OSLO – When a man dressed in a police uniform began slaughtering young people at a Norwegian summer camp last week, one of the first to be killed was a real police officer named Trond Berntsen, who for years had worked in security at the camp.
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Eight apartments were raided by police yesterday. The raids by around 60 police officers in Baden-Württemberg under the code name ‘
The news today is about a video that appeared on YouTube that juxtaposes scenes of Nazis brutally beating Jews to that of the Israeli police brutally beating passive religious teenagers, (unarmed) Settlers and Hareidi Jews, with some particularly harsh scenes from Amona.
Now I for one have a problem when the Nazi comparison is brought up against fellow Jews (far too often the Israeli radical left uses Nazi to describe Israel when they forget the word Apartheid) . And so while on one hand it taints the video, on the other hand, this video would never have gotten the coverage it did without it.
Why did the video get such coverage? Because as a result the police have opened an investigation.
But an investigation into what?
No, not an investigation against the incredibly brutal police violence that one explicitly sees in the video (including the identity of the brutal policemen), but against the makers of the video that simply juxtaposed videos of brutal police violence against that of brutal Nazis violence.
Again, it’s in poor taste, but Freedom of Speech is once again under (selective) attack by the establishment, all the while as this video slaps us across the face with explicit brutality of the police against right-wing and religious Jews – brutality that won’t be investigated by this same establishment trying to shut the mouths of those they disagree with.
The bright side of all this?
On all the talkbacks I’ve read, while the media outlets tried to paint the video editors as evil, the talkbackers all concentrated on the police violence.
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Settlers throw Molotov cocktail at police car near Alei Ayin; IDF and Border Police arrest three for throwing rocks, blocking roads; four illegal structures demolished in Binyamin settlement.
Husband of late Haifa police chief’s suit against Interior Minister turned down due to state immunity on damages sustained during police service.
In retaliation for the murder of a Jewish worshiper and the wounding of 5 others, last night at Joseph’s Tomb, by official Palestinian Authority “policeman”, dozens of Palestinians are rioting and burning down Joseph’s Tomb in the middle of PA occupied Shechem/Nablus. (Israeli Radio, Channel B)
Preliminary Video, taken from Mount Grizim of the fire coming from the tomb minutes ago:
The murdered Jewish worshiper has been identified as 25 year old, Ben Yosef Livnat, the nephew of Minister of Culture and Sports Limor Livnat (Likud).
The JPost reports: Livnat was married, a father of four and was a resident of Jerusalem. A 20-year-old man was injured in serious condition, suffering of an abdominal wound. He was airlifted to Bellinson Hospital in Petah Tikva where he underwent surgery. A 17-year-old youth was evacuated by a Magen David Adom Yarkon crew in moderate condition, suffering a wound to his shoulder. Another two individuals were injured in light condition. They did not require evacuation and received medical treatment on location. (JPost)YNET interviewed one of the worshipers:
One of the Breslovers who was in the second car in the convoy and was lightly wounded told Ynet: “We arrived at the tomb like on many occasions in the past. Near the tomb we saw a spikes chain. One of the guys jumped out of the car and moved it aside.
“At this point a uniformed Palestinian police officer with a Kalashnikov in a jeep woke his colleagues up and they started firing into the air’
Magen David Adom team alerted after neighbors see smoke rising from Yeruham resident’s house; Police do not suspect criminal activity.
Jewish worshipers throng Jerusalem’s Western Wall Plaza for bi-annual Priestly Blessing; police presence ensures prayers pass peacefully.
The Washington Times reports: “Police are using a combination of aggressive spy operations and community outreach to counter what Deputy Police Chief Michael P. Downing called the growing threat of Mumbai-style terrorist attacks ‘
Others will include 16-year-old volunteer firefighter, Auschwitz survivor Michael Goldman Gilad, who joined police and interrogated Eichmann.
A joint Joe-Jameel post
We discussed previously that on January 28th a group of Arab terrorists assaulted a (Jewish) pedestrian. The pedestrian tried to get away, but the Palestinian terrorists were determined to kill him.
The pedestrian shot one of the Palestinian terrorists in self-defense and escaped, as can be seen clearly in the following video.
The only thing the police know is that the pedestrian used a Glock pistol to defend himself.
We’ve discussed a few other incidents like this where Jewish citizens have been under life-threatening attacks and have been forced to defend themselves.
Since that date the police have trampled the law in a stampede attempt to find and arrest the pedestrian who clearly acted in self-defense.
To do that, the police have compiled a list of licensed Glock semi-automatic pistol owners in the Shomron, and have systematically been arresting them one at a time, despite being legally licensed gun owners. To date they all the gun owners have been released after their false arrested in this fishing expedition.
This morning the an entire troop of police entered the town of Itamar to arrest Moshe Ronsky.
Moshe Ronsky is an IDF reserve officer in a special forces unit.
Moshe Ronsky is also the son of the former IDF Chief Rabbi General Avi Ronsky (who also served in a special forces before becoming a Rabbi).
Moshe Ronsky is also unfortunately a legal owner of a licensed Glock handgun (probably the most popular handgun in Israel).
When the police gang arrived at his door to arrest him, Moshe immediately notified his father who quickly arrived to intervene.
The conclusion of the event and the negotiations was that unlike other licensed Glock owners, Moshe Ronsky would not be arrested from his house, but rather, he would come down to the police station later in the day today to present his licensed weapon for ballistic analysis.
This raises a number of questions.
1) Why do the police need to arrest innocent people in the middle of the night, when they can politely ask these law abiding citizens to present their licensed weapon for ballistic testing?
2) Why does it repeatedly require the intervention of a powerful/influential figures to force the police to comply with the law and respect the civil rights of Israeli citizens?
3) What is the average citizen, without such protectzia, supposed to do to protect himself from this basic abuse of his civil rights by a police force that has no interest in following the law?
4) Why are the police investing all this manpower to find someone who clearly acted in self-defense as can unquestionably be seen on the video?
Have all the other serious crimes in the country been solved? If the police were already out in Itamar, you need to ask if the murderers of the Fogel family of Itamar have finally been captured, because why else would they be spending resources there?
Police behavior in this country is very disturbing. The problem starts at the top and trickles down like a waterfall.
(Oh, and by the way, dear police, Jameel owns a Glock).
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Alexander Mashkevich, one of Jewish world's biggest philanthropists, suspected of organizing sex party on luxurious yacht seized by Turkish police. His lawyer denies allegations, but Yedioth Ahronoth reveals what really happened on board
David Amoyal urged people to get away from the suspicious bag he had noticed near his kiosk, phoned police, but didn’
The owner of a kiosk near the Jerusalem Central Bus Station / Binyanei HaUma / Israel’s Convention Center, noticed a suspicious bag yesterday. He called the Police to report it. As he was explaining to the Police Dispatcher about the suspicious bag, it exploded.
You can hear the audio here:
I’m impressed with the professional response of the police on the call after it exploded; quickly yet effectively broadcasting the information to the entire Jerusalem Police network, calling for all units to respond, calling on units to keep a lane open for emergency vehicles…
I’ll try to subtitle this into English if I find the time.
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Truly unbelievable. Jeffrey Goldberg points out and his comment on it copied in full as the quote of the day.
“This is from a Reuters story on the Jerusalem bombing earlier today:
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