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The Daily Palestinian Terrorism You Don't Hear About
(Jerusalem Post) Michael Freund - Palestinian terrorism is literally a daily - and sometimes even an hourly - occurrence. The media don't bother to report the overwhelming majority of incidents. According to a spokesman for Hatzalah Judea and Samaria, an emergency first-response organization, "There are an average of 10 to 15 reported Palestinian rock and firebomb attacks throughout Judea and Samaria on a daily basis." In addition, "There are certainly other incidents in which the terrorists miss their mark, or hit a car but fail to cause damage or injure the occupants, and the motorist doesn't bother to call it in." Journalist Josh Hasten said he was nearly lynched last October when a group of Palestinian Arabs armed with rocks and slabs of concrete charged his car as he was driving south of Jerusalem. And last month, his windshield took a direct hit from a Palestinian stone-thrower near the Gush Etzion Industrial Zone. "The ongoing danger is simply being whitewashed," he told me. "While statistically, the number of 'major attacks' is down, the reality on the ground is unacceptable."