Arab Terrorists Shoot and Wound Three Jews in Samaria

[notfullofit]

IsraelNN.com)

Arab terrorists shot and wounded three people who were hiking between the Jewish communities of Nevei Tzuf and Nachliel in Samaria, northwest of Ramallah, Friday afternoon.

Two of the victims are in moderate and very serious condition from bullet wounds in the back and stomach, and a third person suffered lighter wounds. Two other hikers hid from the attackers for several minutes, escaped injury and notified authorities.

Rescue teams administered first aid at the scene and an army helicopter flew the victims to Sheba Hospital at Tel HaShomer Medical Center in Tel Aviv. Medics encountered delays because the wounded were in a hard to access location. IDF soldiers are searching for the terrorists.

Area residents and leaders have warned that that the recent "good will measures" implemented by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defense Minister Ehud Barak to ease travel restrictions and remove roadblocks in Judea and Samaria would lead to an increase in terrorist attacks on Israeli civilians.

more...
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/126578

[Trajan]

1. Pardon my ignorance ....

But is Israel National News an organ of some nationalist sect or faction ?

Is it commonly read by a majority of everyday Israelis ? Or is it's circulation limited to those who possess a more extreme nationalistic viewpoint ?

Would we consider it to possess a liberal editorial bias ?

Please inform me ....

[subsuelo]

2. the ad that says "Jews offering new alternatives to Homosexuality" may be a clue

[azurnoir]

3. I would say the blinking ad

"OUR land is not Arab land" speaks even louder.

I clicked the link 3 more times that ad changes every time it has been also Jews vs emigrants, Israel and America, and Eddies? cruises.

[notfullofit]

6. I also see

an ad from AT&T and another from the University of Phoenix if that helps.

[azurnoir]

8. And one froma Yeshiva high school too Bneiash? n/t

Bneiash?

[Violet_Crumble]

25. So you have no problems with bigoted anti-Arab ads?

Because the point isn't what other ads might be there - it's that there's a very bigoted ad on what you already know is a very bigoted site.

[notfullofit]

5. Sorry I have no idea..

I just check 'Israel News' or 'News From Israel' to see what's going on in that part of the world.

Israel News | Israel's #1 News Site
Offers Israeli news in several formats.
www.israelnationalnews.com

[notfullofit]

10. It is also in the news at

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3558167,00.html if you prefer.

[LeftishBrit]

17. It's an unreliable religious-right rag; but this attack is also reported elsewhere

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/994782.html

[notfullofit]

18. Thanks for the info, however,

it is not an op ed. News is news.

[azurnoir]

4. So who will be held responsible? n/t

[notfullofit]

9. al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade claims responsibility.

The incident took place as five people toured the area and encountered two terrorists who they said opened fire at them. Later Friday, the Battalions of Struggle and Return, affiliated with the Fatah's al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, claimed responsibility for the attack.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3558167,00.html

[Vegasaurus]

11. Shortest truce on record

They couldn't even make it through a day.

Too bad the innocents will suffer.

on edit: oh, I forgot.

This "truce" doesn't apply to the WB.

So, murder and mayhem and terrorism can continue in that "territory".

[LeftishBrit]

21. AFAIK, the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade is mainly linked to an extremist faction within Fatah...

not to Hamas; so not linked to this truce one way or another.

It is horrible in any case that there are so many people prepared to use violence to advance their causes (and mostly it doesn't advance them in the long run).

[azurnoir]

14. Thanks

I hate this but at least it is not a Hamas related group.

[notfullofit]

15. Me too, I had my fingers crossed. nt

[ProgressiveMuslim]

7. "Jewish communities in Samaria"? That wins the award for best euphemism of the week. nt

[Boojatta]

12. If Jews are living in any part of the Middle East other than Iran...

then are they not living in a "community"?

[Vegasaurus]

13. There are very few Jews left in Iran

and none to speak of in the rest of the middle east, although there were hundreds and hundreds of thousands prior to 1948, when they were all expelled by Arab leaders.

Thank G-d for Israel. A safe place for Jews.

[notfullofit]

16. Relatively safe. nt

[Shaktimaan]

19. I thought it was the Samaria part that she found offensive. np

[ProgressiveMuslim]

20. It's the ridiculous characterization of illegal settlements on stolen land that I find shameful.

[notfullofit]

22. Talk about a conflict of interests

snip...
So, what did UN Secretary-General Kofi Anan mean in his 2001 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech when he said, “A genocide begins with the killing of one man — not for what he has done, but because of who he is. A campaign of 'ethnic cleansing' begins with one neighbor turning on another.”

Does this not also apply to the Israeli Jews who have re-established homes in Judea and Samaria? Should they be ethnically cleansed from the heart of their historical homeland? Does the Nobel recipient not know a real victim of ethnic cleansing when he sees one?
snip...

The war for Israel's independence ended in 1949 with the Jordanians in full control of Judea and Samaria and the Old City of Jerusalem (the "West Bank"), cutting the Jewish people off from their most holy religious sites. The official status of these areas, then, was disputed territories, as no one had held sovereignty there since the defeat of the Ottoman Empire. Only two countries, Pakistan and Britain, recognized the 19-year Jordanian "illegal occupation". Even the entire Arab world refused to recognize it and, consequently, it was illegal and illegitimate ab initio .

After the 1967 war, the Jewish people have simply been returning to the land from which they were forcibly expelled during the first Arab-Israeli war of 1948-49.

This territory has always been known as Judea and Samaria. Do the names "Jew" (for Judea) and "Samaritan" (as in "good Samaritan") sound familiar? In fact, Shemer, founder of Asher, a clan of one of the twelve tribes of Israel, was the owner and eponym of the hills of Samaria. Is there anything Arab or "Palestinian" about either? Even UN Resolution 181, the Partition Plan of 1947, refers to these territories as Judea and Samaria.

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/mideast/mideast.htm

[ProgressiveMuslim]

23. Wow. Language can certainly be manipulated to perpetrate evil, can't it?

Indescribably chilling.

I've always wondered how people could allow evil to take root in their midst. I think it starts with manipulations such as the sentiments posted. Thanks for the insight.

[azurnoir]

24. But then don't the same

principles apply to the Palestinians who were expelled in 1947? Are the Jews who are "returning" to area only the ones that were expelled in 1947 or is it any Jew who wants to live there? If this is the case shouldn't the same apply to Palestinians?