Bulldozer driver on downtown J'lem rampage leaves 3 dead, 80

[Anonymous]

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/998418.html

Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert decided to act swiftly to resume the demolition of homes of East Jerusalem terrorists who hold Israeli ID cards, following yesterday's terrorist attack in Jerusalem.

Olmert said the attack "must be answered harshly" as a deterrent.

Shortly after the attack, Olmert ordered ministers to examine the possibility of razing the terrorist's home in East Jerusalem.
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In talks with Barak, Welfare Minister Isaac Herzog and Justice Minister Daniel Friedmann, Olmert also ordered the ministers to consider revoking National Insurance Institute stipends from the terrorist's family. The ministers promised to examine the legal guidelines and report back by the end of the day, so that the cabinet could begin the proceedings.

After the terror attack on the Merkaz Harav Yeshiva in Jerusalem a few months ago, the attorney general decided to reexamine the legal options of imposing sanctions against terrorists who hold Israeli ID cards and their families. Today the attorney general's deputy, Attorney Shai Nitzan, will hold a debate on the issue with representatives of the defense and justice ministries, the IDF, police, Prime Minister's Office and Shin Bet Security Services. The debate will focus on demolishing East Jerusalem terrorists' houses and depriving them of social rights such as National Insurance allocations.

Until two and a half years ago, the Home Front was authorized to demolish homes of terrorists from East Jerusalem. This was stopped following the defense establishment's conclusion that the practice was ineffective and did not serve as a deterrent. Now Olmert and Barak intend to resume the practice.

A senior government source said the defense establishment widely supported the move. Herzog said yesterday that he had decided to deprive the "bulldozer terrorist's" family of its survivor's alowance and burial fee.

Olmert was briefed about the attack while he was in the Knesset plenum. He left a few minutes later for defense consultations and updates of the investigation into the attack. The prime minister said he was very concerned that the last two terror attacks were both carried out by East Jerusalemites who hold Israeli ID cards and can move easily around Israel. "This is terror to all intents and purposes," Olmert said. "We must respond swiftly and harshly to break this pattern. These things must not recur."

Olmert added that Israel must take action to deter potential terrorists and make it clear to them and their families that "they could lose everything."

Barak yesterday sent the defense establishment's legal adviser a letter saying that the terrorist's house must be demolished. "The recurrence of such a severe incident in such a short time... requires the government and defense establishment's immediate response. Demolishing houses has a deterring effect that conveys an unequivocal message about Israel's determination to fight this," Barak wrote.

The legal basis to demolish a terrorist's house is regulation 119 in the Mandate-era emergency regulations, stipulating that a military commander may demolish any house, neighborhood or town, if a resident had perpetrated violence.

During the second intifada the IDF demolished 270 houses. It stopped doing so after a defense establishment committee recommended at the beginning of 2005 to discontinue the practice, as its deterrence effect had not been established. Then-defense minister Shaul Mofaz adopted the recommendations.

In January 2003 the High Court of Justice approved demolishing or sealing the homes of members of the Silwan terror unit, which was behind the murder of 35 people in several terror attacks, including those on Jerusalem's Moment cafe and Mount Scopus university campus.

Although a few Palestinian groups claimed responsibility for the attacks, Public Security Minister Avi Dichter said the terrorist had no known affiliations with any militant groups.

Later yesterday, five military vehicles gathered outside the family's two-story home in East Jerusalem. Police entered the home, interviewed relatives, took pictures and gathered evidence before leaving about an hour later.

Eli Mizrahi, the Yasam mobile anti-terrorist patrol policeman who shot the terrorist point blank yesterday, said: "We received a report about a bulldozer speeding toward the center of the city and crushing vehicles and people on Jaffa Road."

"I was with my partner Alex on Jaffa-King George. In seconds we arrived at the site. As soon as I got off my motorbike, I saw a number of crushed vehicles and people lying on the ground. I realized it was a terror attack, cocked my gun and headed for the bulldozer," he said. On his way he saw a soldier and a policeman also approaching the tractor.

"As soon as I arrived the bulldozer started speeding toward Jaffa Road, trampling people and vehicles. I ran up the tractor steps, fired two more shots at him, and then he was neutralized," Mizrahi said.

U.S. President George W. Bush spoke with Olmert and extended his condolences to the Israeli people over the day's murderous terrorist attack. The two men also discussed regional issues.

Following the attack, Israel sent a letter to the United Nations Security Council asking it to condemn the act quickly and unconditionally.The letter was handed over to the Security Council president.

Ambassador Dan Carmon, who wrote the letter, said "the Security Council failed to reach an agreement on denouncing the [recent] terror attack on Merkaz Harav in which eight youths were killed."

Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupolianski was quick to respond to Wednesday's attack, saying that terrorists were constantly coming up with new ways to harm Jerusalem. "My daughter was in the next bus, but she wasn't hurt," Lupolianski told reporters. "To our regret the attackers do not cease coming up with new ways to strike at the heart of the Jewish people here in Jerusalem."

It was not initially clear of the perpetrator of Wednesday;s attack belonged to any Palestinian militant group, or whether he acted alone. Three Israelis were killed and dozens more wounded in the attack. Jerusalem residents Bat Sheva Unterman, 33; Elizabeth Goren-Friedman, 54; and Jean Raloy were killed.

Unterman was a resident of Jerusalem's Rehavia neighborhood, and worked as a nanny in a religious kindergarten in the city's Har Homa quarter. She was killed when the car she was driving was crushed by the oncoming bulldozer.

Unterman's six-month-old daughter, Efrat, was taken out of the car just before the vehicle was hit. Her husband, Ido, was notified only hours after the attack that his wife had been killed.

Elizabeth Goren-Friedman, originally from Austria, was a resident of Katamon who worked as a teacher in a school for the blind. She was laid to rest at 10:30 P.M. in Givat Shaul.

Goren-Friedman was divorced and the mother of three children: Yael, 16, Issachar, 19, and Zvi, 23. Her sons were students at the Horev hesder yeshiva in Jerusalem. Her friends described her as a "wonderful person," who volunteered regularly at the Hadassah University, Ein Kerem.

Jean Raloy, an air-conditioner technician who lived in the Gilo neighborhood, was the third person killed in the terrorist's murder spree. His nephew said "the first thing with Jean was his family." Raloy, who was born in Iran, was married to Hanna and the father of two daughters and a son, and was to become a grandfather in about a month.

(Yuval Azoulay, Shahar Ilan and Shlomo Shamir contributed to this report.)

[Anonymous]

As I read this story.

Palestinians with Israeli ID cards are terrorists
Their homes must be destroyed
something must be done about these terrorists with Israeli ID cards - What will be done?
Little is reported on the "terrorist" other then he was shouting God is great before they put a Bullet in his head.
My friend says that the attack took place on the street with all the international news agencies
The cease fire is only a week old and those bad Palestinians are doing everything in their power to wreck the chance for peace.

[Canard]

John are you thinking MK Ultra?

[Anonymous]

John are you thinking MK Ultra?

not sure

could be a guy who was kicked out of his home, or family member was killed or mkultra released prisoner. They are not providing much info on the bull-dozer driver as of yet.

but you can see how the Jackals are painting it.

[Anonymous]

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breaki ... 4874c.html

hmmm loving man just snapped. Loving father with two children. Worked as construction worker snapped and turned the the dozer onto the traffic.

Authorities say he acted alone.

and now he is dead - so no one can question him.

sounds very mkultra.

But it is interesting that he did not target specifically jews. There was a Palestinian women that had to be pushed out of the way. So he may have just flipped his lid and they are spinning it to meet their goals.

[kolnidre]

It's become such a farce. Whenever there is a cease fire you can bank on nearly immediate "Palestinian" attacks. Whether MK Ultra or compromised agents, the result is the same: IsraHell gets to milk each incident to the hilt and loudly proclaim they have no partner in peace.

Yeah, well that's why they created Hamas. Abu Nidal was a real knee-slapper, too.

[Canard]

Yep...

*opens wallet*

So how much is this gonna cost me Pissrahell?

[Anonymous]

So there was a second Bull Dozer attack.  But we see the drive to destroy Palestinian homes in Jerusalem is the answer to the problem.  


http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1006375.html

The defense establishment is close to deciding whether to demolish the Jabal Mukkaber home of Ala Abu Dahim, the terrorist who committed the attack on the Mercaz Harav yeshiva in Jerusalem. However, legal difficulties are still delaying decisions on destroying the houses of the two terrorists who committed the bulldozer attacks in Jerusalem this month, Hussam Duwiyat of Sur Baher and Asam Abu Tir from Umm Tuba.

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defense Minister Ehud Barak both announced their support for demolishing the homes of the terrorists from East Jerusalem, though Israel has refrained from such acts in recent years in the eastern part of the capital. Since 2005, in the wake of the recommendations of an Israel Defense Forces committee headed by Maj. Gen. Udi Shani, the IDF has stopped demolishing terrorists' homes in the West Bank, too.

Barak was notified last Thursday that most of the legal obstacles to demolishing Abu Dahim's home had been removed. However, the family may petition the High Court of Justice against the demolition.
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Dozens of residents of the northern Jerusalem neighborhood Beit Hanina threw rocks at police Monday, after the Abu Aisha home was demolished. Four of the stone throwers were arrested.

The four-storey house was knocked down by the Jerusalem municipality as it had been built without a permit. Humans rights organizations spent the whole day Monday trying to prevent the demolition, without success.