The Itamar attack -- Hypocritical Jews

[CrackSmokeRepublican]

It's like White families in the USA get killed all the time by psychos, minority gangs and drug dealers...in many different geographical areas  what's the big deal?

 The criminal J-Tribers of course make this tragic story out to be of "Earth Shaking" importance. It has been used for propaganda purposes when it actually looks like it was a break-in robbery of some sort.

Happens everyday in this country because of Jews:
http://southofzambezi.blogspot.com/2010 ... chive.html


And this one because of Jews:

Apr 11 2011 • New York -
Black male arrested for decapitating White girlfriend
Raul Barrera, 33, was arrested for killing his White girlfriend, Sarah Coit, 23.

"Coit, a 23-year-old blonde beauty from Connecticut who lived with Barrera on the Lower East Side, was killed early Sunday after a heated fight that grew so loud it woke their third-floor neighbors, witnesses said."

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crim ... tml?r=news

Apr 5 2011 • Texas -
Black male gets life for killing 79-year-old White grandmother, shooting grandchildren
Clarence Bailey was sentenced to life in prison for the shooting death of 79-year-old Elma Mae Adkins.

Bailey killed Adkins in 1992 then evaded authorites for 17 years. He was sentenced to life in prison in April, 2011.

After Baily killed Adkins, he then turned his gun on her three grandchildren, all under thirteen years old at the time. All three were shot and all three survived.

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/he ... ar-old.ece

White Giants fan beaten by Hispanics
Bryan Stow was beaten by two Hispanic Dodger fans as he was leaving  Dodger Stadium.

Stow, 42, and two friends went to Dodger Stadium on Thursday night to cheer for the Giants. As they were leaving the stadium, Stow was taunted and attacked by two Hispanic males wearing Dodgers gear, police said.

"They punched Stow in the back of his head, and after he fell to the pavement, they kicked him for about 15 seconds - continuing even after Stow lost consciousness, police said."

Stow was in critical condition Sunday and in an induced coma. He is a professional para-medic.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... 1IP8ID.DTL



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Itamar attack  


Coordinates: 32°10′20.57″N 35°18′29.62″E
Itamar attack
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Itamar
Location    Itamar, West Bank, (Area C)
Date    March 11, 2011
Midnight (GMT+2)
Attack type    Stabbing attack
Weapon(s)    Knife
Death(s)    5 (3 children)

The Itamar attack, also known as Itamar killings and Itamar massacre,[1] was an attack on a Jewish family in the Israeli settlement of Itamar in the West Bank, on Friday night, 11 March 2011, in which five members of the family were murdered in their beds. The parents were stabbed to death and the children's throats were slit. The victims are the father Ehud (Udi) Fogel, the mother Ruth Fogel, and three of their six children, the youngest a three-month-old infant; two other children, who were sleeping in an adjacent room, were not harmed.[2] The killings were discovered by the eldest daughter when she arrived home.[3] The settlement of Itamar had been the target of several murderous attacks before these killings.[4]

According to a first probe, two perpetrators whom Israeli officials believe are Palestinian, entered Itamar shortly after 9 p.m., jumping over the settlement's security fence, and remained in the settlement for three hours without being noticed.[5]

The attack was harshly condemned by the United Nations, the Quartet on the Middle East, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States, and many other governments, including the Palestinian National Authority, as well as by a number of non-governmental organizations.

The attack

Israeli authorities believe that at least two assailants took part in the attack.[6] An initial probe showed serious failures in the functioning of the security forces at Itamar, and the pursuit of the perpetrators began very late. According to the probe, the fence around Itamar functioned properly. When the perpetrators infiltrated, just after 9 p.m. on Friday night, an alarm sounded in the settlement's security room, indicating the exact location where they entered. But neither the settlement's civilian security team nor the civilian security officer, who went to the site of the disturbance and found nothing out of order, informed soldiers patrolling the area of the fence, concluding that an animal had set off the alarm, although procedures prescribe that the IDF is to be informed of any alarm.[7]

The perpetrators first broke into a house of a family who was on vacation, searching all the rooms.[8] They apparently waited for an hour and entered the Fogels' house at around 10:30 p.m. They seem to have gone to the boys' room first and stabbed them. Then, after killing the mother, they moved to the parents' bedroom and murdered the father and the 3-month-old baby. Two boys who were asleep in a room the perpetrators did not enter remained unharmed. The murderers left the house at around 11 p.m. and left the settlement without being detected,[7] carrying with them two rifles they had stolen.[5]

The bodies were discovered by the 12-year-old daughter of the family who arrived home around midnight after a youth outing.[9] After finding that the door was locked, she asked her neighbor, Rabbi Ya'akov Cohen, for help. He noticed tracks and mud near the house, and brought a weapon with him. The two then woke the sleeping 6-year old boy by calling through the window, and he opened the door, after which Cohen returned to his home. When the girl discovered the murders, she ran outside screaming, and the Rabbi ran back, firing several shots into the air to alert security personnel. Rabbi Cohen, who later entered the house with the girl, said that her two-year-old brother "was lying next to his bleeding parents, shaking them with his hands and trying to get them to wake up, while crying... The sight in the house was shocking."[10] Paramedics followed a trail of toys and blood to the bedroom, where they discovered the first three bodies: the mother, father and infant. In the next room they found the body of the 11-year-old sibling. Finally they reached the last bedroom, where the 3-year-old boy was severely injured and dying. The toddler died of his wounds despite the efforts of medical personnel.[9]

Victims
The victims of the attack. Clockwise: Ruth Fogel (35), Udi Fogel (36), Hadas (3 months), Yoav (11), Elad (4)

Funeral in Givat Shaul

The victims of the attack are Udi Fogel, age 36, the son of Gush Emunim activists from Neve Tzuf,[11] Ruth Fogel, age 35, the daughter of a Jerusalem rabbi,[12] and three of their six children, Yoav, age 11, Elad, age 4, and three months old Hadas.[13]

The Fogel family had recently settled in Itamar. They previously lived in the Gush Katif settlement of Netzarim in the Gaza Strip. After Gush Katif was evacuated in 2005, they moved to the settlement of Ariel, and in 2009 to Itamar, where Udi Fogel worked as teacher at the post-high school yeshiva.[13]

Three of the family's children, Tamar, age 12, Roi, age 6, and Yishai, age 2 have survived physically unharmed. They are being cared for by grandparents in the aftermath of the attack.[10] Twelve-year-old Tamar is quoted as having promised her relatives: "I will be strong and succeed in overcoming this. I understand the task that stands before me, and I will be a mother to my siblings."[13]

Funeral

The funeral of the five victims on Sunday, 13 March at Har HaMenuchot Cemetery in Givat Shaul, Jerusalem, was attended by some 20,000 people and broadcast on Israeli television. Speakers included former Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, quoted as saying: "We will not bend, we will not give up, we returned to the land of our fathers and it is our home, and the children shall return within their borders and nothing will prevent our faith in the righteousness of our path", Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger, who, linking the murderers to Amalek, stated that "Itamar needs to become a major city in Israel as a response to this murder", and Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin, whose final remarks were: "Build more, live more, more footholds – that is our response to the murderers so that they know – they can't defeat us".[14]

Ruth Fogel's father was quoted as having said: "Our children are prepared to be sacrificed as an offering at the altar we have to continue to build to bring redemption. Udi and Ruthie wanted this redemption."[15]

Udi Fogel's brother Motti Fogel spoke out against the use that has been made of the murder of the family: "All the slogans about Torah and settlement, the Land of Israel and the people of Israel are attempts to forget the simple and pain-torn fact: you are dead. You are dead, and no slogan will bring you back. You are not a symbol or a national event. Your life was a purpose in and of itself, and it should be forbidden for your terrible death to turn your life into some sort of tool."[16]

Responsibility

Due to the characteristics of the killings, the Israel Defense Forces reportedly believe that the attack was not carried out by an organized terrorist infrastructure but was the work of one or two people, presumably Palestinian.[17] The Los Angeles Times reports, that Israeli authorities have said that they suspect that the killings may have been in revenge for the killing of two Palestinian teenagers from Awarta, who were shot dead allegedly by the IDF near Itamar in 2010.[9]

Several media, among them the Guardian and the Washington Post, first reported that the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the armed wing of Fatah, the dominant political faction in the West Bank, claimed responsibility for the attack,[10] whereas the Jerusalem Post reported, that the "Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades of Imad Mughniyeh" had claimed responsibility, a group named after a Hezbollah chief of military operations and liaison with the Iranian Revolutionary Guards who was killed by a car bomb in Damascus in 2008. According to Al Hayat, officials of "Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades" denied association with the Imad Mughniyeh-group or the attack.[18]

The Jerusalem Post reported that a number of media outlets affiliated with the Palestinian Authority doubt Israeli claims that the killings were committed by Palestinians and report that a Thai worker who was employed in the settlement had been arrested on suspicion of the killings. A gag order has been imposed on the investigation.[19]

To date, nobody has claimed responsibility for the attack and nobody has been legally charged.[20] On 11 April Haaretz announced that "Israeli security forces believe that there will soon be a breakthrough in the investigation into the Itamar murders".[21]

Local tensions

Itamar in 2007

Due to an increase in security measures by the Palestinian National Authority, militant operations in the West Bank had been declining. Over the previous two years, Israel had removed a number of roadblocks and checkpoints, although a security fence remained in place around Itamar. The attack was the first killing of settlers since a drive-by shooting in August 2010 left four dead near Hebron.[3] Attacks on Jewish settlements in the West Bank have on previous occasions been defended by some Palestinians, who argue that the settlers are de facto combatants in the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict.[9]

Itamar, with a population of 1,032 (2009), mostly ideologically motivated national-religious Jewish families considered among the most fervent Jewish settlers in the West Bank, has had numerous confrontations with local Palestinians. Tensions between Itamar and the nearby Palestinian village of Awarta have been rising before the attack. Palestinians had accused settlers in the locality of cutting down hundreds of olive trees,[3] burning cars and shooting at Palestinian residents. Ten Palestinians and one settler were injured in a confrontation in the week before the attack, when Israeli soldiers were accused of opening fire to quell the clash.[9]

Responses

Israeli authorities

In response to the Itamar attack, on March 13, the Israeli cabinet approved the construction of 500 housing units in the West Bank settlements and settlement blocs of Gush Etzion, Ma'ale Adumim, Ariel and Modi'in Illit, areas of the West Bank that Israel intends to keep under any permanent accord with the Palestinians.[22] The decision was taken in a late-night cabinet meeting, in which both Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak took part, after several alternatives, such as starting a new settlement or widening the settlement of Itamar, were rejected. The decision brought harsh criticism from both the Palestinians and the United States.[23]

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, visiting relatives of the victims, told the mourners: "They shoot and we build".[22] And Tamar Fogel (the mourner) responded, "And then you evacuate...but in reality they are evacuating all the time. Not only that, but evacuation causes strife between brothers." [24]

The Israel Defense Forces, Israel Police, Israel Border Police, and Shin Bet launched a massive manhunt throughout the area for suspects, beginning with a search across the village of Itamar. The Israeli Air Force used UAVs for aerial surveillance of the area in an attempt to locate suspects. Israeli authorities declared the nearby West Bank city of Nablus a closed military zone. Israeli troops set up checkpoints on the roads leading to the city and prevented vehicles and pedestrians from leaving or entering, according to Palestinians.[25] Israeli soldiers carried out raids into the city, placing the residential areas under curfew and conducting house-to-house searches.[26] The previously-dismantled Huwwara Checkpoint was re-established.[7] The village of Awarta was also sealed off and declared a closed military zone after IDF scouts discovered the footprints of the suspected perpetrators leading to the village. IDF troops entered Burqa village in northern Nablus, searching houses and questioning residents. They did not make any arrests.[25] IDF soldiers and Israel Border Police gendarmes also entered the villages of Awarta, Sanur, and Zababdeh, arresting several dozen Palestinians.[17]

Israeli authorities placed Awarta under curfew and conducted mass arrests of Palestinians throughout the following days. According to Palestinian sources, all men from Awarta were questioned. Residents reported constant door-to-door searches, with some homes being searched up to three times. According to witness reports, Israeli armored vehicles patrolled the village's streets, and troops were deployed on the hilltops around the village. The city of Nablus remained under closure; but four days after the murders, a food delivery was permitted into the city.[27] On March 29, 2011, the IDF initiated a second wave of arrests in Awarta, detaining 60 Palestinians, including the Deputy Mayor of Awarta, and collecting DNA samples. About 20 were immediately released following DNA testing, and another 40 were interrogated.[28] A week later, AFP reported that the IDF arrested more than 100 women from the village, placing them in a camp where they were fingerprinted and DNA samples were taken, before most of them were released.[20]

On April 11, Awarta residents and left-wing Israeli activists reported that daily IDF raids were taking place in the village, and that IDF troops continued to maintain roadblocks at the entrance. According to the allegations, soldiers humiliated residents and damaged property. Palestinian officials claimed that Israel had seized land around the village to expand nearby settlements. The Palestinian Authority condemned the raids and called on the international community to pressure Israel into halting them.[29]

Large Israeli military and police forces were deployed near Nablus to prevent clashes between Jewish settlers and Palestinians after the killings.[30] The following day, the Israel Police increased its presence in settler areas to counter possible retaliatory attacks by settlers against Palestinians. Around 100 police officers deployed in or around the Jewish Quarter and nearby Arab neighborhoods of Hebron and the nearby town of Kiryat Arba, and police and IDF forces also deployed in major intersections throughout the West Bank.

Israeli civilians

According to Palestinian sources and the BBC, Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian property and residents in villages near Nablus, in parts of Hebron, and in areas around Bethlehem and Ramallah. The BBC characterized the attacks as acts of revenge for the Fogel murders.[31][32] Israeli settlers handed out leaflets threatening the lives of villagers in Beitillu, near Ramallah, and vandalized Palestinian property in Hebron.[33] Settlers blocked a junction in Gush Etzion, and threw stones at Palestinians. Several were arrested by IDF and police forces deployed on the scene. Israeli activists blocked an intersection near Psagot on Highway 60. Palestinians reported that settlers from Bat Ayin took part in the protest, and that Israeli Police had fired tear gas at Palestinians on the site. Palestinians also claimed that settlers entered the village of Huwwara and threw stones at residents. Settlers near Nablus and in the Kedumim area stoned and burned Palestinian vehicles, and reportedly blocked the Jit Junction.[34]

Small demonstrations against the attack broke out in Israel on 13 March. Dozens of demonstrators appeared in the Horev, Tzabar, Megiddo, and Azrieli Junctions, carrying signs proclaiming "we are settlers too" and "peace isn't signed with blood". Numerous drivers honked in solidarity. Several dozen right-wing activists also protested near Jerusalem, chanting "revenge" and "death to Arabs", and carrying signs reading "the government destroys communities – the Arabs murder Jews". Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburg, President of the Od Yosef Chai Yeshiva in Yitzhar issued a statement calling for the demolition of houses in a village near Itamar every 30 minutes until the residents turn the perpetrators in, and to "kill the murderers immediately after they are turned in".[34] The following day, dozens of students from Bar Ilan University protested near Highway 4, chanting "enough to violence and incitement - talk to humans not murderers".[35]

On 16 March, some 200 settlers marched from Itamar into Awarta to protest the killings. Fourteen entered the village and threw stones at homes. IDF soldiers and Border Police gendarmes dispersed the rioters. A number of settlers also marched up a hill near Itamar to support the construction of a new settlement outpost there.[36]

On 14 March, settlers clashed with Palestinians near Nablus, which ended after Israeli troops dispersed the Palestinians with live fire. An Israeli settler and ten Palestinians were wounded during the clashes.[37] Three days later, two Palestinian workers employed in the settlement of Shilo were attacked by masked men armed with iron rods and pepper spray, as was an Israeli securtiy guard who attempted to protect them.[38]

In light of the attack in Itamar, 59% among Israelis oppose and 33% support the government policy to relax the security measures in the West Bank such as the removal of road blocks. On 16 March Haaretz reported that residents of Itamar were undertaking the construction of a new outpost, unofficially named "Aryeh."[39] "Aryeh" is Hebrew for lion, as well as an approximate acronym for the names Udi, Ruth, Yoav, Elad and Hadas, the five victims of the attack.

These Israeli building plans brought a response from the U.S. State Department. A spokesperson told the Jewish Week that the "United States is deeply concerned by continuing Israeli actions with respect to settlements in the West Bank" and that "[c]ontinued Israeli settlements are illegitimate and run counter to efforts to resume direct negotiations."[40]

An opinion poll conducted by the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace and the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research found, according to the groups, "In light of the attack in Itamar, 59% among Israelis oppose and 33% support the government policy to relax the security measures in the West Bank such as the removal of road blocks." The groups asked 601 adult Israelis interviewed by phone in Hebrew, Arabic, or Russian between March 21st and 28th, 2011.[41]

Palestinian

Palestinians threw stones at Israeli vehicles in the West Bank,[42] including buses returning from the funeral of the victims.[43] Some Palestinian residents of the village of Awarta, who had previously clashed with settlers from Itamar for a number of years, denounced the killings.[9]

Settlers saw fireworks and celebrations in nearby Palestinian communities on the day of the attack.[44] In the Gaza Strip, the killings sparked some celebrations in the city of Rafah, where Palestinian residents handed out candy and sweets on the streets. A resident described the celebrations as "a natural response to the harm settlers inflict on the Palestinian residents in the West Bank."[45] An Israeli reporter who interviewed Palestinians on the street about their opinion of the attacks said he was surprised at how strong and invariable their condemnation was.[citation needed] Similarly MEMRI, commenting on reactions to the murders in the Palestinian media, stated that while a Hamas website praised the murders, in the rest of the Palestinian media the murder of children ("even of settlers") was strongly condemned as unequivocally immoral and contrary to Palestinian values, and as doing nothing to help the Palestinian cause. One editorial, for example, stated: "Stabbing an infant to death is a crime against humanity. Whoever did this was insane, or charged with racist assumptions. This is not nationalist; there is no connection between the murder of the infant in the settlement of Itamar and the values of our people's struggle." Many questioned whether such a murderer could be Palestinian. The PLO condemned the murders and accused Israel of jumping to the conclusion that the perpetrator was Palestinian and of exploiting the tragedy for its own political gains.[46] A Haaretz article also reported that Palestinians in newspapers and on social networking sites condemned the attack while also criticizing settlers and the Israeli government's declaration of new settlement units in retaliation.[47]

An opinion poll conducted by the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace and the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research found that 63% of Palestinians surveyed opposed the attack while 32% supported. The groups interviewed 1,270 adults face-to-face in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza Strip from March 17th to 19th 2011.[41]

American

A memorial service for the Fogel family was held at New York's Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun a week after the attack. It was attended by 1,000 local residents, with 2,000 more viewing a live broadcast over the internet. President of the New York Board of Rabbis Rabbi Yaakov Kermaier said of the victims that they "were treated as criminals for settling and building beautiful lives in the heartland of our ancestral holy land."[48] Pastor of the Canaan Baptist Church in Harlem, Reverend Jacques DeGraff, told the gathered mourners, "I'm here today because it is not enough for the friends of Israel to issue a statement."[49] The service was jointly sponsored by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, the Consulate General of Israel in New York, the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York, the UJA-Federation of New York, and Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun.[50]

Gary Rosenblatt, editor-in-chief of The Jewish Week, commented that reactions to the Itamar killings may have been more muted given that the victims were religious Israelis living in a small West Bank settlements. He stated that if the victims had been secular Jews living inside the Green Line "outrage would have been far greater".[51]

Italian

A delegation of Italian Jews from Rome visited Itamar on 30 March and extended a donation of €25,000 to support the three surviving children of the Fogel family. President of the Jewish community of Rome Riccardo Pacifici said, "We come with a message of solidarity and support."[52]

Finnish

A team of Finnish performers wrote a song in memory of the Fogel family for the annual Benei Akiva Jewish Eurovision contest, held this year in Rome, Italy. The team was inspired by the fact that daughter Tamar Fogel's life was spared owing to her being out of the house at the time of the attack, attending a Benei Akiva event.[53]

[Scotty]

Rabbi Udi Fogel, a former IDF tank unit officer, his wife Ruth and their six children were just like any other intensely nationalist-religious family in Itamar, an illegal settlement near Nablus. They lived in a self-imposed fortress, surrounded by perimeter fences with alarm systems and armed guards to protect them from the people whose land they stole. The settlers carry guns and intimidate their Arab neighbours with regular pogroms.

On March 11th 2011, an assailant passed through the community's gate without triggering its alert system, entered the Fogel's house through a window and stabbed five family members to death as they slept. The parents and three children aged eleven, three and three months old had their throats cut, an appalling and brutal crime. At the scene, Major General Avi Mizrahi of the Israeli military central command accused "despicable terrorists."

Ehud Barak said the "iron fist of the IDF and the Shin Bet will quickly land on the murderers" and they began storming Palestinian villages, rounding up citizens and imposed a curfew. Independent observers described beatings, the theft of personal property, houses destroyed inside, cutting off electricity and polluting the drinking water. Soldiers manning roadblocks fired live ammo at anyone approaching and used stun grenades and flare bombs.

Homicide is usually investigated by police and forensic detectives, but in the West Bank, IAF aircraft were deployed! Binyamin Netanyahu held "terrorists" responsible, who he called "animals" incited by the Palestinian Authority and decided within 24 hours to erect 500 new homes, for revenge. Interior minister Eli Yishai of the pro-settlement, rightwing Shas party said Israel should build "at least a thousand new homes for each person murdered."

Danny Ayalon, the deputy foreign minister invoked the 1929 Hebron massacre with tales of beheaded Jewish infants, hacked off limbs and disemboweled women. He said the Hamas Charter aspires to "a point in time when there will be no Jews left anywhere in the world." Minister of Public Diplomacy, Yuli Edelstein released grisly photos of the dead victims with the family's blessing to show they were killed, "Simply because they are Jewish."

Two Arab youths from Awarta village, 19 year old Amjad Awad and Hakim Awad, who is 18 years old, reportedly confessed to the crime, but rumours abound that the Fogel's were slaughtered, not due to their race or religion, but because they conned a furious Thai worker out of 10,000 shekels in wages and he threatened to kill the family. The Israeli army knows this information, but refuse to act on it for political and security reasons.

Why bring the "iron fist" down on the real culprit when they can use these murders to further denigrate Palestinians and expand the settlements? Zionists believe Eretz Yisrael is theirs by 'divine right' anyway and they do not need permission from their "enemies" to build on it. The Fogel family's ultimate 'sacrifice' will result in collective punishment in the repressive occupied territories, whether anyone is convicted of the slaying or not.

Jewish settlers do not require a pretext for vengeance. Palestinians are evicted from their homes and expelled from their land as a matter of government policy. As one Israeli blogger wrote, "it's the next best thing to extermination" which extremist Rabbi's promote as a "legitimate duty" according to the Torah. Their god commanded the Israelites to annihilate 'Amalek' women, children, elderly and even beasts more than two thousand years ago.

http://antisupremacy.blogspot.com/20...at-itamar.html