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| Palestinian rock attacks on the rise since UN settlement vote |
| 2017-01-11 |
| [IsraelTimes] West Bank sees dramatic increase in stonings following Security Council resolution, Kerry speech and talk of moving US embassy to Jerusalem. The West Bank has seen a sharp rise in the number of violent attacks, primarily rock-throwing incidents, since an anti-settlement resolution was passed on December 23, 2016 by the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... Security Council, Israeli defense officials said. The rise was recorded in the last week of December 2016 and the first week of January 2017, an increase security forces say is mostly due to exam season in Paleostinian high schools. They note, though, that it is a larger increase than in the same period in previous years. 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, if maintained, 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, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,’s chief bomb maker, on January 5, 1996. Nevertheless, the political context cannot be dismissed. On December 23, 2016, the UN Security Council passed Resolution 2334 demanding an end to settlements in the West Bank. A few days later, on December 28, US Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you knowKerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat,conqueror of Cambodia, unsuccessful presidential candidate, and utterly failed Secretary of State... gave a speech warning of the dangers of settlement expansion. Finally, Paleostinians have been agitated by ongoing discussion about the possibility the US embassy will be moved to Jerusalem after President-elect Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... takes office. The past few months have also seen an uptick in shooting attacks by Paleostinians in the West Bank. In September there was one, October and November had four each, and in December there were six. Most of those attacks were local initiatives, unaffiliated with any serious terror organization. Most strikingly, there have been a relatively large number of attempts to carry out organized terror attacks, mainly by Hamas. In 2016 Israeli security forces prevented some 100 serious terror attacks, not including the attacks prevented by the Paleostinian Authority. Those thwarted attacks were designed to ignite a full-blown intifada, so far without success. The officials also noted continued unrest among the Paleostinian public against both Israel and the Paleostinian Authority, saying that the atmosphere remains as tense as ever. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 Still spinning up the 'Rocks for Bullets' exchange program, I guess. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-01-11 15:04 |
| #1 Democrat response: "ban assault rocks!" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2017-01-11 14:44 |