He quoted Buttu: “Amidst the violence and unrest, the Israeli army and police are operating on a “shoot to kill” policy”, leaving the impression that Israelis are wantonly brutal and callous.
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In the West Bank city of Ramallah on Monday, Palestinian security forces held a military salute at a funeral ceremony for two Palestinians killed by Israeli fire.
We are angry at the slaughter of our people who the media fail to identify as Jews in their haste to name Palestinians killed without mentioning they were carrying out mayhem and murder.
Israeli rescue personal evacuate a woman from a stabbing attack site in Rishon Lezion, Israel, Monday, November 2.
Stone throwing is often used as an act of defiance or protest against what Palestinians view as an occupying security force – armed with rifles, tear gas, riot gear, and armored vehicles. The Palestinians counter by saying it is a result of frustration from almost a half-century of occupation.
The resolution’s passage followed an October 22 Committee hearing entitled “Words Have Consequences: Palestinian Authority Incitement to Violence”.
A cartoon circulating on Palestinian social media depicted an Israeli soldier with a basket of knives placing the weapons next to the bodies of dead Palestinians.
A top Israeli intelligence official has said young Palestinians that turn to violence do so out of despair and frustration with the status quo.
Israel’s Haaretz newspaper reported that military intelligence chief Herzl Halevi had told Sunday’s cabinet meeting that feelings of rage and frustration among Palestinians were behind the recent wave of stabbing attacks. In a third incident, a knife-wielder was shot dead by soldiers after he attacked a group of them at a highway junction in northeast Israel. An Israel that does not end its occupation of the Palestinian territories in favor of a Palestinian state will either become the undemocratic, apartheid ruler of another people or a state that forfeits Jewish self-determination by allowing a growing Palestinian population to outvote the Jewish population.
The random nature of the attacks, and the fact that most of the assailants were apparently acting alone, has made it harder for Israeli security forces to react.
“Israel’s democracy has not ceased to realize its strength and resilience”, he said at the rally.
“The continued violence by Palestinians against Israelis is a reminder of why we must stand with our ally Israel and demand that President Abbas and the Palestinian Authority take all necessary measures to halt incitement and stop the violence”, Rubio added.
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More than 222,000 now attend colleges and universities, or double what it was just a decade ago, out of 4.4 million people in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem, the lands Israel captured in 1967.
