The gunman is still at large. "2 hurt in Jerusalem shooting," by Efrat Weiss for YNet News, July 11:
Two Israelis were hurt in a shooting attack near the Lions' Gate in Jerusalem's Old City Friday night. At least one of them sustained serious wounds in the incident.
Around midnight, several shots were fired at a group of Israelis standing in the area. Large police forces and paramedics were promptly dispatched to the scene. Police officers were scouring the area for the shooter.
The two shooting victims were taken to hospital in Jerusalem. Shortly thereafter, Police sealed off roads around the attack site and called in a helicopter to assist them in the manhunt for the attacker.
An initial examination of the scene revealed that the two victims used their own weapons to fire back at their attacker. At this time, it is unclear whether the shooter was hurt. Police officers are searching for him inside the cemetery.
Armed Baptists?
Murderous Methodists?
From the article:
"An initial examination of the scene revealed that the two victims used their own weapons to fire back at their attacker."
Good.
Memo to Israelis: you are all of you, man, woman and child, going to have to go armed.
Those who belong to the Reserves would be advised to start a get fit program now, and make sure you have access to adequate equipment.
Please, if you are an IDF soldier or Israeli reservist reading this, re-read the story of Orde Wingate.
Also obtain, and read, S K Malik, 'The Quranic Concept of War', together with Majid Khadduri, 'War and Peace in the Law of Islam', and Mr Robert Spencer's "Onward Muslim Soldiers" and 'The Truth About Muhammad', paying particular attention to Mohammed's dictum, 'War is deception', and the Mohammedan tactics of infiltration, assassination, treachery, bribery and 'splitting the camp'.
You might also profitably consider Bassam Tibi's "War and Peace in Islam" (1996), in Terry Nardin, The Ethics of War and Peace.
The Muslims in and around Israel are following their historic playbook to the letter.
Much more needs to be done in terms of investigating and publishing historical research into Islamic ethnic cleansing techniques. Recently, there was a good op-ed in the Jerusalem Post about the 1948 expulsion of a million Jews from the Arab countries after the Arabs lost their war of extermination against Israel. This was a process openly encouraged by the Arab League. But beyond that example, how did the Muslims do such a thorough and fast job of getting rid of the Christian population of Turkey and elsewhere? We know about the dhimmi restrictions that wore away the Christians of Byzantium, but what are their stories in particular.
This shooting incident is fairly typical of the anti-Jewish attacks taking place with increasing frequency in Europe, and many Jews are emigrating. I also know that Lebanon has lost a good deal of its Christian population.
I guess this topic is not high up on the chic list at our dhimmi universities, but, they came for the Baptists and I was not a Baptist...you could be next.
Andrew Bostom links to youtube video on ethnic cleansing of Kashmir in early 90's http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/
Much more needs to be done in terms of investigating and publishing historical research into Islamic ethnic cleansing techniques.
Read "The Legacy of Jihad", edited by Andrew Bostom. This is a compilation of historical writings, by muslims and by their victims, about Jihad.
The problem is, people are scared to write such things, because they know that the Muslim Mafia will come after them in a thousand ways.
Thank God for brave souls such as Andrew Bostom.
Police officers are searching for him inside the cemetery.
Interesting that the Muslim Mobster should hide among his victims.
Murderous Methodists?
Presbyterian Perpetrators?
Amish Assassins?
"An initial examination of the scene revealed that the two victims used their own weapons to fire back at their attacker."
If the two Israelis had been unarmed, how long would it have taken for a police officer to respond and how many more people would have been shot? I guess gun control in Israel means a tight grouping.
Thx, Infidel, that's a good piece by Bostam. He's a light in the darkness. We need more.
From the Muslim point of view, I imagine these atrocities were justified as another liberation struggle, but it was nothing but supremacism, ruthlessly applied.
All of this crazy talk about a "Palestinian State" is stupid. Israel needs only 4 borders to defend. Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Syria. She can not survive with multiple Islamic states within her borders. Declare the whole area of Israel under Israeli law. There is no such thing as a "West Bank", or a "Gaza Strip" only Israel. If you don't like it you and your family will be escorted to the nearest border and dropped off, and left to be the responsibility of the state and the greater Muslim world at large where you were left. The Islamic world is after all where "Palestinians" want to live. Period end of story. What do they have to loose?
Thank God those Israelis were armed and able to fire back of those cowards. Wonder what headline the BBC would have?
Zena: Wonder what headline the BBC would have?
"Armed Israelis shoot Palestinians in alleged self-defense in occupied Jerusalem"
This is the biggest fear of many policemen here in the U.S. That a group of Muslims will just take to the streets with automatic weapons.
In addition to the very good selections for reading mentioned above, here are some videos . . .
Holy Land: Christians in peril
Why is Bethlehem no longer a Christian town? How Christians survive under Muslim laws produced by Pierre Rehov
Silent Exodus The exodus of a million Jews expelled from Arab countries after 1948. Who knows about them? Why didn't they ever receive the status of refugees that they deserved? Produced by Pierre Rehov
The Forgotten Refugees A film about the mass exodus of Jews from Arab countries and Iran in the 20th century produced by The David Project and IsraTV
Video available on Youtube Part 1 Part 2
People may find it inspiring to read the following items from Caroline Glick, as linked on her blog:
http://www.CarolineGlick.com/e/2008/05/update_on_the_new_israeli_guar_1.asp
and
http://www.carolineglick.com/e/2008/03/the_new_guardians_of_israel.asp
There's also this thoughtful piece by an Israeli blogger in Jerusalem, an observant Jew:
http://bogieworks.blogs.com/treppenwitz/2008/07/the-use-of-dead.html#comments
reflecting on 'the use of deadly force'.
Time to remind ourselves that nowhere in Muslim-controlled lands were dhimmis - non-Muslims living under Muslim mafia-style 'protection' - EVER permitted to own or use weapons, or to defend themselves in any way, at all, ever, either verbally or physically, against any kind of attack by Muslims.
Here is part of the legendary 'pact of Omar', the template of all the discriminatory and humiliating and destructive laws that Muslim countries everywhere used to render dhimmis defenceless:
"We will respect Muslims, move from the places we sit in if they choose to sit in them
We will not imitate their clothing, caps, turbans, sandals, hairstyles, speech, nicknames and title names {this, of course, renders it easy for Muslims to pick on the dhimmis, without running the risk of harming a fellow Muslim by mistake}
or ride on saddles, hang swords on the shoulders, collect weapons of any kind or carry these weapons."
Here is the way things were in Muslim-occupied Jerusalem, in 1700:
"No one [Jew or Christian] can use [wear] green, for the color is worn solely by Muslims. The latter are very hostile toward Jews, and inflict upon them vexations in the streets of the city. It is rare, however, for the Turkish or even the Arab notables to harm the Jews when passing them (in the street), but the common folk persecute the Jews, FOR WE ARE FORBIDDEN TO DEFEND OURSELVES against the Turks or the Arabs{i.e. against the Muslims}.
"If an Arab strikes a Jew, he (the Jew) must appease him but dare not rebuke him, for fear that he may be struck even harder, which they (the Arabs) due without the slightest scruple.
"This is the way the Oriental Jews react, for they are accustomed to this treatment, whereas the European Jews, who are not yet accustomed to suffer being assaulted by the Arabs, insult them in return. Even the Christians are subjected to these vexations (i.e. by the Muslims).
"If a Jew offends a Muslim, the latter strikes him a brutal blow with his shoe, in order to demean him, without anyone's being able to prevent him from doing it." Document 100, 'Description of the Status of Non-Muslims in Palestine, 1700, by Gedaliah of Siemiatyce, d. 1716, in Bat Yeor, "The Dhimmi", p. 366.
Now let's return to 2008.
These Israeli Jews in Jerusalem, this Friday night, were not dhimmis; they were carrying weapons. When shot at, they shot back.
Israel is hated by Muslims because Muslims want to bring back the good old days of 1700, when Muslims could stamp on the faces of Jews and Christians, sneer at them, hit them, shove them to the side of the road, rob them, even kill them, with absolute impunity.
Muslims who want to be able to fulfil that delicious dream of total nazi-style arrogance and cruelty indulged to the hilt against defenceless people, run slap up against the unpleasant fact that Israel is still full of uppity Jews who refuse to cower and grovel; who have claimed the right to bear arms and to defend themselves and their property.
Israel's leaders, many of them, have become somewhat dhimmified of late - but Israel still has the IDF, it still has its weapons, it just has to find the courage to use them against an enemy whose insane and murderous contempt for the Other is as awful as was that of the Nazis.
"This is the biggest fear of many policemen here in the U.S. That a group of Muslims will just take to the streets with automatic weapons."
-by Exposing Islam
And thanks to the efforts of many people, the only ones in the US who will be armed will be the police and the criminals.
Infidels can't wear green?
Oh no. I'm a green eyed redhead. I'll have to get rid of half my wardrobe!
Good for the Israelis for defending themselves. Hope they got the bastard.
Unless you're an ammunition salesman, arming the citizens and welcoming hordes of armed Muslims into your country is not the answer.
The solution is not to turn the kufirs' homelands into Wild West shootem-up galleries. The solution is not to set up spy agencies to spy on kufirs in the kufirs' homelands. The solution is not to create huge police forces who can respond to jihad attacks anywhere in the country on a moment's notice.
The solution is to ban Muslims from the kufirs' homelands. Muslims in Dar al-Islam, kufirs in Dar al-Harb, and there will be a lot less shooting going on. Someone wisely said on this board, "No Islam, Know Peace".
It is a good thing to be able to fire back. JW readers are invited to join the National Rifle Association.