Three died on Friday alone:
- the 8-month-old infant;
- East Jerusalem youth Ahmad Hamada Qneibi, shot multiple times at point blank range, left to bleed to death, medics prevented from aiding him; and
- Qabatia youth Qasse Saba'na, another phony attempted stabbing incident claimed.
Israel never learns from history, Juma explained. "In all the Intifadas...the thing that makes (them) bigger and bigger...is Israeli violence."It changed the whole equation. The whole Israeli calculation toward what is happening in the West Bank (and East Jerusalem) has been hit in the heart.
Senior Hamas official Mahmoud al-Zahhar urged all Palestinians to unite against Israeli state terror. Ongoing resistance restores the stature of the Palestinian cause, he said.This is not going to stop the Palestinians. The more there's crime, the more the Palestinians will go out to the streets and their resistance will be increasing.
"The Al-Quds intifada has ended all the occupation's attempts to divide the Aqsa Mosque temporally and spatially," he added.
Israel's Channel 10 said Israeli Tel Aviv-Ariel line bus drivers prohibit Palestinians from boarding. Passengers without Israeli IDs are diverted elsewhere.
Segregation thrives in Israel. Even in US Jim Crow south, African Americans travelled on the same buses as whites, consigned to back row seats.
One Israeli driver was heard telling a Palestinian: "I'm not negotiating with you. Go down" - later saying "(t)here's no such thing as a good Arab. Even one who looks so nice, so quiet, he isn't. There's no such thing."
Comment: This hysterical racism has become so bad that Israelis are stabbing one another in failed attempts at hate crimes.
Ariel settlement mayor Eliyahu Shaviro agreed with keeping Palestinians off buses with Jews, saying:
Last May, Netanyahu and Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon suspended plans to have Jews and Palestinians travel on different West Bank buses after high-level criticism.Today we're in a reality that anyone can pick up a knife and stab. Would you, or anyone else who watches us, would any father or mother who have a boy or a girl and on a certain bus there are 90 percent Palestinians, would he send his kid on that bus?
President Reuven Rivlin called the proposal "unthinkable." Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein said separation presented legal challenges. Zionist Union head Isaac Herzog called "separating Palestinians and Jews on public buses a warrantless humiliation, (fanning the flames) of hatred toward Israel around the world."
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.
His new book as editor and contributor is titled "Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III."
http://www.claritypress.com/LendmanIII.html
Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com.
One could just as well say, "The false image of Israelis as 'terrorists' who want to 'destroy Palestinians' is promoted by Palestinians as a bulwark against the emergence of a genuine movement for human rights for all that can be accepted internationally.
The sad truth is that there are people on both sides who want peace, but their voices are drowned out. The stabbings of Israelis are followed by gunshots by Israelis soldiers.
The world needs peace, not war. Demonizing Israelis while lambasting Israelis for demonizing Palestinians makes no sense. Israel is one of the few Middle East countries that allows all citizens to vote and participate in society, regardless of religion. The anti-Arab hysteria makes life for Arab Israelis difficult, but the constant threat of violence makes life for all, Palestinian and Israeli, one of constant threat and unrest.
I wonder why this website insists on demonizing Israelis, when SO MANY Israelis have spoken out for peace with the Palestinians, and condemn violence against Palestinians. Sadly, few Palestinians have spoken out against violent attacks against Jews.
Pray for peace, not war. Pray for love, not hate. HATE IS NEVER THE ANSWER!