Islamic Jihad's Bethlehem heads killed

The Israeli Defense Forces have been busy cleaning up the piles of smelly garbage left lying around the West Bank.

Islamic Jihad's Bethlehem heads killed

Five terrorists, including the Islamic Jihad leadership in Bethlehem, were killed in two clashes with the IDF in the West Bank on Wednesday.

In the morning, IDF soldiers surrounded a house in Seida, near Tulkarm, and in ensuing gun battles killed Saleh Karkur, 27, an Islamic Jihad gunman. The IDF demolished half of the house. Islamic Jihad released a statement in Gaza saying Karkur was one of the group's top West Bank commanders and threatened to avenge his death.

In the evening, a team from the Israel Police's elite Yamam counterterror unit raided Bethlehem and killed four Islamic Jihad gunmen. The Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) said the four had constituted the leadership of the terrorist group's armed wing in the city. When the men's bodies were inspected, they were found to be carrying rifles and pistols.

Among the dead was Mahmoud Shehada, 45, the commander of Islamic Jihad in Bethlehem. He had been on Israel's wanted list for eight years, since the eruption of the second intifada, for involvement in a number of deadly terror attacks. Another of the dead was Ahmad Balbul, 48, reported to have been a member of both Fatah's Aksa Martyrs Brigades and the Bethlehem City Council.

I’ve never understood why the Left has been so vocal in defense of “Palestinian” Arab terrorists when their every action has been the polar opposite of Social Democracy. Perhaps the left just enjoys the virulent anti-Americanism/Westernism or the terrorists use of the magic-pill word 'Zionists!'

Terrorists and criminals such as the various islamist terrorist organizations have been idolized due to their opposition to America and Western values in general yet the western apologists for Islamic terrorist philosophy never connects the dots towards those who truly suffer because of these hate groups’ actions. Armchair hero-worshippers of “Pal” terrorists can do so very easily in the West. Hell, we even shower kafir welfare dollars upon these murderous savages. Unfortunately the majority in the morally-challenged State Department continue to believe that rewarding Islamic terrorism with welfare money will somehow curb the islamicidal tendencies of these hateful ideologues.