Doc's Talk: Day of Terrorism on Both Sides of 1967 Green Line

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Day of Terrorism on Both Sides of 1967 Green Line

Ezra HaLevi

The Israeli-Arab terrorist group Ahrar al-Jalil (Free People of the Galilee) has claimed responsibility for a stabbing attack in the Old City of Jerusalem on Tuesday morning. The group previously has stated it was behind other terrorist attacks, most of which were later proven to have been perpetrated by other groups.Rabbi Yechezkel Greenwald of the Samaria town of Beit El was lightly wounded in the attack. A student managed to fend off the terrorist attacker before he could cause more serious harm.

Hamas Will Protect Family of Israeli-Arab Terrorist
The Hamas terrorist group announced via its web site that it will protect the family of terrorist Alaa Abu Dheim, the Israeli-Arab who murdered eight students at Jerusalem's Yeshivat Merkaz HaRav.

The Islamist group, apparently shaken by the ability of teenage girls and young Jewish activists to bypass police blockades and reach the Jerusalem Arab village of Jabal Mukabar, threatened the "settlers" with retaliation if the village is entered again.

A Jewish neighborhood, Nof Zion, is located amidst Jabal Mukabar. The homes there are being finalized and are already being marketed.

PA Returns Terrorists to Prison, Says They Were on Leave
The Palestinian Authority claimed Tuesday that it allowed two terrorists convicted of the murder of off-duty IDF soldiers Achikam Amichai and David Rubim to leave prison temporarily – either as a furlough or because it feared Israeli forces planned to enter the prison and arrest them, according to differing reports. PA officials asked the two to return to prison after word of their “escape” reached Israel.

The killers, PA employees who were sentenced to 15 years in prison for murdering Amichai and Rubin as they hiked with a friend near the Telem Stream in the Hevron region. The men were spotted wandering the streets of Hevron on Tuesday.

Following reports of their escape, the PA escorted an Israeli state-run TV crew to enter the PA prison in Hevron and see that the two were safely in their cells. The Olmert government had agreed to allow the PA to incarcerate the men instead of ordering the army to apprehend them.

Israeli security officials had expressed doubt over the veracity of the escape story, noting that terrorist “escapes” have often been cover stories for the PA’s release of terrorist prisoners. Such prisoners have occasionally “turned themselves in” when Israeli officials threaten to track them down.

Attacks in Pre-‘67 Southern Israel and J’lem Region
Arabs threw rocks at Israeli vehicles on Tuesday evening along the road between Be’er Sheva and Dimona. No injuries or damage were reported.

The attack was one of many that have occurred in recent weeks within Israel’s pre-1967 borders. Several attackers have been arrested, most of them Arab teens with Israeli citizenship.

Israeli-Arabs threw three Molotov cocktails at Border Police officers on Tuesday night near the town of Maale Hahamisha, northwest of Jerusalem. The officers were not injured. The attackers managed to escape.

Arab Who Helped IDF Murdered
An Arab man in his 60s was murdered in PA-controlled Kalkilya Tuesday evening. Local Arabs said he was killed for allegedly passing information regarding terrorist activities to Israeli security forces.

The man was shot by anonymous attackers firing from a passing car in the center of town. No group has announced responsibility for the killing.

Terror Attacks in Judea and Samaria
A terrorist from the Arab village of Beit Omar, between Jerusalem and Hevron, attacked Israelis on Tuesday night, throwing rocks and flaming tires at vehicles. The attacker was arrested by IDF soldiers, and no injuries were reported.

IDF sources say the number of attacks on Israeli motorists has increased dramatically throughout the country, and particularly in Judea and Samaria. The area around Beit Omar, a village that hosts scores of foreign radical leftist activists, is one of the most frequent sites of attacks.

A group of Arabs threw stones at an Israeli bus on Tuesday afternoon near the city of Shechem. The bus was transporting young students home from school. No injuries were reported in the attack, but the bus was damaged.

Police blocked the Gan Shomron Junction in Samaria Tuesday afternoon after finding two hand grenades at the site. Police sappers disarmed the devices. No injuries or damage was reported, but the incident caused heavy traffic back-ups in the area.

Arab Worker Stabs Jew in Northern Jerusalem
A group of young Jews argued with an Arab worker in the neighborhood of Ramot in Jerusalem on Tuesday evening, and one worker pulled out a screwdriver, stabbing one of the young Jews in the head before fleeing the scene.

The Jewish man was very lightly wounded and did not require medical care. Police launched a search and told reporters that they were investigating whether the Arab acted in self-defense.

PA Arab Arrested for Stabbing Employer
A Palestinian Authority Arab was arrested by IDF forces on Tuesday morning for stabbing his Israeli employer three months earlier, according to the Bethlehem-based Maan news agency. The man, 23-year-old Ahmed an-Najjer, was arrested in a village east of Tul Karem.

An-Najjer and a 20-year-old colleague stabbed their Israeli employer following a work dispute. The two believed they had murdered their victim, but the employer survived the attack.

Mortar and Rocket Attacks From Gaza
Gaza terrorists fired a mortar shell at the western Negev on Tuesday evening. The shell landed near the Gaza security barrier south of the Kissufim crossing.

Terrorists fired three rockets and four mortar shells at Israeli towns on Tuesday, but failed to cause casualties.

IDF Arrests Six Wanted Terrorists
IDF soldiers arrested six wanted terrorists early on Wednesday morning. The detainees were taken to security services for questioning.

Soldiers found a Kalashnikov rifle and ammunition while searching a detainee’s house northeast of Shechem. The weapons were confiscated.

IAF Attack Wounds Four Gaza Terrorists
IAF warplanes successfully hit a rocket launching terrorist cell in Beit Lahia in northern Gaza on Tuesday evening, local Arabs reported. Four Islamic Jihad terrorists were wounded in the attack, two of them critically.

The strike was the first since Saturday night, when IAF pilots hit four Islamic Jihad terrorists as they prepared to fire a rocket from northern Gaza. Three of the four were killed instantly, and the fourth later died of his wounds. According to local Arabs, two of the terrorists were responsible for a rocket attack that badly wounded two young brothers in Sderot, and a third was one of Islamic Jihad’s top propagandists.

Lebanon Accuses, IDF Dismisses
Lebanese military officials said Tuesday that an IDF warship was seen off the coast of Lebanon. The vessel was allegedly spotted by members of the United Nations forces in the area.

The IDF responded that no IDF ship was present in the area.

Government to Join Security Drill
The entire government will join a massive security drill planned for April for the first time in Israel’s history. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will begin the drill by announcing the outbreak of a mock war. The government will also practice its response to an attack or natural disaster resulting in a large number of casualties.

Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilnai planned the massive drill as part of the efforts to implement lessons learned from the Second Lebanon War. The government and security forces will practice their ability to give each minister timely, accurate information.

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The IDF’s Minorities in Numbers and Pictures

In honor of IDF Diversity Week, we present diversity through numbers and pictures. Each year, more and more Muslims, Christians, Druze, Bedouin and immigrants from around the world take on the responsibility of defending Israel.

MUSLIMS:

Muslim Arab Israelis are not required to draft in the IDF, but there are many who volunteer. In 2013, there were over 200 Muslims serving in the IDF and over 300 in the reserves.

Bedouins:

Bedouins are nomadic Muslims who were in Israel when modern borders were set in place and are now considered Israeli citizens. They are not required to draft but a growing number choose to enlist. In 2012, there were over 1,400 Bedouin Muslim soldiers doing regular IDF service and almost 1,500 in the reserves.

Read more:http://www.idfblog.com/2014/02/27/truth-idf-numbers-pictures/#more-34027

Are you aware that in 2013, Middle class taxes go up-significantly?

In January of next year, the federal income tax rate for middle-class taxpayers is scheduled to rise from 25 percent to 28 percent, and the payroll tax is scheduled to rise from 13.3 percent to 15.3 percent… This drives the marginal tax rate based on the aforementioned three taxes to 48.12 percent. Add in state and local property, corporate, excise, and other state and local taxes, and the percentage of each additional dollar that is taxed hovers around 50 percent… When half of each additional dollar earned is taxed away, taxpayers experience a disincentive to start businesses or expand existing ones. This leads to fewer jobs being created.

Why is HAMAS Inside Tampa Schools?

Clare Lopez

Kelly Miliziano, who teaches history classes at Steinbrenner High School in the Tampa, Florida area apparently thinks it’s perfectly OK to invite a senior official of a HAMAS-affiliated organization into her classroom to discuss Islam with her students. According to local media reports, not only has this been going on for years, but in spite of the civil and criminal proceedings that could result from such reckless negligence, the Hillsborough County school superintendent, Mary Ellen Elia, and the chairman of the school board, Candy Olson, also expressed approval for students under their responsibility to be exposed repeatedly to guest speaker, Hassan Shibly, who is the Executive Director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in the Tampa area.
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Did You Know... Ignoring the Call to Islam will Bring Jihad

‘Conquest through Da’wa [proselytizing] that is what we hope for. We will conquer Europe, we will conquer America! Not through sword but through Da’wa.’
-- Yousef al-Qaradawi , Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader The Arabic word ‘Da’wa’ means the “call to Islam.” But do not think that Da’wa is the same thing as an invitation to an optional holiday event. The classical Islamic doctrine of jihad mandates that enemies must be given the opportunity to convert to Islam or pay the jizya tax before it is permissible to attack them.
Clare M. Lopez

Who is being discriminated-facts tell the truth

Religious bias

Hate crimes motivated by religious bias accounted for 1,409 offenses reported by law enforcement. A breakdown of the bias motivation of religious-bias offenses showed:

65.4 percent were anti-Jewish.
13.2 percent were anti-Islamic.
9.5 percent were anti-other religion, i.e., those not specified.
4.3 percent were anti-Catholic.
3.8 percent were anti-multiple religions, group.
3.3 percent were anti-Protestant.
0.5 percent were anti-Atheism/Agnosticism/etc.

http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/hate-crime/2010/narratives/hate-crime-2010-incidents-and-offenses.

On March 31, 1977, the Dutch newspaper Trouw published an interview

with PLO executive committee member Zahir Muhsein. Here's what he said:

"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct "Palestinian people" to oppose Zionism.

For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan."

In March 1977, Zahir Muhsein, a PLO executive, said:

"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct Palestinian people to oppose Zionism."

"For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan."

The Arab Apartheid

Ben-Dror Yemini
In 1948, the Arab countries refused to accept the UN partition proposal and they launched a war of annihilation against the State of Israel which had barely been established. All precedents in this matter showed that the party that starts the war - and with a declaration of annihilation, yet - pays a price for it. Between 550,000 and 710,000 Arabs fled because of the war and a larger number of 850,000 Jews were expelled or fled from Arab countries (the "Jewish nakba").
Population exchanges and expulsions were the norm at that time, occurring in dozens of other conflict points and affecting about 52 million people. In all the population exchange precedents that occurred during or at the end of an armed conflict, there was no return of refugees to the previous region, which had turned into a new national state.
Only the Arab states acted completely differently from the rest of the world. Instead of assimilating the refugees, they crushed them despite the fact that they were their coreligionists and members of the Arab nation - instituting a regime of apartheid. So the "nakba" was not caused by the actual dispossession, which had also been experienced by tens of millions of others. The "nakba" is the story of the apartheid, oppression, abuse and denial of rights suffered by the Arab refugees at the hands of the Arab countries. (Maariv)

International Law and Military Operations in Practice - Col. Richard Kemp

"Islamist fighting groups study the international laws of armed conflict carefully and they understand it well. They know that a British or Israeli commander and his men are bound by international law and the rules of engagement that flow from it. They then do their utmost to exploit what they view as one of their enemy's main weaknesses. Their very modus operandi is built on the correct assumption that Western armies will normally abide by the rules, while these insurgents employ a deliberate policy of operating consistently outside international law. "

Lost Historical Moments

What Rabin’s last Knesset speech really said:repudiation of a Palestinian state

Rabin ruled out a fully sovereign Palestinian state :

“We view the permanent solution in the framework of State of Israel which will include most of the area of the Land of Israel as it was under the rule of the British Mandate, and alongside it a Palestinian entity which will be a home to most of the Palestinian residents living in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. We would like this to be an entity which is less than a state, and which will independently run the lives of the Palestinians under its authority.”

Rabin ruled out a total withdrawal from Judea and Samaria and thus a return to the pre-June 1967 borders :

“The borders of the State of Israel, during the permanent solution, will be beyond the lines which existed before the Six Day War. We will not return to the 4 June 1967 lines.”

Rabin ruled out withdrawing form the Jordan Valley:

“The security border of the State of Israel will be located in the Jordan Valley, in the broadest meaning of that term.”

Rabin ruled out uprooting settlement blocs, like the Gush Katif bloc in Gaza (which was subsequently uprooted by former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon):

“The establishment of blocs of settlements in Judea and Samaria, like the one in Gush Katif.

AND

Rabin ruled out removing any settlement before coming to a full peace agreement with the Palestinians:

“I want to remind you: we committed ourselves, that is, we came to an agreement, and committed ourselves before the Knesset, not to uproot a single settlement in the framework of the interim agreement, and not to hinder building for natural growth.”

Rabin insisted on Israel retaining full security control of the borders with Egypt and Jordan, contrary to Israel’s relinquishment of the Philadelphia Corridor on the border with Egypt:

“The responsibility for external security along the borders with Egypt and Jordan, as well as control over the airspace above all of the territories and Gaza Strip maritime zone, remains in our hands.”

Correcting Oslo Myths-Part 2

3) Kuttab laments that the post-1993 Oslo process resulted in a Palestinian Authority "whose ministers and legislators are not guaranteed passage between Gaza and the West Bank ...."

Before free passage or other perquisites, PA leaders were obligated, among other things, to eliminate the terrorist infrastructure in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, end anti-Israeli, antisemitic incitement in schools, mosques, and communications media, and resolve all outstanding issues through peaceful negotiations. They met none of these commitments, sometimes bolstering terrorism and greatly increasing incitement.

4) Kuttab complains that under Oslo the PA got "lightly armed police ---- but no real sovereignty over the land or contiguity between our communities in Gaza and the West Bank."

Oslo agreements repeatedly were revised, regardless of Palestinian non-compliance, until the authorized number of police grew from 8,000 to 40,000. Though they were to be the only armed forces in the territories, Israeli estimates early in the second intifada put the number of gunmen - police, "security services," terrorists, and armed gangs - at 85,000. Their armament reportedly included not only heavy machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades, but also anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles.

Sovereignty was to be negotiated in the envisioned 1998 "final status" talks - after a five-year period of confidence-building. Palestinian leadership chronically undermined the process. Palestinian terrorism made the 1993 - 1998 Oslo period more deadly for Israelis than the 15 years preceding it.

The United States doesn't have contiguity between the lower 48 states and Alaska and Hawaii; territorial contiguity between the West Bank and Gaza Strip - that is, through the 20 miles of Israeli territory between them - was never promised and would destroy Israeli contiguity.

5) "Palestinians have been made to endure hundreds of checkpoints in the West Bank, an eight-foot wall deep in our territories, and tight Israeli control over borders."

The security barrier is not "deep in Palestinian territories," but rather encompasses less than 8 percent of Judea and Samaria, and is mostly a fence, rarely a wall; the land in question is not "our [Palestinian] territories" but disputed territory to which, according to the authors of U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, Jews as well as Arabs have claims; and there are no international borders, only the 1949 armistice lines with Jordan. Under 242, borders remain to be negotiated. As for checkpoints - like the security barrier and "tight Israeli control" - Palestinian Arabs precipitated these measures themselves. No terrorism and there would be no fence or tight Israeli control and few checkpoints - like before the first intifada.

Correcting Some Oslo Myths

1) In Oslo "Israeli, Palestinian and other world leaders promised that ... Palestinian sovereignty would be solidified."

No, they didn't. The 1993 Declaration of Principles and subsequent Oslo agreements outlined a process by which final status negotiations about the West Bank and Gaza Strip would be reached. The process required an end to anti-Israel terrorism and incitement and a commitment to peaceful negotiations. The PA, Fatah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and other terrorist groups, sabotaged the process from the start.

2) "The reality is that, in defiance of U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, which states that it is inadmissible to occupy land by force, Palestinian territories are still under foreign military occupation."
Wrong again. Resolution 242 (1967) does note "the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war." It also affirms the right of every state in the area "to live in peace with secure and recognized boundaries free from threats or acts of force." There were no "Palestinian territories." Jordan occupied the West Bank, Egypt controlled Gaza. Israel did not have "secure and recognized boundaries," so retention of some of those territories was possible under 242. Israel is not a "foreign" military occupier in the West Bank but, pending final negotiations, the lawful military administrator as a result of a successful war of self-defense.

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