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Saturday evening, right before the end of the Sabbath, an 17-year-old American who just moved to Israel was stabbed near Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate by two Arab kids aged 11 and 15. The victim is said to be released from the hospital today and police now have both child terrorists in custody.
Arab boy fleeing scene of attack
This is another product of incitement by Arab leaders to murder Jews. Will their family members be held liable? Of course not. These children will probably be released home in a matter of weeks. The Israeli government has failed to implement policies to ensure security for Israelis. Many terror attacks have been carried out by Arab children and teenagers. Yet the Israeli government continues to ignore this phenomenon and fails to uproot the dangerous Jihad ideology from its midst, putting Israelis in constant danger and high alert.
One Israeli Minister, Uri Ariel, finally demanded from Prime Minister Netanyahu: “The Israeli government and the political-security cabinet must make a clear decision to deport terrorists and their families to Gaza or any other country which will accept them. Our country must rid ourselves of these murderers.” This is clearly the only immediate solution to prevent future terror attacks.
The Shin Bet discovers videos on Tel Aviv shooter’s cellphone in which he drinks beer, talks about using drugs and insults Jews, Christians, Shiites and Russians. He also threatens Obama to convert to Islam or he will be crucified. Nashat Milhem, the terrorist who killed 3 people a few weeks ago in Tel Aviv, was later found and killed by Israeli officers. Milhem is just another product of PA and Hamas incitement to kill Jews.
Since the Tel Aviv attack, there have been numerous attacks in Israel including the murder of Dafna Meir and a stabbing attack last night in Jerusalem’s Pisgat Ze’ev neighborhood. While the terrorists eventually get caught, we are still seeing a widespread epidemic of Jihad and Islamic extremism in Israel that shows no signs of slowing down since the terror wave began a few months ago.
Surveillance footage of last night’s stabbing attack
Israel’s defense minister Moshe Ya’alon and Greece criticize Turkey for buying oil from ISIS (Daesh) and, in doing so, funding the terror group. Ya’alon said “It’s up to Turkey, the Turkish government, the Turkish leadership, to decide whether they want to be part of any kind of cooperation to fight terrorism. This is not the case so far. As you know, Daesh [Islamic State] enjoyed Turkish money for oil for a very, very long period of time. I hope that it will be ended.” He added that Turkey “permitted jihadists to move from Europe to Syria and Iraq and back.”
These accusations come amid attempts by Turkey to improve Israel-Turkey relations mainly for the purpose of importing Israel’s natural gas. However, Erdogan and Turkey will need to meet specific demands made by Israel including cutting ties with Hamas, upgrading of the relations to full ambassadorial level and cancelling plans to take Israelis to court for the Mavi Marmara incident. Let’s see if Turkey will play nice.
On Tuesday, Ambassador Danny Danon confronted the UN Security Council on its hypocrisy and double standards regarding Israel. “The Security Council has passed 12 resolutions condemning terror in countries around the world, but not once has it condemned acts of terror against Israelis,” he proclaimed.
Ambassador Danon’s full statement at the UNSC Middle East debate
Danny Danon to the Media on the Middle East – Security Council Stakeout
“The challenge for this council is to chart a new course. No more business as usual when it comes to terror against Israelis. The fear is the same fear; the pain is the same pain. The response must be the same response.”
On January 24, 2016, Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Stéphane Dion, called for restraint in Israel and the West Bank by stating the following:
“Canada is concerned by the continued violence in Israel and the West Bank. The violence has persisted for over 100 days. Canada believes strongly in a two-state solution and that negotiations provide the only viable path to peace. As a steadfast ally and friend to Israel, Canada calls for all efforts to be made to reduce violence and incitement and to help build the conditions for a return to the negotiating table. Unilateral actions, such as Palestinian initiatives toward statehood in international forums and continued Israeli settlements, are unhelpful and constitute serious obstacles to achieving a comprehensive, just and lasting peace.”
This statement shows the stance of Canada’s new liberal government and clearly shows they lack an understanding of the reality on the grounds in Israel. The claim that Israeli settlements are an obstacle to peace is absurd. Israel pulling out of Gaza proved the exact opposite. It only achieved more rockets flying into Israel.
The only good in Minister Dion’s statement is that he did not go as far as Ban Ki-Moon who expressed sympathy for Palestinian terrorism during a UN Security Council session. Though the UN Secretary General condemned Palestinian terror attacks, he nevertheless stated the following:
“Security measures alone will not stop the violence. They cannot address the profound sense of alienation and despair driving some Palestinians – especially young people. Progress towards peace requires a freeze of Israel’s settlement enterprise. Continued settlement activities are an affront to the Palestinian people and to the international community. They rightly raise fundamental questions about Israel’s commitment to a two-state solution. As oppressed peoples have demonstrated throughout the ages, it is human nature to react to occupation, which often serves as a potent incubator of hate and extremism.”
So Moon is condemning, yet justifying, the terror attacks on Jews. One can only wonder how Moon would explain the reasoning behind the terror attacks in Paris and California. Were the terrorists there also an oppressed people?
The Palestinian violence is not about settlements or land
The violence on the Arab side is the result of incitement against Jews in general. The incitement is found on PA television and the Hamas charter, as well as influence from Islamic extremist groups such as ISIS. The violence has nothing to do with land in Israel. It has everything to do with Jihad and the thirst for Jewish blood. Most of the recent knife and shooting attacks at Jews were the result of young Arabs being exposed to PA incitement to kill Jews. Israel is trying to expose the Arab incitement to the world, but it seems the new Canada government prefers to blame Israeli settlements on inciting violence. Are we to assume the recent terrorist attacks in Paris and California were also about land? Of course not. It all stems from the same Muslim extremism ideology and Jihad. The Palestinian Authority just uses the “settlement” and “land” card so it can continue receiving international funds and aid while not being labeled a terrorist organization like Hamas.
On the other hand, the IDF, security personnel and civilians that injure or kill an attacking terrorist are doing so out of self defense; not out of hatred or incitement to murder innocent civilians. Even the Israeli military’s name is all about defense: Israeli Defense Forces.
Palestinians are oppressed and under occupation; But not by Israel
If Ban Ki-Moon wants to discuss the occupation that Palestinians are suffering from, then he should point fingers at their leadership, not at Israel. Hamas in Gaza and the PLO in the West Bank, are responsible for the suffering of their people. Simply put, they could stop inciting violence against Israel, make peace and enjoy from the fruits of prosperity that Israel has to offer. But instead, Hamas erects training camps brainwashing children to become martyrs in the name of Jihad, uses international aid and equipment to build terror tunnels into Israel instead of buildings for civilians and both Hamas and the PLO preach the annihilation of the Jewish people. However, even Hamas officials admit that Gaza is not occupied by Israel ever since Israel pulled out of Gaza in 2005.
There is a clear double standard when it comes to the international community blaming Israel for the troubles in the Middle East. Anyone with some common sense can pinpoint the root cause of the Middle East crisis in general and the Palestinian hostilities in particular.
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu condemned Ban Ki-Moon’s remarks today:
“The UN Secretary-General’s words give encouragement to terror. There is no justification for terror. The Palestinian murderers don’t want to build a state – they want to destroy a state (Israel), and they say it out loud. They want to murder Jews wherever they are, and they say it out loud. They don’t murder for the sake of peace and they don’t murder for the sake of human rights. The UN long ago lost its neutrality and its moral authority, and these words of the Secretary General don’t make the situation any better.”
On January 25, 2016, two terrorists went on a stabbing spree in Beit Horon, fatally stabbing Shlomit Kreigman, age 24, and seriously wounding another 58-year-old woman. The two terrorists were later shot and killed by a citizen and security guard. During the stabbing spree, the terrorists tried entering a grocery store but were stopped by the owner and a shopping cart.
After the two terrorists were neutralized, 3 pipe bombs they planted were found in the vicinity. This is just another example of why Israel cannot make peace with a people that are being taught by Palestinian Authority incitement and media to hate, terrorize and murder Jews. The Arab violence and terror wave that Jews are facing in Israel on a daily basis is akin to the epidemic of Islamic extremism that is growing worldwide. The incitement is the same, the hatred is the same and the outcome is the same.
When will the Israeli leaders wake up and really start curbing this violence? How many people have to die, heaven forbid, for the Israeli government to start taking care of its citizens? The truth is, we should not rely on any government or person to help us. As King David exclaimed so pointedly: “Do not trust in princes, In mortal man, in whom there is no salvation…… Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God” – Psalms 146.
Government to set up a COGAT for Israelis
Ministers Ya’alon, Shaked and Ariel to head up new government coordination group for Jewish activities in Judea and Samaria in an effort to end the coalition crisis that resulted from the eviction of some 200 Jews from their purchased homes in Hevron last week.
Hamas Terror Tunnels Collapsing Under Heavy Rain in Gaza
Heavy rains in Israel are a blessing to the land and to the security of the Jews living in the Land as well. The soft sands of Gaza are easy for diggers to tunnel through, but that same softness becomes a death trap when the moisture seeps in from the heavy rains of winter. It is then that the weight of the mud above transforms their work environment into a grave. Regardless, Hamas forces the diggers to continue their work in both directions: creating a network of terrorist tunnels to snake under the borders to infiltrate Egypt as well as Israel.
Qatar said pushing Fatah-Hamas Reconciliation Deal
Qatar is trying to help the Palestinian organizations Fatah and Hamas to mend their fences and reach a unity agreement, which has eluded them for a decade. Fatah controls the West Bank, while Hamas wields power in the Gaza Strip. The two groups have been at loggerheads almost constantly since Hamas won elections in the Palestinian Authority in 2006 and subsequently staged a violent takeover of Gaza.
Arab MKs Threaten Violence Over Enforcement of Building Laws
Government finally moves to crack down on illegal Arab building in Israel, sparking backlash from extremist Arab MKs. Following the announcement that previous legal decisions about illegal building throughout Israel will be more strictly enforced, Arab Join List MKs threatened that Arab Israelis will respond with violence.
US Envoy Apologizes for Timing of His Criticism of Israel
US Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro sought to quell on Monday a flurry over his comments the previous week that charged that Israel appears to institute “two standards of adherence to the rule of law: one for Israelis and another for Palestinians” in the West Bank. The problem is that he is only apologizing for the timing of his comments and not for the comments themselves. The real problem is the US administration’s failure to realize that a two-state solution is not feasible at this time, nor is it foreseeable in the future while the Palestinian people (and Hamas in particular) want to obliterate (as stated in the Hamas charter) the Jewish people.
Rocket Shot from Gaza Hits Southern Israel
No injuries or damage as projectile reportedly falls in open area outside of Palestinian enclave. Tensions with Gaza have escalated since an Israeli airstrike on a Palestinian cell the army said was on its way to plant an explosive device along the border fence.
US condemns Israel’s Jordan Valley land expropriation
Washington on Wednesday condemned a planned Israeli move to appropriate West Bank land near Jericho, the largest such appropriation since 2014, saying the action called into question Jerusalem’s commitment to a two-state solution with the Palestinians. At the same time, the PA is trying to get the UN to declare Israeli settlements as illegal under international law. What the US and the UN fail to realize is that a two-state solution is not realistic, especially at this time. This sentiment is shared by Israeli government officials.
Neta Lavi recounts the horrifying moments leading to husband’s death
Neta Lavi, the widow of Rabbi Nehemia Lavi, recounted Wednesday the moments of terror she experienced watching the stabbing attack in Jerusalem’s Old City during last Sukkot in which both her husband and Aharon Bennett were murdered.
Rivlin: ISIS already present in Israel with support growing
The Islamic State is already present within the country’s Arab communities and support for the group is growing, President Rueven Rivlin said during a national security conference earlier this week. “Research studies, arrests, testimonies, and overt and covert analyses…clearly indicate that there is increasing support for the Islamic State among Israeli Arabs, while some are actually joining ISIS,” he added. In a previous article we discussed that all Palestinian terror is really just an extension of ISIS and global Jihad. It is surprising that it takes Israeli officials so long to confirm this fact.
Israeli Billionaire Creates Industrial Jobs to Foster Peace Between Jews and Arabs Israeli billionaire, Stef Wertheimer, has been investing serious resources in creating industrial parks he believes will foster peace between Jewish and Arab Israelis. He builds these parks in predominantly Arab areas of Israel that are suffering economically. Wertheimer’s industrial parks employ both Jews and Arabs, and he believes that if people are busy working and making money, they will not have time to fight each other.
Palestinian Authority hard-liners blast security cooperation with Israel
PA security commander unveils that PA security forces have prevented some 200 terrorist attacks against Israel since October 2015. Majed Faraj, commander of the PA’s General Intelligence Force, also revealed that his forces have arrested about 100 Palestinians on suspicion of planning attacks against Israelis. His remarks triggered a wave of denunciations from a number of Palestinian factions, including Hamas, that are strongly opposed to security coordination with Israel.
Israeli Medical Association Says British Doctors Trying to Boot Israel From World Medical Association British doctors have submitted a request to the World Medical Association to have the Israel Medical Association expelled. British medical journals have published letters to the editor carrying accusations against Israeli doctors, including malpractice against Palestinian patients. This is the latest in despicable BDS attempts against Israel. If the request is approved, the WMA may be shooting itself in the foot, considering some of the greatest medical research and innovation are conducted in Israel.
Far-left activist arrested at airport is Ezra Nawi The far-left activist recently arrested at Israel’s Ben Gurion International Airport is Ezra Nawi, who was recently exposed entrapping and handing over Palestinians to the PA for execution for selling land to Jews. The identities of the other two suspects are still under a gag order, although it is known that one is a far-left Jewish activist, while the other is an Arab volunteer for the far-left B’Tselem NGO.
Hezbollah Terror Cell in Israel Exposed – Massive Attacks Averted A five-man terror cell, led by the son of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, was exposed in the West Bank town of Tul Karem. The Shin Bet (ISA, Israel Security Agency) and police force thwarted a shooting attack and possible suicide bombing attacks that the cell was planning on carrying out against IDF soldiers and Israeli citizens. Hezbollah gave the terror cell 5,000 dollars while planning to attack Israel.
Muslim woman exudes love for ‘magical’ Israel Farhana Rahman, a young Muslim from New York and a member of an Israeli start-up, declares: ‘I will stand at the front line for the chosen people.’ She posted a Facebook status full of boundless love for the state of Israel and its citizens. Her post is a must-read.
Father of alleged Otniel killer: ‘Why should I be punished for what he did?’ In an interview to Channel 2 television aired Tuesday, Abu Adham expressed concern about Israel’s plan to demolish his home in response to the deadly terror attack performed by his 15-year-old son. “Why should I be punished for what the kid did?” he asked. The truth of the matter is that all the attacks during the terror wave of the last few months are a result of incitement by the Palestinian Authority and Palestinian media channels. They are promoting hate, violence and murder of Jews. As we explained in a previous article, one of the only ways to prevent future terror attacks is by demolishing homes of family members, revoking their work permits and deporting them. So the answer to Abu Adham is that he should be punished for the sake of the security of Israel. His son is no different than any other terrorist that was indoctrinated into a culture of hate that glorifies death.
