UPDATES
9:00 am Israel time, Thursday, July 16 2015
**The last 36 hours have seen virtually the full panoply of Palestinian terrorism:
An IDF soldier was stabbed in her back yesterday afternoon by a Palestinian terrorist from Ramallah. The soldier remains in the hospital this morning in “fair” condition. It remains unclear how the female terrorist got into the pillbox area near Nachiel Binyamin.
At least 3 missiles have been fired out of Gaza at southern Israel–the most recent at 2:03 this morning when Chof Ashkelon, the area between Ashkelon and Gaza was hit. An earlier missile hit the Sha’ar Hanagev region of the northern Negev.
[The IAF has retaliated: the picture at the left was taken early this morning from a person’s house in Chof Ashkelon.]
Shootings have taken place in various locations–most recently 2 hours ago at the Nachliel Binyamin Jewish community.
Numerous “rock” and Molotov cocktail attacks have taken place on the Jerusalem Light Rail train, on the Hussan Bypass Road, on Highway 6, at Hizma, Hebron, and Qalandiya. Numerous people were traumatized.
IEDs were thrown at IDF troops at Rachel’s Tomb near Bethlehem and elsewhere in Judea and Samaria.
A suspected suicide bomber from Tulkarm was captured at the South Rehovot train station. Sappers defused the bomb.
**Protest at the Dung Gate:
In all the news about Iran yesterday, your humble servant forgot to mention that he was happy to attend a protest on Thursday evening at the Dung Gate in the Old City.
The purpose of the demonstration was to object to the restrictions being placed on Jews who go, or want to go to the Temple Mount.
The sign below reads in capital letters: “Jews Return To The Har HaBeit (Temple Mount)” and announces in small letters a coming demonstration.
**The view from the Middle East about the American appeasement to Iran in the Iranian nuclear weapons “talks” is exemplified by the cartoons that appeared across region yesterday.
From Saudi Arabia:
The end of sanctions means that unlimited Iranian oil money will be available to fund terrorism.
And one from the United Arab Emirates:
Obama has indeed restructured the Middle East; the deal has transformed Iran from the small to the gigantic.
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Or how about this one from Iraq:
A happy Iranian FM Zarif leaping over a bowing Obama.
One of the unhappy results of the Iranian agreement may be that Yitzhak Herzog, the leader of the leftist Herzog-Livni party may join the government coalition despite all protestations to the contrary.
Apparently Herzog will be going to Washington in the coming weeks to lobby against the Iranian agreement to be followed by Netanyahu himself.
The inclusion of Herzog in the government would be a slap in the face to all of the people who voted for Likud in the last election.
TODAY’S BLOG:
There was one important Palestinian terror-related event that your humble servant purposely left out of the updates this morning in order to have more room to develop it.
You remember that almost a month ago, on June 19, Daniel Gonen was murdered by a Palestinian terrorist who signaled that he needed help. When Gonen stopped his car, the terrorist opened fired, spraying Gonen’s car with more than 10 bullets and killing Gonen.
Yesterday it was revealed that ten days after the murder Israeli security forces arrested the 5-man terror cell responsible for the murder including the shooter.
And, far from being members of Hamas, the terrorists who murdered Gonen are all intimately connected with Mahmoud Abbas and the PLO.
Picture: Ynet News that israelstreet acknowledges for elements of this story.
Terrorist 1, the person who actually killed Gonen, was Muhammad Abu Shaheen (30), a PLO “soldier” from Qalandiya (more on him below).
Terrorist 2, Asraf Amar (24) is a member of the Palestinian Authority “military intelligence.”
Terrorist 3, Osama Assad (29), is a terrorist who was released in the Gilad Shalit terrorist release. Assad is the person who hid the gun.
Terrorist 4, Muhammad Aduan (37) is another person who hid weapons for the cell.
Terrorist 5, Amjad Aduan (35) is a terrorist who had already been in Israeli detention for “planning terrorist attacks” and who served as the “lookout” at the murder and elsewhere.
And where is “elsewhere”?
Not only did Shaheen and his cell kill Gonen, Shaheen also confessed to six other shooting attacks in the last year including the wounding of a soldier in November 2014 in A-Ram.
As we noted, Shaheed is a member of the military wing of the PLO–the Tanzim.
Even more specifically, Shaheen is a member of the Palestinian Authority’s elite Force 17 unit. Originally formed to be Yasser Arafat’s personal guard, Force 17 was essentially absorbed into Mahmoud Abbas’ personal guard in 2007. Through the years, Force 17 has been responsible for a number of terror attacks on Israelis including the murders of 7 Israelis in the Ramallah area including the son of Rabbi Meir Kahane, Binyamin, and his wife Talya.
But how did Shaheen get into Force 17? By attempting to carry out terror attacks back in 2006 and being convicted and imprisoned from 2006-2008.
In fact, how does one get into Mahmoud Abbas’ PLO? By killing or attemping to kill Israelis.
Where is the world outrage? Why doesn’t the world demand condemnation from Mahmoud Abbas and the PLO? Why doesn’t anyone care?
Your humble servant leaves it to you, dear reader, to answer those questions.
One final note: before we give Israeli intelligence too much credit for solving this case so quickly, it should be noted that the terrorists were tracked down because Shaheen idiotically called Israeli security services–from his home–to “anonymously” brag about the attack.
A student from Malawi, who had worked with an Israeli health volunteer in his country battling AIDS, came up to us as we walked down the street in the UC-Davis Picnic Day Parade and wanted to carry the Israeli flag.