Arab-Israeli Conflict: Part 1

[Rozko]

Someone wants their water shut off

 

[ReAnimator Reagan]

Cliffs?

Stand on the edge of one.

 

[Arkain2K]

Three Israelis stabbed to death in their West Bank home
By Daniel Uria | July 22, 2017

A Palestinian stabbed a father, his son and his daughter to death in an Israeli settlement home on Friday evening, the Israel Defense Forces said.

The Israeli father, in his 60s, and his two children, both in their 40s, were killed and his wife was hospitalized in serious condition after a teenage assailant entered their home in the Halamish settlement with a knife as the family was eating Shabbat dinner, the Times of Israel reported.

Also on Friday, the New York Times reported, three Palestinian protesters were shot and killed in clashes with security forces in and around Jerusalem. At least two of the protesters were teenagers, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. Israeli police said protesters Friday were combative with rocks and firebombs.

The West Bank attacker, identified as 19-year-old Omar al-Abed, climbed a fence and broke a window before entering the home and assaulting the family of 10. The Halamish settlement is located in the West Bank.

During the attack the mother, also in her 60s, managed to hide several of the grandchildren -- who were unharmed -- in another room while she called police and shouted that a terrorist had entered her home.

An Israel Defense Force soldier who was on leave heard the woman's screams and shot Abed through the window. The teenage attacker was wounded and taken to the hospital in moderate condition.

During questioning, Abed said he purchased the knife used in the stabbing two days prior with the intention of committing a terrorist attack in response to events surrounding security measures put in place at Al-Aqsa mosque, which is known in Judaism as the Temple Mount.

The Israel Defense Force also shared a photo of a Facebook post they said Abed wrote before the attack.

"I only have a knife -- where are the others who had guns to use only at weddings?" the IDF said Abed wrote. "I ask my family to forgive me, I know I will not return and I will go to heaven. Put in my grave Arafat's keffiyeh and the Ribbon of Al-Aqsa Brigades."

Haaretz reported that security forces said Abed identifies with militant Palestinian organization Hamas, but is not considered to be an active member. Hamas praised his actions as "heroic" and spokesman Hussam Badran called for others to "continue the intifada against the occupation at all friction points in support of the Al-Aqsa mosque."

Additional Israel Defense Force were placed in the West Bank area in fear of additional "copy cat" terrorist attacks.

Entry and exit from the village of Khobar was also prohibited on Saturday following the attack.

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-...bed-to-death-in-West-Bank-home/1511500726368/

 

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3 Israelis and 3 Palestinians killed as tensions give way to violence
By Ian Lee, Abeer Salman, Kareem Khadder and Amir Tal, CNN | July 21, 2017​

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Jerusalem (CNN)Three Israelis were killed Friday in a stabbing attack in a West Bank settlement, Israeli authorities said. The attack followed clashes between Palestinians and Israeli forces in Jerusalem's Old City, in which three Palestinians died, according to Palestinian officials.

A Palestinian wielding a knife stabbed and killed three Israelis in Halamish, a settlement located north of Ramallah. A fourth Israeli was wounded in the attack, the Israeli MDA emergency services told CNN.

MDA Director Eli Bin said the attacker was shot and severely wounded, and has also been evacuated to hospital. The Israeli military confirmed in a statement that the assailant had been shot.

Earlier on Friday, three Palestinians were killed in clashes with Israeli forces in Jerusalem's Old City, Palestinian officials said.

More than 100 other Palestinians were injured in the clashes in east Jerusalem neighborhoods, according to Rafiq El Husseini, director of Al Maqassed Hospital, where bodies of two of the dead were taken.

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres issued statements condemning both episodes of violence. He called "on all to refrain from any actions or words that could further escalate an already volatile situation."

A Palestinian youth hurls rocks towards Israeli security forces outside Jerusalem's Old City on Friday, 21 July.​

Tensions were fueled by a decision by Israeli authorities to install metal detectors at entrances to a key Muslim holy site in the Old City and bar male worshipers under 50 from attending Friday prayers there.

The restrictions were imposed after two Israeli police officers were killed in a shooting last week just outside the Old City and Temple Mount, also known as the Noble Sanctuary. The area is one of the world's most important religious sites, revered by Jews, Christians and Muslims.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday suspended all contacts with Israel until the metal detectors are removed.

"I announce the freezing of contacts with Israel on all levels and the suspension of coordination until all the measures taken at al-Aqsa mosque have stopped," Abbas said in a message tweeted by his Fatah Movement.

Israeli police told CNN they were aware of reports that two people had been taken to hospital and that one had died, but said they could not comment officially as they were still investigating the incident.

Police are also investigating reports that Israeli police entered the hospital looking for the body of a dead Palestinian, police foreign press spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told CNN.

Mohammad Fityani, a spokesman for the Palestinian Red Crescent in Jerusalem, told CNN that its crews had dealt with 109 injured people by 3 p.m. local time, 72 of whom had been taken to the hospital. Three of those were seriously hurt and one later died, he said.

In a statement posted on Facebook prior to the attack, the assailant said he was motivated by the Israeli government's recent restrictions on al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, according to an Israeli military spokesman. The attacker climbed a fence and "was able to penetrate one of the houses, which was close to the village perimeter," said the spokesman, who did not want to be named.

Palestinian militant group Hamas praised the attack. "We bless the heroic Halamish operation which came as a result to the Zionist occupation violations and crimes against our people in Jerusalem and al-Aqsa Mosque," the group said on Twitter.

Israeli security forces take security measures as Palestinians gather for Friday prayers outside Herod's Gate in Jerusalem.​

The Waqf, the Jordanian religious authority that administers the Temple Mount, has condemned the use of metal detectors to scan worshipers. Waqf religious leaders have refused to enter through the detectors which have been set up as part of the security clampdown.

Israeli police said they were working to ensure that Friday prayers were able to continue while the heightened security measures are in place.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said the metal detectors do not signal changes in the way the Temple Mount/Noble Sanctuary is run. "There is absolutely no change to the status quo," he told reporters earlier in the week.

The Temple Mount/Noble Sanctuary was closed after last Friday's attack, and reopened Sunday for worshipers, visitors and tourists, with added security measures.

It is home to the Western Wall -- which was part of the walls around the Second Jewish Temple and is one of the holiest places for Jews to pray -- and the Dome of the Rock, where Muslims believe the Prophet Mohammed ascended to heaven.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/21/middleeast/old-city-prayer-restrictions-imposed/index.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+rss/cnn_latest+(RSS:+CNN+-+Most+Recent)

 

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Arab MK says third Intifada has already begun

"The government's brutal actions at the Al-aksa Mosque, changing the status quo by placing metal detectors, will necessarily lead to a third Intifada, that already began today," Joint List Member of Parliament Taleb Abu Arar, said Friday afternoon.

“Netanyahu said that in Mecca there are metal detectors. But Mecca is not under occupation, al-Quds [Jerusalem] is,” he said.

“Our Jerusalem is Arabic, Islamic, Palestinian,” he added.

Muslim leaders and Palestinian political factions had urged the faithful to gather for a "day of rage" on Friday against the new security policies, which they see as changing delicate agreements that have governed the holy site for decades.

"Today we are acting to bring the Al-Aqsa Mosque and Jerusalem back into the embrace of the the Arab World," Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said during his weekly sermon in Gaza. "We shall not enter the Temple Mount through metal detectors."

http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-C...-500337?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

 

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Israel adds troops in West Bank after attack
July 22, 2017

Israel's military says it has sent more troops to the West Bank after a Palestinian infiltrated a settlement and stabbed three Israelis to death in their home.

The decision came Saturday after military officials met overnight following the attack.

It did not elaborate but said it was in addition to hundreds of soldiers in place Friday over tensions at a major Jerusalem shrine.

Israel's Chief of Staff and Defense Minister are expected later in Halamish, the West Bank settlement where Friday night's attack took place.

The Palestinian killed three members of the same Israeli family as they ate the traditional Sabbath meal.

The attack came after three Palestinians were killed and hundreds injured in protests over metal detectors Israel set at the entrance to the shrine following a deadly Palestinian attack there.

A relative says Israeli troops have arrested the brother of a 20-year-old Palestinian who stabbed to death three members of an Israeli family.

The assailant, identified as Omar al-Abed had sneaked over the fence of the Israeli settlement of Halamish in the West Bank late Friday and infiltrated the family's home, surprising them during a Sabbath dinner.

The army says the attacker killed a man and two of his children, while a woman was wounded. Al-Abed is hospitalized in Israel after being shot.

Ibrahim al-Abed, an uncle, says troops searched the family home in the village of Kobar on Saturday and arrested al-Abed's brother Monir, 21.

In a Facebook post Friday, Omar al-Abed said he was avenging what he called Israel's "desecration" of a Jerusalem shrine.

http://www.sfchronicle.com/news/wor...oops-raid-home-of-11307001.php#photo-13276470

 

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UN chief condemns West Bank terror attack
Secretary General Antonio Guterres condemned the attack and urged all parties to prevent further escalations.
By Danielle Ziri | July 22, 2017

Secretary-General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres released a statement on Friday condemning Friday’s stabbing attack in the town of Halamish.

A Palestinian assailant entered a home in Halamish, also known as Neve Tsuf, and stabbed four Israelis, killing three and severely wounding the fourth. The wounded is being treated at Sha'are Tzedek Medical Center.

Palestinian media have identified the attacker as Omar al Abed, age 20, from the West Bank village of Khobar, near Ramallah. He was shot by a neighbor.

The Secretary-General reiterated his call “to refrain from any actions or words that could further escalate an already volatile situation.”

Earlier on Friday, Guterres had expressed concern over violence in the Old City of Jerusalem. Palestinians have rioted every day since Israeli security installed metal detectors at the entrance to the Temple Mount compound earlier this week in response to last week's terror attack.

“The Secretary-General reiterates that the sanctity of religious sites should be respected as places for reflection, not violence,” his spokesman said in a statement.

Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, also reacted to Friday’s attack.

"The hateful incitement and glorification of violence by the Palestinian Authority has led to the murder of innocent Israelis, stabbed to death in their home,” he said.

Danon also called on the UN Security Council to “immediately condemn this despicable terror attack”

“The international community must demand that Mahmoud Abbas and the PA put an end to these heinous attacks and stop their ongoing encouragement of violence,” he added.

For several months now Danon has been urging the UN to “take action” against the Palestinian Authority for paying terrorists who kill Israelis.

Back in May, the ambassador sent a letter to the council pointing out that in 2016 alone, the PA had dedicated "almost 130 million dollars of its budget to paying imprisoned terrorists.”

“They spent another 175 million dollars in allowances to the families of so-called martyrs,” he wrote. “Altogether, the PA paid more than 300 million dollars directly in support of terrorist every single year.”

This amount, Danon said, comes up to about seven percent of the Palestinian Authority’s yearly budget, and almost 30 percent of the foreign aid donated by member states of the UN.

“It is absurd to condemn terror, while at the same time paying terrorists,” he said. “It’s time for the UN, the Security Council, and the entire international community, to finally tell Abbas that enough is enough.”

Danon is expected to raise the issue again at a Security Council debate on the Middle East scheduled next week. He will also hold a press briefing on the topic shortly after the meeting, with the participation of Israeli terror victims.

http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/UN-chief-condemns-West-Bank-terror-attack-500406

UN deplores Palestinians deaths in Jerusalem
By Associated Press | July 21, 2017​

The United Nations says Secretary-General Antonio Guterres “deeply deplores” the death of three Palestinians in clashes with Israeli security forces and urges Israeli and Palestinian leaders to refrain from actions that could further escalate the volatile situation in Jerusalem’s Old City.

U.N. deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said Guterres also calls on all political, religious and community leaders “to help reduce tension.”

Escalating Israeli-Palestinian tensions over the Holy Land’s most contested shrine boiled over into violence on Friday that killed three Palestinians in street clashes in Jerusalem. Police say a Palestinian attacker also killed three Israelis at a West Bank settlement.

Haq said “the secretary-general reiterates that the sanctity of religious sites should be respected as places for reflection, not violence.”

He said Guterres calls for the killings of the Palestinians “to be fully investigated.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...2c2a76-6ddc-11e7-abbc-a53480672286_story.html

 

[uptheirons!]

By all means though, continue the illegal occupation and settlements, seems to be working wonders for Israeli peace and security.

 

[Rozko]

UN chief condemns West Bank terror attack
Secretary General Antonio Guterres condemned the attack and urged all parties to prevent further escalations.
By Danielle Ziri | July 22, 2017

Secretary-General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres released a statement on Friday condemning Friday’s stabbing attack in the town of Halamish.

A Palestinian assailant entered a home in Halamish, also known as Neve Tsuf, and stabbed four Israelis, killing three and severely wounding the fourth. The wounded is being treated at Sha'are Tzedek Medical Center.

Palestinian media have identified the attacker as Omar al Abed, age 20, from the West Bank village of Khobar, near Ramallah. He was shot by a neighbor.

The Secretary-General reiterated his call “to refrain from any actions or words that could further escalate an already volatile situation.”

Earlier on Friday, Guterres had expressed concern over violence in the Old City of Jerusalem. Palestinians have rioted every day since Israeli security installed metal detectors at the entrance to the Temple Mount compound earlier this week in response to last week's terror attack.

“The Secretary-General reiterates that the sanctity of religious sites should be respected as places for reflection, not violence,” his spokesman said in a statement.

Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, also reacted to Friday’s attack.

"The hateful incitement and glorification of violence by the Palestinian Authority has led to the murder of innocent Israelis, stabbed to death in their home,” he said.

Danon also called on the UN Security Council to “immediately condemn this despicable terror attack”

“The international community must demand that Mahmoud Abbas and the PA put an end to these heinous attacks and stop their ongoing encouragement of violence,” he added.

For several months now Danon has been urging the UN to “take action” against the Palestinian Authority for paying terrorists who kill Israelis.

Back in May, the ambassador sent a letter to the council pointing out that in 2016 alone, the PA had dedicated "almost 130 million dollars of its budget to paying imprisoned terrorists.”

“They spent another 175 million dollars in allowances to the families of so-called martyrs,” he wrote. “Altogether, the PA paid more than 300 million dollars directly in support of terrorist every single year.”

This amount, Danon said, comes up to about seven percent of the Palestinian Authority’s yearly budget, and almost 30 percent of the foreign aid donated by member states of the UN.

“It is absurd to condemn terror, while at the same time paying terrorists,” he said. “It’s time for the UN, the Security Council, and the entire international community, to finally tell Abbas that enough is enough.”

Danon is expected to raise the issue again at a Security Council debate on the Middle East scheduled next week. He will also hold a press briefing on the topic shortly after the meeting, with the participation of Israeli terror victims.

http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/UN-chief-condemns-West-Bank-terror-attack-500406

That was a surprising read

 

[Arkain2K]

That was a surprising read

Lips service by UN. I'm guessing at the Security Council next week they will condemns the settlements as well as the senseless killings of civilians by terrorists, but still wouldn't take any real action to overhaul the status quo.

Things are going full circle, all this is happening today because the UN, with all their might, didn't lift a finger to enforce THEIR original partition plan that the Arabs roundly rejected half a century ago.

I'm of the opinion that since the UN already washed their hands off the whole situation and watch the Arabs and Israelis settle their disagreement through multiple wars, any empty speeches on the sidelines from them now are utterly useless.

 

[Rod1]

Hope that shit doesnt escalates, but as predicted by a lot of people, the illegal occupation is untenable.

 

[uptheirons!]

Lips service by UN. I'm guessing at the Security Council next week they will condemns the settlements as well as the senseless killings of civilians by terrorists, but still wouldn't take any real action to overhaul the status quo.

Things are going full circle, all this is happening today because the UN didn't lift a finger to enforce THEIR original partition plan that the Arabs roundly rejected half a century ago.

I'm of the opinion that since the UN already washed their hands off the situation and watch the Arabs and Israelis settle their disagreement through multiple wars, any empty speeches on the sidelines from them now are utterly useless.

The UN should be enforcing Resolution 242 which the US supported.

In '48 there was no reason for Palestinians to accept less than 40% of the land when they were more than 60% of the population. They shouldn't have been punished for a crime that occurred in Europe. Jews and Arabs were living there peacefully before the European secular zionists who had no ties to the land came and turned things upside down.

 

[uptheirons!]

Hope that shit doesnt escalates, but as predicted by a lot of people, the illegal occupation is untenable.

As are the illegal settlements.

 

[Rod1]

As are the illegal settlements.

Pretty sure the settlements is what makes it illegal.

 

[uptheirons!]

Pretty sure the settlements is what makes it illegal.

The occupation itself is illegal even without the settlements. Israel controls their movement, money and pretty much every other aspect of their life.

 

[Arkain2K]

In '48 there was no reason for Palestinians to accept less than 40% of the land when they were more than 60% of the population.

Land mass and composition have already been thoroughly covered in this discussion, and the reasons for the Arabs to accept the original partition plan were plentiful, something they just recently realized and pushing for it now.

Our second and worst mistake was in not accepting the United Nations partition plan of 1947. UN resolution 181 provided the legal basis for a Jewish state and an Arab state sharing what used to be British-controlled Mandatory Palestine.

As reported by the BBC, that resolution provided for:

"A Jewish State covering 56.47% of Mandatory Palestine (excluding Jerusalem) with a population of 498,000 Jews and 325,000 Arabs; An Arab State covering 43.53% of Mandatory Palestine (excluding Jerusalem), with 807,000 Arab inhabitants and 10,000 Jewish inhabitants; An international trusteeship regime in Jerusalem, where the population was 100,000 Jews and 105,000 Arabs."

Although the land allocated to the Jewish state was slightly larger than the land allocated to the Arab state, much of the Jewish part was total desert, the Negev and Arava, with the fertile land allocated to the Arabs. The plan was also to the Arabs' advantage for two other reasons:

• The Jewish state had only a bare majority of Jews, which would have given the Arabs almost as much influence as the Jews in running the Jewish state, but the Arab state was almost purely Arab, providing no political advantage to Jews within it.
• Each proposed state consisted of three more-or-less disconnectedpieces, resulting in stronggeographic interdependence between the two states. If the two states were on friendly terms, they would likely have worked in many ways as a single federation. In that federation, Arabs would have had a strong majority.

Instead of accepting that gift of a plan when we still could, we Arabs decided that we could not accept a Jewish state, period. In May 1948, Azzam Pasha, the General Secretary of the Arab League, announced, regarding the proposed new Jewish part of the partition: that, "This will be a war of extermination, a momentous massacre, which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and the Crusades.". We initiated a war intended to eradicate the new state in its infancy, but we lost, and the result of our mistake was a much stronger Jewish state:

• The Jewish majority of the Jewish state grew dramatically due to the exchange of populations that occurred, with many Arabs fleeing the war in Israel and many Jews fleeing a hostile Arab world to join the new state.
• The Jews acquired additional land during the war we launched, resulting in armistice lines (today called the green lines or pre-1967 lines), which gave Israel a portion of the land previously allocated to the Arab state. The Jewish state also acquired much better contiguity, while the Arab portions became divided into two parts (Gaza and the West Bank) separated by almost 50 kilometers.

Perhaps one should not launch wars if one is not prepared for the results of possibly losing them.

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