Shocking video of one of today's terror attacks in Jerusalem
It's been a difficult, painful day here in Jerusalem, as we have gone back into intifada mode (2000-04).
Here's video of one of today's terror attacks in the city. This took place at a bus stop on Malchei Yisrael Street in the city's Geula neighborhood - a major thoroughfare that I usually walk down at least once a week. In fact, at least two of my children were there yesterday!
Let's go to the videotape.
The terrorist - like all of the terrorists involved in today's five terror attacks around the country - was an
Arab resident of 'east' Jerusalem, which means that he could roam around freely without hitting any army checkpoints. He was an
employee of Bezeq, Israel's national phone carrier, and used his company-issued truck to carry out the attack. His job at Bezeq?
Repairing home phone lines.
There is now talk of
placing checkpoints outside Arab neighborhoods to prevent terrorists from leaving or imposing a curfew on them altogether.
Last night, I had to take (because we are trying to minimize bus trips - there was a
bus attacked today as well) one of my children to a place near where there were two terror attacks during the day yesterday. There were police on every corner and that is likely to be supplemented with army units. That is why police have been on the scene of each attack quickly and casualties have been minimized.
The good news is that the security forces believe that
the attacks were coordinated, which would mean that these are not lone wolves and that there is a terror cell behind them that can be broken.
Keep praying for us - living like this is quite stressful....
Labels: East Jerusalem, Israel police, Jerusalem police, Palestinian terrorism, Palestinian terrorists, terror victims
Breaking: Messiah's times: Police stop Arabs from attacking Jews on Temple Mount
When we were walking toward the Western Wall today, my sons and I passed a group that was being briefed for entry to the Temple Mount. They were being told: "The Arabs know only one word in English: 'Out.' And that's what they will keep yelling at you."
A short while ago, police entered the 'holy' al-Aqsa mosque after receiving a tip that Muslim 'youth' lay in wait for Jews to ascend the Mount. They planned to attack them with
rocks and firebombs.
Israeli police entered
a holy Jerusalem site on Sunday to prevent Arab youths from attacking
visiting Jews marking a biblical holiday, a police spokesman said.
Micky
Rosenfeld said police received prior warnings that masked Arab youths
were barricading themselves inside the al-Aqsa Mosque armed with rocks
and fire bombs. He said the youths planned to attack Jews visiting the
area Sunday for Tisha B'Av - the Jewish holiday marking the destruction
of ancient Hebrew temples.
Rosenfeld said some officers were wounded as they pushed the youths back, without providing further details.
If the mosques are so 'holy,' why is their use as offensive military sites permitted?
By the way, I called this 'Messiah's times,' because normally the Israeli police do nothing to stop the Muslims from attacking non-Muslim visitors to the Mount.
Labels: al-Aqsa mosque, Jerusalem police, Temple Mount, Tisha b'Av
And again: Attempted stabbing attack on Jerusalem light rail
There's been yet another
attempted stabbing attack on the Jerusalem light rail, this time at the Givat HaMivtar station located at the French Hill intersection (one stop east of where a 'Palestinian'
plowed into a station with his car a few months ago).
There are no injuries in today's attack, and the terrorist was taken into custody.
But if we don't talk about terror attacks,
they don't exist, right?
Labels: City of Jerusalem, Israel police, Jerusalem Light Rail, Jerusalem police, Nir Barkat, Palestinian terrorism
A basic right
Scroll down for the English translation if you don't understand the Hebrew.
Even for someone who does not ascend the Temple Mount, there are places on the periphery from which the location of the Holy of Holies is visible.
And it certainly seems to me that prayer is and ought to be a basic right (which is the real eye opener here in my humble opinion).
Can you imagine the State Department's reaction if Israel banned Muslims from praying in any of its public parks?
/Wondering how long it will be before the 'supreme court' decides that Jewish prayer is not a basic right.
Labels: Jerusalem police, prayers, Supreme Court, Temple Mount
Terrorists' mothers demand sons' bodies
Last Tuesday, I reported that Jerusalem police
did not intend to return the Har Nof terrorists' bodies. Now, the proud mothers are
demanding that the bodies be turned over to them.
“Let them destroy the houses, but we want the
bodies back. We will not calm down until we bury them,” said Fatma Abu
Jamal, the mother of Uday.
“The deaths of the cousins hurts us, but I am
proud of my son,” Zakia Abu Jamal, Ghassan’s mother, told Ynet. “I
didn’t get the feeling that my son was about to die as a martyr. He
acted completely normal, but, unfortunately, was is happening at al-Aqsa
[mosque] is the cause of a lot of tension and anger,” she added,
referring to recent violence at the Temple Mount and widespread
Palestinian assertions — denied by Israel — that Israel is planning to
change the status quo at the site, the holiest in Judaism and the third
holiest in Islam.
Fatma Abu Jamal said she was anxious to
receive the body of her son. “We want to have the bodies so we can
decide where to bury them, and not the Israeli government. They killed
them, what more do they want from us?” she said.
Let them starve themselves to death. There is absolutely no way that our government should allow them to incite the 'Palestinian' masses by a public funeral.
Labels: Jerusalem police, Palestinian terrorists
And it's not even Friday... UPDATED
I wonder why this is happening on a Wednesday....
Hmmm.
UPDATED 10:17 AM
It was an
ambush.
The rioters fired at police at the Mughrabi Gate, which is the only
point of access for Jewish visitors to the site currently under the de
facto rule of the Jordanian Waqf (Islamic trust).
Yassam police special forces and Border Patrol officers pushed their way onto the Temple Mount and pressed back the rioters.
Upon arriving on the holy site, police forces came face to face with
dozens of rioters who had prepared obstacles on the Mount, from which
they threw rocks and bricks at the officers while continuing to launch
fireworks at them.
After an extended struggle the police were able to gain control over the rioters and return order to the site. A number of officers were lightly wounded by the salvo of rocks and fireworks, and were provided medical treatment at the scene.
Despite the attack, entry remained open for Jewish visitors,
with police saying "we will continue to act against the rioters and show
zero tolerance for any attempt to disrupt the order."
It's about time that the police took the attitude in the last paragraph. But unfortunately, there was only one arrest and it was - you guessed it - a Jew.
The Jew prostrated himself in prayer at the holiest site in
Judaism, an act that the Muslim Waqf guards have pressed Israeli police
into forbidding despite the fact that Israeli law guarantees the right
of religious worship.
No other country would discriminate against its own citizens like that. It's disgraceful.
Labels: Jerusalem police, Palestinian riots, Temple Mount
If a terror attack is committed and no one talks about it, does it still exist?
My opinion of Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat has just sunk some more. Barkat apparently believes that if we don't talk about the terror attacks he's been unable to prevent in Jerusalem,
they don't exist.
News site 0404 has published a recodring of Barkat speaking before the City Council on Thursday.
The mayor can be heard saying: “In my opinion, if people are too
afraid – and we know that the problem exists – this can serve the
interests of the terrorists and rioters who want to disrupt our lives.
We are must make a great effort to put the city back on routine tracks.
We are not ignoring the problem. We are aware of it. This discourse does
not advance us, media wise.
“We are aware of the problem. This discourse does not advance us
media-wise – not the city of of Jerusalem, Every time there is a
discussion and great fear about some matter, immediately the merchants
and the businessmen and the cultural institutes will tell you that their
income is down."
...
"I am very angry at the railway people,” he says, in a reference to
the Light Rail, which has been very hard hit by terror attacks. “I, the
Transport Ministry and the police are very angry at them. They could
have said that Light Rail is the safest means of transport and there are
zero casualties. It is protected. Instead of talking about it every
day, contrary to the position of the police, the Transport Ministry and
the Municipality – and by the way, they are doing so for the wrong
reasons.”
The fact that Jews are no longer using the Light Rail is the
railways' fault, Barkat insisted. “They are causing it. They scare
people for no reason. They keep on making it public. The police closed
down the Light Rail twice or thrice when the police thought that there
was need for this. The fact is that although windows were smashed, no
one was hurt because it is protected.”
"I trust the police on this matter and it is better for this
discourse to remain outside the media. We are not avoiding anything. The
prime minister is worried about this and the minister for public
security is worried about this and the police commissioner and the
district commander and myself and all of us. We have one police force,
we cannot replace it.”
Sure - let's just pretend the problem doesn't exist. What could go wrong?
Labels: City of Jerusalem, Israel police, Jerusalem Light Rail, Jerusalem police, Nir Barkat, Palestinian terrorism
Coverup in Ramat Shlomo?
Arutz Sheva is reporting that the security forces and the media are
covering up what happened in the Jerusalem neighborhood of
Ramat Shlomo on Friday night. This is from the first link.
Strangely, however, the Jerusalem police insisted Sunday that “it is still not clear what the nature of the attack was.”
Apparently following the police's lead, Israel's mainstream media –
which makes front page headlines out of graffiti attributed to Jews –
has not even deemed the potentially lethal attack inside the capital
newsworthy.
A Google search indicates that besides Arutz Sheva, Behadrei Haredim and another hareidi site, Kikar Hashabat, only the Jewish Press and the Maariv-NRG website reported the attack.
And
Israel Matzav.... What am I? Chopped liver?
An epidemic of burglaries that plagued Ramat Shlomo, which is home to
about 20,000 people, has reportedly subsided somewhat recently, as a
result of neighborhood patrols that are coordinated with the Israel
Police. However, there is serious concern in the neighborhood that
security will deteriorate as a new road connecting Ramat Shlomo with the
adjoining Arab neighborhoods of Shuafat and Beit Hanina is completed.
Jerusalem Councillor Aryeh King promised to convene the city's
Committee for Emergency and Security Matters in two weeks' time and
demand explanations from police, whom he accused of neglecting the
residents' security.
Police are rarely seen in Ramat Shlomo, except for one neighborhood resident who was made an auxiliary police officer so that he can direct traffic at the entrance to the neighborhood on days when the poorly-located charity fund at the neighborhood's entrance hands out free produce. There is no police station in Ramat Shlomo - residents are meant to call Ramat Eshkol or Neve Yaakov.
There also have been very few problems for many years. The neighboring village of Shuafat (NOT the 'refugee camp') is considered quite wealthy and its residents (who are rumored to include a small handful of Jewish families) are supposedly not interested in creating 'trouble.'
Labels: East Jerusalem, Israel police, Israeli media bias, Jerusalem police, Palestinian terrorism, police coverup, Ramat Shlomo
No Jews, no tourists and not a whole lot of Muslims allowed on Temple Mount
Heeding warnings of Muslim riots on the Temple Mount, the Israeli police have
closed the Mount on Friday except to blue Israeli identity card holders who are Muslim men over the age of 50 or Muslim women of any age.
The decision to only allow Muslim men over the age of 50, and women
of any age, to pray at the site was made by Jerusalem police commander
Nitzav Yossi Friyanti.
Further, only Muslim visitors with blue teudot zehut (identification cards), held by Israeli citizens and residents, would be allowed in.
Police are preparing around the Temple Mount and in alleys and
entrances around the Old City for expected attempts to disrupt the
public order.
The Temple Mount was closed to visitors by police on Thursday following rioting by Muslims in the area for "Prisoners Day,"
in which thousands of Arab residents of Judea, Samaria and Gaza
demanded the release of Israeli-held terrorists. Those protests turned
violent in Hevron, where police and soldiers were attacked with rocks.
It's time to either ban the Muslims altogether until they can behave themselves, or reach an arrangement like in Hebron where each religious group has its own exclusive days to pray at the site.
Labels: Jerusalem Palestinians, Jerusalem police, Palestinians, Temple Mount
Hamas takes over Temple Mount, Jews and tourists banned
Those of you who hope to ascend the Temple Mount this holiday may be disappointed. Hamas had taken over the Mount, and the Israeli police are too inept to do anything about it.
Let's go to the videotape.
What's worse is that the police are
helping Hamas.
“Hundreds of Jews who came to the Temple Mount for Pesach were
astonished to find a police representative standing at the entrance gate
and announcing that the Mount had been closed off to Jews after Hamas
had taken over the Mount and threatened violence against any Jews who
enter,” the Temple organizations reported in a news communique.
The Temple organizations called for the police commissioner to resign, following his failures on the Temple Mount.
“Time after time, the police abandon the Mount to hostile hands
– especially on Jewish holidays," they charged. "Then the same
commanders come to the Knesset and the Interior Committee, and lie that
the Mount was open.”
...
Despite being the holiest site in Judaism, the Temple Mount is
administered by the Islamic Waqf foundation, and Jewish visits are
subject to strict restrictions including a blanket ban on prayers or
other forms of worship, under pain of arrest.
Jewish groups have long condemned the discrimination as a surrender
to Muslim extremism; a new bill proposed by the Jewish Home party is
currently being debated to grant equal prayer rights to Jews and Muslims
on the Mount.
Hamas flags are allowed on the Temple Mount but Israeli flags and any form of Jewish prayer are banned. What could go wrong?Labels: Hamas, Israel police, Jerusalem police, Palestinian terrorism, Temple Mount, Wakf
'Palestinians' stone Feiglin on Temple Mount, police bar Jews from site in response - UPDATED WITH VIDEO
This makes 'perfect' sense, doesn't it?
The 'Palestinians' stoned MK Moshe Feiglin (Likud-Beiteinu) and a group of 'right wing activists' on the Temple Mount on Thursday morning, and in response
police banned Jews from the Mount.
Two Arab rioters were arrested Thursday for attempting to
attack MK Moshe Feiglin (Likud Beteinu) as he visited the Temple Mount.
Hundreds of rioters threw stones at Feiglin and several individuals who
accompanied him. Feiglin was forced to leave the site, and police took
steps to break up the riot.
As a result of the riot, the Temple Mount was closed Thursday morning to Jews and to tourists.
You didn't really think they'd clear the Arab rioters from the Mount, did you?
After being forced to leave the site Thursday, Feiglin said that “the
incidents today show more than ever that the Temple Mount is such a
powderkeg specifically because it is clear to the Palestinians that
violence pays off. Israeli weakness encourages this violence.”
Police, Feiglin said, did an admirable job of protecting the Jews and
tourists caught up in the riot and putting down the riot. “But cutting
our visit short and clearing the Mount of Jews on the one hand while
allowing the rioters to remain on the other left the victory in the
hands of those who initiated the violence, and will only encourage more
violence.”
Yes, especially when it's the second time this week that's happened.
On Sunday,
Housing and Construction Minister Uri Ariel (Jewish Home) was also
forced to leave the Temple Mount after rioters threw stones at him.
Then, too, police cleared the Mount of non-Muslims.
“A reality in which rioters determine the day's agenda on the Temple
Mount, and prevent Jewish visitors from ascending [to the Mount], is
unacceptable," Ariel stated after the visit. "I went up to the Mount
this morning, I intend to keep on doing so in the future, and I demand
that security forces help keep Jewish sovereignty intact and allow any
Jew to ascend to the Mount freely."
Har HaBayit b'Yadeinu? (The Temple Mount is in our hands)?
UPDATE 1:34 PM
Here's video of Feiglin's visit (sorry, Hebrew only).
Let's go to the videotape.
Labels: Jerusalem police, Moshe Feiglin, Temple Mount, Uri Ariel, Wakf
Jerusalem police arrest 9th grade immigrant who speaks no Hebrew
Our police may not be as bad as Iran's, but civil rights here aren't what they are in the US either.
Jerusalem police violently broke up a demonstration at the city's entrance on Monday, and a
9th grade immigrant from Spain was arrested. As of Tuesday afternoon, his whereabouts are unknown.
One eyewitness said that police hit a rabbi who was only standing on the sidewalk at the entrance to Jerusalem. Police violently arrested approximately 10 young teenagers from the Mercaz HaRav High School in Jerusalem and three ninth graders from a school in Beit El, in Samaria.
The Spanish immigrant speaks broken Hebrew and his friends are afraid of his fate at the hands of police. They said that no one knows what has happened to him and the other youth who were arrested.
Besides the protests at the entrance to Jerusalem, Women in Green activists fanned out through Judea and Samaria at night and pasted hundreds of stickers that stated in Hebrew, “Bibi, in Chavat Gilad, you have shot yourself in the leg.”
Tuesday morning, the posters were in full view of motorists as nationalist leaders try to reawaken supporters who have become accustomed to demolitions and an erosion of former “red lines” in talks with the Palestinian Authority.
The catalyst for this incident was a border police raid on Gilad's Farm, a Samarian outpost, at 4:00 am on Tuesday, which I blogged
here.
Labels: City of Jerusalem, Gilad's Farm, Israeli border police, Jerusalem police, revenants
Hamas MP's open up shop at the International Red Cross
It's not the first time the Red Cross has been
in bed with terrorists, and it probably won't be the last, but the most amazing thing about this story is the total ineptitude of the Israeli government in dealing with it. Three Hamas 'MP's have been holed up in the International Committee of the Red Cross' Jerusalem headquarters since July 1 - the day after a fourth Hamas MP was arrested and sent to jail for disobeying an order to leave the country. The three hold press conferences, greet foreign diplomats (including former US President Jimmy Carter), and promote Hamas' cause while living in Jerusalem at the Red Cross' facility. And although everyone agrees that the Red Cross has no diplomatic immunity, and therefore the Jerusalem police could walk right into the facility and arrest the three, no one has the guts to
give the order to make it happen.
Israeli politicians have been slow to act on arresting the Hamas leaders for illegally residing in Israel, instead arguing over who is responsible for dealing with the matter. The Prime Minister’s Office has maintained that the Foreign Ministry is responsible, since the three are politicians from a foreign territory.
The Foreign Ministry has claimed that the Prime Minister’s Office should be responsible for making the political decision whether or not to arrest them.
Police confirmed that the Red Cross did not have immunity and police could enter at any time to arrest the Hamas politicians.
“We don’t want to detain them right now,” Jerusalem District Police spokesman Cmdr. Shmuel Ben-Ruby told the Post this week, citing unspecified “operational reasons.”
The politicians are under 24- hour surveillance and are not a flight risk, Ben-Ruby said.
Somehow, I don't think that the issue here is whether they are a flight risk.
With these geniuses in charge, what could go wrong?
Read the whole thing to understand just how bad this situation is.
Labels: Hamas, Jerusalem police, Red Cross
