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Related: About this forumBiden criticizes Palestinians for not condemning attack
JERUSALEM (AP) Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday criticized Palestinians for a "failure to condemn" a stabbing spree that killed an American student and war veteran the day before, after Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' political party posted a statement online praising the stabber.
The stabbing spree took place Tuesday near the seaside city of Jaffa, where Biden was meeting nearby with Israel's former president. Biden said his wife and grandchildren were having dinner on the beach not far from the scene of the attack, which wounded a dozen Israelis, civilians and police officers.
Abbas' Fatah party posted a cartoon on its Twitter account of a hand holding a knife over a map of Israel and the Palestinian territories, and calling the Palestinian stabber from Tuesday's attack a "hero" and "martyr."
"This is the result so long as Israel does not believe in the two-state solution and ending its occupation," the Fatah statement on Twitter read, referring to a future Palestinian state alongside Israel.
http://newsok.com/biden-criticizes-palestinians-for-not-condemning-attack/article/feed/979477
nichomachus
(12,754 posts)for our bombing women and children in Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, or Syria? Just wondering.
NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)Just not the women and children?
King_David
(14,851 posts)Seriously?
This is the reason Israel has a protective wall and the way it's going it may have to be rerouted and reinforced
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nice thread hijack though.
grossproffit
(5,591 posts)This is a group, not a forum. Groups often serve as safe havens for members who share similar interests and viewpoints.
ericson00
(2,707 posts)the Palestinians need to stop glorifying evil terror jihad if they think they deserve a state.
Little Tich
(6,171 posts)it would probably be easier for Abbas to condemn the terror attack. It doesn't help that the Jaffa terrorist was executed after being neutralized either. It seems as if it's getting more and more difficult to squeeze apologies out Abbas.
IDF preparing to raze home of Jaffa stabber
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/209193#.VuFUQvmulnI
Justice Ministry may investigate cop who shot neutralized terrorist
http://www.timesofisrael.com/justice-ministry-may-investigate-cop-who-shot-neutralized-terrorist/
I think Biden should put some pressure on Netanyahu and try to make him listen to sane people like Eisenkot and Halevi in the security establishment, who have proposed that improving conditions for Palestinians will help to curb the current violence. What Netanyahu is currently doing, is only making things worse.
shira
(30,109 posts)He's a warmongering Jew hater.
No surprise there, as he doesn't support ANY progressive values. He's equally hateful towards women & gays too, and just as unapologetic about that.
Little Tich
(6,171 posts)Source: Haaretz
The diplomatic failure of the prime minister and his ministers is especially outrageous when compared to the sobriety of the security establishment.
The reports of the terror attacks came one after the other Jerusalem, Petah Tikva, Jaffa, again Jerusalem, a roadblock in the territories, more than a dozen wounded, some of them serious. And that was just on Tuesday.
These attacks do not pose an existential threat to the state. People die in them, but we can live with them without the State of Israel being destroyed. Still, these attacks are intolerable. We cannot reconcile ourselves to this deadly phenomenon. They are the work of human beings, and they can be ended or at least reduced by human beings, particularly those currently in government.
Benjamin Netanyahu was elected prime minister for the first time 20 years ago, when buses were being blown up in Israels cities. The Hamas attacks and the passivity shown by the Palestinian leadership headed by Yasser Arafat spurred the Israeli public to try a tougher albeit not revolutionary alternative to the Oslo process. Netanyahu tried and failed. His verbal bravado did not stand the test of reality. Netanyahu lost the leadership to Ehud Barak. He returned to government a decade later, but lacked a more effective formula for achieving peace and security for Israelis.
Since 2009, talks with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas have stalled, while there have been several rounds of violence in Gaza. The only things that have progressed since Netanyahu returned to the premiership in 2009 are the number of settlers, Palestinian hopelessness, and international alienation from Israel and its policies.
Read more: http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/1.707979
shira
(30,109 posts)But rather than discuss that, you deflect to Netanyahu.
You're excusing Abbas for being a Jew hating terrorist because Bibi...
Little Tich
(6,171 posts)Why do you think the Shin Bet and the IDF are constantly criticizing Netanyahu? It's simply because Netanyahu refuses to do what's necessary to stop the violence. It's not incitement that is the cause of the current violence, it's the political situation. If you want to stand firm with Netanyahu's calls for ever harder measures against the Palestinians, that's up to you, but it won't work.
shira
(30,109 posts)....against random innocents due to his disgusting Jew hatred.
That incitement, rewarding and praising terror attacks (honoring Hamas martyrs) go back to Arafat's day with Abbas as his #2 man during the Yitzak Rabin days.
Has nothing to do with Bibi.
Why are you defending a warmongering Jew hating racist like Abbas?