Palestinian Kills 2 Israelis in Jerusalem

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JERUSALEM — A Palestinian teenager fatally stabbed two Orthodox Jewish men inside Jerusalem’s Old City on Saturday night, the Israeli police said.

It was the second fatal attack on an Israeli family in three days. A woman was also wounded in the stabbing, and the police said that the Palestinian wrested a gun from one of his victims and fired at tourists and security forces, wounding a 2-year-old girl.

The police shot and killed the attacker, a 19-year-old identified as Muhanad Halabi, a law student whose Facebook profile had a post late Friday night saying that “the third intifada has begun.”

“I do not think the people will accept humiliation,” the post said, referring to the escalating clashes between Muslim worshipers and the Israeli authorities and Jewish visitors at a contested holy site in the Old City. “The people will rise up; indeed, we are rising up.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/04/world/middleeast/palestinian-kills-2-israelis-in-jerusalem.html

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1. Grim but inevitable. nt

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3. Some I supose. I think a 3rd intifada right now is a mistake though.

Everybody has atrocity fatigue.

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4. it's a mistake, but then again mistakes are more common than good choices nt

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6. Indeed. nt

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8. A third intifada would be a welcome mistake

by the right wing zionists in Tel Aviv.

It won't help the Palestinians, but it certainly will help Bibi and the hawks.

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9. Well, I don't want to get into that argument, about Bibi's intent, but I

don't expect he would mind being be able to conflate the Palestinians with ISIS, terrists, and all that some more. Especially since Abbas has decided to retire from governing, and Bibi now has the choice of turning the West Bank into another walled in ghetto or else trying to police it.

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2. But that baby!

Just wanted to save a certain poster the time.

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7. this is a pretty good example of the seething racism that motivates

a few supporters of Israel.

Palestinian culture values hate and death above everything else.

And it's why support of Israel is being identified more and more as the province of rightwing racists

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10. A good analysis. There's too much hate,

and blaming the Palestinians for it is no better than bigots blaming Jews.

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11. There's too much racism in this thread.

Only an anti-Semite would blame the Duma firebombing on "Jewish culture", but there are some here who have no problem blaming this horrific act on "Palestinian culture", which is simpy racist.

Those who use this horrific act to demonize Palestinians are no better than those who support it.

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12. Divisive politics is bad Karma, you bet. nt

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13. Palestinians stab Israelis in two attacks; PM calls in security chiefs

A Palestinian man stabbed and wounded an Israeli teenager in Jerusalem on Sunday, just hours after another knife-wielding attacker killed an off-duty Israeli soldier and a rabbi nearby in the walled Old City, police said.

Officers shot dead both attackers, a police spokesman said, and Israel's government announced it was barring Palestinians from entering the ancient district for two days, apart from people who lived there.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said he would meet security chiefs later on Sunday to discuss more action to tackle a rising wave of violence in East Jerusalem, which includes the Old City, and the West Bank, areas that Israel captured in a 1967 war.

The bloodshed - which included a drive-by shooting that killed an Israeli couple in the West Bank on Thursday and an arson attack that killed a Palestinian toddler and his parents in July - has triggered concerns of wider escalation.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/04/us-israel-palestinians-idUSKCN0RX0SO20151004

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14. Israel limits Palestinian access to Jerusalem Old City

Israeli police have closed off access to the Old City of Jerusalem for Palestinian men who are not residents of the area, after two attacks in less than 12 hours that saw the killing of two Israelis.

On Saturday night, a Palestinian killed two Israeli men and wounded a woman and a toddler in a knife and gun attack in the Old City. Police shot dead the attacker.

In a separate incident early on Sunday, a Palestinian stabbed and wounded a passer-by in West Jerusalem before being shot dead by police while fleeing.

The attacks came with Israeli security forces already on alert after recent clashes at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound and the surrounding Old City, as well as the murder in the occupied West Bank of a Jewish settler couple in front of their young children.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/10/israel-limits-palestinian-access-jerusalem-city-151004052101194.html