Palestinian stabs, kills Israeli soldier, authorities say

[oberliner]

Source: CNN

Jerusalem (CNN) -- A Palestinian man stabbed an Israeli soldier Wednesday, killing him, the Israeli military said.

The attack occurred at the central bus station in Afula.

The soldier was wearing his uniform and was headed to an army base when he was stabbed with a knife, the military said.

He was taken to a hospital where he later died.

Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2013/11/13/world/meast/israel-soldier-stabbing/

[Keefer]

1. It's gotta be

Israel's fault.

[oberliner]

2. Hamas: "Congratulations to the Palestinian West Bank hero..."

Hamas, the rulers of the Gaza Strip, congratulated the suspected attacker.

"Congratulations to the Palestinian West Bank hero who killed an Israeli soldier in Afula this morning," Hamas spokesman, Fawzi Barhoum, wrote on his Facebook page.

"This is a heroic act of resistance showing that all methods of oppression and terror have not and will not succeed in stopping our people from carrying out jihad and resistance."

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/11/israeli-soldier-killed-bus-stabbing-2013111391938335810.html

[PCIntern]

4. My goodness...

look at all the hundreds of sympathetic posts here and all those recs! Wow...the outpouring of outrage at this murder is overwhelming. I think I gotta sit down.

for those who don't freaking "get it"

[freshwest]

10. I don't Rec posts when someone is killed. Unless the OP is an homage.

This is a horrific act of stochastic terrorism.

You didn't Rec it either, most likely for the same reason I didn't.

Maybe I'm not answering your comment correctly.

[1000words]

16. What are you going on about?

You are put off that not enough folks are wringing their hands and expressing dismay/sympathy? And what do the amount of recs have to do with anything? Sorry I don't "get it," but your post is obviously trying to insinuate something that only you see.

[freshwest]

9. A lot of cognitive dissonance in that statement. It celebrates what it says it hates. Sad.

[oberliner]

13. Indeed

Very sad.

[RedstDem]

3. tradegy on many levels

being killed for the clothes your wearing.
having seen your best days, while still a teenager...

[Half-Century Man]

5. A tragedy on many levels.

[meti57b]

6. Hopefully, they lock him up for life, so he doesn't do it again.

[seveneyes]

7. The result of teaching hate

There will be no peace while all the children are taught and raised on hate for those different from them.

[William769]

8. Kicking since it's been unlocked.

[yurbud]

11. How many Palestinians will be killed in retaliation?

[oberliner]

12. Zero

Arrests for sure though.

[Comrade Grumpy]

14. Why would anybody else be arrested?

Is this a terrorist plot or just an angry guy with a knife?

[oberliner]

15. Israeli forces arrest relatives of soldier stab suspect

JENIN (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces on Wednesday raided the Jenin village of a teenager suspected of stabbing an Israeli soldier to death earlier in the day.

Hussein Sharif Ghawadra, 16, stabbed an Israeli soldier to death while traveling on a bus in Afula, northern Israel.

Witnesses told Ma'an that Israeli forces raided the village of Bir al-Basha and arrested Ghawadra's older brother, Tawfik. His father was also detained at his workplace in Israel. The village was declared a closed military zone by Israeli forces.

http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=647084

[yurbud]

18. collective punishment. What would have happened if we did that to conservative rednecks after OKC?

[Ash_F]

19. Or that TSA airport shooter's family. /nt

[yurbud]

20. good one. I didn't even notice that guy's ethnicity. the only photo I saw of him, his face was too

bloody.

[oberliner]

21. America would probably be a much safer place

Conservative rednecks ought to be questioned. Especially if they are related to McVeigh in some way.

[Big Storm]

17. Heinous act

Justice must be served.

[gopiscrap]

22. what?