The “military wing” of Fatah—which is the same as saying that the U.S. Army is the “military wing” of the government—is claiming the latest rocket attack on Sderot, which injured an Israeli civilian and would have killed had the rocket been launched a little earlier.
A Sderot resident was lightly-to-moderately wounded Tuesday by shrapnel and several other people suffered shock after a Qassam rocket hit a house in town.
The rocket landed directly in a bedroom, when all the residents of the home were hiding the bomb shelter. A man standing near the house was injured from shrapnel in his eye and was treated by emergency services.
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, Fatah’s military wing claimed responsibility for the attack.
Meantime, Mahmoud Abbas is demanding final-status negotiations, while not saying a word about the daily terror attacks against Israelis. And I’m not just talking about the rockets from Sderot. Every day, soldiers and citizens are attacked throughout the West Bank. Every. Single. Day.
Which is why I cast a skeptical eye on the sudden support of Palestinian policemen of Israelis who stray into Palestinian territories.
The near-lynching of an IDF officer in Jenin that made headlines Monday night is the latest of a string of similar, but unreported, occurrences, according to the defense establishment and Palestinian officials.
In recent weeks, there were four incidents in which Israelis accidentally drove into Palestinian towns, encountered mobs of civilians and were evacuated by Palestinian police. The Monday night beating and the recent incident of a family who ended up in Jericho on their way to Tiberias received widespread media coverage.
But there were many other instances of Israelis who lost their way and ended up in hostile Palestinian territory, including a number in the past two weeks, Palestinian sources said. Most Israelis were evacuated before the local population was aware of their presence and in many cases, the incidents were barely reported.
In an incident last Tuesday, security guards of construction works in the Seam Zone south of Jerusalem ended up in Bethlehem. They were surrounded by a mob, but Palestinian police once again arrived at the scene in time. Palestinian security officials were able to calm the mob and rescue the security guards.
[…] The day before that, two Israeli buses accidentally entered the Palestinian village of Halhul, next to Hebron. Although the incident itself was mentioned briefly by Israeli media, it was not reported at the time that Palestinian police forces arrested a youth who was planning to set the buses on fire.
According to a senior official present at the incident in Halhul, a mob of Palestinian civilians surrounded the bus and was trying to hurt the passengers, although fortunately a Palestinian police officer happened upon the area and noticed dozens of area residents moving towards the Israeli buses.
Because when I read this story, and this one—I have a different thought in mind than, “Gee, the Palestinians really want peace with Israel, and this proves it because they saved the soldiers/citizens who took a wrong turn into a Palestinian town.”
An IDF officer was rescued Monday afternoon by Palestinian Authority police officers after he mistakenly entered Jenin.
The officer, a major serving in the army’s Central Command, was on his way to the Mevo Dotan settlement in the northern West Bank but accidentally drove into Jenin, located seven miles northeast of the settlement.
Local Palestinian residents who noticed the officer driving into the city hurled rocks at his car, forced him out and began beating him.
A Palestinian policeman spotted the angry mob and called for backup. The security officers struggled to reach the battered officer and several shots were apparently fired before they managed to extract him from the crowd moments before his vehicle was set aflame.
You see, my thought is more along the lines of: If the Palestinians truly want peace, Israelis would not need to be saved from them by the PA police. Those are not the actions of a people who want to live in peace, side-by-side with Israel.
Abbas insists he isn’t interested in the US conference if Israel hasn’t laid out a final status procedure for a Palestinian state, he wants roadblocks removed and tax revenues transferred, and now Olmert is begging him to accept security control of Ramallah, Nablus, and Jenin.
When does Abbas get around to doing anything about the one issue Israel needs: security? Never.
Beggars always take, they never give.
Murderers always kill, they never cure.
Gosh, I thought Hamas had cleared all the Fatah scum out of Gaza, yet here they are, still able to fire rockets at Israel. These are acts of war. Either the PA stops the acts of war or Israel should give them war enough to choke them. Ditto with Hamas, which also has rocket shooters in Gaza as we know.
Arabs, Persians, and Muslims in general seem to have the notion that they can make war on the rest of the world and pay no price for it. It’s past time they paid the price for their viciousness. Only when they have been beaten to a pulp will Arabs be willing to live in peace beside the victors.