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When the condemnation is directed at the wrong party
Yesterday, an Israeli man was almost lynched in the town of Hawara, as his car was pelted with stones at close range. Believing his life to be in danger, he fired in self-defense, killing one of the attackers.
The condemnation has been furious. Condemnation of the Israeli man who was almost lynched, that is. And not just from the Israel haters. For instance, this is the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process:
When it happens in America, it’s serious business. When it happens in Israel, critics and the media pretend that the violence is the work of “only a few extremists.”
Why the silence? The answer is obvious: Arab rock-throwing is politically inconvenient. It undermines the Palestinian cause. When there is a terrorist attack involving bombs or guns or knives, there are only a few terrorists involved. The media and Israel’s critics pretend that the violence is the work of “only a few extremists.”
But Palestinian Arab rock-throwing is a very different matter. It involves large groups of people, every single day. The total number of Palestinians who have thrown rocks at Israeli Jews over the years is certainly in the tens of thousands, probably in the hundreds of thousands.
Acknowledging that such a huge number of people have been trying to murder Israeli Jews means admitting that the desire to murder innocent Jews is not some isolated fringe phenomenon in Palestinian society but is widespread. It shatters the myth that the Palestinians have become moderate—that they are peaceful, willing to coexist with Israel. And that makes it harder to promote the creation of a Palestinian state.
So, what can Israel’s critics do? First, they try to ignore it. Journalists don’t report Palestinian rock-throwing, and pundits don’t comment on it. When rock-throwing does attract attention, commentators minimize it; they try to pretend that it’s not really so dangerous. Some of the apologists even go to ridiculous lengths, such as Friedman’s infamous description of rock-throwing as “non-violent resistance.”
But the truth has once again been tragically demonstrated, this time on a road in Jefferson County, Colo. Whether in the Mideast or the Midwest, rocks are deadly weapons.
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The stories that Yacoub Rabi are saying about how his wife was killed do not add up, and they contradict each other.
From Reuters:
A doctor at the Palestinian hospital where Aisha al-Rawbi was brought said the 47-year-old was dead on arrival and that she had suffered a head injury. Her relatives said an autopsy was to be carried out. The woman’s husband, Aykube al-Rawbi, 52, said he was driving by a settlement late on Friday after dark along a main road near the Palestinian city of Nablus and that he could not see who pelted the car. “The stones came from the side where the settlement is. I could hear the people speak Hebrew, but I didn’t see them,” said al-Rawbi.
For a large stone to shatter a windshield, the car must be going at a fair speed, at least 50 kph. Can one really hear conversations and recognize the language at that speed? If the windows were open the wind would drown out any voices, if they were closed the voices would be too muffled.
More damning is that Rabi contradicts himself. He originally said, as reported above, that he could not see who threw the stones. But
he told Haaretz something different:
Yakoub Rabi said that he was sure the attackers were Jews from a nearby settlement, the Hebrew daily Haaretz reported Sunday. “There were six or seven of them, you could clearly see that they were youngsters,” he said.
From not being able to see them to knowing that there were six or seven youngsters is a pretty major contradiction.
We don't even know if the area that he claims the stones were thrown is accurate. He kept driving to the hospital so it seems entirely possible that the incident was actually Palestinian youths throwing stones, mistaking Rabi's car for Israeli, but Rabi wants his wife to be a martyr so he made up the place it occurred to be a place that Arab youth are unlikely to be.
It should be mentioned that Kfar Tapuach, the Jewish village adjacent to the Tapuach Junction where Rabi claims this occurred, does have a reputation for hotheaded youth. But it seems unlikely that they would be throwing stones on a Friday night when religious families are generally eating Sabbath dinner together.
There is now a media blackout on the investigation.
It goes without saying that whoever did this crime should be convicted of murder and punished to the full extent of the law.
PA reportedly arrests 16 ‘Salafi radicals’ who were planning to carry out terror attack against tourists celebrating Christmas
The car taking Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Fouad Twal, head of the Catholic Church in the Holy Land, was struck Friday, Christmas Day, in Bethlehem by rocks thrown by Palestinian rioters.
None of the passengers in the patriarch’s vehicle was injured in the incident, but his car sustained damage, according to a Ynet news report.
Clashes between Israeli security forces and Palestinian demonstrators erupted following his departure from the city, known as the birthplace of Jesus, the news site said.
Meanwhile, Palestinian security forces said Friday that they arrested two suspected Islamic radicals for burning a Christmas tree in the northern West Bank.
A Palestinian security officer said Friday the suspects set fire Wednesday to the tree in Zababdeh, a village near Jenin populated mainly by Christians. The officer spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to speak to reporters.
Tell me again: why Christianity is disappearing from every Middle Eastern nation except Israel?
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Baby seat below shattered car window Photo Credit: Tekoa Security
(JNi.media) Two Jewish women were injured Wednesday morning after Arabs carried out a massive stone throwing at Israeli vehicles on the road between Tekoa and Har Homa, near Beit Sahur in Judea and Samaria, NRG reported. The two wounded women were treated at the gate of Tekoa. At least seven vehicles have been damaged by stones.
One of the injured women said that she had driven into an ambush laid by Arab terrorists, who attempted forcefully to drag her out of her car, but she said she managed to escape, after having been beaten all over her body by Arab youths. “Anyone who leaves home now, should not go that way,” she warned, “There’s not a single soldier there. I arrived at the checkpoint and screamed at them that they must send in the army. There’s nobody there.” She was taken in stable condition to the trauma department at Hadassah Medical Center on Mount Scopus, having sustained bruises all over her body.
The second female motorist, 38, was taken with light injuries to Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, with a bruised head and arm resulting from stone-shattered windows.
A mother and her infant daughter were injured from stones that were thrown at their vehicle Tuesday night, near the town of Levona. The woman’s husband continued driving to the town, where they were treated by a military medical team and moved by an MDA ambulance for further treatment at Hadassah Medical Center on Mount Scopus.
During the night, three Jews were arrested for demonstrating at the spot where the little girl had been injured. The detainees were taken to the Benjamin police station and received legal advice. It is still unclear whether they would be indicted.
Meanwhile, a Border Police force in A-Tur, eastern Jerusalem, discovered 15 Molotov cocktails ready for throwing on a rooftop. The day before police seized Molotov cocktails on the roof of a neighborhood mosque. Chief Superintendent Aviad Ktefi praised the Border Police fighters, saying: “This is an important capture of Molotov cocktails which endanger our fighters.”
[Editor: Josh Hasten was there when the attack happened} Video:
Arab rock-throwers ambush young Jewish family between Tekoa and Har Homa, south of Jerusalem. Miraculously no one was hurt.
By Uzi BaruchFirst Publish: 9/20/2015, 4:02 PM
Rock landed next to the baby's seatCourtesy
Arabs attacked an Israeli vehicle Sunday with rocks, as it traveled between Tekoa, in the Etzion Bloc, and the southern Jerusalem neighborhood of Har Homa.
A married couple and their six-month-old daughter were in the car. The car's windows were badly smashed but miraculously, the parents and child were unhurt.
The father said afterward that Arabs with covered faces attacked the car not far from an IDF roadblock. One rock penetrated from the front of the car, flew over the baby's head, and struck the rear seat, where it was stopped by the baby seat.
Meanwhile, violence in Jerusalem continued Saturday night. Two firebombs were hurled in Nof Tzion, next to Jabal Mukaber - one of them penetrated a home, caught fire and caused damage.
Four suspects in the ongoing Jerusalem riots were arrested overnight, and 27 other suspects believed to be involved in throwing rocks and firebombs were arrested over the Sabbath.
'Our tragedy'
President Reuven Rivlin paid a condolence call to the family of Alexander Levlovitz (64), who was killed on the eve of Rosh Hashanah in an attack by Arab terrorists, after a rock thrown through his car's window made him lose control of the vehicle and crash.
Rivlin embraced the members of the family who were sitting shiva – in mourning – telling Levlovitz's wife and children how much he regretted their loss.
“I am not here as President, but as a resident of Jerusalem,” Rivlin told the mourners. “I have heard a great deal about Alexander, about his life as a Jerusalemite, where he was born and raised, and how much he loved the city.”
Shoshana Ben-Adi, Levlovitz's sister, told Rivlin that she was “jealous” of her brother for having the opportunity to be born in Jerusalem – while she was born in Romania, where she spent her early years. “Many Jews came to Israel to fulfill their vision, but apparently our struggle for our land is not over. This is our tragedy.”
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/200870#.Vf67z993nVM
As Rosh Hashanah began in Israel this week, the most ordinary of events occurred on a road in Jerusalem. Palestinians rained down rocks on what they thought was a car being driven by a Jew. In this case, it was a 64-year-old Jew returning home after a holiday dinner. The result was a fatal crash in which the Jew died. While fatalities from such incidents are not a daily occurrence, attacks on Jewish cars and pedestrians with rocks and fire bombs are so routine, as to be considered not particularly newsworthy even in Israel. But when Prime Minister Netanyahu responded to this and similar incidents by saying his government intended to wage a war on those who hurl such lethal projectiles, you can bet it will be interpreted as further evidence of Israeli belligerence rather than proof that the Palestinians don’t want peace. Like the similar provocations on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount where Muslim harassment of Jewish tourists to the site have gotten out of control, any Israeli effort to push back against terrorism is seen as being somehow the fault of the Jews while Palestinians committing crimes are seen as innocent youths performing what the New York Times described as a “rite of passage.” But it’s worth asking those Western observers who sympathize with or rationalize these attacks on Jews whether they would consider such attacks on their cars in the U.S. and Europe to be anything but attempted murder.
