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Monday, July 07, 2014

07/07 Links Pt2: Gideon Levy's hidden racism; Review-‘Making David into Goliath’ Israel and the left

From Ian:

Book review: ‘Making David into Goliath’ by Joshua Muravchik - Israel and the left

Why did so many progressives abandon Israel and Zionism? That's the question Joshua Muravchik sets out to answer in "Making David Into Goliath: How the World Turned Against Israel." Part polemic, part intellectual history, this thoughtful and timely study explores Zionism's shifting position in the progressive imagination, "from a redemptive refuge from two thousand years of persecution to the very embodiment of white supremacy," as Mr. Muravchik puts it.
The author, a fellow at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, recalls how during its first two decades of existence the Jewish state attracted sympathy from broad swaths of the Western left. That support reached its apogee during the Six Day War, when some 3,700 academics signed a letter in the New York Times calling on the U.S. to militarily intervene in the conflict—on Israel's side. At the height of the war, the cause of Israel's survival united Hannah Arendt, Lionel Trilling, Ralph Ellison, Martin Luther King, Pablo Picasso and Jean-Paul Sartre, among other progressive luminaries.
Yet 1967 would also prove to be a turning point. Around the same time, the Palestinians launched a war of ideas against Israel's legitimacy that persists to this day. Having redefined themselves as a nation separate from the Arabs, the Palestinians thenceforth articulated their struggle as one for national self-determination against a colonial power.

The hidden racism of Gideon Levy

Gideon Levy is one of the most recognised voices of Haaretz newspaper, and as such he's much more recognised outside of Israel, since Haaretz and it's flagman Levy are so keen on making easy money from sensational, slanderous anti-Israeli fabrications, nobody inside of Israel bothers to read. From manipulating statistical data to meet his own worldview, to simply making up horror stories about the Israeli border police, Levy's lies have been revealed countless times by a variety of bodies and journalists. From his most recent pearls you have Israel "ordering" the kidnapping of the Judea and Samaria schoolboys (the Hebrew headline, in fact, states just that), all for provocation sake. Of course, nothing of the sort can be found in the actual article, because nothing of the sort ever took place. What can be found in abundance is only the typical blaming of Israel for the acts of filthy terrorists.

Studying Muslim Anti-Semitism in America

Steven Baum is an Albuquerque-based clinical psychologist who has been in private practice for over 30 years. He developed an interest in the psychology of genocide and then focused on the psychology of anti-Semitism during the next decade. He has published numerous articles and books on anti-Semitism, genocide and hate, and is the founder and editor of the Journal for the Study of Anti-Semitism.
“From the study, it became clear that the Muslims interviewed were more anti-Semitic than Christians in the United States and Canada. The average or mean test scores endorsing negative Jewish stereotypes – after statistically separating out anti-Israel sentiment items – were more than double those of North American Christians. When separating culture from religion, Arab Muslims came out as the most anti-Semitic. Arab Christians and Non-Arab Muslims from Bosnia and Pakistan were less so, yet still anti-Semitic. Mainstream North American Christians were not very anti-Semitic at all.

Rep. Gohmert Criticizes Textbook's Failure to Label Hezbollah, Hamas Terrorist Organizations

As TruthRevolt reported Wednesday, social studies textbooks currently being proposed for the Texas school system fail to label Hamas and Hezbollah as terrorist organizations.
Thursday Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert (R) told TruthRevolt he hoped that Texas would not adopt books promoting such “mis-education,” saying that truly educational texts should inform students of the reality of the dangers of terrorist groups, adding, “Only then will we have any chance of avoiding future mass attacks.”
"Hopefully, Texas will not adopt any textbook such as these that completely fails to educate students on which groups are terrorist organizations that actually want to kill them and destroy true liberty.
This type of mis-education would only set the students up for an incredulous shock when America gets hit with another 9-11 mass murder. Instead, true educating textbooks would make sure they knew substantially how eager the terrorist groups are to terrorize and kill innocent people like the students themselves. Only then will we have any chance of avoiding future mass attacks."
The new social studies textbooks and supplementary educational materials under consideration for adoption in 2015 will be used by 5 million students in the state. Due to its population, Texas is viewed by many states as the testing ground for educational materials.

Thousands of chickens killed by rocket - the UN will condemn this, right?

Back in 2010, the UN Goldstone Report spent countless hours researching and over 20 paragraphs discussing the destruction of the Sawafeary chicken farms during Operation Cast Lead:

On or around the night of 3 January 2009 Israeli troops arrived at a number of houses on al-Sekka Road in Zeytoun. The Mission interviewed four people who were direct witnesses to and victims of the events that occurred in the aftermath of their arrival. One witness was interviewed three times for a total of five hours and testified at the public hearings in Gaza. Another three were interviewed for an hour each. The Mission also visited the site of the Sawafeary chicken farms

...The Mission makes the same findings regarding article 147 of the Fourth Geneva Convention and article 54 (2) of Additional Protocol I, article 1 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, article 11 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and article 12 (2) of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women as it made above in relation to the el-Bader flour mill. [e.g.]

The right to adequate food therefore requires the right to food security (through either self-production or adequate income) and the “fundamental” right to be free from hunger. That Israel has not created a state of hunger is the result largely of the external aid provided to the population of Gaza. It has, however, severely affected the ability of Gazans both to produce food and to purchase it.

Article 1 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights states that “in no case may a people be deprived of its own means of subsistence.”

The right to adequate food is also reflected in the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, which requires State parties to guarantee to women “adequate nutrition during pregnancy and lactation.”

The Mission finds that, as a result of its actions to destroy food and water supplies and infrastructure, Israel has violated article 1 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, article 11 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and article 12 (2) of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.

See how seriously the UN takes the destruction of chicken coops, even during wartime?

So no doubt the UN will apply the same standards to Gaza terror groups, from where a rocket just destroyed a chicken farm and killed thousands of chickens this morning:

I'm sure Amnesty and HRW are also busily writing expansive reports all about this.

Oh, by the way - Hamas is now taking responsibility for the rocket attacks. From Felesteen:

The al-Qassam Brigades, military wing of the Hamas movement, on Monday evening announced it shot dozens of rockets towards towns and Israeli settlements in the south of occupied Palestine. The Brigades said in a press release that they "bombed sites in Netivot and Ofakim and Ashdod and Ashkelon, dozens of rockets, in response to Israeli aggression".

Hamas is part of the PA, so the UN should have no problem condemning the PA for attacking Israeli civilians - and chickens.

Unless you are playing a game of "disproportionate responsibility," where one side is always responsible and the other side isn't....

(h/t Yenta)

Molotov cocktails again thrown at Joseph's Tomb

Yesterday I noted that Arabs threw firebombs at Joseph's Tomb in Shechem (Nablus) on Saturday morning. There were no Israelis there; Jews who want to pray there only visit once or twice a month under heavy guard in the middle of the night.

Last night, the tomb was attacked again:

Dozens of Palestinian youths hurled Molotov cocktails at Joseph's Tomb in Nablus late Sunday, security officials said.

Palestinian security forces told Ma'an that youths gathered in the area after late prayers and hurled firebombs at the tomb, before being dispersed by security personnel.

The attack of a Jewish holy site is a purely antisemitic act. No "settlers," no Israeli flag, nothing remotely "Zionist" about it.

While the PA did try to protect it this time, I can find no condemnations of these acts that cannot be remotely construed as "anti-Zionist."

07/07 Links Pt1: Bibi: They consider murderers to be heroes. We don’t; There's No moral symmetry

From Ian:

No moral symmetry

Muhammad Abu Khdeir’s murder is well on its way to becoming a core building block in the pantheon of anti-Israel propaganda, a central plank in the false argument that Israelis are just as murderous as the Palestinians. That Israelis are no more moral than the Palestinians.
Without being too defensive, or in any way forgiving of the inexcusable kidnapping and gruesome murder of the young Arab boy from east Jerusalem, let it be said loud and clear: Comparisons that place Israeli and Palestinian societies on the same moral plane are evilly intended and utterly untruthful. No parallels can be drawn between Israel and the Palestinians when it comes to ethical standards. This is an asymmetrical conflict in every way: moral, political and ideological.
Israeli terrorists are few and far between. Over 100 years of conflict, they comprise a mere handful: Ami Popper, Jack Teitel, Yehuda Etzion, Baruch Goldstein, Yona Avrushmi and several others. This list of Palestinian terrorists fills fat ledger books across the globe, and the list of their victims fills even more.

After Jewish, Arab Murders, Netanyahu Compares Israeli, Palestinian Societies: They Name Public Squares After Killers, We Don’t

“I pledge that the perpetrators of this horrific crime, which must be resolutely condemned in the most forceful language. I pledge that the perpetrators of this horrific crime will face the full weight of the law,” Netanyahu emphasized.
“I know that in our society, the society of Israel, there is no place for such murderers. And that’s the difference between us and our neighbors. They consider murderers to be heroes. They name public squares after them. We don’t. We condemn them and we put them on trial and we’ll put them in prison.”
“And that’s not the only difference,” the PM continued. “While we put these murderers on trial, in the Palestinian Authority, there is continuous incitement for the destruction of the State of Israel. It’s a staple of the official media and the educational system.”

Netanyahu Tells PA: Find Teens' Murderers, Like We Found Khder's

Netanyahu was visiting the Frenkel family in Nof Ayalon. Their son, Naftali, 16, was murdered by Hamas terrorists along with Eyal Yifrah, 19, and Gilad Sha'ar, 16, by Hamas terrorists who are on the run.
"I am visiting today with my family, the families of Gilad, Naftali and Eyal, who were murdered by Hamas terrorists. I promised their dear families that we will continue to stand by them, even after the days of mourning," he said, with his wife Sarah standing at his side.
"We know exactly who kidnapped and murdered Gilad, Naftali and Eyal, and we'll get them. The murderers came from the territory controlled by the Palestinian Authority; they returned to territory controlled by the Palestinian Authority. Therefore, the Palestinian Authority is obliged to do everything in its power to find them, just as we did, just as our security forces located the suspects in the murder of Mohammed Abu Khder within a matter of days.

Terrorists threaten "settlers of Beersheva" in new video

This video can be seen on the Islamic Jihad Palestine Today site today.

To the settlers of Beersheva:
Your leaders have killed our children.
Bombarding our houses.
And sentenced you to death.
Flee, before it is too late.

Combined with the Hamas statement this morning that they will not accept any ceasefire while Israel limits what goods can get into Gaza, and it sure seems like they want a war.

Also, notice that the word "settler" pretty much means "Jew" for Arab terror groups and their fans.

Palestinians jump on the "ISIS is Zionist" bandwagon

In the Arab world, the best way to insult your enemy is to declare him "Zionist." Sisi's supporters in Egypt call Morsi a Zionist, while the Muslim Brotherhood calls Sisi a Zionist. Syrians call the Islamist rebels Zionist while the rebels call Assad Zionist. Hamas calls Fatah Zionist and Fatah returns the insult.

One of the most prevalent themes lately in the Muslim world is that ISIS was created by Israel (and the West.)

Now, it looks like Palestinian Arabs have joined the party.

This (pretty funny) satirical video from Al Falatiniya TV shows ISIS members looking for excuses to kill every passerby for not being Muslim enough, with the punchline in the end that they happily greet an Israeli.

ISIS, naturally, responds to these slanders by calling for a new Holocaust against Jews to bolster its antisemitic bona fides.

(h/t MEMRI)

Thoughts about my open condemnation letter

Yesterday, I issued an open and unequivocal condemnation of the murder of Mohammed Abu Khdeir, and invited bloggers and writers to sign on.

I had no idea how many would agree when I wrote it.

Within 12 hours, over a hundred people, including some very prominent writers and bloggers, had added their names to the letter. It was shared hundreds of times on Facebook. Many people wrote to say how appreciative they were that I put into words what they were thinking.

Zionist bloggers weren't alone in their condemnation. Major US Jewish and Zionist organizations roundly condemned the murder and expressed horror at the fact that the suspects are Israeli Jews.

As I've noted in the past, the anti-Israel crowd suffers from psychological projection. They assume, reflexively, that the hate they have for Israel is mirrored by Israelis and Zionists towards Arabs.

In the ten years I've been blogging, over hundreds of terror attacks, virtually every murder of innocent Jews was wholeheartedly and publicly embraced by the Palestinian public in their media and by their actions. Practically every time, dead Jews were roundly cheered, and it was literally impossible to find any Arabic-language voice opposing murdering Jewish civilians. At "best," they would define every Jewish man, woman and child in Israel as "settlers" and "soldiers" in order to justify the murders. (The lone exception was the murders of the Fogel family in Itamar in 2011, which seemed to make Arabs uncomfortable.)

The contrast with how ashamed nearly all Jews and Zionists are at even the possibility that other Jews murdered Mohammed cannot be starker.

The people that signed my letter run the gamut from progressive Jews to the most politically right-wing Jews you can find . The very people who the haters assume would be haters themselves have proven that they will not hesitate to flatly condemn the murder of an Arab even if it was done by a Jew. Moreover, the condemnation was not the Abbas-style "condemnation" that we have seen so many times, where the only reason given for the statement was that the terror act was bad for the Palestinian cause, and not because murdering civilians is immoral in and of itself. . And even Western darling Abbas does not hesitate to happily pose with murderers.

The signatures show as clearly as possible how different most Zionists are from their enemies.

But I am more than willing to be proven wrong. I would be thrilled to eat my words by seeing a similar letter written by pro-Arab bloggers or writers, using plain language, to flatly condemn the murders of Eyal, Naftali and Gil-ad - or the murder of Shelly Dadon: without qualification, without "contextualizing," without equivocation. Nothing would make me happier than to see major Arab organizations declare that murdering Jewish civilians in Israel is exactly as immoral as murdering anyone else.

I don't expect to see such an initiative any time soon.

When Arabs feel the same shame at their fellows' support for terror that Zionists do, then there may be hope for peace. But as long as the cheers for dead Israeli civilians echo in the streets of Gaza and Ramallah, all we can do is wait.

Some Arabs really want to start an intifada

Ma'an English reported:

Two Palestinian workers were killed Sunday after being run over by a truck in northern Israel, a police spokeswoman said.

The two were run over while they were fixing their car on the side of the road in Haifa on Route 70, Luba Samari said in a statement.

Samari called the incident "a horrific accident."

The victims were identified as Zahi Subi Abu Hamed from Qalqiliya, and Anwar Astal from Tulkarem, the statement said.

In Arabic, Ma'an calls the victims "martyrs."

Yet even Ma'an showed photos of the injured being helped by members of Zaka, a private ambulance service staffe by religious Jewish men.

Now for the incitement.

Egyptian secularist newspaper Al Wafd reported the incident this way:

Two Palestinians were killed on Sunday evening, crushed to death by Jewish extremist settlers in the main street in Haifa, while the third was wounded seriously injured.

The operation took place when three citizens were on the side of the road working to repair damage to their car, where they were run over by a truck driven by a settler, which resulted in the deaths of two on the spot, while the third was wounded seriously injured.

The General Federation of Trade Unions of Palestine said in a statement issued on Sunday evening that the Israeli government must take full responsibility for the death of Palestinian workers due to the truck driven by an Israeli in the street No. 70 in Haifa.

"The Martyrdom of workers Zahi Subhi Abu Hamid and Anwar Astal, who lives in the city of Jaffa, ..by the Israeli truck driver comes as a result of racial incitement and the hostile military atmosphere practiced by the occupation against the Palestinian people of all classes in all the cities and villages and towns and its camps in the Occupied Palestinian territories.

Their graphic for the article, showing what is probably a bunch of Chassidim celebrating Purim, couldn't possibly be considered antisemitic, right?

Two terrorists who were involved in shooting rockets to Israel were killed by an Israeli airstrike on Sunday evening.

Ma'an says:

Two members of al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad movement, were killed as Israeli warplanes struck al-Bureij refugee camp.

The two were identified as Mazen al-Hadba and Marwan Salim.

Palestine Press Agency says they were members of the al-Husseini wing of the Fatah movement.

Palestine Today says that the Popular Resistance Committees stated that they survived a raid and managed to shoot some rockets at a "settlement."

UPDATE: Felesteen reports that seven Hamas terrorists were killed in a targeted attack by Israel early Monday morning.

No civilian casualties reported.

Gaza terrorists shot 25 rockets at Israel on Sunday. It may be time to bring back my Qassam rocket calendar.

UPDATE 2: The IDF denies striking the Hamas tunnel where the seven were killed and assumes it was a "work accident."

If true, then the number of Palestinian Arab killed by each other this year in work accidents, misfired rockets and executions is at 38.

(h/t Yenta)

UPDATE 3: Looks like an IDF operation from several days ago that resulted in the explosions last night. (h/t Bob K)

Hasbara = Propaganda? (Guest post)

From Orryia Kohen:

Hasbara is the term used to describe Israel's tragicomic efforts at public diplomacy, that is to say, attempting to convince the world that it's not the Nazi-Apartheid state. Israel has had very few successes on that front. While most of humanity collectively yawns at the latest development in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, those who do care about the conflict tend to be biased in favour of the photogenic locals. Hasbara, in the meantime, is still being associated with cherry tomatoes and drip irrigation. As Melanie Philips once put it so eloquently, Hasbara is a joke.

Regardless of its effectiveness, among anti-Zionists the word Hasbara was predictably seized upon as a synonym for propaganda. (See +972, Electronic Intifada and other classic hate sites). But it isn't limited to anti-Zionist circles either. If you use Google Translate, you'll receive "propaganda" as one of the results. And if you look at Wikipedia's definition:

"Hasbara means "explanation", and is also a euphemism for propaganda."

Since Wikipedia and Google Translate agree on this subject (not to mention other, more reputable sources), it seems like a universally accepted fact. But is this truly the case?

Part of the confusion appears to stem from the different ways the word "propaganda" is used in the academia and in the wide public. In the academia it seems to have a broader meaning, related to all forms of communication aimed at influencing the public perception, such as advertising and public relations. Certainly, those activities share much in common with Hasbara. However, this isn't the way the word is generally used by the masses. Nation branding, the practice of building and managing a country's reputation, is not automatically labeled as propaganda. That is because people don't think about advertisements for New Zealand's pastoral scenery when they speak of propaganda. They think of lies, gross oversimplifications and totalitarian regimes.

Although Wikipedia tells us that propaganda was originally a neutral term, nowadays it is used almost solely with negative connotations, and is strongly associated with manipulation, distortion and jingoism. I don't believe that the precise literary definition of "propaganda" is important, in this case. The way people use the word matters far more. People's view of the word is that it describes the spread of false information for the sake of promoting a blind belief in a certain ideology, or blind support of a regime.

In Hebrew, two words are used to translate propaganda. One is "propaganda" (פרופוגנדה), borrowed from English and sharing the strong negative connotations. The second is "taamula" (תעמולה), a word that comes from the root a-m-l (ע-מ-ל), which means labor. The original meaning of the word was about making an effort to spread an idea. It doesn't carry the same pejorative connotation of propaganda. Taamula can be used both in a negative context (Nazi taamula - Nazi propaganda), and a neutral one (electoral taamula - electoral campaigns, medical taamula - marketing of medical devices).

Rarely is Hasbara used as a synonym of propaganda, or of taamula. If you talk to a native Hebrew speaker of "Nazi Hasbara" or "electoral Hasbara", you are likely to be misunderstood. The term Hasbara simply doesn't translate well to propaganda. It can only mean Israeli propaganda.

Whether Israeli public diplomacy constitutes propaganda is a subject open to debate. That is not the question that concerns me. I'm interested in crucially different matter - the meaning of the word. To clarify the distinction, take for example the word "abortion". If someone says, "abortion is murder", he is merely stating his opinion, with which others may disagree. But if he says, "the word abortion means murder", he is stating a (supposedly) objective fact.

To find a word's meaning, one has to look at its root and the context in which it's commonly used. The word Hasbara literally means "explaining", and thus carries almost the opposite connotations of propaganda. A person who explains himself isn't telling the listener what to think. He doesn't want the listener just to agree with him, but to understand him as well. And that desire for understanding implies that he treats the other person as creature with a brain, capable of independent judgment. It is therefore not surprising that those who oppose the use of the term argue against its apologetic overtone.

Besides being used as a name for Israeli public diplomacy, Hasbara is mainly used in connection to information and education. The phrase "education and Hasbara", i.e. consciousness raising, is used regularly. There are Hasbara conferences on the subjects of fire prevention, employment programs, ageing and disability services, the rights of Holocaust survivors, etc. Hasbara campaigns about road safety, anorexia, recycling and veganism also occur periodically. The Israeli ministry of environment has many "education and Hasbara" centres all over the country.

Instances in which Hasbara is used as a euphemism for propaganda can be found. However, almost all cases will be by people who happen to believe that Israeli public diplomacy is propaganda. They are entitled to keep that opinion, but that's all it is in the end - just an opinion. As I hope I've demonstrated, Hasbara isn't used as a synonym for propaganda in any other context. It's not the plain meaning of the word. By claiming the contrary, the opinion of certain people (Hasbara is propaganda) has turned into a fact (the word Hasbara means propaganda).

No wonder Hasbara hasn't been very successful.

Today's antisemitic incitement in Arab media (update)

Al Hayat al Jadida. the official daily newspaper of the Palestinian Authority, writes in an editorial:

[Israeli Jews] are repeating the ugly and disgusting Holocaust that burned their parents and grandparents in a repeat of Nazi history...What the world can do now, the free world, now that ... Israel is set to ignite a new Holocaust against the Palestinian people and to achieve the same goals of Nazism? ? ...What can the world do [about] bloody Israeli extremism has become more than clear, what it can do and the priests of racism want human sacrifices to sate their cravings and obsessive settlement ..?

Jihad al-Khazen, a widely read and syndicated writer at Al Hayat, writes "Netanyahu wants the liquidation of 1.5 million Palestinians, as the Nazis did to the Jews before him...The settler is the modern name of a Nazi of the twentieth century."

Magda Atallah, writing in Jordanian newspaper Assawsana, says "The Talmud says that any Jew who passes near a dwelling inhabited by non-Jews asks God to destroy it. Alternatively, if the building was destroyed, he thanks God for revenge!!! Corruption beyond corruption. Lying to kill the prophets of God. The violation of privacy. Distortion of heavenly books. Judaizing the country. Killing people."

Al Resalah, which published the blood libel as fact last week, says that a group of Palestinian Arab journalists supported the writer of the editorial.

Social media is even worse, with images like these:

UPDATE: Also, in Beit Omar, this Nazi flag was seen waving:

07/06 Links: Arrests in three murder cases, the Rule of Law Prevails; Riot and Rockets roundup

From Ian:

Six Jewish extremists arrested in killing of Jerusalem teen

The suspects are members of a Jewish extremist cell, the Shin Bet security agency said.
Officials suspect the killing was most likely carried out by Jewish extremists in revenge for the killing of three Israeli teenagers earlier in June.
Several Israeli media outlets reported that six people in total were arrested, including a number of minors.
The suspects are from Beit Shemesh, Jerusalem and the settlement of Adam, police said, according to Channel 2.

Police: Israeli Arab Killed Shelly Dadon in Suspected Terror Attack

Israel Police on Sunday announced that an Israeli Arab was behind the murder of 20-year-old Shelly Dadon in an empty parking lot in northern Israel on May 1, and that the killer is suspected to have had nationalistic motives.
The suspect is Hussein Khalifa, 34, from Iblin, a taxi driver who drove workers to and from factories in the Migdal Haemek industrial zone, according to the ISA – Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet).
“During ISA questioning, Hussein Khalifa confessed to murdering Dadon and disclosed many details regarding the murder,” Shin Bet investigators said in a statement. (h/t Bob Knot)

Suspected accomplice in 3 teens’ killings arrested

Husam Dofsh, who had been reported missing from his home since the abduction, called the Walla News desk hours after it was reported Friday that he was suspected of assisting in the abduction and killing of Eyal Yifrach, 19; Naftali Fraenkel, 16; and Gil-ad Shaar, 16.
Dofsh said that he was calling from his home and insisted he had taken no part in the kidnapping. He was apprehended by Israeli soldiers in a Hebron coffee shop soon after the call, and did not admit to complicity in the killing.
The Israeli military had raided Dofsh’s family house in Hebron several times since the abduction, notifying the family that he was wanted for questioning. But he was never at home when the raids took place and did not turn himself in to the IDF even after he was declared a suspect.

Murder suspects could strike again

The Etzion Brigade, stationed to cover the area where three Israeli teens were kidnapped and murdered, reinforced its forces in recent day to increase their defense capabilities due to fear among security officials that the two terrorists suspected in the kidnapping case will maneuver to carry out an additional attack in the area.
In an exclusive interview with Ynet, the commander of the Etzion Brigade, Colonel Amit Yamin, confirmed those fears stressing that an attack by Amar Abu-Eisha and Marwan Kawasmeh could manifest itself as the murder of soldiers, civilians or even an indiscriminatory suicide bombing.

There is no “cycle of violence” in Israel

There is no “cycle of violence” in Israel. There is instead an Islamic fundamentalist aggressor, identical to the one which at this moment is causing hundreds of thousands of deaths throughout the Middle East. An aggressor who hates the Jews, and whose orders to kill them is established in its charter, and who has kidnapped and killed three boys in cold-blood while singing joyously as can be heard in the terrible police’s tape recording.
If the Palestinian boy found Wednesday morning in the Jerusalem forest was killed by a group of Israeli criminals and racist psychopaths (which is still unproven at this time), this has nothing to do with the systematic and programmatic murder which has been perpetrated by Hamas for decades; an immense organization which has at hand an army, a significant stretch of land, Gaza, and access to funds.