You Will Anyway: Israel's Response

Monday, January 9, 2017

Israel's Response

You no doubt know that a Palestinian man drove a truck into a group of Israeli soldiers, killing four of them, and wounding several more. In a typical Israeli response, after killing the driver, they arrested his father and brother, and Netanyahu announced there "definitely could be" a connection with ISIS.

The security cabinet decided Sunday to use administrative detention orders, or detention without trial, against suspects who identify with the Islamic State group.

Haaretz

I guess it's debatable whether that's better or worse than their alternative execution on the spot, which is what they actually did to the driver. Not saying it wasn't warranted, just that it seems to be the usual way of handling Palestinians in Israeli conflicts.

Security sources told the ministers at the meeting that the measures were already taken in response to the attack. The measures included a blockade of the Palestinian Jabal Mukkaber neighborhood, adjacent to the site of the attack, from which the attacker is said to have driven the truck.

Wait wait wait wait. An entire neighborhood? I thought "detention without trial" meant you took the perpetrator and locked him up. I didn't know it meant making a detention center out of an entire neighborhood.

The security cabinet also resolved to demolish the home of the driver of the truck as soon as possible and to reject requests by the attacker's family for family reunification with relatives who live in the territories.

Are they going to drive a truck into it?

Netanyahu also asked that reports be verified that there were Arabs at the site of the attack who expressed satisfaction over it and asking that legal proceedings be pursued against them.

I wonder what the penalty is in Israel for expressing satisfaction. Also home demolition?

It was also decided that the body of the attacker would not be returned to his family.

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In a statement, Jerusalem's mayor, Nir Barkat, said there was "no limit to the cruelty of the terrorists who use every means to murder Jews and damage the routine life in the capital of Israel."

CNN

Pot, kettle. Even Karl Rove turnouts never did it any better.

In a statement, the US State Department condemned the "glorification of terrorism now or at any time" and said "there is absolutely no justification for these brutal and senseless attacks."

You might want to go to Palestine and check with those people.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Also...

More here on how all violence from Palestinians - even when directed at military targets - is called "terrorism" https://t.co/jJ5gY5j6A1
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) January 9, 2017

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