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I wonder how the Arab world would respond if this was reversed and Muslims had been shot by non-muslims.

Unarmed people simply driving to a religious site. How suspicious is that?

So the Muslims shoot unarmed people going to pray and then desecrate the site. It would seem to be yet another example of what the Muslims claim Islam teaches and is about and what they practice.



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Israeli man killed near West Bank holy site
From Shira Medding, CNN
April 24, 2011


(CNN) -- An Israeli man was killed and four others were wounded early Sunday morning near Joseph's Tomb, a Jewish holy site in the northern West Bank city of Nablus, an Israeli military spokesman said.

A Palestinian police officer shot the civilians "after identifying suspicious movements," the spokesman said, citing information about the incident provided by Palestinian officials.

Israeli police identified the man killed as Ben Yosef Livnat, 25. Livnat is the nephew of Limor Livnat, an Israeli cabinet minister from the right-wing ruling Likud party. Livnat was a father of four and lived in Jerusalem, police said.

The group of Jewish worshippers entered the site without proper permits and did not coordinate their visit to the tomb with Israeli or Palestinian officials, the Israeli military spokesman said.

Jewish worshippers often enter Joseph's Tomb, but are generally escorted by Israeli soldiers after coordination with Palestinian security officials in the area.

Ma'an, an independent Palestinian media network, quoted the governor of Nablus saying the incident began when about 30 Israelis in five vehicles drove through a Palestinian police checkpoint Sunday morning.

The Israelis divided into two groups and began throwing stones at the Palestinians guarding the tomb, Major General Bakri Jibrin told Ma'an.

Police fired shots into the air causing the Israelis to run back to their cars, but one car crashed through a plastic barrier and fled, the report quoted the governor saying.

Israeli military officials and Palestinian security officials will investigate the incident, the spokesman said.

During the funeral procession that left from the settlement of Elon Moreh in the West Bank, Israeli settlers threw stones and set fire to some Palestinian vehicles in what police call "price tag" actions in response to the killing.

"Price tag " attacks are actions taken by extreme Israeli settlers against Palestinians and Palestinians' property as retaliatory measures.

Earlier Sunday the Israeli military reported that Palestinians burned some tires in the compound of the tomb. Palestinian security and fire officials put out the fire.

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Published: 04/24/11

Palestinian Authority Police Kill Israeli near Joseph's Tomb

by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu

Palestinian Authority police Sunday morning shot and killed one Israeli and wounded four others after they prayed at Joseph's Tomb (Kever Yosef) around 6 a.m. Sunday (11 p.m. Saturday night EDT). The murder victim (pictured below) was identified as 24-year-old Ben Yosef Livnat, a nephew of Likud Minister Limor Livnat and father of four children.

Arabs attacked the funeral procession with rocks as it proceeded from his childhood home of Elon Moreh to Jerusalem, where he lived with his wife and four children. At least one car windshield was broken in the rock attacks, but no one was injured. People from Elon Moreh stood by the highway in dozens of cars as the funeral procession passed.

One of the three who were wounded in the shooting attack is in serious condition, and Army helicopters evacuated the injured to a hospital for emergency care. A group of 15 worshippers from the Breslov Chassidic sect had driven to the site and were returning when they were gunned down by Palestinian Authority police in a jeep.

The PA security forces continued to fire at the cars as they fled.

The IDF hurriedly issued a statement that the trip to Kever Yosef was not coordinated with Israeli security forces, and military spokesmen referred to the murder as an "incident" and not an attack.

Kever Yosef is a Jewish holy site that was supposed to be under Israeli control and open to worshippers as stated in previous agreements. However, the government has surrendered the area to Palestinian Authority control, and local Arabs have desecrated it several times.

The Breslov group was known to Palestinian Authority authorities as people who frequently prayed at Kever Yosef without any other intentions, according to Gershon Mesika, chairman of the Shomron (Samaria) Regional Council. He called the shooting attack a “massacre at close range."

National Union Knesset Member Dr. Michael Ben-Ari indirectly blamed the American government for having “trained and armed the enemy army that is called the ‘Palestinian Authority police’ and is directly responsible for the murder at Kever Yosef.”

He called on the Israeli government to restore the Od Yosef Chai Yeshiva to Kever Yosef and to confiscate weapons from the Palestinian Authority

The attack on the morning before the last day of the Passover holiday comes less than a month after the savage stabbings of Rabbi Udi Fogel, his wife Ruthie and three of their six young children, including a three-month-old baby, in community of Itamar, also located in Samaria.

Residents of Judea and Samaria frequently have warned that the removal of roadblocks and checkpoints in the area would make it easier for Arab terrorists to stage attacks and would encourage PA police to attack Jews. Defense Minister Ehud Barak has argued that the easing of security measures are “goodwill” measures that strengthen PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s popularity and help him fight terror.

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Published: 04/24/11

PA Arabs Celebrate Murder by Desecrating Joseph’s Tomb

by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
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Palestinian Authority Arabs set fire to Kever Yosef near Shechem Sunday morning several hours after PA policemen gunned down Jewish worshippers, killing one of them. Eyewitnesses saw smoke billowing over the tomb, which Arabs have frequently desecrated in the past.

The murder victim, 24-year-old Ben Yosef Chai, a nephew of Likud Minister Limor Livnat, was buried Sunday afternoon, several hours before the beginning of the last day of the seven-day Passover holiday Sunday evening.

PA police killed Livnat and wounded four others by opening fire on their cars after they prayed at Kever Yosef and were returning home.

The IDF and mainstream media reported the shooting spree as an "incident” and not an attack although the worshippers were known to the PA as frequent visitors to the holy site. Monthly visits are coordinated with the IDF, which hurriedly stated after Sunday’s murder that the victims of the PA police assault did not confirm their visit to the site with the military. The IDF called the shooting attack an "incident."

Defense Minister Ehud Barak condemned the murder and said that the lack of coordination did not justify the Palestinian Authority police attack. He demanded that the PA investigate the shooting. Pictured is a bullethole in one of the vehicles targeted by the PA.

Many coalition Knesset Members are up in arms over the PA police attack. Cabinet minister Rabbi Daniel Hershkowitz, chairman of the Jewish Home party that is part of the coalition, said the attack "unmasked the PA’s true face” and called for the return of the IDF to the holy site, where previous agreements guaranteed Israel control and the freedom of worship to Jews.

Israel since has surrendered Kever Yosef to the PA.

National Union chairman MK Yaakov Katz called on Israelis to remember that it was Israel that first armed the PA with rifles as part of the ill-fated Oslo Accords, signed in 1993. Livnat’s name is added to “the long list of 1,500 Jews who have been slaughtered by PA weapons,” MK Katz added.

The Shomron (Samaria) Residents Committee stated, “The murder this morning at Joseph's Tomb illustrates the danger of relying on the Palestinian police. Every Palestinian policeman is a potential terrorist whose hatred of Jews” is always present.

Likud MK Ze’ev Elkin and National Union MK Aryeh Eldad said, “There can be no room for any concession on the need for total control and freedom of the IDF's full cooperation in all regions of Judea and Samaria.”

The Human Rights Organization of Judea and Samaria declared that the murder provides further proof that contradicts a recent report that the Palestinian Authority is ready to become an independent country.