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IDF arrests former senior PA official in early-morning raid
[IsraelTimes] At least 25 other Paleostinians suspected of low-level attacks locked away
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
in overnight operations, army says.


Israeli troops arrested a former senior Paleostinian Authority official in his home in Nablus early on Wednesday morning, according to Arab media reports.

In addition, 11 suspects were picked up in the Paleostinian village of Tekoa for allegedly throwing rocks, Molotov cocktails and pipe bombs, the army said.

At least 14 other Paleostinian suspects were arrested overnight throughout the West Bank, the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement.

In 2012, Dweikat was named the PA’s governor of the Jenin-Tulkarem region by PA President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
. Before that, he held a rank comparable to a general in the PA security forces.

In Tekoa -- not to be confused with the nearby Jewish settlement of the same name -- IDF troops, along with officers from the Shin Bet and Border Police, were operating as part of a crackdown on so-called "popular terrorism," a catch-all term that typically refers to throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails at cars and taking part in violent protests against security forces.

In a separate incident on Tuesday night, the IDF arrested a group of Paleostinian youths who the army said had been throwing rocks at passing cars near al-Khader, southwest of Bethlehem.

Surveillance footage, released by the IDF on Wednesday, shows a group of people standing near a road. The video then cuts to an army jeep pulling up to the area, and two of the people can be seen running away before IDF soldiers capture and arrest them. According to the army, the alleged rock throwers were spotted by a soldier monitoring the surveillance cameras, who then called in the troops who made the arrest.

According to police, one of the suspects picked up overnight, a 31-year-old from Qatane in the central West Bank, was arrested after a search of his home uncovered a trove of apparently stolen goods, including jewelry, military uniforms, guns and electronics.

In the northern West Bank, troops arrested four suspects in Nur Shams, one in Balata, one in Bayt Amin and one in A-Zawiya.

In the central West Bank, two people were picked up in Ein Umm esh Sharayit and one was arrested in Bayt Rima.

And one person was arrested in the village of Dura, outside Hebron, in the southern West Bank, the army said.

According to defense officials, the West Bank has seen a sharp rise in the number of violent attacks, primarily rock-throwing incidents, over the past three weeks. The officials said the increase is mostly due to exam season in Paleostinian high schools, but they were examining the possibility that it was tied to a December 23 anti-settlement resolution passed by the United Nations
...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships...
Security Council.

In September, 346 rock-throwing attacks were recorded, in October 375, in November 420, and in December 344. Most of the December attacks occurred in the final week of the month. In the first week of January there were 169 recorded attacks, a pace that would lead to almost 700 attacks by the end of the month.

The rock attacks were also linked to a series of anniversaries taking place around now, including that of Fatah’s founding and first terrorist attack on January 1, 1965, and of the liquidation of Yahya Ayyash, Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",’s chief bomb maker, on January 5, 1996.

Jerusalem municipality demolishes 13 illegal buildings in terrorist’s neighborhood

[IsraelTimes] Authorities dismantle structures, stables and clear public land in Jabel Mukaber, hometown of truck driver who killed four soldiers. Additionally, city planning supervisors mapped out the neighborhood, noting illegal construction and identifying and registering the homeowners. The municipality said the enforcement was designed to tackle serious building offenses, which it said contravened the law and safety requirements, compromised public areas and hurt the neighborhood.

The city also started enforcing payment of the property and water taxes for residents of the neighborhood.
Ouch. Reverse-Alinsky the heck outa them, Israel -- make 'em live up to your rules, just like everyone else.
Arab Israeli arrested for Facebook post urging car-ramming attacks

[IsraelTimes] A man from the predominantly Bedouin southern city of Rahat has been tossed in the calaboose
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
for posting a video on his Facebook page that called for people to carry out car-ramming attacks, police said in a statement Wednesday. Police said the suspect, a 30-year-old Rahat resident, was first detained on Tuesday, and would remain in jail until at least January 15.

"While protecting free speech, we cannot allow incitement and threats on Facebook," the statement said.
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