January 05, 2003

22 dead, 100 hurt in double suicide bombing in Tel
Aviv

At least 22 people were killed and 100 others were wounded in a double suicide bombing at around 6:30 P.M. Sunday evening at the Old Central Bus Station in south Tel Aviv.

The two suicide bombers blew themselves up within less than a minute of one another, at the corner of G'dud Ha'ivri and Neve She'anan streets in south Tel Aviv.
[...]Police spokesman Gil Kleiman said that the explosive devices used by the bombers were loaded with metal shards in order to maximize the destruction. [Bastards!--J.T.]
[...]
The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the military wing of Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement, took responsibility for the attack. In a statement claiming that it was behind the bombings, the group identified the two bombers as Nablus residents Burak Hilsa and Samar A-Nuri.

Initially, a reporter for Lebanon's Al-Manar television station said that Islamic Jihad had phoned him to take responsibility for the attack, but an official in the Palestinian militant group said there had been no official statement.
[...]Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is to convene a security meeting at 11:30 P.M. with Foreign Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz and the heads of the security establishment at 11 P.M. ...[...]
The attack was the first suicide bombing in an Israeli city since November, when a suicide bomber blew up a bus in Jerusalem, killing himself and 11 passengers.

I am outraged...again!
Of course, my prayers for the dead and wounded plus my sorrow and sympathy go out to the Israeli families of the victims.
IMO, President Bush didn't condemn this strongly enough, stating that such actions "hindered the peace process." (Duh.)
Why not call it what it is, President Bush?
Islamist terrorist murder. Full stop.
The "Palestinians" don't want "peace"--they want to eradicate the Jews and the nation of Israel.
Another Full Stop.
I pray for the day when Israel will expel every one of these "Palestinians" from their (the Jews') land back to Jordan, Syria and Lebanon where they (the Muslims) belong.
In the meantime, there could be no "retaliatory response" or defensive move the IDF could make that would strike me as too barbarous to deal with these mass murderers and cold-blooded killers in the "Palestinian" areas and the worst thing is, it would still be infinitely more civilized, humane and restrained than what the Islamists have done to their Israeli victims.
So build that wall, blow up the bombers' houses, shoot anything that moves after curfew in Jenin, Nablus, Gaza and Ramallah!
Above all, let's practice pest control on AraRAT!
Am Yisrael Chai!