Today’s Terrorism
This morning, a terror attack perpetrated by terrorists in Egypt left an Israeli-Arab father-of-four dead.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Monday morning’s attack on the border with Egypt would not deter Israel from building the security barrier.
“This barrier is meant both to prevent terrorism and also to prevent the entrance of infiltrators. Its construction is of supreme national interest,” Netanyahu said.
The prime minister ordered security forces to act with determination and resolve against “whoever attacks us from within Egypt.”
Netanyahu said that had the government not decided to build the fence two years ago, the country would today be facing a flood of both terrorists and infiltrators.
Israeli workman Said Phashpashe was killed in the attack. Netanyahu sent his condolences to the family of Phashpashe, a Haifa resident and father of four.
An additional workman was seriously injured in the clash.
“The attack was most likely aimed at Israeli citizens and against people who work on the security fence along the Egyptian border,” Netanyahu stated.
The incident took place at around 6 a.m., along a section of the Egyptian border, located about 30 km. from the Gaza Strip and not far from the Israeli town of Nitzana.
Israeli workmen involved in constructing the border fence were driving in two cars along the border when a road-side bomb went off. The bomb and terrorists were on the Egyptian side of the border, the IDF said. The bomb hit one of the cars which flipped over, killing one of the workmen. Another workman was seriously injured.
A force from Golani immediately arrived at the scene, a gun fight ensued and a bomb carried by one of the terrorists exploded. Two terrorists were killed in the gunfight and the IDF believed that a third terrorist was also involved in the clash, who they believed to be in Sinai.
I’m guessing the fact no Jews were killed would lead the terrorists to consider the attack somewhat of a failure.
Israeli news reported that the IDF moved a number of Merkava tanks up to the border to help protect against additional infiltrations, a move some saw as being in violation of Israel’s (joke of a) peace agreement with Egypt. But as Ynet notes:
Ynet’s chief military commentator Ron Ben Yishai noted that several months ago, Israel and Egypt arrived at an agreement by which Cairo would be able to deploy 20 tanks near the border, to ward off attacks by Bedouins on Egyptian forces, despite the fact that such a move contradicts the peace treaty.
It is likely that the deal also allowed Israel to do the same in favor of increased protection for the area’s communities.
In other news, Israel managed to off a couple of the dopiest looking terrorists you’ll ever see.
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“…left an Israeli-Arab father-of-four dead.”
Islamic imperialist terrorists consider it collateral damage.
And what do you consider it? Certainly it can’t be a real tragedy for “real” Israelis since Arabs can never be considered “real” Israelis. Spare us your crocodile tears, ziontruth.
And spare us your bizarre moral realtivism and lectures from the safety of Iowa.
And spare us your bizarre spelling of the word “relativism,” junior.
Wow pinhead what a put down. So I am a lousy typist and there is no edit feature once you post. Go back to your J Street commissar for your latest instructions. Moral relativism is the last refuge of left-wing ideologues.
“Spare us your crocodile tears, ziontruth.”
I didn’t shed any tears here, Sonny Jim, only pointed out the fact that the prospect of hurting fellow Arabs/Muslims isn’t going to deter the Islamic terrorists.
“Ziontruth has made the point that his view of Israel is that all it’s citizens must be Jewish and Arabs should never be considered Israelis.”
Sorta. The idea is that, since the Arab nation already possesses a great number of states covering a huge area, most of it beyond the Arab nation’s entitlement (the Arabian Peninsula), there is no dispossession involved when the Jews reclaim anything within the bounds of the Land of Israel.
It’s called “playing your team.” We’re now 50 years after the French retreat from Algeria, and on that occasion I’d like to mention that that’s exactly the mistake they made (and I also want to get on Jim’s nerves by pretending to “advocate re-colonization of Arab lands” or something like that). The French designated the northern, coastal part of Algeria as “an integral part of France,” counting it among the Departments of France the same as the Paris region or Brittany. But they didn’t play like they believed it. They didn’t, because if that was an integral part of France, it was curious of them to leave all those non-French residing on it. And so they got what someone who plays colonist instead of playing native always gets: Guerrilla warfare, a war of attrition that the colonist is ultimately doomed to lose. Always.
And the Jewish State, ever since 1967, has played colonists on its own land instead of behaving according to the truth that the Jews are the only indigenes of the Land of Israel. Guerrilla warfare naturally followed, in 1988, and now pits the Jewish State against international “law,” which hands guerrilla fighters their victory in the name of “humanitarianism,” by declaring mass expulsion a crime.
Going back to France, it is noteworthy that the French are now being colonized by the descendants of those who had chased them off Algeria. In the Left’s usual double standard, any Frenchman who opposes this colonialism is not hailed as “one who resists injustice” but pilloried as a (drum roll, please) “RAAAAACIST.” Relevance to Israel? It shows the futility of seeking sympathy in world opinion when the enemy side is atop the media outlets, and the necessity of wringing positive PR out of those outlets by government-authored coercion.
But I’ve said this an umpteen times before and, in view of Netanyahu’s cowering in fear of the kangaroo court in The Hague (as demonstrated by the Giv’at Ulpana affair), I am less and less hopeful with each passing day. Of late, I have found myself slipping slowly toward the Ultra-Orthodox and their stance that only HaShem’s sending of Mashiah will bring change. The Israeli Jewish Right is no Right; you vote for the land-faithful Right and get the capitulationist Left every time. No choice but to spread some mustard (Nationalist Ultra-Orthodox) on one’s politics.
Snap out of it, ziontruth. Things aren’t all that bad. You’re sliding into a fuzzy-headed settler morass where they view the IDF as the enemy! And you’ve already got AussieDave and IsraellyCool, what do you need a Messiah for? Always look on the bright side of life is what I say.
If it’s muslims killed by muslims (by mistake in this case) then they are automatically “martyrs”.
But if Jews killed them, then they are victims, innocent, children, civilians, you name it.
I have no idea what ‘every Israeli’ thinks and doubt that they ‘all’ think the same thing w/o exception. None the less I see no reason why his murder can’t be highlighted for the same reasons as any other. One would think the state nominally has some duty to keep its citizens from being murdered on its own soil. That alone should suffice as a reason to point out that the filthy savage subhumans lurking in the Sinai can only be heroes to other subhumans and their New York Times cocktail circuit rich urban liberal supporters.
What is a “real Israeli”, Jim?
This is one of the many drawbacks of having a discussion in a public forum which probably is best done in private. However, assuming your question comes from a place of goodwill, I’ll answer it. Ziontruth has made the point that his view of Israel is that all it’s citizens must be Jewish and Arabs should never be considered Israelis. This is what I meant by that term, Bubbe.