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Palestinian terror spirals for Biden visit, DEBKAfile, March 8, 2016

Israeli security and medics at the scene where two Israeli policemen were severely wounded in a shooting attack, with bullet wounds to the head. A Palestinian attacker driving a motorcycle opened fire at a group of Israeli Border Police officers at Salah Al-Din Street, near Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate. The Palestinian gunman was reported shot and badly wounded. March 08, 2016. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash

Palestinian terrorist attacks came in quick succession Tuesday, March 8, from the morning of the arrival of US Vice President Joe Biden in Israel and after his landing that night.  A further escalation of terror is feared Wednesday when he arrives in Jerusalem to call on President Reuven Rivlin and hold talks with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.

The three knifing attacks in Jaffa, killing one civilian and injuring nine – some of them tourists – were perpetrated by a single terrorist not far from the venue of the Peres Center for Peace, where the US vice president was scheduled to deliver a lecture soon after his arrival.

Questions are being asked about why the police did not cordon off that part of Tel Aviv-Jaffa as a “sterile zone” ahead of Biden’s arrival.

The Jaffa killer was hunted down as he fled towards the Jaffa sea promenade.

Shortly before Biden landed at Ben Gurion Airport, three serious terrorist attacks were staged in Jerusalem and Petach Tikva near Tel Aviv. Altogether one Israeli was killed and 15 injured, including two gravely hurt Border Guards policemen in Jerusalem.

DEBKAfile’s counterterrorism sources maintain that it can no longer be claimed that the current wave of terror is caused by individuals acting spontaneously. This day’s violence was patently organized by a single Palestinian command center in order to synchronize with the visit to Israel of the American vice president – and not for the first time. During the Second Intifada, Palestinian terrorist organizations habitually staged outbreaks of extreme violence whenever a high-ranking US official visited Israel or Ramallah.

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