Jewish Israeli shot dead by security guard after being mistaken for terrorist

Behind the scenes, senior USA diplomats hinted to European allies they were prepared, as a pressure tactic, to defy Israel at the United Nations by restarting talks on the creation of a Palestinian state.

Each side blames the other for starting the trouble.

An Israeli soldier detains a Palestinian boy during a protest in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh in August.

Mindful that Greater Middle East is a seething cauldron of domestic and worldwide conflicts and the attending waning of American hegemony, Israel’s leaders either stick to their guns and are forced into a reconfigured geopolitical reality they can not outwit or overmaster, or they decide of their own accord to temper their hubris and rein in their propensity to vengeance.

Sourghi said city services provided to Arabs are “far worse” than those provided to Jewish neighborhoods.

My friend whose son is in the SWAT unit of the border police is experiencing the worries that parents of soldiers felt during last summer’s war, when their sons were deep in the Gaza Strip. trying to stop the incessant rocket fire into Israel and to uncover the terrorist tunnels. More than 300 000 Palestinians live in east Jerusalem.

In the spirit of togetherness, the Hummus Bar also advertises “a free refill for every serving of hummus, whether you’re Arabs, Jews, Christians or Indians”.

Kuttab said that for many Palestinians “the last source of hope is religion”. It might also open the clenched eyes of some British liberals – and not a few British Jews, too. Police shot the two men, one of whom later died while the other was seriously wounded. The same day, another Jabal Mukaber resident drove his vehicle into religious Jews waiting for a bus in West Jerusalem before hacking one to death with a meat cleaver. Attacks have included stabbings, firebombings, pipe-bombings, and an attempted lynch mob.

Yehuda Zahav of the ZAKA rescue team told the Jerusalem Post: “When I arrived with the ZAKA team at the site of the supposed terrorist attack, it seemed to be a “standard” current terrorist attack, a stabbing attempt, and the terrorist was apprehended.I wanted to cover the body in a black bag [reserved for terrorists]”.

Dana, a 44-year-old Jewish mother, said she was afraid to go onto the streets to buy sandwiches.

He recalled how teenagers from Jabel Mukaber threw Molotov cocktails at his home on the night of July 31.

509 delegates representing the Jewish world gathered Tuesday and launched into a provocative discussion of Jewish, Zionist and Israeli identity and how they interconnect and create a whole Jew. Since announcing his hummus peace deal earlier this month, Tzafrir says only about 10 tables of Arabs and Jews have received the discount. While all sides say they do not want to change the status quo, the problem is that the status quo on the Temple Mount/al-Haram al-Sharif has not been delineated in an explicit set of understandings. Fear foments the moral opposite of the Jewish state as we know it: ethical.

“We’re literally living on the edge”.

“Over recent months, we have been concerned to hear the ongoing repetition of a defeatist narrative that is in danger of becoming self-fulfilling: The conditions are not right; the parties are not ready”, New Zealand Foreign Minister Murray McCully told the Security Council on Thursday.

Years ago, I asked the editor of an Israeli newspaper why Israel never acknowledged that the wellspring of the Arab onslaught against it lay in Islamic extremism.

“The claims are invented in the battle to de-Judaify Israel”, Rhode said. “Armon Hanatziv was built on no-man’s land, an empty buffer zone between Jordanian and Israeli troops”.

One afternoon, I was on my way to pick up my son from high school because we decided he shouldn’t be taking public transportation when his route had been hit several times by terrorist attacks in past days.

Professor Sami Adwan of Bethlehem University, who has for years studied the issue of incitement in Palestinian textbooks, told me once that the humiliation of a mother at an Israeli checkpoint impacts a Palestinian child more than thousands of words and pictures. These attack were accompanied by requests from six Arab states – Algeria, Egypt, Kuwait, Tunisia, Morocco ad the United Arab Emirates – to have UNESCO declare the Rachel’s Tomb, and Western Wall – a retaining wall and all that is left of the Jews’ Second Temple that the Romans destroyed in 70 CE – part of the Muslim Temple Mount under Palestinian control.