Tensions have been on the rise in Jerusalem, and in particular in occupied East Jerusalem, for awhile now, with settler attacks and police crackdowns leaving many East Jerusalem Palestinians believing an explosion of bigger violence was only a matter of time.
An attack on a Jerusalem synagogue by a pair of Palestinian brothers from an eastern neighborhood appears to be that prediction coming tragically to pass, but the fear is it is just the start of something bigger.
Five people were killed today, including four rabbis who held dual-citizenship. The attackers were slain, and police believe they acted alone. It’s classic blowback from rising tensions, fueled in no small part by government crackdowns.
Yet the go-to response from Israeli officials is to crack down even more, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowing to “respond harshly” after the incident, and with a “heavy hand.”
What that means is unclear, since the attackers both died in the incident, and again, are believed to have acted alone. So the question is who will Netanyahu “respond harshly” to, and many fear the answer will, as usual, by Arabs in general.
The synagogue killings provide a pretext for deeper crackdowns and escalated home demolitions, which themselves risk more tensions boiling over into violent attacks. The vicious cycle continues.
Is it some automatic process that every israeli also gets US citizenship?
Rick they control you and all of America. "BUB"
"HUH"?
Dual-citizenship should be abolished.
Put the shackles on this man and tape his mouth with cement and make sure his guarded 24/7 while he is no where to be found, like one of those empty islands in South Africa where only sharks are swimming.
To treat him as what he is, a war criminal, is unfortunately not possible with this corrupt international law institutions. They do not hunt the criminals, but their vitims !
one example to proof this:
This video-clicp from the Milosevic trial shows witnesses were bribed and tortured to accuse him .: At 3:23 it begins: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmfoNuS_3og
daily israel kills some kid or old man for picking his nose, they are supposed to, but getting angry about this and killing some rabids + with the guilty parties also dead seems to deserve a "heavy handed attack" on the whole population of palestine, — true SS thinking.
"The attack on a synagogue in Jerusalem today took place in Har Nof, a Jewish neighborhood built over the ruins of Deir Yassin, a Palestinian village whose inhabitants were wiped out on April 9, 1948. The Deir Yassin Massacre delivered a clear message to the Palestinian people. The Jewish militias were driven by genocidal inclinations and the Arabs better run for their lives. However, it seems as if the Palestinian collective memory is alive and kicking – it may be possible that the Deir Yassin Massacre was commemorated today."
Gilad Atzmon http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/2014/11/18/hot-of…
Why Antiwar only reports about attacks of Palestinansians, but never …
– when Israel crashes down Palestinansian houses, olive- or other plantages and imprison children?
– when they encircle Palestinansian and their with walls, so they can no longer live in such imprisonment?
– Israel intentionally (this is an old US Army trick!) destructs civil infrastructure, like water utilities, power plants, sewage plants, anything that make life impossible and created death by illness – especially for children and elderly
Violence of Israel is only shown as "reaction" and "legitimated" with such lies.
There was no Israel after WW2, Only Palestina did exist. Weren't it thePalestinansian who did react?
"Why Antiwar only reports about attacks of Palestinansians, but never … "
This is one of the very few places in the US where you will read about the Israeli attacks on Palestinians.
The Old Testament philosophy of not getting along with the Other, doesn't seem to work – the more hateful you are to the Other, the more hateful they are to you. The more you "smite" them, the more they "smite" you back. It is a Bronze Age way of thinking and why so many so-called Christian Fundamentalists want to practice it and respect it is beyond me.
Would many people cry if the same fate was delivered to all dual citizens?
Pick a country.
Surprised this doesn't happen more often, what with the way the settlers abuse Palestinian people who are still living on the land they wish to steal.
“Without the shedding of blood, there can be no forgiveness.”
The two patriotic brothers have provided a service to their imprisoned society, for terrorism is the blowback from injustice and if the brothers had not been so filled with vengeance as to execute their brand of justice, the vengeance would have continued to build in Palestine and a much greater act of terrorism would no doubt have been forthcoming.
In short, terrorism is an act of righteous indignation that brings a peaceful resolution to a state of war.
So, what Empire USA strives to accomplish by its War on Terrorism, is to destroy a peaceful resolution to Western injustice and create a state of war between a plunder loving Western world and the Middle-East. Great for Empire expansion, a giant step toward human extinction.
I am an American Jew and I would like to ask Israeli's and all who support this creep Netanyahu….after all these years of Netanyahu and his Likud right wing party and all these other further right wing parties, and all these wars…where has Netanyahu led you? Is Israel any safer? More secure? What do you have to show for all the hard line, heavy handed nonsense? The more you repress what essentially is an indigenous population, the more they will fight you to the death.
You've turned your backs on any peace process, on a two state solution, you continue to build settlements on the West Bank which is a very clear message that you have no intention of even trying to negotiate anything? You have blockaded Gaza politically, militarily and economically and you are intent on breaking these people because why? You don't like their elected government? Hamas are terrorists you say? But was not Arafat a terrorist? You negotiated with him? You made peace with Egypt after two wars? You won't even talk to Hamas?
So what has all this gotten you? Where is Israel now? Where are you going? What is the logical conclusion for all this? What are you going to do, round up all the Palestinians and make them all disappear like Hitler did to the Jews?
Listening to your most extreme right wing, that sounds exactly like where this is all heading now to me.
"Why Antiwar only reports about attacks of Palestinansians, but never ….. "
While having been critical of antiwar.com as being controlled opposition, to be fair they do regularly report attacks on Palestinians, persons, property, & public infrastructure.
Mass murderer Netanyahu says he will now use a "heavy hand" as if he and his racist apartheid regime haven't used a heavy hand as a matter of routine.
Five people killed in Israel and all the media is abuzz with details of the horrible, cruel attack on innocent people. Sympathetic bios of the victims are written about. Talk of "responding harshly" with a "heavy hand" is duly reported uncritically
But when thousands of innocent Palestinians are brutally murdered in just as cold a fashion as in the recent Gaza invasion, the reporting takes on a different tone. Israel is merely "defending itself". The Israeli forces allegedly went to "extraordinary lengths" as they went about their lethal tasks to ensure that civilians were not harmed.
Vengeance demands that the red blood flow — Eye for eye — Tooth for tooth
The two patriotic brothers felt that they were doing a service to their imprisoned society, for terrorism is the blowback from injustice and if the brothers had not been so filled with vengeance as to execute their brand of justice, the vengeance would have continued to build in Palestine and a much greater act of terrorism would no doubt have been forthcoming.
In short, terrorism is an act of righteous indignation that brings a peaceful resolution to a state of war.
So, what Empire USA strives to accomplish by its War on Terrorism, is to destroy a peaceful resolution to Western injustice and create a state of war between a plunder loving Western world and the Middle-East. Great for Empire expansion, a giant step toward human extinction.
Such hypocrisy by the Zionist controlled NY Times to focus on this one terrible atrocity yet ignore the ongoing theft and murder of Palestinian sovereignty by the illegal occupation of a captured people.
Will this be an excuse like the death of the Israeli teenagers for another Operation Protective Edge, only this time in the West Bank? I hope some intrepid investigative journalists dig deep and reveal the complete story of the "Arab" perpetrators behind this latest attack.
Five Jews killed and the media goes nuts. How many Palestinians were killed a little while ago in Gaza?
What Nut&yahoo is talking about here is collective punishment of an occupied population, which is precisely the kind of activity for which German officials were executed following the Nuremberg trials held after WWII.
Nut&yahoo is so certain of his impunity for such crimes that he feels free to brag about them before the entire world.