The Palestinian government, now led by the militant Hamas group, predictably refused to condemn the suicide bombing Monday of a falafel restaurant in Tel Aviv that killed nine innocent civilians.
A Hamas spokesman called the attack, carried out by the smaller Islamic Jihad group, “a legitimate act of self-defense” to Israeli aggression.
Who knew that falafel stands posed a threat to peace?
To its credit, Israel said Tuesday that it wouldn’t launch a large-scale military response. That might be unnecessary. Hamas is bankrupt financially and politically. The choice is now theirs: Will they embrace diplomacy or oblivion?
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A couple of points: The suicide bomber came from ISRAELI territory; not Palestinian-controlled territory. So, ther was nothing the Palestinian Authority could have done to prevent it. Also, even if it had come from Gaza Israel had carried out systematic shelling of Palestinian security forces in order to prevent them from acting.
Perhaps some consideration might be given to the numerous civilians killed by Israelis during the past week. Did that 9-year-old girl pose a threat to peace? Was an offer of a work permit to her father sufficient response for murdering her? Suppose he had accepted the permit – so he could exact revenge for her murder?
There had been a cease-fire that had stopped most violence. Israel abrogated that cease-fire 2 weeks ago.
Ben,
Why don’t you just say what you really want to say:
That you agree with Hamas and that the suicide bombing was indeed a legitimate act of self defense.
Ben,
I think you are missing the point here.
It is not whether or not the Palestinian Government could have stopped it.
It is that they are obviously encouraging it and not condmening it!
You might as well go over there yourself and help with the suicide bombings since you seem to think that Israel deserves it.
Because I do not agree with them. I am simply pointing out the reality that since it originated in Israeli-controlled territory they could not have prevented it.
Why don’t you come right out and say that you consider murdering a 9-year-old girl to be legitimate self-defense?
Nathan – perhaps if Israel had not broken the cease-fire and opened a campaign of shelling of civilians and security forces Hamas might have reacted differently. Of course, there are those like you who think that civilians deserve indiscriminate shelling.
Ben,
Do you have any proof that Israel MURDERED that 9 year old girl or that Israel is INDISCRIMINATELYshelling civilians?
Nathan – it has been all over the news over the past few weeks.
Sorry, I have been in Korea. Have any links?
The unimaginable cruelty of the atrocities, slaughters, massacres and murders committed by Israel over the last six decades are well documented. One year a hospital reported 529 head-shots to children by Israeli snipers.
Palestinians are murdered for as little as tending to the farms, picking olives.
Your opinion, Nathan, has been that Israel can do no wrong and you’re entitled to your opinion.
My opinion is that people like you disgust me. And the Zionists in Israel will be getting a lot of good Jews killed. The Zionists are well fortified and only the labor-class are left exposed to the dangers as they are forced to use public transportation. The Zionist government, like you, could care less.
But you’re still entitled to your opinion.
Not handy Nathan. Israel has launched artillary barrages all over Gaza; hitting residential areas and also targeting Palestinian police stations. Now they complain because the police don’t do anything about yesterday’s bombing. Of course, they also conveniently ignore the fact that the bomber came from Israeli territory where Palestinian police/security are prohibited anyway.
The father of the dead girl was contacted by an Israeli commander who offered him a work permit. I found that to be increadibly cynical. On the other hand, eprhaps the father should have acceoted it – so he could get access for revenge.
That is the problem; these artillary barrages create more bombers than they deter. How would you react if you had a child killed when your home was destroyed by artillary and your other children maimed? What might be an appropriate response from that father?
Nathan asking for links? Does that mean he might actually answer questions and provide some links when asked?
Both Bush and Sharon said that Prime Minister Abass was irrelevant and Sharon cancelled meetings with him. After all, Sharon had nothing to offer him, not land, not self-rule, or any ease in the horrible conditions imposed by roadblocks.
In short, the Palestinians People had no alternative other than to vote in Hamas.
As usual, the Zionists murdered enough Palestinians to draw a response from Hamas and it worked, as it always does.
Now the G-d Zionist had an excuse to cause even more misery on the Palestinian People.
The United States can stop all this Zionist nonsense, but Bush is too weak to stand-up to Zionism.
Ed raises an interesting point. The US and Israel refused to deal with Abbas in any serious manner; now they complain because he cannot prevent attacks.
Perhaps the US and Israel should have heeded the words of Moses (Charleton Heston) in regard to the Palestinians “Let my people go” and lifted their bondage.
It is ling past time for Israel to withdraw from ALL of the Territories. Get neutral 3rd-party peacekeepers into the Territories until an independent free government can be established. Those peacekeepers cannot be Israeli soldiers nor US.
Ben, The peacekeepers must be the US. If the US is not on-board for peace, then it remains as a major cause, if not the only cause of the problem.
The Zionists cannot function without complete US endorsement. Had it not been for the US, the Zionists would have been wiped-out years ago.
One reason the Zionists fear Hezbollah so much is when they were being routed from Lebanon, Hezbollah was moving-in for the kill when Nixon sent-in the US Air-force and saved their rotten G-d Zionist asses.
The reason the Israeli Mossad went to all the trouble to kill Harri {Sp} and blame it on Syria was to settle an old grudge Sharon had with Hezbollah. Pulling-out Syrian support from Lebanon was akin to kicking down the door.
Ed – I agree that the US must be on board. However, I do not think that US troops patrolling Palestine would work – they are too closely identified with Israel. I would rather see EU and Arab League troops on the ground.
Ok.
I would like to see some reputable news source say that Israel MURDERED this 9 year old girl.
As it stands now, I think Ben is exagerating the facts and truth by saying that Israel is INDISCRIMINATELY attacking civilians and that they MURDERED a 9 year old girl.
Nathan – the IDF lobbed an artillary shell into her home. As a result she died. If I ‘drive-by’ shot bullets into a home and as a result the bullets killed an occupant I would be tried for MURDER. Of course, the gang-bangers always say “I’m sorry someone ‘got hurt’” instead of saying “I’m sorry I murdered someone.”
Gee, maybe the bomber didn’t really mean for his bomb to hurt anybody.
Ben, Everything changes when the US shows the Palestinians justice. Arafat made many trips to the White House and the Palestinians have asked and would welcome the protection from the Israelis by American troops.
For the Palestinians that’s almost too good to be true.
Right now, with Bush in charge, it “is” too good to be true.
Ben,
There is a difference between military action taken against an enemy target and a drive by shooting.
You know that. You are too intelligent to honestly sit here and tell me that Israel intended to kill that girl or launch artillery at civilians.
Ed – while I fundamentally agree with you I think that at this point it would fall into the “too good to be true” catagory and our troops owuld be targeted as they were during the occupation of Lebanon.
Maybe later, after some cooling off …
And the family’s home was an enemy target? Maybe the falafel stand was an enemy target too.
Yes, Nathan, I will tell you that Israel simply doesn’t care about civilian casualties; they serve to “punish” the Palestinian population for resisting the occupation.
Israel knows where they target their artillary.
Ben,
In criminal law when you are in the act of committing a felony and someone dies you are held liable for felony murder.
This is not criminal law.
This is not a felony.
This is Israel attacking their enemy.
Perhaps if the enemy did not hide amoungst civilians this would not happen.
Let me ask you a question Ben.
Who is more guilty in this scenario of civilians being killed:
Group A places their anti-aircraft guns on the top of the Hospital.
Group B is targeting legitimate military targets while their planes are being shot down by this anti-aircraft gun.
Group B can no longer afford to have it’s planes shot down and decides to do a guided missle strike on the aircraft gun during the night when they know the least amount of people might get hurt.
Group B ends up killing several innocent people in the attack on that anti-aircraft gun.
Ben,
Do you have any proof that Israel purposefully targeted a home with artillery for the sole purpose of killing civilians?
In Nathan’s little mind he cannot seem to fathom that whomever is dropping those bombs…shouldn’t be doing that.
Ed,
I am curious. What in your opinion would be the solution to all your angst towards Israel?
Ben, Lebanon was a civil war as is Iraq. Palestine is completely different. The Palestinian are confronted by a far superior force and by contrast the Palestinians have no army and only meager weapons.
Nathan, Pull the Israelis back across the green-line. Force the Israelis to abide by international law and the Geneva Conventions. Send the war-criminals to the Hague to be tried for their crimes.Designate East Jerusalem as the Capitol of Palestine.
There’s more, but you should get the picture.
Send-in agents to shut-down, child porn, human-trafficking, money laundering, along with a host of criminal activities.
Strip Zionist bank accounts of billions of pocketed US foreign Aid money.
Start using Israeli jails to house Israeli criminals instead of torture chambers for Palestinians and generally clean-up that mess.
Nathan – Group B never had any business attacking Group A in the first place. And, since there is no place in Group A’s territory not occupied by people then by your logic Group A should not resist Group B at all.
As for blowing up the home I have not performed a psychiatric evaluation of the soldiers. What is known is that they aimed and fired the gun. It blew up a home. It killed one child and maimed several others. NOBODY GIVES A DAMN ABOUT THAT! NOT YOU, NOT BUSH, NOT THE ISRAELIS!
Get the damned Israelis out os the territories. Quit calling their occupiers “civilians”; they cannot be civilians if they are effectuating the occupation. Focus the IDF on border defense. If the IDF focused there instead of being spread all over the Territories they would be much more effective in preventing bombings. ESPECIALLY in view of the fact that the bomber came from BEHIND THE LINES.
Now, do YOU have any proof that ANYONE in Palestinian-controlled territory had ANYTHING to do with the bombing?
Ben, A member of the Israeli Kensset{sp} said: “One thousand Palestinians are not worth the fingernail of a Jew.”
Ben, tell me…How can you deal with shit-for-brains like that?
Imagine if a member of our congress spoke about a race of people that disparagingly?
Ben, I don’t think that Bush is in his right mind.
Ben, The Zionists keep the good Jews in such “hot water” all the time, it’s become an election trick to keep the Zionists in power to defend the good Jews for all the hell they’re going to catch for all of the bad things the Zionists have done and keep doing.
{ Word would have such a long green line under that sentence }
Ed – that is why I advocate separation and peace-keepers.
Keep in mind Ed that I am trying to come up with a solution based on the realities on the ground. While we may or may not like the existence of israel the fact is that it is there. Just like in this country we may or may not like the presence of 11 million immigrants – theye are here. We have to formulate a plan to move forward, not just look backward.
Ben,
I care about civilian deaths. I just dont lie about them being murders and indiscriminate attacks.
I never claimed that the government of Palestine was guilty of this attack.
They supported it though. I would say that publically saying it was ok is not much better.
You do realize that if Israel wanted to murder and indiscriminately attack Palestine many more people would be dead.
This is about them killing those that support and are involved in the continued suicide bombings.
Ben,
Do you support the suicide bombings which purposfully target civilians? YES or NO.
NO
Do you support the continued occupation/subjugation of the palestinian population?
Nathan – back to your A and B:
Group A has its soldier stationed in a falafel stand.
Group B is tired of the Group A soldier killing their people.
So Group B bombs the soldier and “inadvertantly” kills everyone else at the falafel stand.
Now try this:
Group A has an official who lives in an apartment building.
Group B wants to kill the official.
So, Group B drops a one-ton bomb on the apartment building, “inadvertantly” killing everyone else in it.
You and Bush condemn number one. You and Bush endorse number two. I condemn them both.
Ben,
How much “occupied” land has Israel given back since the 6 day war and why did it become occupied?
You could have fooled me about your support for the suicide bombing.
Unfortunately Ben, I could list you the many many many suicide bombings which only targeted civilians for the sole purpose of killing civilians.
Israel consistently has been attacking those responsible for the suicide bombings and civilians sometimes inadvertantly get killed.
Big difference.
If Israel was such a big monster like you portray it they could very easily just go about a real “occupation” and systematically kill many more Palestinians than they accidently do while trying to stop the terrorists.
I agree with you that Israel could genocide the population if they wanted to – and that the US would support them in doing so. However, that would unmask them to the world.
Israel has only recently vacated a small fraction of the land (Gaza) which they still keep under siege.
Most of the so-called civilians are actually paramilitary units participating in the occupation. They take their families with them to the front. (”Group A places their anti-aircraft guns on the top of the Hospital.”) That way when they are attacked their families are with them.
You didn’t answer my question: do you support the continued occupation/subjugation of the Palestinian population?
“Unfortunately Ben, I could list you the many many many suicide bombings which only targeted civilians for the sole purpose of killing civilians.”
I dont know about you Ben, but I would like to see that list… or a link.
Israel has victim status. If the Zionist killed all of the Palestinians, the Zionists would no longer be victims and their “cash-cow” would be gone.
All of the billions they collect from our Treasury would be unnecessary and all of the “free” armament Rumsfeld gives them would serve no purpose.
Protracting their “defense” is how they collect large sums of money from the United States { 1,6 trillion since 1973 }.
If they do0n’t blow-up a few working-class Jews every once in a while they can kissie-bye bye to their cash-cow.
Why do you need a billion dollar helicopter gunship equipped with precision missiels, if you’re not going to kill a kid?
May 27, 2002 – A grandmother and her infant granddaughter were killed and 37 people were injured, some seriously, when a suicide bomber detonated himself near an ice cream parlor outside a shopping mall in Petah Tikva. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
June 5, 2002 – 17 people were killed and 38 injured when a car packed with a large quantity of explosives struck Egged bus No. 830 traveling from Tel-Aviv to Tiberias at the Megiddo junction near Afula. The bus, which burst into flames, was completely destroyed. The terrorist was killed in the blast. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
June 11, 2002 – A 14-year-old girl was killed and 15 others were wounded when a Palestinian suicide bomber set off a relatively small pipe bomb at a shwarma restaurant in Herzliya.
June 18, 2002 – 19 people were killed and 74 injured – six seriously – in a suicide bombing at the Patt junction in Egged bus no. 32A traveling from Gilo to the center of Jerusalem. The bus, which was completely destroyed, was carrying many students on their way to school. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
June 19, 2002 – Seven people were killed and 50 injured – three of them in critical condition – when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a crowded bus stop and hitchhiking post at the French Hill intersection in northern Jerusalem shortly after 7:00 P.M., as people were returning home from work. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
July 16, 2002 – Nine people were killed and 20 injured in a terrorist attack on Dan bus no. 189 traveling from Bnei Brak to Emmanuel in Samaria. An explosive charge was detonated next to the bullet-resistant bus. The terrorists waited in ambush, reportedly wearing IDF uniforms, and opened fire on the bus. While four terror organizations claimed responsibility for the attack, it was apparently carried out by the same Hamas cell which carried out the attack in Emmanuel on Dec 12, 2001.
July 17, 2002 – Five people were killed – two Israeli and three foreign workers – and about 40 were injured, four seriously, in a double suicide bombing on Neve Shaanan Street near the old central bus station in Tel Aviv. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
July 30, 2002 – Five people suffered light to moderate injuries in a suicide bombing at a felafel stand on Hanevi’im Street in the center of Jerusalem. The bomber, who was killed, apparently exploded prematurely.
July 31, 2002 – Nine people were killed and 85 wounded, 14 of them seriously, when a bomb exploded in the Frank Sinatra student center cafeteria on the Hebrew University’s Mt. Scopus campus. The explosive device was planted inside the cafeteria, which was gutted by the explosion. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Aug 4, 2002 – Nine people were killed and some 50 wounded in a suicide bombing of Egged bus No. 361 traveling from Haifa to Safed at the Meron junction in northern Israel. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Aug 5, 2002 – A bomb exploded in a car at the Umm al-Fahm junction in northern Israel, killing the terrorist and wounding the driver, an Arab Israeli resident of Nazareth.
Sept 18, 2002 – Police Sgt. Moshe Hezkiyah, 21, of Elyachin was killed and three people were wounded in a suicide bombing at a bus stop at the Umm al Fahm junction. The terrorist, who was apparently planning to detonate the bomb after boarding a bus, set the charge off early when approached by the police for questioning. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
Sept 19, 2002 – Six people were killed and about 70 wounded when a terrorist detonated a bomb in Dan bus No. 4 on Allenby Street, opposite the Great Synagogue in Tel-Aviv. Hamas claimed responsbility for the attack.
Oct 10, 2002 – Sa’ada Aharon, 71, of Ramat Gan was killed and about 30 people were wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up while trying to board Dan bus No. 87 across from Bar-Ilan University on the Geha highway (Route 4). Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Oct 21, 2002 – 14 people were killed and some 50 wounded when a car bomb containing about 100 kilograms of explosives was detonated next to a No. 841 Egged bus from Kiryat Shmona to Tel-Aviv, while traveling along Wadi Ara on Route No. 65 toward Hadera. The bus had pulled over at a bus stop when the suicide bomber, from Jenin, driving a jeep, approached from behind and exploded. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
Oct 27, 2002 – Two IDF officers and a non-commissioned officer were killed and about 20 people were wounded in a suicide bombing at the Sonol gas station at the entrance to Ariel in Samaria. The victims were killed while trying to prevent the terrorist from detonating the bomb. The terrorist was identified as a member of Hamas.
Nov 4, 2002 – Two people – a security guard and a teenage boy, both recent immigrants from Argentina – were killed and about 70 were wounded in a suicide bombing at a shopping mall in Kfar Sava. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
Nov 21, 2002 – Eleven people were killed and some 50 wounded by a suicide bomber on a No. 20 Egged bus on Mexico Street in the Kiryat Menahem neighborhood of Jerusalem. The bus was filled with passengers, including schoolchildren, traveling toward the center of the city during rush hour. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Jan 5, 2003 – Twenty-two people were killed and about 120 wounded in a double suicide bombing near the old Central Bus Station in Tel-Aviv. The attack was apparently carried out by two members of the Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, with the help of the Islamic Jihad.
Mar 5, 2003 – Seventeen people were killed and 53 wounded in a suicide bombing of an Egged bus #37 on Moriah Blvd. in the Carmel section of Haifa, en route to Haifa University. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Mar 30, 2003 – Over 40 people were wounded in a suicide bombing on the pedestrian mall at the entrance to the London Cafe in the center of Netanya. The bomber was killed. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
Apr 24, 2003 – Alexander Kostyuk, a 23-year-old security guard from Bat Yam, was killed and 13 were wounded, two seriously, in a suicide bombing outside the train station in Kfar Sava. Groups related to the Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and the PFLP clamied joint responsibility for the attack.
Apr 30, 2003 – Three people were killed and about 60 peoople were wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a beachfront pub “Mike’s Place” in Tel Aviv. The Fatah Tanzim and Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack, carried out as a joint operation. Investigation revealed that the two British Muslims involved in the suicide bombing were dispatched to perpetrate the attack by the Hamas military command in the Gaza Strip.
May 17, 2003 – Gadi Levy and his wife Dina, aged 31 and 37, of Kiryat Arba were killed by a suicide bomber in Hebron. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
May 18, 2003 – Seven people were killed and 20 wounded in a suicide bombing on Egged bus no. 6 near French Hill in Jerusalem. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.A second suicide bomber detonated his bomb when intercepted by police in northern Jerusalem. The terrorist was killed; no one else was injured.
May 19, 2003 – Three IDF soldiers were lightly injured when a Palestinian on a bicycle detonated explosives next to a military jeep near Kfar Darom in the southern Gaza Strip. The bomber was killed. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
May 19, 2003 – Three people were killed and about 70 wounded in a suicide bombing at the entrance to the Amakim Mall in Afula. The Islamic Jihad and the Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades both claimed responsibility for the attack.
May 22, 2003 – Nine Israelis were injured when a roadside bomb was detonated next to a bus near Netzarim in the Gaza Strip.
June 11, 2003 – Seventeen people were killed and over 100 wounded in a suicide bombing on Egged bus #14A outside the Clal building on Jaffa Road in the center of Jerusalem. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
June 19, 2003 – Avner Mordechai, 58, of Moshav Sde Trumot, was killed when a suicide bomber blew up in his grocery on Sde Trumot, south of Beit Shean. The suicide bomber was killed. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
July 7, 2003 – Mazal Afari, 65, of Moshav Kfar Yavetz was killed in her home on Monday evening and three of her grandchildren lightly wounded in a terrorist suicide bombing. The remains of the bomber were also found in the wreckage of the house. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
Aug 12, 2003 – Erez Hershkovitz, 18, of Eilon Moreh, was killed and three people wounded when a teenaged Palestinian suicide bomber detonated himself at a bus stop outside Ariel. Amatzia Nisanevitch, 22, of Nofim, died of his wounds on August 28.
Aug 19, 2003 – Twenty-three people were killed and over 130 wounded when a Palestinian suicide bomber detonated himself on a No. 2 Egged bus in Jerusalem’s Shmuel Hanavi neighborhood. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Sept 9, 2003 – Nine IDF soldiers were killed and 30 people were wounded in a suicide bombing at a hitchhiking post for soldier outside a main entrance to the Tzrifin army base and Assaf Harofeh Hospital. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Sept 9, 2003 – Seven people were killed and over 50 wounded in a suicide bombing at Cafe Hillel on Emek Refaim St., the main thoroughfare of the German Colony neighborhood in Jerusalem. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Oct 4, 2003 – Twenty-one people were killed, including four children, and 60 wounded in a suicide bombing carried out by a female terrorist from Jenin in the Maxim restaurant in Haifa. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
Oct 9, 2003 – A Palestinian suicide bomber exploded himself at the DCO located at the entrance to Tulkarm. The bomber approached the reception window and exploded himself, injuring two IDF soldiers and a Palestinian.
Oct 15, 2003 – Three Americans were killed and one wounded at the Beit Hanoun junction in the Gaza Strip when a massive bomb demolished an armor-plated jeep in a convoy carrying U.S. diplomats.
Nov 3, 2003 – A suicide bomber blew himself up in the West Bank village of Azun, near Kafr Qasem, when he saw Israeli security officials searching for him. One IDF soldier was lightly wounded. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade claimed responsibility for the failed attack.
Dec 25, 2003 – Four Israelis were killed and over 20 wounded in a suicide bombing at a bus stop at the Geha Junction, east of Tel Aviv, near Petah Tikva. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility for the attack.
Jan 14, 2004 – Four Israelis – three soldiers and one civilian – were killed and 10 wounded when a female suicide bomber detonated a bomb at the Erez Crossing in the Gaza Strip. Hamas and the Fatah Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed joint responsibility for the attack.
Jan 29, 2004 – Eleven people were killed and over 50 wounded, 13 of them seriously, in a suicide bombing of an Egged bus no. 19 at the corner of Gaza and Arlozorov streets in Jerusalem. The Fatah-related Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack, naming the bomber as Ali Yusuf Jaara, a 24-year-old Palestinian policeman from Bethlehem.
Feb 22, 2004 – Eight people were killed and over 60 wounded, 11 of them school pupils, in a suicide bombing on Jerusalem bus no. 14A near the Liberty Bell Park. The Fatah Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack, which was carried out by Mohammed Za’ul, from the Bethlehem area.
Mar 6, 2004 – Two Palestinian policemen were killed in a terror attack on the Erez crossing in northern Gaza involving rifle fire and suicide car bombs, including jeeps camouflaged as IDF vehicles. Two of the vehicles exploded on the Palestinian side of the crossing, and four terrorists were killed. There were no IDF casualties. Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the military wing of Fatah all claimed responsibility.
Mar 14, 2004 – Ten people were killed and 16 wounded in a double suicide bombing at Ashdod Port. Hamas and Fatah claimed responsibility for the attack.
Apr 17, 2004 – Border Policeman Sgt. Kfir Ohayon, 20, of Eilat was killed, three others wounded when a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up at the Erez Crossing. Hamas and Fatah claimed joint responsibility for the attack.
May 22, 2004 – A suicide bomber was killed when he detonated an explosive device at the Bekaot checkpoint in the northern Jordan Valley. The commander of the IDF checkpoint was lightly injured, as well as several Palestinians. The PFLP claimed responsibility for the attack.
July 11, 2004 – Sgt. Ma’ayan Na’im, 19, of Bat Yam, was killed and 33 wounded when a bomb exploded at a bus stop in downtown Tel Aviv at about 7 a.m. One person was critically wounded, four were moderately wounded, and the rest were lightly hurt.
Aug 11, 2004 – Two Palestinian bystanders were killed and 18 people were wounded, including six Border Policemen, when a bomb was detonated south of the Qalandiyah checkpoint at the northern entrance to Jerusalem.
Aug 31, 2004 – Sixteen people were killed and 100 wounded in two suicide bombings within minutes of each other on two Beersheba city buses, on route nos. 6 and 12. The buses were traveling along Beersheba’s main street, Rager Blvd, near the city hall. Hamas in Hebron claimed responsibility for the attack.
Sept 8, 2004 – A booby-trapped car exploded next to Israeli security personnel at the Baka al-Sharkiyeh checkpoint, near the Green Line border with the West Bank. The Palestinian driver of the car was killed in the blast. The Fatah-related Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
Sept 14, 2004 – A suicide bomber riding on a bicycle blew himself up near an armored IDF jeep at an agricultural gate, south of Qalqilyah, injuring two IDF soldiers.
Sept 22, 2004 – Two Border Policemen were killed and 17 Israelis wounded in a suicide bombing carried out by a female terrorist at the French Hill junction hitchhiking post in northern Jerusalem. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
Oct 7, 2004 – A total of 32 people were killed in terror bombings at two Sinai holiday resorts frequented by Israelis: 29 at the Taba Hilton and three at Ras a-Satan. Among the dead were 12 Israelis; over 120 were wounded.
Nov 1, 2004 – Three people were killed and over 30 wounded in a suicide bombing at the Carmel Market in central Tel Aviv. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in Nablus claimed responsibility for the attack, carried out by Amar Alfar, 18, from Askar refugee camp in Nablus.
Dec 7, 2004 – St.-Sgt. Nadav Kudinsky, 20, of Kiryat Gat of the Oketz canine unit was killed by a bomb, along with his dog, when a booby-trapped chicken coup exploded northwest of the Karni Corssing in the Gaza Strip. Four soldiers were wounded in the exchange of fire while evacuating him. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Jan 5, 2005 – A terrorist infiltrated the Erez crossing terminal in the Gaza Strip, activated an explosive device, hurled grenades and opened fire. An IDF force shot and killed the terrorist. The Islamic Jihad and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
Jan 12, 2005 – One Israeli civilian was killed and three IDF soldiers wounded when a bomb was detonated as a military vehicle patroled the route near Morag in the southern Gaza Strip. Two terrorists were killed by IDF forces. The area was booby-trapped with explosive devices, in addition to the bomb that exploded. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
Jan 13, 2005 – On Thursday night, shortly before the closing of the Karni Crossing, terrorists activated an explosive device on the Palestinian side of the crossing, blowing a hole in the door through which Palestinian terrorists infiltrated the Israeli side of the crossing and opened fire at Israeli civilians. As a result of the explosion and during exchanges of fire, six Israeli civilians and three Palestinian terrorists were killed, and five Israeli civilians were wounded. Hamas and the Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed joint responsiblity for the attack.
Jan 18, 2005 – An ISA officer was killed, an IDF officer seriously wounded, and 4 IDF soldiers and 3 members of the ISA were lightly wounded in a suicide bombing attack at the Gush Katif junction in the central Gaza Strip. While search procedures were being carried out, the suicide bomber with explosives strapped to his body detonated himself. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Feb 25, 2005 – Five people were killed and 50 wounded Friday night, when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside the Stage club on the Tel Aviv promenade at around 11:20 P.M., on the corner of Herbert Samuel and Yonah Hanavi streets. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
July 12, 2005 – Five people were killed and about 90 wounded when a suicide bomber detonated himself outside Hasharon Mall in Netanya. The bomber was identified as Ahmed Abu Khalil, 18, from the West Bank village of Atil. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
Aug 28, 2005 – A suicide bomber detonated himself outside the Beersheba Central Bus Station. Two security guards who stopped the bomber were severely wounded and about 50 people were lightly wounded or treated for shock. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Oct 26, 2005 – Six people were killed and 55 wounded, six seriously, in a suicide bombing at the Hadera open-air market. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
Dec 5, 2005 – Five people were killed and over 50 wounded in a suicide bombing at the entrance to the Sharon shopping mall in Netanya. The terrorist detonated the bomb when he was stopped by security guards, one of whom was killed. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
Dec 29, 2005 – Lt. Ori Binamo, 21, of Nesher was killed when a terrorist en route to carry out an attack in Israel detonated himself at roadblock set up near Tulkarm following an intelligence tip. A second intended suicide terrorist was also killed in the blast as well as the taxi driver and a third passenger. Three soldiers and seven Palestinians were wounded.
Jan 19, 2006 – Thirty-one people were wounded in a suicide bombing in a shawarma restaurant near the old central bus station in Tel Aviv. The Jerusalem Battalions of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
Mar 30, 2006 – Four people were killed when a suicide bomber hitchhiker disguised as an ultra-Orthodox yeshiva student detonated his explosive device in a private vehicle near the entrance to Kedumim.
Apr 17, 2006 – Nine people were killed and over 60 wounded in a suicide bombing Monday afternoon (17 April) near the old central bus station in Tel Aviv, at the Rosh Ha’ir shawarma restaurant, site of the Jan 19 bombing. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
May 27, 2001 – A car bomb exploded in the center of Jerusalem shortly after midnight. There were no injuries. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility.A bomb exploded at 9:00 in the morning near the intersection of the capital’s main Jaffa Road and Heshin Street. The bomb included several mortar shells, some of which were propelled hundreds of meters from the site of the explosion. 30 people were injured, most suffering from shock. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.
May 30, 2001 – A car bomb exploded shortly before 16:00 outside a school in Netanya while a number of students were still in the building studying for matriculation exams. Eight people were injured, suffering from shock and hearing impairment. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.
June 1, 2001 – 21 people were killed and 120 wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside a disco near Tel Aviv’s Dolphinarium along the seafront promenade just before midnight on Friday, June 1, while standing in a large group of teenagers waiting to enter the disco.
June 22, 2001 – Sgt. Aviv Iszak, 19, of Kfar Saba, and Sgt. Ofir Kit, 19, of Jerusalem, were killed near Dugit in the Gaza Strip as a jeep with yellow Israeli license plates, supposedly stuck in the sand, blew up as they approached. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
July 2, 2001 – Two separate bombs exploded at about 8:20 Monday morning in cars in the Tel-Aviv suburb of Yehud. Six pedestrians were lightly injured. Police sources say the bombs were probably set by terrorists. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a radical PLO faction, claimed responsibility.
July 9, 2001 – A Palestinian suicide bomber was killed in a car-bombing attack near the Kissufim crossing point in the southern Gaza Strip, causing no other casualties. Disaster was averted as the bomb exploded without hitting any other vehicles. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
July 16, 2001 – Cpl. Hanit Arami, 19, and St.Sgt. Avi Ben Harush, 20, both of Zichron Yaakov, were killed and 11 wounded – 3 seriously – when a bomb exploded in a suicide terrorist attack at a bus stop near the train station in Binyamina, halfway between Netanya and Haifa, at about 19:30 Monday evening. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
Aug 8, 2001 – A suicide bomber was killed when he detonated his car bomb, lightly wounding one soldier, at a roadblock near the B’kaot moshav in the northern Jordan Valley shortly after 9:00. One soldier was lightly wounded.
Aug 9, 2001 – 15 people were killed, including 7 children, and about 130 injured in a suicide bombing at the Sbarro pizzeria on the corner of King George Street and Jaffa Road in the center of Jerusalem. Hamas and the Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
Aug 12, 2001 – 21 people were injured in a suicide bombing in the Wall Street Cafe in the center of Kiryat Motzkin at 17:30. The terrorist was killed. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
Aug 21, 2001 – A bomb placed under a car exploded at 14:15 near the Russian Compound in downtown Jerusalem; one woman was treated for shock. A second, very large unexploded bomb was discovered inside the car and dismantled.
Sept 4, 2001 – 20 people were injured when a suicide terrorist exploded a powerful charge on Hanevi’im Street near Bikur Holim hospital in central Jerusalem shortly before 8:00 AM. The terrorist, disguised as a Jew in ultra-orthodox clothing, aroused the suspicion of passersby due to the large backpack he was wearing. As two Border Police officers approached the man, he detonated his shrapnel-packed bomb. Both officers were wounded – one critically. The terrorist was killed in the blast. Hamas claimed responsibility.
Sept 9, 2001 – Three people were killed and some 90 injured, most lightly, in a suicide bombing near the Nahariya train station in northern Israel. The terrorist, killed in the blast, waited nearby until the train arrived from Tel-Aviv and people were exiting the station, and then exploded the bomb he was carrying. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Sept 9, 2001 – A car bomb exploded at the Beit Lid junction near Netanya, injuring 17 people. One person killed in the explosion is believed to be the terrorist bomber.
Oct 1, 2001 – A large car bomb exploded in the Talpiot neighborhood of Jerusalem. Several people were lightly injured.
Oct 7, 2001 – Yair Mordechai, 43, of Kibbutz Sheluhot was killed when a Palestinian suicide terrorist affiliated with the Islamic Jihad detonated a large bomb strapped to his body near the entrance of the kibbutz in the Beit She’an Valley.
Nov 26, 2001 – A Palestinian suicide bomber killed himself and lightly wounded two Border Policemen at the Erez crossing point in the Gaza Strip. The bomber joined workers waiting to be cleared for entry into Israel. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Nov 29, 2001 – Three people were killed and nine others were wounded in a suicide bombing on an Egged 823 bus en route from Nazereth to Tel Aviv near the city of Hadera. The Islamic Jihad and Fatah claimed responsibility for the attack.
Dec 1, 2001 – 11 people were killed and about 180 injured when explosive devices were detonated by two suicide bombers close to 11:30 P.M. Saturday night on Ben Yehuda Street, the pedestrian mall in the center of Jerusalem. A car bomb exploded nearby 20 minutes later. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Dec 2, 2001 – 15 people were killed and 40 injured, several critically, in a suicide bombing on an Egged bus No. 16 in Haifa shortly after 12:00. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Dec 5, 2001 – A suicide bomber exploded a powerful bomb shortly after 7:30 AM on King David Street in Jerusalem. A number of people waiting at a nearby bus stop were lightly injured. The terrorist was killed in the blast. Police are investigating whether the bomb, packed with nails and shrapnel, went off prematurely. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.
Dec 9, 2001 – A suicide bomber exploded a powerful bomb near a bus stop at the Checkpost Junction in Haifa shortly after 7:30 AM. About 30 people were injured, most lightly and suffering from shock. A second explosive device was found and detonated nearby. The terrorist was killed.
Dec 12, 2001 – Four people traveling in two cars were lightly wounded in an attack at 18:00 PM by two suicide bombers near the Gaza Strip community of Neve Dekalim.
Jan 25, 2002 – 25 people were wounded when a Palestinian suicide bomber detonated explosives outside a cafe on a pedestrian mall near Tel Aviv’s old central bus station at 11:15 AM on Friday.
Jan 27, 2002 – Pinhas Tokatli, 81, of Jerusalem was killed and over 150 people were wounded, four seriously, in a suicide bombing on Jaffa Road, in the center of Jerusalem, shortly before 12:30. The female terrorist, identified as a Fatah member, was armed with more than 10 kilos of explosives.
Feb 16, 2002 – Two teenagers were killed and about 30 people were wounded, six seriously, when a suicide bomber blew himself up on Saturday night at a pizzeria in the shopping mall in Karnei Shomron in Samaria. A third person subsequently died of his injuries. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility for the attack.
Feb 18, 2002 – Policeman Ahmed Mazarib, 32, of the Bedouin village Beit Zarzir in the Galilee, was killed by a suicide bomber whom he had stopped for questioning on the Ma’ale Adumim-Jerusalem road. The terrorist succeeded in detonating the bomb in his car. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
Feb 27, 2002 – A Palestinian suicide bomber blew herself up at the Maccabim roadblock on the Jerusalem-Modi’in highway Wednesday night, injuring three policemen.
Mar 2, 2002 – Eleven people were killed and over 50 were injured, 4 critically, in a suicide bombing at 19:15 on Saturday evening near a yeshiva in the ultra-Orthodox Beit Yisrael neighborhood in the center of Jerusalem where people had gathered for a bar-mitzva celebration. The terrorist detonated the bomb next to a group of women waiting with their baby carriages for their husbands to leave the nearby synagogue. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade took responsibility for the attack.
Mar 5, 2002 – Maharatu Tagana, 85, of Upper Nazareth was killed and a large number of people injured, most lightly, when a suicide bomber exploded in an Egged No. 823 bus as it entered the Afula central bus station. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
Mar 7, 2002 – A suicide bomber blew himself up in the lobby of a hotel in the commericial center on the outskirts of Ariel in Samaria. 15 people were injured, one seriously. The PFLP claimed responsibility for the attack.
Mar 9, 2002 – 11 people were killed and 54 injured, 10 of them seriously, when a suicide bomber exploded at 22:30 PM Saturday night in the crowded Moment cafe at the corner of Aza and Ben-Maimon streets in the Rehavia neighborhood in the center of Jerusalem. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Mar 17, 2002 – A suicide bomber exploded himself near an Egged bus no. 22 at the French Hill junction in northern Jerusalem. 25 people were lightly injured.
Mar 20, 2002 – Seven people, four of them soldiers, were killed and about 30 wounded, several seriously, in a suicide bombing of an Egged bus No. 823 traveling from Tel Aviv to Nazareth at the Musmus junction on Highway 65 (Wadi Ara) near Afula. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
Mar 21, 2002 – Three people were killed and 86 injured, 3 of them seriously, in a suicide bombing on King George Street in the center of Jerusalem. The terrorist detonated the bomb, packed with metal spikes and nails, in the center of a crowd of shoppers. The Fatah al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
Mar 27, 2002 – 30 people were killed and 140 injured – 20 seriously – in a suicide bombing in the Park Hotel in the coastal city of Netanya, in the midst of the Passover holiday seder with 250 guests. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. The terrorist was a member of Hamas from Tulkarem, on the list of wanted terrorists Israel had requested be arrested.
Mar 29, 2002 – Two people were killed and 28 injured, two seriously when a female suicide bomber blew herself up in the Kiryat Yovel supermarket in Jerusalem. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
Mar 30, 2002 – One person was killed and about 30 people were injured in a suicide bombing in a cafe on the corner of Allenby and Bialik streets in Tel-Aviv. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
Mar 31, 2002 – 15 people were killed and over 40 injured in a suicide bombing in Haifa, in the Matza restaurant of the gas station near the Grand Canyon shopping mall. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Mar 31, 2002 – An MDA paramedic was very seriously injured along with three other people at 17:00 Sunday afternoon in a suicide bombing at the emergency medical center in Efrat, in the Gush Etzion bloc south of Jerusalem.
Apr 1, 2002 – A police officer was killed in Jerusalem when a Palestinian suicide bomber heading toward the city center blew himself up in his car after being stopped at a roadblock. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
Apr 10, 2002 – Eight people were killed and 22 injured in a suicide bombing on Egged bus #960, en route from Haifa to Jerusalem, which exploded near Kibbutz Yagur, east of Haifa. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Apr 12, 2002 – Six people were killed and 104 wounded when a woman suicide bomber detonated a powerful charge at a bus stop on Jaffa road at the entrance to Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda open-air market. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
May 7, 2002 – 16 people were killed and 55 wounded in a crowded game club in Rishon Lezion, southeast of Tel-Aviv, when a suicide bomber detonated a powerful charge in the 3rd floor club, causing part of the building to collapse. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
May 19, 2002 – Three people were killed and 59 injured – 10 seriously – when a suicide bomber, disguised as a soldier, blew himself up in the market in Netanya. Both Hamas and the PFLP took responsibility for the attack.
May 20, 2002 – A suicide bomber, apparently bound for Afula, killed himself after Border Policemen approached him for questioning at a bus stop. There were no other injuries.
May 22, 2002 – Two people were killed and about 40 wounded when a suicide bomber detonated himself in the Rothschild Street downtown pedestrian mall of Rishon Lezion.
May 23, 2002 – A bomb planted by terrorists exploded underneath a fuel truck at the Pi Glilot fuel depot north of Tel Aviv. The truck burst into flames, but the blaze was quickly contained.
May 24, 2002 – A security guard opened fire on a terrorist attempting to ram a car bomb into the Studio 49 Disco in Tel Aviv. The terrorist was killed and five Israelis slightly injured when the bomb exploded prematurely.
Apr 6, 1994 – Eight people were killed in a car-bomb attack on a bus in the center of Afula. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Apr 13, 1994 – Five people were killed in a suicide bombing attack on a bus in the central bus station of Hadera. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Oct 19, 1994 – In a suicide bombing attack on the No. 5 bus on Dizengoff Street in Tel-Aviv, 21 Israelis and one Dutch national were killed.
Nov 11, 1994 – Three soldiers were killed at the Netzarim junction in the Gaza Strip when a Palestinian riding a bicycle detonated explosives strapped to his body. Islamic Jihad said it carried out the attack to avenge the car bomb killing of Islamic Jihad leader Hani Abed on Nov 2.
Jan 22, 1995 – Two consecutive bombs exploded at the Beit Lid junction near Netanya, killing 20 soldiers and one civilian. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
Apr 9, 1995 – Seven Israelis and one American were killed when a bus was hit by an explosives-laden van near Kfar Darom in the Gaza Strip. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
Jul 24, 1995 – Six civilians were killed in a suicide bomb attack on a bus in Ramat Gan.
Aug 21, 1995 – Three Israelis and one American were killed in a suicide bombing of a Jerusalem bus.
Feb 25, 1996 – In a suicide bombing of bus No. 18 near the Central Bus Station in Jerusalem, 26 were killed (17 civilians and 9 soldiers). Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Feb 25, 1996 – One Israeli was killed in an explosion set off by a suicide bomber at a hitchhiking post oustide Ashkelon. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Mar 3, 1996 – In a suicide bombing of bus No. 18 on Jaffa Road in Jerusalem, 19 were killed (16 civilians and 3 soldiers).
Mar 4, 1996 – Outside Dizengoff Center in Tel-Aviv, a suicide bomber detonated a 20-kilogram nail bomb, killing 13 (12 civilians and one soldier).
Mar 21, 1997 – Three people were killed when a suicide bomber detonated a bomb on the terrace of a Tel Aviv cafe. 48 people were wounded.
Jul 30, 1997 – 16 people were killed and 178 wounded in two consecutive suicide bombings in the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem.
Sep 4, 1997 – Five people were killed and 181 wounded in three suicide bombings on the Ben-Yehuda pedestrian mall in Jerusalem.
Oct 29, 1998 – One Israeli soldier was killed when a terrorist drove an explosives-laden car into an Israeli army jeep escorting a bus with 40 elementary school students from the settlement of Kfar Darom in the Gaza Strip.
Nov 2, 2000 – Ayelet Shahar Levy, 28, and Hanan Levy, 33, were killed in a car bomb explosion near the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem. 10 people were injured. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
Nov 20, 2000 – A roadside bomb exploded at 7:30 in the morning alongside a bus carrying children from Kfar Darom to school in Gush Katif. Miriam Amitai, 35, and Gavriel Biton, 34, were killed and 9 others, including 5 children, were injured, 5 of them seriously.
Nov 22, 2000 – Shoshanna Reis, 21, of Hadera, and Meir Bahrame, 35, of Givat Olga, were killed, and 60 wounded when a powerful car bomb was denotated alongside a passing bus on Hadera’s main street, when the area was packed with shoppers and people driving home from work.
Dec 22, 2000 – Three soldiers were injured in a suicide bomb attack at the Mehola Junction roadside cafe in the northern Jordan Valley. The terrorist, who detonated a belt of explosives strapped to him, was killed in the blast.
Jan 1, 2001 – A car bomb exploded near a bus stop in the shopping district in the center of Netanya. About 60 people were injured, most lightly. One unidentified person, apparently one of the terrorists involved in the bombing, died of severe burns. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Feb 8, 2001 – A powerful car bomb exploded at 4:40 PM in the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Beit Yisrael in Jerusalem, causing mild injuries to four people.
Feb 14, 2001 – Eight people were killed and 25 injured when a bus driven by a Palestinian terrorist plowed into a group of soldiers and civilians waiting at a bus stop near Holon, south of Tel-Aviv.
Mar 1, 2001 – One person was killed and 9 injured when a terrorist detonated a bomb in a Tel Aviv to Tiberias service taxi at the Mei Ami junction in Wadi Ara.
Mar 4, 2001 – Three people were killed and at least 60 injured in a suicide bombing in downtown Netanya.
Mar 27, 2001 – A car bomb exploded at 7:40 in the morning in the Talpiot industrial/commercial zone in Jerusalem. Seven people were injured, one moderately. The Islamic Jihad has claimed responsibility for the attack.
Mar 27, 2001 – 28 people were injured, two seriously, in a suicide bombing directed against a northbound No. 6 bus at the French Hill junction in Jerusalem. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Mar 28, 2001 – Two teenagers were killed and four injured, one critically, in a suicide bombing at the Mifgash Hashalom (”peace stop”) gas station several hundred meters from an IDF roadblock near the entrance to Kalkilya, east of Kfar Saba. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Apr 22, 2001 – A terrorist detonated a powerful bomb he was carrying near a group of people waiting at a bus stop on the corner of Weizman and Tchernichovsky streets in Kfar Sava. One person was killed and about 60 injured in the blast, two severely. The terrorist was also killed in the explosion, for which Hamas claimed responsibility.
Apr 23, 2001 – Eight people were lightly hurt in a car bombing in Or Yehuda, a few kilometers north of Ben-Gurion Airport, which senior police officers said could only be described as a “miracle” in an area packed with pre-Independence Day shoppers.
Apr 29, 2001 – A car bomb blew up close to a school bus travelling near the West Bank city of Nablus. There were no injuries in the attack. The body of the suicide bomber was found in the car. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
May 18, 2001 – A Palestinian suicide bomber wearing an explosive vest detonated himself outside the Hasharon Shopping Mall in the seaside city of Netanya. Five civilians were killed and over 100 wounded in the attack. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
May 25, 2001 – 65 people were injured in a car bombing in the Hadera central bus station. The two terrorists were apparently killed in the explosion. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.
Satisfied KFG?
Heheh. Nathan, you are too funny. I did indeed plow through ALL of the garbage. And guess what?
NOTHING in those links proves that the incidents were, as you said, “suicide bombings which only targeted civilians for the sole purpose of killing civilians”
You failed to prove your premise.
So to use your tactic Nathan, I still see NO proof of the TARGETING of civilians for the SOLE purpose of killing civilians.
I see no evidence of the intent of the perps. I only see accidental collateral damage to civilians.
Your list sounds just like the israeli and u.s attacks that YOU SAY, only kill civilians by accident while targeting the real bad guys.
Dont you think the incidents you list could be described the same way?
You know, like the u.s. military bombings. Civilian deaths are only collateral damage, just like in the above.
PROVE THE INTENT NATHAN. And cite a source and/or link for your long list. Surely it isnt a tinfoil site, is it?
KFG,
If you think blowing up a bus full of people and blowing up a shop full of people and blowing up a disco is not targeting civilians…
There is no hope for you.
Your willful ignorance and disregard for the way suicide bombers attack civilian targets killing innocent people is quite disturbing to say the least.
Nathan – a number of those took place outside of israel proper in the occupation zone. Using your “A-B” logic why do the paramilitaries take their families with them into the war zone? Also, using your logic as long as there was just one soldier or politician on a bus then it is as legitimate a target as an apartment building targeted by a one-ton bomb.
THERE ARE NO ISRAELI CIVILIANS IN THE TERRITORIES. EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THEM IS A SELF-DESCRIBED SOLDIER. As a result of their actions by taking part in the occupation they make themselves legitimate targets.
The funny thing is that if Nathan were a Palestinian–and there are Christian Palestinians even though Pat Robertson will never tell you about them–he would be the one SETTING THE CHARGES after what Israel has done.
Nathan thinks its fully justified for America to LEVEL FALLUJAH killing hundreds if not thousands of civilians (the military isn’t saying) because a small group of insurgents killed four private mercenaries helping to occupy their country, but vehemently condemns any reprisals against Israel for doing much worse than what Iraq has done to us.
Israel could stop the violence in one week if it wanted to. Cede East Jersalem to Palestine, give back occupied lands, respect Palestinians’ legitimate real estate ownership, and give them their own state.
It won’t do that because the state of Israel was an illegal act from the very onset. They dare not start down that slippery slope.
So both sides condemn themselves to violence without end.
And btw, Nathan, your reaction to the death of AMERICAN Rachel Corrie when an Israeli bulldozer mowed her down with malice aforethought?
LeftHook – Rachel Corrie deserved to die. After all, she was trying to prevent a civilian Palestinian family from being crushed in their civilian home.
Ben,
I think I just lost all respect for you as a person.
I honestly thought you were an intelligent guy, well reasoned, and objective.
I listed many attacks above that were nothing more than simply blowing up civilians at shopping malls, disco’s and on buses.
Hamas, Islamic Jihad, or whatever they called themselves never claimed legitimate military targets.
In most instances they were attacking the “enemy” whom they viewed to be any citizen of Israel.
When Israel is attacking targets where they accidently kill civilians they are not gleeful about it. They do no revel in it. They do not cheer. They explain how the target they were after was a military target and civilians accidently were killed.
This is not what the suicide bombers do.
They purposefully try to cause as much collateral damage as possible for the sole purpose of causing terror.
That is why they use suicide bombers! Becuase a person can wait and time the explosion to cause the most death possible.
The purpose of suicide bombing is not to take out a military target and if it was they do not even try to limit civilian death at all. They try to cause as much as they can.
Do you still honestly see no difference?
Ben,
Now you are really being dishonest.
On that day the bulldozers were not destroying homes.
They were clearing the security zone of brush and debris.
“I think I just lost all respect for you as a person.”
Ouch Ben, I bet that hurts like hell. heheheheh.
Still no proof nathan? Just your opinion about the circumstances? Links and sources please, otherwise you are just stomping your feet and having a hissy fit.
Not attractive for a big tough marine aspiring to be jesus’ general.
Is a falafel stand not a civilian location? Or is it justifiable killing if we do it?
This from the man who wanted to debate the meaning of kill…..
Lefthook,
It was investigated. There is not any proof that the driver of the bulldozer intentionally tried to run her over.
KFG,
I provided a list of suicide bombings.
You want to bring up the kill verses muder thing again?
What is the Hebrew word used in the commandment?
How many times was that word used in the Old Testiment?
What is the meaning of that word?
Seriously do try to do some research and be honest.
Speaking of research…
Still havent seen the sources or the links for that long but meaningless list.
I guess if it didnt come from the bible, nathan cant find it. Can you say blinders?
Yeah, she was easy to miss there jumping up and down and waving her arms in her blaze-orange warning vest.
Martin Luther King’s assassination. There was no evidence the shooter was trying to kill King. Maybe he was just cleaning his rifle on the roof of a neighboring building and it accidentally discharged.
Yeah, that could happen.
Or the Hamas bus bombings. Maybe the insurgent was just taking some dynamite home for a science experiment he was conducting. As he was travelling on the bus, an old man hit the bag with his cane.
There’s no evidence that the bombing was deliberate after all.
Or 9-11. How do we know the terrorists deliberately flew the jets into the World Trade Center. We can’t read their minds, can we?
Maybe they were just hijacking the planes to fly to Cuba and took a wrong turn.
That could definitely happen.
I gotta start using this line of argument. It’s a helluva lot easier than thinking . . .
Investigated? By whom? Suppose I told you that all of the ones you listed were “investigated” and found to be OK? Would that make it so?
I have labeled bombings that take place IN ISRAEL against civilians as being terrorist; just as I label those perpetrated by the IDF as such.
Speaking of “investigated” several IDF have been indicted by British courts. Apparently the British have a different sort of “investigated” than the perpetrators do.
“When Israel is attacking targets where they accidently kill civilians they are not gleeful about it. They do no revel in it. They do not cheer. They explain how the target they were after was a military target and civilians accidently were killed.”
I will agree that Israel has a much better PR Department. Their Ministry of Truth works very well with their Ministry of Peace.
Aspecific question for you Nathan: If Hamas knows an IDF soldier is living in an apartment building is it OK to bomb it, killing everyone in it, in order to kill the soldier? Would all the others in the building be “accidental” as long as they said “sorry about that”? That is the standard YOU use for Israel.
At least 9 of the attacks listed by Nathan above took place in the war zone. Why were these civilians traveling in the war zone? Why did they place themselves in the line of fire?
palestinians have no choice but to live in the war zone; making them letimate targets in the eyes of Nathan (collateral too close); these Israelis could have stayed in Israel instead of traveling to the Front.
Still no links or sources? I think nathan has left the arena, wrapped in his self righteousness.
You were correct CF. Predicting the wingnut response is not rocket science.
Oops. Heheh. I said science.
KFG,
While you try to make this about me, I will continue to dicuss the topic.
Ben,
Were all of the attacks I listed above military targets?
Most of them?
Half of them?
Let me ask you some questions:
Why suicide bombing? What is the purpose of it? How is suicide bombing a more effective way to take out a military target?
If the target is a military one then why do they always attack them in public places surrounded by civilians?
Apparently about half were in the war zone. Of the other half I do not know how many might have had a soldier present as a target (using your rules of engagement). Is an apartment building a miliatry target? A bus? A taxi? According to you YES as long as they are Palestinian.
Why suicide? How else? The US doesn’t give them helicopters, bombers, missles.
You final question could be asked of BOTH sides. Ask the family whose home was shelled and girl killed (and other children maimed). Oh, I forgot, they were COLLATERAL. They had no business living in Gaza.
Ben,
What is the ration of civilian deaths in the Palestinian attacks to those in Israel attacks?
Seriously.
Compare the two.
Lets look at every attack by Israel on a military target and the resulting civilian deaths and wounded verses those of the Palestinians.
See any disparity yet?
Nathan, are you ashamed of your source for the long list of atrocities? Then why not post the link or cite the source?
I think calling you on your source, and your divine ability to discern intent, is very much on topic.
I dont see you answering Ben’s questions. I dont see you posting links or sources.
Until you do, I dont see you having ANY credibility here.
Do you get away with not citing sources in a REAL debate?
KFG–
(In a Mexican accent) “Sourcis? We don’ need no steekin’ sourcis!” (Pulls out revolver) “Ahora, baile! baile!”
Shoots at floor causing KFG to “dance.”
Nathan – the ratio is about 10 to 1. 10 palestinian civilians for every Israeli civilian.
The same guy that argues there’s no evidence that Rachel Corrie was deliberately crushed by a bulldozer argues that Bush had lots of evidence of WMD’s in Iraq.
Go figure . . .
KFG – I don’t doubt Nathan’s list. In fact, I will agree to labe the half of them that took place inside israel as terrorist bombings even though they have been fully investigated and found to be legitimate because there might have been an IDF soldier present. I reject such “investigations”. My point is that blowing up an apartment building or bus is terrorist regardless of which side is doing it. Nathan contends that as long as there might be a Palestinian policeman etc nearby it is OK to blow those up.
Ben, Since the year 2000 the Palestinians have suffered 5000 dead and the Zionists have suffered 1000 dead.
The Palestinians have clearly stated what they want to stop all violence on their part. The Palestinians would gladly use better weapons than “suicide-Bombers” as one bomb dropped from a plane does far more damage.
If the Palestinians are allow to succeed, then Israel can no longer collect billions in foreign aid from the US Treasury as the economy will be self-sufficed, and military expenses will no longer be necessary.
The US “Cash-Cow” will be gone.
Using Nathan’s own argument–there is no evidence that the thousand Israelis killed in so-called “attacks” were intentional.
Maybe there’re just a lot of people walking around in Palestine with explosives and they accidentally go off.
Can you read the so-called “suicide bombers’” minds?
Didn’t think so . . .
Somebody PROVE to me (the way Nathan demands proof) that Hamas was behind those bombings and that the bombings were intentional.
I’m waiting . . .
Lefthook,
If you even read the stuff I posted many tell you who claimed responsibility…
Still no link or source nathan?
“Still no link or source nathan?”
He’s waiting for someone else to do it! (nod to flike on that one. . :-).
I provided a hundred examples or more.
I am still waiting for more than your misconstrued lies about one girl getting hit by a bulldozer.
Why is no Arab nation wants the Palestinians. Perhaps they know the vermin for what they are.