Third Palestinian Uprising: Updates and Discussions

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Arab workers feeling the fear

Ashraf Katayef's restaurant is struggling while contractors report Arab workers are scarce these days; 'The situation is frightening.'

Billie Frenkel and Ilana Curiel

Published: 10.18.15, 00:00

The recent terrorism wave has created security concerns in Israel, and those have spilled over to the workplace as well. Many Israeli Arabs find themselves in difficult situations.


Ubaid travels to Tel Aviv from his home in Haifa every day for work. He says that at work things have stayed the same. “I have very close friends, like family,” he says, “I see them even more than my parents, live every minute with them for hours.”

Nazareth. Businesses are struggling. (Photo: Mohammed Shinawi)


Out in public, however, things are different. “I haven’t run into extreme reactions personally, but in general, the situation is frightening. This is the first time I’ve felt real fear of potential reprisal from people in the street. I’ve never experienced that.”


Restaurants in Nazareth: Business is down
If business in general seems to be suffering the consequences of the public’s fear, the Arab sector’s businesses are experiencing a virtual crash, with some registering a 80-90 percent decline in clientele and income. This is especially true in towns with mixed Arab-Jewish populations.


Ashraf Katayef, 63 from Nazareth, says of his restaurant in the city’s market, “There are no customers at all, the market is empty, no Arabs or Jews.” And it’s not just about sales – Katayef says some of his friends, who work outside Nazareth, are now afraid to go to work. “People don’t go out to work and shut themselves in at home, because they’re afraid. Everyone has children who are working or studying outside the city, and they worry about them. It’s not comfortable for anyone, both sides feel fear.


Katayef, a father and grandfather, opened his restaurant 16 years ago. “I’m disappointed, because we want to promote peace,” he says, “but now we’re going backwards. Before, customers came from the center (of Israel) and it was fun working with everyone. It’s a special place of fraternity and coexistence. Now it feels unpleasant. My business is down by 90 percent, and what allows me to hang on is the fact that I don’t have many expenses.”

“Innocents are hurt without reason”
In southern Israel, Bedouin citizens – especially those who work in places like the police, fire departments, and Magen David Adom (MDA, Israel’s national emergency medical care and ambulance service) – are working alongside the Jews and hoping for the best. “I’m worried by the situation, but feel the safest at my workplace,” says Naif Alziadna, 44, a Bedouin man who serves as an arson investigator in the Negev region.

Naif Alziadna (left) with Fire and Rescue Services Commissioner Shahar Ayalon. (Photo: Negev Fire and Rescue Services spokesperson)


“I don’t feel any change or difference in my colleagues’ attitudes. What happens today is a situation where innocents are hurt without reason, or just because they’re Jews,” he says.


In the span of a day, Rahat became scary
“The business situation is a catastrophe,” says Khaled Abu Latif, 44, head of the Bedouin chamber of industry and commerce in the Negev. “We are an inseparable part of the state of Israel. Our bonds, which gave been built for decades with our brothers – not cousins – the Jews, will not be severed by a bunch of extremists on both sides.“

Rahat. Suddenly became a place of terror.


Abu Latif, who lives in Rahat (a predominantly Bedouin city), says that suppliers are afraid of coming to the city. “Many places are left without goods to sell,” he says. “In the span of a day, we became a frightening place, a place of terror. We don’t look at people as customers, but as guests. Anyone who comes to visit us is a wanted guest. We didn’t look at religion or race.”


Renovators: Arab workers aren’t coming in
Sources in the association of renovation contractors claim that most Palestinians who are employed by their members haven’t been coming to work these days, and the same goes for a large portion of the Israeli Arab workers. They claim that the reason for this is a fear of the Israeli clients. “Many contractors spoke with us, saying they were at the checkpoints in order to take workers through, but they were almost empty,“ they say.



According to association figures, 80 percent of the 37,000 Palestinian workers in the field were absent at the start of the week. Other sources in the renovations field claimed that while the phenomenon exists, the figures are significantly exaggerated. “Renovation contractors are faced with many customers’ demands that they not let Arabs into their apartment,” they say, “It’s especially true for apartments in which the people continue to live while they’re being renovated.”

(Photo: Shaul Golan)


In regular construction, on the other hand, things haven’t changed significantly for the time being, so say its contractors. “The problem is mostly in the renovations field, not standard construction,” says a major source in the construction field, “The building field has organized groups, with workers you pick up at the checkpoint in the morning and bring back in the evening, after they pass all of the requisite checks. In renovations, it’s workers who work alone in isolated apartments.”


He did, however, warn that the situation could be fickle. “So far, we haven’t received any special complaints and I don’t see a catastrophic problem as far as building the apartments is concerned, but the situation could change,” he says. “When you start to talk about a closure, like we are now, it causes workers to not come over.”

 

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Arab MPs in Israel’s Knesset suffer incitement and hate
Arab members of the Israeli Knesset have told Al Jazeera that right-wing politicians, including members of government, are inciting violence and death threats against them because of their efforts to speak out against the government policies in the Occupied Palestinian territories.
Arab members of the Knesset said on Friday that they had been blamed for the recent tensions between Palestinians and Israelis, which have resulted in the death of at least 52 Palestinians and eight Israelis.

Ahmad Tibi an Arab member of the Knesset from the Joint List, which won 13 seats in the latest elections, told Al Jazeera that the Israeli government is fomenting an atmosphere of hate and racism against Arab citizens of Israel and Palestinians.

"The Israeli government is not doing anything to prevent this from happening, because it is the one who leads the campaign to dehumanise us. The government is the problem, not the solution," Tibi said.

On Wednesday and during a Knesset session chaired by Tibi, Israeli Minister Zeev Elkin spoke against Tibi from the podium accusing him of being responsible for the bloodshed in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

"You are responsible for the blood that has been shed in the country, and you should not sleep at night for that," the Ukrainian- born Elkin yelled at Tibi.

A video posted on YouTube shows Tibi, who is the deputy-chairman of the Knesset, expelling Elkin from the chamber.
Serious threat

The minister, who immigrated to Israel in 1990, carries two portfolios in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government, as Minister of Immigration and the Minister for Jerusalem, the focal point of the recent unrest.
"This is a serious threat and a death threat against me," Tibi told al Jazeera from his office in Jerusalem.

Al Jazeera made several phone calls to reach Mr. Elkin on the number listed on his official Knesset web page, but no one answered before the time of publication.

Haneen Zoabi, another Arab member of the Knesset told Al Jazeera that she too has been the subject of incitement not only from the right wing Israeli politicians and settlers, but also from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu personally.

She told al Jazeera that Netanyahu had singled her out in his recent speeches in the Knesset and targeted her for investigation for alleged incitement against the state of Israel.

Zoabi said that Netanyahu's allegations are totally baseless.

"It is he who is spreading racism and hatred in the country with his extremist policies against the Palestinians.

"All I am doing is urging my community to stand up to Israeli racism within the framework of the law," Zoabi said, adding that she was working in accordance with international law.
Incitement in media
Jamal Zahalka another member of the Knesset told Al Jazeera that he had received thousands of death threats and messages on his phone from the extremists, who he said were incited by the government and the Israeli media.

"The wave of anti-Arab hatred and incitement is unprecedented even by Israeli standards" he said.

Zahalka blamed Netanyahu personally for the charged atmosphere gripping both Israel and the Palestinian territories.
Netanyahu cannot live and build a career without constructing a fictional enemy or a boogeyman to cow the Israeli society into accepting his twisted rhetoric and racist policies."
Al Jazeera called the spokesman for the Israeli prime minister’s office, David Baker, who declined to comment on the claims made by the politicians.
Arab MPs in Israel’s Knesset suffer incitement and hate - Al Jazeera English

 

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Farfour’s Curse: Palestinian children learn to hate with their ABC’s and hate they do
OCTOBER 20, 2015, 10:12 AM

Tibor Krausz A journalist and writer, Tibor Krausz is the bee’s knees and the cat’s pajamas, or so he keeps telling himself, even though he has no idea why being considered to be an insect’s leg joints or a feline’s nightwear is supposed to be a compliment.

Palestinians have been stabbing random Israelis daily for weeks, and on cue myriad foreign commentators have been trotting out the usual “root causes” arguments to explain their actions: Israeli settlements, Palestinians’ collective despair, the Netanyahu government’s policies.

Then again, we could just as well blame Farfour.

A bellicose and excitable Mickey Mouse clone with a whiny voice, Farfour was a costumed character on a popular Palestinian children’s educational program, “Tomorrow’s Pioneers,” on the Hamas-run Al-Aqsa TV. Not for Farfour some innocent horseplay to entertain the kiddos and teach them their ABC’s. Instead, the creepy rodent taught Palestinian children about the glories of jihad. In one episode he exhorted “tomorrow’s pioneers” (i.e. future jihadists) to liberate “all of Palestine” (i.e. the land of Israel) from the Jewish usurpers. “Beloved Palestine taught us to be soldiers of Allah,” a young boy sang as Farhoud cheered. “Oh Jerusalem it’s the time of death and we will fight a war.”

During a subsequent episode, Farfour, who liked to rhapsodize about the AK-47 assault rifle to Palestinian children, came to an untimely death “at the hands of the criminals, the murderers of innocent children” — Israelis, yes. Farfour was replaced by equally spiteful characters who carried on demonizing Israelis in his stead: Nahoul the bee and Assoud the rabbit. Assoud threatened to “finish off the Jews and eat them” before he, too, wound up murdered by the Jews. On his deathbed he urged Palestinian children to avenge him by “liberating” Haifa and Tel Aviv.

And so the pathologies of older generations have been passed down to the youngest ones. That Hamas ideologues think nothing of employing cuddly animals for ensnaring children’s minds in their own hateful and homicidal ideology is right up there with the depravity of Nazi propagandists who in storybooks like The Poisonous Mushroom sought to indoctrinate German children against Jews through outrageous libels dressed up as cautionary fairy tales.

Were Ahmed and Hassan Manasra, 13 and 15 respectively, fans of Farhoud and his friends? We may never know. What we do know is that Al Aqsa TV‘s mascots (or rather, their creators) would have approved of the Palestinian cousins, who recently stabbed two Israelis in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Pisgat Ze’ev.

One of the victims was a 13-year-old boy who was out on a ride on his bicycle and barely survived being stabbed repeatedly. The boy, the same age as Ahmed, was knifed simply for being a Jew. Ahmed and Hassan chanced upon him, outside a convenience store, in their search for some Israeli passersby to murder, following the example of myriad other wannabe shahids (martyrs). “I went there to stab Jews,” Ahmed, who was hit by a car while fleeing the scene, told Israeli police. Hassan was shot dead when, with a knife in hand, he tried to charge an Israeli policeman in an incident captured on CCTV cameras.

The two cousins’ juvenile murder spree is hardly an isolated case. Many of the Palestinian terrorists — who have stabbed Israeli pedestrians and commuters within reach without distinction — have been in their teens. They’ve come of age in a social milieu where many Palestinians’ entire identity continues to be defined by their opposition to the Jewish state. In schools, in mosques, in public broadcasts and at home, Palestinian children are told incessantly that they’re the only rightful inheritors of all the land between the River Jordan and the Mediterranean, and that their divinely mandated mission is to drive the Zionist usurpers back into the sea in a river of blood. The Jews, they’re told, are genocidal interlopers in Palestine with no legitimate historical and moral claims to any inch of it.

It’s this toxic hand-me-down brew of jihadism, denialism and self-imposed victimhood that has poisoned the minds of many young Palestinians through relentless cradle-to-the-grave incitement against Jews. According to a recent poll, almost three in four Palestinian youths between the ages 18 and 22 support a new armed uprising against Israel. Thus, just as their elders have been for decades, so too many Palestinian youths are eager to murder Israelis, while other Palestinians, young and old, cheer them on.

Here’s how a Palestinian teenager, who looked to be around 14, responded the other day when asked by a TV reporter how he felt about the recent stabbings of Israelis. “It makes me happy that someone from my people, from Palestine, went to stab Jews,” the boy explained. “We taught the Jews a lesson!”

They certainly did. This is what that lesson is: yet another generation of Palestinians has been brainwashed into a murderous hatred of Jews.

...investigation for alleged incitement against the state of Israel.

Zoabi said that Netanyahu's allegations are totally baseless.

"It is he who is spreading racism and hatred in the country with his extremist policies against the Palestinians.

Well now, labeling Netanyahu's policies as "extremist" doesn't sound at all credible. Like the Emperor in the fairy tale, these Arabs are wearing no clothes.

 

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Well now, labeling Netanyahu's policies as "extremist" doesn't sound at all credible. Like the Emperor in the fairy tale, these Arabs are wearing no clothes.

The only one caught with his pants down is Netanyahoo. Israeli propaganda isn't fooling anyone. Israelis are racist and strictly ANTI ISLAM.

 

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The only one caught with his pants down is Netanyahoo. Israeli propaganda isn't fooling anyone. Israelis are racist and strictly ANTI ISLAM.

Odd, isn't it, that so many Muslims are Israeli citizens with more civil rights than any Muslims in surrounding countries, that Israelis treat Muslims equally in their hospitals, that Israelis allow Muslims to proclaim and keep to themselves as their "third holiest site" on the Jews own holiest site, the Temple Mount? Either what you're claiming is false, or the Israelis are grossly incompetent Islam haters, or both, for what other explanation could there be?

Really, I don't think there's even a question any more. When it comes to Israel the Zionists tell the truth and the anti-ZIonists - Muslim, Jew, whatever - are demonstrably the liars and haters and everything else that should be reviled by civilized peoples and creeds. The Qu'ran may have beauty and fairness in it, but the current implementation by too many of its followers is, "Islam is under attack, so we can abuse whoever and whatever we want." Killing "blasphemers" in Pakistan, knifing innocent Jews in Jerusalem, abuse of authority everywhere, it's pretty much the same, isn't it?

[Shabbas comes, gotta go]

 

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'palestinian' terror merchant squatting in land outside of Arabian borders, attempts to stab Israelis in Jenin.

Attempt failed, swift liquidation of terrorist followed.

 

[Djinn]

Odd, isn't it, that so many Muslims are Israeli citizens with more civil rights than any Muslims in surrounding countries, that Israelis treat Muslims equally in their hospitals, that Israelis allow Muslims to proclaim and keep to themselves as their "third holiest site" on the Jews own holiest site, the Temple Mount? Either what you're claiming is false, or the Israelis are grossly incompetent Islam haters, or both, for what other explanation could there be?

Really, I don't think there's even a question any more. When it comes to Israel the Zionists tell the truth and the anti-ZIonists - Muslim, Jew, whatever - are demonstrably the liars and haters and everything else that should be reviled by civilized peoples and creeds. The Qu'ran may have beauty and fairness in it, but the current implementation by too many of its followers is, "Islam is under attack, so we can abuse whoever and whatever we want." Killing "blasphemers" in Pakistan, knifing innocent Jews in Jerusalem, abuse of authority everywhere, it's pretty much the same, isn't it?

[Shabbas comes, gotta go]

Any one who believes that Zionists speak truth is a Zionist himself.......................Their lies are known world over. Pointless debating the obvious. Zionists are not to be trusted and that is all there is to it. Nethenyahoo's recent flop shenanigan to blame the holocaust on Muslims and then the worlds response is testament to this fact: Zionists are big time liars.

Israeli colonisation is at the root of the violence
The present "Intifada" is an outcome of the occupation and the expanded Jewish colonisation


In the midst of what has become known in Israel as the "knifers' Intifada", an unusual scene unfolded in Ramat Gan, where many of the residents are Iraqi Jews. A small slender woman was protecting a man lying on the ground who was being pursued by a mob of 40 people, including a few soldiers, who wanted to lynch him.

While lying on the ground, pepper gas was sprayed into his eyes at close range. He managed to whisper to his guardian angel: "I am a Jew." When the mob finally got the message, he was left alone.

He was chased because almost all the Iraqi Jews look like Palestinians; in fact, most of us Jews in Israel look like Palestinians. The only Jews who are "protected" are the Mizrahi Orthodox Jews who don the same clothes their Ashkenazi predecessors wore in 17th-century Europe, dismissing their traditional "Arab" dress.
Invisible people

This attack was not the only one. Other Arab Jews have been mistaken for Palestinians. Being considered an Arab in Israel, even based on looks, means you are part of the invisible, disempowered and dispensable natives.

Such an attitude is not unique in history. Most settler colonial societies adopted this attitude towards the natives: Natives, for settler-colonial societies, are an obstacle to be removed along with the stones in the fields, the mosquitoes in the swamps, and in the case of early Zionism, with the less fit - physically and culturally - Jews.

After the Holocaust, Zionism could not afford to be that choosy any more
When one analyses the origins of the present Intifada, one can rightly point to the occupation and the expanded Jewish colonisation.

But the desperation that has produced the current unrest isn't a direct outcome of the 1967 colonisation, but rather, of nearly 100 years of invisibility, dehumanisation and potential destruction of the Palestinian people, wherever they are.

How deeply this denial of the humanity of the natives of Palestine is rooted in today's Israeli political discourse could be seen in the two main speeches by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the leader of the opposition, Yitzhak Herzog, given on Tuesday at the Knesset.
Israeli colonisation is at the root of the violence - Al Jazeera English

 

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4. Coward.

4. You are a realist and see both sides as doing wrongs and neither is completely innocent.

The only reason you didn't list option is because you're a zionist, and like the radicalized Palestinians view the other as totally evil Satanists and yourself as Angelic Saviors. Even if God was into intervention in human affairs (which never happened) He wouldn't pick either of you as "Champions".

Both Palestine and Israel should be ashamed of themselves.

 

[Beyonder]

And as usual Jewish Controlled US punishing Palestine by Fund Cut but arming these barbaric murderous Jews to teeth with newest of Weapons to keep the Occupation going.

 

[Solomon2]

Any one who believes that Zionists speak truth is a Zionist himself.......................Their lies are known world over. Pointless debating the obvious. Zionists are not to be trusted and that is all there is to it -

You're running on empty, kid. And you're unable or unwilling to confront the monsters you've encouraged. If you're not willing to denounce leaders who teach kids to hate blindly abroad, why should Pakistanis think your leadership will be any more merciful at home?

The Palestinian Jihad: Lies, Lies and More Lies
This is Not an "Intifada"
by Bassam Tawil
October 24, 2015 at 5:00 am

The Palestinian Jihad: Lies, Lies and More Lies

• First, we are not seeing anything "popular." We are not seeing, as before, thousands of Palestinians participating in the violence or protests.
• It is just another wave of terrorism: targeting Jews for being Jews. The terrorists and their apologists do not distinguish between a Jew living in the city of Beersheba, and a Jew from a West Bank settlement. For the Palestinian leaders and media, these Jews are all "settlers" living in "occupied territories."
• The appropriate term for the current wave of terrorism is "jihad". The attacks on Jews in Israel and the West Bank are part of the global jihad that has been waged for many years against Jews in particular, non-Muslims in general, and even against other Muslims who might not agree with a differing version of Islam.
• This jihad is not aimed at "ending occupation" or protesting against misery and checkpoints. The terrorists do not see a difference between a "left wing Jew" and a "right wing Jew." They do not ask their victims about their political affiliation before knifing them.
• In a grotesque rewrite of history, UNESCO declared that two Jewish holy sites, Rachel's Tomb and the Cave of the Patriarchs, were Muslim holy sites.
• This is a wave of terrorism based on lies. Palestinian leaders, including Abbas his officials in the Palestinian Authority and his Fatah faction, have been lying to us for months. They told Palestinians that the Jews are "invading" and "desecrating" Islamic holy sites with the purpose of destroying them. Abbas and his officials are urging Muslims to join the jihad against the Jews.
• The leaders are now telling us that most of the terrorists were, in fact, innocent civilians who were shot dead by Israelis while on their way to buy food or going to work. Lying has become an integral part of the jihad against Jews. The campaign of lies, distortion and fabrications is not less serious than the terror attacks.
• This is yet another phase of the worldwide jihad against all the "infidels" and "enemies of Islam." Those who are murdering Jews today do not hesitate to murder other non-Muslims tomorrow, especially those who are seen as Israel's friends, such as the U.S.

Palestinian leaders in the West Bank and Gaza Strip are calling it a "peaceful popular resistance." They are referring, of course, to the latest wave of stabbings, shootings and vehicular attacks against the Jews in Israel.

In the view of our leaders -- and, unfortunately, many in the international community -- this is a "peaceful popular resistance," an uprising, or an "intifada," like two previous uprisings we had in 1987 and 2000.

What is happening these days in the Palestinian territories and Israel, however, is anything but a "peaceful popular resistance." First, we are not seeing anything "popular." We are not seeing, as before, thousands of Palestinians participating in the violence or protests. These attacks are not protests launched by villagers, residents of refugee camps and members of professional unions in the Palestinian territories.

What we are seeing are pure terrorist attacks carried out mostly by impressionable young men and women whose hearts and minds have been poisoned by the inflammatory rhetoric and incitement of Palestinian leaders, mosques, the media, Facebook and other social media. The terrorists who carry knives or firearms to murder Jews are usually, it seems, disturbed youngsters, who have been fired up by the pervasive atmosphere of hate poured over them daily by their leaders and these leaders' media outlets. The current terrorists are not part of an armed group such as the Tanzim or the Fatah Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, nor a "popular resistance," a street gang, or any organized movement.

Contrary to what Palestinian leaders have been telling us, not to mention the rest of the world, these terrorists do not believe in any form of "peaceful and popular resistance" against Israel. After all, there is nothing peaceful or popular about stabbing or shooting Jews waiting at a bus stop or driving their cars on their way to work or back home. Surely, there is nothing peaceful about murdering a Jewish couple in front of their four children, or stabbing and seriously wounding a 13-year-old boy riding his bicycle on the streets of Jerusalem.

This is, bluntly, just another wave of terrorism: targeting Jews for being Jews. The terrorists and their apologists do not distinguish between a Jew living in the city of Beersheba, and a Jew from a settlement in the West Bank. In the eyes of the Palestinian leaders and media, these Jews are all "settlers" living in "occupied territories." To many of them, and as they repeatedly tell us, all of Israel is "occupied territory."

Official Palestinian maps continue to present Palestine as occupying all of Israel. And there are continual attempts erase history Jewish presence. Last July, Rachel's Tomb, the burial site of a Jewish Matriarch was attacked by explosives launched from slingshots. And just last week Joseph's Tomb, the burial site of a Jewish Patriarch, was torched. These are the same methods al-Qaeda and Da'esh (ISIS) have been using in Bamiyan and Palmyra to try to obliterate any evidence of a pre-Islamic presence other ancient sites. These attack were accompanied by requests from six Arab states — Algeria, Egypt, Kuwait, Tunisia, Morocco ad the United Arab Emirates — to have UNESCO declare the Rachel's Tomb, and Western Wall -- a retaining wall and all that is left of the Jews' Second Temple that the Romans destroyed in 70 CE — part of the Muslim Temple Mount under Palestinian control. The last request was removed before the vote, but in a grotesque rewrite of history, UNESCO did declare that two other Jewish holy sites, Rachel's Tomb and the Cave of the Patriarchs, were Muslim holy sites.

In addition, the official media of the Western-funded Palestinian Authority have been referring to the Jewish victims of the current wave of terrorism as "settlers." A 73-year-old woman who lives in the Western part of the city and who was stabbed at Jerusalem's central bus station two weeks ago was described as a "settler." Similarly, two Jews who were stabbed and wounded in the city of Ra'anana, on the outskirts of Tel Aviv, were also described by Abbas's media outlets as "settlers." Their city, Ra'anana, well within the "1967 line," has also been described by most Palestinian media outlets and journalists as a "settlement."

What does all this show? The answer is simple: Most Palestinians continue to see Israel as one big settlement that needs to be uprooted and destroyed. It also shows that these Palestinians do not draw a distinction between a Jew living a West Bank settlement and a Jew living in an Israeli city inside Israel. The Jewish victims of this wave of terrorism are all "settlers" and "colonialists" who deserved what happened to them because they are "living on stolen land." This is the message that the Palestinian Authority, Hamas and other Palestinian groups are sending to the Palestinians and the rest of the world: that "settlers" are "legitimate" targets that deserve to be slaughtered and shot dead by a people fighting for "independence and freedom."

The appropriate term for the current wave of terrorism is "jihad" (holy war). The attacks on Jews in Israel and the West Bank are part of the global jihad that has been waging for many years against Jews in particular, non-Muslims in general and even against other Muslims who might not agree with a differing version of Islam.

Almost all the terrorists involved in these recent attacks are affiliated with Hamas and Islamic Jihad, two jihadi groups whose main goal is to destroy Israel by murdering and intimidating Jews. Like Islamic State and Al-Qaeda, the two Palestinian groups are also seeking to create an Islamic caliphate governed by Islamic sharia law.

This jihad is not aimed at "ending occupation" or protesting against misery and checkpoints. Rather, it is a jihad designed to drive the Jews out of the region. Period. The terrorists and their sponsors do not see a difference between an Israeli soldier and an Israeli baby. They do not see a difference between a "left wing Jew" and a "right wing Jew." The terrorists do not ask their victims about their political affiliation before sticking a knife into them.

This is a wave of terrorism based on lies, lies and more lies. Palestinian leaders, including Abbas and his Fatah faction, have been lying to us for months about the nature of the visits of Jews to the Haram al-Sharif, or Temple Mount. They told Palestinians that the Jews are "invading" and "desecrating" Islamic holy sites with the purpose of destroying them. By doing so, Abbas and his officials in the Palestinian Authority and Fatah have actually been urging Muslims to join the jihad against the Jews.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (right) ignited competition among radical groups as to which faction could incite the most violence. Left: official PA media incite Palestinians, from a young age, to murder Jews.


After the wave of terrorism began, the Palestinian leaders continued to lie about the circumstances surrounding the death of the terrorists. The leaders are now telling us that most of the terrorists were, in fact, innocent civilians who were shot dead by Israel while they were on their way to buy food for their families or going to work. The Palestinian leaders are lying when they tell us that the terrorists were killed as part of a new Israeli policy of "field executions" against young Palestinian men and women. Lying and distorting the truth has become an integral part of the jihad against Jews. The campaign of lies, distortion and fabrications is not less serious than the terror attacks. There is no difference between a Palestinian leader who incites and lies, and a terrorist who grabs a knife and takes to the street to murder a Jew.

It is time for us to open our eyes and see the reality as it is: this is yet another phase of the worldwide jihad against all the "infidels" and "enemies of Islam." Those who are murdering Jews today do not hesitate to murder other non-Muslims tomorrow, especially those who are seen as Israel's friends such as the U.S. and most nations in the West. So let us put things in context and start calling the wave of terrorism by its real name, not an "intifada" or a "peaceful popular resistance." It is a jihad.

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You are a realist and see both sides as doing wrongs and neither is completely innocent.

That's the easy way out, isn't it?

 

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'palestinian' Arabian squatter tries to stab Israelis at Jewish holy site in 'palestinian'-occupied Hebron.

No injuries to any humans.

Terrorist given immediate liquidation and sent to hell.

 

[XenoEnsi-14]

That's the easy way out, isn't it?

Blaming someone else is always easier. It's human nature.

 

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This entity you speak of, this so-called 'palestinians'

If they're so ancient and so indigenous to the land (Jews have been there fore over 3,500 years) then please list the 'palestinians' kings, leaders etc prior to Arafat.

Also could you show me any 'palestinian' government or monarchy or dictator prior to Arafat.

If you can't, then this would be VERY strange for a people to live for millennia without ever having a single prominent leader or figure.

Almost as if the entity was INVENTED.

It's all rhetorical, don't even bother.

The so-called 'palestinians' are a political construct. A fabrication and insha'allah will be sent back to Arabia.

Identity or not, the PEOPLE who lived in that land always lived there. Its the only land that they know as home. You can't just say that they don't belong in their own home just because they have changed. They used to speak aramaic at one point, practice semitic paganism,judaism and then christianity. Now they speak arabic and practice islam. But the people havent changed. The native canaanites/judeans/philistines who are today known as Palestinians always lived in this region.

Shame on you for suggesting Palestinians to be deported back to Arabia. Do you have any evidence that would declare Palestinians as foreigners/invaders in the region? Any evidence of mass migration of Arabs from Arabia colonizing Arabia? No such event happened. On the other hand we all know what the Aliyah is.

 

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'palestinian' terrorist savage stabs Israeli teenager in neck.

Israeli in serious condition.


'palestinian' rat liquidated.

 

[JOEY TRIBIANI]

'palestinian' terrorist savage stabs Israeli teenager in neck.

Israeli in serious condition.


'palestinian' rat liquidated.

Yeah u can shoot them but if they react ohhh see its a terrorist act .