TIME Mag Says Massive Assault On Israel Was Part of “Arab Spring”
Posted by Jim Hoft on Monday, May 16, 2011, 5:09 AM
Yesterday thousands of violent Muslim protesters stormed the borders with Israel in the north, south and northwest. Three officers and 10 Israeli soldiers were wounded in the attacks.
The rock-throwing thugs in Qalandiya even used ambulances for cover during their assault against Israel on Nakba day.
Today TIME Magazine called the assault on Israel as part of the “Arab Spring,” a term used to praise the recent uprisings in the region. It gives them an excuse to root for the radical Muslim thugs.
TIME Magazine reported:
After more than 100 Palestinians breached Israel’s border with Syria on Sunday, knocking down a fence and striding into a village in the Golan Heights, overmatched Israeli security forces scrambled to glean what they could from the protesters who had just, without so much as a sidearm, penetrated farther into the country than any army in a generation.
Under close questioning, the infiltrators closed the intelligence gap with a shrug and one word: Facebook. The operation that had caught Israel’s vaunted military and intelligence complex flat-footed was announced, nursed and triggered on the social networking site that has figured in every uprising around the Arab World – and is helping young Palestinians change the terms of their fight against Israel.
The headlines Sunday were all about the violence of the day: at least four people were shot dead by Israeli forces on the Syrian fence line, and as many as 10 were killed either by Israeli or Lebanese army gunfire at a similar demonstration on the nearby frontier with southern Lebanon. The death toll, along with the accounts of stone-throwing and tear gas, comport with the familiar narrative of the conflict, one constructed over years of Israel describing efforts to defend itself. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu encouraged that narrative on Sunday, arguing that the protesters were undermining the very existence of the State of Israel.
But those closer to events found in the day the makings of a new narrative. The Palestinians in Syria, Lebanon and the occupied Palestinian enclaves of Gaza and the West Bank approached Israeli gun positions on Sunday without arms of their own. If some teenagers threw rocks, a protest leader said they had apparently failed to attend the workshops on nonviolence the organizers arranged in what they call a new paradigm for the conflict. The aim, which appears to be building support, aims to re-cast the Palestinian-Israel conflict on the same terms that brought down dictatorships in Egypt and Tunisia.
Massive non-violent protests are aimed at winning international sympathy for the Palestinian perspective, and as a result, forcing Israel to pull out of territories its army has occupied since 1967. As the dust settled Sunday, senior Israeli officers acknowledged their vulnerability to the approach, which dovetails with the strategy of Palestinian leaders to ask the UN General Assembly to recognize a Palestininian state in September.
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Jon Brooks commented:
Even though bin Laden is Saudi this song is for him….clears throat…la la la la..okay here goes:
Happy Nakba to you
Happy Nakba to you
Happy Nakba, Happy Nakba
Happy Nakba to you…..aaaannnnndddd many more
Arch commented:
I wonder how Jews who supported Obama at 78% like his nuanced, sophisticated foreign policy now. William Halley, Susan Rice and Samantha Powers have been looking forward to the destruction of Israel for years. Does anyone who voted for this community organizer have any regrets? I held my nose and voted for McCain (actually more for Palin).
Mighty Sluggo commented:
@Arch They are self hating Jews.
Will commented:
Remember when Newsweak (Not a typo) claimed “we are all socialists now” maybe Time should go the extra mile and claim we are all Muslim terrorist….sorry freedom fighters now.
Read the replies there, Time is not making any friends and rightfully so.
Ginger commented:
Israel…you have got to be ready to mow the sick o’s down and do not wink an eye doing it! Do not listen to a word the kenyan fraud demands of you…tell him to kiss where the sun does not shine. Please Lord send the evil ones a message…do not allow Israel and her people to be distroyed…. put the terrorist out of existence. It sounds harsh but something has to be done to send the scum bags a message. Israelis here in America under such protection shame on YOU. YOU are TRAITORS to your PEOPLE!
One good thing is all the scum bags are out of the closet now so dealing with them later will be easy! TRAITORS!
pamlinson commented:
Wonder who the usual suspects in our own country were behind it all. Where’s Code Pink been the last few days?
nadadhimmi commented:
After all, what says spring celebration better than the light hearted murder of a few Jooo’s?
greg commented:
Time mag is not very accurate in its description of stealth Facebook planning and catching the Israeli by surprise. Report from Israeli news on Saturday indicated that 10,000 reservists had been deployed in advance of the hatred holiday,
Andreas K. commented:
Well, it was part of the “Arab Spring.”
The so called “Arab Spring” is effectively a change from “normal” dictators to islamic dictators. Those “normal” dictators, like Mubarak, were simply not islamic enough. Mubarak had peace with Israel. He’s gone now and the new Egyptian “government” has threatened Israel with war several times already.
Yes, this was part o the “Arab Spring.”
#1AMERICAN commented:
and why weren’t more people killed? Time for Israel to open fire on anyone throwing rocks
Speaking Clearly commented:
Adreas K #9: You are exactly right on this one.
I agree that the so called “Arab Spring” was all about getting rid of the dictators that were partially puppets of the United States, to replace with dictators that hate Israel and the United States enough for Jihad.
Arch #2: I agree the Jews in the United States that supported Obama, and still do, are pathetic hypocrites. I don’t buy the notion anymore that they are self hating. They don’t hate themselves, they are quick to be proud that they are Jews when it suits their purposes. If they are self hating, then alot of liberal Americans would be called self hating Americans. I don’t understand how this many people can be this stupid and brainwashed by the media and society…they are just stupid…or Liberalism is a brain disorder.
They are like so many other hypocrites that have come to the United States. They come here because of what the founding fathers established, as far as personal freedoms, and the free market system, and the ability to prosper, and then they do everything in their power to tear that foundation down by supporting liberal and progressive ideas. Hypocrites.
The whole philosophy of the Democrats, Liberals, Progressives….is to be parasites that feed off those that “have’, because all the “have nots” are victims.
Jerry C commented:
@#10 #1American-”and why weren’t more people killed? Time for Israel to open fire on anyone throwing rocks.”
I don’t know if you’re being sarcastic or not. But if you throw anything at me with the intent to do bodily injury, it would be the last thing you throw. I just think you’re a complete idiot to think Israel has to take it and not respond in force. If tables were turned, I’d bet the rock-throwing thugs wouldn’t hesitate to shoot at unarmed or rock-throwing jews. Whoops, they already do that.
#1AMERICAN commented:
not being sarcastic at all… I really wonder why there were not more killed because I would onload all my ammo into anyone throwing at me.
Jerry C commented:
@#13 #1AMERICAN
My apology. I stand by your comment. Israel will only get respect by using force. That’s all her enemies know. Sad, but true.
Bert commented:
What’s the difference between these actions by the Palestinians attacking Israel and similar actions by Mexicans along the U.S. Southwest Border? Oh, about 10 years.
Mighty Sluggo commented:
Arabs throw like girls.
Josh commented:
Genesis 16:12 nails it on the head about these animals.
“And he will be a wild man; his hand [will be] against every man, and every man’s hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.”
K~Bob commented:
Conservatives have no mental discipline.
STOP using the left’s terms for things. This is not an “Arab Spring” it’s a return to the dark ages.
It’s not “immigration reform” it’s an illegal alien problem.
“Obamacare” is not healthcare, it’s a government takeover of industry.
Why let the left define and frame issues? Why play their game?
A_Nonny_Mouse commented:
” … non-violent protests are aimed at winning international sympathy for the Palestinian perspective … ”
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Too Late.
I have NO sympathy for ANYTHING “Palestinian”, or anything ASSOCIATED with “the Palestinians”. Fresh out.
Omilu commented:
You’re really lacking in the reading comprehension department, Jim.
TIME says that the attackers used the “Arab Spring Model”. Read the article, and
you see that they’re referring to the use of Facebook and other social networking tools
to organize…..the same way the Arab Spring protestors have.
It makes no claims that this attack on the Israeli border is in any way comparable to
the recent protests against Arab Regimes.
…and how did 100 Palestinians breaching the border become “Thousands”?
SandyfromChesterfield commented:
“Massive non-violent protests are aimed at winning international sympathy for the Palestinian perspective which dovetails with the strategy of Palestinian leaders to ask the UN General Assembly to recognize a Palestinian state in September.” AND the UN will use George Soros’ “Responsiblity to Protect Act” to try to accomplish this.