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'palestinian' terror merchant carried out shooting attack at the Gilboa crossing.

This crossing is used for commercial movement that helps the 'palestinian' economy. Yet this is the target the lunatic Islamist wants to destroy. We have seen this tactic in Gaza where Hamas have deliberately attacked the crossing for humanitarian aid.

There were no Israeli casualties in this incident.

The lunatic Islamist was liquidated.

Initial report: Attempted shooting attack at West Bank crossing - Breaking News - Jerusalem Post
 
Innocent Israelis killed by Arabs: 21
Innocent Arabs Killed by Civilians: 0
Innocent Israelis wounded by Arabs: 427
Innocent Arabs wounded by Civilians: 13


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12 month old toddler who was the victim of a 'palestinian' terror attack is now listed in serious condition.


Update: The 12 month old baby injured when a 'palestinian' terrorist savage rammed his car into him, has lost his leg.
 
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This crossing is used for commercial movement that helps the 'palestinian' economy. Yet this is the target the lunatic Islamist wants to destroy. We have seen this tactic in Gaza where Hamas have deliberately attacked the crossing for humanitarian aid.
It's not lunacy. Terror groups do this to hammer home to their captive populace that they control who gets the wealth and who doesn't. It's an ancient technique of political control and marks a polity which is ruled by theft and the distribution of stolen goodies rather than wealth and property secured through the force of law.
 
Israeli forces level Palestinian land near Gaza border, injure 3

GAZA (Ma’an) -- Israeli forces shot and injured three Palestinians after entering a border area in the southern Gaza Strip on Thursday in order to level Palestinian land, local residents said.

Witnesses told Ma'an that four Israeli excavators entered the border area near Deir al-Balah refugee camp before levelling the land.

Israeli soldiers fired gunshots in the area, shooting and injuring at least three Palestinians, according to witnesses.

Israeli forces frequently shoot at Palestinian farmers and other civilians inside the Gaza Strip if they approach areas near the border that the Israeli military has deemed no-go zones.

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Fatah responds :

Rocket fired from Gaza lands in open area in Israel

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Long live Palestina! :D

We wish to be among you angelic peoples. Palestine will be free.
 
'palestinian' Islamic terrorist savage attempts to stab Israelis near Jewish town of Hebron.

No Israelis injured.

The terrorist was shot and wounded.

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In a separate incident, a deranged 'palestinian' stabbed a tourist in 'palestinian'-occupied Jewish/Christian town of Bethlehem.

The tourist was lightly wounded. It is thought the motivation for the attack was criminal.

Two attempted stabbings within minutes in West Bank - Arab-Israeli Conflict - Jerusalem Post
 
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How The Guardian’s Framing Frames Israel
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This guest post was contributed by Sarah Parsons Brown, a resident of Jerusalem.


It’s perfectly normal for media outlets to take stories and photos from wire services (e.g. Associated Press, AFP, Reuters) and make amendments to suit their own editorial style guides. But just how far will a newspaper go, making changes to the original content, in order to promote a particular agenda?

On December 18, 2015, The Guardian ran an Associated Press story about two Palestinians who were killed by Israeli forces: a driver reportedly killed in an attempted attack on Israeli soldiers in the West Bank and a violent protester killed while attempting to breach the border fence between Gaza and Israel.

But The Guardian’s framing of the original AP article may give the cursory reader the impression that the violence was Israeli and targeted non-violent Palestinians. This can be seen in the headline, the lead – the sections that a reader is most likely to look at when skimming – and in the article itself.

THE HEADLINE
There is nothing in The Guardian’s headline that implies that the two Palestinians killed by Israeli forces were actually doing anything wrong. Perhaps they were innocent bystanders. And even if not, perhaps the violence that flared was at Israel’s instigation.









Compare The Guardian’s headline to the one that tops the same AP article as it is reported in U.S. News and World Report:







Similarly, consider the headline of the same article as reported by ABC News:







While the U.S. News and ABC headlines attribute the claim to Israeli sources, they make it clear that the Palestinians were killed during an attack on Israelis and during clashes; there is no possibility that the article is describing innocent bystanders in random flashes of violence.

THE LEAD
The Guardian added a lead to the AP article that, like the title, lacks crucial context. This lead conjures up images of rather extreme enforcement of the speed limit in the contested territories by the Israeli military:

Troops open fire on driver of speeding car in West Bank and man attempting to breach border fence in Gaza Strip

While the second victim is portrayed as having been shot while attempting to breach the border, the first victim is described as having been gunned down by troops while speeding. It is only when readers actually read the article that they find out the context and learn that the driver was attempting a vehicular attack in the context of a violent conflict:

In one attack, a Palestinian man sped his car toward Israeli forces who were controlling a riot in the town of Silwad… The Israeli forces took cover behind concrete blocks and fatally shot the driver…

THE ARTICLE

If readers dive into the details of the story, continuing beyond the large print headers and the evocative photograph, they will encounter a text in which The Guardian’s re-calibration of the violence continues, as can be seen in two striking text changes from the original AP article:

– The article itself describes two incidents in which Israeli sources described cases of attempted vehicular terror. In the first case, which is described in the headline, the driver was killed; in the second, the driver was wounded and arrested. In both of these cases, the original AP article referred to a “Palestinian assailant,” while the Guardian article refers to a “Palestinian man.” Consider the following:

In one attack, a Palestinian assailant man sped in his car toward Israeli forces who were controlling a riot in the town of Silwad, near the West Bank city of Ramallah…. The Israeli forces took cover behind concrete blocks and fatally shot the driver….
Earlier in the day in the West Bank, an assailant a man sped toward soldiers and police at the Qalandiya checkpoint north of Jerusalem…. He got out of his car and started to charge the Israeli troops. The attacker, a man in his 30s and from the West Bank village Turmus Aya, was wounded in the leg and arrested.

The change from “assailant” to “man” clearly diminishes the culpability of the Palestinian drivers for the fate that befell them.

– All three articles state that the Palestinian Ministry of Health identified the man who was killed when trying to breach the border as Mahmoud Mohammed Saeed Alagha, from Khan Younis in Gaza. The U.S. News and ABC presentations of the AP article add: “The militant Hamas group later said Alagha was a 24-year-old member of the Hamas.” The Guardian, however, omits this background detail.

Could it be that the Hamas statement was not known when the article in The Guardian went to press? That does not seem likely, since the AP article cited by U.S. News and ABC News was posted on both sites at 3:21 pm Eastern Time, while the article in the Guardian was last updated a little over half an hour later (8.56 pm GMT) on that same day. It would thus seem that the omission of the aspiring infiltrator’s Hamas membership was intended to make the victim seem less threatening.

Eagle-eyed readers will also note that in the AP article, the Israeli police spokeswoman was referred to by name as Luba Samri; in the amended article in The Guardian, she is an unidentified police spokeswoman. While this could very well be a reflection of an editorial decision to eliminate detail that is unnecessary for the reader, it can also be seen as depersonalizing the news source and detracting from her credibility.

CONCLUSION

This article illustrates how a number of editorial choices – mostly in the way that The Guardian framed the core AP article – subtly shifted the center of violence away from the Palestinians and toward the Israelis.

In today’s world, in which many people scan news articles for information rather than reading in full, The Guardian’s framing may leave readers who suffice with the headlines and do not read the body of the article, with a distorted impression of Israeli violence and Palestinian innocence.
 
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Israel: The Cult Of The Knife

December 22, 2015: Recent opinion polls in the West Bank reveal that a majority of Palestinians there approve of the current “knife terrorism” campaign and that most Palestinians would vote for Hamas if elections were held right now. This is no secret to the current (Fatah) leaders in the West Bank and one reason they support the knife terrorism so energetically and effectively. While Hamas is hated by the people of Gaza, West Bank Palestinians don’t experience that daily while they do endure the corrupt and inept rule of Fatah. The Fatah media campaign has also convinced most Palestinians it is Israel that is refusing to negotiate peace when in fact it is the Palestinians who turned down two peace deals in the 1990s and instead tried terror campaigns to get more. Both of these “intifadas” failed and Fatah has sold the illusion that the third intifada (the “knife intifada) will succeed. Since 2000 Palestinian media constantly pushed the idea that Israel has no right to exist and must be destroyed. Palestinians who disagree with this must either emigrate or keep silent. For most Palestinians its easier to praise the knife. The knife terrorism campaign has, in three months, left 22 Israeli dead and over 250 wounded. But 130 Palestinians have died (mostly in failed attacks). Palestinian media depicts unsuccessful attacks that result in attackers being killed or wounded as Israeli attacks against random (and innocent) Palestinians.

The Palestinian governments in the West Bank and Gaza are unique in that they openly boast, to their own people, of waging terror campaigns against Israel while managing to convince the rest of the world that it is not terrorism but simply self-defense. The two Palestinian governments are also at war with each other but they are much less willing to discuss that openly, except to tell their own subjects to tell that those other Palestinians are evil and up to no good.

The West Bank Palestinian government is the most outrageous in its approach to terrorism against Israelis. The West Bank leaders (the Fatah party), openly discuss tactics on Palestinian TV and radio, to keep their people informed on what they should, or should not do. For example, the current campaign that uses individual civilians wielding vehicles, rocks or knives to attack Israeli civilians (who are less likely to be armed or able to fight back that soldiers or police) is described as more effective that traditional methods. That, Fatah leaders explain, is because the international media defines terrorism as mass attacks (with explosives and guns) while civilians attacking with kitchen knives or their cars can be explained away as individual frustration at Israeli oppression. Less publicized is the fact that for every Israeli killed this way six Palestinians die. But Fatah has that covered as well because one of the bills that cash-strapped Fatah pays punctually are the monetary awards to those Palestinians who are wounded in these attacks. Larger sums are paid to those sent to prison and even more to the families of Palestinians who get killed. Some Western and Arab donors to the Palestinians have cut their aid as these payments for violence against Israelis gets more publicity. The Fatah leaders are working on that problem and when they come up with a solution they will get on Palestinian TV and let everyone know.

Fatah also appears to see these latest knife terrorism tactics as a long-term effort as there is more and more coverage of how to kill Israelis on Palestinian TV shows directed at young children. This is supplemented by special toys (a rock throwing doll) and videos of young children showing how to conceal and use a knife when attacking Israelis. Fatah sees children willing to kill and die as the salvation of the Palestinian cause (the destruction of Israel).
 

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