Posted on 11/22/2002, 2:41:58 PM by Jimmyclyde
November 21st, 2002
Senior Hamas official-
Abd 'el Aziz Rantisi commends Jerusalem attack this morning: "The Palestinian nation must cleanse its soil"
A Palestinian suicide bomber killed 11 people and injured at least 50 when he blew himself up on a crowded bus in Jerusalem Thursday morning (November 21, 2002).
The explosion ripped through the commuter bus during morning rush hour, while witnessed said wounded children who had been on their way to school could be heard screaming from the wreckage. The bomber apparently set off his explosives at the front of the bus as it was approaching a bus stop.
The bomber, according to Bethlehem network television, is described as a 23 year old Palestinian resident of Bethlehem, operative member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
Senior Hamas officials praised terror attack this morning:
Minutes after the murderous terror attack in Jerusalem this morning, senior Hamas official expressed his support for terrorist activity on Al-Jazeera television. "By order of Allah, the Palestinian nation must clear its soil of its occupying intruders. We must hunt the Zionists until the land is restored to the boundaries of 1948."
The Hamas official stated that the vast Palestinian population supports suicide bombing. Even so he said that "terrorist activity will continue whether the Palestinian population supports us or not".
Rantisi claims that the prolonged Palestinian resistance has been effective and has defied the Zionist enemy. It has succeeded in hurting the state's economic situation, and shattered the government. All this said he now calls for Palestinians to "give suicide bombing a chance".
Hamas working towards peace alert!!
A Palestinian state equals more terror.
Get the palies off Israeli land!!
What he also means is that the murdering won't stop once they get their Palestinian state. It will simply be turned inward. Just as in post-1917 Russia all political disputes in the new Palestine will be settled by murder.
Israel does need to be cleansed.
I believe we differ on who, however.
My thinking exactly!
I took it in High School...
I bombed!
Actually, it might just be needed so that its easier to wipe them off the face of the earth. As it stands now, they're spread all over the place. Once the Palestinian state is created, they'd be required to defend their actions, or suffer the consequences as a nation.
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