Eight people have been killed and nine wounded by a Palestinian gunman who infiltrated a Jewish seminary in West Jerusalem, Israeli officials say.
Witnesses said the gunman went into a crowded hall during dinner at the Mercaz Harav seminary in the city’s Kiryat Moshe quarter and opened fire.
The assailant, who Israeli police said was a resident of East Jerusalem, was shot dead by an Israeli army officer.
The attack is the worst of its kind in Israel for a number of years.
The BBC’s Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen says the Israeli government will be under immense pressure to respond – and it will, even though it is not known when and where precisely.
Terrorists were “trying to destroy the chances of peace”, an Israeli government spokesman said. The shooting was also immediately condemned by the US, UN, UK and the Palestinian Authority.
The Palestinian Islamist group, Hamas, praised the attack, calling it “heroic”, but did not claim responsibility. There was also celebratory gunfire in Gaza.
Is this perchance the Gaza that Israel withdrew from in February of 2005 under the Oslo accords…with the promises that peace would reign in the area? Tihs is what Europe and the liberals pushed so hard as being the solution, the beginning of a Palestinian state. Ignoring the fact that Hamas thinks Israel should not exist. And yet…when you talk to the “the Joooooos did it” left, they blame the victim…it’s Israel’s fault. Ignoring the fact thousand of mortars are fired every month blindly into residential areas of Israel. Israelis make tactical strikes, Hamas aims for the women, the IDF doesn’t make a point of killing children in school.
French documentarian Pierre Rehov is screening his new documentary at Liberty Film Festival this weekend, and from the interview I heard with him Friday night, it’s going to be incredible. He examines the justification that Militant Islamists have for blowing up women and children, and how their culture, laws, and lifestyle choices have played into such violence in the name of their God. The film is called “Suicide Killers”, and may very well be nominated for an Oscar.
I’ve done a bit of reading over the last few days on this director, and he has certainly done his research. I wonder if the next documentary he decides to do will examine the treacherous Christians in Texas who, much like blowing up unarmed women and children in public, protest in front of clinics, and don’t want to see gays married (that’s sarcasm for those who don’t pick up on it in text).
Do yourself a favor…abstain from the moral equivalency crap, and the “it’s their culture and the who are we to judge” BS. There is evil in the world…I see people who see only gray as narrow-minded. I understand there is gray, black and white. This isn’t a random group of people who are on the fringe. These “martyrs” have their names and faces plastered in the public square…these are their heroes, their wise men, their role models.
Taking odds on whether Jihad and death will be called for his observations…putting him in the Robert Spencer or Salman Rushdie “criticize and die” category.
UPDATE: Michelle Malkin covers this at HOTAIR. Looks like he’s picking up a bit more…this kind of Momentum is warranted. Check out the link and view her film for more information. I love it when HotAir picks these stories up, because there’s only so much of an audience I can reach…they have real clout.
“CINCINNATI (Reuters also known as FAKIRS) – A car commercial proclaiming a jihad on the U.S. auto market and offering “Fatwa Fridays” with free swords for the kids is offensive and should not be aired, Muslim leaders said on Sunday.”
I ask the Muslim leaders once again. When do we get to hear about your outrage at the offensiveness of the killing that is taking place under the guise of your religious beliefs? Until I hear loud and direct condemnation of the killing by the fundamentalist pretenders, the true infidels, I can have no respect for you or the Islamic religion.
Browsing the websites, and reading the blogs, news, etc addictively enough to get the eye rolling from the wife…just a reminder for anyone out there who feels that networks like CNN are in it to be informative…
Here’s another interesting post for all you conspriacy nuts out there…yes yes, I know the west is the great Satan, and everything is a neocon cover up to try to exploit Israel, Wolfowitz, World Bank…”my Pet Goat” …controlled..d..e..m…..o..l.i.ti….o.n….Carlylse Group….we’re the real terrorists…
There’s a video out there that the Palestinian groups are actually using movie production staging to fabricate videos where people are being slaughtered. Don’t just read the article…see the video. Of course the interpretation is up to the viewer…but I’ve just been watching it slack jawed. I never would have considered such a possibility, but…well…watch it.
or 
“criticize and die” category.
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