Attacking an innocent civilian because he fits a "profile" is murder, no matter how you rationalize it. You seem to think that is perfectly acceptable. Tell that to the dead person's family and explain to them how the murderer was just "defending" himself against someone who wasn't even attacking him.
Police everywhere follow leads based on profiles. When they run or act suspiciously upon seeing a policeman, it can be dangerous.
How many times in the last year have people been told not to run from cops and politely answer their question to avoid getting hurt? It is the same in every country.
Run or resist police and you look suspicious.
We are not talking about police.
We're talking about civilians taking vigilante action against other civilians. When it comes to police, that's a different matter.
..........and four jews were arrest for the crime and there are three others suspect being sought.
Oh wait, there was a terrorist attack at that bus station and everyone was scared and adrenaline was soaring, the place was chaos...............and a Bedouin guard shot him, not a jews
What? Does that mean an arab muslim shot at another muslim just a few miles south of the WB?
War, terror attack, emergency..................things can be a panic and it is hard to get a clear image of event till after the fact, sometimes days even months.
Anyone recall Durrah?
Sometimes it's not the jews................
oh, we have to whisper that so we are not heard
And you completely miss the point and like others turn it into Jews and Palestinians and who's worse and who's right and all the usual derailments.
You have a situation where Israeli citizens are being attacked, with no provocation and no warning, out of the blue. People are scared and panicked. Jews are scared because they are attacked in a place they should be safe and have no way of knowing who their attacker might be in the people around them. Arab Israeli's and Palestinian residents - who have not engaged in anything wrong - are just as scared only it's of retaliation, either by frightened fellow citizens or nervous authorities. It's not just Jews who are frightened - everyone is because no one knows what is going to happen next and it has repercussions on everyone - Jew and non-Jew.
Then, what does the PM do? He urges citizens to go armed - possibly helpful, possibly not - we'll see. What does he follow it up with? Statements - containing inflammatory quotes that historians have said are not true or are deliberate distortions.
This is the same PM who inflammed fears of Arab voting power during his election. It's not me saying this -
it's well respected, not fringe, historians of the Holocaust and of Anti-Semitism. His statements have only one purpose: aligning the Palestinians (and along with it, all Arabs) with Hitler and the Holocaust.
What purpose does that serve? It's only purpose is to further inflame tensions, fan fear, and create unrest -
what responsible leader does this?
Netanyahu is not above criticism, but instead of discussing the issue - were his comments accurate, where they a responsible thing to say - you leap up to defend it and accuse critics of being jew haters and how unfair it is.
You critisize, rightly, Abbas for fanning the flames, but not Netanyahu?
No wonder there is no prospect of peace when you have war mongering bigots in position of leadership.
>>The Mufti also made numerous pro-Nazi propaganda broadcasts to the Arab world. For example, in a broadcast from Germany on March 1, 1944, he urged Arabs everywhere to commit genocide against the Jews:
Rise as one and fight for your sacred rights. Kill the Jews wherever you find them. This pleases God, history and religion. This serves your honor. God is with you. (Jeffrey Herf,
Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World, p213, Yale University Press, 2009)<<
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The Mufti was both persistent and indefatigable in his efforts to prevent the Jews from leaving, in whatever form. Legationsrat Wilhelm Melchers said in his evidence taken during the Nuremberg trial, August 6, 1947: "The Mufti was making protests everywhere-in the Office of the [Foreign] Minister, in the antechamber of the Secretary of State, and in other Departments, such as Home Office, Press, Radio, and in the S.S. headquarters. It goes without saying that the [Reich] Foreign Ministry was expecting protest demarches in matters concerning Balkan Jews, just on the part of the Mufti. They were, of course, welcome in certain places....The Mufti was an accomplished foe of the Jews and did not conceal that he would love to see all of them liquidated." His main concern, however, was the liquidation of Palestine Jewry. "The Jewish National Home must disappear and the Jews [there] must get out he once told Melcher, and he "did not care where they would go":
Ils peuvent aller s'ils veulent au diable" (They are free to go to hell)
As a rule, the Mufti's demarches had an immediate effect. On May 13, 1943, he personally delivered to Von Ribbentrop a letter of protest against the plan to arrange the emigration of 4,000 Jewish children:
It has come to my attention from reliable sources that the English and American Governments asked their representatives in the Balkans (especially in Bulgaria) to intervene with the governments and request that they be given permission to allow Jews to emigrate to Palestine. In connection with this, the British Minister of Colonies, Sir Oliver Stanley, announced in the British Parliament that the discussions for the emigration of 4,000 children escorted by 500 adults from Bulgaria have been ended successfully and he hopes that similar occurrences will be achieved in Rumania and Hungary. The Arabs see in this emigration a great danger to their lives and existence. The Arab peoples put themselves at the disposal of the Axis without any hesitation in the fight against communism and international Jewry. The Jews will take out with them from the Balkans many military secrets and will give them to Allied agents who are waiting their arrival at the port. I re-quest your Excellency to act with all possible effort to avoid this plan of the international Jewry and Anglo-Americans without delay. This service will never be forgotten by the Arab people.
Following this request, Horst Wagner of the
Abteilung II of the German Foreign Office forthwith sent a telegram to the German ambassador in Sofia instructing him to draw the attention of the Bulgarian government to the common German-Arabian interest in preventing this rescue action.
Discussing with engineer Endre Steiner at Bratislava the prospects for emigration of a group of Polish Jewish children, S.S. Hauptsturmfuhrer Dieter Wisliceny, Eichmann's deputy for Slovakia and Hungary, insisted that "the destination of [their] possible emigration may under no circumstances be Palestine." To the question as to why such limitation had been imposed, Wisliceny laughingly asked whether Steiner "had not heard of the Grand Mufti whose name was Hussein ... [and who] was in closest contact and collaboration with Eichmann.... In order not to have this action disapproved by the Mufti, Palestine could not be accepted by any German authority as the final destination. Somewhat later, Eichmann himself told Dr. Rudolf Kastner in Budapest: "I am a personal friend of the Grand Mufti. We have promised him that no European Jew would enter Palestine any more. Do you understand now?"
In every case connected with the emigration of Jews from Germany's "vital space," there always was mention of some promises given to, or an agreement concluded with, the Mufti not to permit the exit of any numbers of Jews, large or small. A document submitted at the Eichmann trial by the prosecution established that when the German minister to Bucharest had formally objected to an order by Marshal Antonescu, the Rumanian prime minister, to allow the emigration of 80,000 Rumanian Jews, he did so "in accordance with our agreement with the Mufti." In answer to questions put to him at the Jerusalem trial, Eichmann said on June 27, 1961, that though even before the Mufti's arrival there had been "objections to emigration to Palestine because this might strengthen the country [Palestine] and create in the field of foreign relations a new factor which would one day join the enemies of the Reich," a consistent "policy of the Foreign Ministry ... began after the agreement with the Grand Mufti"; he also spoke of an "agreement between Mufti and [head of the Gestapo] Himmler." (From
The Mufti and the Fuehrer, Joseph B. Schechtman, p 157-159)
One of the excuses used by Arab partisans is that bad as the Holocaust may have been, why should the Arabs pay the price for a European crime?
But the Grand Mufti, the leader of the Palestinian national movement, was a Nazi war criminal who literally got away with murder. <<
............his legacy of murder and violence still is going on
