More Suicide Attacks Thwarted (Israel)

Arutz 7 ^ | Jan. 23, 2004 | staff

[Nachum]

No end in sight: A successful overnight operation in Shechem led to the capture of a known Palestinian terrorist who was planning a suicide mission to murder Jews.

A successful overnight operation in Shechem led to the capture of a known Palestinian terrorist who was planning a suicide mission to murder Jews. A special IDF unit surrounded the home of Yichye Akuba, a Tanzim member who has been involved in shooting attacks and placing at least one bomb, and arrested him and two other terrorists. The soldiers, coming under grenade-and gunfire attack, blew up his home. Akuba was known to have been planning an attack in central Israel.

Earlier this week, another would-be suicide attacker from the Tul Karem branch of Islamic Jihad was similarly arrested. Despite a public perception that Palestinian terrorism has decreased of late, army sources have continually noted that it has not ceased at all, and that the lack of "successful" attacks is due largely to efficient preventive security work by Israeli forces.

Palestinian terrorists fired at an Israeli car near Beit Haggai last night; no one was hurt.

In a search of homes in the Arab village Dir Al-Assas near Hevron, much stolen property and equipment was recovered, including a small tractor. A woman in one of the homes aroused the soldiers' suspicion, and a body search produced 140 forged "collaborator" cards. She said that her husband told her to hide them in her underclothes, and he was arrested.

[Textide]

I like the way that article was written. Wish our media would present it that way. Usually it's something like this:

A special IDF unit surrounded the home of (renowned Tanzim freedom fighter) Yichye Akuba, a Tanzim member who has been involved in shooting attacks and placing at least one bomb, and arrested him and two other terrorists (without cause). The soldiers, coming under grenade-and gunfire attack, blew up his home (which he shared with his wife, who is now homeless).

[xJones]

Ah, good news is like rain in the desert! Let us pray for the peace of Jerusalem - and all the rest of Israel.

A woman in one of the homes aroused the soldiers' suspicion, and a body search produced 140 forged "collaborator" cards. She said that her husband told her to hide them in her underclothes..

Blessings on the alert IDF soldiers, but's not too hard to imagine what made them suspicious with a Palestinian woman waddling around with 140 cards stuck in her undies.

[jolie560]

I agree. That's a good example of how news gets slanted to suit the reporter's bias.

[yonif]

THe media will wait for a successful suicide terror attack for them to say that the relative "quiet" has been shattered.

[SunkenCiv]

From a Jewish author who claimed (falsely) that early leaders of the modern state of Israel displaced the Arabs comes a startling metamorphosis and my nomination for the "Yeah, No Feces" award this week:

"The Arabs are after our blood"
by Christopher Farah
Jan. 23, 2004

In a recent interview with the liberal Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Morris not only justified the 1948 expulsion of the Palestinians from Israel, but also said that then-Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion failed in his task by not expelling all Arabs from the nascent Jewish state... Morris went on to say that renewed expulsions of the Palestinians -- those in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and even those who are Israeli citizens -- could be "entirely reasonable" in circumstances that are "liable to be realized in five or 10 years." ...The Arab and Muslim world, in his eyes, consists of barbarians who don't appreciate the value of human life, barbarians knocking on the gates of the civilized West... Like many other Israeli liberals, Morris' optimism about peace, and whether the Palestinians really wanted it, was shaken by the outbreak of the second intifada in 2000 -- after the Oslo peace accords and the Camp David talks had convinced many that a resolution was at hand. With the collapse of the Camp David talks amid mutual acrimony and the escalation of violence, in particular the rise of suicide bombings within Israel, many Israeli peaceniks became disillusioned, feeling that they had found no true "partner for peace" in the Palestinians... "You go to have coffee with your equally liberal friends, you talk peace and human rights and Palestinian independence, and if you are lucky the place blows up only after you leave," says Tom Segev, an Israeli author who like Morris was dubbed a "new historian" for writing books that challenged the traditional Israeli version of history.