Tuesday, October 27 2015
8:00 pm UPDATES
6:24 pm: Palestinian stabbing attack in Gush Etzion. Two terrorists attack IDF soldiers–stabbing one in the face. Soldier in “moderate condition”. Both terrorists shot and killed.
3:00 pm UPDATES
2:15 pm: Some good news. This is a hospital picture of Tahel Soher, the 3-year-old girl who was burned over 35% of her upper torso in the Palestinian terrorist firebombing of the Soher family car several days ago–with her mother. Her condition has stabilized:
Let’s hope Tahel continues her recovery with no complications.
1:10 pm: Israel Air Force attacks sand dune in Gaza in retaliation for last night’s missile strike on southern Israel. And you wonder why the terrorists keep shooting?
12:55 pm: Two Palestinian terrorists armed with an axe and box cutter captured at IDF Square in Jerusalem just before an attack.
The terrorists were caught in IDF Square with these.
11:00 am UPDATES
10:52 am: Stabbing averted. Palestinian terrorist from Silwan armed with two knives captured by police in the Old City of Jerusalem.
10:40 am:
Richard Lakin’s Facebook page. May he rest in peace.
Another Israeli stabbing victim, 76-year-old Richard Lakin, has succumbed to the gunshot to the head and stabbing in the chest that he suffered when attacked by Palestinian terrorists at Government House two weeks ago. Lakin, a former school principal at Hopewell Elementary School in Glastonbury, Connecticut, was a staunch believer in coexistence and volunteered his time as an English teacher at the Bilingual School in Jerusalem. He is the 3rd Israeli to have died in that particular terrorist attack
10:35 am: Palestinian stabbing attack thwarted: Two Palestinian terrorists armed with knives have just been captured at the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron.
9:00 am UPDATES and TODAY’S BLOG
***There were more than 40 Palestinian terror attacks yesterday.
Palestinians attempted to kill Israelis with knives, missiles, Molotov firebombs, “rocks”, and IEDs.
Two stabbing attacks occurred, one just outside Hebron near Kiryat Arba and the other near the Cave of the Patriarchs inside the city. In the first, an IDF soldier was critically wounded with a massive stab wound to his neck: he remains in critical condition this morning. The terrorist (see below) was shot and killed. In the second, a Palestinian brandishing a knife charged at an IDF soldier. He too was shot and killed.
A few of the other Israelis who were wounded yesterday were a bus driver who was wounded by “rocks” that smashed through his bus on the Hussan bypass road in Gush Etzion, and a young boy who was wounded by “rocks” which hit him near Jalazun in the Benjamin issue.
At 7:05 pm last night, Palestinian terrorists in Gaza launched missiles at the Kibbutz Nahal Oz area on the Gaza border. No Israelis were physically wounded but who knows how many were emotionally traumatized by the sirens, the run to a bomb shelter, and the ensuing explosions?
***Let’s return for a moment to the first stabbing attack yesterday . . .
This was the one in Kiryat Arba beside Hebron in which an IDF soldier had his neck ripped opened by a Palestinian terrorist.
That terrorist was Raed Jaradat from the village of Seir near Hebron.
Unless you have been paying very close attention to israelstreet over the years, the “Jaradat” family may not mean anything to you. But here on israelstreet we have been documenting this murderous family of terrorists since 2011.
The scion of the family is Mahmud Jaradat who was sentenced to life in prison back in the 1990s for murdering Palestinian “collaborators”. He was subsequently released from prison in one of the idiotic “Obama-Kerry” murderer releases that Netanyahu agreed to in order to lure Mahmoud Abbas back to the “negotiating” table in 2013-4.
Then there was Fadi Jaradat, a Palestinian terrorist who was shot to death while carrying out a terrorist attack on Israeli soldiers in 2002.
Then we had Hanadi Jaradat, Fadi’s sister, who blew 21 Israelis to pieces at the Maxim restaurant in Haifa on October 4, 2003. Among the dead were 4 children, 1 infant, and 3 Israeli-Arabs. 51 other Israelis were wounded–many horrifically– in the attack. Hanadi’s father had this to say after her barbaric attack: “I will accept only congratulations for what she did. This was a gift she gave me, the homeland and the Palestinian people. Therefore, I am not crying for her.” Afterwards, the PLO named roads and schools after her.
Then we had Arafat Jaradat who was arrested by the Shin Bet in 2013 for carrying out “rock” and Molotov cocktail attacks against Israelis. He died in Megiddo Prison on February 23, 2013.
Then we had Raed Jaradat who tried to kill the IDF soldier yesterday morning and was instead killed himself.
And finally, we have Iyad Rawhi Jaradat who was killed last night by IDF soldiers when a group of terrorists approached them following the death of Raed.
One fact we can be sure of: we have not seen the end of Jaradat terrorism.
***Speaking of honoring murderous terrorists . . .
Remember the barbaric attack that took place in the Old City of Jerusalem back on October 3? In that attack, Palestinian terrorist Mohannad Shafik Halabi stabbed Aharon Bennett (21) and Rabbi Nehemia Lavi (41) to death. He also stabbed Aharon’s wife and his infant child who was in a baby stroller. Fortunately, Halabi was shot and killed.
For his “heroic” attack, the Palestinian Authority (aka the PLO) honored Halabi yesterday. First they had soil from the Temple Mount brought to his grave, then it awarded him an honorary posthumous law degree, and then it named a road that runs from his home town of Surda-Abu Qash to Ramallah after him.
The mayor of Surda-Abu Qash had this to say: “This is the least we can do for Martyr Halabi to honor him for killing Jews.”
***What ultra right wing newspaper do you think that this came from yesterday?
Under the title “Mounting Tension” and subtitled “Will the banning of non-Muslim prayer on the Temple Mount help calm the Palestinians? We doubt it”, the editor of the paper said this in an op-ed:
“[The Netanyahu decision is based on] the offensive premise that the simple act of prayer, an inherently spiritual act, represents an affront to Muslim sensibilities and therefore must be proscribed. In what is essentially a “blame the victim” argument, Jews and members of other faiths, whose only crime is to beseech an abstract higher power, are being blamed for triggering Muslim violence.
Why can’t Muslims be asked to control themselves? Limiting freedom of religious expression on the Temple Mount out of deference to Muslim extremists’ sensitivities is akin to other cases in which Western values have been compromised or curtailed to appease zealotry. Some in the West were willing to accept, for instance, that the murderous attack on Charlie Hebdo’s offices was in some sense a result of France’s failure to assimilate two generations of Muslim immigrants from its former colonies; or that it could be tied to French military action against Islamic State; or that the murders should be “understood” as reactions to disrespect for religion on the part of irresponsible cartoonists.
Similarly, the ongoing knifing, stoning and shooting of innocent civilians in the streets of Jerusalem, Beersheba, Tel Aviv, Itamar, Gush Etzion and other locations are condoned by some by positioning it as a reaction to certain Israeli policies, such as “occupation” or alleged Israeli attempts to “Judaize” the Temple Mount . . .
While we understand and accept the need to publicly reaffirm the status quo on the Temple Mount, restricting non-Muslims’ religious rights there is an intrinsic affront to liberal values that will likely fail to assuage Muslim extremists.”
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So which newspaper was it? If you guessed some of the newspapers “on the right” in Israel, you would be mistaken. This eloquent piece appeared in the Jerusalem Post, a distinctly centrist Israeli newspaper. It is an op-ed which accurately represents the feeling on the Israeli street.
***Israeli capitulation on the Temple Mount knows no limits . . .
Yesterday, Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely uttered these words in an interview with the Knesset television channel:
“My dream is to see the Israeli flag fly atop the Temple Mount. This is the holiest site in the world for Jews.”
This morning you would think that the sky has fallen. There are calls for Netanyahu to fire Hotovely because of her “messianic” comments. And there is a a report that Netanyahu has indeed ordered Hotovely to his office for a harsh dressing-down.
Lest PM Netanyahu forget, the Temple Mount is part of sovereign Israel, and the Israeli flag did fly over the Mount in the hours after it was regained in 1967.
Hotovely speaks for most Israelis.
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.