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The look on the faces shows this is no game. Malice and death is the aim of using rocks as weapons. They are dangerous and do kill.
US Group Demands Action against Deadly Rock-Throwing
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The Zionist Organization of America in Israel is urging the US consulate in Jerusalem the de facto embassy for local Palestinian Arabs to demand a change in PA policy and zero tolerance for rock-throwing incidents.
American Citizen Attacked on Way to Funeral
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Rock-throwing by Palestinian Arabs in Mount of Olives neighborhood has increased dramatically.
Last month, American citizen Tova Richler and her family were attacked by rock-throwing Arabs on their way to the Mount of Olives Cemetery to attend her fathers funeral.
The Zionist Organization of Americas Israel director, Jeff Daube, sent a letter to Jerusalem Consul General Michael Ratney, with copies to the U.S. State Department, which Ratney represents. Daube cited an article about Richler, which described her inability to attend her own fathers funeral due to the shock of the attack. He also referred to other recent stoning attacks on American citizens that resulted in serious injury, while reminding the consul that the situation has deteriorated over many years. He sent copies to a dozen leaders in the U.S. and Israel who are especially concerned with the growing threat to the cemetery and its eastern Jerusalem environs.
Rock-Throwing Arabs Hit American Student
The violence, although intense in the Mount of Olives area, is not limited to the eastern section of the city. Only yesterday, near the Meah Shearim neighborhood, a car was attacked by rocks and glass bottles.
On Tuesday evening, an American teenage student was hit in the face by a rock-throwing Arab in the Old City during Jerusalem Day celebrations. According to Israel National News, Ahuva Schwartz, a Jerusalem resident, said: It started raining rocks and glass. On Wednesday, a police officer was injured.
In his letter, Daube cited an article about Richler, which described her inability to attend her own fathers funeral due to the shock of the attack. He also referred to other recent stoning attacks on American citizens that resulted in serious injury, while reminding the consul that the situation has deteriorated over many years.
US Consulate Can Influence PA Policy
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A car near Jerusalems Meah Shearim neighborhood hit by rock-throwing Arabs.
Having previously raised the problem in several meetings and letter correspondence, including with Ratneys predecessor Consul General Daniel Rubinstein without any known steps thus far having been taken by any U.S. official to mitigate the disgraceful status quo Daube suggested that it was time for Ratney to enter the conversation.
As the de facto U.S. embassy for the Palestinians, the Consulate has the right and access to demand from the Palestinian Authority that it change harmful policies; for example, the dogmatic religious bigotry that is rife in its own schools and mosques.
As in past communications, the letter requested unqualified condemnation from the Consul General for the stoning attacks and that he elicit condemnations (spoken in Arabic) combined with preventive action from the relevant Arab parties. Such parties would include local Arab leaders.
Rock-Throwing Aims to Kill Jews
Daubes letter additionally asked that the Mount of Olives area attacks, whose aim is to injure and/or kill Jews, be included in the 2014 iteration of two State Department annual reports, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices and Country Reports on Terrorism. Daube spotlighted the omission he discovered in the 2013 terrorism report, which did however contain extensive and disproportional references to the price tag attacks on Arab property. Daube declared the latter warranted unequivocal condemnation, but not any more so than Arab attacks on Jewish lives.
Its a no-brainer that mourners and pilgrims of all nationalities should not have to worry about terror and intimidation, or be confronted with desecrated gravestones and deliberately strewn garbage when they visit Judaisms holiest cemetery, Daube told United with Israel. That consulate officials have not ever contacted and supported at least the American victims nor voiced concern to them nor expressed outrage, let alone condemnation, is very disappointing. Hopefully the recent attacks on Ms. Richler will catalyze an adequate response to the habitual civil and human rights abuses directed at Jews in this and other parts of eastern Jerusalem.........................
US Group Demands Action against Deadly Rock-Throwing
site-iconunitedwithisrael.org/us-group-demands-action-against-deadly-rock-throwing/
American Citizen Attacked on Way to Funeral
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Rock-throwing by Palestinian Arabs in Mount of Olives neighborhood has increased dramatically.
Last month, American citizen Tova Richler and her family were attacked by rock-throwing Arabs on their way to the Mount of Olives Cemetery to attend her fathers funeral.
The Zionist Organization of Americas Israel director, Jeff Daube, sent a letter to Jerusalem Consul General Michael Ratney, with copies to the U.S. State Department, which Ratney represents. Daube cited an article about Richler, which described her inability to attend her own fathers funeral due to the shock of the attack. He also referred to other recent stoning attacks on American citizens that resulted in serious injury, while reminding the consul that the situation has deteriorated over many years. He sent copies to a dozen leaders in the U.S. and Israel who are especially concerned with the growing threat to the cemetery and its eastern Jerusalem environs.
Rock-Throwing Arabs Hit American Student
The violence, although intense in the Mount of Olives area, is not limited to the eastern section of the city. Only yesterday, near the Meah Shearim neighborhood, a car was attacked by rocks and glass bottles.
On Tuesday evening, an American teenage student was hit in the face by a rock-throwing Arab in the Old City during Jerusalem Day celebrations. According to Israel National News, Ahuva Schwartz, a Jerusalem resident, said: It started raining rocks and glass. On Wednesday, a police officer was injured.
In his letter, Daube cited an article about Richler, which described her inability to attend her own fathers funeral due to the shock of the attack. He also referred to other recent stoning attacks on American citizens that resulted in serious injury, while reminding the consul that the situation has deteriorated over many years.
US Consulate Can Influence PA Policy
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A car near Jerusalems Meah Shearim neighborhood hit by rock-throwing Arabs.
Having previously raised the problem in several meetings and letter correspondence, including with Ratneys predecessor Consul General Daniel Rubinstein without any known steps thus far having been taken by any U.S. official to mitigate the disgraceful status quo Daube suggested that it was time for Ratney to enter the conversation.
As the de facto U.S. embassy for the Palestinians, the Consulate has the right and access to demand from the Palestinian Authority that it change harmful policies; for example, the dogmatic religious bigotry that is rife in its own schools and mosques.
As in past communications, the letter requested unqualified condemnation from the Consul General for the stoning attacks and that he elicit condemnations (spoken in Arabic) combined with preventive action from the relevant Arab parties. Such parties would include local Arab leaders.
Rock-Throwing Aims to Kill Jews
Daubes letter additionally asked that the Mount of Olives area attacks, whose aim is to injure and/or kill Jews, be included in the 2014 iteration of two State Department annual reports, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices and Country Reports on Terrorism. Daube spotlighted the omission he discovered in the 2013 terrorism report, which did however contain extensive and disproportional references to the price tag attacks on Arab property. Daube declared the latter warranted unequivocal condemnation, but not any more so than Arab attacks on Jewish lives.
Its a no-brainer that mourners and pilgrims of all nationalities should not have to worry about terror and intimidation, or be confronted with desecrated gravestones and deliberately strewn garbage when they visit Judaisms holiest cemetery, Daube told United with Israel. That consulate officials have not ever contacted and supported at least the American victims nor voiced concern to them nor expressed outrage, let alone condemnation, is very disappointing. Hopefully the recent attacks on Ms. Richler will catalyze an adequate response to the habitual civil and human rights abuses directed at Jews in this and other parts of eastern Jerusalem.........................
