Palestinian Stoners
A few days ago when I posted high incidences of Palestinian stoning incidences I had not realized I was engaging in a little trend spotting. Jersualem Post:
While the unrest that plagued the capital in October seems to have all but died out, residents of Ma’aleh Zeitim, a large bloc of apartments next to the Mount of Olives Cemetery in east Jerusalem, say that in their neighborhood, Jewish-owned vehicles are being stoned almost daily. During the unrest that broke out in east Jerusalem over Succot, Ras al-Amud was the scene of chaotic rioting, in which a number of policemen were wounded by rocks and other debris thrown by dozens of young neighborhood residents, their faces covered with T-shirts and keffiyehs.
While the area was eventually brought under control, Ma’aleh Zeitim residents pointed to the Succot rioting as the beginning of an upswing in rock-throwing incidents, which, they added, were not commonplace beforehand and have not ebbed since. “Just yesterday my neighbor’s car was hit with a rock while she was driving by the neighborhood square,” said Shabach, a Ma’aleh Zeitim resident who spoke to The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday. “My car was hit recently as well, when I was driving by the Mount of Olives [Cemetery],” he added. “It’s really happening a lot. We’re hearing about rock-throwing more and more often.”
Who knew the Third Intifada would start with rocks – but as Palestinian Authority Chairman Abu Mazen says, ‘there are different types of resistance – like in (West Bank villages of) Bilin and Naalin’
