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The Silent Intifada Weekly Report [May 6, 2016]

There were over 110 terror attacks this past week in Israel and 10 Jews were injured as a result.

This week as almost every week there were dozens of terror attacks of varying severity not reported in most major media outlets. We report on these silenced events to present a fuller picture of the reality in Israel and balance the picture presented to innocent readers abroad. We hope that by reporting these incidents we can raise awareness so that actions can be taken to rectify this problem and improve reality in the Jewish State.

This past week (Friday April 29th- May 5th) there were 119 terror attacks in the Silent Intifada updates on Hakol Hayehudi. Ten Jews were injured in these attacks.

On Sunday May 1st three Jews were injured when Arabs threw stones at their vehicle near Efrat. Among the three injured lightly was a baby.

On Monday Mar 2nd, an Arab stabbed an elderly Jewish man in the Old City of Jerusalem near the Lions Gate. The victim suffered from stab wounds in his upper body. He was taken to Shaarei Tzedek Hospital in moderate condition but his condition has since improved.

On Tuesday May 3rd, an Arab rammed into IDF soldiers near the Parsa Junction close to Dolev in Binyamin. Three soldiers were injured, one seriously. He currently remains unconscious in the Sheba Hospital. The two other victims were taken to Hadassah Ein Kerem with light injuries.

In the village of Kadum and in East Jerusalem, two soldiers were injured from stone throwing by Arabs during riots.

Also near the Gaza region Arabs carried out attacks. One was a shooting at IDF soldiers near the northern part of the Gaza Strip. In addition, there were at least 6 incidents of mortar fire at IDF bases all along the Gaa border.

Beyond these there were many incidents of throwing of stones and firebombs at vehicles, property and homes throughout Israel.

Full List of Attacks:

Thursday May 5th

  • Arabs throw firebombs at the town of Pesagot.
  • Arabs throw stones in Al Arub.
  • Arabs throw stones in Nazlat Zid.
  • Arabs throw stones in Route 443.
  • Arabs throw stones near Beit Ur Al Fuka.
  • Arabs throw stones near Beit Umar.
  • Arabs throw stones in Silwan.
  • Arabs throw stones in Issawiya.

21:30- Arabs throw stones at Anatot.

20:53- Arabs throw stones at vehicles in Hawara.

17:25- Arabs throw stones at vehicles near Beit Umar in Gush Etzion.

15:11- Arabs throw stones at a bus in Hawara.

14:36- Mortar fire: Arabs from Gaza fire mortars at soldiers near the Gaza border.

11:21-An IDF soldier is injured lightly from stone throwing by Arabs in East Jerusalem.

11:06- Arabs throw smoke grenades at soldiers near riots in Yado.

Wednesday May 4th

  • Arabs throw stones at vehicles near Tapuach Junction.
  • Arabs throw stones at vehicles near Beit Umar in Gush Etzion.
  • Arabs throw stones in the Old City of Jerusalem.
  • Arabs throw a pipe bomb at IDF forces in Yavad.
  • Arabs throw firebombs in Issawiya.
  • Arabs throw stones near Karmei Tzur.
  • Arabs throw stones near Maale Amos.
  • Arabs throw stones near Tekoa.
  • Arabs throw stones in Shuafat.
  • Arabs throw stones in Ras Al Amud.
  • Arabs throw stones in Beit Anun.
  • Arabs throw stones in Beit Anun.
  • Arabs throw stones in Zeit Raanan.
  • Arabs throw stones in Nazit Zid.
  • Arabs throw stones in Yatma.
  • Arabs throw stones in the Old City of Jerusalem.
  • Arabs throw stones in Qalandiya.

23:27- Arabs throw stones at vehicles near Hizme in Binyamin.

22:32- A fire breaks out near Neve Tzuf as the result of a firebomb thrown by Arabs.

21:58- Attempted stabbing: An Arab woman is caught with a knife on the way to an attack in the Old City of Jerusalem.

21:36- Arabs throw stones at vehicles near the Beitot Junction causing damage.

21:05- Arabs throw stones at vehicles near the Karnei Shomron gas station.

19:24- Arabs riot in Sayir in Har Hevron.

19:18- Arabs throw stones at vehicles near Turmus Aya in Binyamin.

19:04- Arabs from Gaza fire mortars that land inside the Strip.

18:39- Arabs riot in Issawiya in Jerusalem.

18:25- Arabs riot in Al Arub in Gush Etzion.

18:20- Arabs riot in Katana.

17:05- Arabs throw stones at a bus in Hawara.

17:00- Arabs throw firebombs at the fence of the town of Pesagot.

16:35- Arabs throw stones at vehicles near Maale Amos.

16:30- Mortar fire: Arabs fire mortars towards Nahal Oz from Gaza.

14:44- Arabs throw stones near Beit Umar causing damage to a bus.

9:40- Mortar fire: Arabs from Gaza fire mortars at IDF forces.

8:05- Arabs throw stones at vehicles near Binyamin.

Tuesday May 3rd

  • Arabs throw stones at a bus in Nazareth.
  • Arabs throw stones in Salam.
  • Arabs throw stones in Issawiya.
  • Arabs throw stones in Silwan.
  • Arabs throw stones on the Mount of Olives.
  • Arabs throw stones in Shuafat.
  • Arabs throw stones near Beit Umar.
  • Arabs throw stones in A-Kara.
  • Arabs throw stones near Beit El.
  • Arabs throw stones in Dura.
  • Arabs throw firebombs at the fence of Atil.
  • Arabs throw stones at the light rail in Jerusalem.
  • Arabs riot in Shechem.

21:55- Arabs throw stones at vehicles in Hawra.

19:00- Vehicular attack: Three soldiers are injured when Arabs ram into them near Dolev. One remains in critical condition as of Friday.

13:58- Arabs throw stones at a bus near Beit Umar.

7:02- A Jewish driver is injured lightly from stone throwing by Arabs in Hawara.

Monday May 2nd

  • Arabs riot in A-Ram near Jerusalem.
  • Arabs riot in Al-Giv.
  • Arabs attack IDF soldiers in Beit Ur A-Tahta.
  • Arabs throw stones in Silwan.
  • Arabs throw stones near Har Adar.
  • Arabs throw stones in Malach.
  • Arabs throw stones in Wadi Goz.
  • Arabs throw stones near Tekoa.
  • Arabs throw stones in Dahit Al Barid.
  • Arabs throw stones on Route 443.
  • Arabs throw stones in Hevron.
  • Arabs throw stones in Shuafat.

22:18- Stabbing: An elderly Jewish man is stabbed by an Arab in the Old City of Jerusalem.

14:15- Arabs riot in Katana.

Sunday May 1st

  • Arabs throw stones in Shuafat.
  • Arabs riot in Ramallah.
  • Arabs riot in Balata.
  • Arabs throw firebombs in Abu Sanina in Hevron.
  • Arabs throw stones in Ras Al Amud.
  • Arabs throw stones in Issawiya.
  • Arabs throw firebombs in Um Salmona.

22:50- Arabs throw stones at the light rail in Shuafat causing damage.

22:15- Arabs riot in Naalin in Binyamin.

20:42- Arabs throw firebombs at vehicles near Hevron.

18:42- Arabs throw stones and a pipe bomb at the town of Pesagot.

14:15- Three Jews are injured after Arabs throw stones at their vehicle near Efrat.

14:03- Arabs throw stones at vehicles in Uja in the Jordan Valley.

9:50- Arabs riot in Bethlehem.

6:24- A ready firebomb is found on the road to Maale Shomron.

00:10- Arabs throw firebombs in Qalandiya.

Shabbat April 30th

  • Arabs throw firebombs in Al-Ram.
  • Arabs riot in Kadum.
  • Arabs riot in Harat A-Sheikh.

21:06- Arabs throw stones at vehicles at 206 Junction.

Friday April 29th

  • Arabs riot in Jalazun.
  • Arabs riot near Nahal Oz.
  • Arabs riot near the Erez Crossing.
  • Arabs riot near Nabi Saleh.
  • Arabs throw firebombs near Hizme.
  • Arabs throw firebombs in Qalandiya.

22:43- Arabs throw firebombs at IDF soldiers on Mount Scopus.

19:34- Arabs riot near the Ofer Camp.

17:26- Arabs riot near Bitunia.

16:21- A soldiers is injured from stone throwing near Kadum.

16:00- Arabs riot on the Temple Mount.

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UNRWA Honors Jerusalem Bus Bomber; US & EU Pay the Bill

On April 18 Abd al-Hamid Abu Spour, a 19 year old Palestinian Arab destroyed two public transportation buses in Jerusalem. There were numerous injuries, two of which remain hospitalized, one with severe burns.  This was the first bus attack during the 7+ month long intifada being waged against Israeli’s, which has resulted in at least 34 deaths to date.

The one person killed in the attack was the perpetrator himself. All Palestinian factions welcomed the attack. In the eyes of many Muslims, dying while committing a terror attack means Abu Spour is a “shahid,” or martyr for Allah.

His family has lashed out saying he acted in “self-defense,” and “only you Israelis are guilty.” Such inflammatory rhetoric while disturbing, is not unusual from many Arab Muslims.

However, in this case reaction to the attack has gone beyond the family. It has taken on an ‘official’ flavor.

On Monday, a week after the attack, a gathering took place at the UNRWA refugee camp in Aida, near Bethlehem. The location has a huge monument of a lock and key, symbolizing the defiant goal that the Palestinian Arabs will one day root out the Jews and take over the land they believe belongs to them.

The “festivities of the martyrs” event took place under the aegis of UNRWA (United Nations Relief Works Agency).  To think the official body representing the world’s community of nations is celebrating terrorism is bad enough. However, that is not the worst of it. The number 1 financial donor to UNRWA is the US, by far. The EU and UK are #2 and #3 in financial support. Their combined total represents over 50% of UNRWA’s donor support.

Virtually no media coverage

US & UK citizens should ask themselves how they feel about having their hard-earned taxes paying for events that honor terrorists.

Aside from this there is another troubling element to the UNRWA sponsored event.

One might think a public event honoring terrorism sponsored by a branch of the United Nations would be widely covered by the media. Yet, when it comes to the Arab-Israeli conflict most of the world’s media seems to come under a spell of double-standard. The abnormal becomes normal, the unacceptable turns into acceptable, and the victim is often seen as the bully.

There was virtually no media coverage of this publicly supported terrorist honoring event. One journalist- David Bedein who runs the Jerusalem based Israel Resource News Agency did send a crew to cover it. According to Bedein, the crew didn’t just cover the event; they are interviewing the family of the terrorist. Soon they plan to release a film that will be screened at a forthcoming session of the Middle East Subcommittee of the US House Foreign Affairs Committee, when the debate on further US funds for UNRWA will be discussed.

On March 22, Bedein appeared in a closed session of that Middle East Subcommittee and suggested an UNRWA REFORM POLICY INITIATIVE formula as a new funding framework. This would make US financing for UNRWA contingent upon them taking concrete measures to assure transparency. It would also require a crackdown on UNRWA hosting terror entities in its midst, and the re-education UNRWA residents. Currently they are promised the “right of return” to villages that existed before 1948. The committee is chaired by Rep. Ilena Ros-Lehtinen (R) FL.

Senator Jim Risch (R- Idaho) chairman of the US Senate Subcommittee for the Near East, also met with Bedein in Washington. This week Senator Risch issued a statement that “we are looking to write a letter to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to get them to update the audit of US monies that go both to UNRWA as well as funding for education related issues that the GAO had performed several years ago”.

Double-standard

Regarding media coverage, Bedein sent out a press release to over 600 journalists throughout Israel, informing them of the UNRWA event honoring the terrorist. Incredibly he received a reply from only one. This ‘yawn’ by the media is yet another disturbing reminder of the double-standard Israel receives from most of the world.

Picture this- Suppose there was an event held in the US at a public school, sponsored by the Dept. of Education (using taxpayer money) honoring the Muslim couple who murdered 14 people in San Bernardino last year? How much media coverage do you think there might be? Not only that, but those who were responsible for holding the event might be have some serious explaining to do, even in this era of political correctness.

Not so in the Arab-Israeli conflict where it appears the media seems to have largely taken up the narrative of the perpetrators of terrorism.

The US provides the Palestinian Authority over $400 million annually. Concern about the Palestinian educational system is growing in Congress.

US taxpayers have an opportunity to send a strong message opposing their tax money being used to honor terrorists who target innocent citizens of America’s strongest ally in the Middle East. They can contact the members of the Middle East Subcommittee in the House of Representatives, as well as the Near East Subcommittee in the Senate.

There is no moral equivalence between terror and justice. It’s high time the UN stop making an exception when it comes to Israel.

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Telling the Truth About Humanitarian Israel

In December 2015, the British Daily Mail reported that Israel had saved more than 2,000 Syrians since 2013, at a cost of 50 million shekels ($13 million). Many of those saved were Islamic militants and sworn enemies of Israel, while only around 20 percent were civilians, according to the report.

These humanitarian rescue missions are very controversial. Why should Israel risk its soldiers and spend money to rescue Salafists who have a burning wish to destroy Israel? But it does, and this attests yet again to the under-reporting of facts about Israel in the international media. Compared to Israel’s size and the magnitude of Israel’s own security issues in the region, it is remarkable how Israel manages to be there for so many people in need around the world. When detractors whine about Israel not carrying its share of humanitarian outreach in the region, they are of course conveniently overlooking the fact that Israel is carrying infinitely more than what should be expected of a nation of Israel’s size, especially when that nation is actually treating and caring for its own enemies.

In just one development, Israel saved a 5-year old girl after she was seriously wounded in a firefight between rival militias in Syria. But that was not all. Israel is now also saving her from the cancer Israeli doctors discovered she was suffering while she was hospitalized in Haifa’s Rambam Hospital.

The story reads like something out of a thriller that could only take place in Israel: The hospital refused to release the girl after doctors discovered that she had cancer and security officials agreed. A bone marrow donor had to be found, and was — a relative living in an unnamed country that is an enemy of Israel’s, rendering it impossible for the relative to travel openly to Israel. Instead, a secret operation by Israel’s security services was launched to smuggle the relative out of that country and into Israel. The relative arrived on Monday and is now quarantined at the hospital with the girl, awaiting for the first round of treatment.

All the characteristics of the typical Israeli approach to life make up the ingredients of this story: the feeling of extreme responsibility of the doctors, refusing to let the girl go after saving her life once, and the almost unbelievable willingness of the security forces to risk their own soldiers to save her. This is Israel at its best and it is not a rare occurrence in this country, even if this particular example is of course extraordinary.

This is the ethos of Judaism and it is the ethos of Israel. But the world will never acknowledge this, because it refuses to see and hear the truth about Israel with a savage stubbornness that is reserved only for Israel. Appreciating that Israel values life above all else — all life, not just Jewish life — would make the anti-Israeli hatred, the anti-Jewish tropes and caricatures, the howls of “apartheid” and “injustice” melt away in an instant.

In an age where facts have long ceased to matter, however, all that the haters, especially those in the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement, have to do is ignore those facts. The world is overflowing with naked emperors prancing about, peddling their lies and delusions to uncritical and impressionable audiences, who are much too willing to subscribe to them.

Thankfully, however, those lies and delusions are not having much of an impact on Israel itself. They are, however, having a detrimental effect on especially Diaspora Jewry around the world, notably on young Jewish students on college and university campuses in the West, where the anti-Israeli narratives are strong and thriving, not only in the BDS movement, but even among college and university staff to whom these narratives are almost as natural as breathing.

It is only persistence and proud stubbornness that will ultimately make the truth about Israel prevail in those dark corners, where the prejudiced hatred against Israel is allowed to fester. It is a supreme irony, of course, that Western universities have become feeding grounds for this hatred, considering that they are the rightful inheritors of the tradition of Enlightenment. This irony, however, is lost on most college students today, but it ought not to be lost on those who still believe in the value of truth and getting that truth out there. The story of Israel’s rescue of Syrians would be a good place to start.

(Originally published on Israel Hayom)

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To Annex or Not to Annex That is the Question

If anything proves the Left’s assertion that the Likud led government is pushing Israel towards a One State solution, it is the Norms Bill. The Norms Bill, pushed by the Justice Minister, Ayelet Shaked will apply Israeli Law to all Israelis living beyond the Green Law.  Since 1967, the Southern command has been in charge of deciding which Israeli Law could apply for Israeli Citizens in Judea and Samaria.  

Despite the Right’s rebuffing of the Left’s attack on the Norms Bill, the legislation does push forward the notion of a de facto annexation by directly applying civil law for its citizens, which in a sense contravenes the international law of an occupying power. Two points below are especially relevant:

  • The occupant does not acquire sovereignty over the territory.
  • Occupation is only a temporary situation, and the rights of the occupant are limited to the extent of that period.

It would be hard to prove that the Israeli government does not not understand this.

Forcing the Issue

The Norms Bill, although welcomed by the Right and a majority of the country creates a moment of decision if Israel wants to preserve the notion that it is playing by Western rules. The Israeli government has constantly displayed the need to preserve the status quo in relation to the Palestinian question.  

The Norms Bill forces a true discussion of which direction the Israeli government wants to go.  If passed, the signal is that Oslo is at last buried.  The challenge is what comes next.  The World and the Palestinian Street will use the measure to force Israel to make decisions that may be dangerous.  

Bibi and his cabinet are not stupid, they understand that the status quo is long gone and it is time to push an Israel first agenda forward.  The question will be, if the solution they want will be implemented in a way that not only works for Israel, but can be explained to others.

 

Bibi is Coopting Parts of Bennett’s Solution

Naftali Bennett ran on a proposal to deal with the Palestinian conflict by allowing limited autonomy in areas A and B, while applying full Israeli Sovereignty to area C. He called it the Stability Plan. With Bibi and Yaalon attempting to pull the IDF out of Area A, the push back from Bennett and Shaked was swift and serious. The Norms Bill gives Bennett and Shaked and the broader right of center camp a piece of what they want.  Mix the two actions together and you get a condensed version of Bennett’s plan.

So why is Bibi doing this and why now?  It is clear that the Western World is going to try to impose some sort of terms of agreement on the situation in Judea and Samaria.  Bibi has always viewed the situation unsolvable. The most he will offer is some sort of Middle Eastern version of Luxembourg, which the Palestinians and their Arab allies will not accept.  Given the terrain, the current Israeli government is trying draw up their own terms, but literally on the ground.  Time will tell if this status quo with a few changes will be enough to stall the international consensus that some solution needs to be forced.

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Nigeria’s Second Genocide On Biafra Authorized By Muhammadu Buhari

Retired Major General Muhammadu Buhari has authorized a second genocide on Biafra, having directly participated in the first genocide of 1967—1970. In 1968, Buhari and his co-soldiers slaughtered over two million Biafrans at Owerri and most of those massacred were women and children. In 2016, Buhari has embarked on a second genocide on Biafrans under the guise of Fulani Herdsmen.
 
These killer squads have already massacred thousands in Agatu in Biafraland. Between 25th and 27th of April 2016, over one thousand Biafrans in Enugu were murdered by Buhari’s Fulani Herdsmen. Not satisfied by the numerous bloodsheds, Buhari’s blood-thirsty Fulani Herdsmen moved over to Delta State and killed hundreds of Biafrans. In all these killings Buhari, who was quick to sympathize with the government and people of Belgium when terrorists killed a few people there, never uttered a word in repudiation of the heinous crimes committed by his acolytes. Even the Department of State Services (DSS), who gleefully reported the discovery of bodies of five dead Fulani men (but only named four of them) buried in mass graves, have been silent on the ongoing genocide on Biafrans, which is contrary to section-2(3a) of CAP 74 LFN 2004.
 
The lameduck Governors of all the States in Biafraland remain hopeless, helpless, and useless in the face of Buhari’s men onslaught on defenceless Biafrans. It will be recalled that these are the same State Governors who connived with Buhari and his murderous security agencies to kill Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) peaceful protesters. Today, the same slave masters from the North led by Buhari are killing Biafrans  but this time under the guise of Fulani Herdsmen. Yet, the same Governors who ordered IPOB peaceful protesters to be shot at sight for merely agitating are now impotent before the marauding band of stark illiterate and brainless cattle herders from Buhari’s tribe.
Following the helplessness of these lameduck Governors is the cowardly silence of those from Biafraland who call themselves elites, party chieftains, elder statesmen, and members of the highly compromised and moribund organization known as Ohanaeze Ndigbo.
 
It goes without saying that these genocidal killings can never be tolerated in the Northern or Western regions of Nigeria and if it happened by accident, the elites, the elder statesmen and regional organizations such as OPC, YCE, ACF, NEF and others will be in the forefront of demands for immediate stoppage of the carnage and the institution of panel of enquires in addition to compensation of affected victims.
 
A few days ago, a group of old men led by a former President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo paid brown-envelop journalists to publish in the newspapers that they are the leaders of IPOB. But these old men have remained blind, deaf, and dumb in the face of the recent genocidal acts committed by Buhari’s killer squads on the people they are supposed to be leading. If truly they are leaders of Biafra, then why have they remained silent when their people are being slaughtered like animals?
 
But the fact is, be it Buhari and his criminal gangs masquerading as Fulani Herdsmen or the  congenitally chicken-livered lameduck Governors in Biafralnd or is it the cowardly Biafran elites and money-minded Ohanaeze Ndigbo members, there is an ongoing genocide in Biafraland which is a repeat of previous genocide of 1967-1970. The world must take notice that Biafrans are on the verge of being exterminated and the supervisor of this extermination exercise is no other than Retired Major General Muhammadu Buhari. At the appropriate time, Buhari and his co-killers must pay for their heinous crimes against humanity.