'Palestinian' terrorists getting younger every day
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There were three terror attacks in Israel today, highlighted by this one on the Jerusalem trolley system in Pisgat Zev. As in the attack a couple of weeks ago, this one was perpetrated by two children - this time ages 11 and 12.
Let's go to the videotape.
SHOCKING VIDEO: Moments of 2 Arab terrorist children stabbing attack, on Jerusalem light rail, wounding Israeli man. pic.twitter.com/TPvl0WiOhx
2. These kids were caught. Why have they not been removed from their parents' custody as juvenile delinquents as would happen in any other civilized country in the world?
3. Since this is the second terror attack in the last month carried out by 'youths' in Pisgat Zev, maybe it's time to look at which Arabs are living in this Jewish neighborhood and consider sending some of them back over the fence.
Two people were injured on Monday night in a firebomb attack near the Beit Hanina intersection in Jerusalem.
The
incident occurred when a molotov cocktail was thrown as a moving
vehicle. Inside the car was a woman, 27 who was evacuated to Hadassah
Ein Keren Medical Center in stable condition with burns to her body.
Her husband, who was also in the vehicle, was unharmed, although the car was completely burnt.
The damaged vehicle hit a pedestrian, who suffered light injuries.
Police are investigating the surrounding incident.
Something tells me that no Leftists will be visiting that 27-year old woman in the hospital....
Video: Israel police arrest 15-year old 'Palestinians' for throwing stones at cars
Imagine if you were driving one of the cars in this video.
Here's a video of Israeli police arresting four 15-year old 'Palestinians' who were on a footbridge throwing stones outside their school in Beit Hanina - a neighborhood in Jerusalem.
The cars (and buses) at which they were throwing the stones are headed for Pisgat Zev and Neve Yaakov, which are also neighborhoods in Jerusalem.
This is about a five-minute drive from my home, and yes, I have driven this road dozens of times.
Let's go to the videotape.
For the record, one car and one bus were damaged and the 'children' confessed. Maybe their parents should be spending some time in jail too?
Shots were fired at Jerusalem's Pisgat Zev neighborhood on Friday evening from the 'Palestinian refugee camp' in Shuafat.
Before Shabbat began on Friday evening, residents of the northern
Jerusalem neighborhood Pisgat Ze'ev reported to the 100 police emergency
hotline that they heard gunshots from the adjacent Arab neighborhood of
Shuafat towards their direction.
Police forces that arrived on the scene found two bullets, one lodged
in the rear windshield of a car and the other in the garden of an
apartment on Eliyahu Meridor Street in the neighborhood. No residents
were wounded by the gunfire.
Border Patrol forces conducted a search for the culprits in Shuafat,
but still have not apprehended any suspects. Jerusalem police have
stated that the incident is very serious, and that great efforts will be
made to locate the responsible parties.
For those of you sitting in the US wondering what the big deal is about a few gunshots, please realize that such incidents are few and far between here.
According to police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld, the unidentified suspect
first fired multiple rounds at several Jewish residences Friday
afternoon, leaving bullet holes in many of them, although none of the
occupants were injured.
Following an intensive overnight undercover investigation into the
shootings, Rosenfeld said Border Police officers came across the
suspect in Shuafat Saturday afternoon, once again shooting at Jewish
homes in Pisgat Ze’ev.
“Undercover officers in the area saw him fire more shots in the
direction of the neighborhood and shot him immediately to prevent him
from causing any more damage,” said Rosenfeld, who deemed the suspect a
terrorist.
“He was in serious condition after being shot, and transferred by
ambulance to Hadassah Hospital in Ein Kerem where he’s now receiving
medical treatment,” he said.
Thank God no one was hurt and the police officers just shot him without asking questions or trying to get him to stop.
Pisgat Zev used to be entirely Jewish, but it is one of several 'east' Jerusalem neighborhoods which has become mixed as a result of 'Palestinians' moving to within what they believe will be part of Israel in the event of a 'peace agreement' to avoid coming under the jurisdiction of the 'Palestinian Authority.'
Hamas rocket hits synagogue in Ashdod, Hamas rocket just misses kindergarten, shots fired at Jerusalem home
Three people were wounded by shrapnel on Friday when a Hamas rocket slammed into a synagogue in Ashdod.
A rocket fired by terrorists in Gaza has caused considerable damage to a synagogue in the southern Israeli city of Ashdod.
Paramedics from the United Hatzalah and Magen David Adom emergency
organizations rushed to the scene, after a massive explosion was heard.
Three people were injured and have been evacuated for further medical
treatment after receiving first aid.
Medical sources described two of the victims as males, aged 25 and
26, who suffered shrapnel injuries to their extremities. They have been
evacuated to the Kaplan Medical Center in Rehovot.
The third victim, a 40-year-old woman, suffered injuries to her
torso, and has been evacuated to Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon.
Several others were treated at the scene for shock.
A short while later, a Hamas rocket landed just 12 meters (about 39 feet) from a packed Kindergarten in the western Negev.
A five-rocket salvo saw the Iron Dome intercept two rockets over
Ashkelon. Three rockets struck the western Negev; one of them landed
just 12 meters (roughly feet) from a packed kindergarten. Luckily, all
children and staff are safe; the building was protected from rocket fire
and all of the occupants were in safe areas.
...
The near-miss follows Education Minister Shai Piron's assertion Thursday that the school year would continue as usual, despite the ongoing rocket fire on civilians.
“The school year will begin as planned. We are prepared for any
security-related occurrences,” the MK explained. “During the first two
weeks of the school year, the education system will not be occupied with
regular teaching, but rather with activities to dissipate the tensions
and with discussions surrounding the events of the summer, including the
arousal and demonstration of racism and incitement.”
The Ashklelon and Be'er Sheva Regional Councils have all pledged to ignore Piron's statement, according to Walla! News, citing security concerns and potential psychological toll on the area's children.
This is the third time a rocket has struck near a school. The previous rocket strike wounded a 33 year-old man on Thursday, as he heroically was protecting children from the missile with his own body.
As Gaza terrorists kept up their rocket war against Israel on Friday, terrorists in the northern Jerusalem neighborhood of Shuafat apparently opened a salvo of their own, shooting at a Jewish home in the adjacent Pisgat Ze'ev neighborhood.
Police arrived in the neighborhood after receiving reports of gunshots heard from Shuafat.
A bullet was found by the doorway of a Pisgat Ze'ev home, having hit
the home and fallen to the ground; no one was injured in the incident.
A search is being conducted by police forces in the area to try and locate the perpetrator of the shooting attack.
There has been a growing concern over rising terrorism from
Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction, based
on an ever more open call for terror by the group accompanied by
numerous terror attacks.
Shabbat Shalom to all of you. As we try to stay safe here in Israel, your prayers on our behalf are greatly appreciated.
Stone-throwing is terrorism: Infant hurt in stone-throwing attack by 'brave' 'Palestinian' terrorists
No, I did not travel last night and I am not traveling today. I am simply swamped with work.
A baby boy was injured in Jerusalem's Pisgat Zev neighborhood on Thursday night when the bus in which she was traveling came under a hail of stones thrown by 'Palestinian' terrorists.
The perpetrators of the rock throwing attack have yet to be located, but
the incident occurred near Jerusalem's Givat Ze'ev neighborhood, which
is located in the north of the city and surrounded by Arab
neighborhoods.
...
Givat Ze'ev's United Hatzalah team leader Aharon Papman said "I
arrived on the scene within a minute of receiving the call, and there I
came across dozens of shocked passengers following the rock throwing."\
Papman noted that the "infant took the blow and was cut on his face
by glass shards from the shattered window. After initial treatment that
we administered on the scene he was evacuated with light injuries" to
the hospital.
The medic added that "large forces of the army and police were active in the area."
But just give them a 'state' and they'll stop trying to murder our children. Right....
Breaking: Three 'Palestinian' terrorists stab soldier in Pisgat Zev
Three 'Palestinian' terrorists stabbed and moderately wounded an IDF soldier in Pisgat Zev on Thursday morning. Although Pisgat Zev is one of the Jewish neighborhoods established in 'east' Jerusalem after the 1967 Six Day War, it has a substantial Arab population.This is from the first link.
Three young Arab terrorists carried out a stabbing attacking Thursday
morning, targeting a soldier in Jerusalem's norther neighborhood of
Pisgat Ze'ev.
The soldier was left with moderate stab wounds in his leg, after being attacked on Nativ Hamazalot Street in the capital city.
Magen David Adom (MDA) crews treated the soldier, and evacuated him to the Hadassah Mount Scopus Hospital nearby.
Police have opened an investigation to track down the attackers.
Apparently the stabbing was nationalistically motivated, a crime
carrying a heavier penalty.
The terror attack follows on the heels of calls for renewed terrorism by 'moderate' 'Palestinian' President Mahmoud AbbasAbu Mazen's 'moderate' Fatah movement.
Let's go to the videotape.
Thanks, Obama-Kerry. You're the best friends we ever had.... /sarc
Israel 'endangering' possibility that Jerusalem will be the capital of the 'Palestinian' reichlet
Lady Ugliness, EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, has called on Israel to 'take back' plans to build in the Jewish Jerusalem neighborhoods of Neve Yaakov, Pisgat Zev and Har Homa, claiming that such construction endangers the possibility of Jerusalem being the capital of 'Palestine.'
"These plans endanger the chances of turning Jerusalem into the capital
of two countries," claimed Ashton, referencing the US plan to establish
an Arab capital in Jerusalem. "I call on the government of Israel to weigh this step again, and take back its decision."
The Obama administration had already condemned the plans on Wednesday.
Ashton's disapproval over the idea of Jewish homes being built echoes condemnation from the US State Department
on Wednesday. Spokesperson Jen Psaki said "we oppose any unilateral
actions by either party that attempt to prejudge final status issues,
including the status of Jerusalem."
Israel did not agree to a building freeze anywhere in the run-up to the current 'talks.'
Ashton, increasingly criticized by government officials for swiftly
condemning every building announcement beyond the 1967 lines but not
protesting similarly Palestinian incitement or violence, issued a
statement saying she was “deeply concerned” by the announcement.
“These
plans could put at risk the prospects of Jerusalem becoming the capital
of two states and, in particular, the territorial contiguity between
east Jerusalem and the southern West Bank,” she said.
“The EU and
the international community have repeatedly warned that any unilateral
action prejudging the final status of Jerusalem threatens the current
peace negotiations and, as a consequence, the two-state solution,” she
added. “Any such developments must be avoided at all costs.”
Despite
Ashton’s adoption of the Palestinian position that Jerusalem will be
the capital of a future Palestinian state, Prime Minister Binyamin
Netanyahu has said repeatedly that he is opposed to dividing the
capital.
As I noted in an earlier post, we have made ourselves susceptible to this kind of international pressure. This will continue until the Prime Minister's backbone is located.
For months now, we've been looking at an exit ramp off Route 443 (the back road between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv) just outside Jerusalem, wondering where it goes. On Sunday, we got the answer to that question when the Ben Zion Netanyahu memorial interchange between Routes 443 and 20 was dedicated.
The completion
of the NIS 180 million project for 400 meters of Highway 20 asphalt allows
residents of the Jewish east Jerusalem neighborhoods of Pisgat Ze’ev and Neveh
Ya’acov to link up with Route 443 without traveling through French Hill and
clogging up its roads.
Israeli Arabs living in the east Jerusalem
neighborhood of Beit Hanina will similarly be able to scoot more easily onto
Route 443.
The road’s interchange was named for Netanyahu’s father,
Benzion, who passed away on April 30 last year at age 102.
Sounds like something that should make everyone happy, right? Wrong.
Fatah spokesman Husam Zomlot attacked the opening of the road and
said it showed that Israel was not serious about a two-state
solution.
...
Hagit Ofran of Peace Now
said that a small portion of Highway 20 goes through the West Bank, as it leaves
Jerusalem’s municipal border and links to Route 443, which also cuts through the
West Bank before linking with the major artery to Tel Aviv.
But, she
said, the main issue was that such infrastructure deepens Israel’s hold on an
area that should be part of a Palestinian state and makes it more difficult to
come to a two-state solution.
I wonder how Ofran travels from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Highway 1 (the main highway) also cuts through Samaria for a couple of kilometers near Ramle. That leaves the old mountain road, which is awfully slow and narrow. Hmmm.
In any event, the rest of us are grateful for the traffic relief.
Finally: Israel to build 4,300 housing units in Jerusalem
On Wednesday night, Prime Minister Netanyahu had what his office described as a 'friendly' phone conversation with American President Barack Hussein Obama. When Obama awakens on Thursday morning, he is likely to be in a much fouler mood 9and he might have even been awakened during the night in Washington to hear about this: Interior Minister Eli Yishai gave final approval on Thursday to the construction of 4,300 housing units in 'east' Jerusalem.
Yishai has reportedly green-lighted the construction of 1,600 housing units in the northeastern neighborhood of Ramat Shlomo alone.
Another plan will see 700 new housing units built in the adjacent neighborhood of Pisgat Zeev.
A third, 2,000-unit project is planned for Givat HaMatos, which is also beyond the Green Line.
The 'Green Line' is the common term for the 1949 armistice lines, so-called because they were green on the map (yes, really).
Those units are in addition to the 930 units in Har Homa that were approved last week.
But here's the best part: We can thank all those 'housing crisis' demonstrators supported by the New Israel Fund and billionaire peacenik S. Daniel Abraham for bringing this about.
Sources in the Interior Ministry said that Yishai views the projects as one of the solutions to Jerusalem's housing plight, adding that the recent induction of the National Housing Committees' Law, has allowed for the projects' authorization process to be accelerated.
Interior Minister Eli Yishai has given final authorization to build 1,600 apartments in East Jerusalem, and will approve 2,700 more in the next few days.
And yes, Netanyahu knew this was coming.
Ministry spokesman Roi Lachmanovich said Thursday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office knew the construction plans in the Ramat Shlomo neighborhood in East Jerusalem were moving ahead.
This is a cold calculation by Netanyahu. Obama cannot refuse to veto the 'Palestinians' unilateral attempt for 'statehood' in the UN next month without seriously damaging - and maybe even destroying what is left of - his reelection chances.
Until this week, the Netanyahu government, which is a government of the Right, had not initiated a single housing unit in 'east' Jerusalem, let alone Judea and Samaria, in more than two and a half years in office. The 'Palestinians' have had their chances to come to the table and have refused. Now, they will have something to lose if they don't come to the table. The message is clear: We will build where we want and when we want, and if you wait for a freeze to come to the table, there just might not be anything left to discuss other than lots of 'demographic realities.'
A new neighborhood was approved in Jerusalem on Wednesday. The new neighborhood will have 625 apartments and will be called North Pisgat Zev. Yes, it is across the 1948 armistice lines (so is just about every place in Jerusalem that is available for building these days.
Pisgat Zev is supposed to be a Jewish neighborhood, but as you can see in the photo at top left, there are some Arabs living there.
The Obama administration expressed 'strong opposition.'
The 'Palestinians' complain that the new neighborhood shows that Israel does not want 'peace.'
An aide to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday charged that a plan to build 625 housing units in Pisgat Ze'ev proves that Israel does not want to resume peace talks, Reuters reported.
"This Israeli signal shows that they are not willing and not ready for any deal in order to resume the negotiations," Nabil Abu Rudeineh was quoted as saying. "It looks like this is an Israeli message to the Palestinians and the Americans that they are refusing any deal resuming the negotiations."
Also Thursday, Palestinian Authority negotiator Saeb Erekat said that the plan showed Israel had chosen "settlements and not peace."
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