Mob storms IDF base in West Bank, Israeli officer wounded

[PalestineMyHeart 1,897]

Some 50 settlers and right-wing activists entered a key West Bank military base early Tuesday morning and threw rocks, burned tires, and vandalized military vehicles.

The settlers were acting in response to a rumor that the IDF would act to evict a West Bank settlement in accordance with an August Supreme Court ruling.

In the attack on the Efraim Regional Brigade's base near the West Bank city of Qalqilya, right-wing activists threw stones at region's brigade commander and his deputy after forcefully opening the door to their jeep. The brigade commander was lightly wounded after a stone hit his head.

In addition to the attack on the IDF base, right-wing activists blocked a main West Bank road and threw stones at passing Palestinian vehicles and IDF soldiers in the area.

Around 100 right-wing activists and settlers came to the area of the base before 50 of them enetered the base, according to the IDF spokesman.

The youths were repelled by security forces. No arrests were made.

Earlier during the night, the IDF and police rushed to the otherwise quiet border with Jordan after a group of 17 right-wing activists, three of them minors, occupied structures near the border. The activists said the action was intended as a message to Jordanian authorities to keep out of Temple Mount affairs.

The IDF and police surrounded the activists, who were hilltop youth, and prepared to evacuate. Four other activists were arrested before joining the group on the border.

The activists seized abandoned churches near the Qasr al-Yahud holy site, which is the believed site of Jesus' baptism.

The activists, accompanied by television crews, cut their way through a fence that used to protect a minefield surrounding the area, before it was cleared by Israeli security forces. The activists danced near the structures, entered one of the churches and chanted songs. They were all arrested.

In another incident overnight Tuesday, a group of five Breslov entered Joseph's Tomb in the West Bank to pray without permission. Palestinian security forces opened fire, but no one was hurt.

A similar incident took place in September, when unknown perpetrators infiltrated a base in the Binyamin region and snuck their way to a mechanics workshop on site, where they slashed the tires and cut the cables of twelve army vehicles.

The settlers were galvanized into action by rumors that the eviction of several West Bank settlements was imminent. The Supreme Court ruled in September that the state must destroy Migron, the largest outpost in the West Bank. Forty-five families live in Migron, which has a total population of 280 people.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/dozens-of-rightists-break-into-idf-base-in-west-bank-wound-officer-1.401138

Edited December 13, 2011 by wife_of_mahmoud

[PalestineMyHeart 1,897]

I meant to post this over in the Politics forum. Have requested it be moved....

[Krikit 1,163]

Moving from MENA to P&R.

[The_Dude 1,142]

I meant to post this over in the Politics forum. Have requested it be moved....

Cause it's hard to troll an audience who agrees with you?

[PalestineMyHeart 1,897]

Cause it's hard to troll an audience who agrees with you?

You're the one who's trolling here.

[Sofiyya 1,687]

Cause it's hard to troll an audience who agrees with you?

FYI: Most of the MENA crowd is politically neutral, or you would see more of them here. They're primarily interested in getting their SO here, and little else.

[The_Dude 1,142]

You're the one who's trolling here.

Said the person who is posting a thread with the explicit reason of baiting. You must be new to the internet, nobody is truly that naive.

FYI: Most of the MENA crowd is politically neutral, or you would see more of them here. They're primarily interested in getting their SO here, and little else.

Or they simply aren't as hyperbolic as you and WOM are. You keep up your vendetta in these threads, it makes for interesting threads.

[PalestineMyHeart 1,897]

Said the person who is posting a thread with the explicit reason of baiting. You must be new to the internet, nobody is truly that naive.

It's a political thread; it belongs in the Politics forum. (Maybe you think all the articles about U.S. government/military/politics belong in the "Adjusting to America" forum.)

Or they simply aren't as hyperbolic as you and WOM are. You keep up your vendetta in these threads, it makes for interesting threads.

Do you have any comment on the OP or are you just here to exchange pleasantries ?

[Sofiyya 1,687]

Or they simply aren't as hyperbolic as you and WOM are. You keep up your vendetta in these threads, it makes for interesting threads.

At least my "vendetta" posts are interesting. Too bad the same can't be said for your baiting posts.

Edited December 13, 2011 by Sofiyya

[mawilson 2,133]

FYI: Most of the MENA crowd is politically neutral, or you would see more of them here. They're primarily interested in getting their SO here, and little else.

[The_Dude 1,142]

At least my "vendetta" posts are interesting. Too bad the same can't be said for your baiting posts.

I don't have a personal vendetta against Israel, or any nation for that matter, but you do

[Sofiyya 1,687]

I don't have a personal vendetta against Israel, or any nation for that matter, but you do

You have a vendetta against me for having an opinion that disagrees with yours.

[The_Dude 1,142]

You have a vendetta against me for having an opinion that disagrees with yours.

Vendetta? Hardly, but it is good that you finally admit your personal vendetta against Israel. Acceptance is always the first step towards moving on from hatred.

[Sofiyya 1,687]

Vendetta? Hardly, but it is good that you finally admit your personal vendetta against Israel. Acceptance is always the first step towards moving on from hatred.

I haven't admitted anything of the sort. Vendetta is a word you recently learned, and I'm the one you chose to practice using it on. I accept no responsibility for that

[The_Dude 1,142]

I haven't admitted anything of the sort. Vendetta is a word you recently learned, and I'm the one you chose to practice using it on. I accept no responsibility for that

Nice attempt to insult me. But you are once again wrong. You have displayed your over the top hatred of all things Israel on these boards for years. So much so that you appear like a warped caricature that nobody takes seriously. You should try reading your own postings objectively sometime.