Another Palestinian murdered another Jew in the City of David.
A young Arab man murdered a civilian and injured a police officer in Jerusalem’s Gilo neighborhood on Thursday morning.
The 60-year-old citizen was critically injured and evacuated to the Shaare Zedek Medical Center in the capital, where he died of his wounds. The police officer, 32, sustained light to moderate wounds and was evacuated to the Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital.
The terrorist sustained moderate to serious wounds in his stomach after being shot by the injured policeman. He was also taken to the Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital.
Should have killed him. He’ll be released in an upcoming prisoner exchange some day. Just watch.
The AP spin:
Police: Palestinian man fatally stabs Israeli
A Palestinian assailant fatally stabbed an 86-year-old man and wounded a police officer in an east Jerusalem neighborhood on Thursday, authorities said, in what they called a “terror incident.”
Yes, it’s “what they called” a terror incident. Because it’s not like this is terrorism:
Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said the attack erupted when a pair of police officers on patrol stopped to question the man during a patrol in the Jewish neighborhood of Gilo.
The man pulled out a knife and stabbed one of the officers, who managed to shoot the assailant, Rosenfeld said.
Rosenfeld said the wounded attacker then grabbed a passer-by and stabbed him before being overpowered.
I’m astonished that the AP named the Israeli spokesman. Normally they just use the words “Israel said,” as if the state were some walking, talking creature. But of course, you can’t have an AP article without the standard pro-Palestinian bias:
Gilo is among a group of Jewish neighborhoods established in east Jerusalem after Israel captured the area in the 1967 Middle East War. The Palestinians claim east Jerusalem as the capital of a future independent state.
I repeat: City of David.
He stabbed an 86-year-old man. Gee, what a brave man. What a hero.
What a disgusting creep. I wish they’d killed him, too.
I love the characterization of Gilo as “east Jerusalem.” In what part of Jerusalem is Gilo located?
The south.
You’ll see the same sort of politicized geography regarding Ramot, which is located in the north of Jerusalem.
On the contrary, I think AP is showing some progress. Usually I would have expected something like this:
“Abdul ibn Houri, a sensitive, educated, almost poetical young Arab, driven beyond his wits by the brutal Israeli occupation of Palestinian land, stabbed some Jew.”
And yes, the Israeli spokesman called it a “terror incident.” In the same spirit, I am calling water “wet.”