Harry from The View from Here got a big rock thrown at his car on his way to work yesterday (via Imshin):
I was driving to work on Road 443 bopping my head and rocking out to Matthew Sweet’s Girlfriend album when I caught out of the corner of my eye a football sized rock coming over the hill to my right. When you are driving 120 kpm it’s not that easy to evade object without losing control of the vehicle. I braced myself for impact as the rock came crashing down right in front of my car. Luckily, it missed me, slammed into the ground into a bunch of pieces and I drove right over it.
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I reported it to the soldiers at the roadblock about ten minutes up the road. Road 443 goes through the territories and is no stranger to rock attacks and shootings. For awhile, it was pretty much a shooting gallery. There was a time that no one really took the road because of the danger. I think it was the newspaper Ma’ariv that dubbed it “The Road of Death.”
Sheesh. Scary stuff. I had a big block of ice fly into my windshield yesterday, but that was due to a truck passing me, not some crazy terrorist wannabes who wanted to kill me. Not even remotely the same thing.
I’m glad Harry’s ok. And I also predict that it will take about 12 seconds for someone to come on here and dare suggest that he “deserved” to be almost murdered because he’s a Jew driving through the territories and a tool of the capitalist imperialist oppression, and what about those poor Palestinians, yadda yadda yadda.
You know in your much revered US of A, there are tresspassing laws which allow you to shoot tresspassers.
As I was saying…
Thank you Hanthala, for always being so willing to illustrate my point.
No problem Segacs. You are most welcome. You made a good point. If he doesn’t want to get harmed, then he shouldn’t participate in an illegal occupation and the oppression of an entire people.
“You know in your much revered US of A, there are tresspassing laws which allow you to shoot tresspassers.”
Err, no, there aren’t.
Sure Hanthala, a music-video-watching blogger deserves to die because you think he’s “trespassing” on his own land.
Your compassion awes me.
There is no illegal occupation! As far as being oppressed the phony “Palestinians” do that to themsleves!
Stop the illegal occupation of Jewish land by Arabs!
Hanthala,
Where I come from if someone told me to my face that I deserved to have a huge stone thrown at my car simply because I am Jewish I would most likely hit them really, really hard.
I hope you have a miserable life you coward.
No one deserves to have stones thrown at them because they are Jewish and that’s not why Harry got a stone thrown at him. Its cause he’s actively participating in the oppression of a people.
Hanthala,
In what way is he ACTIVELY participating in the opperssion of a people? I would hardly call driving to work an ACTIVE role in oppressing Palestinians.
Also, the person who threw the rock had absolutely NO knowledge of Harry’s view sor position on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, so that obviously wasn’t the reason for the attack.
Eric, he’s there, in the Occupied Territories. That’s active participation. Otherwise he’d go home (Israel “proper”).
So, would an Israeli tourist taking a drive through the West Bank deserve the death penalty?
I mean, he left “Israel proper”, and we all know that as soon as a Jew steps outside of Israel proper its ok to kill him for having the temerity to leave in the first place.
I guess that was about 7 minutes, rather than 12 seconds. But close enough.
Though Harry was probably driving on a Jewish-only road carving through occupied territories, utilizing the infrastructure of occupation, he did not “deserve” to have his life threatened. Just as (yes, here it comes) Palestinians not actively involved in anti-Israeli militant activity don’t “deserve” to have their lives threatened, and sometimes ended, by Israeli bombs, missiles and shells falling on them where they happen to live.
Think Harry would agree with that?
Well me, I have to disagree with your analogy. Palestinians don’t have any choice to be under occupation whether or not they are involved in “anti-Israel militancy.” Israelis like Harry have the choice to stay home or not.
What you say notwithstanding, I have a hard time with the targetting of civilians.
Me too…but if you want to and occupy another people’s land, you are taking forceable risks.
It’s the Arabs who are occupying Jewish land! If these Arabs don’t like it they can go back to their homeland of Saudi Arabia!
The biggest Arab lie!
http://www.sullivan-county.com/id3/palestine.htm.
“…and what about those poor Palestinians, yadda yadda yadda.”
How simple a thing it is to give voice to the void of empathy that you possess for those not of the “Chosen” folk.
Perhaps if it were you, a pregnant Palestinian woman, being deliberately held up in an Arabic ambulance at an Israeli roadblock, as your hemorrhaging baby inside you dies, you might feel just a tad bit different about the plight of those people *NOT* wearing suicide vests around.
I do believe they still constitute the bulk of the Palestinian people, yes?
“It’s the Arabs who are occupying Jewish land! If these Arabs don’t like it they can go back to their homeland of Saudi Arabia!”
Yes… move them east… surely that is the solution… “resettlement” in the east…
Move them by trains perhaps?
Oh, and there were less than 15,000 Jews in Palestine in 1900. Also millions of Arabs, who had been there for longer than a Millenium.
The Jews had been kicked out by the Romans in 70AD. No more Jewish Kingdoms there. You had the area after the Canaanites for a few hundred years, the Assyrians kicked you out, then the Babylonians did the same thing.
By your own accounts, Jews are not indigenous. Nor at the Gulf Arabs. But they have been there far longer, both overall and constantly.
So your claims are really pretty lame. The Germans would have come up with some such stupid story to justify the annexation of Russia to the Urals too, no doubt.
Why don’t you learn some history Michael? Arabs have only been in Israel for a hundred or so years. Most of them came 50 years ago when Israel was created. It is the biggest Arab lie that Arabs were present a millenium ago. Stop reading Arab media and get the truth.
“Palestinians” don’t exist! What is the “Palestinian” langage or culture? Of course there isn’t any such thing! These Arabs are from Arabia who made up the term “Palestinian” thirty years ago to make it seem that they are indegenous to Israel.
JEWS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN ISRAEL! Israel is the homeland of the Jews! Thousands of archaeological evidence has been found to back this claim up. Meanwhile there is no evidence of Arab/Muslim presence in Israel prior to the 19th century.
My people weren’t kicked out of anywere. I’m Native American not Jewish. I’ve been studying Middle Eastern history for the past year and I’m amazed at the amount of lies that the Arabs have spread about their connection t
to Israel.
Besides being unedcuated about history you are strangely obsessed with the Jewish people. It sounds like you need professional help. Or maybe you need to get a life. What a LOSER!
Malia,
Wondering what ME history courses you’re taking and what texts — apart from the Farah page you repeatedly link to — your profs have exposed you to and on which you base your version of this history?