Ironically yesterday the story was suddenly changed. Haaretz reported that
the same Foreign Ministry that has put the lifetime ban on Dr.
Gilbert did not mean to say that the Norwegian doctor is banned from
entering Gaza but that he is not allowed to enter Israel, as if Dr.
Gilbert was planning to spend the next Hanukkah with Netanyahu's family.
So all together things have been not been looking up for Israel and have been getting worse on all accounts for the Palestinians. Harsher laws have been passed, 20 years for stone throwing, non-Jewish populations of West Bank and East Jerusalem have been systematically deported deported, settlers' violations toward defenseless populations, which have not ceased, are going on with even more frequency and more brutality, children were run over, youths were arrested and killed at every sign of protest. The world who stood in witness to the farcical TRUCE, saw it falling apart from the get go with much more awareness.
On other fronts, US and Iran went back to the negotiating table over the nuclear impasse. Whether or not the negotiation of next week will bear any fruit is anyone's guess, but nonetheless any negotiation with Iran is like a stone in Israel eyes.
So in light of all that has been happening since the shift in view of international community of Israel, what do you think would be one thing that would change the equation? What would you say would would help with a shift of world opinion about the aggressor (Israel)? What would it take for victimizer to suddenly become a victim again?
I hazard to venture out by saying that perhaps if Israel can manage to show that her security is in dire danger, it might help her cause. If Israel can show that as always the Palestinians can never be trusted, that Arabs and Muslims just have it for the Israel and the world. That Israel needs to defend herself is more significant today than ever before as its enemy perpetually wants her destruction, then go from "duce' to "advantage Israel' using Tennis terminology.
So how utterly timely for another American humanitarian aid worker who like the others has been captured since October of 2013 and we didn't know, Peter Kassig is beheaded by the yet another ISIS masked militant, this one with a British accent;) "an act of pure evil" as White House the 'creator' calls it !
As if 'evil' were not upon the 'benevolent, yesterday two Palestinians stormed a Jerusalem synagogue, attacking worshipers with knives, axes and guns in the ultra-Orthodox Har Nof neighborhood. The attack claimed 5 lives, 4 of whom were rabbis whose nationality were revealed as 3 Americans and 1 British.
The attackers, Uday and Rassan Abu Jamal aged 22 and 27, allegedly cousins, were both killed by Israeli police, not captured, but killed.
Benjamin Netanyahu couldn't ask for better blessing in skies, 4 American victims in span of two days, 3 rabbis and one aid worker.
So naturally Netanyahu didn't waste any time to state; "We are at the height of an ongoing terror attack focused on Jerusalem, our eternal capital,'' and that he/Israel 'settle the score with every terrorist', claiming those who wanted to force the Israeli people out of Jerusalem would not succeed!
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was joined by British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, US Secretary of State John Kerry and of course their Palestinian cohorts President Mahmoud Abbas in condemning the attack.
And of course no terrorist condemnation is complete without the US President Barack Obama's mini speech in form of condemnation of the 'horrific attack' and added;
'There is and can be no justification for such attacks against innocent civilians'.
Funny huh? I wonder if there was any justification for the 50 days of attack on innocent civilians of Palestine, all of the 2000+ of them?
I wonder if President Obama's statement is also extended to the family of the innocent bus driver, Yusuf Hassan al-Ramouni, who was lynched a day earlier in his bus?
I wonder if Barack Obama even heard of Yusuf Hassan al-Ramouni, the man who abducted and brutalized himself and then finally hung himself ?
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