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| Israel-Palestine-Jordan |
| An attack against coexistence |
| 2015-01-26 |
| [Ynet] Tel Aviv terrorist targeted bus No. 40 precisely because it represents the normality in which Arabs and Jews can live together despite everything. Once every few days, when the weather won't allow me to walk, this is my bus. Bus No. 40. It stops very close to the Yedioth Ahronoth building. More than other bus lines, it's a line of coexistence. It passes in Jaffa as well. Jews and Arabs get on this bus on their way to central and northern Tel Aviv. Foreign workers, Arab women with or without a hijab, asylum seekers and veteran Israelis, including haredim, are the regular mix on this bus in these morning hours. A microcosm of Israel. One could hold a referendum there and get real results. How did the terrorist from Tul Karm know who was Jewish and who wasn't Jewish? He didn't really care. A video segment filmed in one of the nearby businesses shows passengers fleeing the bus. The terrorist was among them. Two women are seen escaping. One is wearing a scarf, which could be used as a hijab. So is the other. One of them is stabbed. She could be Arab. The other runs to help her. Why is he stabbing a woman who might be Moslem herself? In order to understand the answer, we must expand our look at the terrorism of this era, which has global jihad's name written all over it. It makes no distinctions. In fact, it mainly kills Moslems ‐ so does it really matter if they are killed here, in Nigeria, in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... or in Raqqa? Why by sitting on a Zionist bus and going to work in the morning, Arab women ‐ perhaps the two from the video, perhaps others ‐ are cooperating with the heretics, and deserve to die. Make no mistake. This wasn't a terror attack against the occupation. This wasn't a national attack. There may have been such terror attacks in the past. No more. The terror attacks of the past few years are not attacks aimed at protesting a certain injustice. Does anyone seriously think that the despicable terrorist used a long knife so that the Paleostinians would have a sovereign state, prosperity, welfare, advanced education and human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. ? Does anyone think that the vile terrorist is frustrated over the fact that the two states for two people solution has not been realized? Come on. Nearly all the attacks of the past few years are aimed at imposing Islam on central Tel Aviv, just like they are aimed at imposing Islam on central Gay Paree. The terrorist targeted bus No. 40 precisely because it represents Israeli normality. The normality of Israelis who go out to work every morning. The normality in which Arabs and Jews can live together despite everything. This normality is irritating. It's not a simple normality. It's normality with numerous tensions and problems. But it's still normality. It can and should be improved. It's not that there is great harmony between the many different people who travel on the bus, but considering the lack of normality in every area in which this terrorist's friends gain their strength ‐ and it's happening in too many places around the world ‐ we should welcome what we have. It's unclear whether the terrorist had any idea about the nature of bus No. 40 and its passengers. It is clear that the terrorist wanted to carry out an attack against the normality which this bus line represents. The terrorist can be defeated. And that will happen when the normal Israelis ‐ Jews and Arabs ‐ insist on the continuation of this normality. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #8 Only in the author's leftard mind---there is no co-existence, and never was. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-01-26 14:34 |
| #7 Why is he stabbing a woman who might be Moslem herself? Because they don't like co-existence. Or the woman is perceived as not fundamentalist enough. Or because they are just crazy. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2015-01-26 13:04 |
| #6 What is the purpose of this claim? It points out that if everything the usual hand wringing excuse making suspects claim creates the source of terrorism disappeared tomorrow, they'd still be killing people. As in the old story about the frog and the scorpion, it's in their nature. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-01-26 09:55 |
| #5 |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-01-26 06:32 |
| #4 Anyone else truly sick of hearing "Muslim terrorism kills mostly Muslims"? What is the purpose of this claim? To make us pity the population that produces fanatics who want to kill their own as well as the rest of us? To prevent us from defending ourselves? We lock up lunatics for being dangers to themselves; perhaps that idea should be extended to cultures? |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2015-01-26 06:13 |
| #3 It is no accident that the "coexist" bumper sticker puts Christianity last. |
| Posted by: no mo uro 2015-01-26 05:58 |
| #2 As per both FREREPUBLIC + DRUDGEREPORT, Iran is warning that it + aligned could-n-would attack Israel from the WEST BANK. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2015-01-26 00:52 |
| #1 |
| Posted by: Phusons McGurque1872 2015-01-26 00:14 |