For jihadis and Islamic supremacists in general, the founding of the State of Israel was a nakba (catastrophe). This, however, is not.
"'Driver in Tel Aviv truck rampage shouted death to Jews,'" by Yaakov Lappin in the Jerusalem Post, May 15 (thanks to Sam):
A witness who claims he stopped the driver who hit several cars on Tel Aviv's Bar Lev Street Sunday in what police called a suspected terror attack said he initially thought the driver had just lost control of his brakes.Arik Levy told Israel Radio that when he went to go help the driver, he saw him continue to hit cars and street lights, and heard him saying "Allahu Akbar" and "death to Jews."
Levy said he ran up to the driver, the two struggled for a short time, and then police arrived at the scene after 10 minutes.
Another witness who saw the incident told The Jerusalem Post the driver "looked crazy."
The eye witness, 18-year-old Natalie, said she saw the truck driver driving in zigzags, and "deliberately hitting everything he saw."
"It was obvious it was deliberate," she said. "He was looking at the road and then back down at his wheel. He looked crazy."
Bar Lev street was strewn with wreckage, with several badly-damaged vehicles parked in different areas on the street. Some of the vehicles were lying in the middle of the dividing fence in the opposing traffic lane, street signs were flattened and there was glass on street....
"Driver's mom: My son doesn't kill Jews," by Hassan Shaalan for Ynet News, May 15 (thanks to Sam):
The family of a 23-year-old Kfar Kassem resident, Islam Ibrahim Issa, strongly denies his involvement in a terror attack in Tel Aviv on Sunday. "He was probably tired," a relative told Ynet.The truck driver who ran over some 15 vehicles and caused the death of one person and injured 17 others, is currently being questioned by police.
During questioning, the Issa [sic] told police his tire had exploded causing him to lose control of the vehicle. Meanwhile all of the eyewitnesses on location are certain it was a terror attack.
"He had murder in his eyes," claimed the driver of a bus hit by the truck.
"I was driving on the Lod road and saw from a distance a truck running over cars from all directions. I saw the truck approaching me and decided to turn right. I immediately realized it was a terror attack because of Nakba Day."
Other witnesses said the truck driver got out of the truck and tried to assault a woman with a traffic light that had collapsed. [...]
"My son doesn't kill Jews," Issa's mother insisted. "I can't wait to talk to him already, hear what happened and how he's feeling. I'm asking the Israeli government to support him and prove to everyone that our son has nothing to do with the attack, and that it’s just the cause of a regular accident.
"My son is the breadwinner of the family. He built our house, bought a car. He has a lot of ambitions in life. He doesn't even know how to curse and has always been kind to anyone he met."
"Everything that's happened to him is due to his tire exploding. That's why he lost control of the steering wheel," she added.[...]
The relative added that the suspect "has no connections to organizations like Hamas or Fatah. He's not involved in politics at all. This accident has nothing to do with Nakba Day. We believe it happened because he was probably tired or something."...
Yes, his tire exploded because he was tired, and then he had the energy to run over fifteen vehicles and attack a woman with a fallen traffic light. Islam Issa was "tired" the way Rageit Almurisi was looking for the bathroom.
And the idea that because he had no ties to Hamas or Fatah, he must not be a terrorist, can only be convincing to someone who doesn't know that it is possible for a Muslim to read the Qur'an and decide that plowing his vehicle into crowds of Infidels is something that would please Allah a great deal.
Yet another graduate of the Mohammed School of Defensive Driving.
Israel: Muslim truck driver shouting "Allahu akbar" and "death to the Jews" plows into cars, murdering one person, injuring 17
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"Sudden vehicular Jihad"—we've seen it before.
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A witness who claims he stopped the driver who hit several cars on Tel Aviv's Bar Lev Street Sunday in what police called a suspected terror attack said he initially thought the driver had just lost control of his brakes.
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Yes—and when I saw that first plane hit the Twin Towers, I thought that might be some sort of terrible aviation accident, like what would happen eight years later with Captain Chesley Sullenberger's American Airlines flight, but with a tragic ending.
But it was not so—it was Jihad. Just like here.
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Arik Levy told Israel Radio that when he went to go help the driver, he saw him continue to hit cars and street lights, and heard him saying "Allahu Akbar" and "death to Jews."
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The San Francisco sudden SUV Jihadist, Omeed Aziz Popal, was also yelling "Allahu Ackbar" as he plowed into Kaffirs.
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Another witness who saw the incident told The Jerusalem Post the driver "looked crazy."
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Jihad has that effect on people. And yet, it is unlikely that he is "crazy" in any clinical sense. This is an act of terrorism, and it is a deliberate strategy.
The obligatory denial from the Jihadist's family:
"Driver's mom: My son doesn't kill Jews," by Hassan Shaalan for Ynet News, May 15 (thanks to Sam):
The family of a 23-year-old Kfar Kassem resident, Islam Ibrahim Issa, strongly denies his involvement in a terror attack in Tel Aviv on Sunday. "He was probably tired," a relative told Ynet...
Other witnesses said the truck driver got out of the truck and tried to assault a woman with a traffic light that had collapsed.
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This last is something "tired drivers" are always wont to do...sarc/off
You would hope that Israel, of all places, would be the last place BS excuses would work for jihadists. Israel knows better than anyone else the true nature of their enemy. They see it on a daily basis. This was clearly an act of jihad, and I would hope that nobody would believe, for a second, that this was just a "tired" Muslim truck driver. That kind of BS would work here in the West, but not in Israel. We aren't familiar enough yet as a society to know the true threat posed by Muslims.
How 'bout this GI? Awlaki has a super - duper TRACTOR that will mow down infidels, but apparently, Binnie went "soft" on the whole deal, cause he was too busy watching certain "haram" things, and trying to keep on blowing things/people up.
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I copy an article here, without license, in the interests of education: From Globalspin.
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"Some of the material leaked so far is simply bizarre: Bin Laden angrily rejects a proposal, carried in the glossy magazine of al-Qaeda's Yemen-based affiliate, to fit a tractor with rotating blades to use to "mow down the enemies of Allah". Well, yes, that's an adolescent comic book fantasy. And the magazine in which it was touted appears to be the brainchild of U.S.-born Yemeni cleric Anwar al-Awlakki, whom bin Laden clearly doesn't particularly like or trust (as his negative reaction to a proposal that Awlakki be made head of al-Qaeda's local chapter suggests). But bin Laden's reason for rejecting the daft killer tractor plan is an eye opener: He angrily castigates those who advocate al-Qaeda engaging in "indiscriminate slaughter". But indiscriminate mass casualty terror attacks are al-Qaeda's operation signature, so you could hardly fault the eager beavers in Yemen for letting their imaginations run wild -- or from wondering when the Sheikh had gone soft on infidel civilians."
Read more: http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2011/05/13/bin-ladens-diary-musings-from-the-landfill-of-history/#ixzz1MNls24Kk
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The Muslim Mindset is a terrible thing to behold.
I know, I know, he was simply in a rush to get to the bathroom, hence the "Allahu Akbar".
Some options...
http://freemendo.typepad.com/undaunted/2011/04/more-sudden-jihad.html
And a few more
http://freemendo.typepad.com/undaunted/2008/07/good-thing-we-1.html
Just the fact that this terrorists gives such a BS excuse indicates how much Muslim jihadists think of infidel nations as real suckers, soft-touches and pushovers with all their conscientiousness, due process and civilized laws to take advantage of. Hope they give him the maximum penalty they can give. The mother can take her pathetic sob story & family to another country - an Islamic one where she would live unhappy ever after with other miserable Muslims.
At least she knows Israelis won't kill her & family in a revenge attack of the kind that we read about in some Muslim lands. Imagine what would likely happen in, say, Pakistan if a Christian ran his auto into a group of Muslims.
"He looked crazy"---You mean just like the hundreds of thousands before him. Crazy when they look out of their faces. Like the turban bomb cartoon. Like all the videos of rage in the streets. "He was just tired" Yeah, tired of being part of the human race. Tired of feeling slighted by the rest of the sane people in the world who recognise a demon possessed person when they see one!
"Everything that's happened to him is due to his tire exploding. That's why he lost control of the steering wheel," she added.[...]
Steering wheel!? What's that got to do with it... when a tire blows in a build up area you stand on the break pedal!
He was tired? Huh-uh. Well, I'm tired of Islam and tired of excuses made for Islam. Why isn't most anybody by now?
And will await yet more idiotic comments, and surely they will be forthcoming aplenty by clueless dhimmis in the West, to the effect that there's violence found in the Bible too. To which my standard reply is the following: when was the last time anyone killed anyone while invoking passages from Deuteronomy or the Psalms or...?
Islam is a monster and ignorance of Islam is lethal (and very, very stupid). We live in a troubled and dumb world, principally courtesy of Islam, political correctness and multiculturalism. Take these three aberrancies away, all other things being equal, the world would still have many problems but it would also instantly be far better off. Anyone care to deny this claim? Go ahead. Give it a shot.
I believe that she and the rest of the family are going to have to find another "breadwinner" . . .
Happy Naqba day to everybody, although I am more than one hour late.
Hey joe, take your "Happy Naqba" day & shove it where the sun don't shine. I don't buy the fakestinian lies.
B..bu...but what about algebra? [/sarc]
"tired" huh?
why the bastard was not shot right then and there is beyond me. this would have surely allowed him a loooong rest.
once again. the incredible humanity of israel vs. the heinous islamic barbarism
And the way the Muslim world and much of the mainstream media discuss it, you'd think the "nakba" were like a weather system moving through -- it just happened. Lost in all of this is the fact that the Arab states launched an attack to annihilate the new state of Israel, and they blew it. They tried again in '67. They lost more land.
Lather, rinse, repeat: They keep losing military conflicts and wanting the world to allow them a do-over, or to intervene to revise the outcome.
As I like to point out from time to time, if the Arab world had taken the partition and put all the time and resources of the past 63 years into building up that territory instead of trying to destroy Israel, "Palestine" could have rivaled Monaco, Dubai, or even Singapore.
They've squandered all that treasure in jihad and bought themselves misery. But that's always someone else's fault.
"He had murder in his eyes," claimed the driver of a bus hit by the truck."
Have you ever noticed the eyes in the faces of Muslims when you see photos of them protesting?....It's just probably a Islamic cultural thing...
"Driver's mom: My son doesn't kill Jews,""
Mom is probably unaware of those extra curricular classes junior has been taking at the local mosque...
go ahead...take the Qur'anic challenge:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2009/03/taking-the-quranic-challenge.html
Agree with all you say, Marisol. I would add that the real catastrophe (nakba) for the Arab world has been its embracing of Islam as the religion that identifies Arabs to all. The Arab world, long term, would have been much better off adhering in overwhelming numbers to any other major (or minor) faith, including Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism or, yes and deeply ironically, Judaism. As an example, if 90% of the Arab world were today Buddhist or Christian, does anyone who has not lost the built-in crap detector they were born with think that the situation in the Middle East at present would be approximately the same? Again we can see that the real culprit, the real villain, is Islam, though this does not excuse the Arabs for making such a wretched and stupid choice for their principal faith.
Hello Jihad Watch.
Check this out -
Netherlands: 15 years for 'Koran murder'
"The Koran told me to slit my roommate's throat."
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2011/05/netherlands-15-years-for-koran-murder.html
" If one comes to slay you, slay him first!." I don't remember who said this, but surely fits here.
So in just 15 years this guy walks after he spends 15 years (if that long)in prison. He will have read his koran the whole 15 and the Netherlands thinks this will rehabilitate him! Amazing!!
Just take this jihad-at-the-wheel character round the back of a building and shoot him dead. Then say another tire blew out and killed him.
If anybody says this is a poor explanation, ask where they've heard it before.
Language! language!
Please, even if you feel terribly pleased with your obscene figures of speech, do not spam this particular comment of yours any more.
Once was quite enough.
The quote was from the movie "Team America," by the creators of South Park. To reproduce it in its entirety here was indeed uncalled for.
An angry looking Muslim barrow who can't drive? How would that description single him out?
I don't get it. What are you talking about, DDA?
I deleted the comment. Trust me, you didn't miss anything.
So it was from 'Team America', was it? Not having seen that film (and not having watched any episode of South Park, though I think my eldest son has watched some of it') I didn't recognise the quote. I thought the poster had made it up himself!
Dear me, I have just discovered the limits of my education.
me too...