Many “Palestinians” in Judea and Samaria, a.k.a. the West Bank, want the war to spread there.
“Palestinian rioters clash with Israeli shepherds in Samaria,” Israel National News, December 3, 2023:
A violent confrontation broke out between Palestinian Authority Arabs and Israelis in a farm near the Samaria town of Havot Yair during Shabbat (Sabbath). The Samaria Regional Council reported that dozens of PA Arabs gathered in the vicinity of the farm and threw rocks at Israeli shepherds….
The owner of the farm, who is currently drafted into the IDF, commented: “At approximately 4:00 my shepherds were on the hilltop opposite my farm with the flock, four shepherds and a flock of goats. A group of 30 to 40 terrorists started pelting them with rocks. One shepherd was lightly injured in the arm and leg. We tried to push them back until the army arrived at the scene.”
zeca says
This kind of attack happens frequently. The number of shepherds working together is small and they’re easily outnumbered by the groups of arabs. Recently a shepherd after being badly hurt by rocks shot and surrounded by violent tuggs shot one of the aggressors. He had to stay in the hospital a couple of days and when he was about to go home he was arrested by the Israeli police.
For the Israeli army and police, Biden, Blinken & Co the poor shepperd is one of the “violent jewish settlers” that presents a huge problem to the peace and the failed two states solution. Did you figure out what is happening here?
Troybeam says
Self defense is now your enemy which is something evil relies on.
Bexarkat says
I have long suggested that Israel start using the term “criminal” more frequently. “Terrorist” is so overused it is almost meaningless any longer, just like the word racist. But use ‘criminal” to describe the activities of these thugs – Arab heads will explode!!
Keith O says
These mudslimes were just after some sex slaves and the herders had lots.
Lion de Juda says
that too!
Billy Corr says
This report, if true, is mildly surprising
The everyday reality is that extremist settlers, frequently established in ramshackle hilltop settlements* considered illegal even by the Netanyahu government, are given to harassing, assaulting and not infrequently actually killing local Arabs, secure in the knowledge that they can behave with impunity and the blessings of the likes of Smotrich and Ben-Gvir.
These illegal settlers occupy their time by stealing livestock and damaging olive groves, thinking that they are pleasing the Hebrew deity by doing this, on the grounds that the Almighty supposedly promised every square inch of Palestine to .Jews and only Jews.
Many readers here are predisposed to treat anything published on the Guardian website with disdain but such dependable sources as Haaretz, Times of Israel and Jerusalem Post report such encounters on a daily basis.
Blinken has registered a mild complaint with the Israeli government and the US State Department seems likely to list names of extremist settlers who are, or soon will be, prohibited entry to the USA.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
Keith O- Are you implying that the criminals were seeking to take sex slaves of the goat variety (preferably female)?
Keith O says
Who knows, maybe the mudslimes swing both ways, male & female.