Terrorism returned to Israel yesterday. Two Arabs from Bnai Naim, a village near Hebron, made their way into Israel. They did not have work permits. They came simply to kill Jews. They made their way to Ra’anana, stopped a car, opened the door, stabbed the driver and threw her to the ground. Then they drove down the street and sidewalk striking down anyone in their path. When the car hit a telephone pole one of them got out and ran off a few blocks, The other was brought down, alive, by passersby. The one that ran away repeated the same scenario on another main street, stabbing and running over civilian Jewish residents. Eventually, the police also captured him. The bottom line for their rampage was one 70+ woman killed and another 17 injured.
Arab workers from the Palestinian Authority areas are currently banned from entering Israel. The Knesset was debating whether or not the ban should be lifted. The massacre of October 7th has received massive support from all over the Arab world, including Arabs living in non-Arab countries. The normally liberal, left-wing, English newspaper, the Guardian, even ran a special column that tried to place the blame for the inhumane Hamas attack on Israel. The claim was that the South African accusation of genocide might not be accepted by the International Court of Justice, but the act of making the complaint was a brave call to return to morality. I’m left wondering why the October 7th massacre didn’t result in massive condemnation of Hamas for the same reason.
In other media reports Hamas said that two Israeli hostages had been killed by IDF air attacks (in an area where the Israeli Air Force has NOT been active). And Iran claimed one of its proxies had fired rockets at the US Embassy in Erbil, Iraq, killing several Americans. The US confirmed that the attack took place, but reported that no one was injured. These are examples of a common ploy in making “fake news”; attaching a false statement to a true one in order to have both accepted as real.
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