Video: 'Palestinians' try to lynch traffic police in 'east' Jerusalem
Four 'Palestinians' were arrested on Monday after trying to lynch two traffic inspectors driving in an unmarked car in 'east' Jerusalem. The 'Palestinians' - who are entitled to Israeli citizenship if they are residents of 'east' Jerusalem - recognized the passengers of a car passing through an Arab neighborhood of Jerusalem with Israeli license plates to be Israeli traffic cops and began to stone the car and block the streets. Regular policemen and mounted border policemen arrived on the scene and arrested four of the 'Palestinians' who were involved. Traffic police are generally unarmed.Let's go to the videotape:
For those who speak Hebrew, Israel television has a longer version of the lynching part of the same story (less of the arrests) and an interview with the two traffic inspectors:
Here's what the JPost has to say about the same story:
In the most serious incident, two Jerusalem Municipality city inspectors felt in danger of being lynched on a central east Jerusalem thoroughfare that was blocked by burning garbage bins after their car was pelted with dozens of stones and rocks by half a dozen teens, one of whom jumped on the vehicle and beat the window with a metal bar.Salah a-din is about three blocks from the 'green line' and I have driven on it myself because the Jerusalem District Court is on that block, kitty corner from the Justice Ministry (which I have also visited for business purposes).
The two city workers, who were inside their vehicle when they came under attack, eventually managed to bypass a burning garbage bin that was overturned on the road by driving on the sidewalk and escape to safety.
"I was afraid we were going to be lynched," said city inspector Chaya Elihan.
The two city workers were in telephone contact the whole time of the attack with their boss, Elihan said.
"Our instructions were just to get out of the there as quickly as possible without paying any attention to the damage done to the car," city inspector Moshe Ephraim said.
Minutes later an elite unit of undercover Jerusalem police, aided by a top Border Police anti-terror unit, moved in and arrested the leaders of the attack, Jerusalem police spokesman Shmuel Ben-Ruby said.
The violent midday attack on Rehov Salah-a-Din took place just hundreds of meters away from the Israeli Justice Ministry and the city's district court.
The graphic images - which were caught by TV cameras - topped the most popular TV newscast in Israel on Monday night and brought to mind scenes from the first Palestinian intifada in the 1980s.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 4:42 PM
4 Comments:
If this is what happens in Jerusalem under Israeli rule, just imagine what would happen if half of Jerusalem was handed over to the Palestinian reichlet.
Carl, I was shocked to learn from your post that traffic police there are usually unarmed. What about your average non-law enforcement private citizen, are you allowed to carry weapons?
Orde, Israel has no national concealed carry weapons law as in the United States and the burden in a shooting, believe it or not - falls on the person who fired rather than the attacker. That's why a Jewish resident of the Shomron revanant of Nachliel named Moshe in press reports has been placed in the dock for defending himself from an Arab mob. In Israel - yes one must must prove one shot an Arab in self-defense rather than the authorities presuming it was legitimate.
Its a disgrace.
Thanks normanf, sounds different than here in Florida where we have what's called a "Shoot First" law. Thanks again. - Orde
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