georgephillip
Diamond Member
On 12 June 2014 three Israeli teens were kidnapped in Gush Etzion on the occupied West Bank of Palestine; within minutes one teen called a police emergency hotline to report his abduction.
The recording of the call was placed under a gag order, and within days Israeli investigators knew the rough vicinity of where the three bodies were buried.
The IDF launched Operation Brother's Keeper and over the next 11 days 350 Hamas members were arrested and five Palestinians were killed.
Operation Protective Edge came next:
"On 8 July 2014, Israel launchedOperation Protective Edge(Hebrew: מִבְצָע צוּק אֵיתָן, Miv'tza Tzuk Eitan, lit. 'Operation Strong Cliff')[note 1] in the Hamas-ruledGaza Strip. Thereafter, seven weeks of Israeli bombardment, Palestinian rocket attacks, and ground fightingkilled more than 2,200 people, the vast majority of them Gazans.[21][26][34][35]"
Part of Israel's reaction to the murders of its three teens was to announce more settlement expansion in East Jerusalem, and that is where Intifada 3.0 is likely to come from:
"Palestinian residents in East Jerusalem continue to suffer from police violence and increased security, including checkpoints, as tensions have escalated over settler expansion in the neighborhood of Silwan and Israel continues to impose restricted access for Muslims to the religious sites on the Temple Mount.
"Last week, a Palestinian man drove his car into passengers getting off the light rail in East Jerusalem, killing a baby Israeli girl and a 22-year-old tourist from Ecuador. Days later, a 14-year-old Palestinian, who was a dual citizen in the United States, was shot dead by the IDF forces, who claimed the boy was about to toss a firebomb. The U.S. Department [of State] has called for an investigation.
"Meanwhile, plans continue to move forward for the construction of about 1,000 new housing units in Jewish neighborhoods located in occupied East Jerusalem. And Defensive Minister Moshe Ya'alon also has issued a directive banning Palestinians from riding Israeli-run buses in the West Bank. Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem is describing the directive as a, quote, 'thinly veiled pandering to the demand for racial segregation on buses.'"
A Third Intifada on the Horizon
The mass killing in Palestine has temporarily disappeared from the front pages and nightly news leads, but the goal of Israel hasn't changed: all the land between the River and the sea ruled by Jews, for Jews with no more than 20% of the population being non-Jews.
The recording of the call was placed under a gag order, and within days Israeli investigators knew the rough vicinity of where the three bodies were buried.
The IDF launched Operation Brother's Keeper and over the next 11 days 350 Hamas members were arrested and five Palestinians were killed.
Operation Protective Edge came next:
"On 8 July 2014, Israel launchedOperation Protective Edge(Hebrew: מִבְצָע צוּק אֵיתָן, Miv'tza Tzuk Eitan, lit. 'Operation Strong Cliff')[note 1] in the Hamas-ruledGaza Strip. Thereafter, seven weeks of Israeli bombardment, Palestinian rocket attacks, and ground fightingkilled more than 2,200 people, the vast majority of them Gazans.[21][26][34][35]"
Part of Israel's reaction to the murders of its three teens was to announce more settlement expansion in East Jerusalem, and that is where Intifada 3.0 is likely to come from:
"Palestinian residents in East Jerusalem continue to suffer from police violence and increased security, including checkpoints, as tensions have escalated over settler expansion in the neighborhood of Silwan and Israel continues to impose restricted access for Muslims to the religious sites on the Temple Mount.
"Last week, a Palestinian man drove his car into passengers getting off the light rail in East Jerusalem, killing a baby Israeli girl and a 22-year-old tourist from Ecuador. Days later, a 14-year-old Palestinian, who was a dual citizen in the United States, was shot dead by the IDF forces, who claimed the boy was about to toss a firebomb. The U.S. Department [of State] has called for an investigation.
"Meanwhile, plans continue to move forward for the construction of about 1,000 new housing units in Jewish neighborhoods located in occupied East Jerusalem. And Defensive Minister Moshe Ya'alon also has issued a directive banning Palestinians from riding Israeli-run buses in the West Bank. Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem is describing the directive as a, quote, 'thinly veiled pandering to the demand for racial segregation on buses.'"
A Third Intifada on the Horizon
The mass killing in Palestine has temporarily disappeared from the front pages and nightly news leads, but the goal of Israel hasn't changed: all the land between the River and the sea ruled by Jews, for Jews with no more than 20% of the population being non-Jews.