Arab Israeli village shocked after hate crime

Google – AFP, Majeda El-Batsh (AFP), 19 June 2013

An Arab Israeli man points to Hebrew graffiti on the wall of a house in Abu

Ghosh on June 18, 2013 (AFP/File, Ahmad Gharabli)

ABU GHOSH, Israel — Safaa Othman scraped together enough money to buy her new olive-green Nissan Juke just two weeks ago. But when she woke up earlier this week, she found it had been ravaged by hate-filled extremists.

Now she can no longer drive it and is not even sure if she can afford to cover the cost of the repairs.

"I can't afford new tyres by myself," said the 27-year-old, staring sadly at her stranded vehicle outside her house in the Arab village of Abu Ghosh, just outside Jerusalem.

An Arab Israeli man looks at the

punctured tyres of his vehicle in Abu

Ghosh, on June 18, 2013 (AFP/File,

Ahmad Gharabli)

Suspected Jewish extremists slashed the tyres of 28 cars in the village in the early hours of Tuesday morning and scrawling abusive, racist graffiti on nearby walls in an incident that sparked widespread condemnation in Israel.

"Arabs OUT" and "Racism or assimilation" were two of the slogans, the latter being a negative reference to the effect of Jews and non-Jews mixing.

"I bought the car for 134,000 shekels ($37,000/28,000 euros) with a bank loan so I need to check if it's insured against vandalism," she said.

"I was shocked," Othman told AFP.

"I don't have any enemies who'd want to do this. I had to miss a day of work to deal with the car issue."

The village is known for its for excellent relations with Israel's Jewish majority and it attracts hordes of Israelis to its restaurants.

Othman said women friends of hers in east Jerusalem had been assaulted last week by Jewish extremists who forcibly pulling off their headscarves on a bus.

But until now, she had never experienced anything like that herself.

Arab Israeli children ride their toy cars

in front of graffiti in Abu Ghosh, on 

June 18, 2013.(AFP/File, Ahmad

Gharabli)

Arab-dominated Abu Ghosh, a leafy village in the hills just west of Jerusalem, is famous for its twice-yearly classical music festival held in its ancient churches. It has never before been hit by the "price tag" phenomenon that usually take place in West Bank and east Jerusalem.

And the incident has left a residue of fear in what is a normally peaceful village.

"The children didn't even answer the door to their father when he got home from work. They were afraid a price-tagger might have rung the bell," said 34-year-old mother Suhad Abdel Rahman.

Nidal Othman, who heads The Coalition Against Racism in Israel, told AFP Israelis working to combat racism said it was likely the attackers were Jewish settlers from the West Bank.

"There's a secretive organisation calling itself 'price tag' made up of settlers from the West Bank. It has previously set cars alight in east Jerusalem," he told AFP.

Initially carried out against Palestinians in retaliation for state moves to dismantle unauthorised settler outposts, price tag attacks have become a much broader phenomenon with racist and xenophobic traits.

An Arab Israeli child runs past a vehicle

 with punctured tyres in Abu Ghosh, west

 of Jerusalem, on June 18, 2013 (AFP/

File, Ahmad Gharabli)

They tend to involve the vandalism or destruction of property and have included arson attacks on cars, mosques and olive trees, but also target Christian holy sites and have even reached Israeli army bases.

Last week, police figures showed that in 2012 they opened 623 files on price tag attacks, arrested 200 people and served 123 indictments in connection with such acts.

So far this year, police have opened 165 files on attacks, arrested 76 suspects and served 31 indictments.

Police officials say such attacks are considered to be ideologically motivated "nationalistic crimes" and are a "top priority" for police.

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“… Let us talk about the swords: When you hear the word sword, the first thing that occurs to you is battle. The Bridge of Swords is a battle and we told you that as well. Swords are metaphoric and they mean many things, so let us describe the things we mean them to say to you.

Number one: They are indeed a weapon in a battle. There is a battle coming. "Kryon, does that mean there's going to be a war?" Potentially, yes. Right now we will tell you that the Middle East cooks itself. You've noticed, haven't you? What do you know about the Middle East, dear one? Let's start examining things for a moment. What energy did you grow up in? What was the energy of the Middle East? In the '40s, what was the energy? With the establishment of the state of Israel, you built a wall of hate, both sides. The wall was so thick that the children of both sides were taught to hate one another as soon as they were able to understand the language. They were told who their enemies were. Now, where were you then?

Some of you weren't here yet. By the time you arrived, in your youth, were you aware of the Middle East? Not particularly. "What's the hatred about?" you might ask. What if I told you it's about a family feud? Two sons of a Jewish master are involved. One founded the Arabs and one remained a Jew. They don't want to hear this, but they are all Jews. (Don't tell them this.)

If you look at the lineage, it's pretty obvious and yet it's a complete and total set-up for either solution or war. The set-up would have this world ending in a conflagration that would have been brought about by this hatred. That's in the prophecy of Nostradamus and your scripture, but it is no longer the prophecy of the planet. Yet the hatred still exists. The hatred is as great today as it was then, but where was all the terrorism 40 years ago? It was isolated.

Those in Israel and Palestine and surrounding areas took the brunt of it, but now it's seemingly everywhere - and you're worried. Why would this be? The answer is that the old energy was happy to have this hatred contained, for it would keep it going and never involve outsiders. Outsiders tend to bring unwanted light to the party. Suddenly, the whole earth is involved and can see the entire scenario before them. The old guard wants war, just like all the eons before them. The ones on the bridge are holding the light and showing the earth how to cross. Even many younger ones in Israel and Palestine and Iran are holding light! It's all around the old guard and they are furious, for they are losing the "battle of hatred." …”

"The End of History" – Nov 20, 2010 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll)

(Subjects: Abraham, Isaac, Ishmael, Muhammad, Jesus, God, Jews, Arabs, EU, US, Israel, Iran, Russia, Africa, South America, Global Unity,..... etc.) (Text version)

" ..... If an Arab and a Jew can look at one another and see the Akashic lineage and see the one family, there is hope. If they can see that their differences no longer require that they kill one another, then there is a beginning of a change in history. And that's what is happening now. All of humanity, no matter what the spiritual belief, has been guilty of falling into the historic trap of separating instead of unifying. Now it's starting to change. There's a shift happening. ....."