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PA minister ignores brutal murder of Israeli woman, condemns Israel for searching for jihadi in mosque

Feb 13, 2019 8:00 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

Ori Ansbacher “was stabbed several times and brutally murdered in Jerusalem. DNA from the scene led Israel to the Palestinian, 29-year-old Arafat Arfiah, who was captured after soldiers entered a mosque.” Palestinian Authority Minister of Religious Affairs Yusuf Ida’is was quick to “‘condemn’ Israel’s entering the mosque to search for the terrorist.” Ida’is referred to the arrest as an “attack” by the “occupation forces.”

The attack on Ansbacher was so brutal that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the murder “shocking brutality,” and it has been described by many as one of “the most horrific murders Israel has ever seen.” Why was Ori Ansbacher murdered? Because she was Jewish.

According to attorney and former prosecutor Ari Lieberman: “Forensic teams scoured the site for evidence and within 24 hours, there was a significant evidentiary breakthrough that led to the doorstep of 29-year-old Hebron resident, Arafat Irfayia. So strong was the physical evidence that police noted that they could secure a conviction even without a confession. Following the crime, Irfayia hid in a mosque in the Arab village of El-Bireh”

Palestinian Minister of Religious Affairs Yusuf Ida’is was so incensed that Israeli authorities dared to enter a mosque to search for the jihadi that he issued a statement with no mention of the murder of Ori Ansbacher, and he bizarrely dragged Christianity into it:

This cowardly attack against a religious and sacred place of worship, without any consideration for its sanctity and its religious and spiritual value, constitutes part of a series of daily attacks against our Islamic and Christian holy sites, and particularly the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the pearl of Palestine, by the occupation forces and unbridled settlers and under political cover of the right-wing occupation government.

The brutality of this crime is monstrous. People should be asking themselves: where are all the international advocates for human rights?

“PA minister ignores brutal murder of young Israeli woman but criticizes Israel for searching in mosque for murderer”, by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik, Palestinian Media Watch, February 10, 2019:

Three days ago, a 19-year-old Israeli woman, Ori Ansbacher, was stabbed several times and brutally murdered in Jerusalem. DNA from the scene led Israel to the Palestinian, 29-year-old Arafat Arfiah, who was captured after soldiers entered a mosque and seized footage from its security camera.

PA Minister of Religious Affairs Yusuf Ida’is completely ignored the fact that a young Israeli woman had been attacked, stabbed, and murdered by a Palestinian, but was quick to “condemn” Israel’s entering the mosque to search for the terrorist as an “attack,” according to the PA’s official daily. Moreover, not only was there no reference to the murder in the minister’s quote, this entire article in the official PA daily did not even mention the terror attack and murder as the context of Israel’s search to the mosque.

Absurdly, the minister complained that the Israeli soldiers’ entrance into the mosque lacked “any consideration for its sanctity and its religious and spiritual value.” Concerned about “sanctity” and “spiritual values,” he didn’t even mention the innocent 19-year-old Israeli victim:

“[PA] Minister of Religious Affairs Yusuf Ida’is condemned the attack against the sanctity of the Jamal Abd Al-Nasser Mosque under baseless and unacceptable pretexts. Ida’is said in a press statement that this cowardly attack against a religious and sacred place of worship, without any consideration for its sanctity and its religious and spiritual value, constitutes part of a series of daily attacks against our Islamic and Christian holy sites, and particularly the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the pearl of Palestine, by the occupation forces and unbridled settlers and under political cover of the right-wing occupation government.”
[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Feb. 9, 2019]

The headline did not mention the murder either, but focused solely on the “occupation’s raid”:

“The occupation raided the Jamal Abd Al-Nasser Mosque, the Sateh Marhaba neighborhood and Al-Quds Street in El-Bireh”

Media reports in Israel have stated that the Palestinian has confessed to the murder, but that it is not yet clear based on his statement if it was nationalistically motivated – meaning an act of terror -or criminally motivated.

The distinction is of significance for the murderer, especially in terms of how the Palestinian Authority decides to view it. If this was a nationalistically motivated crime, i.e., terror – what the PA terms “struggle against the occupation” – then Arafat Arfiah will be entitled to receive a monthly salary under the PA’s “Pay for Slay” program with which the PA uses to reward terrorist murderers. Should this be the case, prisoner Arfiah will receive at least 1,400 shekels/month starting from the day of his arrest, eventually rising to as high at 12,000 shekels/month…..

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Filed Under: "Tiny Minority of Extremists", Featured, Palestinian Authority Tagged With: Arafat Irfayia, El-Bireh, Ori Ansbacher, Yusuf Ida'is


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  1. na says

    Feb 13, 2019 at 8:13 am

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    • na says

      Feb 13, 2019 at 8:19 am

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  2. mortimer says

    Feb 13, 2019 at 8:28 am

    Yusuf Ida’is is implying that police officers and commissioned soldiers are not permitted to search for murderers since the murderers are JIHADISTS who are above the law.

    • alex says

      Feb 13, 2019 at 6:33 pm

      Any “pay for slay” money should be confiscated and given to the girl’s family. And, the suspect should face the death penalty if he is convicted of the murder.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 13, 2019 at 9:31 pm

      True, Mortimer–this is how Muslims think.

  3. mgoldberg says

    Feb 13, 2019 at 10:36 am

    Unfortunately there will likely be no real excoriation of this Yusuf Ida’s beliefs, as that would be going too far in the eyes of those who played oppressed vs oppresser memes. This bozo has the soul of deadwood, meaning that for him, jewish lives have minimal worth unless they are properly subjugated and humiliated as per Islamic law and belief. Hence, since Israel is not subjugated and humiliated, he feels humiliated and accuses Israel, and it’s army and people of humiliating him, them…. Islam.

    That should be excortiated as the fountainhead of Islam; as always, the excuse to ignore the reasons for the ‘intrusion’ into a ‘mosque’, which is nothing more than a training center for jew hatred, Israel hatred, and of course hatred of all others not ruled under and by Islam.
    And that young women, doing no harm to no one, slaughtered by a muslim man for being non muslim, and being slaughtered by fiat, by Islamic belief in the sanctity of that slaughter of non muslims. The hatred and cowardice of Islam. That should be put on display and scorned, and scorned, and scorned.

    • esther says

      Feb 13, 2019 at 11:58 am

      what Yusuf IS REALLY saying is that if a muslim murders someone he can become
      IMMUNE to arrest by jumping into a mosque. I live in the USA—-but there are lots
      of mosques in my city. There are still a few synagogues here or there in some
      muslim places——–Maybe Yusuf is saying that jews can kill muslims there if they
      can make it into a synagogue

  4. keith Oades says

    Feb 13, 2019 at 5:33 pm

    Is it my imagination, but are the only FAT Palestinians we see in photo’s their “LEADERS”.
    All the rest of them seem to be starving.

  5. gravenimage says

    Feb 13, 2019 at 9:29 pm

    PA minister ignores brutal murder of Israeli woman, condemns Israel for searching for jihadi in mosque
    ………………..

    This should not surprise. Muslims don’t believe that anyone should be able to defend against Jihad, Jews most of all.

  6. Meturaf says

    Feb 14, 2019 at 4:02 am

    Mosques are the “Sanctuary Cities” of the Muslim world.

  7. Giacomo Latta says

    Feb 14, 2019 at 4:59 pm

    Beware of ugly sticks, Sheikh.

  8. Carol the 1st says

    Feb 16, 2019 at 1:08 am

    Hopefully we can anticipate bigger and better SWAT teams.

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