COMMENTARY BY DR JOHN WORLDPEACE FOR PRESIDENT 2016
Random unstoppable violence is being foisted on the Israeli's. It is a lesson to every government in the world, France, the United States that when you take away the hope of people and you ignore justice, then there will be retaliation.
The score in the Gaza war last year was very heavy in favor of Isreali who had by far the largest body count and destruction. But now it seems that war is still going on and the score is changing.
The retaliation has not reached the suicide bomber level yet but who knows. The suicide bombers and these random criminal acts cannot be stopped.
In the long run, justice will prevail. Or a peace that amounts to an agreed level of justice.
With the United States stopping the creation of a Palestinian state and the United States preparing to withhold money and Israel withholding money from the Palestinians, they are in essence increasing the misery and frustration of the Palestinians while at the same time expecting them to be nice. Nice is not what is taking hold. Not to mention the on going UN designated illegal settlements in Palestime.
When you take away hope from a group of people, then violence is going to manifest. When you kill and injure family, you create a revenge mindset.
I am not expecting the US and Israel to admit in the near future that more abuse against the Palestinians is not going to reduce tension. It is just going to turn more average men and women into revenge motivated criminals.
It is sad, that in the Holy Land of all places this ongoing violence exists. And has gotten worse since Israel was made a nation from Palestine and the Palestinians have been denied statehood for 66 years and have been occupied by Israel since 1967.
Justice brings peace. Hopelessness brings criminal acts.
Dr John WorldPeace
150121 1210 MT
SOURCE: New York Times
Palestinian Stabs Over a Dozen Israelis in Rush-Hour Attack in Tel Aviv
By ISABEL KERSHNER and IRIT PAZNER GARSHOWITZJAN. 21, 2015
JERUSALEM — A Palestinian man stabbed and wounded more than a dozen Israelis as he rampaged through a bus in central Tel Aviv during the Wednesday morning rush hour and then fled through nearby streets, the police said. He was shot and wounded by security forces as he tried to escape.
It was unclear whether all the stabbings took place on the bus. At least 15 Israelis were hospitalized, including several who were reported to be in serious condition. The assailant, a Palestinian man in his early 20s from the West Bank city of Tulkarm, was taken into custody, initial reports said.
The episode broke a period of relative calm that followed a spate of attacks against Israelis in October and November in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and the West Bank that were carried out by Palestinians armed with knives, cleavers and guns, or using vehicles as weapons.
In Wednesday’s attack, the assailant boarded a bus in Tel Aviv around 7:30 a.m. and first attacked the driver, who resisted, according to Yehuda Dahan, the district police chief. The man then stabbed a number of passengers before they managed to open the doors of the bus and escape.
As the assailant ran off, armed personnel from Israel’s prison service who happened to be in the vicinity chased and shot him. A member of the prison service team told reporters that they were on a routine trip to the courts when they noticed the bus in front of them zigzagging and then coming to a stop at a green traffic light. They realized something was happening, he said, as passengers began disembarking from the bus, screaming.
“First we fired in the air, but he didn’t stop,” the head of the prison security team, who was not identified, said to the Israeli news media, referring to the assailant. “Then we shot him in the legs,” he said, adding that the man did not say anything.
Images from the scene showed the assailant lying face down in the mud, his hands handcuffed behind him, the lower left part of his jeans soaked with blood.
Israel has been struggling to prevent attacks that security officials say are carried out by individuals rather than orchestrated by organizations. Yitzhak Aharonovitch, the Israeli minister of internal security, said the authorities were trying to determine whether the attacker had a work permit allowing him to cross into Israel from the West Bank.
The attack came during a charged political atmosphere in Israel, with elections scheduled for March 17 and with Israeli-Palestinian relations in a downward spiral since the breakdown of American-brokered peace talks last spring.
Diplomatic tensions have escalated in recent weeks as the Palestinian leadership moved to join the International Criminal Court in an effort to pursue war crimes cases against Israel. Israel responded this month by withholding more than $100 million in tax revenue it collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority. As a result, the authority has been unable to pay full wages to its 150,000 employees.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and other members of the government have accused Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, of incitement to violence and failure to adequately condemn the attacks against Israelis.
In a statement after Wednesday’s attack, Naftali Bennett, a right-wing minister in the Israeli cabinet, said of Mr. Abbas, “The person responsible for the terrorist attack in Tel Aviv this morning is the same man we saw walking in the company of world leaders in Paris just last week,” after terrorist attacks there.
Mr. Bennett called on Israel to stop the flow of funds to Mr. Abbas, whom he described as a “terrorist.”