Fwd: What Do Palestinian Terrorists Want?

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From: Gatestone Institute <list@gatestoneinstitute.org>
Date: October 15, 2015 at 5:40:17 AM CDT
To: <bobbygmartin1938@gmail.com>
Subject: What Do Palestinian Terrorists Want?
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In this mailing: Bassam Tawil: What Do Palestinian Terrorists Want? Burak Bekdil: Turkey's Grisly Dances with the Islamic State What Do Palestinian Terrorists Want? by Bassam Tawil  •  October 15, 2015 at 5:00 am Palestinian terrorists are not driven by poverty and deprivation, as many have long argued. Instead, they are driven by hatred for Jews -- because of what their leaders, media and mosques are telling them. These young people took advantage of their status as permanent residents of Israel to set out and murder Jews. Their Israeli ID cards allow them to travel freely inside Israel. They were also entitled to the social welfare benefits and free healthcare granted to all Israeli citizens. Muhannad Halabi wanted to murder Jews because he had been brainwashed by our leaders and media, and was driven by hatred -- he was not living in misery and deprivation. The family's house in the village of Surda, on the outskirts of Ramallah, looks as if it came out of a movie filmed in San Diego. This conflict is not about Islamic holy sites or Jerusalem. Murdering a Jewish couple in front of their four children has nothing to do with the Aqsa Mosque or "occupation." For the terrorists, all Jews are "settlers" and Israel is one big settlement. This is not an intifada -- it is just another killing-spree aimed at terrorizing the Jews and forcing them out of this part of the world. It already succeeded in the rest of the Middle East and is now being done there to the Christians as well. The current wave of terrorism is just another phase in our dream to wipe Israel off the face of the earth. The terrorists and their supporters are not struggling against a checkpoint or a wall. They want to see Israel destroyed, Jews slaughtered, and the streets of Israel running with Jewish blood. Fadi Alloun, possibly the most handsome man in Jerusalem, stabbed a random 15-year-old Jew in the street last week. Police shot and killed Alloun moments after the attack. During the past few days, I had occasion to visit the homes of some of the Palestinian men and women involved in the ongoing wave of terrorism against Israelis -- the violence that some are calling an "intifada," or uprising. What I saw -- what you or anyone could see during these visits -- was that none of these Palestinians had suffered harsh lives. Their living conditions were anything but miserable. In fact, these murderers had been leading comfortable lives, with unlimited access to education and work. Four of the terrorists came from Jerusalem and, as permanent residents who had not applied for citizenship, held Israeli ID cards. They enjoyed all the rights of an Israeli citizen, except for voting for the Knesset -- but it is not as if the Arabs of Jerusalem are killing and dying because they want to vote in Israeli parliamentary elections. Continue Reading Article Turkey's Grisly Dances with the Islamic State by Burak Bekdil  •  October 15, 2015 at 4:00 am If a "mere" 11.3% of Turks thought so generously of the Islamic State, it meant that there were nearly nine million Turks sympathetic to jihadists. Only 5% of that would mean an army of nearly 450,000. Apparently, the people of Turkey did not "rise up and fight against these atheists [Kurds], these Crusaders and these traitors." So they had to be killed by jihadists in suicide-bombing attacks. IS promised to attack, and it did. 450,000 minus two (suicide-bombers) leaves behind too big a number. Turkish cities are unsafe. Davutoglu cannot admit that jihadists alone had simply murdered people en masse in a twin bomb attack. The October 10 Ankara suicide-bombings targeted peaceful pro-Kurdish demonstrators. Pictured above, one of the bombs explodes in the background. On October 10, Turkey woke up to the worst single terror attack in its history. The twin suicide-bomb attack in Ankara killed 97 and injured nearly 250 people, with more than 60 of the wounded being treated in intensive care. As of October 14, no one had claimed responsibility, but all indications pointed to the Islamic State (ISIS, or IS) -- the same jihadists Turkey's Islamist government once helped logistically, in the hope that they would facilitate Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's downfall and the establishment of an Islamist regime there. Continue Reading Article You are subscribed to this list as bobbygmartin1938@gmail.com. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/list_unsubscribe.php To edit your subscription options, go to http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/list_edit.php To subscribe to the this mailing list, go to http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/list_subscribe.php Gatestone Institute 14 East 60 St., Suite 1001, New York, NY 10022