Palestine Brings On the Third Intifada Against Israel

Nadene Goldfoot                                                                   

Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas Prime Minister from March 29, 2006 to June 2, 2014, declared on Monday, June 23rd that the 3rd Intifada against Israel has now begun.  Sounds like a declaration of war to me.

1. This is the Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, beginning in 1987.  Ismail is  actually saying that they will just continue fighting against Israel and have no intentions of being peaceful neighbors.  Israel hasn't "occupied" Gaza since they pulled out in 2005.  Judea and Samaria the original Jewish names for what Jordan renamed as "The West Bank" in their act to eliminate our history in the area, is also populated by Jews.  They have a right to be there as it all had been zoned off between Palestinian and Israel sites.  

Kerry neglected to say that when Gaza stopped shelling Israel, then recognition would be possible of a Palestine.  

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 This 51 year old father of 12 children  has been replaced in the new formation of Palestine by Rami Hamdallah. He is Palestine's new Prime Minister and a Fatah member, selected by Abbas.   He's been actively encouraging Palestinians to kidnap IDF soldiers.  Then he is sitting back and declaring that Israel's frantic searching is only increasing their willingness to resist.  To resist what?  Peace, evidently.  They're certainly not helping to search.  In fact, they are throwing stones at searchers and trying to prevent it from happening.
                                                                           

It actually started with the USA and the EU recognizing their state of Palestine and the unification of Fatah and Hamas as its people. The only clause given by the USA was that Obama would be watching their activities.   Evidently as soon as they were recognized, Hamas infiltrated into Judea and Samaria.  By doing this, they were set up to cause havoc against Israel which they have done.  While rockets have been raining on southern Israel from Gaza Hamas terrorists, others in Fatah-held Judea-Samaria kidnapped  only a few days later, 3 teen-aged boys on their way home from Yeshiva, a religious school.

To mess with Israel's children is a huge crime.  Israel knows all about kidnapping, having gone through this before with Gilad Shalit, a young  IDF soldier held over 5 years by terrorists.  Israel had to act quickly and hoped that Glad Shaar, 19, Eyal Yifrach, 16, and Naftali Frankel, 16 were still alive.  Their school was in Gush Etzion, south of Bethlehem.  They were hitchhiking home.  Within minutes of the kidnapping, one boy was able to send a text message that they had been kidnapped.  They evidently accepted a ride with terrorists unknowingly.

IDF and police went through towns and open areas in Judea and Samaria in what they called "Operation Brother's Keeper. They have searched around Hebron.   They found many Hamas members that were not there before the recognition of Palestine.
                                                                   

The Palestinians are enjoying the theater and are using it to their advantage.  They are actually celebrating the kidnapping.   They're handing out sweets.  Even Fatah students at Bir Zeit University near Ramallah handed out sweets in the act of celebrating.  Palestinian Arabs also celebrated wildly when they heard about the Twin Towers of 9/11.

  On the other hand, the PA Prime Minister Hahmoud Abbas sees this as a problem to his formation of Palestine and has been extolling the wrongness of the act to Netanyahu and the Israelis.  Netanyahu praised him for his remarks made in Saudi Arabia for saying that "There can be no alliance with the kidnappers of children."   Yet Abbas is the one who encourages such acts by his Fatah celebrations and TV programs.  He aids and abets such activity a lot, so really is to blame.  He does nothing to bring peace between the two peoples. By uniting with Hamas, he has signed onto their destructive and deplorable charter calling for the destruction of Israel.  Netanyahu asked him to abrogate the recent unity pact between  Fatah and Hamas. Dollars to donuts, he won't.  He's being very 2-faced, if you ask me.
                                                                         

Khaled Mashaal, Hamas political bureau chairman since 1996, seems to be in the dark about this kidnapping.  He probably wasn't the organizer and has been left out of the loop, because he said, "If it turns out that the kidnapping really happened, I welcome it."  Netanyahu commented that "Mashaal once again made it clear that Hamas remains committed to its war against Israel and its war against every Israeli citizen, and coincidentally, against every Jew around the world."  They did not discriminate the fact that one of the boys kidnapped has USA citizenship.

Resource: http://www.tlvfaces.com/hamas-chief-haniyeh-third-intifada-begun/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ismail_Haniyeh
http://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Hamas-leader-Ismail-Haniyeh-encourages-abduction-of-Israeli-soldiers-348596
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/06/15/this-is-how-some-palestinians-are-celebrating-a-kidnapping/
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.600275
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rami_Hamdallah

Has a 3rd Intifada Started?

Nadene Goldfoot                                                                      

The Islamic Jihad and Hamas have called for the 3rd intifada to begin against Israel.  Riots have broken out in some parts of Judea and Samaria even though the Palestinian Authority there has said that they don't want it to happen.  Six Israelis were injured.  This happened on the 13th anniversary of the 2nd Palestinian Intifada.  The 2nd one, or Al-Aqsa Intifada started in September 2000 and ended in 2005 with 3,000 Palestinians dead and 1,000 Israelis as well as 64 foreigners.  During peace negotiations, this tells us something.  Abbas does not have control over his people.  This is not demonstrating the value of their neighborliness.  It's showing why Netanyahu is so adamant about security.

Riots started up in Hebron, an ancient city of  Judah, on  September 27th. This is the city where Abraham bought a plot of land called the Cave of Machpelah in which to bury his wife, Sarah.  Jews had lived here since then, but in 1929, Arabs massacred almost all the 700 Jews in Hebron , causing survivors to flee.  Some returned in 19331 only to have faced more riots in 1936.  Today a mosque stands on this site.  After the Six Day War of 1967, a number of Jews again settled in Hebron, establishing the Kiryat Arba quarter east of the city.  They had a population of 3,700 in 1988.  Rioting has happened in east Jerusalem

Friday, which is the Muslim holy day and when Shabbat starts for Jews at sundown, an IDF soldier was wounded by a stone that was thrown at him just north of Hebron in the village of Beit Ummar.  He was treated right there by a medical team.  Dozens, meaning more than 24 Palestinians of Hebron were throwing stones and lighting their garbage cans on fire.  The IDF in return shot rubber bullets at the protesters, injuring about 4 Arabs.
                                                                           

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Other outbursts came from the old Christian village of Ni'lin outside Ramallah, now almost all Muslim, which is 6 miles north of Jerusalem,  where an Israeli was injured and taken to Tel  Hashomer Hospital and treated for minor wounds.  Ramallah is in Judea/Samaria.   Near Ramallah is the Ofer prison where a a demonstration outside was taking place.  Rock throwing and tire burning were part of the demonstration.  Several Palestinian Arabs received some slight injuries during this riot.  Evidently the peace talks have stalled as well. Ramallah is where they meet.  The problem is that paramount in importance to Israel is the settlement about borders and Israel's security which Abbas is avoiding.  This peace initiative started in July.  Now the USA has sent Martin Indyk to lead the meetings and he hopes to get more accomplished.  He should be there now to see why security is so important and see how friendly our neighbors are behaving with this uprising called an intifada.

Two Palestinians were caught carrying fire bombs near Bethlehem, which is almost  all Muslim  today.  They also threw rocks and burned tires, causing the IDF to respond with tear gas, stun grenades and rubber bullets.

In northern Gaza, there was a demonstration of Hamas governed Palestinians who were marching toward the Israeli border fence, meaning to tear it apart, no doubt.  The IDF managed to disperse them.

The actions of the 1st intifada started on December 6, 1987 with the stabbing of an Israeli in Gaza while shopping.  Rioting then was instigated on December 9, 1987 in the Jabalia refugee camp. A 17 year old threw a molotov cocktail at an IDF soldier and he was shot in return.  This brought on the intifada to Gaza, Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria.    It didn't really stop until the 1993 Oslo Accords.  The Madrid Conference of 1991 slowed things down a little.  About 1,000 Palestinians lost their lives during this 6 year demonstration.

A 9 year old girl was shot point blank in the chest on Shabbat by a rifle from  a black masked rioting shooter in Psagot, a Jewish town in Judea/Samaria with a population of 1,623 back in 2008.  No one can be safe in such rioting.  Psagot lies outside Ramallah and seems  cuts off the expansion of the larger city. When Israel won land by the Arab attack in 1967 when resulted in the Arab loss, Israel gave the people of Ramallah Israel identity cards which meant they could travel into Israel and Gaza.  Yet they were the first to rebel in the 1st intifada.

One wonders if this anniversary Intifada was called in reaction to the Muslim Brotherhood being dismantled in Egypt.  They held the same type of doctrine as Hamas.

Abbas had agreed in July to 9 months of discussions about a resolution between Israel and the Arabs' desire to create their own state of Palestine out of part of Israel,  but Hamas threw him out of Gaza and now seems to be trying to take over Abbas's territory.   Even during a peace talk, there is no peace.

Resource:  http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/palestinians-hurl-stones-israelis-mark-intifada-anniversary/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=palestinians-hurl-stones-israelis-mark-intifada-anniversary
Jerusalem Post
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramallah
http://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-Politics/Abbas-US-envoy-Indyk-discuss-Israeli-Palestinian-peace-talks-in-Ramallah-327909
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/intifada.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Intifada
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.550672
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psagot
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramallah
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Intifada

The Muhammad al-Durrah Incident in Gaza in 2,000 and The Final Outcome

Nadene Goldfoot                                                                        

Almost 13 years ago, on the 2nd day of the 2nd Intifada, the Palestinian Hamas terrorists and the Palestinian National Security Forces were firing at Israeli soldiers at the Netzarim Junction in the Gaza Strip. Rioting was widespread in Gaza at this time.   This was before 2005 when all Jews were pulled out of Gaza by their government for the sake of peace.  There poised with a camera hoping to catch some indiscretion of the Israelis was Palestinian Talal Abu Rahma filming the Intifada.  He was a freelancer for France 2, serving the French audience.

Caught between the shooters in the crossfire next to a big concrete cylinder and against a wall made of cement blocks was Jamal al Durrah and his 12 year old son, Muhammad.  It was noontime.  Why they found it important to be out in such a time amid the 2nd day of  war is not known, but there they were, the boy behind his father in a crouch position holding onto his father's tee shirt.  The father was shot several times after waving his arms and the boy was shot and thought to have died later, but this is even in question.   The camera does not tell us if he died immediately from the shooting.  Who shot the pair?  Palestinians or Israelis?  The footage shot lasted just over a minute and only showed the pair holding onto each other with the boy crying and the father waving, and then gunfire and dust.  After that the boy is seen slumped across his father's legs. It actually looks to me like the boy was actually shielding his father from his position.  To be truly protected, the boy should have been up against the wall and next to the cylinder with the father covering him.

 Shown in France was 59 seconds with a voice-over from Charles Enderlin, France 2's bureau chief stationed in Israel.  He was not a witness to the incident and had to get all the information by phone from Talal, the Palestinian cameraman.  He took the liberty of telling viewers that the al-Durrahs had been the "target of fire from the Israeli positions," and that the boy had died.  There was a very emotional public funeral for him, and Muhammad was called a martyr throughout the Arab and Muslim worlds.  It was an explosive situation during a very explosive time of the Intifada.  Charles truly had poured gasoline on an already out of control fire.

The IDF accepted responsibility at first and Israel apologized for the death of the boy but an investigation indicated that the boy was most likely killed by Palestinian fire.  (They really needed to see the bullets and determine what type of gun they came from for this as any CSI detective would pronounce.)  Israel is not out to kill children.  That is not their goal, and they didn't start the Intifada.

3 senior French journalists saw the raw footage later in 2004 and couldn't determine that the boy had even died from it and saw that France 2 cut a final few seconds of the footage where he appeared to lift his hand from his face.  This France 2 news editor said a year later in 2005 that no one for sure could say who fired the shots.  The director of the Israeli government press office felt that the scene had been staged by Palestinian protesters.  This has happened before that film has been staged.  Philippe Karsenty, a French media commentator was sued for libel by France 2 for suggesting this, as others in the business also suspected this was the case.  The Paris Court of Appeal overturned a ruling against him in May 2008 who agreed that some scenes didn't seem genuine.  He also had presented the court a great deal of evidence for this.  The court found that the Palestinian cameraman , Talal Abu Rahma, was not credible.  France 2 has appealed the decision.

The Arabs are proving that they still carry on a blood libel with the Jews in this event.  It showed the people involved in this case that the Palestinians were willing to deliberately sacrifice their own children in the anti-Zionist war.

This event has been used to cause other violent uprisings like the October 2000 lynching of 2 Israeli army reservists in Ramallah.  It was seen in the background when Daniel Pearl, the Jewish-American journalist was beheaded by al-Qaeda in 2002.

James Fallows wrote that no version of the truth about the footage will ever emerge that all sides consider believable.  The viewers of the film only see what they want to see according to Charles Enderlin.  During this time, also known as the al-Aqsa Intifada,  which lasted from September 2000 to 2005, 3,000 Palestinians died along with 1,000 Israelis and 64 foreigners.  The first Intifada lasted from 1987 to 1993.

Israel has now released a government report that cleared the Israel Defense Forces of wrongdoing.  A "secret" Facebook group of foreign correspondents known to others as "The Vulture Club" which has about 3,000 members and human rights activists turned into an anti-Israel hate-fest yesterday after this came out.  They have mocked the report, attack the IDF, and claim that pro-Israel lobbyists were influencing the media coverage.  The New York Times was also blasted for its coverage.  The Associated Press and the Agence France-Presse also attacked Israel.  They claim that Israeli embassies call their contacts and they agree to publish what they say.

They say a picture is worth 1,000 words, but today even that is not reliable.  There is Photo-Shop, and there are stages scenes that are used as propaganda.  One has to look at motive.  What motive would the Israelis have to shoot to kill a child?  First, it's not within our ethics and morality to do such a thing.  Second, it's wonderful motive for the Palestinians to do this.  They are not  beneath using walking bombers that sacrifice their lives to kill Israelis.  War is Hell, as they say, and this is a good example of why one shouldn't be out between two warring factions. Rioting was going on with people who shoot guns.   So much for trusting the media today.  I wouldn't give you 2 cents for the reliability of these foreign correspondents that are truly Vultures. Guys, these are old tactics.  Where have you been?  Check out the bullets and make sure they came from the body, not out of some pocket.  The film does not prove anything other than where they were and that the boy was scared.   Proof is not he said she said.  Israel had already taken responsibility and had apologized but doesn't want to take the fault if it wasn't theirs in the first place.

Resource: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Intifada
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4381552,00.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_al-Durrah_incident
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/may/22/reporters-human-rights-activists-trash-israel-secr/
5/23/13  http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=2&x_outlet=55&x_article=2468
http://www.timesofisrael.com/second-intifada-icon-muhammad-al-dura-didnt-die-in-2010-shooting-israel-claims/