We must exercise sovereignty over Jerusalem now

Use it or lose it.

By David M Weinberg, ISRAEL HAYOM

The bottom line is that to hold on to a united Jerusalem, Israel must act forcefully to restore its full and active jurisdiction in all parts of the holy city. It must wield a big baton against Arab insurgents that are threatening the stability of the city. And there is no better time to act than now.

Last month, the Education Ministry barred school trips from entering the Old City of Jerusalem through Jaffa Gate. It’s too dangerous, the ministry decided.

Instead, the thousands of kids (and adults) now visiting the holy city every evening on pre-High Holiday Selichot (penitential prayer) tours must march around the Old City and enter through Zion Gate directly into the Jewish Quarter. There is less chance of getting stoned that way.

This frightful and frightening decision reflects the ominously deteriorating security situation in Jerusalem.

Over the past year — long before an Arab teenager from the Jerusalem Arab neighborhood of Beit Hanina was murdered (following the murder of three Jewish teens in Gush Etzion in June) — thousands of violent incidents have been recorded in the city. Since the murder of Muhammad Abu Khdeir the violence has escalated, becoming a virtual onslaught. We have witnessed bulldozer, bombing, knifing and shooting attacks.

A car-bombing attempt was intercepted near Beitar. Arab protestors vandalized and tried to burn a French Hill gas station and grocery store. There has been sporadic but ongoing gunfire from Shuafat into Pisgat Ze’ev homes, and firecrackers fired from Jabel Mukaber into Armon Hanatziv homes. Rowdy pro-Hamas demonstrations regularly run all night long in Jabel Mukaber, with no police intervention.

Almost half of the Jerusalem light rail cars are out of service because of damage from stoning attacks in Shuafat.

Over 1,000 brush and forest fires have been started in recent months in the forests in and around Jerusalem by Arab arsonists.

Last Thursday evening, the Cohen family from Ramat Gan was almost lynched as they drove through Wadi Joz to the Western Wall for an army induction ceremony.

The situation is even worse in the so-called “Holy Basin” quadrant, and has been so for a few years. Travel to the hallowed, ancient Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives is a very risky venture. Mourners are regularly stoned, and few bereaved families visit the graves there without going in an organized convoy. There is also frequent Arab vandalism of the graves. (Were such vandalism against a Jewish cemetery to regularly occur abroad, it would be an international scandal).

On the Temple Mount — which is the holiest site in the world to Jews — Jewish visitors are accosted frequently and systematically, while the police stand aside. It goes without saying that the near 50-year ban on Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount outrageously remains in place; lest the Arabs get really too angry.

Last month, masked Arab rioters, probably hired by the Islamic Movement or the Palestinian Authority-controlled waqf, stormed and burned a police station on the Temple Mount. Nobody in the Israeli government emitted as much as a hiccup.

The police continue to insist that the violence is “atmospheric” and not instigated by a guiding hand — but I wonder. The leader of the rabble-rousing northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel, Sheikh Raed Salah, has been banned from the city, but his henchmen and those of radical Salafist movements continue to stir things up, especially on the Temple Mount.

The Israel Police and Border Police have recently made close to 1,000 arrests in the city and charged perhaps 200 Arab rioters, but they have refrained from positioning a large, demonstrable street presence along the seam line and in eastern neighborhoods of the city. They are mainly relying on surveillance cameras and after-the-fact deterrent arrests; but this does not seem to be working.

Friends of mine serving in the Border Police in and around Jerusalem (and adjacent to Rachel’s Tomb on the northern edge of Bethlehem — where riots are commonplace) tell me that their hands are tied. Rarely are they allowed to charge and pursue rock-throwers, and they are essentially forbidden from using their weapons (except in extreme life threatening situations).

It is clear that our security leaders are more afraid of the beating or shooting death of an Arab protester (and its predictable ultra-violent aftermath) than they are concerned about the ongoing, chronic situation of “low level” violence that we are apparently expected to endure.

The desire to avoid incidents that will become major conflagrations and international trouble for Israel is understandable. But the current response strategy is insufficient. The government seems indecisive or asleep as Israeli sovereignty over many of Jerusalem’s eastern neighborhoods, Arab and Jewish, is being challenged. One gets the sense that the public security minister and the cabinet don’t want to even admit that there is a problem, lest the admission scare Israelis and tourists away from the city.

But the crisis is real and increasingly unavoidable. The government, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, must devote much more attention to the re-securing (dare I say re-liberation) of Jerusalem.

Part of the answer is boosting the manpower and resources of the Jerusalem police force, which is clearly overburdened. There should be a police officer stationed at every street corner, if and where necessary, and they should be empowered to act decisively the minute trouble begins.

A second part of the solution is enhanced prosecution and jailing of rioters, including minors, and an intense intelligence effort to identify and crush the professional instigators and ringleaders.

Some will say that another part of the solution is the devotion of more municipal services and budgets to the eastern parts of the city. That’s true, but let’s face it: The developmental gap is not why the violence is growing. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat is indeed advancing Arab neighborhoods of the city, through announcement of new residential construction projects and more budgets for education and infrastructure in Arab neighborhoods.

A critical element for regaining control of the entire city has to be enforcement of civic law. Somehow, in the Arab neighborhoods of the city, building codes and noise pollution bylaws don’t apply. The Arab residents know how to take national insurance payments from the government of Israel and to enjoy excellent health care privileges in the city’s clinics and hospitals, but they know nothing of municipal taxes, building permits, or yielding to stop signs.

This has to change. Part of regaining security control of the city is disciplining the Arab public to be law-abiding residents in all spheres.

The bottom line is that to hold on to a united Jerusalem, Israel must act forcefully to restore its full and active jurisdiction in all parts of the holy city. It must wield a big baton against Arab insurgents that are threatening the stability of the city. And there is no better time to act than now.

I doubt it is coincidental that this week’s haftarah (a reading from one of the biblical prophets read on Shabbat in synagogues around the world) is Isaiah 61: “For the sake of Zion I will not hold my peace, and for the sake of Jerusalem I will not be still. … I will set watchman on the walls of Jerusalem all day or night. … Go through, go through the gates, prepare the way of the people; bank up, build up the highway, clear the stones; lift up a standard for the people.”

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  1. honeybee Said:

    Perhaps dweller is correct about me.

    If he is it will be a first but only you can be a judge of that. What works for me may not for you I reject absolutes but what worked for me was a hot tub and jacuzzi for starters, medication as a last resort. I still have shrapnel in my leg and there is always some pain but I’ve forgotten what it’s like without it. It’s mostly bearable for me and when it get’s bad I take something to help.

    I just bought a tablet so I can lay in bed and continue to post on line. Takes getting used to but it seems to work.

    Again I hope you feel better get some rest and come back asap. I know your cowboy will take good care of you.

  2. yamit82 Said:

    @ honeybee:

    How are you? I am concerned.

    So sorry to worry you. As I said TX grab me up took away my baking items and computer and sent me to bed rest. He is now watching the Broncos & the Seahawks so his attention is else where.
    This new “chat room” room confuses me. Thank you for yesterday, I should not have visited my problems on you. Perhaps dweller is correct about me.

  5. yamit82 Said:

    Ted Pls reconsider not just for we commenters but for the good of the blog and it’s mission statement.

    not more that i could say except ‘i wholeheartedly agree’
    i opened the ‘chat box’ lust to peek….
    yagattabekiddin!…. 🙁
    quite a few months ago, shy guy posted a comment saying +/- i am letting go of this ‘time wasting machine’… and indeed i haven’t seen him since…. (are the jews wiser now??… 🙂 )
    i find it sad that it came to this….

  6. the phoenix Said:

    43 Comments to We must exercise sovereignty over Jerusalem now
    I submit, that, ARTIFICIALLY forcing the conversation into a “T” (either or) instead of allowing its natural flow would be akin to extracting the SOUL out of this forum.
    Of course, it is YOUR domain, Ted, and we are invited guests , and it is only a one man’s opinion,
    But, fwiw, if you were to disallow all the various spices and exotic sauces that are brought in by the various contributors…. It would be a very BLAND meat and potatoes news site.

    I agree 100% We discussed this 4 years ago with ayn reagan who pointed out to Ted at that time that our spicy comments added readership and not reduced it and she backed it up with stats.

    I submit in most cases the off topic comments occur after the thread had run it’s natural course of comments and general interest. A Blog submitting up to ten articles a day would have a difficult time maintaining interest past the first 5-10 comments on topic. Keeping threads open for ten days allows for free flow discourse past the life of any topical thread with a few exceptions.

    Ted Pls reconsider not just for we commenters but for the good of the blog and it’s mission statement.

  7. @ yamit82:
    @ Ted bellman

    and the shrapnel if you must know while operating on the ‘Chinese Farm’ in Egypt in 73.

    From Wikipedia:

    While ultimately an Israeli victory, the Battle of the Chinese Farm has an especially infamous legacy among Israeli participants, and it is remembered as one of the most brutal battles of the war—and for the heavy losses it incurred on both Egyptians and Israelis. After the battle had ended, Dayan visited the area of the battlefield and Reshef, who accompanied him, said “Look at this valley of death.” The minister, taken aback by the great destruction before him, muttered in an undertone “What you people have done here!” Later Dayan would recount that: “I am no novice at war or battle scenes, but I have never seen such a sight, not in reality, or in paintings, or in the worst war movies. Here was a vast field of slaughter stretching as far as the eye could see.” Sharon would also provide his own poignant account of the aftermath: “It was as if a hand-to-hand battle of armor had taken place… Coming close you could see the Egyptian and Jewish dead lying side-by-side, soldiers who had jumped from their burning tanks and died together. No picture could capture the horror of the scene, none could encompass what had happened there.”[67]

    43 Comments to We must exercise sovereignty over Jerusalem now
    I submit, that, ARTIFICIALLY forcing the conversation into a “T” (either or) instead of allowing its natural flow would be akin to extracting the SOUL out of this forum.
    Of course, it is YOUR domain, Ted, and we are invited guests , and it is only a one man’s opinion,
    But, fwiw, if you were to disallow all the various spices and exotic sauces that are brought in by the various contributors…. It would be a very BLAND meat and potatoes news site.

  8. @ dweller:

    You made several unsubstantiated statements I reject out of hand unless you can give some scientific studies to back them up. If it is just your opinion then say so and then we can ignore it based on the source and your past attempts to pass off erroneous reasoning and projection based it appears on quirky imagination as fact.

    My own personal experience with severe long term and continuing pain are burns I got when saving the life of a guy who fell into a well of hot scalding water and the shrapnel if you must know while operating on the ‘Chinese Farm’ in Egypt in 73. I seem to have a high tolerance for pain others don’t. How any individual or even animal deal with pain I would submit that the topic is so complex and nuanced as to render your submitted glib generalizations (all unsubstantiated, nonspecific and unscientific) as nothing more than your own opinionated cow dung renderings. They are no more than attempts by you to interject pseudo science and meaningless quasi metaphysical explanations as all inclusive scientifically derived fact.

    The area of pain is complex and even if your opinions had merit which they don’t it’s not a one size fits all as you would suggest. You lose even before you get out of the box, one of your own making and design I might add.

    All you needed to do was to inject 3 words ‘IN MY OPINION’ !!!!(sic)

    If you want a hands on education on pain why don’t you volunteer to aid in a Terminal Cancer patient Hospice and offer your suggestions on the patients you find there. I’m sure they will welcome and appreciate your suggestions 🙁

  9. @ yamit82:

    “Resented pain is a far more POWERFUL master than unresented pain.”

    “Learn to love the pain thereby defeating it and not allowing it to become ones master.”

    No. Did not say, ‘love the pain.’ That’s as far-shtunkener as hating the pain.

    The idea is to NOT RESENT the pain. Resentment of the pain gives it augmented power that it did not have of itself. Resentment of the pain is an exclusively human problem added by the ego. It tends to make the pain more unbearable.

    When a wild animal is caught in a trap, its initial reaction is outrage and agony at the pain & restriction. Yet by the time the hunter arrives on the scene, to either release him or finish him off, the creature is no longer howling & struggling — but is, instead, now calm (albeit uneasy at the approach of the hunter).

    Why is he not howling & struggling? Surely his injury has not healed. Surely his pain has not vanished. Qu’est-ce que c’est?

    The animal is still in pain, but has learned to adjust to it. He has no ego and thus no resentment of the pain — only the pain itself, caused by (and bearing witness to) the physical damage to his body. He’s far from happy with his circumstances, but he’s dealing with them.

    I don’t know the chemistry of it, Yamit, but I strongly suspect that the nervous system’s defenses are compromised by a change to the biochemical makeup of the body when resentment of the pain enters the picture. And I don’t merely suspect — I’m certain — that physical healing is retarded as well as complicated by resentment of the injury.

    “The closest I ever came to know such pain is the shrapnel in my leg and 2 months in Letterman with 2nd degree burns on 80% of my body.”

    ‘Nam?

    “But you talk the talk but have you ever walked the walk 24×7 for long periods of time?”

    What constitutes “walking the walk”? — a root canal without anaesthesia of any kind?

    How long is “long”? Five hours of open surgery followed by a week in hospital and a few months in recovery?

    Is this an ‘I’ll-show-you-mine-if-you’ll-show-me-yours’ moment?

    What’s the point of making comparisons? This isn’t about the heroics of enduring pain.

    My point was actually about the PRACTICALITY of refraining from resenting the pain because it keeps the pain from being worse than it would otherwise be.

  11. dweller Said:

    @ honeybee:
    “Pain is a cruel master.”
    Resented pain is a far more POWERFUL master than unresented pain.

    Learn to love the pain thereby defeating it and not allowing it to become ones master. Cute like in defeating the devil right dweller?

    The closest I ever came to know such pain is the shrapnel in my leg and 2 months in Letterman with 2nd degree burns on 80% of my body. But you talk the talk but have you ever walked the walk 24×7 for long periods of time?

  16. honeybee Said:

    The opposite of pain is Nirvana.

    The opposite of pain according to dictionary are:
    comfort
    delight
    ease
    enjoyment
    peace
    rapture
    relief
    solace

    No Nirvana.
    honeybee Said:

    The opposite of pain is Nirvana.

    According to webster:

    the state of perfect happiness and peace in Buddhism where there is release from all forms of suffering

    : a state or place of great happiness and peace

    1
    : the final beatitude that transcends suffering, karma, and samsara and is sought especially in Buddhism through the extinction of desire and individual consciousness
    2
    a : a place or state of oblivion to care, pain, or external reality; also : bliss, heaven
    b : a goal hoped for but apparently unattainable : dream

    What about the rule of pain???? Emphasis on RULE!!!

  23. honeybee Said:

    You hear but you don’t listen..

    HB you have provided 2 song lyrics that can have multiple meanings and can all be said to be correct. Every time I decide on what you are trying to tell me I stop lest I embarrass myself in choosing the wrong message.

    I know what I hope you are telling me but not ready to commit to it in writing.

    Try something more direct and less Polysemous:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtwOeoeWhoo

  27. @ mar55:
    Thank you kindly!
    un feliz cumpleaños tardío .hasta 120!!
    (Google translate… 🙂 )
    Gosh… It is going to be busy next year at shmuel’s … (Should be built by then? 😉 )

  28. @ the phoenix:
    What a surprise. I’m so happy to see you. No, we are all very happy to have you back. We miss you and your opinions.
    I’m hoping next year to visit you in Israel. Not sure if with my grandchildren. I’ll be there.
    I guess as HB said, the bear spit you out because you are too sweet.
    You had quite a welcoming committee. I’m too late.
    Since you left I’m a year younger. 75 years. Do not worry if you pray in an organized religion manner or not. Remember “Words without thoughts never to heaven go” The important thing is that you pray. Whenever you are enjoying G-d’s creation you are praying. There are many times during the day you pray and you do not even know you are praying. Organized prayers are also great if that is what you believe. G-d hear our prayers an knows what we mean. After all who knows us better than He who created us.
    Be well, be healthy and keep being you. Sleep well and SABBATH SHALOM.

  29. honeybee Said:

    My answer, pain rules.

    Fascinating response and choice of Lyric.
    Anti Nam song and anti draft???

    Remember what the dormouse said. This is confusing because it is referencing the Mad Hatter. The Mad Hatter is on the witness stand and faces execution if he can’t “remember what the dormouse said” As a result he runs away before the queen of Hearts, ie the red queen has a chance to chop of his head.

    Feed your head is not what the dormouse said. It’s telling you to educate yourself. You feed your head by learning. Said twice for emphasis.

    Now what should I take away from this, if anything?

    Are you a Jihadist wannabee?

  33. the phoenix Said:

    How on earth do you DEAL with people around you that hold such misguided views???

    How do you in Canada deal with Canadians that don’t have a clue about just anything that matters? People are people and we all see things from a jaunticed prism. Eventually reality sets in and most are brought to their senses not from choice but by a reality imposed on them…. The great equalizer.

    In 1948 7-10,000 underground fighters were mostly responsible for driving a major power to leave the country. The population then was some 6-700,00 Jews. Today we have maybe 150-200,000 stalwart Jews who will fight the necessary battle if it comes to that so I am not pessimistic. In the end it’s always the stalwart minority who wins the day not the Lumpen majority.

    R. Gamliel, R. Elazar ben Azarya, R. Joshua, and R. Akiva… were walking towards Jerusalem. When they reached Mount Scopus [from which it is possible to see the Temple Mount], they tore their clothing. When they arrived at the Temple Mount, they saw a fox running out of the area where the Holy of Holies had been. They began to cry, while R. Akiva laughed. They said to him, “Why are you laughing?”…. He replied, “Isaiah the Prophet said, ‘I will bring two reliable witnesses regarding my people, Uriah the Priest and Zecharia ben Yeverchyahu.’”(Isaiah 8:2)… the verse in Isaiah makes Zecharia’s prophecy dependent on Uriah’s. In Uriah’s case, it is written, “Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed under like a field.” (Michah 3:12) In the case of Zecharia, we find, “Yet again, elderly men and elderly women will sit in the streets of Jerusalem…. Now that I have seen Uriah’s prophecy fulfilled in full detail, I know that Zecharia’s prophecy will also be fulfilled.” Hearing that, R. Akiva’s colleagues said to him, “Akiva, you have comforted us. Akiva, you have comforted us.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3JeXLu63Gw

  36. @ the phoenix:

    ESTE CONCIERTO CREO FUÉ EN CESAREA, MARAVILLOSO

    Yo estaba allí.

    Yesh dvarim sheratziti lomar
    ve’einam na’anim li
    hamilim shebacharti einan
    hatovot mikulan
    amokim min heyam hasodot
    she’einam muvanim li
    she’ulai lo avin,
    lo avin le’olam.

    There are things that I wanted to say
    and I’m given no answer to them
    the words that I chose are not
    the best of all
    the deepest of the sea of secrets
    that aren’t understood by me
    that I probably will not understand
    will not ever understand.

    …..

    Ach bechol hadrachim me’olam
    lo avda li darkeinu
    vegam im lif’amim
    sa’aru misaviv haruchot,
    ve’ahavti otach,
    vehayah lanu tov
    tov ad g’doteinu;
    vehayah lanu ra’ah,
    ve’ahavti otach lo pachot.

    But in all the paths never
    did our path get lost
    and even if sometimes
    the winds stormed around (us),
    and I loved you,
    and we felt good,
    good up to our shorelines;
    and we felt bad,
    and I loved you no less.

    El próximo año en Jerusalén reconstruida

    Es hora de ser un jugador fo tu pueblo

  39. yamit82 Said:

    Israel consists of two countries Tel Aviv and Haifa and the rest of the country. There is a disconnect almost in all things relevant.

    As hb would say, “true dat!”
    An old friend came to visit us with wife + daughter who just finished her service in Idf. They live in…. Tel aviv…
    Inadvertently, the conversation came to the situation in Israel and the main players.
    It was just mind boggling to listen to this guy repeat +/- ‘ha’aretz talking points’ ,he considers himself to be a centrist)
    No clue about San remo
    No clue about how and why pollard got betrayed (he sees Peres as a great one who did a lot for the country…)
    But he admitted that the (subconscious?) thinking of the “leadership” to be that ‘attack on tel aviv is THE red line’….

    Almost two months ago, we hosted some other friends. He fought in ’67 at the ammunition hill and was wounded.
    And that was yet ANOTHER one that knew so much that just was not so….

    There was only so much I could opine. I had a self imposed censorship for the conversation simply because “I was HERE, and they were THERE.
    But you, yamit, you LIVE there.
    You walked the walk and thus, you can talk the talk.
    How on earth do you DEAL with people around you that hold such misguided views???

  40. @ the phoenix:

    there is not a voice screaming at the top of the lungs that the fucking emperor is naked???

    hmmmmmm. How come you rate? I can’t use the F word without getting censored. All I did was put up a few examples I got from You tube of ladies using the F word and it got deleted.

    They weren’t bad examples. A few were news correspondence who were caught on tape using the F word.

    It was taken out of context……as usual.

    guess as long as one can peacefully sip a cappuccino in tel aviv while reading ha’aretz… All is well

    No worries. Come and sip on a cappuccino in my peaceful backyard. I got a monster crop of tomatoes this year and I could put on a fire in the firepit.

  41. the phoenix Said:

    Dear honeybee,
    Thank you for the link.
    Always believed in God
    Never learned to pray in the ‘organized religion manner’, yet, Always felt connected to God.

    This is why we are kindred souls. Life well lived is a prayer. The work of your hands are a prayer.

  42. @ honeybee:
    Dear honeybee,
    Thank you for the link.
    Always believed in God
    Never learned to pray in the ‘organized religion manner’, yet, Always felt connected to God.

  44. the phoenix Said:

    I guess as long as one can peacefully sip a cappuccino in tel aviv while reading ha’aretz… All is well…

    Israel consists of two countries Tel Aviv and Haifa and the rest of the country. There is a disconnect almost in all things relevant. Jerusalem is Israel’s largest city and most populous. BB and the Likud were punished at the polls by voters in the South in the last election and I expect more of the same. The rats are deserting the ship and it’s only a matter of time. Things cannot go on as before. I still believe new elections will be called by the end of December.

  45. the phoenix Said:

    “You can not return to a place, hoping that you go back in time! That which you wish to rediscover, does not exist anywhere except in your own mind”
    ……..
    Sigh…

    Pictures hanging in a hallway
    And the fragment of this song
    Half remembered names and faces
    But to whom do they belong
    When you knew that it was over
    Were you suddenly aware
    That the autumn leaves were turning
    To the color of her hair

    Like a circle in a spiral
    Like a wheel within a wheel
    Never ending or beginning,
    On an ever spinning wheel
    As the images unwind
    Like the circles that you find
    In the windmills of your mind

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TtdW–jhAQ

  47. @ honeybee:

    Did you find the soul that you were searching for

    Dear honeybee…

    I’ll translate a few passages from a book that “just happened” to be the first one I picked, while in a bookstore on this trip:

    “Each exiled is a Ulysses on the road to Ithaca …what I discover suddenly, is that the chance to be a Ulysses is being offered to each one who is exiled”
    _______
    “Is there something more difficult in life than the road that you have chosen yourself, while in fog and darkness?”
    _________
    “You can not return to a place, hoping that you go back in time! That which you wish to rediscover, does not exist anywhere except in your own mind”
    ……..
    Sigh…

  49. the Border Police in and around Jerusalem […] their hands are tied. Rarely are they allowed to charge and pursue rock-throwers, and they are essentially forbidden from using their weapons (except in extreme life threatening situations).

    It is clear that our security leaders are more afraid of the beating or shooting death of an Arab protester (and its predictable ultra-violent aftermath) than they are concerned about the ongoing, chronic situation of “low level” violence that we are apparently expected to endure.

    This pathetic state of affairs is the direct and obvious product of a “leadership” (spit!) that has allowed the south of Israel to receive “low level” violence from Hamas for many yearsinstead of an IMMEDIATE response that could only be categorized as “shock and awe” , the situation was allowed to escalate and depopulate the south of tens of thousands that unfortunately see fleeing from the trouble spot as the only course of action that is available to them – ha’ezrah ha’pashut.

    If the past is an indication of the future (and SURELY it is substantiated by the present), is the Jewish population going to leave jerusalem just so that there will be no confrontation with the musloid darlings?!?!?!?

    However, there is no shortage of violence and destruction directed at the Jews BY the Jews…
    Everyone is commenting how great the emperor’s new clothes look, and there is not a voice screaming at the top of the lungs that the fucking emperor is naked???
    I guess as long as one can peacefully sip a cappuccino in tel aviv while reading ha’aretz… All is well…
    🙁

  50. There is either secret plans between the government and Abbas or the police is totally incapable or unwilling to deal with Muslim violent criminals. The police seem only interested on pursuing apparent Jewish graffiti painters and or in protecting the interests of Muslims.
    It would be tragic if the people will have to take self protection into their own hands.
    A stern notice must be served to don Netanyahu to make him realize that his cunning may not carry him any longer.
    He must assure that Jewish National interests are safeguarded in a whole Jerusalem, Har HaBait, Y & S and in the rest of Eretz Israel.