So last night, a Bedouin with a knife and a gun got into the Be'er Sheva train station. Given Israeli train stations have near-airport-grade security nobody's quite sure how that happened. However, this one shot and killed a soldier, grabbed his rifle and actually knew what to do with it.

That's not what was only a matter of time: that is the ( Read more... )

So, no new disasters overnight - though I do believe we had another attack last night - but we do have a reserve activation, albeit only Border Police and only up to 1400 (of which 850 were already activated). Additionally, the IDF loaned the regular police six companies, under a tried-and-true protocol which means the "blue" police retains control ( Read more... )

* Country: still a mess ( Read more... )

So, we've been having a bit of a Problem for the past week-plus. So far everyone - in both Hebrew and Arabic on all sides of the relevant borders - are refraining from calling it an intifadah, but several times a day, Palestinian persons will assault or attempt to assault Jewish ones. The attacks are typically stabbings, sometimes with improvised ( Read more... )

*looks at the news*
*looks at the past week*

It's October, but it's not 2000.

At least so far it's limited to knives and a big attack is when 2 are killed, not 20?

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To the curious: we had 3 administrative detentions of Jewish Israelis within 24hr of Ye'elong saying "Oh fine" (up to 5 this morning). The level of Unhappy over it is pretty fucking remarkable; people are pointing out the rhetoric involved qualifies for a potential-death-penalty item and there's even talk of legal amendments - and this sort of talk ( Read more... )

So to anyone who missed the memo, an idjit stabbed six people at J-m Pride and a couple of other idjits set on fire a Palestinian home, killing a baby and critically injuring the baby's parents and toddler brother ( Read more... )

Dear Gazaans,

Wasn't opening the Rafah Pass one of your big demands this past summer? So what's with murdering 30 Egyptian soldiers there yesterday? That's not going to make A-Sisi feel particularly tired of y'all, you do know that, right?

Regards,

The Neighbour

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Dear Peter Beinart,

It's called "insider rights": there are things that it's okay for an Israeli Jew to say that, coming from a non-Israeli goy, at the very best border on antisemitism. You're a North American so quite honestly, I find it difficult to believe you're unfamiliar with the concept ( Read more... )