US tourist killed, 13 injured as Palestinian terrorists go on bloody rampage in Israel

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US tourist killed, 13 injured as Palestinian terrorists go on bloody rampage in Israel

JERUSALEM, Israel - Three attacks by Palestinians in the space of just over an hour and a half have left one dead and at least 13 injured across Israel, in incidents that included a mass stabbing in Jaffa during a visit by the US vice-president, Joe Biden.

Israeli police later confirmed that the person killed in the coastal city next to Tel Aviv was a 29-year-old American tourist who was pronounced dead on arrival at a hospital in Holon. There were no details on the American’s identity.

In the spate of attacks on Tuesday evening – in East Jerusalem, Petah Tikva and Jaffa – attackers used guns and knives against both Israeli police and passersby. It was one of the worst days of violence in several months of almost daily attacks.

Full story: http://www.eturbonews.com/69229/us-tourist-killed-13-injured-palestinian-terrorists-go-bloody-ra

-- eTN 2016-03-09

[Somtamnication]

Ah, violence in PROTECTED OCCUPIED east Jerusalem. What a surprise.

[Boon Mee]

Biden is over there right now as well.

[SheungWan]

Ah, violence in PROTECTED OCCUPIED east Jerusalem. What a surprise.

The smallest surprise is to be reserved for the virtual cheerleaders of these incidents.

[ezzra]

Ah, violence in PROTECTED OCCUPIED east Jerusalem. What a surprise.

Didn't quite get your post, is it cynical, mocking or just a bout of Schadenfreude on your part?

[Ulysses G.]

Ah, violence in PROTECTED OCCUPIED east Jerusalem. What a surprise.

Didn't quite get your post, is it cynical, mocking or just a bout of Schadenfreude

on your part?

The cheerleader comment pretty much covers it.

[johna]

Nearly half of Israeli Jews believe in ethnic cleansing, survey finds

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/almost-half-of-israeli-jews-want-ethnic-cleansing-palestinians-wake-up-call-survey-finds-a6919271.html

[Boon Mee]

The American tourist killed in today's Palestinian terror attack was a West Point grad who served multiple tours in Afghanistan & Iraq. RIP.

[webfact]

Palestinian attacks kill American student, wound 12 Israelis
By IAN DEITCH

JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian attackers unleashed a series of shooting and stabbing assaults on Israelis on Tuesday, including a stabbing spree in the ancient Mediterranean port city of Jaffa that killed an American student near where Vice President Joe Biden was meeting with Israel's former president, police said.

The Jaffa assault came as Biden arrived on a two-day visit as part of a regional tour of the Mideast. He is to meet both Israeli and Palestinian leaders and there have been speculations he would try to revive the moribund Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.

Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said the man killed in Jaffa was an American tourist, but did not provide further details. A dozen Israelis, civilians and police officers, were wounded in the Palestinian knife and gun attacks.

Along with the Jaffa attacker, three other Palestinian assailants were shot and killed in the day's rash of violence, the latest in a wave of near-daily Palestinian assaults on Israeli civilians and security forces that erupted in mid-September.

The bloodshed — mainly stabbings but also shootings and car-ramming attacks — has killed 28 Israelis. During the same time, at least 176 Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire. Most of the Palestinians have been identified by Israel as attackers, while the rest were killed in clashes with security forces.

The chancellor of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, issued a statement identifying the American stabbing victim as Taylor Force, a student at its Owen Graduate School of Management who was on a school trip to Tel Aviv. Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos said all the other Vanderbilt students, faculty and staff on the trip are safe.

Zeppos said Force had traveled to Tel Aviv "to expand his understanding of global entrepreneurship and also to share his insights and knowledge with start-ups in Israel."

"This horrific act of violence has robbed our Vanderbilt family of a young hopeful life and all of the bright promise that he held for bettering our greater world," Zeppos said.

In the Jaffa attack, Israeli Channel 2 TV interviewed a man identified only by his first name, Yishai, who described how he confronted the Palestinian as he stabbing people in the street.

"I was sitting down playing guitar and I heard screaming from across the street," said the man, who wore a T-shirt of the rock band Tool. "I saw a man run at me with a knife, I ran at him with the guitar and smashed it in his head. He was so stunned and didn't know what to do with himself and then started running away."

Police said the attacker then ran toward the beach and continued attacking passers-by before he was shot and killed.

Meanwhile, Biden was meeting with former Israeli President Shimon Peres at the Peres Center for Peace, not far from the attack in Jaffa.

"I notified the Vice President on the terrible incident that took place just a few hundred meters away from here in Jaffa," Peres said. "Terror leads to nowhere."

Biden "condemned in the strongest possible terms the brutal attack which occurred in Jaffa," his office said. "He expressed his sorrow at the tragic loss of American life and offered his condolences to the family of the American citizen murdered in the attack, as well as his wishes for a full and quick recovery for the wounded," the statement said.

In other attacks Tuesday, a Palestinian opened fire at police officers near Jerusalem's Old City in the late afternoon, about a half hour before Biden arrived in Israel, wounding an officer before fleeing the scene. In the chase that followed, the Palestinian wounded another officer before he was shot and killed, police said.

A short while before that, a Palestinian followed an Israeli into a store and stabbed him in the neck in the central city of Petah Tikvah before he was shot and killed.

Earlier in the day, a Palestinian woman in her 50s who tried to stab Israeli security forces was shot and killed by officers, also in Jerusalem's Old City, police said. No Israelis were wounded in that attack

Palestinians say the violence stems from frustration at nearly five decades of Israeli rule over the West Bank and east Jerusalem. Israel says the violence is fueled by a campaign of Palestinian lies and incitement that is compounded on social media sites that glorify and encourage attacks.

Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic militant group that controls the Gaza Strip, praised the attacks on Tuesday but did not claim responsibility for them.


-- (c) Associated Press 2016-03-09

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Israel: US tourist is killed and dozens wounded in wave of attacks



JERUSALEM: -- A wave of Palestinian attacks have left one American dead and a dozen Israelis wounded near Tel Aviv and East Jerusalem, according to Israeli police.

The American was one of ten people stabbed in the Jaffa port area, popular with tourists. It happened as US Vice President Joe Biden was being met by former Israeli President Shimon Peres at the start of a two day visit.

The White House is trying to appear indifferent to a snub by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who has cancelled a meeting later this month in Washington . Its being seen as yet another sign of strained relations between the two administrations.

“The President sends his greetings and I, we, have absolute total, unvarnished commitment to the security of Israel. And I hope we can, I think we can make some progress,” said the US Vice-President.

Biden, whose 2010 visit to Israel was marred by acrimony over a Jewish settlement plan announced during his trip, is due to hold talks on Wednesday with Netanyahu in Jerusalem and with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the occupied West Bank.

There were other attacks on Tuesday including a shooting incident and an attempted stabbing near East Jerusalem.

Since October a series of stabbings, shootings and car rammings have killed 28 Israelis. Security forces have killed at least 177 Palestinians, 119 of whom Israel says were assailants. Most were shot dead during violent protests.


-- (c) Copyright Euronews 2016-03-09

[SOTIRIOS]

....hmmmmm....

[Ulysses G.]

Nearly half of Israeli Jews believe in ethnic cleansing, survey finds

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/almost-half-of-israeli-jews-want-ethnic-cleansing-palestinians-wake-up-call-survey-finds-a6919271.html

Actually, they believe Arabs should be "expelled or transferred" from Israel and who can blame them? They have been plagued by Islamic terrorism for all of their existence and they could have gotten rid of them in 1948, like any other country would have done. Israel invited its enemies stay. Israel is way too humane for its own good.

[stevenl]

Nearly half of Israeli Jews believe in ethnic cleansing, survey finds

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/almost-half-of-israeli-jews-want-ethnic-cleansing-palestinians-wake-up-call-survey-finds-a6919271.html

Actually, they believe Arabs should be "expelled or transferred" from Israel and who can blame them? They have been plagued by Islamic terrorism for all of their existence and they could have gotten rid of them in 1948, like any other country would have done. Israel invited its enemies stay. Israel is way too humane for its own good.

Yes, ethnic cleansing.

What does 'invited its enemies in to stay' mean? You mean they occupied the land and should have ethnically cleansed it?

[Steely Dan]

An American citizen killed should make it harder for the Western press to ignore, which they so often do when Israeli citizens are murdered.

[kinmaew]

I would like to know peoples opinions here.

What do you think is the main root cause of the Palestinian and Israeli conflict:

Politics

Or

Religion

[craigt3365]

I would like to know peoples opinions here.

What do you think is the main root cause of the Palestinian and Israeli conflict:

Politics

Or

Religion

Both. Because in that area, they are intertwined. But in the end, it's religion. IMHO.

[Ulysses G.]

Nearly half of Israeli Jews believe in ethnic cleansing, survey finds

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/almost-half-of-israeli-jews-want-ethnic-cleansing-palestinians-wake-up-call-survey-finds-a6919271.html

Actually, they believe Arabs should be "expelled or transferred" from Israel and who can blame them? They have been plagued by Islamic terrorism for all of their existence and they could have gotten rid of them in 1948, like any other country would have done. Israel invited its enemies stay. Israel is way too humane for its own good.

Yes, ethnic cleansing.

What does 'invited its enemies in to stay' mean? You mean they occupied the land and should have ethnically cleansed it?

You can't "occupy" your own land. They invited the Arabs to live in peace among them on the land granted by the UN. That looks like it was a big mistake. The Palestinians certainly don't plan to let Jews live in their country - if they every actually get one.

Edited March 9, 2016 by Ulysses G.

[TheKnave]

Nearly half of Israeli Jews believe in ethnic cleansing, survey finds

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/almost-half-of-israeli-jews-want-ethnic-cleansing-palestinians-wake-up-call-survey-finds-a6919271.html

Disingenuous, and utterly out of context, not to mention that The Independent's headline is as misleading as many of those from ThaiVisa of late.

Read the entire article.

[phitsanulokjohn]

Wait for it.

Another disproportionate Israeli response coming to a media outlet near you soon.

[Pakboong]

Nearly half of Israeli Jews believe in ethnic cleansing, survey finds

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/almost-half-of-israeli-jews-want-ethnic-cleansing-palestinians-wake-up-call-survey-finds-a6919271.html

Actually, they believe Arabs should be "expelled or transferred" from Israel and who can blame them? They have been plagued by Islamic terrorism for all of their existence and they could have gotten rid of them in 1948, like any other country would have done. Israel invited its enemies stay. Israel is way too humane for its own good.

Yes, ethnic cleansing.

What does 'invited its enemies in to stay' mean? You mean they occupied the land and should have ethnically cleansed it?

You can't "occupy" your own land. They invited the Arabs to live in peace among them on the land granted by the UN. That looks like it was a big mistake. The Palestinians certainly don't plan to let Jews live in their country - if they every actually get one.

Foreign Office

November 2nd, 1917

Dear Lord Rothschild,

I have much pleasure in conveying to you, on behalf of His Majesty's Government, the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations which has been submitted to, and approved by, the Cabinet.

"His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country."

I should be grateful if you would bring this declaration to the knowledge of the Zionist Federation.

Yours sincerely,

Arthur James Balfour

[Ulysses G.]

"His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country."

EVERY political killing and massacre between the Arabs and the Jews in Mandate Palestine was instigated by the Arabs for almost 20 years after the Balfour Declaration. Then the Jews started fighting back. The Arabs started the violence in the first place and then started whining when the Jews turned it around on them. They have been whining ever since.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_and_massacres_in_Mandatory_Palestine

Edited March 9, 2016 by Ulysses G.

[Elfin]

Nearly half of Israeli Jews believe in ethnic cleansing, survey finds

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/almost-half-of-israeli-jews-want-ethnic-cleansing-palestinians-wake-up-call-survey-finds-a6919271.html

Actually, they believe Arabs should be "expelled or transferred" from Israel and who can blame them? They have been plagued by Islamic terrorism for all of their existence and they could have gotten rid of them in 1948, like any other country would have done. Israel invited its enemies stay. Israel is way too humane for its own good.

Yes, ethnic cleansing.

What does 'invited its enemies in to stay' mean? You mean they occupied the land and should have ethnically cleansed it?

You can't "occupy" your own land. They invited the Arabs to live in peace among them on the land granted by the UN. That looks like it was a big mistake. The Palestinians certainly don't plan to let Jews live in their country - if they every actually get one.

But the jews did not stay in the land "given to them by the UN" did they? No they have gone on to occupy land that is not theirs with a plan to ethnically cleanse it of all non-jews except for a token amount to do the jobs that European jews do not want to do.

[Norvid 1950]

I'm not surprised at all. People in occupied country by the enemy should and will fight for their freedom. It was like that for eternity. Who to blame? The occupier. All countries have their national heroes, who fought against the enemy and occupying forces. Nothing new. France has it. Russia has it. Serbia has it. Poland has it. All countries in Africa. Etc, etc. Is Israel immune to international law? What they want is to get back what was taken from them by force. Nothing less and nothing more. Remember Kutchera killed in Warsaw? Reinhardt in Prague? Maybe different names , but very much comparable situation.

[Galactus]

Nearly half of Israeli Jews believe in ethnic cleansing, survey finds

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/almost-half-of-israeli-jews-want-ethnic-cleansing-palestinians-wake-up-call-survey-finds-a6919271.html

Actually, they believe Arabs should be "expelled or transferred" from Israel and who can blame them? They have been plagued by Islamic terrorism for all of their existence and they could have gotten rid of them in 1948, like any other country would have done. Israel invited its enemies stay. Israel is way too humane for its own good.

wow, nice to hear the real faces of zionists!

so ethnic cleansing all the way for Zionists! that is what you guys want, right?

and transfer where? or maybe you were trying to say just execute all Arabs there? cheaper than expelling them, huh?

of course loss of life is always sad, but is this surprising?

you go steal the land of people and they react, this is their right of existence not terrorism! As long as Israelis sit on stolen land, this will happen again and again unfortunately so again, all those bloodshed is just bc of Israel.

at least they dont go bomb Israelis with phosphorus bombs or weapons banned by UN!

[Galactus]

An American citizen killed should make it harder for the Western press to ignore, which they so often do when Israeli citizens are murdered.

sad for the young guy like i am sad for all deceased Palestinians. RIP young lad! possibly this was not your war over there:(

but most Israelis hold an american passport as spare one, too. dont want to assume but he was not a Jewish American went to Israel to support, right?

there is a travel warning and US citizens strongly recommended for not visiting Israel. How come a university can send their young people there? This needs to be investigated by US officials!

so shall we say was it a risk taken?

https://travel.state.gov/content/passports/en/alertswarnings/israel-travel-warning.html

it is the fault of the university sending those young and possibly clueless guys to a danger - war zone originated from illegal Israeli occupation, nothign else. and again responsibility to Isreal to accept those young people to a war zone and not protecting them well enough.

it looks like USA needs to ban their citizens on visiting Israel. it is their fault on allowing their citizens to go there as well.

Zionist, please dont drag young people and kids into this bloodshed please! especially the ones that are not real Israel citizens!

if isreal does not leave those stolen land and dont stop bulldozing houses, these incidents will happen again and again unfortunately.

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/03/06/454067/West-Bank-Israel-demolition

Edited March 9, 2016 by Galactus

[Ulysses G.]

But the jews did not stay in the land "given to them by the UN" did they?

Blame that on the Arabs for starting war after war against the Jews and then switching to terrorism after losing every one. The "Palestinians" made their own bed and are responsible for the situation they are in!

Edited March 9, 2016 by Ulysses G.

[mopar71]

Nearly half of Israeli Jews believe in ethnic cleansing, survey finds

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/almost-half-of-israeli-jews-want-ethnic-cleansing-palestinians-wake-up-call-survey-finds-a6919271.html

Actually, they believe Arabs should be "expelled or transferred" from Israel and who can blame them? They have been plagued by Islamic terrorism for all of their existence and they could have gotten rid of them in 1948, like any other country would have done. Israel invited its enemies stay. Israel is way too humane for its own good.

Yes, ethnic cleansing.

What does 'invited its enemies in to stay' mean? You mean they occupied the land and should have ethnically cleansed it?

Deportation IS NOT ethnic cleansing. Anyone who thinks so probably thinks winking at a woman can be the same as rape.

[Norvid 1950]

France had national heroes in the second world war. Serbia (Yugoslavia) had it. Russia had it fighting Tartars. Poland had fighting for freedom. All Africans had it in the sixties. Remember American civil war of independence? The so called by Israelis "terrorists" are just freedom fighters for their own land stolen by Israelis. Where is justice? Give it back plus compensations and all "terrorist" attack will sease to exist. Germans were killing Jews, now Jews are killing Palestinians. What a tragedy in the making with strong Goebbels like propaganda. Lie told thousand times become truth. Does the world believe these propaganda today? By the way Jews should know better.

[Ulysses G.]

Deportation IS NOT ethnic cleansing. Anyone who thinks so probably thinks winking at a woman can be the same as rape.

But only if a JEW does it.

Edited March 9, 2016 by Ulysses G.

[Galactus]

Nearly half of Israeli Jews believe in ethnic cleansing, survey finds

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/almost-half-of-israeli-jews-want-ethnic-cleansing-palestinians-wake-up-call-survey-finds-a6919271.html

Actually, they believe Arabs should be "expelled or transferred" from Israel and who can blame them? They have been plagued by Islamic terrorism for all of their existence and they could have gotten rid of them in 1948, like any other country would have done. Israel invited its enemies stay. Israel is way too humane for its own good.

Yes, ethnic cleansing.

What does 'invited its enemies in to stay' mean? You mean they occupied the land and should have ethnically cleansed it?

Deportation IS NOT ethnic cleansing. Anyone who thinks so probably thinks winking at a woman can be the same as rape.

really?

'Ethnic cleansing is the systematic forced removal of ethnic or religious groups from a given territory by a more powerful ethnic group, with the intent of making it ethnically homogeneous'

​so killing people, deporting or expelling them are all called 'ethnic cleansing'. it is all about changing the demographics of a land to create a majority of a certain, group, race etc so they can claim the right for the land and sit on it!

you go fool Zionist with your - possibly intentional - misleading words. Most are not stupid to eat that anymore!

Edited March 9, 2016 by Galactus