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Police Complain 'Our Hands Are Tied, We're Standing Like Dolls'
Arutz Sheva ^ | 23/10/14 | Uzi Baruch & Ari Yashar

Posted on 10/23/2014 4:13:29 PM PDT by Eleutheria5

A Border Patrol officer serving in eastern Jerusalem has for the first time revealed the police helplessness in dealing with the "silent intifada" that has been gripping the capital in recent months, as Arab rock, firebomb and even gunfire attacks rise sharply.

Speaking on Channel 2's "Shesh Im" TV program Thursday, a day after a Hamas terrorist wounded nine with his car including a three-month-old baby who was killed in the attack, the officer admitted the Border Patrol warriors are forced to "stand like dolls" against the Arab terror.

"We feel like our hands are tied," the combat officer revealed, placing the blame squarely on the shoulders of Interior Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovich for the collapse in security.

According to the officer, senior captains as well as Aharonovich are trying to calm things down and hush up the "silent intifada" rather than fight Arab terror to the end.

"How can it be that they have ammunition inside of Jerusalem and we are standing like dolls begging them?" asks the officer, noting on the constant incidents of shootings in the French Hill neighborhood, Kalandia, and violent riots on the Temple Mount for hours on end.

Aharonovich has come in for great criticism as the "silent intifada" heats up under his watch; early this month Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat charged Aharonovich with abandoning the security of the capital.

Likewise back in May, a senior government official told Arutz Sheva that Aharonovich has been failing at his job, terming him a "catastrophe."

The Arab terrorism in the capital continued on Thursday, with rock-hurling terrorists attacking a kindergarten...

(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: aharonovich; chayazisselbraun; eastjerusalem; handstied; israel; jerusalem; jihadattacks; magav
Now just a cotton pickin' minit here. Let's be fair. On second thought, let's not.
1 posted on 10/23/2014 4:13:30 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
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To: Eleutheria5

The comments were interesting. What the heck ever happened to Netanyahu? Or was that whole former image of strength a lie? Now that things are really pressing, he’s gone weak-kneed.


2 posted on 10/23/2014 4:22:00 PM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: Eleutheria5
As if 9/11 and everything since wasn't enough, this alone:

.. rock-hurling terrorists attacking a kindergarten

is reason enough to wipe pisslam and its barbaric adherents from the face of the earth.

It could be dubbed 'The Final Crusade', and everyone gets to play . . .

3 posted on 10/23/2014 4:23:56 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: mrsmel

You’re just noticing it. We’ve lived with it. He hasn’t gone weak-kneed. His weak knees are just showing more lately. All talk. No walk.


4 posted on 10/23/2014 4:55:32 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: mrsmel
What the heck ever happened to Netanyahu?

He is a coward who caves to Democrat presidents and terrorists. He did it in the 1990s too and it should surprise no one.

5 posted on 10/23/2014 4:59:13 PM PDT by montag813
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To: Eleutheria5

That’s the way the Leftist politicians in Israel want it.

It’s the Leftists who wanted Muzzies (when they fled) to stay when Israel was fighting for its life during the war of independence and the others.


6 posted on 10/23/2014 5:00:08 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: mrsmel

He did that in his previous stint as PM.


7 posted on 10/23/2014 5:00:37 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: Eleutheria5

What are the laws regarding private citizens defending themselves in these situations?


8 posted on 10/23/2014 5:01:50 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: tomkat

The Muzzies have done more than just throw rocks at kindergartners.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma’alot_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avivim_school_bus_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiryat_Shmona_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastal_Road_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_of_Peace_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sbarro_restaurant_suicide_bombing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeshivat_Beit_Yisrael_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercaz_HaRav_massacre

And don’t forget what they did in Beslan, North Ossetia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beslan_school_hostage_crisis


9 posted on 10/23/2014 5:05:53 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: Eleutheria5

The Leftist Israeli politicians are more concerned about Muzzies than their own people just like they are in Europe and the USA. Until that changes Israelis will keep dying in this manner. Hasn’t changed since 1948.


10 posted on 10/23/2014 5:10:15 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: mrsmel
What the heck ever happened to Netanyahu?

He's gone full Republican. Don't want the Western Media to call him a mean-old right-wing extremist.

11 posted on 10/23/2014 5:31:08 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (15 years of FReeping! Congratulations EEE!)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

The world gets more insane everyday.


12 posted on 10/23/2014 5:38:00 PM PDT by roofgoat
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