ARAB TERRORISTS ROAM FREELY IN JERUSALEM

Blogmaster's comment: I give this article by Caroline Glick Five Stars...she is right on target. Only if someone would listen to what she has to say...

Anatomy of a massacre

Caroline Glick,

THE JERUSALEM POST July 4, 2008

Government and police spokesmen would have us believe that the carnage in Jerusalem on Wednesday was unavoidable. Husam Taysir Dwayat, the convicted rapist, burglar and drug dealer turned jihadist who mowed down innocent people with his bulldozer on Jaffa Road was not suspected of links to terrorist organizations. The sociopathic, violent criminal who had "returned" to Islam over the past month raised no red flags. There was nothing to be done. No one is to blame.

If the protestations of the government and the police that nothing could have prevented
Dwayat from using his bulldozer to murder three people sound familiar, it is because they are. Immediately after Ala Abu Dhaim entered into Mercaz Harav yeshiva on March 6 and
massacred eight students, government and police spokesmen said the same thing. There was no way to prevent the attack. No one is to blame.

These statements are no more than easy excuses for incompetence. While it may be true
that neither Dwayat nor Dhaim were members of a terror group, it is certainly true that
both of these Jerusalemite terrorists operated in an atmosphere that engenders both
radicalism and lawlessness. Their decisions to murder innocent people were products not only of their own evil natures, but of an atmosphere of permissiveness that naturally
intensifies any latent desire to cause death and mayhem. If they had been operating in a
different environment, it is possible they would have behaved differently.

Four months ago, Dhaim was able to enter Mercaz Harav by dint of his job as a driver for the Jerusalem Arab-owned transport company HaPnina. HaPnina had a city contract to transport school children. Dhaim, who arrived at the yeshiva in a company van, aroused no suspicion when he entered the yeshiva with a large box where he hid his rifle.

After Dhaim committed his massacre, the municipality immediately tried to abrogate its
contract with HaPnina. HaPnina sued and the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court issued a
temporary injunction requiring the city to continue using HaPnina until the judge ruled on the case. When Judge Hagit Mack-Kalmanovich finally decided in the municipality's favor on June 13, she noted that that the company had ignored a court order to provide
documentation showing that its drivers had no criminal records and were qualified to
transport children.

If the municipality were more vigilant in overseeing its contractors, it could have
discovered that HaPnina was employing criminals well before the massacre. Perhaps then Dhaim wouldn't have been able to enter the yeshiva.

It is a criminal offense to praise acts of murder. When hundreds came to pay their respects for Dhaim and proclaim him a hero, the police could have arrested and interrogated all of them. Among those who arrived at the Dhaim's mourning tent was Wednesday's terrorist,Dwayat. If he had been arrested then, it is possible that police would have discovered that this convicted rapist had recently become a jihadist. It is also possible that Dwayat himself would have been intimidated.

But rather than enforce the law, the police did nothing. Rather than arrest the hundreds
who came to praise Dhaim, the police excused their inaction by bemoaning the fact that the due process rights of Jerusalem Arabs made it impossible to destroy the homes of Arab terrorists in the capital without proper legal authorization. That is, they justified their decision to do nothing by complaining that they can't do everything.

The police's permissive behavior is nothing new. In Dhaim's and Dwayat's Arab
neighborhoods in Jerusalem, as in the Beduin settlements in the Negev and the Arab cities and villages in the Galilee, the police simply refuse to enforce the law. They do not patrol the streets. They do not arrest religious, educational and political leaders who solicit terrorism or incite hatred. They do not enforce building laws. They do not protect state and privately owned land from squatters. Today some 90 percent of Arab construction in Israel is carried out without permits. Whole towns in the Negev have been built on stolen state land. And the police do nothing.

As a consequence of police inaction, thieves, smugglers, terror solicitors and other
dangerous criminals are allowed to operate in the open. Fearing the wrath of human rights groups on the one hand and Arab rioters on the other, the police simply do not enforce Israeli law in the Arab sector.

This police passivity manifests itself not only in times of relative calm but also in
emergency situations. For instance, at both Mercaz Harav and on Jaffa Road, the police
were inexcusably passive. In both attacks the terrorists were only stopped by citizens who took the initiative when the police failed to act.

On Wednesday Dwayat killed two motorists and overturned a truck before a policeman and a security guard climbed into the cab of his bulldozer. And then, instead of shooting him, the policeman simply tried to restrain him. Due to the police's refusal to shoot, Dwayat killed 33-year-old Batsheva Unterman while the policeman was standing next to him in the bulldozer's cab. It was only the intervention of "M.," an unarmed IDF commando soldier on furlough, that ended the carnage.

M. climbed onto the bulldozer, took the security guard's gun and shot Dwayat in the head three times. Another policeman only shot Dwayat after M. had already killed him.

At Mercaz Harav, it took the police some 20 minutes to show up in force. Until then, only one police officer was at the scene. And as he heard the anguished cries of teenagers being murdered, he opted not to go in and protect them. He stood outside and did nothing.

Dhaim was only stopped when yeshiva student Moshe Dadon and furloughed paratrooper Capt. David Shapira killed him. As luck or providence would have it, Shapira is M.'s brother-in-law.

In failing to act against Arab Israeli lawlessness and the terror it engenders, the police are little different from the government. Like the police, the government turns a blind eye to the radicalization and lawlessness of Arab Israeli society. And when the unchallenged lawless and jihadist atmosphere leads inevitably to massacre, the government talks of how its hands are tied and makes angry, tough declarations not backed by policy. Then it quickly moves to change the subject.

The government's refusal to form a coherent policy regarding the deteriorating situation in Israeli-Arab society was exposed at the Knesset on Wednesday. There, just as Dwayat was on his killing spree, the Knesset was scheduled to vote on two bills written by opposition lawmakers after the Mercaz Harav massacre. If passed, the bills will allow the government to revoke the citizenship of terrorists and their family members and prohibit the families of dead terrorists from publicly celebrating their actions.

The government's Ministerial Committee on Legislation voted to oppose the bills some
weeks ago. It only changed its mind in light of the massacre on Jaffa Road. As opposition leader and Likud Chairman Binyamin Netanyahu noted on Thursday morning in an interview with Israel Radio, the government's support of the bills was pure political opportunism. The sudden change in its position made clear that the government has no policies, only postures.

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defense Minister Ehud Barak reacted to Wednesday's attack by loudly proclaiming their support for destroying Dwayat's home. But as Netanyahu noted, they are policy-makers, not spokesmen. Their job is to act, not to declaim about their preferences.

And yet, making loud, crowd pleasing declarations is the only policy the government has for dealing with anything. Both Barak and Olmert know that in sovereign Israel it is legally impossible to simply destroy a house without due process. Attorney-General Menahem Mazuz is still trying to work out how to legally destroy Dhaim's home four months after he attacked. If Barak and Olmert really were interested in destroying terrorists' homes, they could pass a law explicitly empowering the government to do so.

While the police could end the atmosphere of lawlessness by enforcing the laws already on the books, the government can take positive steps to reverse the trends toward
radicalization of Israeli Arab society. It can pass regulations barring anti-Zionist propaganda in public school curricula and sanctioning the immediate firing of public school teachers who teach students to hate Israel. It can suspend government funding of municipalities and local councils that do not enforce building codes. It can set up well-paid community police comprised of loyal citizens. The government can prosecute Arab politicians and leaders who treat with the enemy for treason.

But not only is the government doing none of these things, it is taking active steps to
legitimize Israeli-Arab rejection of the State of Israel. So it is that far from barring the study of the myth of the so-called Nakba, or catastrophe of Israel's birth, in Arab schools, Education Minister Yuli Tamir is encouraging Israeli Jewish schools to teach the lie to their Jewish students. Rather than take action against Arab leaders who actively work to radicalize Israeli-Arab society and solicit terrorism, the government bends over backwards to appease these leaders in the name of multicultural pluralism.

The government has not sufficed with seeking to appease Arab radicals by embracing their anti-Israeli propaganda as legitimate. It is also actively working to marginalize the sectors of Israeli society that support policies aimed at reversing the trend of Arab radicalization.

M., the hero of Wednesday's attack, is case in point. M., a clearly motivated, resourceful
and brave soldier, is 20 years old. At his age, he should have already been in the army for nearly two years. But he was only drafted four months ago. It turns out that the IDF didn't want him. Even as IDF commanders bemoan the dwindling draft rolls as more and more
young men and women evade military service, the IDF fought for two years to keep M. out of its ranks.

The IDF opposed M.'s service because in 2005 he was arrested for protesting against the
withdrawal from Gaza. Charges were never filed against him. But the mere fact that he was arrested for opposing one of the stupidest and most disastrous government policies the IDF has ever implemented was sufficient to make him politically suspect.

Then, too, by Thursday morning, unnamed government sources were warning that "right-
wing extremists" were planning to start attacking Jerusalem Arab neighborhoods.
It is far easier to attack imaginary enemies than to face real ones.

It is possible that both Dhaim and Dwayat couldn't have been stopped. But it is certainly
true that given the environment of lawlessness and governmental flaccidity in which they
operated, there were no countervailing forces in their lives that might have led these evil men to have second thoughts about murdering innocent Israelis in the name of Allah.

Political bluster will not prevent the next attack. There are policies that Israel can enact
today that will make the option of mass murder less attractive to its Arab citizenry. But as Barak, Olmert and their colleagues have made clear, nothing will happen under the current government.

Egyptian Military Stops Palestinian Suicide Bombers

Blogmaster’s Comments: Two more Palestinians who are closely associated with our so-called “peace partner”, PA President Mahmoud Abbas and his Fatah terrorist organization have been identified as trying to kill Israelis. How much more incentive do we need to see that none of the Palestinians want true peace, not Abbas, not Fatah, and certainly not Hamas. The only ones who fail to realize this fact are Olmert and his cronies in the Knesset. And why are they so blind and adamant that the peace process must go forward? Not because they truly want peace, but because that is the only excuse that anyone can produce to prevent Olmert and the rest of his gang from losing their cushy jobs. How narcissistic can the Olmert Gang be…at the expense of the lives of their countrymen and the future of the State of Israel? I had been anxiously awaiting the release of the Winograd report because I believed that it would spell doom for Olmert’s bunch. How stupid could I have been not to think that political corruption and influence would not have directly affected the report’s outcome? So now the story is out and the Winograd commission members are admitting that Olmert was saved by their omission of the facts of his complete and utter failure not only as a Prime Minister, but as the Commander in Chief of our Military. Where do we go from here… what can we do to save Israel? The answer is obvious my friends. The answer is obvious if we want to stop Palestinian terrorism; the answer is obvious if we want Israel to be a Jewish State and homeland for Jews; the answer is obvious if we want to stop the useless shedding of Jewish blood; the answer is obvious if we want to stop the giving up of Jewish land; the answer is obvious my friends…. Courage, have the courage to do what is right… and do it soon!

Egypt nabs Palestinian bombers,

World Net Daily, Aaron Klein

JERUSALEM – Egyptian forces yesterday caught terrorists associated with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah organization attempting to infiltrate Israel with explosive belts, Egyptian security sources told WND.

Four Palestinian members of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, Fatah's declared military wing, were arrested last night in the Egyptian Sinai desert, which has a long, unprotected border with Israel, said the sources. Also, Egypt arrested six Hamas terrorists, the sources said.

The captured Fatah Brigades and Hamas members were carrying explosive devices purportedly for use in suicide bombings. The Egyptian sources would not say whether the captured Palestinians were themselves planning to become bombers or if they were to hand the explosive devices to others to carry out suicide operations.

Earlier this week, two Palestinian suicide bombers infiltrated the Israeli Negev desert city of Dimona. One bomber exploded his suicide belt, killing one Israeli civilian and wounding 11 others, including one person who was critically wounded. A second suicide bomber was shot dead by security forced before he could detonate his explosive device immediately following the first suicide attack.

The two suicide bombers were believed to have crossed into Israel from Egypt after Gaza-based militants 13 days ago blew up the Gaza-Egypt border wall, allowing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to stream into the Egyptian Sinai desert. Israel has a long border with Egypt, much of which is unprotected. Hamas has claimed the two bombers originated in the West Bank and not the Gaza Strip.

It was unclear whether the Fatah terrorists arrested by Egypt yesterday included two potential suicide bombers Israel says are attempting to infiltrate the Jewish state.

According to terrorist sources and Palestinian security officials in Gaza speaking to WND, when the Egypt-Gaza border was breached two weeks ago, the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, Hamas and several other terrorist organizations sent several suicide bombers with explosive belts into the Egyptian Sinai desert with instructions to attempt to infiltrate into Israel.

Yuval Diskin, chief of Israel's Shin Bet Security Services, warned during a speech to the Knesset yesterday that some Palestinian terrorists who crossed into the Egyptian Sinai desert the past two weeks relocated themselves to form terror cells in strategic areas bordering Egypt.

The Shin Bet chief said Israeli intelligence is aware of at least 20 specific locations at the Israel-Egypt border currently in use by Palestinian terrorists in attempts to infiltrate the Jewish state to carry out attacks. He said security has been boosted at those locations, but he stressed the need for Israel to immediate construct a security fence along the entire border.

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Palestinian Terrorists Attack Yeshiva

Palestinian Terrorists Attack Yeshiva

Kfar Etzion Suffers More Arab Terrorism

Bill Maniaci, B’nai Elim Blogmaster
‏יום שישי 25 ינואר 2008

New Arab attacks on Kfar Etzion: Two palestinian terrorists, armed with a gun and knives, entered a yeshiva in Kfar Etzion in an attempt to murder students and faculty there. Before they could begin their planned killing spree, they were discovered on the yeshiva grounds by students and a counselor and an immediate struggle ensued.

During the battle, three of the students were stabbed by the attackers who themselves were ultimately shot and killed by the yeshiva counselor.

This is yet another example of the pure evil of our palestinian enemies who would have us believe that they are serious with regard to the so called “Two State Solution & the Roadmap to Peace” all the while their only goal is to murder Jews and to destroy Israel.

(You may be interested in the short article below detailing the historical significance of Kfar Etzion.)

כפר עציון‎
Kfar Etzion <http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/gush.html>

Some 20 kilometers from Jerusalem, topping high hills between Bethlehem and Hebron and amid numerous Arab villages, were the four kibbutzim of Gush Etzion. The target of attack from the beginning of the campaign, they were reinforced by Haganah and Palmah combatants. Arab attack forces numbered as many as a thousand people at times, and the situation deteriorated. The armed convoys of food, petrol and equipment headed for the Etzion Bloc drew fire and suffered casualties.

On January 15, 1948, 35 Haganah members under the command of Danny Mas made their way on foot from Har Tuv (near Beit Shemesh) to resupply Gush Etzion, but there were not enough hours of darkness to get them to their destination.

Arab shepherds from Tzurif spotted them at dawn and summoned a large group of armed locals to block their way. The battle lasted all the next day and the soldiers fought to the last bullet until the last of the group was killed at about 4:30 p.m.

The Arab attackers mutilated the bodies of “the 35.” A British soldier who took pictures of the mutilated bodies of the “Lamed Hey convoy” and left his roll of film to be developed in Jerusalem and never came back for it. Several decades later the negatives were discovered, but it was decided not to publish the atrocities.

On May 12, 1948, two days before the proclamation of the State of Israel, thousands of Arabs and Arab Legionnaires attacked the Etzion Bloc. The fighting went on for three long days, and 30 defenders were killed. On Friday, the day that the state was proclaimed, they could no longer hold out. They surrendered. In the massacre of Kfar Etzion, the Arabs murdered 127 men and women. Bodies lay in the fields for a year-and-a-half, until Transjordan allowed Israel to retrieve the corpses and bury them at Mount Herzl. The remainder were taken prisoner to Transjordan. The four kibbutzim were totally destroyed. Two hundred and forty settlers, Haganah and Palmah fighters were killed at the Etzion Bloc during five-and-a-half months of war.

years later, in the Six-Day War, the Israel Defense Forces recaptured the area, the settlements were rebuilt and new ones added. For half a year the battles of the four Etzion Bloc kibbutzim on JNF land, 20 kilometers from Jerusalem, preoccupied large Arab forces from all over the Hebron Mountains - forces that consequently were unable to turn their attention to Jerusalem and join the battles against the city's Jews. The battles of the Etzion Bloc thus helped save Jewish Jerusalem.

Source: Shmuel Even-Or Orenstein, “A Crown for Jerusalem,” JNF, 1996.