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2022-11-23 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Jerusalem bombings: Teenager killed, 19 others injured

[JPost] Two explosions at busy Jerusalem bus stops • Nails discovered in bombs that were detonated remotely • Police on high alert across the country

At least one person was killed and 19 wounded in two explosions in bus stops at separate entrances to Jerusalem on Wednesday morning, in what police are treating as a coordinated double terror attack.

The fatality was identified as 16-year-old Aryeh Shechopek, who was on his way to a yeshiva in a nearby community when the explosion occurred. The Canadian citizen lived in the capital’s Har Nof neighborhood.

Both explosions, one at the entrance to the city near the Central Bus Station and the other in the Ramot neighborhood, occurred at bus stops during rush hour. The explosive devices were said to have been placed in bags left at the stations.

The first explosion, which happened shortly after 7 a.m. in Givat Shaul, injured 15 people, including two critically and another four seriously.

Magen David Adom said that 12 people were transported to hospitals across the city for medical treatment. Six of the injured people were evacuated to Shaare Tzedek Medical Center, two in critical condition, four in serious condition, and one moderately injured. Five of the moderately wounded were transported to Hadassah University Medical Center in Ein Kerem, and one was admitted to Hadassah’s Mount Scopus hospital in moderate condition.

One of the injured was Naomi Pilichowski, the daughter of Uri Pilichowski, a Jerusalem Post columnist and a well-known American-Israeli educator who works at Nefesh B’Nefesh, and Mitzpe Yericho Mayor Aliza Pilichowski. She was lightly injured in the attack.

Avi Biton, the father of another teenager who was seriously wounded in the attack with shrapnel in his head and stomach, said that his son and a friend were sitting on a bench waiting for a ride to their yeshiva when they suddenly heard a large explosion that threw them in the air. He said that his son saw a suspicious-looking man taking pictures of them before disappearing.

Witnesses said that they had spotted a bag leaning against a wall shortly before the explosion although these claims have not yet been verified. However, according to N12, the blast was caused by a device set up on a motorcycle next to the bus stop.

The bombs were detonated remotely and were reportedly packed with nails and bolts to maximum casualties. One bus that was near the scene of the first attack was riddled with holes, showing the dispersion of shrapnel.

Following the attack, Road One - the main artery into the capital - was shut to incoming traffic from the direction of Tel Aviv for several hours.

The second explosion near the Ramot Intersection in northern Jerusalem took place several moments after the initial explosion. Three people were lightly injured in that attack.

The second explosive device was most likely set up on the fence, according to an N12 report.

Posted by Frank G 2022-11-23 08:32|| || Front Page|| [11143 views ] Top

#1 Rabbi Uri Pilichowski. "Rabbi Pilichowski created the first teen pro-Israel group in the country that taught students to advocate in Congress for a stronger US-Israel relationship. His students gained a national reputation as they lobbied on THe (sic) Hill and in the White House."

Say, what do you think would happen if I started a student group to lobby the US Congress to favor a foreign country over our own? Do you think I'd get admitted to the highest levels of the government? No? Weird! I wonder why he got that to happen.

I suppose we'll never know and we shouldn't ask.

Posted by Spike the Hairy6811 2022-11-23 08:51|| 2022-11-23 08:51|| Front Page Top

#2 Oh this just keeps getting better: https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/jewish-democratic-israel-from-the-river-to-the-sea/

"Finally, the J-street statement assumes that the future demographics in Israel would lead to an Arab majority and that given their majority, Arabs would take on Israeli citizenship and use democracy to change the Jewish nature of the state. It also assumes that Israel couldn’t creatively come up with solutions to preclude these things from happening. None of these are guaranteed outcomes. The uniqueness of Zionism is how it faces repeated existential threats and defeats them all."

This is literally the Great Replacement conspiracy theory.

Posted by Spike the Hairy6811 2022-11-23 08:54|| 2022-11-23 08:54|| Front Page Top

#3 /\ Jewish Democratic Israel from the River to the Sea

Posted by Besoeker 2022-11-23 09:11|| 2022-11-23 09:11|| Front Page Top

#4 This is literally the Great Replacement conspiracy theory.

The Palestinians call it Jihad of the Womb, but since their women aren’t nearly as enthusiastic as planned, they’ve been lying for two decades about their birthrates. Palestinian Authority statistics were off by over a million in about 2005, and very likely double that by now.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-11-23 11:51|| 2022-11-23 11:51|| Front Page Top

#5 The point is that the ADL calls the exact same thing a conspiracy theory when Americans say it.

And yet, when respected rabbis say the same thing, it doesn't get censored or repressed by the ADL. Instead, it gets printed in the pages of Times of Israel. Without any context warning or fact-checking - which is standard practice for conspiracy theories.

Weird! It's like some kind of upside-down world.

Posted by Spike the Hairy6811 2022-11-23 15:59|| 2022-11-23 15:59|| Front Page Top

#6 The Anti-Defamation League is an American organization, my dear. The Times of Israel is an Israeli newspaper. And J-Street is a Progressive group ehose primary orientation is to the Left, not to Jews or Israel. They are, quite simply, a Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions organization with an ethnic Jewish figleaf.

(In Their Own Words — the collected comments of various BDS-ers, including Norman Finkelstein, PhD)

That the ADL has recently lost its way is a separate question.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-11-23 22:16|| 2022-11-23 22:16|| Front Page Top

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