Why the targets of Palestinian terrorism are civilians

The question of why Eitam and Naama were murdered is not only philosophical but also political. For the Palestinians and their many apologists in the West, the Henkins brought this tragedy upon themselves by being the willing agents of “the occupation.” The Palestinian Authority (PA) did not condemn the crime, because it considers it “a legitimate act of resistance.” When, two days after the murder of the Henkins, Nehemia Lavi and Aharon Banito were stabbed to death in the Old City of Jerusalem, the Palestinian Authority only deplored the shooting of their assailant. PA spokesman Ihab Bseiso added that “The only solution is the end of the Israeli occupation of our occupied Palestinian land and the establishment of our independent state on the 1967 borders with Jerusalem as its capital.” In other words, terrorism will end when Israel relinquishes every inch of land in conquered during the Six Day War.

This is a lie.

Eighty-six years ago, in August 1929, 133 Jews were murdered by Arabs in Jerusalem, in Hebron, and in Safed. There was no “Israeli occupation” at the time. The reason why Jews were murdered in the Old City of Jerusalem in August 1929 and in October 2015 is, in fact, identical: Palestinian leaders ignited the violence by falsely accusing the Jews of “defiling” the Al-Aqsa mosque. In 1929, Haj Amin al Husseini (the Mufti of Jerusalem and Nazi collaborator praised as a “hero” by PLO chief Yasser Arafat) distributed leaflets with doctored photographs accusing the Jews of planning to take over the Al-Aqsa mosque. On 16 September 2015, PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas declared the following: “We bless every drop of blood that has been spilled for Jerusalem, which is clean and pure blood, blood spilled for Allah, Allah willing. Every Martyr (Shahid) will reach Paradise, and everyone wounded will be rewarded by Allah. The Al-Aqsa Mosque is ours, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is ours, and they [the Jews] have no right to defile them with their filthy feet. We will not allow them to, and we will do everything in our power to protect Jerusalem.”

It should therefore come as no surprise that Muhannad Halabi, the 19 year-old Arab murderer who stabbed two Jews to death in Jerusalem’s Old City this past Saturday night, wrote the following on his Facebook page before committing his crime: “What is happening to the Al-Aqsa Mosque is what is happening to our holy places and the way of our Prophet.” Halabi was incited, and he acted accordingly. He did not write that what had motivated him was the establishment of an independent Arab state within the armistice lines that used to separate Israel from Jordan. His targeted victims were not military but civilian. His motivation was not political but religious.

The same applies to the murderers of Eitam and Naama Henkin. As members of Hamas, they do not strive for the establishment of an additional Arab state alongside Israel, but for an Islamic state “over every inch of Palestine” (Article 6 of the Hamas charter) where no Jew (and no Christian) will be allowed. Hamas’ Charter quotes the famous Al-Bukhari “hadith” (a statement not included in the Coran but attributed to Mohamed): “The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems kill the Jews, when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.” According to a poll conducted by Stanley Greenberg in July 2011, 73% of Palestinians agree with this hadith (as reported by The Jerusalem Post on 15 July 2011). It is no coincidence if the targets of Palestinian terrorism are civilian.

As in 1929, the murder of Jews today is motivated by libelous incitement and by religious belief –both of which existed before the establishment of the State of Israel, and both of which would still exist even if Israel were to withdraw from every inch of land it conquered in June 1967.


Dr. Emmanuel Navon is the chairman of the Political Science Department at the Jerusalem Orthodox College, a senior fellow at the Kohelet Policy Forum, and an International Relations lecturer at Tel-Aviv University and at the Herzliya Interdisciplinary Center.



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The killing of the parents of these children was wrong and leaving them without a mum and dad is a tragedy for them. Support a peace process to stop the killing and Netanyahu needs to get back to the table with Fatah and Hamas and come up with a plan to give the Palestinian people the sovereign state they should have.

Its like to trying to reason with a child.
How many times have I said to you for peace to happen Israel needs a Liberal Government?
It seems you just invent things becuase you stupidly back political Hamas, who as seen praise the murder of innocents.
I am as stated against the settlements that hinder the peace proccess. I have stated that with Fatah and Hamas there is no going to be a peace process, as they continually seek the conflict to continue. Look at the lastest situation over a building, where both sides are being idiots. This is religion for you, absurd beliefs that allow idiots to believe they are justified in their hate and violence, which you fail to seem to grasp. It is a ridiculous religious belief by both sides that makes then think the land is theirs. This is why both need to recognise the self determination of both people for any peace to coexist and this is where Fatah and Hamas will always hinder. Like I have said all this could end tomorrow if both Fatah and Hamas wanted to. If they both actively sought peace and not kept countless Palestinian refugees in Limbo, who should have been made citizens in their host nations they now live in. Instead they are used as pawns by Fatah and Hamas. Its applling where many refugees have been made citizerns in countless nations. So why do they do this, as a means to continue the conflict. As why else promise them something they cannot offer to give.

This all stems from again the Arab nations not accepting the existance of Israel from its creation. Where many other minority people in a much larger nation of other majority people have had nations accepted by the world. Only here for decades will they not accpet a land not be Muslims. Of course as I say the Zionist belief is also daft and also hinders a view to peacce when both sould be created from sefl determination, but the religious element also continues this struggle. If they stopped calling for violence and stated peace, then the world would have to listen, but the violence continues and with groups like Isis cuasing havoc in the middle East then people will not side with those who actively call and use violence. Hamas may play the cannon fodder sympathy card well, but people are wising up to this charde they play with the lives of the people of Gaza. Again Israel is not without fault either in how it is heavy handed and how it can be hit civillian areas through poor intelligence or simple retaliation strikes from the known area that an attack has come from. So I see many wrongs on both sides, but I see one major fact that both Fatah and hamas seek to continue the status que in the hope that Israel will one day lose its support in the west. That is very unlikely as you well know. So after 67 years you would think that Fatah and Hamas would realise this, but also the Israeli people have to realise such a Government in power will not bring about peace even more so when it allows settlements to continue.

Though hey ho, all you do when online these days is act immature so its not worth my time with you really.

By the way the OP was spot.

I've just read your contribution which is just more of the same drivel that you pump out all the time.
Fatah and Hamas have said they will regognise Israel under the pre 1967 borders which scared the life out of Netanyahu who immediately brole off the talks.

Just you keep pumping out contributions from Zionists because that's where your heart lies.

Sorry Didge, but you just can't hide it anymore because they don't come anymore Zionist that the author of the article in the OP.

Yep, there at the top of the page the blog is on:

For the Sake of Zion
"For the sake of Zion, I shall not be still; for Jerusalem, I shall not be quiet -till her justice comes out like a flash and her salvation radiates like a torch" (Isaiah, 62:1).
(The taking back of Jerusalem by Jews)

And those lovely peaceful settler 'civilians' who march round with the IDF, rifles slung over their shoulders, burning Palestinian houses and their babies and their crops - of yes, such civilians Oy Vey Already.

Irn Bru wrote:I've just read your contribution which is just more of the same drivel that you pump out all the time.
Fatah and Hamas have said they will regognise Israel under the pre 1967 borders which scared the life out of Netanyahu who immediately brole off the talks.

Just you keep pumping out contributions from Zionists because that's where your heart lies.

Sorry Didge, but you just can't hide it anymore because they don't come anymore Zionist that the author of the article in the OP.

So yet more posts about me. Its flattering Irn, but it further proves my point you cannot debate anything  it seems.
You are more interested with me. I am not concerned if that person is a zionist. Is this your only defense?
That if a person follows a religious ideology then all their views on anything is wrong?
Can you see how abusrd that is when even then there is Liberal, left wing, right wing and extremist Zionists.
So aagin whether he is a Zionist or not is irrelevant, what is relevant is whether his reasoning is valid of which it is. Your constant attempts to deligitinize peopel off a collective ideology is just plain ignorant to be honest but I expect nothing less from you these days Irn

So try again

I am more concerned about how he was right on the point in regards to why this violence has flared up yet again.
So thanks for your irrelevant post but you need to counter my points, which yet again you have failed to do



Its like to trying to reason with a child.
How many times have I said to you for peace to happen Israel needs a Liberal Government?
It seems you just invent things becuase you stupidly back political Hamas, who as seen praise the murder of innocents.
I am as stated against the settlements that hinder the peace proccess. I have stated that with Fatah and Hamas there is no going to be a peace process, as they continually seek the conflict to continue. Look at the lastest situation over a building, where both sides are being idiots. This is religion for you, absurd beliefs that allow idiots to believe they are justified in their hate and violence, which you fail to seem to grasp. It is a ridiculous religious belief by both sides that makes then think the land is theirs. This is why both need to recognise the self determination of both people for any peace to coexist and this is where Fatah and Hamas will always hinder. Like I have said all this could end tomorrow if both Fatah and Hamas wanted to. If they both actively sought peace and not kept countless Palestinian refugees in Limbo, who should have been made citizens in their host nations they now live in. Instead they are used as pawns by Fatah and Hamas. Its applling where many refugees have been made citizerns in countless nations. So why do they do this, as a means to continue the conflict. As why else promise them something they cannot offer to give.

This all stems from again the Arab nations not accepting the existance of Israel from its creation. Where many other minority people in a much larger nation of other majority people have had nations accepted by the world. Only here for decades will they not accpet a land not be Muslims. Of course as I say the Zionist belief is also daft and also hinders a view to peacce when both sould be created from sefl determination, but the religious element also continues this struggle. If they stopped calling for violence and stated peace, then the world would have to listen, but the violence continues and with groups like Isis cuasing havoc in the middle East then people will not side with those who actively call and use violence. Hamas may play the cannon fodder sympathy card well, but people are wising up to this charde they play with the lives of the people of Gaza. Again Israel is not without fault either in how it is heavy handed and how it can be hit civillian areas through poor intelligence or simple retaliation strikes from the known area that an attack has come from. So I see many wrongs on both sides, but I see one major fact that both Fatah and hamas seek to continue the status que in the hope that Israel will one day lose its support in the west. That is very unlikely as you well know. So after 67 years you would think that Fatah and Hamas would realise this, but also the Israeli people have to realise such a Government in power will not bring about peace even more so when it allows settlements to continue.

Though hey ho, all you do when online these days is act immature so its not worth my time with you really.