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1. PA Terror Attack in Tel Aviv Was Aimed at 2,000 Teens
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
Police prevented a huge catastrophe by stopping a Palestinian Authority terrorist who wounded eight people at a Tel Aviv nightclub patronized by approximately 2,000 young people.
Border Police had been preparing for terrorist attacks, and their presence enabled them to stop the terrorist, hailing from Shechem (Nablus), before he could continue his assault with a knife.
The police ג€œprevented a big disaster,ג€ said Police Commander Yochanan Danino.
Dozens of police officers brought down the terrorist, age 25, after he hijacked a taxicab, wounding its driver, and was surprised by a police roadblock, which he slammed into. He then drove on for another half a mile. He then reached a nightclub holding approximately 2,000 young people at a party and continued knifing his victims for a short while until police, alert to his presence and therefore out in numbers, apprehended him.
One Border Police officer suffered wounds in his neck, and the taxi driver was cut on his hands when he tried to yank the knife away from the terrorist.
All of those wounded suffered light to moderate injuries.
The Palestinian Authority has not commented on the terrorist attack. Shechem, from where the terrorist arrived, is under control by the Palestinian Authority, which is committed to dismantle the terrorist infrastructure,
"The incident was further proof of the motivation of terrorists to attack," Danino said.
The attack still is under investigation, but the terrorist appears to have acted on his own, bearing out warnings from intelligence officers that ג€œlone terrorists,ג€ without direct involvement of a terrorist organization, are prepared to carry out attacks at any time throughout the country.
A high alert against terror is in effect along the southern border.
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by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
Police prevented a huge catastrophe by stopping a Palestinian Authority terrorist who wounded eight people at a Tel Aviv nightclub patronized by approximately 2,000 young people.
Border Police had been preparing for terrorist attacks, and their presence enabled them to stop the terrorist, hailing from Shechem (Nablus), before he could continue his assault with a knife.
The police ג€œprevented a big disaster,ג€ said Police Commander Yochanan Danino.
Dozens of police officers brought down the terrorist, age 25, after he hijacked a taxicab, wounding its driver, and was surprised by a police roadblock, which he slammed into. He then drove on for another half a mile. He then reached a nightclub holding approximately 2,000 young people at a party and continued knifing his victims for a short while until police, alert to his presence and therefore out in numbers, apprehended him.
One Border Police officer suffered wounds in his neck, and the taxi driver was cut on his hands when he tried to yank the knife away from the terrorist.
All of those wounded suffered light to moderate injuries.
The Palestinian Authority has not commented on the terrorist attack. Shechem, from where the terrorist arrived, is under control by the Palestinian Authority, which is committed to dismantle the terrorist infrastructure,
"The incident was further proof of the motivation of terrorists to attack," Danino said.
The attack still is under investigation, but the terrorist appears to have acted on his own, bearing out warnings from intelligence officers that ג€œlone terrorists,ג€ without direct involvement of a terrorist organization, are prepared to carry out attacks at any time throughout the country.
A high alert against terror is in effect along the southern border.
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2. Israeli Muslim Leader: Cairo Regime Is Key to Jerusalem
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
The road to ג€œfreeingג€ Jerusalem begins at the gates of the new military regime in Cairo, says the Israeli Islamic Movementג€™s deputy leader.
Kamal Al Khatib, deputy of the movement headed by radical preacher Raג€™ed Salah, spoke by telephone Friday to a conference organized by an Egyptian revolutionary group, according to the Hamas terrorist organizationג€™s website.
He charged that Israel is afraid of the new regime in Cairo because ג€œit knows it advances the liberation of Jerusalem.ג€ The new regime is increasingly influenced by the formerly outlawed radical Muslim Brotherhood, with which the Islamic Movement identifies.
His remarks, similar to those he made on Islam Online several weeks ago, underline the Movementג€™s opposition to Israel, particularly as a Jewish country.
Khatib said that he is not against Israeli law per se but that Arab Knesset Membersג€™ loyalty to Israel does not include respecting ג€œJewish laws that violate religious or national loyalty.ג€
He previously has alleged that ג€œwe have every right to use all means in our possession to defend landג€ claimed by the Palestinian Authority. These rights do not contradict international law because the land is ג€œoccupied,ג€ according to Khatibג€™s view.
He also said there is no difference between targeting Jewish civilians and soldiers in Israel because ג€every Jew is a solider in the reserves.ג€
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by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
The road to ג€œfreeingג€ Jerusalem begins at the gates of the new military regime in Cairo, says the Israeli Islamic Movementג€™s deputy leader.
Kamal Al Khatib, deputy of the movement headed by radical preacher Raג€™ed Salah, spoke by telephone Friday to a conference organized by an Egyptian revolutionary group, according to the Hamas terrorist organizationג€™s website.
He charged that Israel is afraid of the new regime in Cairo because ג€œit knows it advances the liberation of Jerusalem.ג€ The new regime is increasingly influenced by the formerly outlawed radical Muslim Brotherhood, with which the Islamic Movement identifies.
His remarks, similar to those he made on Islam Online several weeks ago, underline the Movementג€™s opposition to Israel, particularly as a Jewish country.
Khatib said that he is not against Israeli law per se but that Arab Knesset Membersג€™ loyalty to Israel does not include respecting ג€œJewish laws that violate religious or national loyalty.ג€
He previously has alleged that ג€œwe have every right to use all means in our possession to defend landג€ claimed by the Palestinian Authority. These rights do not contradict international law because the land is ג€œoccupied,ג€ according to Khatibג€™s view.
He also said there is no difference between targeting Jewish civilians and soldiers in Israel because ג€every Jew is a solider in the reserves.ג€
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3. Abbas Supports Genocidal Sudanese Leader Bashir
by Gil Ronen
Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has expressed his personal support for the president of Sudan, Omar Hassan Al-Bashir, who has been charged in the International Criminal Court with being responsible for the genocide in Darfur, Palestinian Media Watch reported.
In a letter to the Sudanese president, Abbas wrote that he and PA Arabs "have complete faith in the wisdom of President Omar Al-Bashir."
PMW's Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik note that in 2008, evidence was presented in the International Criminal Court of Justice that showed that "Al-Bashir committed the crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Darfur." The crimes against humanity include "murder, extermination, forcible transfer, torture and rape." Warrants for his arrest have been issued by the International Criminal Court.
PA TV News reports that a member of the Fatah Central Committee, Azzam Al-Ahmad, was sent by Abbas to deliver a personal letter to the Sudanese president. In it, Abbas wrote that the Palestinian people "stand side by side with the brother country Sudan." The Palestinians, wrote Abbas, "emphasize" their "complete willingness to stand with Sudan in everything it wants and in the way it wants."
A top PA official said that the secession of South Sudan is a plot by the US and Israel to advance their interests. Tayeb al-Rahim, Director of Abbas's bureau, said that Israel and the US want to make profits from Sudan's oil resources and to make the world forget about the Israel-PA confict.
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The following is the transcript of an excerpt from the PA TV News report on Abbas's support to the Sudanese president:
PA TV News host: "President Mahmoud Abbas's envoy delivered to member of Fatah Central Committee, Azzam Al-Ahmad, a written letter from His Excellency [Abbas] to his Sudanese counterpart [President] Omar Al-Bashir... Al-Ahmad said that President Mahmoud Abbas expressed in his letter the Palestinian people's support for the efforts of the Sudanese leadership in the face of the dangers that threaten Sudanese unity."
[TV news shows Al-Bashir reading Abbas's letter]
Azzam Al-Ahmad, member of Fatah Central Committee: "President Abbas's letter says that the Palestinian people and its leadership stand side by side with the brother country Sudan, and that they have complete faith in the wisdom of President Omar Al-Bashir in coping with these dangers. We emphasize our complete willingness to stand with Sudan in everything it wants and in the way it wants, in order to support the unity of the land of Sudan and its people."
[PA TV (Fatah), Nov. 28, 2010]
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by Gil Ronen
Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has expressed his personal support for the president of Sudan, Omar Hassan Al-Bashir, who has been charged in the International Criminal Court with being responsible for the genocide in Darfur, Palestinian Media Watch reported.
In a letter to the Sudanese president, Abbas wrote that he and PA Arabs "have complete faith in the wisdom of President Omar Al-Bashir."
PMW's Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik note that in 2008, evidence was presented in the International Criminal Court of Justice that showed that "Al-Bashir committed the crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Darfur." The crimes against humanity include "murder, extermination, forcible transfer, torture and rape." Warrants for his arrest have been issued by the International Criminal Court.
PA TV News reports that a member of the Fatah Central Committee, Azzam Al-Ahmad, was sent by Abbas to deliver a personal letter to the Sudanese president. In it, Abbas wrote that the Palestinian people "stand side by side with the brother country Sudan." The Palestinians, wrote Abbas, "emphasize" their "complete willingness to stand with Sudan in everything it wants and in the way it wants."
A top PA official said that the secession of South Sudan is a plot by the US and Israel to advance their interests. Tayeb al-Rahim, Director of Abbas's bureau, said that Israel and the US want to make profits from Sudan's oil resources and to make the world forget about the Israel-PA confict.
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The following is the transcript of an excerpt from the PA TV News report on Abbas's support to the Sudanese president:
PA TV News host: "President Mahmoud Abbas's envoy delivered to member of Fatah Central Committee, Azzam Al-Ahmad, a written letter from His Excellency [Abbas] to his Sudanese counterpart [President] Omar Al-Bashir... Al-Ahmad said that President Mahmoud Abbas expressed in his letter the Palestinian people's support for the efforts of the Sudanese leadership in the face of the dangers that threaten Sudanese unity."
[TV news shows Al-Bashir reading Abbas's letter]
Azzam Al-Ahmad, member of Fatah Central Committee: "President Abbas's letter says that the Palestinian people and its leadership stand side by side with the brother country Sudan, and that they have complete faith in the wisdom of President Omar Al-Bashir in coping with these dangers. We emphasize our complete willingness to stand with Sudan in everything it wants and in the way it wants, in order to support the unity of the land of Sudan and its people."
[PA TV (Fatah), Nov. 28, 2010]
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4. Report: Lockerbie Bomber Found in Tripoli
by Elad Benari
Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset al-Megrahi has been found comatose and near death, CNN reported Sunday.
According to the report, al-Megrahi was found in the Libyan capital Tripoli. He is reportedly being taken care of by his family and is surviving on oxygen and an intravenous drip.
ג€œWe just give him oxygen. Nobody gives us any advice,ג€ his son, Khaled al-Megrahi, told CNN.
The cancer-stricken former Libyan intelligence officer may be the last man alive who knows precisely who in the Libya government authorized the 1989 bombing which killed 270 people, CNN noted.
Al-Megrahi was freed from a prison in Scotland in 2009 after serving eight years of a life sentence for blowing up Pan Am flight 103. He was released on compassionate grounds after doctors who had been treating him for prostate cancer said he had just three months to live.
Al-Megrahi returned to Tripoli where he received a heroג€™s welcome. Despite the grim prognosis he has remained alive. The United States and Britain have both asked the Libyan rebels, who are currently taking over the reins in Libya, that al-Megrahi be extradited so that justice could be done.
But, according to the CNN report, the rebelsג€™ National Transitional Council said Sunday that it would not extradite al-Megrahi.
ג€œWe will not give any Libyan citizen to the West,ג€ NTC Justice Minister Mohammed al-Alagi was quoted as having said.
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by Elad Benari
Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset al-Megrahi has been found comatose and near death, CNN reported Sunday.
According to the report, al-Megrahi was found in the Libyan capital Tripoli. He is reportedly being taken care of by his family and is surviving on oxygen and an intravenous drip.
ג€œWe just give him oxygen. Nobody gives us any advice,ג€ his son, Khaled al-Megrahi, told CNN.
The cancer-stricken former Libyan intelligence officer may be the last man alive who knows precisely who in the Libya government authorized the 1989 bombing which killed 270 people, CNN noted.
Al-Megrahi was freed from a prison in Scotland in 2009 after serving eight years of a life sentence for blowing up Pan Am flight 103. He was released on compassionate grounds after doctors who had been treating him for prostate cancer said he had just three months to live.
Al-Megrahi returned to Tripoli where he received a heroג€™s welcome. Despite the grim prognosis he has remained alive. The United States and Britain have both asked the Libyan rebels, who are currently taking over the reins in Libya, that al-Megrahi be extradited so that justice could be done.
But, according to the CNN report, the rebelsג€™ National Transitional Council said Sunday that it would not extradite al-Megrahi.
ג€œWe will not give any Libyan citizen to the West,ג€ NTC Justice Minister Mohammed al-Alagi was quoted as having said.
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5. Rabbi Electrocuted while Trying to Save Child in Hurricane
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
A New York rabbi was electrocuted to death while trying to save an eight-year-old neighbor boy trapped under a live cable that was downed by hurricane Irene Sunday, according to Yeshiva World News. The boy is in critical condition.
Rabbi Moshe Yosef Reichenberg of Monsey was driving when he noticed the boy trapped under the cable. He stopped his car and tried to rescue the child, but was killed by the high voltage without being able to free the child.
ג€It was a horrible scene,ג€ wrote Meir Bernstein of New Yorkג€™s Kol Hareidi newspaper.
Rescue teams tried to save the rabbiג€™s life and rescue the child but were forced to stand by helplessly for 20 minutes until electric company crews arrived to cut off the power.
By then it was too late to save the rabbi.
The stormy weather also did not allow a helicopter to land and evacuate the victims, and the child had to wait for half an hour until an ambulance was able to rush him to a Westchester hospital, where doctors said his life is in danger. People are asked to pray for Chaim Reuven Dovid ben Chava Leah.
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by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
A New York rabbi was electrocuted to death while trying to save an eight-year-old neighbor boy trapped under a live cable that was downed by hurricane Irene Sunday, according to Yeshiva World News. The boy is in critical condition.
Rabbi Moshe Yosef Reichenberg of Monsey was driving when he noticed the boy trapped under the cable. He stopped his car and tried to rescue the child, but was killed by the high voltage without being able to free the child.
ג€It was a horrible scene,ג€ wrote Meir Bernstein of New Yorkג€™s Kol Hareidi newspaper.
Rescue teams tried to save the rabbiג€™s life and rescue the child but were forced to stand by helplessly for 20 minutes until electric company crews arrived to cut off the power.
By then it was too late to save the rabbi.
The stormy weather also did not allow a helicopter to land and evacuate the victims, and the child had to wait for half an hour until an ambulance was able to rush him to a Westchester hospital, where doctors said his life is in danger. People are asked to pray for Chaim Reuven Dovid ben Chava Leah.
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6. Former IAF Commander Recommends Online Warfare
by Elad Benari
A former commander of the Israeli Air Force recently suggested that Israel take advantage of the possibility of planting online viruses as a method of combat.
Maj. Gen. (res.) David Ivry made the comments in a special panel held by the Israel Defence Magazine, along with Maj. Gen. (res.) Yiftah Ron-Tal and Maj. Gen (res.) David Ben Baג€™ashat.
ג€œToday, when considering using military force, one should take into consideration aspects that did not exist before,ג€ Ivry said. ג€œIn the online era one has to consider planting a virus or worm as a deterrent before a military operation is carried out.ג€
Ivry stressed, however, that ג€œone should never give up on a military option, because the worm may not fulfill all the expectations. However, where possible, why go to war in the physical world if you can get the same results in the online world? With correct thinking and intelligent planning you can do almost anything in the online world.ג€
He described the current trends which the IDF must deal with, including the geo-political changes in the region, and noted among the trends ג€œthe intensive use of space and cyberspace.ג€
ג€œSpace is part of the online war,ג€ added Ivry, ג€œand we should expand the scope of investment in this field. Cyberspace is substantially the same as classical electronic warfare. The biggest challenge in this field is to develop new systems quickly. If you do not protect yourself well enough, youג€™ll find yourself paralyzed by new technology. Technological infrastructures should be prepared based on the industry.ג€
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by Elad Benari
A former commander of the Israeli Air Force recently suggested that Israel take advantage of the possibility of planting online viruses as a method of combat.
Maj. Gen. (res.) David Ivry made the comments in a special panel held by the Israel Defence Magazine, along with Maj. Gen. (res.) Yiftah Ron-Tal and Maj. Gen (res.) David Ben Baג€™ashat.
ג€œToday, when considering using military force, one should take into consideration aspects that did not exist before,ג€ Ivry said. ג€œIn the online era one has to consider planting a virus or worm as a deterrent before a military operation is carried out.ג€
Ivry stressed, however, that ג€œone should never give up on a military option, because the worm may not fulfill all the expectations. However, where possible, why go to war in the physical world if you can get the same results in the online world? With correct thinking and intelligent planning you can do almost anything in the online world.ג€
He described the current trends which the IDF must deal with, including the geo-political changes in the region, and noted among the trends ג€œthe intensive use of space and cyberspace.ג€
ג€œSpace is part of the online war,ג€ added Ivry, ג€œand we should expand the scope of investment in this field. Cyberspace is substantially the same as classical electronic warfare. The biggest challenge in this field is to develop new systems quickly. If you do not protect yourself well enough, youג€™ll find yourself paralyzed by new technology. Technological infrastructures should be prepared based on the industry.ג€
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7. Tent Protest Collapsing?
by Gil Ronen
An increasingly large number of voices in the Israeli press are saying that the tent protest against the government's social-economic policies is dying.
The number of demonstrators in last Saturday night's protests was considerably smaller than on previous Saturday nights this summer, although Israel Radio tried to make the number seems like a large one.
Liberal television show anchors like Yonit Levy and Oshrat Kotler, who were obviously elated by the protests throughout the summer, were visibly despondent.
Relatively conservative writers, by liberal Israeli standards, like Ben-Dror Yemini and writers of "The Daily Capitalist" in Maariv repeatedly tore into the protests and noted that even if they did start out spontaneously, they were quickly hijacked by radical leftist elements. Anti-protest voices like Kobi Arieli's, which were a small minority at first, now appear to be in the majority.
A news conference held by the tent protest leaders last week devolved into a squabble on live video, with some of the local leaders accusing the national leadership of hogging attention and making decisions on their own.
Channel 10, considered by some an even greater bastion of leftism than Channel 2, interviewed Daphni Leef, the most prominent leader of the "revolution," and asked her some tough questions that had not been asked in the previous weeks' coddling interviews.
The interviewer noted that she had grown up in the affluent Jerusalem neighborhood of Rechavia, next to the Prime Minister's residence, and then moved to Kfar Shemaryahu, possibly Israel's most highbrow neighborhood. He asked her if she is the right person to lead a protest on socio-economic injustice. He also noted that she had not served in the military or in alternative National Service, and asked if she had spent the night at the main Tel Aviv protest encampment recently.
Leef admitted she had not slept in the tents in recent days. She said that she had received exemption from military service because of epilepsy, and that she has volunteered extensively in other programs. She then walked out of the interview as the cameras were rolling.
Leef's call for the resignation of the head of the committee appointed by the Prime Minister to address the social protest caused considerable ire in her own camp, where other leaders said they were not consulted about the move.
The committee is dealing with suggestions for alleviating social welfare issues that affect those below the poverty line in Israel as well as that portion of the middle class that feels the crunch of taxes and high food and housing prices. It is enjoined to be careful not to endanger Israels excellent world economic position with suggestions that signigicantly increase the national debt.
Popular news site Ynet, which had functioned as a PR spin machine for the protest all summer long, keeping it in its top headlines for most of July and August, has featured very few articles on it in the past week.
Next Saturday night, the protesters intend to hold what they call "a million-man protest." If they fail to bring out hundreds of thousands of protesters, the demonstration may become their Waterloo.
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by Gil Ronen
An increasingly large number of voices in the Israeli press are saying that the tent protest against the government's social-economic policies is dying.
The number of demonstrators in last Saturday night's protests was considerably smaller than on previous Saturday nights this summer, although Israel Radio tried to make the number seems like a large one.
Liberal television show anchors like Yonit Levy and Oshrat Kotler, who were obviously elated by the protests throughout the summer, were visibly despondent.
Relatively conservative writers, by liberal Israeli standards, like Ben-Dror Yemini and writers of "The Daily Capitalist" in Maariv repeatedly tore into the protests and noted that even if they did start out spontaneously, they were quickly hijacked by radical leftist elements. Anti-protest voices like Kobi Arieli's, which were a small minority at first, now appear to be in the majority.
A news conference held by the tent protest leaders last week devolved into a squabble on live video, with some of the local leaders accusing the national leadership of hogging attention and making decisions on their own.
Channel 10, considered by some an even greater bastion of leftism than Channel 2, interviewed Daphni Leef, the most prominent leader of the "revolution," and asked her some tough questions that had not been asked in the previous weeks' coddling interviews.
The interviewer noted that she had grown up in the affluent Jerusalem neighborhood of Rechavia, next to the Prime Minister's residence, and then moved to Kfar Shemaryahu, possibly Israel's most highbrow neighborhood. He asked her if she is the right person to lead a protest on socio-economic injustice. He also noted that she had not served in the military or in alternative National Service, and asked if she had spent the night at the main Tel Aviv protest encampment recently.
Leef admitted she had not slept in the tents in recent days. She said that she had received exemption from military service because of epilepsy, and that she has volunteered extensively in other programs. She then walked out of the interview as the cameras were rolling.
Leef's call for the resignation of the head of the committee appointed by the Prime Minister to address the social protest caused considerable ire in her own camp, where other leaders said they were not consulted about the move.
The committee is dealing with suggestions for alleviating social welfare issues that affect those below the poverty line in Israel as well as that portion of the middle class that feels the crunch of taxes and high food and housing prices. It is enjoined to be careful not to endanger Israels excellent world economic position with suggestions that signigicantly increase the national debt.
Popular news site Ynet, which had functioned as a PR spin machine for the protest all summer long, keeping it in its top headlines for most of July and August, has featured very few articles on it in the past week.
Next Saturday night, the protesters intend to hold what they call "a million-man protest." If they fail to bring out hundreds of thousands of protesters, the demonstration may become their Waterloo.
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8. Armed PA Arabs March on Jewish Town
by Maayana Miskin
Jews in the village of Esh Kodesh in Samaria who planned a Torah class on Friday found themselves facing off against an angry Palestinian Authority mob instead. IDF soldiers managed to prevent bloodshed.
The mob, made up of roughly 100 men and youths, was armed ג€œwith whatever they could find,ג€ recalled Rafi Fischer, who spoke Sunday to Arutz Sheva. Among the makeshift weapons were metal pipes and clubs, he said.
The small group of Jewish villagers could hear the muezzin (Muslim prayer leader) calling on residents of the nearby PA town of Kusra to join in the attack on Esh Kodesh.
Fortunately, Fischer said, ג€œThe army was determined,ג€ and soldiers prevented the PA mob from carrying out a violent attack at the site. The Jewish villagers were evacuated for their own protection, and proceeded to hold the planned Torah class in a nearby town.
While the IDF put a stop to the planned bloodshed, it is also IDF actions that set the mob in motion, Fischer stated. PA Arabs used to leave Esh Kodesh alone, but began attacking the site after seeing the IDF's Civil Administration destroy buildings in the community, he said.
Fischer brought proof for his theory from the PA mob itself . A listserve used by PA residents of Kotzra was found to include statements saying that the Zionist army had destroyed buildings at the site. The statements ended with a declaration, ג€œToday we go up,ג€ he said.
Esh Kodesh was intended as a site for Jewish settlement as many as 30 years ago, he noted.
Fischer and several others who witnessed the attack are not permanent residents of Esh Kodesh, but rather, visitors from elsewhere in Samaria who came to show solidarity with villagers in the face of recent attacks and demolitions. The group plans to continue weekly visits to Esh Kodesh and similar locations despite Friday's attack, he said.
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by Maayana Miskin
Jews in the village of Esh Kodesh in Samaria who planned a Torah class on Friday found themselves facing off against an angry Palestinian Authority mob instead. IDF soldiers managed to prevent bloodshed.
The mob, made up of roughly 100 men and youths, was armed ג€œwith whatever they could find,ג€ recalled Rafi Fischer, who spoke Sunday to Arutz Sheva. Among the makeshift weapons were metal pipes and clubs, he said.
The small group of Jewish villagers could hear the muezzin (Muslim prayer leader) calling on residents of the nearby PA town of Kusra to join in the attack on Esh Kodesh.
Fortunately, Fischer said, ג€œThe army was determined,ג€ and soldiers prevented the PA mob from carrying out a violent attack at the site. The Jewish villagers were evacuated for their own protection, and proceeded to hold the planned Torah class in a nearby town.
While the IDF put a stop to the planned bloodshed, it is also IDF actions that set the mob in motion, Fischer stated. PA Arabs used to leave Esh Kodesh alone, but began attacking the site after seeing the IDF's Civil Administration destroy buildings in the community, he said.
Fischer brought proof for his theory from the PA mob itself . A listserve used by PA residents of Kotzra was found to include statements saying that the Zionist army had destroyed buildings at the site. The statements ended with a declaration, ג€œToday we go up,ג€ he said.
Esh Kodesh was intended as a site for Jewish settlement as many as 30 years ago, he noted.
Fischer and several others who witnessed the attack are not permanent residents of Esh Kodesh, but rather, visitors from elsewhere in Samaria who came to show solidarity with villagers in the face of recent attacks and demolitions. The group plans to continue weekly visits to Esh Kodesh and similar locations despite Friday's attack, he said.
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