Peace In The Middle East Master Thread

[CountValentine]

Do we know which shul ? More specific location details?

Not sure if this helps: "Neve Yaakov neighborhood in Jerusalem Friday evening"
"victims conveyed to Hadassah Mount Scopus Hospital"

[ExGingi]

Not sure if this helps: Neve Yaakov neighborhood in Jerusalem Friday evening

The neighborhood was mentioned in one of the tweets I quoted above.

[sky121]

Not sure if this helps: Neve Yaakov neighborhood in Jerusalem Friday evening

Thanks. There's so many synagogues in that City...  And most of us probably know someone who lives there.

[CountValentine]

I am trying to avoid looking at Jewish news reports.

Any I should look at to get the info?

[ExGingi]

Any I should look at to get the info?

I wouldn't know about English language sources. I usually look at Hebrew sources for news from Israel. I did send a DM to Saher, the Druze who tweets news in Hebrew quoted above, letting him know that Jews in the US want to know more details about the exact location, but I didn't see any update from him.

[ExGingi]

Do we know which shul ? More specific location details?

FWIW NYT saying "small synagogue"
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/27/world/middleeast/jerusalem-attack-killed.html

[JMHO]

Do we know which shul ? More specific location details?

Ateret Avraham

[dasmo801]

Victims include 70 year old woman, 60 year woman, 20 year old man, 14 year old boy, 30 year old man.
ברוך דיין האמת

[Sam 77]

Victims include 70 year old woman, 60 year woman, 20 year old man, 14 year old boy, 30 year old man.
ברוך דיין האמת

just getting the news now, terrible terrible terrible

[Sam 77]

just getting the news now, terrible terrible terrible

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/eight-killed-ten-wounded-jerusalem-synagogue-terror-attack

[drosenberg88429]

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/eight-killed-ten-wounded-jerusalem-synagogue-terror-attack

Comment section here is classic

[yelped]

גם בשכם חוגגים . בינתיים שם המחבל פאדי עיאש משועפט pic.twitter.com/ebAVJKBfPk

— כל החדשות בזמן אמת 🟢 (@Saher95755738) January 27, 2023

What is the appropriate punishment for anyone who celebrates deaths of innocent people?

[Kobe Bryant]

�Jerusalem is close to signing a full normalization deal with Sudan, Israel�s foreign minister announces. At a press conference at Ben Gurion Airport after landing back in Israel from Khartoum, Eli Cohen says that during his visit, he met with ruling General Abdel-Fattah Al-Burhan, and the two sides �finalized the text of the agreement.�

A signing ceremony, however, is expected to wait until after Sudan completes a transition to a civilian government, Cohen says. The Foreign Ministry suggests that will occur in Washington within a few months.�

[mevinyavin]

6 ways the earthquake can affect the Middle-East
Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-730747

[tavster]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-17/israel-steps-up-talks-with-saudi-arabia-over-ties-to-combat-iran

[mevinyavin]

[mevinyavin]

NYT today. They didn't use the AP article, preferring to write their own. How strange...

[Kobe Bryant]

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/hungary-move-israel-embassy-jerusalem-israeli-media-report-2023-03-03/

[mevinyavin]

Yup, and a freilichen Purim it apparently is!

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/368372

Purim in Huwara: Chabad chassidim dance with soldiers, violence breaks out
IDF investigating attack on Arab vehicle, 'unseemly' documentation of soldiers dancing while on duty.
Israel National News
  Mar 7, 2023, 8:28 AM (GMT+2)

On Monday evening, the night of Purim, a group of Chabad chassidim arrived in the town of Huwara, not far from Shechem (Nablus) in Samaria, to visit soldiers posted there and lift their spirits in honor of the festival.

Arabs watching the festivities, which included the reading of the Megillah followed by singing and dancing, filmed them, but then the situation turned for the worse, with local Arabs gathering around, incited by speeches from the mosques. Stones started flying, first from the Arabs and then apparently from some of the Jews as well, leading to property damage. Palestinian-Arab sources reported either four or six people wounded. Jewish sources reported that the Arabs were armed with baseball bats and metal rods.

Chabad (Lubavitch) chassidim customarily visit soldiers in bases and posts all over the country during Purim and other Jewish festivals and this was not the first time that they visited Huwara, although possibly it was the first time that they did so at a time of such heightened tensions, just a week after a deadly terrorist attack in the town which claimed the lives of Hallel and Yagel Yaniv Hy"d.

On Tuesday morning, the Israeli security forces announced that they would be investigating documentation of a resident of Samaria smashing the windows of an Arab-owned vehicle in Huwara, and that they would also be investigating a video of soldiers dancing with "settlers." No arrests have been made.

The IDF released a statement following the night's events, referring to the video of the dancing, saying: "The incident that was documented in a video lasted a number of minutes. The circumstances are being clarified. The conduct of the soldiers is inconsistent with what is expected of soldiers in operational activity."

ETA: And from the left: https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-soldiers-dance-with-settlers-in-flashpoint-west-bank-town-of-huwara/

[Essen est zich]

That is amalek.

And we cannot let amalek cool us off.