Arabs engaged in violent riots on Wednesday night at a number of locations in east Jerusalem, the worst riots to hit Israel since Operation Guardian of the Walls in 2021.
Police officers were attacked, two of whom had to be evacuated for medical treatment, fireworks and stones were thrown at Jews and Jewish homes, Molotov cocktails were thrown at cars, and trash cans were set on fire. A Chareidi family with three small children narrowly escaped being lynched near Neve Yaakov and the car of Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion, who was on his way to a Simchas Beit Hashoeva in Maale Zeitim, was hit by stones in Ras al-Amud.
A large number of police and Border Guard forces were deployed to east Jerusalem and responded with riot dispersal methods.
A video of fireworks being thrown at a Chareidi man near Sha’ar Shechem, just minutes from the center of Jerusalem, elicited many bitter comments, including: “This isn’t Berlin, Germany 1939. It’s Jerusalem, Israel 2022!”
“Yes, Yes … this isn’t in Africa,” wrote Chareidi reporter Ariel Elharar about the video below. “This is here in Israel, in the heart of Jerusalem, our capital. Frightening.”
Two police officers were lightly injured while quelling a riot in Issawiya, possibly due to pipe bombs hurled at them, and were evacuated for medical treatment. In Silwan, an Arab threw Molotov cocktails at Israeli officers and torched a police car.
Armed Palestinians also opened fire at a Border Police post at the Qalandia crossing near Jerusalem. The officers returned fire and B’Chasdei Hashem, there were no injuries. The officers launched a manhunt for the terrorists.
On Thursday morning, senior security officials made a decision to place ten Border Police reservist companies on alert in case of a further escalation of violence.
Chareidi radio host Menachem Toker wrote about his drive home from an event in Jerusalem: “The streets are empty, the gun is loaded, the smoke of fireworks surrounds me, the smell of burning. I’m muttering Tehillim and hitting 150 km/h on my way home. The capital city of Jerusalem – 2022.”
A 0404 reporter slammed Prime Minister Yair Lapid, stating: “Murderous terrorists escaped. Two murdered soldiers. A security guard is fighting for his life. Two wounded officers. At least ten Israelis wounded from the throwing of stones, hundreds suffering from trauma. Terror attacks at checkpoints that can no longer be tracked, an average of two shooting attacks per day, loss of control of the capital, blocked intersections, and Israeli citizens forced to defend themselves on the streets.”
Religious Zionist chairman Betzalel Smotrich called for IDF forces to be deployed to the streets of Jerusalem. “This isn’t a civilian ‘public disturbance’ but a war against an enemy,” he stated. “And in a war – a large number of IDF forces must be brought in the neighborhoods of east Jerusalem, to impose a general closure in them, to halt the terror attacks with a heavy hand and shoot anyone who raises a stone, a Molotov cocktail, fireworks or weapon.”
“A civilized country cannot allow such a reality anywhere in the country, and certainly not in the capital city.”
Meanwhile, there have been ongoing clashes in Shuafat in east Jerusalem as Israeli security forces continue to search for the terrorist who murdered an Israeli soldier and seriously injured a civilian guard on Motzei Shabbos.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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They must shoot even to eliminate these vermin. I’m curious why there are cameras and reporters walking alongside the soldiers who have their weapons fully engaged to discharge when the right signal clicks yet if any one gets hit in a gun battle, it is not they themselves who carry their own burden of responsibility.
Throw fireworks at a Jew, return live fire on the sand monkeys. Liberalism is a mental illness.
This is what they do during sukkos. Imagine the outcry from the world if the Israelis were to attack during ramadan lehavdil.
What percent of Arabs now rioting in Jlem were previously tortured in the Russian Compound? Any self-respecting Arab has a very strong personal motive to be belligerent against the regime. The regime keeps what it sows, sorry to say. It’s unfortunate that a tortuous militarized state that appropriated the name “Israel” created its own problems. It was unnecessary. What I can’t figure out is how those soldiers, most of whom vaxed out under intense pressure near duress, most of whom now risk death or severe life-long health complications for their participation in that genetics experiment, what looks more and more like a depopulation conspiracy, how do they find motivation to keep their docility, still taking orders that endanger their lives to oppose those Arabs actually wise enough to oppose a clearly dangerous regime, the regime that sought to have them killed in a gene experiment? This won’t end until all sides identify and oppose their common enemy.
Schmendrick ,
Your screen name certainly fits you well!
I am very far from an “extremist”, dont live in Israel, though I wish I did. It is clear, however, Kahane was right- period! There is no such thing as a peaceful “Israeli” Arab. Some live on one side of the fence, others on the other. Some leech the Israeli govt they hate so much for every financial benefit they can get, the others have to make do with what Hamas or Abbas decide to share with them (paid by US and European taxes). That’s the only difference. Otherwise, they are all the same murderers, thirsty for Jewish blood.
I suspect Kahane was a CIA spook, but anyway, on second thought, I actually do support what that can-of-sardines puppet regime does in Eretz Yisroel just cuz its destabilization might undermine other important purposes pursued in other puppet regimes round the world that I definitely do support, so, for that reason (and that reason being the only I can think of), I retract my prior statements. Who cares about Arabs (or even Jews) being tortured in the Russian Compound or elsewhere? We must maintain order there so order more easily be maintained elsewhere. Period. If Yisroel slips out of control (or the Ukraine for that matter), other places slip out of control. That probably would slow the process of culling the unjustified. So, I say crack down on all those that oppose the regime. Brochoh and Hatzlochoh. I mean, you also could question whether cracking down using the regime’s methods just tends to instigate more activity that destabilizes the whole regime, so it could be counter-productive even according to what should be authoritative considerations to the regime itself, but that is something the sardines need to figure out for themselves I guess. Really, I think ideally they could have avoided pissing off the Arabs by not exposing them to military occupations in breach of the laws of occupation, but since they already pissed them off and tortured too many, you know, you really can’t just crack down on these people then just release them. They’re pissed now. The Chinese understand that, which is why they put their Muslims in camps after they rioted, despite the international backlash, which would be less likely if the puppet in Yisroel did so. So, maybe Kahane was right. Probably could use more immigration attorneys helping Arabs to leave Yisroel to settle elsewhere if they don’t resort to China-style camps. I support the thing. I’m actually not being sarcastic.
Anyway, for fear I might breach the oaths of Rebbi Levi brought in Kesubos not to reveal or distance the end, I’m going to try to keep my ideas on the whole culling process to myself from now on. Good mo’ed.