As bored as I am, I figured that I’d read an article and share my uncensored thoughts as they come to me. It’s not very analytical, but hey I don’t claim to be…
Israel fears rise of attacks from East Jerusalemites
Wow, that’s kind of like saying, “Bank robbers fear attacks from hostages.”by Jean-Luc Renaudie Tue Sep 23, 7:33 AM ET
JERUSALEM (AFP) – Israeli media on Tuesday raised fears of a growing trend of attacks by Palestinians from east Jerusalem after a man rammed his car into a group of soldiers, injuring 13 people before being shot dead. Hmmm, I wonder what soldier were doing there in the first place. Perhaps illegally occupying another country’s capitol?
Monday’s was the latest incident involving vehicle attacks in the Holy City by Palestinians, sparking calls for stepped-up security and harsher punitive measures. He was shot dead! How much “harsher” of a measure could they take?
The incident took place near Tzahal Square, just outside the 400-year-old walls of Jerusalem’s Old City and a few hundred metres (yards) from Jaffa Gate, a major tourist thoroughfare. Occupied territory…
“There aren’t any intelligence warnings, there isn’t any deterrence and, worst of all, the security establishment doesn’t have any solutions,” read an editorial in Israel’s mass-selling Yediot Aharonot newspaper. Here’s a solution, LEAVE! Seriously, mother f*ckers want to have their cake and eat it too.
“Demolishing murderers’ homes and punishing their families is cruel and inhuman. Not to mention illegal… like your stupid occupation. But does anyone have a better solution for stopping this wave?” See the comment before last.
Paraphrasing remarks by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert after previous attacks, the Haaretz daily said: “Anyone who thinks Israel’s occupation in east Jerusalem must continue will have to take into account more bulldozer attacks.” Thanks Captain Obvious!
Police identified the driver of the car as Qasem Mughrabi, a 19-year-old from the east Jerusalem neighbourhood of Jebel Mukaber, and said he carried out the attack after his cousin refused to marry him. Clearly a political motive. Israel better take preemptive measures by putting every Palestinian high school on lock-down, cause they’re full of hot-heated heart-broken teens.
Security forces surrounded the man’s family home to prevent any reprisal attacks and forbade the family from erecting a funeral tent. HAHA, wow.
Grieving family members said they were shocked by what they called “the accident,” and said that Mughrabi, who had no known connection to any Palestinian political group, had stolen the car from his brother. Oooh, I think his brother should be arrested for aiding and abetting an act of terrorism!
Police have meanwhile boosted security across the city ahead of the Jewish high holidays in October, when large numbers of people are expected to visit Jerusalem and its holy sites.
The incident late came just hours after President Shimon Peres asked Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni to form a new government following the resignation of Olmert, who has been dogged by corruption allegations. OMG Is Livni the cousin who refused to marry Mughrabi?
Defence Minister Ehud Barak, the Labour party chief and a crucial coalition ally, said the attacker’s home must be “destroyed as soon as possible” to dissuade others from launching similar acts. Illegal and inhumane. Then again, so is the “Jewish state.”
Exactly two months ago, a Palestinian wounded 16 people when he turned an earth mover on passers-by and vehicles in Jerusalem. Care to venture a guess as to how many Palestinians died while Israelis used “earth movers” to bulldoze homes, olive groves, and entire villages?
That incident mimicked one 10 days earlier in which another Palestinian, also driving an earth mover, killed three Israelis and injured more than 45. Unrelated…
On March 6, a Palestinian shot dead eight Israeli students at a Jewish religious school in the worst attack the city had seen in years. Unrelated…
All three were shot dead in the immediate aftermath, and were all from east Jerusalem, prompting widespread calls for the revival of a policy of demolishing the family homes of those who launch deadly attacks. Let’s be honest. Israelis call for the demolishing of homes every time a Palestinian farts.
The practice, used widely in the first years of the 2000 Palestinian uprising, stopped in 2005 after then military chief of staff Lieutenant General Moshe Yaalon said in a report it was ineffective as a deterrent. But it sure is fun!
More than 250,000 Palestinians live in east Jerusalem. They hold special ID cards that allow them to travel and work in Israel, but are not Israeli citizens. Some people call that Apartheid.
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Another post from the mentally unstable buydatti? Yawn.
Posted by Anonymous | September 23, 2008, 11:10 amAgree with a few of the comments here, but not others.
For instance:
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More than 250,000 Palestinians live in east Jerusalem. They hold special ID cards that allow them to travel and work in Israel, but are not Israeli citizens. Some people call that Apartheid.”"
So it’s Apartheid when Mexican citizens get temporary work permits to come work in America, but are not American citizens? Workers going to work in countries other than their own, where they are not citizens, is a global phenomenon and perfectly legitimate. Here’s hoping, in the future, that Israeli workers can cross the border to work in Palestine, as well.
Posted by Joe | September 23, 2008, 12:31 pmBullshit Joe. You can’t compare the dynamics of Mexican-American relations with that of Israel-Palestine. Palestinians in East Jerusalem live within the context of a colonial power illegally occupying their land and trying to purge the natives out. America, for the most part, is well past that stage.
Palestinians living in East Jerusalem are considered by Israel to be living in Israel, but at the same time aren’t given equal rights as citizens. And though they consider themselves Palestinians, Israel won’t allow the Palestinian sovereignty over the area. In otherwards, they’re caught in between as second-class citizens at best.
Not to mention the institutionalized discrimination they face on a daily basis by the Israel government.
It’s apartheid. Calling it anything else is an insult to their humanity. (as if it hasn’t been offended enough)
Posted by Anonymous | September 23, 2008, 2:25 pm“”Palestinians in East Jerusalem live within the context of a colonial power illegally occupying their land and trying to purge the natives out. America, for the most part, is well past that stage.”"
The Israeli government operates in a semi-colonial manner; the illegal settlements are colonial in nature, the Israeli military presence is not; the military presence is predicated on the idea of filling a security vacuum, a-la South Ossetia, Abkhazia, Afghanistan.
The real issue is the Israeli refusal to accede to Palestinian control over East Jerusalem; in other words, a boundary dispute. It is neither the Palestinian nor the Israeli position that East Jerusalem’s residents should become Israeli citizens.
Posted by Joe | September 23, 2008, 10:28 pmI love it! Mashallah!
Posted by Madame Mansour | September 23, 2008, 10:41 pmmore musings from the buydat please
Posted by Mohammad | September 24, 2008, 7:24 amfor real… keep em coming!
joe- the state of Israel = colonial power.
I don’t always agree with your buddy from Iran, but he was right yesterday when he said “They have forged a regime through collecting people from various parts of the world and bringing them to other people’s land by displacing, detaining, and killing the true owners of that land.” If it looks like colonialism and smells like colonialism…
Posted by Kalash | September 24, 2008, 8:18 amJoe, Israel annexed east Jerusalem thirty odd years ago. Not colonialism?
Posted by Mohammad | September 24, 2008, 12:17 pmIt seems to me that you all are being way too harsh on Joe. Even if you disagree with him. It’s not like he’s some sort of extremist.
This being said, it does seem to me that the situation in East Jerusalem and the West Bank is the equivalent of Apartheid. That being said the situation within the Green Line does not equal apartheid because Palestinian Citizens of Israel can vote.
Posted by Greg | September 25, 2008, 3:08 pmQuote “Let’s be honest. Israelis call for the demolishing of homes every time a Palestinian farts.”
LOL
This quote has made my day!
You are too funny!
Posted by Yasmine | September 25, 2008, 4:56 pmInteresting how they gave a timeline of Palestinian attacks for this year. I guess they didn’t want to turn the article into a novel by listing all the Israeli attacks on Palestinians – for this year.
Posted by Anonymous | September 26, 2008, 8:52 amToo right anon, I’m sure the Israeli attacks were listed in the original draft, but you know, space constraints..
Posted by Mohammad | September 26, 2008, 8:44 pm