US Cautions Israel Not To Escalate Tensions After Tel Aviv Attack
Source: Jerusalem Post
'We understand the Israeli government's desire to protect its citizens after this kind of terror attack, we just hope that any measures that Israel takes would be designed to not escalate tensions.'
By MICHAEL WILNER 06/09/2016
The State department underscored its condemnation of an attack on civilians at a Tel Aviv market on Thursday, but cautioned the Israeli government to "exercise restraint" as it vows to increase security control over the West Bank and its residents.
"We understand the Israeli government's desire to protect its citizens after this kind of terrorist attack," said Mark Toner, a spokesman for the State Department. "We would just hope that any measures that Israel takes would be designed to not escalate tensions any further, but we certainly respect their desire to express outrage and to protect the safety of their people."
Nine Israelis were shot on Wednesday night by at least three Palestinian men, in what has been characterized by the United Nations, the US and Israel as an act of terror. Four of the victims have died.
The decision by Israel not to return the bodies of dead Palestinian perpetrators to their families– a policy Israel considers a deterrent against future attacks– is "obviously an internal matter for Israel to debate," Toner remarked. But he made note of Israel's decision to constrict ease of travel for thousands of Palestinians in and out of the strip.
Read more: http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Politics-And-Diplomacy/US-cautions-Israel-not-to-escalate-tensions-after-Tel-Aviv-attack-456386
Israel Seals Off West Bank and Gaza in Wake of Deadly Terror Attack in Tel Aviv
The Israeli army imposed a general closure on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip midnight on Thursday, in the wake of a deadly terror attack in Tel Aviv on Wednesday.
The closure was scheduled to end midnight on Sunday, the Israeli army said in a statement, after the end of the Jewish holiday of Shavuot.
Passage into Israel will be allowed only for humanitarian and medical reasons, per the decision of the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories. Worshippers will be allowed into the Temple Mount compound for Friday prayer.
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GOLGO 13
(1,681 posts)Somebody is going to pay a mighty fine price for this.
DemMomma4Sanders
(274 posts)What would the US do if China just decided to claim California and attempted genocide on their population?
There would be a nuclear winter......why the double standard then.
Don't palestinians have a right to protect their lives and property?
Israeli authorities have approved building permits for 82 new homes in the illegal settlement of Ramat Shlomo, a neighbourhood near Shuafat in occupied East Jerusalem, an Israeli NGO has said.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/06/israel-approves-homes-east-jerusalem-settlement-160608044507701.html
According to the program, while the women were still in transit camps in Ethiopia they were sometimes intimidated or threatened into taking the injection. “They told us they are inoculations,” said one of the women interviewed. “They told us people who frequently give birth suffer. We took it every three months. We said we didn’t want to.”
- See more at: http://mondoweiss.net/2013/01/contraceptive-injections-ethiopian/#sthash.ncxb6FWk.dpuf
liberalnarb
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6chars
(3,967 posts)I am referring to the Ethiopian story that has been completely discredited.
As for the approval of two new apartment buildings with 82 total units in an existing Jewish neighborhood built on emptly land near the Jewish neighborhoods of Givat Hamivtar and Ramat Eshkol in Jerusalem, how you can see that as justification for murder of innocent people - "a right" of the Palestinians to murder these people as you say, 2 Jews murdered per building approved, that is criminally insane.
Fozzledick
(3,860 posts)Unfortunately, that's business as usual around here.
6chars
(3,967 posts)If someone believes in a right of arbitrary killing of any Jew anywhere at any time, that comes close to being more than legitimate criticism of Israeli policies.
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liberalnarb
(4,532 posts)6chars
(3,967 posts)liberalnarb
(4,532 posts)Yeah okay. I hate seeing people on the left defending a warmonger.
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)And the Palestinians have been a victim of it for decades.
6chars
(3,967 posts)collective punishment?
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)And this is how we rationalize the murder of the innocent.
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cpwm17
(3,829 posts)it is no mystery what Americans would do if we were some of the most oppressed people in the world, like the Palestinians.
The Israelis consistently vote in complete right-wing war mongering assholes, but the Palestinians are now going to be collectively guilty for those two gunmen.
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/tel-aviv-mayor-blames-israeli-occupation-deadly-palestinian-gun-attack-939194884
Labour Mayor Ron Huldai, 71, told Israeli army radio that the occupation was to blame for Wednesday evening’s attack when two armed Palestinian men from near Hebron in the southern West Bank walked into a popular cafe and opened fire on revellers.
"We might be the only country in the world where another nation is under occupation without civil rights,” he said. “You can’t hold people in a situation of occupation and hope they’ll reach the conclusion everything is alright."...
"There has been an occupation for 49 years, which I was part of and I know the reality, and I know leaders need courage to not just talk.
KG
(28,751 posts)leftynyc
(26,060 posts)poor pathetic terrorists, would we? What a fucking stupid thing for Pres Obama to say. They don't just have the desire to protect their citizens, that's their fucking JOB.
