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| Four Terror Stabbing Attacks in One Day in Jerusalem: Is '€˜ISIS Intifada' Here? |
| 2015-10-08 |
| [PJ Media] he first rains that follow the High Holy Days have come to Jerusalem. As always, a blessed relief. But no relief seems imminent from the renewed tensions that have descended on the city. A series of brutal murders and attempted murders of Israeli Jewish civilians by Palestinian Arab Muslims have taken place over the last two weeks. These have occurred against a backdrop of violent demonstrations and protests in Jerusalem, the West Bank, and increasingly among Israel's Arab citizens. For five years, Israel has lived a strange and contradictory reality. The Arab world is in an advanced state of meltdown. A number of formerly strong states have effectively ceased to exist. Syria, Iraq, Yemen are today merely names for areas in which sectarian militias battle one another. These states have collapsed along their ethnic and sectarian fault lines. The results have been bloody and are not yet over. Yet on the edge of all this, the area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea has remained quiet. An anomaly. This is the only place of non-Muslim sovereignty between Europe and India. The existence of a sovereign area successfully defended by the Jews -- a group traditionally despised and ridiculed by Muslims -- has long been a source of rage and humiliation for both Sunni and Shia. Why then, at a time when religious and sectarian identity was everywhere breaking through the thin membrane of "national" and "state" loyalty, had this area of non-Muslim sovereignty been spared major strife? |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #7 I am, perhaps, overreacting a bit. But the flood of propaganda is unending, and the world in which antisemitism is once again fashionable is completely uninterested in the truth. At any rate, the Israelis infiltrated a multi-hour stone-throwing fest, then stopped it. They did not create the situation, nor did they act as provocateurs. You asked for the truth, anon1, but most of those who believe Israel must be evil because "it is an apartheid Western colony" are not interested in the fact that the only true words in that are it and is. Even if you show them the truth they will not be persuaded. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2015-10-08 23:50 |
| #6 Ah, but I think what the Israelis did was a good thing, anon1, and I'm completely uninterested in the opinion of those who are stupid or vicious enough to be upset by it. Why should the Palestinians get to throw rocks and molotov cocktails for days at Israelis without being harmed in return? And why would anyone object, unless they think that stoning and burning Jews is acceptable behaviour? Here is the Israeli take on events, from The Times of Israel with video. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2015-10-08 23:41 |
| #5 the propaganda value of that video is large - have you seen it? This is how the paleos win western supporters from the left they post videos like that all over FB |
| Posted by: anon1 2015-10-08 22:56 |
| #4 The Israelis dressed as Palestinians, infiltrated the rock-throwing protesters, then fixed the problem, anon1. The Palestinians and their supporters are just upset because it's not fair when the Israelis win fair and square. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2015-10-08 22:46 |
| #3 their western supporters are still pumping endless grievances out on facebook - the latest is a video claiming to be of israeli soldiers dressed as paleos in the video they are claimed to be pretending to be protesters, throwing rocks at israeli soldiers to get a response. then when the soldiers rush in they help to beat up a paleo, one shoots in the leg at close range. i know this is not the whole story and is likely misrepresented (massively) for propaganda but that is the kind of crap doing the rounds of the islamofascist FB sites they are mostly obsessed with syria right now though so you are right, grom |
| Posted by: anon1 2015-10-08 22:36 |
| #2 so far this 3rd intifata isn't living up to the hype also much of the arab mideast is so symp with the Paleos the biggist Paleo symps are not you reza Aslam or Roger waters types |
| Posted by: lord garth 2015-10-08 17:38 |
| #1 Why then, at a time when religious and sectarian identity was everywhere breaking through the thin membrane of "national" and "state" loyalty, had this area of non-Muslim sovereignty been spared major strife? Because their paymasters (Palestinian is, basically, a profession): both oil tick & Western been very busy. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-10-08 03:13 |