Multiple terrorist attacks again today

Arlene Kushner reports:

Since yesterday, there have been more terror attacks. Good that announcements have been made about measures to be taken, but we need them in place like yesterday. Some plans, such as installing cameras, will take time. But the troops – empowered to act as they need to – must be out in force.

One of the trouble spots with regard to rock throwing and similar terrorist actions has been in the vicinity of the Jewish community of Tekoa, in the Judean Desert.

Terrorists are fond of throwing rocks at the cars driving on the road from Tekoa to Jerusalem (a new road, not represented on this map, that goes to the Har Homa neighborhood of Jerusalem). Of late there has been considerable difficulty in this region, with cars frequently pelted by rocks.

This morning terrorists went one step further: Tekoa resident Rivi Lev Ohayon was on her way to her job in Jerusalem, when she encountered some twenty young adult Arabs holding rocks and forming a human barrier across the road. A man with a large rock came towards her, and then some 10 Arabs jumped on the car and broke her windshield. One attempted to open the door of the car, but she succeeded in pulling away, in reverse, and calling police. Deeply traumatized, she considers herself lucky that she was not lynched.

Seven other cars were stoned on the same road at that time.

None of this should happen. Not ever.

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Then, a bit later this morning, another attack in the Old City of Jerusalem, near the Lion’s Gate. A young Arab woman knifed a man, stabbing him in his upper body. He was carrying a gun, however, and shot her. She is in serious condition.

Lion’s Gate is the location where the horrendous attack occurred that took two lives on Saturday night. And in this location, too, there must be sufficient security presence – police, soldiers – to guard against such incidents.

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A third attack took place in Kiryat Gat today, perpetrated by an Arab from Yatta – an Arab village in Area A, near Susiya – who was in Israel illegally. After alighting from a bus, he stabbed a soldier and grabbed his gun, then ran into an apartment building. When he tried to force his way into an apartment, the resident fled, screaming. Police were alerted and when they arrived the terrorist began shooting at them. Returning fire, they killed him.

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I want to look at the most recent game playing of that slippery manipulator, Mahmoud Abbas.

I doubt there is anyone reading this who does not know how much responsibility he bears for the current violence. Just days ago, at the UN, he not only spewed incitement, he suggested that he was about to walk away from the Oslo Accords.

But yesterday, he was singing a different song. And this was obviously because Netanyahu had announced sterner security measures. A clear indication that the announced intention to enforce such measures had an impact.