Sunday, December 13, 2009

Take Your Pick - There's A Difference

Two acts of violence in Judea and Samaria.

One, an Arab mosque torched:

Settlers set fire to the mosque of Yasuf village in the Nablus region of the West Bank on Friday, 11 December. The vicious attack was carried out in the early hours of the morning, after which the village was invaded by Israeli Occupation Forces, firing tear gas and rubber-coated steel bullets at distraught Palestinians, protesting the desecration of the holy site...

The attack came directly after the dawn call to prayer at approximately 4:30am, when 4 residents of the notorious Tappuah settlement entered the mosque [they saw them come?]...

As news of the attack broke in Yasuf, hundreds of angry and bewildered villagers gathered to march on the settlement. Their approach was cut short as they were intercepted by Israeli Occupation Forces...

The destruction of religious items is illegal under Israeli law. Numerous national governments – including America, Israel and the Palestinian Authority – have condemned the attack, calling for the perpetrators to be caught and dealt a swift justice...


The second, a Jewish woman stabbed:

JERUSALEM, Dec 13 (Reuters) - A Jewish settler woman was stabbed and wounded on a roadside in the occupied West Bank in what Israeli police said on Sunday was an attack by a Palestinian militant. There were no immediate claims of responsibility for the assault late on Saturday night near the city of Bethlehem and a settlement bloc known as Gush Etzion, which occurred after a mosque was vandalised elsewhere in the West Bank.

"A 20-year-old woman was approached and stabbed in the back," police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said, adding that the suspected perpetrator, a Palestinian, had not been apprehended.


and a few paragraphs on:

Earlier, Palestinians said a gang of Jewish settlers had set ablaze carpets and copies of the Koran in a mosque near Nablus on Thursday, and scrawled graffiti calling the act "the price-tag".

Israeli leaders and the military have condemned the attack.


You did notice that the PA did not condemn the stabbing attack, an attempt to kill a human being as at this time (9:15 AM Israel time *).

And you did notice that hundreds of angry Jews did not attempt to invade the nearby Arab village.

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Maan news agency:

Today (Last Update) Dec. 13, Time 08:40

Bethlehem - Ma'an - A 22-year-old Israeli woman was stabbed at the illegal Gush Etzion settlement bloc late Saturday night, according to an Israeli military representative. Israeli media, meanwhile, reported that the woman, 22, was waiting at a bus stop when she was stabbed in her lower back. Witnesses reportedly identified the attacker as a Palestinian who fled. The woman was evacuated to Hadassah Ein Kerem by a Magen David Adom ambulance, the reports added. Israel's military set up a number of checkpoints around the settlement bloc in response to the incident.


Nope, no condemnation.

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