Israel Matzav

Sunday, October 04, 2015

'Palestinian Authority' breaks silence, condemns... wait for it... Israel for deaths of terrorists

After days of silence amid a string of terror attacks and skyrocketing tensions in Jerusalem and the West Bank, the Palestinian Authority on Sunday condemned Israel for its “policy of escalation,” after two Palestinian assailants were killed as they carried out terror attacks.

In a written communique published on the official news agency Wafa, PA government spokesman Ihab Bseiso called on the international community to intervene following “the killing of two young men in occupied Jerusalem and the series of incursions into cities and villages in the West Bank.”

The statement made no mention of the fact that the two dead Palestinians had been killed while carrying out stabbing attacks against Israeli civilians.

On Saturday night Palestinian Mohammad Halabi carried out a stabbing spree in Jerusalem’s Old City, killing Nehemia Lavi, 41, and Aharon Banito, 21, and wounding Banito’s wife and 2-year-old baby, police said.

Hours later, Palestinian Fadi Aloon stabbed an Israeli teen near the Old City’ Damascus gate.

Both Halabi and Aloon were shot and killed at the scene.

“The only solution is the end of the Israeli occupation of our occupied Palestinian land and the establishment of our independent state on the 1967 borders with Jerusalem as its capital,” Bseiso wrote.

The statement did not condemn or mention the killings of Naama and Eitam Henkin, who were shot to death in a Palestinian terror attack on Thursday in the West Bank.

'Palestinian' gall knows no limits.

The police have restricted access to Jerusalem's Old City.

The Israel Police announced Sunday it would limit access to Jerusalem’s Old City and the Temple Mount compound, known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary, over the next two days.

Only Israeli citizens, local residents, students, employees who work in the area and tourists will be allowed entry into the Old City through Tuesday, police said.

On the Temple Mount compound, “Muslim prayer will be limited to males aged 50 and above while there will be no age limitation on female Muslim worshipers,” police said in a statement.

The Muslim worshipers will only be allowed in through the Old City’s Lions Gate.

For some reason, much of the media is making it sound like police have banned all access to the 'Palestinians' to the Old City. If only... In fact, if only we had expelled them in 1967 when we had the chance.

Chag Sameyach, a happy holiday to all of you. Because the holiday is only one day in Israel, I hope to be back online Monday night.

Labels: anti-Israel media bias, chutzpa, Old City of Jerusalem, Palestinian terrorists, Temple Mount

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Pot calls kettle black

~~Former~~ 'Palestinian' ~~chief negotiator~~ bottle washer Saeb Erekat takes the prize for chutzpa. Responding to reports that Israel may unilaterally abrogate the Oslo Accords if the 'Palestinians' unilaterally turn to the Security Council, Erekat, who represents an organization that never took a single step to fight terror despite it being the first and foremost obligation of both the Oslo Accords and the 'road map,' has the audacity to claim that Israel never abided by Oslo anyway.

Erekat said Israel had “relinquished its political and security obligations under the terms of the Oslo Accords.”

Had Israel abided by these agreements, the Palestinian state would have been established in 1999, Erekat said.

And this is precisely why Israel should never enter into agreements with 'drop dead' dates for things that have to be determined by negotiations. By 1999, the parties were to have negotiated a final status arrangement - not the existence of a 'Palestinian state' which is mentioned nowhere in the Oslo accords and was far from a foregone conclusion - but a final status arrangement. The parties did not reach an agreement, and until the 'Palestinians' walked away from the table in 2009, they continued to negotiate, despite the fact that the 'Palestinians' NEVER FULFILLED A SINGLE OBLIGATION THEY UNDERTOOK UNDER THE OSLO ACCORDS! Talk about the pot calling the kettle black!

By the way, note how the JPost tried to tone down the headline (which I have screen captured for you in case they change it.

Saying that Israel has 'given up' on the accords is a lot different than saying that it never abided by them. The latter is incredible chutzpa coming from an entity that now controls 98% of the Arab population of Judea and Samaria.

What could go wrong?

Labels: chutzpa, Oslo accords, Palestinian state RIGHT NOW syndrome, Saeb Erekat, unilateral declaration of statehood