Israeli Brutality

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It's hard to understand the level of viciousness the Israelis are up against in the Lone Wolf Intifada. Mere words are inadequate when faced with this level of degenerate evil. Meanwhile, the Palestinian Authority protests the 'summary executions' committed by the Israelis against their Palestinian attackers....

I don't know how you stop this level of rabid attack except by summary execution. Be warned, this isn't a bedtime video.

תיעוד דרמטי מהפיגוע במלכי ישראל: רגעי הדריסה ומסע הדקירות. pic.twitter.com/f1um1uJGOx

— הערוץ הראשון (@Channel1Iba) October 13, 2015

I am spent my lunch hour pondering if I could countenance any outcome from this scenario than how it played out in real time.

Trying putting yourself; in the position of the Israeli shooter. You are armed; you are in a doorway, a few feet down from the attack site. You witness a man deliberately mow down with his car a group of people waiting for a bus. You watched the man crash his car, jump out and immediately start hacking the victims with a meat cleaver.

Would you have shot to kill or ‘disarm’ him?

I have come to the conclusion I would have emptied my gun on him. My sanity would demand that I make sure he can never hurt anyone again.


Just when I thought the insanity could not get worse the UN gets involved.

Earlier Tuesday, by contrast, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged Israel to carry out a “serious review” on whether its security forces are resorting to excessive force in clashes with Palestinians. Ban finds “the apparent excessive use of force by Israeli security forces” to be “troubling,” his spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters as violence continued in Jerusalem, Ra’anana and the West Bank. This “demands serious review as it only serves to exacerbates the situation leading to a vicious cycle of needless bloodshed,” he said.

If you thought Netanyahu was a problem for the US Administration; wait till they have to deal with "Yvette" Liberman.

Apparently, most Israelis are not very happy with Netanyahu's handling of the Lone Wolf Intifada.

Times of Israel reports:

A survey Saturday, commissioned by Israel’s Channel 2 and conducted by Midgam, found that 73 percent of respondents were either “dissatisfied” (35%) or “very dissatisfied” (38%) with the prime minister’s leadership in light of the security situation. When asked who would be the most capable leader in curbing the attacks, 22% said Yisrael Beytenu chairman and former foreign minister Avigdor Liberman. Jewish Home party chief Naftali Bennett came in second with 17% and Netanyahu third with 15%.

Former chief of staff Gabi Ashkenazi received 9%, while Zionist Union head Isaac Herzog got 5% and centrist Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid 4%.

Israelis have a right to be dissatisfied. Offering to put cameras on the roads won't stop attacks, in fact, cameras have absolutely no deterence value to stop Palestinian attacks given that the political infrastructure supports such attacks, and most likely, Fatah will be paying salaries to all Palestinians convicted of attacks against Israelis. Not to mention, cameras are easily disabled or destroyed, and it will take time - far too much time to get a network running when the attacks are happening now.


Jerusalem Mayor Barkat had the right of it. Canceling all Palestinian work permits would have been a good start until the 'troubles' ceased. This attack in Tel Avi probably would not have happened...luckily there was a soldier around but there won't always be one.

Someone needs to teach Palestinians not to riot

and throw stones at guys with guns. There is a great deal of noise suggesting the Intifada of Lone Wolves is the third Palestinian Intifada, but regardless, a third Palestinian Intifada really won't work out any better than the first or second Intifada.

Nothing seems to unite Palestinians of all fractions like a riot. It has increasingly become hard to argue that rioting, throwing stones, and stabbing/killing Jews, it not the cornerstone of Palestinian culture.

Driving While Jewish

Netanyahu’s 44 seconds of silence at UN are being widely mocked — ‘pathetic,’ ‘creepy’ –

So says the notorious hate site Mondoweis. I won’t link but you can google it.

It’s funny about 44 seconds.  Lots of things can happen in 44 seconds –inevitable hatreds can rise, life altering events can all conspire to happen in a brief 44 second pause.

It can be a pause for emphasis in a speech by the Israeli Prime Minister at chastising the UN body for its “utter silence, deafening silence” when Jewish Israelis are threatened.

Photo: Haztola

Or it can be the time it takes Palestinian gunmen to murder 2 Jewish parents in their car - in front of their children. It is only a miracle that their children ages 9, 7, 4, and 4 months survived the attack.

Baruch dayan emet.

Since Abbas gave notice he was repudiating the Oslo Accords; does this mean we can move in now?

As per Mahmoud Abbas’ characterization of Palestinians and their culture of peace and coexistence, I thought it would be instructive to detail what the last 7 months looks like living beside a people who have a culture of peace since so many ‘peaceful incidents’ never make the international papers.  

The Israeli Shabak (internal security) or as it is known by its acronym (the Shin Bet) just happens to carries a monthly summary of all attacks.

January2015

 Following is a regional distribution of attacks:  0 attack from the Gaza Strip, (2 in December); 105 attacks in the Judea and Samaria (133 in December); 18 attacks in Jerusalem (26 in December); Green Line: 1 attack. 
Jerusalem and the Judea and Samaria area: Most attacks executed in January 102 out of 123 were in the form of firebombs (December: 127 out of 159). 
 Distribution of attacks according to regions and pattern profile: 
Following is a distribution of attacks in January 2015 according to regions:
The Gaza Strip – 0 attack. 
Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem – 123 attacks: 17 IED (including pipe bombs and improvised grenade); 3 small arms shooting; 1 stabbing attacks (in Jerusalem); 102 firebombs (17 in Jerusalem).
 The Green Line – 1 attack: stabbing (in Tel Aviv).

February2015

Following is a regional distribution of attacks:  0 attack from the Gaza Strip, (as in January); 84 attacks in the Judea and Samaria (105 in January); 12 attacks in Jerusalem (18 in January).

Jerusalem and the Judea and Samaria area: Most attacks executed in February 76 out of 96 were in the form of firebombs (January: 102 out of 123). 

Following is a distribution of attacks in February 2015 according to regions:

The Gaza Strip – 0 attack.

Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem – 96 attacks: 15 IED (including pipe bombs and improvised grenade); 4 small arms shooting; 1 stabbing attacks (in Jerusalem); 76 firebombs (11 in Jerusalem).

March2015

Following is a regional distribution of attacks:  0 attack from the Gaza Strip, (as in February); 58 attacks in the Judea and Samaria (84 in February); 31 attacks in Jerusalem (12 in February).
Jerusalem and the Judea and Samaria area: Most attacks executed in February 78 out of 89 were in the form of firebombs (February: 76 out of 96). 
Following is a distribution of attacks in March 2015 according to regions:
The Gaza Strip – 0 attack.
 Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem – 89 attacks: 8 IED (including pipe bombs and improvised grenade); 2 small arms shooting; 1 stabbing attack (in Jerusalem); 78 firebombs (30 in Jerusalem).  

April 2015

An Israeli civilian was killed and another seriously injured in a vehicle attack at Jerusalem's French Hill on 15 April. Eight members of the security forces were injured in several stabbings and vehicle attacks. Four police officers were injured (two moderately and the other two slightly) in a vehicle attack near A-Tor in Jerusalem on 25 April. Three IDF soldiers and a border police officer were injured in stabbings: one IDF soldier was slightly wounded at the Trans-Samaria Checkpoint on 2 April; two soldiers were injured (one seriously and the other slightly) at Sinjil Checkpoint near Ramallah on 8 April; and a border police officer was moderately injured near the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron on 25 April.

Following is a regional distribution of attacks:  1 attack from the Gaza Strip, (0 in March); 82 attacks in the Judea and Samaria (58 in March); 38 attacks in Jerusalem (31 in March).

 Jerusalem and the Judea and Samaria area: Most attacks executed in February 108 out of 120 were in the form of firebombs (March: 78 out of 89). 

 The Gaza Strip – 1 attack: rocket launching.

 Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem – 120 attacks: 7 IED (including pipe bombs and improvised grenade); 2 run-over (in Jerusalem); 2 stabbing; 108 firebombs (36 in Jerusalem).

Throughout April 2015 one rocket was launched** from the Gaza Strip towards Israel, while in March no rockets or mortar shells were launched from Gaza Strip or Sinai towards Israel.

  

May2015

9 Israeli citizens (6 civilians and 3 members of the security forces) were injured in terrorist attacks in May. 6 of them suffered injuries in vehicle attacks, and 3 were stabbed in Judea and Jerusalem.

Vehicle attacks: one police officer was slightly injured in Hebron on 9 May; 3 civilians were injured (one moderately and 2 slightly) at Alon Shvut Junction on 14 May; and 2 police officers were slightly injured in Abu Tor, Jerusalem on 20 May.

Stabbings: one civilian was slightly injured in Mishor Adumim on 11 May, and 2 civilians were slightly injured at Jerusalem's Damascus Gate on 24 May.

Following is a regional distribution of attacks:  1 attack from the Gaza Strip, (as in April); 91 attacks in the Judea and Samaria (82 in April); 60 attacks in Jerusalem (38 in April).

Jerusalem and the Judea and Samaria area: Most attacks executed in February 129 out of 151 were in the form of firebombs (April: 108 out of 120). 

 Distribution of attacks according to regions and pattern profile:

The Gaza Strip – 1 attack: rocket launching. 

Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem – 151 attacks: 2 run-over (1 in Jerusalem); 2 stabbing (1 in Jerusalem); 2 small arms shooting; 16 IED (including pipe bombs and improvised grenade);  129 firebombs (58 in Jerusalem).

 High-trajectory launchings from Gaza Strip and Sinai

 Throughout May 2015 one rocket was launched** from the Gaza Strip towards Israel, as in April.**Clarification: The number of launchings is the number of rockets/mortar shells actually launched during one high-trajectory fire attack. For example: one attack may include a salvo of three launchings, that is, three rockets/ mortar shells, and so it will be counted as one attack and three launchings.

June 2015

Two Israeli citizens were killed in shootings in Judea and Samaria: one near Dir Abzia on 19 June, and the other near Kida on 29 June.Eight Israelis (5 civilians and 3 members of the security forces) were injured in terrorist attacks in June. 4 civilians were wounded in the abovementioned lethal shootings (one on 19 June and 3 on 29 June). Two IDF soldiers were stabbed: one was critically wounded at Jerusalem's Damascus Gate on 21 June, and another was moderately injured at Rachel's Crossing checkpoint near Bethlehem on 29 June. A civilian and a police officer were injured by firebombs: one near Shuafat refugee camp on 13 June, and the other near Hizma on 21 June.

Data regarding terror attacks in June 2015

Following is a regional distribution of attacks:  3 attack from the Gaza Strip, (1 in May); 69 attacks in the Judea and Samaria (91 in May); 51 attacks in Jerusalem (60 in May). 

Jerusalem and the Judea and Samaria area: Most attacks executed in June 98 out of 120 were in the form of firebombs (May: 129 out of 151).   

Distribution of attacks according to regions and pattern profile:

 The Gaza Strip – 3 attacks: rocket launching.

 Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem – 120 attacks: 2 stabbing (1 in Jerusalem); 4 small arms shooting; 16 IED (including pipe bombs and improvised grenade);  98 firebombs (50 in Jerusalem).

  High-trajectory launchings from Gaza Strip and Sinai

 Throughout June 2015 three rockets were launched** from the Gaza Strip towards Israel, compared to one rocket in May.

July 2015

Following is a regional distribution of attacks:  1 attack from the Gaza Strip, (3 in June); 63 attacks in the Judea and Samaria (69 in June); 42 attacks in Jerusalem (51 in June); 1 attack from Sinai. 

Jerusalem and the Judea and Samaria area: Most attacks executed in July 90 out of 105 were in the form of firebombs (June: 98 out of 120). 

 Distribution of attacks according to regions and pattern profile:

 The Gaza Strip – 1 attack: rockets launching.

 Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem – 105 attacks: 1 stabbing; 2 small arms shooting; 12 IED (including pipe bombs and improvised grenade);  90 firebombs (50 in Jerusalem).

 Sinai – 1 attack: rockets launching.

 High-trajectory launchings from Gaza Strip and Sinai 

 August 2015

5 Israeli citizens were slightly injured in stabbings. One civilian and one member of the security forces were stabbed on Route 443 on 9 and 15 August, respectively. Two members of the security forces were stabbed in Samaria on 15 and 17 August, and another officer was stabbed at Jerusalem's Lions' Gate on 26 August.

Three soldiers were injured (two seriously and one slightly) in a vehicle attack near Sinjil, Ramallah on 6 August. Another soldier was moderately injured by a pipe bomb thrown at an IDF post in Beit Jala on 19 August.

One civilian was slightly injured by gunfire at a passing vehicle near Kedumim on 30 August. Two other civilians were moderately and slightly injured by a Molotov cocktail thrown at a vehicle near Beit Hanina, north of Jerusalem, on 3 August.

 Data regarding terror attacks in August 2015

Following is a regional distribution of attacks:  3 attack from the Gaza Strip, (1 in July); 117 attacks in the Judea and Samaria (63 in July); 51 attacks in Jerusalem (42 in July).

 Jerusalem and the Judea and Samaria area: Most attacks executed in August 136 out of 168 were in the form of firebombs (July: 90 out of 105). 

Distribution of attacks according to regions and pattern profile:

 The Gaza Strip – 3 attack: rockets launching.

 Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem – 117 attacks:  5 stabbing; 1 vehicular run-over attack; 4 small arms shooting; 22 IED (including pipe bombs and improvised grenade);  136 firebombs (50 in Jerusalem).

High-trajectory launchings from Gaza Strip and Sinai

Throughout August 2015 3 rockets were launched** from the Gaza Strip towards Israel as opposed to July: 2 rockets one from the Gaza Strip and one from Sinai.

I would be remiss if I did not draw special attention to the July figures; 12 IED/Pipe Bomb attacks and 90 firebomb attacks. In the interest of ‘fairness’ there was 1 arson/ firebomb attack allegedly committed by unknown person(s) of Israelis.  Still, 90:1 is still quite a ratio of restraint.  Although, I am not sure how much peace the Israeli public can stand.

Lies, Stoners, and bombshells

The President for Life, Liar-in-Chief of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas addressed the United Nations today.  All week it was rumoured to be a ‘bombshell’ of a speech.  I was kind of holding out something like this -

"We, the Palestinian people living between the Mediterranian Sea and the Jordan River acknowledge the existence of a Jewish State and its historic right to live in peace on all of the land defined by the Palestinian Mandate. We abandon all claims to statehood, relinquish all rights of return, and join the ranks of our fellow Arabs who are already citizens of Israel and living under the full and equal protections of Israel's 1948 Declaration of Establishment.".

Instead, it went on like this and I quote just a small  part so you can get the flavour of it.

We do not respond to the Israeli occupation’s hatred and brutality with the same. Instead, we are working on spreading the culture of peace and coexistence between our people and in our region, and we are anxious to realize it and to witness the day when all of the people in our region will enjoy peace, security, stability and prosperity. This cannot be achieved with the continuation of the occupation, settlement colonization, the wall, the burning of people, places of worship and homes, the killing youth, children and infants, the burning of crops, and the arrest and detention of people without charge or trial.

So I, the Filthy Footed Jew, would just like to point out in the last week.

Rocket attacks over Ashdod.

A Christian church is set on fire in Bethlehem, and the Palestinian Authority yawns as no Jews could be blamed. 

A Japanese tourist gets stoned by Palestinians in Hebron.

A taxi carrying tourists  to the Mount of Olives comes under rock attack by 11 year old Palestinian.  Police are apparently looking for his parents.

A 40 year old Polish tourist is raped  by six 12-14 year olds Palestinians.  The ‘youths’ kept pictures of her on their phones.  Who knows where their parents were...Now those were just the tourists.Death by stoning, and kicking Jewish babies in strollers is the latest past time for Palestinian ‘youths’...

  

And then then there are more traditional Palestinian pursuits.   The little boy is absolutely terrified and is screaming ‘Abba’...it’s probably just me, but I am taking a pass on the Palestinian version of the piece-ful co-existence thingy. 

Meltdowns

Thomas Friedman wades into the Israeli post-election fray.

You cannot win that dirty and just walk away like nothing happened. In the days before Israelis went to the polls, Netanyahu was asked by the Israeli news site, NRG, if it was true that a Palestinian state would never be formed on his watch as prime minister, Netanyahu replied, “Indeed,” adding: “Anyone who is going to establish a Palestinian state, anyone who is going to evacuate territories today, is simply giving a base for attacks to the radical Islam against Israel.”

This makes null and void his speech in June 2009 at Bar Ilan University, where Netanyahu had laid out a different “vision of peace,” saying: “In this small land of ours, two peoples live freely, side by side, in amity and mutual respect. Each will have its own flag, its own national anthem, its own government. Neither will threaten the security or survival of the other.” Provided the Palestinian state recognizes Israel’s Jewish character and accepts demilitarization, he added, “We will be ready in a future peace agreement to reach a solution where a demilitarized Palestinian state exists alongside the Jewish state.”

I do not actually see that it does contradiction Netanyahu’s Bar Ilan University speech.  Netanyahu was quite clear on his vision on what it took to make a two state solution possible. And as of today, the Palestinian Authority is in the midst of a full-scale meltdown in the West Bank. You probably don’t know that, only because it gets very little play in the world media. Dateline March 10, 2015:

The West Bank is witnessing unprecedented security tensions. The Palestinian Authority (PA) has been arresting Hamas activists and partisans of ex-Fatah leader Mohammed Dahlan, and armed clashes between the youth and security officers have taken place.

Al-Monitor was able to secure a copy of the statement issued by one of Fatah’s organizational structures close to Dahlan, which read: “The PA arrested more than 20 supporters of Dahlan and attacked the offices of the Gaza members of parliament who live in the West Bank.”

During an interview with Al-Monitor, Hamas spokesman Hossam Badran called for “ending the PA’s violations and the political arrests targeting Hamas, among others. The PA is fighting each patriotic person and pursuing those who resist occupation.”

Maj. Gen. Adnan al-Damiri, spokesman for the PA’s security apparatus, accused Israel, Hamas and Dahlan on Feb. 16 of conspiring together to stir chaos in the West Bank by forming groups to end the PA’s presence and get rid of President Mahmoud Abbas. But what he described as “the Gaza coup” — meaning when Hamas took control of Gaza in mid-2007 — will not happen again, he said.

The security developments in the West Bank are not limited to a pursuit here and an arrest there. The PA is concerned about a local, regional and international scenario to turn Abbas’ page, given his multiple disputes with everyone, from Hamas to Dahlan and Israel. Fatah spokesman Osama al-Qawasmi said the PA seems to believe that these rivals might unite their interests temporarily to get rid of Abbas.

Abbas cannot be envied for the situation he's in. He is fighting along several fronts, be they internal, with Hamas and Dahlan, or external, with Israel. Perhaps if he had resorted to a strategy to solve crises instead of fueling them — by withholding the Hamas employees’ salaries, pursuing Dahlan’s supporters in the West Bank and freezing the latter’s money in the Gaza Strip — he would not have been under these threats, as his partisans call them.

Fatah and parliament member Alaa Yaghi, who's close to Dahlan, warned on Feb. 27 of the deterioration of the security situation in the West Bank if the PA’s security campaign persists. The situation will worsen, just like the incidents in Gaza that led to the division in 2007. He said the security campaigns in the West Bank are based on a conspiracy theory and on spreading rumors that a huge network is attempting to stage a coup against the PA.

In the same context, a high-ranking official who frequently visits the PA’s headquarters, told Al-Monitor on condition of anonymity about “simmering deliberations between senior Palestinian officers against the backdrop of growing tensions in the West Bank. Some of the PA’s high commands are deeply concerned about the recent behavior of some senior officers with Abbas.”

In a phone interview from Ramallah, the official said: “Abbas received information stating that some high-level security officials are reporting to the US and Israel the details of the political steps he intends to take. Upon receiving these reports, the US and Israel warn him of the danger of taking such steps.”

However, Ismail al-Ashqar, Hamas leader and chairman of the Palestinian Legislative Council's Security Committee, told Al-Monitor: “Abbas is to blame for the security chaos in the West Bank as it is in a state of loss and devastation. This could be a systematic sort of chaos that the PA is practicing to prevent Palestinians from defending themselves from the occupation’s soldiers.”

Go read the rest, but it just not the Al-Monitor reporting.

Mahmoud Abbas is an old man who is the midst of a bitter fight within Fatah for control that plays out on the West Bank streets. Once again, the Palestinian Authority threatens to end security cooperation withIsrael, but security cooperation is a two-way street.

 If the Palestinian Authority were to make good on their threats of ending security cooperation with Israel, it would not be Israel who paid the ultimate price. In fact, without Israeli intel warning Abbas of the continued plots against his rule, well, the Islamists would completely co-opt and control the Palestinian narrative, and that is the narrative the Israeli Prime Minister rejects being created on his door step.