An American university student was killed and 13 other people were wounded today in Israel, some of them seriously, in a “stabbing rampage” in Tel Aviv and Jaffa. All three attackers were killed by Israeli police, and officials say no one else is suspected of involvement in any of the incidents.
With one civilian killed and the attackers all dead, Israeli Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz declared the situation as a state of war for Israel, dubbing it the result of an “intifada of incitement” and vowing to push a parliamentary bill through allowing the government to expel all relatives of the attackers, whether they were involved in the attacks or not.
Suggesting a further crackdown on people not involved in the attack, the Israeli military also announced a full-scale closure on the West Bank villages of Zawia and Auja on the grounds that two of the attackers were originally from those villages.
A fourth “attacker,” not actually involved in any attacks, was also reported killed, an unnamed 51-year-old woman who police say had a knife on her near a checkpoint.
O, great! Just what Bibi wanted — an excuse for going to war. (As if he ever needed one)
Israel: Evolution of evil.
Expelling Arabs is the goal, not a method.
Israel’s policies are the reason for the violence, not a reaction to it.
State of War? So why publish something like this since Israel desires no peace. One has to remember that the attacks on happening in land stoelen in the 1967 Israel war of aggression. Israel can always just go home if they do not like things. The Arabs are the ones suffering under an occupation force.
Israelis deserve that and much more.
aka: comeuppance