Israeli authorities are pulling 300 Border Police reservists out of Jerusalem as the wave of Arab stabbing and shooting attacks has subsided.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu ordered the deployment of soldiers and Border Police in the capital last month in the wake of almost daily attacks on Jews at bus stops and on sidewalks as well as in the Old City.
In almost every case, the terrorists were killed or severely wounded, but that didn’t seem to deter more Arabs from trying to become murderers and martyrs.
The resulting fear caused a drastic decline in the number of people shopping in the city. One employee at Jerusalem’s Malcha Mall told The Jewish Press.com that traffic was down by up to 50 percent.
No one was declared that calm has returned to Israel, and rock-throwing and firebombing attacks continue, mostly in Judea and Samaria.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said he has told Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas to halt incitement, and he may want to take credit for the decline in attacks outside of Judea and Samaria.
However, the incitement remains.
The Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) has translated and published more examples of recent Palestinian Authority incitement as late as last Sunday.
The official PA daily ran an article that described Arabs as waiting to “inhale the scent of the Martyr’s blood.”
The Fatah moment that Abbas leads also disseminated a poster page nine days ago praising a “martyr” who tried to stab to death Border Police near Shechem.
The poster stated:
Jerusalem, how can light appear without our blood as fuel
And how will we retake Jerusalem, if we will not be the soldiers.
