Palestinian Terrorists Kill 5, Including American Teen, in Separate Attacks

Palestinian terrorist attacks gripped the Jewish state again on Thursday, a shooting attack near the Gush Etzion Junction killed an Israeli, a Palestinian and an American tourist, reports the Jerusalem Post. Five more people were injured.

Early reports indicate that the terrorist fired at an Israeli minibus from his car before crashing into another vehicle near the Alon Shvut settlement in the West Bank. Israeli security personnel shot and detained the terrorist as he exited the car and tried to shoot more Israelis.

The Shin Bet – Israel's domestic intelligence service – said that the attacker, 36, is from the village of Dura near Hebron and did not have a prior security record. The dead Palestinian was a passenger in a vehicle fired upon by the terrorist.

The attack occurred shortly after a Palestinian terrorist stabbed three people in Tel Aviv, killing two and injuring another. Civilians apprehended the terrorist, who was trying to run off, until police arrived.

Hamas praised the stabbing attack on its official Twitter account, posting images of the scene featuring Israeli first responders and one of the fatalities.

Meanwhile, a Fatah official participated in a rally glorifying Palestinian terrorist Muhannad Halabi, supporting Halabi's murderous attack and other recent Palestinian terrorist attacks.

"It is the right of our young men to cause Israeli women to cry like our women are crying, even though our women make sounds of joy after their sons' and husbands' deaths as Martyrs," Fatah Central Committee member Jamal Muhaisen said Saturday, according to the independent Palestinian news agency Ma'an and reported by Palestinian Media Watch.

The praise came after Halabi's West Bank hometown, Surda-Abu Qash, named a street in his honor.

The consistent and systematic violent incitement emanating from across the Palestinian political spectrum continues to fuel deadly terrorist attacks targeting Israeli civilians and security personnel. It continues despite a U.S threat to reduce economic aid for Palestinians by $80 million unless the incitement stops.

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The invisilble backlash

Submitted by DRHazard, Nov 19, 2015 20:30

While the usual sources have a spasm over the backlash against Muslims that never really haopens, the Muslims continue acting like the self-absorbed murderers their God tells them they shouid be.

Game On

Submitted by Michael Fox, Nov 19, 2015 15:09

Death by a thousand cuts....that's how Israel is losing the war against "radical" Islam. It's a war of attrition that Israel has no answer to. Protecting its citizens is perhaps the most important role for any government to undertake. Israel's government does not seem up to the task. Ongoing incitement from the Palestinian leadership is happening under the nose of the Israeli government with little to no consequence. Israel is a microcosm of the global stage. War has been declared on Western culture and ideology. Response from the West has been driven by politics and an obsession with inane political correctness. Hard decisions lay ahead for this small nation state and there will be harsh international condemnation if Israel picks up the hammer. The security of Israel's citizens and the survival of a nation is at stake and it is time to step up and do what needs to be done.

I use quotation marks connecting the words radical and Islam in identifying those Muslims unable to coexist with Western values and ideology. They are really not necessary. Islam in itself is a radical theology with barbaric principals and zero tolerance for diversity. Only the renunciation of those core values and sharia law by the faithful would bridge the divide and Islam is not about to do that.

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