What the above article doesn't tell is that Neveh Sha'anan is a run down neighborhood near the old Central Bus Station in Tel Aviv [there is a new central station too, not very far away]. The area is frequented by poor people, the elderly, workingmen, including foreign workers, and is somewhat honky tonk, as Americans say. Therefore, by supporting such attacks, the pro-Arab, pro-Muslim "left" is in fact supporting the murder of poor people and workers.

Posted by: Eliyahu at April 17, 2006 7:58 AM

We now have dual claims on this attack. The IDF should retaliate against both.

chsw

Posted by: chsw at April 17, 2006 8:40 AM

"And what will a Hamas government that has committed this kind of crime for years do about this? Applaud, probably."

For sure, and like the old regime, they will also fervently deny that they had any connection or control over the perps, whatever "faction" actually did it.

Posted by: waterdragon52 at April 17, 2006 8:48 AM

Every crime must be investigated. Those who are responsible must be brought to justice.

At the same time so called PC guys in EU and the rest of the world are too insane in their attempt to stay politically correct to the war criminals - terrorists, their senders, and supporters. This is IMHO a crime on its own.

People, be fair to the end. Those highly educated left-wingers and poor Palestinian people lowers (I'd like to see them traveling to Ramallah today) try to be a referee in a very strange kind of game. Imagine soccer competition. Two teams at the arena. There are Israelis who play cruelly, and make a lot of fouls (following the rules, though). There are Pals, who plays completely different game. For example, American football, or rugby. Carrying baseball bats, striking every opponent, or fan they can reach. BTW, this game is called Jihad in real life.

It is the referee who is responsible of the fact the game still goes on. Their position is even more stupid, because it is required for Israelis to obey the rules, and the opponents are free of responsibility, due to the fact they are deaf. Or simply do not care to listen to infidels.

So, stop being abettors. Stop the crime.

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Posted by: scaramouoche at April 17, 2006 9:53 AM

Tell the cheap-assed industrialists and merchants of Israel to HIRE ISRAELIS ONLY and CLOSE THE BORDERS. Finish the wall and CLOSE THE BORDERS.

Can I say it enough? The answer is simple:

Finish the wall and close the borders.

Finish the wall and close the borders.

Finish the wall and close the borders.

Finish the wall and close the borders.

Finish the wall and close the borders.

Do it now, while mainstream politicians of both stripes are still on the side of Israel. Israel has Bush (kind of), Ted Kennedy, Hillary, Santorum, Kerry, Frist, Bayh, etc. on your side. Just get it over with, let the palestinians build their own factories and farms. They're on permanent welfare from the UN, and for every dollar that the West withholds from Hamas... Iran, Saudi, Qatar, etc. are giving two.

If the palestinians have enough money to build bombs and rockets, and recruit more suicide bombers, they don't need any money for food.

The fact that thousands of palestinians are employed by Israelis in Israel means nothing to anyone. The palestinians don't appreciate it, and the professional Israel bashers of the West don't care and pretend it doesn't happen. The fact that thousands of palestinians seek (and are GIVEN) medical care in Israeli hospitals is the same. It all means nothing; every inch Israel gives emboldens those that have sworn to destroy it.

I'm not saying invade Gaza and drive out the Arabs... I'm saying "Finish the wall, close the borders, and when the send over a rocket, send back 100 rockets." It won't take long for them to figure out that sending rockets doesn't work. Suicide bombers won't be able to sneak in. Make the wall high enough that snipers can't shoot it.

Presto, problem solved.

Posted by: kj at April 17, 2006 9:58 AM

Update from the BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4915868.stm

Quote from website "Hamas, which has been keeping a truce with Israel, said the attack was an act of "self-defence". "

Although on the radio (BBC again) I'm sure that the Hamas quote was along the lines of "this is in retaliation for Israeli aggression".

With Hamas being the representatives of the Palistinian state - and Hamas cleraly supporting the bomb - this could be viewed as a Palistinain State act of war, rather than just a 'terrorist act'.

I looks like battle lines are being drawn throughout the world - the jihadis who were biding their time are now coming to the surface and we are seeing more and more align themselves (both individuals and states) with an agressive stance towards the Infidel.

Posted by: mazztr at April 17, 2006 10:03 AM

Re: "And what will a Hamas government that has committed this kind of crime for years do about this? Applaud, probably."

They will applaud this (and other acts of world wide Jihad) because they don't see Infidel-subhumans as persons. That is why Jihadists (Moussaoui , e.g.) can take sadistic joy in the sufferings and terror of people jumping from the Twin Towers, laugh at the anguish of relitives who mourn the loss of loved ones who died that way. It's perception. On the matter of altered preception , David Kuplian (The Marketing of Evil-page 207), sums up the process well: "When a stage hypnotist can so quickly and dramatically alter his subject's perceptions-making an educated adult forget his own name, believing he's a yodeling champion, or strut around on stage clucking like a rooster -isn't it reasonable to think that whatever mysterious dynamics allow this sort of mental manipulation on stage would also crop up, perhaps in more disguised ways, in real life?"

No amount of persuasion will change the perceptions that causes such people to applaud. That's reality.

Posted by: Frank at April 17, 2006 10:20 AM

Anybody here see CBS's edition of 60 Minutes, broadcast on Easter Sunday? Chilling stuff!

Interviewed on camera, the prisoners in Israel have no intention of giving up their goal--the destruction of Israel.

Posted by: WatchfulEye at April 17, 2006 10:23 AM

wing of Palestine's Fatah faction, said it had carried out the attack to avenge "Israeli massacres committed against our people in Gaza".

Surrrrrre, that's the reason. More like it had carried out the attack because of violent written teachings and the everlasting hatred of carrying out Jihad.

Posted by: Report at April 17, 2006 10:46 AM

Wanna understand who these people really are...

"Hamas' tactical agreement to play by the democratic rules was a Trojan horse. It exploited the fragmentation of Fatah and the weakness of the Palestinian Authority to achieve political dominance as a first stage toward establishing Islamic rule that will implement Sharia law and lead, in fact, to the eradication of democracy."

"Hamas Interior Minister Said Sayyam, who is responsible for the Palestinian security forces, publicly committed himself on March 24, 2006, not to order arrests of operatives who carry out terror attacks...It should come as no surprise that the Palestinian Authority under Hamas rule is becoming a safe haven for Islamic terror organizations..."

If you want to see the rest of this article.. http://www.jcpa.org/brief/brief005-22.htm

Posted by: j.blogger at April 17, 2006 11:48 AM

Palestinians should be thankful Israeli's are forgiving, otherwise Israel would blow every last Palestinian to kingdom come.

And I don't know what keeps them from doing it.

You can only take so much.

Posted by: freewoman at April 17, 2006 7:34 PM

Apropos of kj's post, other than Palestinians, how many other foreign workers does Israel have/need in its labor force? I've read that Israel has a number of Thai, Filipino, Romanian and other expatriate workers. Is unemployment that low in Israel, or are these jobs work that Israelis simply won't do? And what is the range of this - is it just the baby-sitting and similar domestic services, or does this labor span all sectors of Israel's economy?

Posted by: Infidel Pride at April 17, 2006 8:54 PM