The unending Palestinian campaign of murder against Israelis Friday, Nov.13, shattered another Israeli family of seven. Gunmen shot dead a father, 40, and his 18-year old son, injuring his wife and another son of 13 and traumatizing their three small daughters aged 11, 9, and five. They were attacked on Highway 60 on the road running between Othniel and the Palestinian village of Dura in the Mt. Hebron district.
Not all the information about the attack has been released. It appears, however, that the killers reached the scene in a vehicle and laid ambush to the victims. After their first round of gunfire brought the targeted vehicle to a halt, the terrorists approached it and shot the two injured men again at close range, before racing from the scene. The remaining four family members were injured.
An eye witness reports that a Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance was first to reach the scene of the murders. The medical team got out, looked into the Israeli car, viewed the carnage, climbed back into the ambulance and drove off without offering assistance.
Hamas spokesman hailed the ‘heroic’ shooting dead of two Israelis near Hebron
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu hearing of the attack vowed to “lay hands on the vile murderers and bring them to justice.” However, those words, heard again and again, sound more futile each time the Palestinians escalate their ongoing campaign of terror with fresh deadly outrages against innocent people.
This bloodthirsty attack on an Israeli family raised the Israeli death toll to 14 and injured victims to 182, further underscoring the bankruptcy of Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon’s anti-terror policy and tactics, which Netanyahu endorses.
Last Tuesday, Nov. 10, the Defense Minister visited the Judea regional Brigade Command for an update on the security situation. IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gady Eisenkot and the Chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Security Committee Tzahi Hanegbi were there, along with the Central Command chief Maj. Gen. Ronnie Numa and the Commander of Judea and Samaria, Brig Leor Carmeli.
Afterwards, Ya’alon voiced the opinion that Hamas was driving the current wave of terror remotely from a safe distance by incitement and activating its local cells.
“The gap between [the group’s] ambition to ignite a tough campaign of violence against us and its failure to do its worst, is [created by] the freedom of action we have given the IDF and security forces for stopping the terrorists before they strike.”
Four days later, the minister was proved wrong. His effort to treat the Palestinian campaign of terror as though it occurred in small or individual pockets divorced from a sea of peaceful Palestinians was clearly not working. The stabbings, shootings, firebombs and vehicular attacks are accompanied by spreading unruly, violent demonstrations from the ground up. While one Israeli security arm toils to control the level of violence, a second is executes government policy of removing checkpoints and roadblocks that contain the terrorists for the sake of easting Palestinian lives and pretending hat the majority of Palestinians has a normal existence. This dual policy sometimes works for a short while and then the violence breaks out anew.
This is exactly what happened this week in Jerusalem and on Rte 443 from Jerusalem to Modiin. Tuesday, Nov. 10, roadblocks were removed from the extremist Palestinian village of Issawiyeh in northern Jerusalem, and on the same afternoon, a villager tried to stab an Israeli passerby on Haneviim Street opposite Damascus Gate. He was shot and killed.
And Rte 443, one of the capital’s two main road links, was again plagued this week by the same old firebombs and rocks after a short respite. The Palestinian villages alongside the highway have come up with a new ruse. After nightfall, they beam blinding laser rays at the traffic to dazzle the drivers and cause accidents
@ bernard ross:
That is pure Netanyahu, vintage BS.
A pathetic clown to the world while at home demolishes Synagogues, Jewish homes and farms… The rest is frozen of course.
The proverbial bag of wind playing Aesop’s frog while throwing hail Mary passes to the world to cover his total ineptitude, if not worse.
No wonder he wants back with de livni and paired Hertzog.
His mentioning of the Mufti and Hitler serve as added wooden stumps to help him crawl some more.
We must seek leaders and replace the flotsam up there.
he says this every time, and they never do it, time to stop whining and begging the world as a substitute for action.
Of course Netanyahu and Yaalon and every other normal Jew want to see the Arab Muhammadan occupiers of our land gone.
The they just don’t see any realistic method for removing this pest for now. The blow back from the outside may be more than Israel can bear.
United States will not support us.
Everyone will condemn us. The Security Council will issue resolutions, boycott etc.
The Egypt and Jordan will be forced to end their “peace” with us. The Shiite and Sunni barbarians might just temporarily unite to attack us.
None of this is certain, but much of this is probable.
This just may be more than Israel can take at this moment.
Removing Muhammadan Arabs from Israel is a must as a long term strategic goal for our survival. To get there diplomatic ground needs to be prepared.
We must consistently reject the 2-state solution. We must claim the land between the River and the Sea as ours both legally under international law, and morally.
We must expose Arab-Muhammadan imperialism and Jew-hatred.
We must make our point so clear that majority of people will side with us. And they will, because our cause is just. Our claim is very humble (we are claiming a country 1/2 the size of Denmark or Holland).
And the alternative is rosy utopia covering the factual blood dripping reality.
Once we have won the propaganda war; ALL Muhammadans will be gone from Israel.
Refusing to see the Palestinian Arabs are out to kill Jews and pretending on the other hand, that you can still make peace with them, has revealed the political and moral bankruptcy of the Israeli elite’s mindless devotion to Oslo and the so-called status quo.
As Meir Kahane wrote many years ago, in regard to the Jew-hating Arabs, its time for all of them to go! The sooner the better. No more Jewish blood must be shed.
Neither the so called general or Netanyahu are dedicated to destroy the Islamic murderous beasts. On the contrary, it is obvious policy that they both use their “partners” to erode Jewish rights and cause intentional harm.
They both must go, now! And with that trash also must go the rest of that gruesome stain.
Ma hahaha alternativahhh? Yahllah with the idiotic and ever vomited question.
Any good person will do. There are thousands of far better Jews than that element.
Those two and Peres and those that signed the proclamation in favor of the EU boycott must be removed from office and provisions made to have them face NEWLY elected courts. And the present day self elected courtiers must also march to face the News courts.