TERRORIST ATTACK IN ISRAEL - "BUS BOMBING; at least 10 murdered, 50 injured" - Jerusalem

[yonif]

Loud explosion heard on Balfour Street in central Jerusalem (Haaretz)

[yonif]

One Israeli: The Holocaust of the Jewish people never ended. It was simply handed over to other murderers to carry out.

[GeronL]

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[Momaw Nadon]

Does the Palestinian Authority have the ability to prevent this sort of attack?

Or was this attack beyond their control?

[XHogPilot]

Perhaps a public display of altnate uses of wood chippers and industrial plastic-shredders would bring this insanity to an end? I volunteer to throw the switch.

[yonif]

[yonif]

Does the Palestinian Authority have the ability to prevent this sort of attack?

Yes. They are buddies with these organizations and they fund these organizatins. They are a terror organization which plans and praises others who do terrorism.

Their regime terrorist media calls on children to do terror as well. And their textbooks.

[geopyg]

"Yeah, explosion, she is deaf now."

The "50 wounded" when said in the news always seems like some sort of blessing when compared to the "10 dead". It's not until you think about what wounded from a bomb blast means. She is deaf now. He doesn't have a right arm. She's blind. The baby will never walk.

Prayers to the survivors and their families, and the families that grieve the loss of their loved ones.

[yonif]

One MK said that this terrorist attack was set to embaress Israel into showing that even under terrorist fire it gives in to its enemies (i.e. prisoner exchange and prisoner release of 400 terrorists), which is a weakness.

[claudiustg]

A strict separation with the fence seems like the only answer. Turning up the heat militarily enough to get the desired response is not in the political cards right now. It may be in the future once the Europeans have had a belly full of their new Arab population. I don't think it's going to take that long.

[DeepDish]

Could you just find another thread or log off and continue your 15th reading of Mein Kamfh. Or get a razor and tune up your skin head.

[yonif]

The fence will fail in the end as it is a sign of weakness to the terrorists that, as some politicans in Israel have said, would increase attacks and show that Israel is losing. They say the fence needs to be on the Jordanian border and for the whole PLO infrastructure to be destroyed, not allowed to thrive with this fence.

[yonif]

New Reports:

Minister in Israel Gov. has said today there should be a emergency gov. meeting to decide on throwing Arafat out of here.

Zaka (emergency official): in the beginning there was quiet at the terror attack site; then the screams by the injured started.

PLO official makes moral equivalency (saying IDF killing of terrorists is similar) and justifies terrorist attack.

There were those on the bus who were going to school.

[LdSentinal]

Endeth the run of Burkeman1. I would not have guessed it would be due to his dancing for joy over the deaths of Jews, but it's not shocking.

[Thinkin' Gal]

Thank you for posting. Not just to bring us this [dreadful] news and onsite reporting - but seeing you here lets us know you are okay.

[DeepDish]

"There were those on the bus who were going to school."

Ouch!

[yonif]

Ra'annan Gissin spokesperson for PM: After this terror attack in Jerusalem, no man has the right to judge Israel's ways of defending herself.

Currently, body parts are being collected at the site of the terrorist attack.

[dawn53]

Excuse me, but that could lead to anarchy, IMHO. In civilized societies government is responsible for punishment of evil doers. If the people take matters into their own hands, or start to become vigilantes, the whole situation would really deteriorate.

[yonif]

Arab TV networks, happy at the site of the bombing, say it was a female terrorist.

[yonif]

Israel is fighting a war on terrorism. That is the situation. Just like the US is pursuing the murderers and others like those who did 9/11, Israel has the right to do so as well.