Naqba Day Violence: What We Know
May 15, 2011 14:56 by Pesach Benson6:18 pm Here’s the video of the tweet I just posted. Throwing rocks from behind an ambulance is so macho.
6:08 pm: Credit Peter Lerner with the tweet of the day.
6:01 pm: The Druze residents of Majdal Shams have convinced the last Syrians to return home. According to the Jerusalem Post, the Golan village is now returning to normal.
5:55 pm: Now that Abbas is in bed with Hamas, I wonder how he explains to skeptical Israelis Ismail Haniyeh’s latest comments:
“Palestinians mark the occasion this year with great hope of bringing to an end the Zionist project in Palestine,” Ismail Haniyeh, the prime minister of the Hamas government in Gaza, told about 10,000 people at a Gaza City mosque.
5:39 pm: Here’s a video of a Palestinian firing flares at Israeli soldiers at the Qalandiya checkpoint.
5:23 pm: This is just rich. Syria calls the IDF’s handling of the border breach “criminal.” Here’s what comes to mind when I think of the words “Syria” and “criminal.”
4:52 pm: Two terror experts believe Assad’s behind the border breach.
What could be better for Assad than diverting the people’s anger from himself towards Israel. I wouldn’t put it beyond the range of the possible that he recruited people to cross the border in order to shift the pressure to Israel,” said Moghadem.
• Just got word from the IDF that thousands of Syrians have breached the border. Dozens of people injured are being cared for in area hospitals. Media reports say four dead in the chaos on the Israeli side. Not clear what the casualty figures are on the Syrian side of the border.
Some Israeli officials blame Iranian meddling. I wouldn’t put it past the Syrian government to allow something like this. Assad’s killed 801 people to crush the uprising against his rule, so what’s four more if it’ll take pressure off him?
• AP is already declaring this morning’s Tel Aviv rampage an accident, though the second half of the snippet is a helluva qualifier.
In a reflection of the jitters, a deadly traffic accident involving an Arab truck driver in Tel Aviv set off fears that an attack had been carried out.
The truck plowed through a crowded street, crashing into a bus, several cars and pedestrians, killing one and injuring 16 others. Police said the 22-year-old driver claimed it was an accident, but said they were still investigating.
Memo to Ibrahim Barzak: Only write what you know.
• The family of Milad Ayyash refused to allow an autopsy on their teenage son. Ayyash was shot during a street clash in Silwan.
• Meanwhile, tens of thousands of SMS messages were sent out to Palestinians around the West Bank telling everyone to get ready for a new intifada.
Henry Federman
5:56 pm
May 15, 2011
How to convince that Israel is right? 6 millions died and yet it is still questioned,after pictures,documentaries,movies,books,survivors telling their stories over and over again,there are still some deniers. I think that it is an impossible task to convince that Israel is a democracy and lives by the same standards as the rest of the western world.The Arabs will never give in,they’ll take any incidents,turn it around and blame Israel,and the world will believe it.60 years later and we are still fighting it.
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Dean Kathron
6:04 pm
May 15, 2011
Now that all the family is reunited, Hamas with Abbas and their backers Syria and Iran…they need a diversion from their domestic problems. If they cause problems with the Israelis, then they can redirect the masses to a convenient scapegoat in an attempt to reunite disgruntled Arabs.
It’s an age old tactic, but it works against the uninformed. Why are the Arabs uninformed? The next age old tactic, keep them immersed in and controlled by religion and the glory of the after life. If that does’nt work, you just murder them. If your Bin Laden you use cash and porno.
The younger Arabs are finally seeing the light, and it may be just in time, because when the fossil fuels and $$$ are gone, there will be nothing for the youth of the Arab countries.
Its time to get rid of the autocratic leaders and the fanatical religious zealots.
If only there were a man of courage and conscience like Anwar Sadat around today. Someone who recognized the importance of peace with his neighbors. Unfortunately, due to perpetual hate, such leaders never live long.
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Tony
6:59 pm
May 15, 2011
One has to be completely Blind , Ignorant or just plainly Anti-Semitic Not to see What and who is behind these Border Invasions. As Usual, Iran is Nudging Hizbollah in Syria and Lebanon to distract the International Community from What ASSAD and Ahmedinejad are doing to their People. Assad has todate Killed over 8OO civiliens.Iran has done about the same,, So what better way than to Let Loose the Palestinians living in Syria and Lebanon On Israel,,
The Hamas thru Hizbollah are doing the same Actions in Gaza and the West Bank, What ever Deaths and injuries they are enduring,, The Palestinians are the only ones to Blame,,, And Whether or not the International community thinks that Israel is once again the cause,,, Israel Must Ignore this and do what ever it can to Protect its SOVEREIGNTY,,,, Would’nt any other country do the same??
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Thomas
10:48 pm
May 15, 2011
God bless Israel
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Jocelyn
3:48 am
May 16, 2011
You are all right. What better way for the murderers Assad, Hezbollah and Amadinejadh to try to get the sting out of the protests than by by staging attacks on Israel. They must have noticed that during the protests all over the Arab World, Israel is never the scapegoat, but the murderous autocratic regimes themselves.
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Rafi
6:17 am
May 16, 2011
They fled a malaria swamp.
The Arabs who did not run are today’s Israeli Arab citizens. One million of them. The Arabs who fled at Israel’s creation did so on the instructions of the surrounding Arab armies and leaders who pledged to destroy new-born Israel. They lost. Israel survived and built. And built. Now the malaria swamps the Arabs fled are all gone. There are towns, gardens, school’s universities, hospitals, cinemas, hotels, marinas, shopping centers, resorts, productive farms, hi-tech industries, and more. Of course they want to come back, these great-grandchildren of the would-be killers of the infant Israel.
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MELANIE PHILLIPS: APPROPRIATE ACTIVITY FOR GENOCIDE DAY | RUTHFULLY YOURS
12:56 pm
May 16, 2011
[...] steam as it travels round the world, here’s a useful round-up with some telling video coverage by Honest Reporting. But there is also this sombre warning from Daniel Pipes: I predicted a few weeks ago that Arab [...]
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Herman
7:28 pm
May 16, 2011
Shame on Syria for violating Israel’s borders! Syria, you as a nation has contributed nothing positive to humanity!!! If you have, please let me know! What you have contributed is death and destruction. This you can keep for yourself! Don’t export your filth to other nations! The cancer in your hearts are hatred and jealousy, in particular jealousy towards Israel. Your whole being is invested with this cancer. This also applies to your friends, the Palestinians (Fatah, Hamas, Hezbollah, etc. …). I say it to as a non-Jew! The Jews, when they walk honorably with their G_d, are an example of life! It is time for you (Syria and your friends, the Palestinians (Fatah, Hamas, Hezbollah, etc. …)) to be amend your ways and for a change start blessing humanity with positive contributions and in the process apologize Israel for your foul deeds.
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