THE JEWISH VOICE AND OPINION Promoting Classical Judaism
April 2011
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March Terror Attacks: the Specter of Amalek Was Not in Itamar or the Jerusalem Bus Bombing Alone
he overwhelmingly brutality of the terrorist outrage in Itamar and the shocking bus bombing in Jerusalem last month overshadowed the evidence that throughout March, Arab terrorism against Jewish civilians is increasing. While many of the attacks were thwarted by Israeli security forces, the Palestinians who perpetrated them made their intentions clear. “If the terrorists who murdered the Fogel family had been stopped at the community’s fence, there are those who would have
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complained that Israel was interfering with their human rights,” said one observer. Some observers say the increase in terror attacks may mean the Palestinians are getting ready to declare a new intifada uprising, similar to the ones they conducted in 1987 and 2000. Injuring Their Own Because Jews and Arabs live so closely together, unless the terrorists directly target the communities of Judea and Samaria, they are just as likely to murder one of their own.
In Jerusalem, on Sunday, March 6, for example, a small pipe bomb hidden in a garbage bag exploded, blowing off the arm of a 21-year-old Arab sanitation worker. A second worker was treated for shock. The following day, dozens of rock-throwing Arabs stormed Jewish neighborhoods, Alei Ayin and Esh Kodesh, near the Samarian city of Shiloh. One Jewish victim was treated for head wounds after being hit by a rock. On Tuesday, March 8, Arabs stoned two buses along the road leading from the French
Hill neighborhood in Jerusalem to the nearby community of Maaleh Adumim. One woman was lightly injured and taken for medical treatment at Hadassah Hospital on Mount Scopus. That same evening, another group of Palestinians attacked Israeli drivers on the road between Gush Etzion and Hebron. They blocked the road with burning tires and then threw stones and firebombs at drivers who were stopped. No injuries were reported, but the rock-throwing continued
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With No New Peace Talks on the Horizon, Israel Offers the PA a Man-Made Island, and Its Own Citizens an Iron Dome
The discussions, which have excluded Hamas, have reportedly gone on for the past two months. The proposed two-acre artificial island would provide Palestinians with an airport, seaport, new jobs, and an internationally supervised export-import system. Israel, which presumably would benefit from greater security, would realize its goal of allowing Palestinians to run their own affairs in Gaza, from
espite fears that, on his visit to Washington next month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu might cave to demands from the Obama administration or the international community for existentially risky concessions, there are suggestions that, behind the scenes, Jerusalem and the Palestinian Authority may have a new plan: building air and seaports on a man-made island off Gaza.
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