Two Palestinians, including elderly woman, shot dead
This comfortable situation for Israelis could change either through non-violent economic and political pressure sustained by the Western world or through what we are seeing these days: violent insecurity sustained by the occupied Palestinian people.
Here and there, especially in the West Bank, there were still many Arab attacks on civilians.
This kind of reductionism has often served as the prelude to any discussion concerning the so-called Arab-Israeli conflict: events are depicted and defined using polarizing terminology that pay little heed to facts and contexts, and focus primarily on perceptions and interpretations.
The alleged car-ramming incident took place in in the southern West Bank in Halhul, north of Hebron, where a stabbing attack took place on Wednesday. In the first attack, a 16-year-old male was moderately wounded and an 18-year-old male was lightly wounded when they were shot at near the Cave of the Patriarchs at 4:45 P.M. The shooter fled the scene, and a manhunt was underway. More than 76 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire, including 46 whom Israel said were involved in attacks or attempted attacks.
Israel has freed a Palestinian who earlier this year conducted an unprecedented 66-day hunger strike.
Obama administration officials on Thursday said the president had made a “realistic assessment” that peace can not be reached between Israelis and Palestinians in the remainder of his term, which runs until February 2017. That only through the use of brute force, that only through the expression that any resistance will be met with the strongest possible repression, will Palestinians get the message that this has to stop.
Meanwhile, 4.5 million Palestinians live surrounded by 450 kilometres of wall – which the global Court of Justice said was illegal in 2004, but despite this, it has continued to expand. A few Palestinians seen holding knives have been shot on suspicion that they were about to carry out an attack. “For sure, I will visit both of you”, said the Ambassador. Tell us a little about that.
Now that lives – and many more Palestinian lives – have been lost, with every likelihood that more will be killed in the weeks ahead, the results are crucial. “The Information Ministry said they were a few reports we wrote that they did not like”.
Rather, what they want people to believe is that Palestinians, by virtue of who they are, are opposed to Jews. And the reason that they argue this is because they would like to continue policies of brute force.
Recently Palestine’s minister of foreign affairs pointed out to me in Ramallah that the European Union has banned the same products that come from Crimea, because it has been illegally annexed by Russian Federation.
Since her call for “struggle” to defend the mosque from the Jews, the radical Knesset member has been more explicit in urging violence, telling a Hamas newspaper that the lone-wolf stabbing should be expended into a full-fledged “intifada”.