“2 dead in attack at Old City of Jerusalem,” by Oren Liebermann, CNN, December 24, 2015 (thanks to David):
Jerusalem (CNN)Two people were killed in a stabbing attack at the Jaffa Gate of the Old City of Jerusalem early Wednesday afternoon, officials said.
One of the victims died of stab wounds sustained during the attack, according to Israeli police. The second victim was shot by accident by Israeli security forces aiming at the attackers.
Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said there were two attackers, one who was fatally shot at the scene and one who died at a hospital. Both attackers were armed with knives, police said.
Video from the scene showed police cordoning off the area and debris scattered along the stone walls around where investigators were examining evidence.
An organization representing Argentina’s Jewish community, known as DAIA, identified one of the victims as as Rabbi Eduardo Birmajer, an Argentine.
“DAIA offers its deepest sympathy to the family of Rabbi Birmajer, and strongly condemns this heinous crime against a helpless civilian — a fact that is repeated almost daily in Israel, and that this time, has cost the life of a spiritual guide belonging to the Argentine Jewish community,” the group said in a statement.

Ed says
All Jews were expelled from musslim lands, and they never stabbed anyone.
Isn’t it time to expel them, and for a good reason — survival?
Historical Reasoning says
No. When the Muslims conquered Constantinople, they lived peacefully with the Jews, until Christian Crusaders retook the city and started cleansing Muslims and Jews. Their bloodshed was stopped once Muslims reconquered Istanbul.
Ethan says
Um, Constantinople was not conquered by Muslims until 1453, several hundred years after the last Crusade. It was never retaken by Christians. Also, “living peacefully” in this case means the Jews were 2nd class citizens with dhimmi status who had to pay extra taxes for not being Muslim.
Linde Barrera says
To Ethan- As per your 2:12 pm Dec. 25 post, thank you for correcting Historical Reasoning. Apparently this human, Historical Reasoning, does not have Historical Facts. Adxitionally, Muslim hoards from Saudi Arabia (and then later lands) between 700 AD and 1800 AD killed millions upon millions of indigenous Indians on the sub-continent of India. Muslims also killed lots of people in Africa and the Far East. So Historical Reasoning should use real logic and apply it to Islam; where Islam goes, death and destruction is sure to follow.
shosh7154 says
Thank you for the Truth. Lies always end in death, but Truth is Life; the Way into the Kingdom of G-d is paved with Truth. May the only living G-d Whose Eternal is G-d of Israel guard your heart with His Word and give you His own Spirit, bashem Yeshua ha Mashiach, amein.
Jack Gordon says
Wow! Mohammedan “education” is even more limited than I had guessed. When Muslim “history teachers” run up against inconvenient “facts”, they just make up new ones. In lands plagued by Islam, no science beyond what Mohammedans steal from the West, few books, fewer authors (mostly in exile and in fear for their lives), widespread sexual depravity, and ass-backwards history — yup, some religion Mohammed cooked up.
Mark says
Give no ground for then to call muslem or islamic
noel1234 says
It seems to me that the only way their will be peace in Israel is to kick out all Muslims who believe in Sharia. This religion cannot coexist if Sharia is present.
dumbledoresarmy says
Yes.
Ockham’s Razor says that if Israel had at the time of Partition been able to drive out *all* identifiable Muslims from their territory, there would be NO ‘stabbing jihad’ inside Israel.
Furthermore, if in 1967 and 1973 all Muslims had been booted out from the ancestral Israelite territories liberated by defensive warfare (Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria) and Israel had unapologetically razed the Muslim structures on the Temple Mount the same day that they took it (fog of war; somebody misfired a missile or two…OOOPS! too bad so sad, no more Dome of the Rock, no more Al Aqsa) and unapologetically declared that the reclaimed portions of Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria, and the Golan, were now and always would be Jewish / Israeli territory, end of argument and unapologetically populated them (whilst granting the remnant Christians, Samaritans and Druze the full civil rights that they *never* had under Muslim rule) they would be far better off militarily (since all the liberated territories constitute Military High Ground, vital for the defence of Israel against invasion) and from the point of view of homeland security.
Muslims would still try to raid – or invade – across the *borders* but they would not be able to function as an enemy within, a Fifth Column of the Ummah or Mohammedan Mob.
The same also applies to India, which was born at the same time as Israel, and *divided* – into Hindu-majority “India” and Muslim-dominated ‘Pakistan (east and west), which became today’s Pakistan and Bangladesh – for exactly the same reasons, to wit, Muslim aggression and megalomania and total unwillingness to accept any position other than that of dominance. Had the ‘exchange of populations’ in 1947 been *complete* – had all non-Muslims upped stakes and fled from what would become Pakistan and Bangladesh, and had all *Muslims* from what would become today’s “India” been inexorably driven out into their Muslim-only hell-holes – India today would be a different country. They would have far more freedom of action in terms of self-defence against Jihad because they would not be faced with a swarming, ever-plotting Enemy Within, nor with the corrupting effect of the Muslim Bloc Vote upon politicians. They would have been free to knock down all the mosques and rebuild the temples upon which the mosques were mostly built in the first places. In the end, if they want peace in Kashmir, the only way to have it would be all-out war to drive out the Mohammedans and reclaim the territory for non-Muslims.
the reality is – Got Muslims? Got Jihad. More Muslims? – more Jihad, and worse. Fewer Muslims? – less Jihad.
*Every* Infidel nation needs to understand that…and put a complete stop to all further entry of Muslims within their gates (thank heavens that Trump, the enfant terrible, has publicly broached the subject of a halt to Muslim immigration) and start figuring out how to discourage those already present, from remaining; and those few Infidel countries that are lucky enough to NOT have any Muslims, or only a very few, should be slamming the gates shut against *any* Muslim entry, right now.
Jack Gordon says
Amen.
Angemon says
But remember: if Israelis defend themselves from barbarians attacking civilians, somehow they’re to blame.
Sam Hawkins says
AP foreign affairs desk editor to copy editor: Jack, recycle that boilerplate we have for such occasions, okay?
Jack: Sure thing boss.
AP–New York City, Washington D.C., Brussels: In a joint statement today, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, and EU Foreign Affairs Commissioner Federica Mogherini called on “both sides” to “end the cycle of violence” and discuss their differences peacefully. They especially requested that the Israelis “exercise restraint”. They were immediately denounced by a broad coalition of BDS, Amnesty International, and members of European parliaments, who accused them of “favoritism to the Israeli side”.
Lioness says
My heart goes out to the poor victims and the tiny, brave state of Israel for enduring this savagery on a daily basis form these scum barbarians. And to add insult to injury, the world blames Israel for defending itself. With every such attack they sympathize even more with the filthy Palestinians who want to destroy Israel. When will I wake up from this nightmare!
dumbledoresarmy says
From a Jewish lady in Israel who *gets* it.
“A Daily War”.
http://israelisoldiersmother.blogspot.com.au/2015/12/a-daily-war.html
Read what she says.
Then, no matter where you live in the world, remember: the war that the Muslims in and around Israel are waging against the Jews is *exactly* the same war as – is *part* of the same war – that the Ummah, or Mohammedan Mob, the de facto Empire of Islam (which, with the birth of “Islamic State” is trying hard to become de Jure) is waging upon the entire non-Muslim world…that it is waging, one way or another, against *your* sovereign non-Muslim state, *your* part of the Dar al Harb or Zone of War.
Israel’s fight is *our* fight. What they face is what we face or will face, sooner or later.
dumbledoresarmy says
Correction.
For “the war that the Muslims in and around Israel are waging against the Jews is *exactly* the same war as – is *part* of the same war – that the Ummah, or Mohammedan Mob, the de facto Empire of Islam (which, with the birth of “Islamic State” is trying hard to become de Jure) is waging upon the entire non-Muslim world…”
read
“…the war that the Muslims in and around Israel are waging against the Jews is *exactly* the same as – and is indeed a part of – the war that the Ummah, or Mohammedan Mob, the de facto Empire of Islam (which, with the birth of “Islamic State” is trying hard to become de Jure) is waging upon the entire non-Muslim world…”.