Not unexpected — the Israelis have been even more blatant in land grabs lately, several Palestinians have been seriously injured and one bus driver was found hanged in his bus. (Officials said it was a suicide.) Now we have this horrendous attack on people praying at a synagogue, and of course it will be used as a reason for more violence:
JERUSALEM — Two Palestinians armed with knives, axes and a gun stormed a synagogue in an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood on Tuesday, killing three Americans — including a prominent rabbi — and a British worshiper in one of the deadliest attacks in years in Jerusalem.
The attackers — identified by Palestinian media as residents of mostly Arab East Jerusalem — were then killed by police in an aftermath that vividly showed the razor-edge tensions in Jerusalem after weeks of bloodshed and clashes.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Palestinian leaders of inciting violence and promised to “respond harshly.” In the Palestinian-controlled Gaza Strip, calls over loudspeakers praised the attackers.
In East Jerusalem, crowds hurled stones at Israeli police fanning out around the neighborhood where the attackers lived.
The Associated Press, citing Israeli police, said those killed included one Briton and three Americans — among them Rabbi Moshe Twersky, who taught at an English-speaking religious school in Jerusalem and was a member of one of the most respected families in Orthodox scholarship.
Life is lived on a continuum. One event follows another. Today two Palestinians killed four people in a synagogue before being shot to death by Israeli police. Zionist policy is to NOT take prisoners. Yesterday a Palestinian bus driver was found hanging in his bus. A suicide said the Israelis. On Sunday Netanyahu said that he was going to “aggressively” pursue the Zionist policy of destroying the homes of every relative of any Palestinian who attacked an Israeli. Days before that Israeli troops shot dead several Palestinians who were demonstrating in the street. Before that and for the first time in 25 years Netanyahu closed the Muslim holy sites on the Mount so that no one could worship. The Israelis also desecrated some of those sites intentionally by marching through them with their boots on while carrying loaded weapons. Prior to that Netanyahu announced the building of a thousand new illegal settler homes in east Jerusalem. After all of this the Zionists have the unmitigated gall to claim that it is they who want peace and the Palestinians who are preventing it. The Zionists are “wicked and treacherous with lying tongues and words of hatred who slander” the innocent.