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| The romantically-minded reporters and editors of most of the West's news media want you to believe this is what characterizes the low-intensity conflict between the Arabs and the Israelis. The dirty-secret reality is that rocks are hurled by Arabs at Israeli mothers driving their children far more often than at Israeli military tanks. And the rocks, cement blocks and boulders that they hurl are far more often thrown by grown men - who view this as war - than by photogenic adolescents. |
Hundreds
of violent attacks have been made in the last few days on Israelis driving
on the roads, as well as on routine police and army patrols. The names of the
places may sound strange and foreign, maybe even exotic, to some of our
readers.
But this is where we live.
- The road between
Efrat and Tekoa, a few kilometers south of Jerusalem: Rock attacks
(described as 'massive') on Israeli vehicles. Damage caused to
vehicles.
- Gush Etzion: The
Hebron road near El Arub. Several separate
incidents of rocks hurled at Israeli vehicles. Damage caused to vehicles.
- Gush Etzion: The
Hebron road near the village of
Bet Umar, scene of many rock attacks on fast-moving cars. IDF soldier
injured moderately in rock attack, requiring medical treatment.
- The Ma'ale
Levona/Sinjil road, in the Benjamin district north of
Jerusalem. Civilian driver of Israeli vehicle reported being shot at.
Security forces were called - unable to find shooter. Damage to vehicle.
- Abu Dis, Jerusalem
suburb north-east of Bethlehem: Throng of Palestinian Arabs numbering
about 50 individuals kept up a hail of rocks and molotov cocktails for
several hours, directed at IDF soldiers.
- Trans-Judea Highway,
near Halhoul bridge: Rock-throwing attacks (described as 'massive')
directed at Israeli vehicles. Damaged caused to vehicles.
- Kiryat
Arba region in vicinity of Bene Naim village: Rock-throwing
attacks (described as 'massive') directed at Israeli vehicles. Damaged
caused to vehicles.
- Southern Hebron
hills: Rock-throwing attacks (described as 'massive') directed at
Israeli bus from village of El Fuar
- Kiryat
Arba region in vicinity of Bet Enun: Rock-throwing attack
that went on for several hours, directed at Israeli vehicles. Injuries
caused to two Israelis traveling inside the vehicles. Damaged caused
to vehicles.
- Kiryat
Arba region in vicinity of Bet Enun: Following the
rock-throwing attack in Bet Enun vicinity, several Arab residents of
the area escaped from the scene in their vehicles, and then attacked IDF
soldiers when they arrived in the village to apprehend the rock-throwers.
Property damage to 7 Israeli vehicles.
- Negahot
in southern Hebron Hills: Rock attacks on Israeli civilians as well
as on IDF soldiers near El Fuar.
- Gush Etzion: The
road between the villages of Bet
Umar El Arub: Significant rock throwing attacks, causing damage to
Israeli vehicles.
- Gush Etzion: The
Hebron road near Halhoul, north of Hebron:
Rock throwing attacks. Israeli passenger bus damaged.
- Road 446 north of
Nili in the Benjamin region: Arabs placed cement blocks and rocks in road
to create obstacle and to cause damage to vehicles.
- North of Na'alim
checkpost: Arabs carried out rock-throwing attack on Israeli vehicles
causing damage to vehicles.
- Area
between Har Bracha and Kedumim in the Shomron/Samaria district: Brush
fire deliberately lit by three Palestinian Arabs. Fire brought under
control by fire fighters.
- Qalandia checkpost
north of Jerusalem: Arab apprehended by security personnel and found to be
carrying concealed weapons. Arrested and taken away for interrogation.
- Road between Tapuach and Migdalim in Shomron/Samaria district: rocks thrown at Israeli vehicles causing damage.
This is by no means a
complete list but a selection. The reports come from the voluntary first-responder
organization, Hatzalah Yehudah and Shomron. Its 500
volunteer doctors, paramedics, medics, on call 24x7 and working in
co-ordination with the IDF and with MDA, Magen David Adom, the Israeli
ambulance service, deal with these low-intensity challenges daily. It's a safe bet that not
a single one of these attacks of the past two days made it into the newspapers
or television/radio news of any of our visitors.
2 comments:
Palestinians do not throw more rocks at women with children in their car, when have you ever heard of an injury to a civilian caused by a rock? I'm sure if that happened the media all over the world would of covered it. The Palestinians only throw rocks at the Israeli, zionist regime forces who claim to be a defense force as they are in the Palestinian people's land trying to demolish their homes or arrest their brothers and sisters. Get the two sides of the stories and don't be biased towards one. I am not being racist or trying to offend anyone so you have no right of deleting my comment. However, I am just portraying the real side of the story that i've seen with my own eyes.
It would be a pity to disturb the neat and orderly view you have of what happens here, Mr/Ms van den Kaalor.
Still, we would encourage you look again at one of the more obvious and less controversial aspects of this ongoing war: the hurling of rocks at vehicles that carry ordinary Israelis. This, as every reporter knows, is a daily event here - an ordinary, mundane aspect of the warfare waged by Palestinian Arabs inspired by their leaders. It has absolutely nothing to do with Palestinian Arabs attacking soldiers or defending themselves from the military. They don't claim that it is. Hurting civilians makes sense to them, if the civilians are Jews. From experience, we know it makes sense to many other observers too.
Where possible, those rocks are hurled with the intention of killing. You might want to become familiar with the tragic experiences of the Palmer family as one among many instances. The short version of what was done to them is described by Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_of_Asher_and_Yonatan_Palmer
You are of course entitled to your own opinions. You are not entitled to your own facts. To assert as you do that the Palestinian Arabs "...only throw rocks at the Israeli, zionist regime forces who claim to be a defense force" is a nice and convenient claim, but it is nonsense. Even the terrorist organizations are too embarrassed to claim what you have just written. They are actually quite open what they want to do, and why.
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