Today’s Top Stories
1. Terror continues: Today, a 15-year-old Palestinian stabbed a yeshiva student after unsuccessfully trying to steal a security guard’s gun. The attack took place a Jerusalem light rail station across from Israel’s national police headquarters. The student was hospitalized in serious condition. A second Israeli was lightly injured in the attack.
Later in the afternoon in Tel Aviv, a Palestinian stabbed four people, including a soldier whose gun he tried to steal, before being shot and killed by police. All the victims were lightly wounded.
Shortly before this roundup was published, there was yet another stabbing, this one in Kiryat Arba, near Hebron. A 25-year-old Israeli was seriously wounded; security forces are searching for the terrorist.
Also this morning, the IDF thwarted a vehicular terror attack near Ma’ale Adumim.
And last night, a Palestinian stabbed an Israeli near a Petah Tikva mall last night. The terrorist was overpowered by passersby. The victim was hospitalized with superficial wounds.
2. The PLO slammed Howard Stern after the shock jock ripped Roger Waters for denouncing Bon Jovi‘s recent Israeli performance. Commenting on the PLO’s statement, the Washington Free Beacon adds:
The PLO claims that Stern “has a track-record of misusing his national radio platform to espouse vitriolic and genocidal views against Arabs and, in particular, Palestinians.”
The statement does not acknowledge the PLO’s own role in promoting and facilitating deadly terror acts against Israel.
3. Islamic State using mustard gas against Kurdish peshmerga forces in northern Iraq.
4. Reuters Bureau Chief Falsely Claims Israeli Undercover Agents Incite Palestinians to Throw Stones: Sorry Reuters, but the clash was already under way and the Palestinians didn’t need Israel’s help to whip up violence.
5. Watchdog of the Week: Who is Stabbing Israelis? Foreign Policy Doesn’t Say: Is it too much to ask that Palestinians be held responsible for attacking Israelis?
Israel and the Palestinians
• Haaretz: Prime Minister Netanyahu ordered security forces to bar Israeli cabinet ministers and Knesset members from visiting the Temple Mount. Israeli-Arab MK Jamal Zahalka tested Bibi’s ban.
• Fatah leaders, including Mahmoud Abbas, “saluted” Palestinians for “rising to defend their al-Aksa Mosque and confronting terrorist settlers.”
• After Israel complained, YouTube pulled a Palestinian propaganda video glorifying terror and encouraging people to attack Israelis. The Times of Israel reports:
The removed video shows a keffiyeh-clad young Palestinian man looking at footage on his phone of recent clashes between Israeli security forces and Palestinian rioters at the Temple Mount. The setting appears to depict Jerusalem’s Old City. Two “Jewish” characters — wearing stereotypical religious clothing — walk by, harassing and kicking young children playing football, which supposedly enrages the young man, who proceeds to stab one of the “Jewish” men in the heart and then chases the other to slash his throat.
Unfortunately, a second video, which Israeli officials also complained about, remains online, last I saw. I don’t see how YouTube justifies leaving that one up.
• Is it odd that this New York Times report from Gaza treats the strip’s smuggling-tunnel-based economy as normal? Or is it just me?
Mideast Matters
• A former Syrian military photographer who documented the deaths of prisoners described to The Guardian the Assad regime’s atrocities.
I had never seen anything like it. Before the uprising, the regime tortured prisoners to get information; now they were torturing to kill. I saw marks left by burning candles, and once the round mark of a stove – the sort you use to heat tea – that had burned someone’s face and hair. Some people had deep cuts, some had their eyes gouged out, their teeth broken, you could see traces of lashes with those cables you use to start cars. There were wounds full of pus, as if they’d been left untreated for a long time and had got infected. Sometimes the bodies were covered with blood that looked fresh. It was clear they had died very recently.
• Imagine the outrage if Israel did this?
Around the World
• British Prime Minister David Cameron vows to close down Islamic schools teaching anti-Semitism. According to the European Jewish News:
The Prime Minister’s Office said that the new inspection regime would apply to an estimated 5,000 religious institutions offering eight or more hours of study a week to children in England, including Christian Sunday schools and Jewish yeshivas as well as up to 2,000 madrassas.
Commentary/Analysis
• Here’s what else I’m reading today . . .
– David Horovitz: A rising tide of terror
– Khaled Abu Toameh: Abbas calls for murder, Palestinians attack
– Gil Troy: The sounds of silence- Avoiding an Obama intifada
– Ronen Bergman: Putin is part of the problem, not the solution
– Jonathan D. Halevi: Abbas’ UN speech and the unrest in Jerusalem
– Jonathan Tobin: Mistakes don’t invalidate just wars
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