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Right on the heels of the recent political assassinations of the young betrothed couple Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim at the Israeli embassy in Washington D.C., a group of elderly Jews in Boulder Colorado was targeted Sunday in a shocking act of pro-Palestinian terrorism.
Witnesses at the scene reported that the suspect, whom the FBI has identified as Mohamed Sabry Soliman, 45, hurled Molotov cocktails at people who were participating in a walk to call attention to the Israeli hostages who remain in Gaza after being kidnapped by the savage terror group Hamas in the October 7, 2023 attacks in Israel.
Run For Their Lives, the organizers of the walk, said, “This is not a protest; it is a peaceful walk to show solidarity with the hostages and their families, and a plea for their release.” The group had planned to walk the length of the Pearl Street Mall and back on Sunday afternoon with a stop at the courthouse for a video. Soliman decided – allegedly – that the members of this peace walk deserved to be burned alive.
A witness said he saw a fire and then a cloud of smoke. When he got to the scene, he saw a woman “burning on the ground” and two other people who had suffered burns on their legs. Six victims in all — aged between 67 and 88 — were rushed to a hospital. Police arrived and handcuffed the agitated Soliman, who was still carrying incendiary devices and threatening bystanders, without resistance. He was heard shouting “Free Palestine” during the assault.
In a post on X, FBI Director Kash Patel correctly referred to the horrific act as a “targeted terror attack.” Boulder Police Chief Stephen Redfearn, on the other hand, declared ludicrously in an earlier press briefing that it was way too soon and “irresponsible” to speculate on motive. Because hey, the Muslim perpetrator’s shouts that the firebombing of innocent Jews will end when Palestine is free are apparently too indecipherable and nuanced for a motive to be determined.
Soliman is reportedly an Egyptian national who entered the U.S. illegally during the Biden administration and then overstayed his visa. White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller wrote on X,
The Biden Admin granted the alien a visa and then, when he illegally overstayed, they gave him a work permit. Immigration security is national security. No more hostile migration. Keep them out and send them back.
Indeed. Israeli Ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, posted on X:
Terrorism against Jews does not stop at the Gaza border – it is already burning the streets of America. Today, in Boulder, Colorado, Jewish people marched with a moral and humane demand: to return the hostages.
In response, the Jewish protesters were brutally attacked, with an attacker throwing a Molotov cocktail at them.
Make no mistake – this is not a political protest, this is terrorism. The time for statements is over. It is time for concrete action to be taken against the instigators wherever they may be.
It is clear, now, that it is open season on Jews and supporters of Israel in the streets of America. This is the direct result of the ongoing smear campaign pushed by the mainstream media, Democrat leaders, and academic elites claiming that Israel, engaged in a military action in Gaza to root out the Hamas terror network and recover the remaining hostages, is waging a genocide against the so-called Palestinian people.
Thanks to the mass migration facilitated by globalist elites throughout the Western world, including the Biden administration here in America, the barbarians are inside the gates. Enemies of the West and supporters of Hamas, concentrated especially on college campuses captured by Left-wing radicals, have stoked a murderous rage toward Jews and Zionists – and that rage is manifesting in a new, global intifada.
The Trump administration must bring the full weight of government power to bear against this terrorist scourge. The media propagandists must be countered and shamed. And Jews must arm themselves.
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