{"id":338,"date":"2015-10-16T14:54:19","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T14:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcschulman.com\/?p=338"},"modified":"2015-10-17T17:58:06","modified_gmt":"2015-10-17T17:58:06","slug":"338","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcschulman.com\/index.php\/2015\/10\/16\/338\/","title":{"rendered":"A Violent Week Comes to an End"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday a\u00a0\u00a0very reasonable suggestion was made on my Twitter feed; have ambulances\u00a0have two sirens, one for regular events and one for attacks. \u00a0People are just too nervous. \u00a0Yesterday morning\u00a0all of Tel Aviv was tied up in one traffic jam as police pursued a suspicious vehicle and closed off roads. We actually got through a day with no successful attacks, could things be quieting down\u00a0 maybe- we can always hope. \u00a0It should be noted that a number of attacks were\u00a0thwarted yesterday\u00a0when a number of Arabs were caught with knives and arrested. \u00a0Meanwhile my son’s school cancelled their annual three-day trip for the students scheduled for next week, originally they said they would wait until Monday to decide, but they concluded it was not going to end soon.<\/p>\n

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Yesterday, most of the media attention was directed at the Palestinian kid who Palestinian President Abbas claimed we had killed and is doing fine in Hadassah Hospital after the 13 year old tried knifing Israelis. \u00a0Of course in a sign of the time Human Rights organizations were quick to condemn Israel for violating the privacy of the kid. \u00a0Israelis often say that we are lucky in our enemies, that they always seem so divided and often incompetent. \u00a0There is of course, some truth to that, and clearly Abbas calling the 13-year-old who he had to know was alive a martyr was one of those stupid moves. \u00a0But in some ways it also works against us, at times the Palestinians almost seem to incompetent to make peace. \u00a0When Saeb Erekat who has been the chief Palestinian negotiator for more sthen \u00a0a decade calls on the world to stop us from massacring Palestinian children he makes it all that less likely that a majority of Israelis will ever believe peace is possible. \u00a0Furthermore the Palestinian ability to believe their own lies only deepens the hatred.<\/p>\n

Many Israelis have been obsessing about either the wrong-headed coverage of events or at least until that last few days the very limited coverage. Neither surprises me. \u00a0However terrible this is for us, less people have been killed or wounded here in the last week than on a weekend in Chicago. \u00a0Furthermore, we should be used to the fact by know that\u00a0part of the press are not fair. \u00a0Its been that way for most of my lifetime. \u00a0I, of course, have nothing to complain about in the year and half, I have been writing for Newsweek, they have printed every article, but one that I filed and the only editing they have done has been for punctuation and grammar.<\/p>\n

I frankly have no idea what the next few days or weeks will look like. While there have been less stabbings, only one today, there has been other violence including the burning of Joseph’s tomb in Shechem(Nabulus) a place a had to guard almost 40 years ago during my basic trainingThis wave might just pass, on the other hand, it could also just as easily last weeks or months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday a\u00a0\u00a0very reasonable suggestion was made on my Twitter feed; have ambulances\u00a0have two sirens, one for regular events and one for attacks. \u00a0People are just too nervous. \u00a0Yesterday morning\u00a0all of Tel Aviv was tied up in one traffic jam as police pursued a suspicious vehicle and closed off roads. We actually got through a day […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"saved_in_kubio":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcschulman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcschulman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcschulman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcschulman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcschulman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/marcschulman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":346,"href":"https:\/\/marcschulman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions\/346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcschulman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcschulman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcschulman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}