20 Cheshvan
November 21, 2016
Palestinian Terror in the last 24 hours
“Rock” attacks continue at the rate of approximately 1 per hour. From evening to morning, attacks occurred at Hawara, Itamar, Oranit, A-Ram, Hatzor, Jaba Juara, Hevron, Qalandiya, Neve Dvash, Adam, Al Khader, Issawiya, Hizmn, Benjamin, the Cave of the Patriarchs, and Abu Dis to name a few.
A number of Israelis were wounded (Qalandiya, Hevron), and others were treated for trauma.
TODAY’S BLOG:
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Checkpoint:
My Recent Trip to Samaria (Part 4)
The route of our trip: Qalqilya-Alfei Menashe-Nebi Elias-Qaddum-Elkana-Kfar Kassem.
Note: For those of you coming to israelstreet for the first time, this is a 5-part series documenting a trip I recently took to Samaria–largely with MachsomWatch, a women’s group which monitors the checkpoints in and out of Judea and Samaria.
Last time we stopped at Nabi Elyas (just above Alfe Menashe on the map above) and settled in for a one hour drive to Kafr Qadum (upper right hand corner of the map) past the Jewish communities of Karnei Shomron (pop. 6905) and Ma’ale Shomron (pop. 965). Then we got off of Road 55 at al-Funduq and onto a dusty, bumpy, gravel road that snaked upward to the Palestinian settlement. All the while we stayed in Area B.
We came into Kafr Qadum to the same sight as before: there were lots of children and teenagers in the street and on the sides of the road. But this time there was a difference.
Each of them was armed with “rocks”, and when they first saw our bus with its Israeli license plates, they cocked their arms and seemed on verge of throwing-until, in unison, they lowered their arms and let us pass. Why? Perhaps our next guide screamed at them from up the hill, perhaps they recognized the bus, who knows?
At any rate, we shortly reached an upper level of the settlement at which point a former mayor of Kafr Qadum, another “friend” of MachsomWatch, boarded the bus. He was a darkly tanned 60ish man who welcomed us to the settlement and rode with us a bit further until we all disembarked.
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At this point we followed him on the road on a slight incline until we got to the place he wanted us to stop. The dirt road had become thickly black, and we had a view of the Jewish community of Kedumim to our left, the Arab settlement of Jit to our center, and another Jewish community straight head.
At this point, the mayor told “his story.” In a nutshell, he said that people in his “town” come to this place every Friday to burn tires and protest against the fact that the 2 km road that once led from Kafr Kadum past Kedumim to Jit has been closed to residents of Kafr Kadum and Jit. Now, the major said, the residents must travel 12 km instead of 2. He encouraged us to come join the demonstrations.
Here is a picture of such a demonstration 3 weeks ago:
The precise place on the road that we stood; you can see Kedumim through the smoke. Note that this picture is courtesy of the International Soldarity Movement (ISM) that helps organize the “demonstrations” along with other European and Israeli “humanitarian” organizations.
He never really told why the road had been closed (though you can easily deduce why–see below), but he also said that Israel had confiscated Qadum land to build Kedumim and the other community below. When your humble servant asked him asked him how far Qadum land actually extended, he (to paraphrase) said “as far as you can see–all the way to Jit and all the way across the valley to a white house on top of that distant hill.”
Again we heard the spiel that the residents of Qadum are nothing but peaceful Palestinians who want peace.
Very peaceful indeed. How about a suicide car bombing in Kedumim in May of 2006 that murdered 4 Israelis: Rafi Halevy (63) of Kedumim, Helena (58) his wife, Shaked Lasker (16), of Kedumim, and Re’ut Feldman (20) of Herzliya? Or a shooting attack a year later that killed Kedumim resident Ido Zoldan (29)? And all of the shooting and “rock” attacks since then (you can google search israelstreet in the right hand column below for more examples).
Again we heard what a wonderful organization MachsomWatch is.
In any case, after once again telling us how much he appreciated our coming we all got back on our bus and parted ways with the former mayor.
Tomorrow we head toward Elkana.
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.