Sunday, March 13, 2011

Numbers

I do not approve of vigilante actions.

Nevertheless, in reading this item from Ma'an, it struck me that whereas 2 Arabs managed to slaughter 5 Jews, count how many Jews were involved, according to this article, in violence and how many Arabs died:-

Settler attacks against Palestinians escalate


As the Shabbat ended Saturday evening, Israeli settlers raided Palestinian villages and towns across the West Bank, injuring several Palestinians...During the day settlers stormed several villages in Nablus, including Burin and Huwwara, entering homes and harassing residents. Settlers handed out leaflets threatening the lives of villagers in Beitillu, near Ramallah, and threw rocks at Palestinian cars in Hebron.  Saturday evening, five members of the Abu Akar family were attacked by around 200 settlers as they drove back from Hebron to their home in Bethlehem in the southern West Bank...He said he sustained bruises in the back and shoulders while his brother-in-law, 53-year-old Nidhal Abu Akar, sustained serious head injuries. Ammar's father and two of his uncles, Muhammad and Khalil Abu Akar, were also injured by stones and shattered glass...In Hebron, settlers set fire to a Palestinian car in Tel Rumeida. Other mobs of settlers attacked Palestinian cars and homes on the main road in Beit Ummar and the nearby Al-Arrub refugee camp. 

Beit Ummar popular committee spokesman Muhammad Ayyad Awad said a group of settlers opened fire and hurled stones at Palestinian homes. Meanwhile, he added, Israeli soldiers fired tear gas canisters near the homes.  In the village of Nabi Salih west of Ramallah, settlers tried to enter Palestinian homes near the main street, but were stopped by residents. Locals set fire to used tires at the village entrance and stationed themselves behind them to defend the village.  Residents said Israeli forces stormed the village firing live ammunition, rubber-coated steel bullets and tear gas canisters. Witnesses said Israeli forces entered the village to retrieve the remains of an unmanned Israeli drone which crashed in the area.

In the northern and the central West Bank, Israeli settlers hurled stones at Palestinians driving on the main road between Jerusalem and Nablus near the Israeli settlements of Ofra and Bet El. No injuries have been reported...Za'tara checkpoint south of Nablus was closed, and the main road between Nablus and Qalqiliya was shut down after dozens of settlers attacked Palestinian cars...Local sources in Nablus told Ma’an that over 100 settlers stormed shops and homes in the northern West Bank village of Huwwara south of Nablus.

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2 comments:

Juniper in the Desert said...

The 2 arabs murdered, in cold blood, 3 sleeping children and a sleeping woman and man who may have awoken in time to try to fight them off before being savagely murdered.

How much effort does that take??

Anonymous said...

ym

they handed out leaflets?

ever get a paper cut? nasty

i condemn the leaflet terrorists

mashiach must be coming...for this is absolutely vehnahpachu