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The Israelis continue to attack and kill Palestinians, threaten to turn al-Aqsa mosque into a Jewish shrine - what DO they espect.
Expect trouble. Netanyahu is already baying for Palestinian blood. An American was killed - what else needs to be said?
Expect trouble. Netanyahu is already baying for Palestinian blood. An American was killed - what else needs to be said?
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US & 1 UK rabbis killed, 7 injured in attack at Jerusalem
synagogue
18
November, 2014
Five
people have been killed and 7 wounded when two assailants attacked
worshipers with knives, axes and a pistol in a synagogue in North
Jerusalem in the morning. Three of the victims were dual nationality
US citizens and one was from the UK
Besides
the four killed worshippers, a police officer was critically wounded
and later succumbed to his injuries at Hadassh Hospital, Haaretz
reports.
Israeli
police say both attackers were shot dead on the spot by
officers. Spokeswoman Luba Samri described the incident as
a "terrorist attack."
Israel’s
Public Security Minister, Yitzhak Aharonovitch, has said that gun
controls for self-defense will be eased in wake of the attack.
“In
the coming hours, I will ease controls on carrying weapons,” he
said in comments broadcast on public radio. He added that the
new rules will apply to anyone who owns a gun license, such as
private security guards and off duty army officers.
Israeli
police have confirmed eight people have been wounded in the incident,
four seriously, two moderately and two lightly. One of those injured
later succumbed to his wounds.
Four
of the victims were rabbis and one of them, Moshe Twersky,was the
head of the English speaking Yeshiva Toras Moshe, an institution for
religious studies, in Jerusalem.
Another
of the victims was a British-Israeli national, according to the UK’s
Foreign Office.
“We
are aware of the death of a dual British-Israeli national in Israel
on 18 November 2014,” the
Foreign Office said in a statement. The other three were US
citizens, according to Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld.
The
FBI has said it will open an investigation into the attack as three
of the victims were US citizens.
The
suspects have been named as Uday Abu Jamal and Ghassan Abu Jamal,
from East Jerusalem, and were both members of the Popular Front for
the Liberation of Palestine, which has praised the attack but stopped
short of claiming responsibility, Hamas also honored the attack.
Israeli
police spokeswoman Luba Samri confirmed the suspect’s identity, AP
reports.
Meanwhile,
the Israeli Prime Minster has ordered the homes of the two suspects
to be demolished, according to his spokesman.
The
attacked synagogue is situated on Agasi Street, in the ultra-Orthodox
Had Nof neighborhood of Jerusalem.
"We
were praying in synagogue in the morning, we heard gunshots from
downstairs… one shot, two shots and then a flurry of shots," a
witness who was inside the building told AP.
The
first call to the emergency services was at 7:01 and two traffic
policemen were the first on the scene who were joined by a third
officer. They started shooting at the terrorists and killed them,
although one of the policemen was critically wounded in the firefight
and another moderately.
Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated that Israel is going to 'respond
harshly' to
this latest terror attack.
Netanyahu
has vowed retribution and has demanded the world stand with Israel in
an uncompromising condemnation against the terrorists attack. He also
called for Zionist opposition parties to join his coalition and said
that it’s “no time
for politics” and
that “we need national
unity at this time”.
Palestinian
President Mahmoud Abbas has condemned an attack on a Jerusalem
synagogue.
"The
presidency condemns the attack on Jewish worshipers in their place of
prayer and condemns the killing of civilians, no matter who is doing
it," Reuters
cited Abbas's office as saying in a statement.
US
President Barack Obama condemned the attack and named the three US
citizens killed in it as Aryeh Kupinsky, Cary William Levine and
Mosheh Twersky.
"I
strongly condemn today's terrorist attack on worshipers at a
synagogue in Jerusalem. There is and can be no justification for such
attacks against innocent civilians," Obama
said in a statement.
He
is also urged Israeli and Palestinian leaders to work together to try
and “lower tensions,
reject violence, and seek a path towards future peace.”
Tensions
between Israelis and Palestinians have been running particularly high
over the last two weeks and world leaders are becoming increasingly
frustrated at the lack of progress in Israeli-Palestinian relations.
On Monday the EU's newly-appointed foreign policy chief, Federica
Mogherini, called for the establishment of a viable Palestinian state
in the next few years.
There
have also been a number of symbolic votes in favor of recognition of
the Palestinian state in parliaments of several European states, such
as Sweden, France and UK.
Spanish
MPs are expected to vote in support of a Palestinian state on
November 18.
Last
weekend Israeli Haaretz revealed a secret EU document that Israel
could soon face sanctionsfrom
Brussels if Tel Aviv makes any further attempts to pose obstacles to
a two-state solution with occupied Palestine.
Israeli
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s reply to
that was that Israel will never stop its settlement constructions in
occupied East Jerusalem.
On
Monday the conflict escalated even further as a Palestinian bus
driver was found hanged inside
his vehicle at a depot in Jerusalem, with the Israeli police saying
the man committed suicide, while the driver’s family claim he was
lynched by Israelis.
Western pro-zionist press is all over this, although Radio New Zealand didn't even mention it
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