Posted on 07/31/2002 3:51:52 AM PDT by Bommer
Just reported
Terror bombing kills 7, wounds 70 at Jerusalem university | ||||||
By Jonathan Lis, Ha'aretz Correspondent, and Ha'aretz Service | ||||||
A bombing in a crowded cafeteria at the Mount Scopus campus of Jerusalem's Hebrew University killed at least seven people Wednesday afternoon and injured at least 70, 14 seriously. |
Well from my vantage point, I give you two out of three.
Concessions = Increased attack rate
Doing nothing = steady attack rate
But when Israel Cracks down Always means far less attacks.
It really is proveable too, just check the news archives. Every time the territories are occupied, the terror rate drops to a small percentage of "usual".
I bet that if the territorys were bulldozed the terror rate would drop to virtualy nothing. Any takers?
CHRONOLOGY - Suicide bombings in Israel since September 2000 | |
LONDON, July 31 (Reuters) - A bomb blast tore through a cafeteria at Jerusalem's Hebrew University on Wednesday, killing at least seven people and injuring 50. Police described the explosion as a Palestinian attack. Following is a chronology listing most suicide bombings since the Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation in the West Bank and Gaza Strip began in September 2000. 2000: Oct 26 - Suicide bomber strikes near an Israeli army post in the Gaza Strip, wounding a soldier. - - - - 2001: March 28 - Suicide bomber kills himself and two Israeli teenagers in Newe Yamin, near central city of Kfar Saba. April 22 - Suicide bomber kills doctor and wounds 41 people in rush-hour attack in Kfar Saba. May 18 - Suicide bomber kills five people and wounds about 60 at crowded Netanya shopping mall. June 1 - Twenty-two people killed in suicide bomb blast among teenagers waiting to enter Tel Aviv nightclub. July 16 - Suicide bomber from Islamic Jihad group kills two Israeli soldiers at bus stop in Israeli town of Binyamina. Aug 9 - Suicide bomber kills himself and 15 others in pizza restaurant in Jerusalem in revenge for Israeli missile strike. Sept 9 - Israeli Arab blows himself up at railway station in Nahariya, northern Israel, killing three people. Nov 29 - Suicide bomber blows himself up on bus in Hadera, killing three Israelis. Dec 1 - Ten Israelis killed and more than 150 hurt in double suicide bombing and car bomb in central Jerusalem. Dec 2 - Suicide bomber kills 15 people and wounds 40 on bus in Haifa. - - - - 2002: Jan 27 - First Palestinian woman suicide bomber, Wafa Idrees, 28, from Al-Amari refugee camp near Ramallah, kills two people and wounds 111 on Jaffa Road in Jerusalem. Feb 16 - Suicide bomber kills two Israelis and wounds 20 people in shopping centre in Jewish settlement of Karnei Shomron. March 2 - Suicide bomber kills nine people, including five children, in ultra-Orthodox neighbourhood of Jerusalem. March 9 - Suicide bomber kills 13 people and wounds more than 50 in crowded Moment Cafe in Jerusalem near Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's residence. March 20 - Suicide bomber kills at least six and wounds 27 on bus near Israeli Arab town of Umm al-Fahm. March 27 - Suicide bomber kills 29 people and wounds more than 100 in lobby of seaside hotel in resort town of Netanya. March 31 - Suicide bomber kills 15 people, wounds 44 in restaurant run by Israeli Arabs in northern Israeli port Haifa. Six people are wounded at Jewish settlement of Efrat in West Bank in second suicide attack. April 10 - Suicide bomber kills eight Israelis and wounds 12 on bus crowded with commuters near Haifa. April 12 - Female suicide bomber kills six people and wounds nearly 100 at Jerusalem's main outdoor Mahane Yehuda market. May 8 - Suicide bomber kills 15 Israelis, wounds 60 at snooker club in Rishon Letzion south of Tel Aviv. May 19 - Suicide bomber blows himself up in a market in Netanya, killing three other people and wounding at least 35. June 5 - Seventeen people killed and dozens wounded at the Megiddo road junction in northern Israel when a car bomb explodes next to a passenger bus on its way to Tiberias. Islamic Jihad says it was behind the suicide bombing. June 18 - Suicide bomber blows himself up on a bus packed with schoolchildren and office workers in Jerusalem, killing 19 and wounding more than 50. June 19 - Suicide bomber kills seven Israelis and wounds 35 at a Jerusalem bus stop. July 17 - Two suicide bombers kill at least three other people and wound 40 in Tel Aviv's foreign worker neighbourhood. July 31 - Bomb blast tears through a cafeteria at Jerusalem's Hebrew University near Arab East Jerusalem. At least seven are killed.
How could it not have been spotted? Israelis have an ingrained reflex to run like hell from a hefetz chashood (abandoned package).
How could it not have been spotted? Israelis have an ingrained reflex to run like hell from a hefetz chashood (abandoned package).
These are nervous college kids taking an exam in this Frank Sinatra cafeteria. They are understandably self concerned and don't notice the bomb package.
Story goes the bomb was left at the entrance to the cafeteria. Lots of flying glass. The package was very powerful and blasted away glass windows. Created much shrapnel.
I think you and I are on the same page.
Today is my day for predictions. There will never be an independent West Bank. It is not a viable entity.
The West Bank is simply land from the original Palestine that has not been definitively assigned to Israel or Jordan. It is the subject for negotiation between Jordan and Israel, and no one else. If Jordan will administer it, and stop the killing, fine. If Jordan will not, and in point of fact, they want nothing to do with it, then Israel must do so.
In that case, West Bank residents have the option of living in peace under Israeli law, or leaving. Israel can pay them for their property, and compensate them for their removal, but they must go.
But the details of the settlement are subjects for negotiation between Jordan and Israel, and no one else. No one else is a party to the discussion, because no one else has any standing in it.
Most specifically, the UN and NGO organizations who are presently at work must either place themselves under Israeli supervision, or be likewise expelled. In the present circumstance, they enable the killing to go on. They must go.
I would agree to that when every bomb victim is paid $1million each first as these are direct intentional acts of murder.
At this point the PA is about $8 Billion in the hole.
Thanks for reminding us ;-)
Actually it means "submission."
Agreed. Under the Marron peace plan, families of suicide killers can collect their compensation from the Saudis. To their new address in the Sinai.
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