Palestinians Massing At The Israeli Border

[P F Tinmore]

 

[Hollie]

Gee-had denied.

 

[Sixties Fan]

According to al-Akhbar’s report, Egyptian ‎intelligence officials have asked the Palestinian ‎groups to provide them with proof that the IDF ‎indeed targeted protesters who did not pose a threat ‎to Israeli troops. ‎

Cairo has relayed an Israeli message to Hamas saying ‎Israel has no interest in a security escalation, and ‎that it remains committed to recent understandings that have resulted in a dramatic decline in the border violence.

(full article online)

Report: Egypt Steps In to Curb Gaza Border Violence

 

[Sixties Fan]

Farmers on the Gaza border who lost much of their wheat crop in Hamas fires are teaming with a local brewery to make beer.

(full article online)

In wake of Hamas fires, Gaza border wheat farmers will make beer

 

[Coyote]

Farmers on the Gaza border who lost much of their wheat crop in Hamas fires are teaming with a local brewery to make beer.

(full article online)

In wake of Hamas fires, Gaza border wheat farmers will make beer

What a pity a similar alternative isn't available to the Palestinian farmers who who lost their olive trees to Jewish terrorist activities.

 

[Mindful]

Farmers on the Gaza border who lost much of their wheat crop in Hamas fires are teaming with a local brewery to make beer.

(full article online)

In wake of Hamas fires, Gaza border wheat farmers will make beer

What a pity a similar alternative isn't available to the Palestinian farmers who who lost their olive trees to Jewish terrorist activities.

So there was a precedent:


Army says it dispersed Israelis who have been involved in eight such attacks since drive-by killing of rabbi by Palestinian terrorists.

 

[Coyote]

Farmers on the Gaza border who lost much of their wheat crop in Hamas fires are teaming with a local brewery to make beer.

(full article online)

In wake of Hamas fires, Gaza border wheat farmers will make beer

What a pity a similar alternative isn't available to the Palestinian farmers who who lost their olive trees to Jewish terrorist activities.

So there was a precedent:


Army says it dispersed Israelis who have been involved in eight such attacks since drive-by killing of rabbi by Palestinian terrorists.

Your point being?

 

[P F Tinmore]

Why injured Palestinian protesters keep returning to the fence

“Nothing hinders us. When we revolt against injustice, nobody can stand in our way.”

Wafa Aludaini

Gaza, Palestine –
Since March 30, Palestinians have held weekly protests each Friday, now joined with maritime protests on Mondays, demanding their right to return to their occupied lands and an end to Israel’s twelve-year siege of the Gaza Strip.

During these protests, Israeli forces have injured more than 10,000 peaceful demonstrators with live and rubber bullets, as well as tear gas canisters, while killing 179.

According to the Palestinian ministry of health, many of the serious injuries are to the lower limbs, including the knees, and are the kind of wounds not seen since Israel’s 2014 bombardment and invasion of Gaza.

“The number of wounded has reached colossal proportions, the likes of which we have not witnessed since the occupation of Palestine in 1948,” said Dr. Ashraf al-Qedra, a spokesperson for the ministry of health.

One victim of Israeli fire is Aed Abu Amer, whose picture went viral before he was shot twice in both legs.

“After I was shot the first time and my picture went viral, I felt I was a target for the Israeli snipers,” he said.

“Whenever I came close to the fence they shot at me, until I was finally hit in my other leg.”

Despite suffering extreme bone and tissue damage, Aed said he would return to the fence to protest.

Asma Abu Daqqa, a mother of four shot while rescuing another injured women, was seen in a wheelchair participating in the massive demonstration.

“Despite the seriousness of my injury, I won’t stop protesting even if I have to crawl,” she said.

Why injured Palestinian protesters keep returning to the fence - Just World Educational

 

[Hollie]

Why Arabs-Moslems keep returning for welfare payments

The gee-had for dummies.


Hamas Pays Families Of Gazans Killed Or Wounded In 'Return March'

Hamas Pays Families Of Gazans Killed Or Wounded In 'Return March'

Hamas is continuing to encourage Gazans to participate in the Great Return March.[1] On April 5, 2018, ahead of the second Friday of the protests, Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem revealed that the movement is granting financial aid to the families of Gazans killed or wounded in the confrontations on the border. The sums range from $3,000 for the family of a "martyr" to $200 for protesters moderately injured. Concurrently, Hamas officials reiterated their determination to continue the marches on the Israeli border, and threatened that these confrontations will "erupt in the face of the Israeli occupation" and will be a turning point in Palestinian history.

 

[RoccoR]

RE: Palestinians Massing At The Israeli Border
⁜→ Hollie, et al,

This sets the character of the Arab Palestinian mentality wherein the regime conduct is so wanton, so deficient in a moral sense of concern, and so lacking in regard for the life of their citizenry, as to warrant criminal liability in the incitement to violence for the expressed purpose of monetary gain (attempted suicide to collect a payout).

... The sums range from:

✦ $3,000 for the family of a "martyr"
✦ $200 for protesters moderately injured. ​

Concurrently, Hamas officials reiterated their determination to continue the marches on the Israeli border, and threatened that these confrontations will "erupt in the face of the Israeli occupation" and will be a turning point in Palestinian history.

(CITATIONS)

• Security Council Resolution S/RES/1624 (2005) •

✪ Reaffirming that acts, methods, and practices of terrorism are contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations and that knowingly financing, planning and inciting terrorist acts are also contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations,

✪ Recognizing the importance that, in an increasingly globalized world, States act cooperatively to prevent terrorists from exploiting sophisticated technology, communications and resources to incite support for criminal acts,

✪ Condemning also in the strongest terms the incitement of terrorist acts and repudiating attempts at the justification or glorification (apologie) of terrorist acts that may incite further terrorist acts,​

• General Assembly Resolution A/RES/2/110 (II) (1947) •

✪ Condemns all forms of propaganda, in whatsoever country conducted, which is either designed or likely to provoke or encourage and threat to the peace, breach of the peace, or act of aggression;​

• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (CCPR)(Entry into Force 23 March 1976) •
General Assembly Resolution A/RES/2200A (XXI) (1966)

Article 20

1. Any propaganda for war shall be prohibited by law.

2. Any advocacy of national, racial or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence shall be prohibited by law.​

(COMMENT)

Each citation has applicability to most hostile actions or policies the Arab Palestinians take.

Most Respectfully,
R

 

[P F Tinmore]

RE: Palestinians Massing At The Israeli Border
⁜→ Hollie, et al,

This sets the character of the Arab Palestinian mentality wherein the regime conduct is so wanton, so deficient in a moral sense of concern, and so lacking in regard for the life of their citizenry, as to warrant criminal liability in the incitement to violence for the expressed purpose of monetary gain (attempted suicide to collect a payout).

... The sums range from:

✦ $3,000 for the family of a "martyr"
✦ $200 for protesters moderately injured. ​

Concurrently, Hamas officials reiterated their determination to continue the marches on the Israeli border, and threatened that these confrontations will "erupt in the face of the Israeli occupation" and will be a turning point in Palestinian history.

(CITATIONS)

• Security Council Resolution S/RES/1624 (2005) •

✪ Reaffirming that acts, methods, and practices of terrorism are contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations and that knowingly financing, planning and inciting terrorist acts are also contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations,

✪ Recognizing the importance that, in an increasingly globalized world, States act cooperatively to prevent terrorists from exploiting sophisticated technology, communications and resources to incite support for criminal acts,

✪ Condemning also in the strongest terms the incitement of terrorist acts and repudiating attempts at the justification or glorification (apologie) of terrorist acts that may incite further terrorist acts,​

• General Assembly Resolution A/RES/2/110 (II) (1947) •

✪ Condemns all forms of propaganda, in whatsoever country conducted, which is either designed or likely to provoke or encourage and threat to the peace, breach of the peace, or act of aggression;​

• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (CCPR)(Entry into Force 23 March 1976) •
General Assembly Resolution A/RES/2200A (XXI) (1966)

Article 20

1. Any propaganda for war shall be prohibited by law.

2. Any advocacy of national, racial or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence shall be prohibited by law.​

(COMMENT)

Each citation has applicability to most hostile actions or policies the Arab Palestinians take.

Most Respectfully,
R

Pfffft, your usual slime the Palestinians post.

 

[Hollie]

 

[Sixties Fan]

Here are the key quotes from the main Times article, several paragraphs into the article:

" The bullet that killed her, The Times found, was fired by an Israeli sniper into a crowd that included white-coated medics in plain view. A detailed reconstruction, stitched together from hundreds of crowd-sourced videos and photographs, shows that neither the medics nor anyone around them posed any apparent threat of violence to Israeli personnel. Though Israel later admitted her killing was unintentional, the shooting appears to have been reckless at best, and possibly a war crime, for which no one has yet been punished."


Notice how in that key paragraph, the first to introduce the Times’ conclusion, no mention is made of the ricochet. The paragraph makes it seem as if al-Najjar was deliberately and directly shot when Israel fired “into” a crowd that included medics. Only much later does the Times acknowledge that al-Najjar was not directly shot, the bullet did not go “into” the crowd, it struck the ground several yards away.

You have to read deep down into the article, to find these details:

" Three medics down, all from one bullet. It seemed improbable.

But The Times’s reconstruction confirmed it: The bullet hit the ground in front of the medics, then fragmented, part of it ricocheting upward and piercing Ms. Najjar’s chest.

It was fired from a sand berm used by Israeli snipers at least 120 yards from where the medics fell. "

To get even more details, you need to go to the separate methodology article the Times ran, including that Israel did not fire at the medics, but rather, people near the medics, and that the bullet hit the ground “a few yards away from the medics, and ricocheted off the ground:

" What’s more, behind the target was a group of bystanders and medics in white coats. Former snipers in the United States Army and the Israel Defense Forces told us that, without a backstop, it was a reckless shot to take.

The bullet missed and hit the ground a few yards in front of the medics. Michael Knox, a forensic ballistics investigator, told us that the type of bullet used by the Israeli sniper could skim like a stone off the rocky soil. When it hits soil at a low angle, it pushes the soil ahead of it into a miniature ramp and projects itself up and out of the ground. Mohammed Shafee was hit in the torso with shrapnel. The bullet grazed Rami Abo Jazar’s thigh and continued its upward trajectory to pierce Rouzan just above her chest, severing her aorta."

It is understandable that anti-Israel activists like James Zogby are upset that the facts of the investigation rebutted the narrative:


(full article online)

After massive investigation, NY Times concludes Israel did not intentionally shoot medic Rouzan al-Najjar

 

[Sixties Fan]

IDF annual report: 1,000 rockets fired at Israel from Gaza in 2018

 

[Sixties Fan]

Meet Joe Truzman, our go-to source on Gaza and Palestinian terror groups

 

[P F Tinmore]

Meet Joe Truzman, our go-to source on Gaza and Palestinian terror groups

How much time has he spent in Gaza?

 

[Hollie]

Meet Joe Truzman, our go-to source on Gaza and Palestinian terror groups

How much time has he spent in Gaza?

I suspect more time than you, in spite of your assignment as the Hamas Politburo spokesbeard.

 

[Sixties Fan]

The rioters hurling fire bombs, rocks, burning tires and flaming kites – some embellished with swastikas – and ripping down the fence wherever they can are not termed “rioters” by the Times — but “protesters.” The rants of “death to Israel” and threats that the “army of Muhammad” is coming delivered by Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh to chanting mobs are excluded.

The riots are termed instead a “kind of nationalist circus,” which they may be, but genocidal bigotry fuels this circus and its frenzy week after week to overrun the fence and invade Israel.

The Times has a longstanding aversion to reporting straight on demonization of the Jewish people, so there is also no mention of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar vowing last April before the death of the young medic: “We will take down the border and we will tear out their hearts from their bodies.”

The effort broadly to obscure Palestinian violence against Israel includes also blurring the most serious threat, the chronic rocket and missile fire from Gaza into Israel. The Times’David Halbfinger and his colleagues relay that the young medic had hoped to study medicine abroad, observing, “But then came the rockets, the blockade, the wars.”

The blockade and wars resulted from thousands of rockets and missiles from Gaza. The onslaught has also necessitated bomb shelters and concrete-protected schools and public spaces throughout Israel’s south, safe rooms in every home and elaborate anti-missile systems to protect against the bombardments. No mention is made of the millions of Israelis who live under missile threat from Gaza.

(full article online)

New York Times Ends Year with Epic Smear

 

[Sixties Fan]

• While Hamas is happy to boast openly about their fighters tearing at the border fences in Gaza and hiding behind civilians to evade Israeli soldiers—the New York Times makes no mention of this. Israeli soldiers are portrayed as faceless killing machines, without a single reference to the fire kites, terror tunnels, rockets or cross border explosive devices utilized by the Palestinians, or to the double war crime of Hamas targeting Israeli civilians by firing rockets from behind Palestinian civilians.
  
  
• These Israeli civilians are not occupiers or usurpers. They live in Israel proper not in occupied or disputed territory. This area was built from scratch by Israelis on barren desert land and the Israelis have a right to be protected from fire bombs and mobs determined to breach the protective fence. How would other nations respond to such threats? Certainly not by treating these dangerous mobs as peaceful protestors merely exercising their freedom of speech and assembly.
  
  
• The Times's absurd conclusion that the shooter may have committed a "war crime," ignores the law of war crimes.
  
  
• Contrast what Israel does with how the Palestinians treat terrorists who willfully target and kill Jewish children, women and other civilians. The Palestinian Authority pays their families rewards – in effect bounties -- for their willful acts of murder. Hamas promotes and lionizes terrorists who kill Jews. But you would not know any of that from reading the one-sided New York Times screed....All in all, it is a shockingly irresponsible report.

(full article online)

The New York Times Incentivizes Hamas Violence

 

[P F Tinmore]

The rioters hurling fire bombs, rocks, burning tires and flaming kites – some embellished with swastikas – and ripping down the fence wherever they can are not termed “rioters” by the Times — but “protesters.” The rants of “death to Israel” and threats that the “army of Muhammad” is coming delivered by Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh to chanting mobs are excluded.

The riots are termed instead a “kind of nationalist circus,” which they may be, but genocidal bigotry fuels this circus and its frenzy week after week to overrun the fence and invade Israel.

The Times has a longstanding aversion to reporting straight on demonization of the Jewish people, so there is also no mention of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar vowing last April before the death of the young medic: “We will take down the border and we will tear out their hearts from their bodies.”

The effort broadly to obscure Palestinian violence against Israel includes also blurring the most serious threat, the chronic rocket and missile fire from Gaza into Israel. The Times’David Halbfinger and his colleagues relay that the young medic had hoped to study medicine abroad, observing, “But then came the rockets, the blockade, the wars.”

The blockade and wars resulted from thousands of rockets and missiles from Gaza. The onslaught has also necessitated bomb shelters and concrete-protected schools and public spaces throughout Israel’s south, safe rooms in every home and elaborate anti-missile systems to protect against the bombardments. No mention is made of the millions of Israelis who live under missile threat from Gaza.

(full article online)

New York Times Ends Year with Epic Smear

Occupations always have a problem with security. It comes with the territory.