Inspiring Stories of Palestinian Heroism
"For about a minute, several people with guns stood around the vehicle and pointed at the driver, but did not shoot.''The driver made a sign with his hands as if to say 'no,' and everyone held their fire. At some point, someone threw a large stone at the vehicle, the attacker moved, and everyone fired at him."Bystander, Yeshiva student"I heard the noise and ran to the scene.""At first everyone thought it was an accident, but then I heard the gunshots and realized it was an attack."Car-ramming witness, East Jerusalem
The scene of the car-ramming, in the Ramot neighborhood in East Jerusalem on Friday.Credit: Olivier Fitoussi |
Another
deadly terrorist attack in Jerusalem. In a suburb of East Jerusalem, an
area considered by the international community to be contested,
'occupied', since the Palestinian Authority claim it as their potential
capital in a nascent state, a state they could have had in 1948, but
refused and since them having turned down numerous peace offers that
would lead to an internationally recognized state of their own, turned
down as well, consistently. The while informing the international
community that it is Israel's fault, for not negotiating in 'good
faith'. Where in fact, Israel has offered all but two of the concessions
that the PA demanded for peace, and the PA still turned them down
offering no concessions of their own..
Palestinian
children have grown into adults deeply steeped from their earliest
formative years in a cauldron of hate to believe that 'resistance
against the occupiers' as their leaders call it, is the only thing that
will lead to a sovereign Palestinian state. Nurtured through children's
media and school curricula which portray Jews as a threat to the
existence of Palestinians, one that Palestinians must counter by
pledging themselves as martyrs to their cause of statehood; they study
geography texts whose maps show 'Palestine" encompassing the entire
area, with no sign of the presence of Israel.
Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai at the scene of the ramming.Credit: Israel Police |
To
the international community which funds the UNRWA (United Nations
Relief and Works Agency) program of the United Nations dedicated to the
welfare of Palestinian 'refugees', the Palestinian Authority gives
assurances of its willingness to become a peaceful law-abiding nation
next to the State of Israel. To the Palestinians living in the West Bank
and Gaza, incitement to terrorist acts against Israeli Jews is
constant. Riots occur when Jews attempt to visit the plaza of the Temple
Mount, the most sacred site in Judaism which Islam also claims as its
third most sacred site. Jews are forbidden from praying there as it
enrages Arab Palestinians to violence.
To
the world at large Palestinians declare Israel to be an Apartheid
State. Yet should a Jew venture accidentally into the West Bank or Gaza
their lives are at risk, while in Israel 20 percent of its citizens are
Palestinian Arabs; Israel, a home to Circassians, Druze, Kurds, Bedouin,
Baha'i, Christians and Muslims. Arab Muslims serve as elected members
of the Knesset (Israeli parliament), as judges, are representative in
all professions in the country; so much for Apartheid.
Palestinian
enmity and violent aggression against Jews and Israelis is fundamental
to their narrative of 'victimhood'. As 'victims' when Palestinians
commit violent offences against Jews they are celebrated as martyrs,
streets named after them, and the Palestinian Authority raises them to
the level of heroes. They and their families are handed out generous
financial rewards for killing Jews. As it will be for the latest
atrocity when on Friday a Palestinian man driving a Mazda drove it at
speed directly into a crowd of people at a bus stop.
Five
people were injured, among them an eight-year-old child taken to
hospital who succumbed to his injuries several days later. At the scene
of the crash the eight-year-old's six-year-old brother was pronounced
dead. A 20-year-old newly-married Yeshiva student was also killed by the
car ramming. An off-duty police officer who happened to be in the crowd
at the bus stop shot the perpetrator dead in his vehicle.
Eyewitnesses
at the scene spoke of seeing the attacker steer his car into people
waiting at the bus stop hours before the Jewish sabbath started. The
sight of the attack was described as "shocking", with victims lying
about on the street and sidewalk, by a responding Magen David Adom
(Israeli Red Cross) medic.
Members of Zaka Rescue and Recovery team work at the site of a car-ramming attack at a bus stop in Ramot, a Jewish settlement in east Jerusalem, Friday, Feb. 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean) |
At
the time of the attack the injured were brought to a Jerusalem hospital
where a spokesperson for the Shaare Zedek Medical Center explained that
the eight-year-old's life was in "immediate danger"; that child died a
day after his six-year-old brother died at the scene of the atrocity.
The attacker was identified as a resident of Issawiya a Palestinian
neighbourhood in East Jerusalem bordering Hebrew University. Police were
ordered to set up checkpoints around Issawiya.
International
media somehow manage to overlook the fact that following the death of
the six-year-old child and 20-year-old man, Palestinian media erupted in
a frenzy of celebration, publishing cartoons glorifying the deaths and
injuries. In the streets of Gaza children were gleefully carrying about
trays of sweets, offering them to passersby. Jubilation reigned.
Symbolic of the complete and utter dehumanization of a community.
Man filming himself overseeing distribution of sweets celebrating terror attack in Jerusalem that killed an Israeli child and 20 year old newly-wed on Friday. Photo: Screenshot. |
"We affirm that this blessed operation, which healed the hearts of our
people, came as a natural and legitimate response to the crimes of the
occupation", a statement by the terrorist group
Palestinian Islamic Jihad, summing up the numbing mindset of Palestinian
revellers. The attacker's uncle told the Palestine Post Network that Qaraqe "loved Palestine all his life, and he was suffering from a severe injury in his back",
but he chose not to live in 'Palestine', but in Jerusalem. Sympathy is
being elicited in the Arab media for the man who killed three Jews; he
had a history of lauding terrorists on social media, posting “Glory to
the pure souls” in reference to those who committed previous atrocities.
In the U.S. media, a headline by CNN read: “Two dead including child as car rams people
at Jerusalem bus stop,” which prompted the Israel Foreign
Ministry to respond: “This wasn’t a self-driving car @CNN,”
on Twitter. “The driver, a Palestinian terrorist *intentionally* rammed
into a bus stop packed with children and families traveling before
Shabbat.”
Credit: Olivier Fitoussi |
Labels: Car Ramming, Carnage, Israel, Palestinian Terrorism
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