Labor MK Shelly Yachimovich calls on the government to cede control of the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber, home to two terrorists who carried out a deadly terror attack at a Har Nof synagogue in Jerusalem this morning.
A relative displays photos of cousins Ghassan, right, and Uday Abu Jamal at the family home in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber, Tuesday November 18, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Mahmoud Illean)
“[Jabel Mukaber] is an Arab village where we insisted on providing its residents with Israeli identity cards and making it a Jerusalem neighborhood,” Yachimovich writes on her Facebook page.
“Jabel Mukaber is not [part of] the State of Israel and should not be in Israel. Jabel Mukaber is where the murderers came from today. It is where the killers who perpetrated the massacre at Merkaz Harav [yeshiva], the tractor attack, the terrible attack on the bus at the Pat intersection.”
“After each murder and terrorist attack the villagers react with joyous celebration. I want to hear a plausible explanation from the right-wing fanatics — how does the fact that we have the [residents of Jabel Mukaber] as Israeli citizens living in a neighborhood of Jerusalem contribute to the security of Israel?”
Yachimovich adds that the “terrorists must be dealt with harshly, without sentiment; chase them and punish them.”
She contends however, that “at the same time, no military, police, interrogators, or our finest special units will be able solve the problem at the root of this bloodbath — the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which is neglected by the right-wing government, which treats it as if it was a minor incident in the country.”
Help us report truthfully on social media
As a multimedia journalist, my job is to take the quality, fact-based journalism produced by The Times of Israel newsroom and make it accessible across every platform — from Instagram posts to podcasts to short-form videos.
This is how many, especially young people, consume news these days. But misinformation is rampant on social media. Our team at ToI produces accurate, responsible short-form reporting on Israel and the Jewish world.
If you believe in the importance of factual social media journalism, please consider joining our reader support group, The Times of Israel Community. Your financial support is essential to sustain responsible multimedia reporting.
We’re really pleased that you’ve read X Times of Israel articles in the past month.
That’s why we started the Times of Israel - to provide discerning readers like you with must-read coverage of Israel and the Jewish world.
So now we have a request. Unlike other news outlets, we haven’t put up a paywall. But as the journalism we do is costly, we invite readers for whom The Times of Israel has become important to help support our work by joining The Times of Israel Community.
For as little as $6 a month you can help support our quality journalism while enjoying The Times of Israel AD-FREE, as well as accessing exclusive content available only to Times of Israel Community members.
Thank you, David Horovitz, Founding Editor of The Times of Israel
From the Liveblog of
Tuesday, November 18, 2014
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on Google
