather than emphasizing the trigger incident. The broadsheet coverage today has similarly downplayed the initial incident.

Articles in The Guardian, The Financial Times and The Independent gave the story great attention, whilst in The Times, the report on the violence was absorbed into coverage of the peace talks. Notably, the three broadsheets that wrote articles just on the violence failed to give credence to the Israeli reports of the shootings.

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Why We Don’t Have Peace

Jennifer Rubin
Contentions/Commentary
23 September '10

Here’s how it works in the Middle East. An Israeli security guard travels through a section of the nation’s capital (no, dear liberals, East Jerusalem is not a “settlement”). Palestinians set upon him, throwing stones and Molotov cocktails. Afraid for his life, the guard shoots in self defense, killing one assailant. (”The guard, fearing for his life, allegedly opened fire with his personal firearm at a group of rock throwers and killed a resident. Police found two knives and screwdriver on the body of the victim, who had a previous criminal history and was known to police.”) The Palestinians commence a riot, injuring innocent Israelis. The world blames Israel.

Here’s the Palestinian mindset, displaying all its splendid victimology. The residents complain that the assailants should have been “warned” (before of after the Molotov cocktails rained down?) .Everyone gets into the act:

There’s going to be a huge mess in Silwan, something big will happen. They killed a man, what should I do, be quiet? What about his family, his little kids?” asked another neighbor of the victim, who wished to remain anonymous for fear of police reprisal.

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Obama's Rage and the Palestinians' 'Days of Rage'

Marty Peretz
The New Republic
18 March '10
Posted before Shabbat

They are not unconnected. They are not unconnected at all.

Now, presumably the president didn't want to provoke the rage of the Palestinians. (Although, then again, he might just have anticipated it.) But Palestinian rage is very easy to provoke. Snap your fingers and, there, you have it. You don't even have to rent a mob. It comes free will, so to speak.

The fact is that Obama did more than snap his fingers. He sent out very top members of his administration to beat up on Israel and they did. First, Joe Biden who had the sense to protect himself and his soul by speaking his inner feelings about Israel. Then, Hillary Clinton, who may or may not have a soul, launched her shrill assault on both Bibi Netanyahu and Israel's ingratitude for her favors. Last but not least (and actually a true instance of effrontery) was the dispatching of David Axelrod, (who in 2004 was behind John Edwards, "Bill Clinton without the sex") who knows nothing about foreign policy, but maybe being a Jewboy thinks he is more than credentialed to chastise the Jewish state. The fact is that he is an ignoramus on these matters. An "insult," indeed.

What exactly did the Obami think? Maybe that the president would beat up on Israel and the Palestinians would fall into line and modify their demands. My guess, to be entirely frank, is that Obama does not think they have any significant demands to modify, let along give up. And, if I'm right which admittedly I may not be, my counsel to the Israelis would be to stall until the next president comes along. James Baker said, "Fuck the Jews...they don't vote for us anyway." Well, Jews do vote Democrats and did vote for Obama, more than any other voters but black voters (who may not come out to vote so massively this time.) Israel is not all that matters to voting Jews. But it does matter. (Someone at breakfast this morning suggested to me that Obama is like Col. Lindbergh. See Philip Roth's The Plot Against America. But, unlike Lindbergh, whose presidential ambitions collapsed, Obama's succeded.)

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Re: Re: A New Low

Noah Pollak
Contentions/Commentary
13 March '10

The new low in relations between the White House and Israel are especially troubling for two reasons that didn’t apply during previous administrations: one is Obama’s personal peevishness toward Israel and his related desire to distance the United States from the Jewish state and draw it closer to the Arabs; and the second is the Iranian nuclear program.

Regarding the first, it appears to be official policy in the current administration to approach the peace process as an opportunity to reorient the United States’ position between Jews and Arabs in the region. Palestinian incitement, the PA’s public celebration of terrorism, the rioting in Jerusalem, the accusations that Israel murdered Yasser Arafat, and so on — none of these have warranted any American comment whatsoever. In fact, I cannot recall a single time when an Obama administration official has criticized the PA for anything.

Yet the administration publicly upbraids Israel on an almost weekly basis. The administration has adopted a deeply confused stance in which Netanyahu’s agreement to a 10-month settlement freeze — excepting Jerusalem — was praised heartily, yet any Israeli approval for construction in Jerusalem is heatedly criticized, and not by low-level functionaries. Typically it involves Robert Gibbs protesting to the national news corps. One doesn’t have to be an ardent Zionist to understand why the administration’s multi-layered hypocrisy — no criticism ever for the Palestinians, approval and praise for a settlement freeze that is then castigated on a regular basis — is aggravating to the Israelis.

And then there is the Iran issue. I think it’s clear by now that Obama does not wish to make a confrontation with Iran part of his presidency. As I’ve written before, this means that Israeli security fears become a major problem for the administration: surely Obama realizes that one of his most important jobs is therefore preventing the Israelis from attacking.

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