Palestinian terrorism surge runs parallel to negotiations in familiar pattern

[King_David]

Upsurges in Palestinian terrorism have often accompanied progress—and eventual breakdowns—in Israeli-Palestinian conflict negotiations over the past 20 years. The latest round of talks, brokered by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, is proving to be no different.

Palestinian attacks on Jewish military and civilian targets have been on the rise since a Lebanese sniper killed an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldier in mid-December. A civilian hired by the IDF was murdered Dec. 24 while repairing the Israel-Gaza border fence. A bomb exploded on an evacuated bus in the heavily populated city of Bat Yam, just south of Tel Aviv, on Dec. 22. A police officer was stabbed and moderately injured Dec. 23 while directing traffic at one of the West Bank’s busiest intersections along the Ramallah bypass road in Samaria, and Jewish drivers have reported several potentially deadly stoning attacks. In one of several recent Palestinian rocket attacks from Gaza that provoked Israeli retaliatory airstrikes, one rocket landed near a bus stop used by schoolchildren near the city of Ashkelon.

“Unfortunately and regrettably, it’s quite typical to the junctures in which political decisions and painful compromises are expected to be taken by the negotiating parties,” Gilead Sher, who served as chief of staff and policy coordinator to Israel’s former prime minister and defense minister Ehud Barak, told JNS.org regarding the uptick in Palestinian terror.

http://www.jns.org/latest-articles/2013/12/27/palestinian-terrorism-surge-runs-parallel-to-negotiations-in-familiar-pattern

[Jefferson23]

1. The author of the OP is Alex Traiman, a right wing pro-settler...background below:

"Iranium": Dangerous Bomb-Iran Documentary Directed by Right-Wing Israeli Extremist, Promoted by Neocon Richard Perle

February 6, 2011

The drama never stops unfolding around the Clarion Fund, the operation behind a string of movies dubbed "anti-Muslim" by critics.

The group's latest salvo is an hour-long documentary called "Iranium", which more or less gives airtime to a gaggle of neoconservatives and their allies on the Israeli right to advocate for a hawkish posture against the Islamic Republic of Iran.

While warning of an ideologically-driven, religiously-inspired Iran, however, the filmmaker behind the movie himself comes from among the religious extremes of another Middle Eastern state.

The writer and director of "Iranium", Alex Traiman, hails from the Israeli West Bank settlement of Beit El, one of the ideological religious Jewish outposts in occupied Palestinian territory bedeviling U.S.-Israel relations.

I spoke to Traiman, who sported a black kippah and a bright red tie, after a screening of "Iranium" at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, where neoconservative don Richard Perle introduced the film.

"That's where I live," Traiman told me, after a deep breath, when I asked him if he lived in Beit El. "I just live there."

Traiman worked for four years for the Beit El-based Arutz Sheva , or Channel Seven, also known as Israel National News , a former pirate radio station aligned with Israel's religious settlers. He has in the past referred to Beit El as "a Jewish settlement... located in the Biblical province of Samaria, commonly referred to today as the West Bank." Settlers refer to the West Bank by the Biblical "Judea and Samaria."

On Tuesday at Heritage, Traiman, who has also written for a U.S. conspiracy website, called World Net Daily, and presumably other occupied Palestinian territories, as "disputed territories in Israel."

Beit El is a religious nationalist settlement near Ramallah in the West Bank, where some 5,500 settlers live, Founded in 1977, the settlement is built in land seized in 1970 by the military on what Israeli courts, according to Idith Zertal and Akiva Eldar, later deemed to be bogus security justifications.

remainder: http://www.alternet.org/story/149810/%22iranium%22%3A_dangerous_bomb-iran_documentary_directed_by_right-wing_israeli_extremist,_promoted_by_neocon_richard_perle

[Israeli]

3. Try here ...

http://adam-keller2.blogspot.co.il/2013/12/about-goodies-baddies-and-two-little.html

for a different perspective Jefferson23

the devil is in the details ....that are missing from King_David's post .

ie :

Outside the borders of Israel, such neighborhoods as Armon HaNatziv are considered as Occupied Territory, and were counted as such in the EU guidelines which recently got to the headlines. But Shirin Ben Zion was not aware of all that, when she moved with her ​​husband and children at a relatively quiet time two years ago. To her, as to most Israelis, Armon HaNatziv is no more than an ordinary Jerusalem neighborhood where housing prices happen to be lower than otherwhere.

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Last weekend, the 23-year old Nafi A-Saadi was killed in Jenin Refugee Camp when the Palestinian inhabitants brazenly dared to oppose a late night raid and detentions by Israeli soldiers. At Qalqiliya, the 28-year old Saleh Yassin was killed under similar circumstances . And Odeh Hamad, 27, killed when he approached the border fence separating the Gaza Strip from Israel.

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The Al Buheiry Family owns a small chicken farm east of the Maghazy Refugee Camp in the central Gaza Strip. One of the tank shells scored a direct hit on the family home. Three year old Hala Buheiry was killed on the spot by shrapnel in her head. He brother Bilal, also three years old, was wounded as were the six years old Muhammad and the children’s mother.

In the Israeli newspapers of the next day it was very difficult to find any trace or reference to the death of three year old Hala Al Buheiry. Her photo did not appear on the front pages, nor was it to be found on any page. Also in the banner headlines telling of the army’s retaliation in Gaza her death was not mentioned.

From the Strip came only a symbolic response to the death of the little Hala Al-Boheiry, two rockets fired at night towards Israeli fields, causing no casualties or damage. Escalation was halted . At least in that sector, at least for the time being.

[Jefferson23]

4. Sickening. Thank you for the link.