The early morning stabbing of an Israeli private by a Palestinian teen is the latest in a series of what the Israeli military is terming “atmosphere attacks,” incidents that aren’t carried out by any organization in particular, but are just a product of the ongoing tensions in the occupied West Bank.
A top Israeli commander in the West Bank discussed the problem as a particularly serious one, claiming there are “some 100,000 Palestinians who have a score to settle with us and each could do so at any moment.”
It’s problematic for Israeli spy agencies, which have loads of experience infiltrating and surveiling major factions within the occupied territories, but doesn’t seem particularly effective at predicting individual attacks from seemingly random Palestinians.
Ultimately such attacks reflect a common concern among Israeli military officials assigned to the West Bank: that government policy is fueling worsening unrest in the region, and they are expected to simply “deal with” the violence that results.
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What's this nonsense about a hundred thousand Palestinians having a score to settle? The entire Palestinian population has a score to settle with the zionists!
The world’s biggest publisher of children’s titles has skipped the name of Israeli occupation regime from their maps in a school book.
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"100,000 Palestinians have a score to settle with us."
For once, one of those zio-scum is saying something truthful, but the real number is in the millions.
I think this Israeli commander is out by a factor of ten – all Palestinians have a score to settle with Israel.
BTW, doesn't Adina Golombek, the woman mentioned in the article zohaasadi above references, find it odd that she can freely settle in Al Quds(Jerusalem) even though she seems to have been born and brought up in Canada, while the many Palestinians who were born, brought up in and then expelled from Al Quds cannot? I'm sure she doesn't regard herself as a racist, but by benefiting from the racist policies of the Israeli government, she makes herself one.
100 000 more Palestinians?
Are the Israelis more surprised at the number or that their government policies are not being appreciated by the Palestinians?
A 100,000 dead Israelis isn't even a sliver's worth of payback that Palestinians, nevermind the nations nearby whom Israel has relentlessly targeted and f**ked with for years now, deserve.