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

[yonif]

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

[Alouette]

it had a list of all the suicide bombings, etc. done since September 11th 2001 or something like that. Do you know of any kind of site that has a comprehensive list like that with date and number killed, injured; anything.

We should not forget

[veronica]

Barbarians at the gate. Why doesn't Sharon just exile Arafat and throw all the terrorist groups out already. They are animals and should be treated that way.

[pgkdan]

Also, this jackass does NOT represent Roman Catholics. I resent the attempted implication that he does.

Regrettably he does represent the Church in Israel. He is the Latin Patriarch and an Archbishop. He doesn't speak for you and I , but he does represent the Church.

[WV Mountain Mama]

Praying for the families. This is the second morning in a row that I have been sick and furious at the same time with the terrorists a$$holes. I wish Israel would have sent the prisoners back to Hezbollah in a matchbox. If violence is all the terrorists understand, then show no mercy, and make sure they learn a big lesson. I hope your son stays safe, and your daughter when she moves.

[AAABEST]

Yes you're right, I'm beyond horrified. As the thread went along I learned more about this insane and foolish idiot. I apologized to diogenesis.

It's very, very disturbing.

[pgkdan]

And by the way, what is a "Latin Patriarch"? I didn't know that there was any country called "Latin".

The Greek Orthodox and Roman Catholic Church share most of the holy Christian shrines in Israel. There are two Patriarchs...Latin (Roman Catholic) and Greek.

[AAABEST]

Thank you. I've been very lucky to have been set straight here today by so many informative people.

The idea that this moron is given so much influence by my Church is disturbing. It's stuff like this that has pushed me toward the trad movement, as It seems as if Rome is collectively losing it's mind and becoming a figurative lepar.

[pgkdan]

As the thread went along I learned more about this insane and foolish idiot. I apologized to diogenesis.

I see that now...I came late to the thread and posted to you a couple of times.

I was moved to reply to you because I share your shame and outrage. I've been told by some that the only reason he supports Arafat and the PLO is to prevent the persecution of Christians in the Holy Land by islamics. But as far as I'm concerned that's a load of crap. The Lord said "blessed are they that are persecuted for my names sake"...not blessed are they who cooperate with eveil to avoid persecution! Michel Sabbah is in league with the devil.

[AAABEST]

I've been told by some that the only reason he supports Arafat and the PLO is to prevent the persecution of Christians in the Holy Land by islamics.

How on earth does he equate Palestinian control over our the Holy Land as a deterrent to persecution by Arabs? It would seem to follow that giving control to Muslim crazies as opposed to civilized Jews would accomplish just the opposite.

I'm feeling naive here, but maybe you can clue me in to his apparently warped logic.

[Jaguar Girl]

Prayers for Israel.

[American in Israel]

But, I hear that even other Arabs don't much care for them...

That is because every Arab country that has hosted them has been the victim of their terror attacks and attempts to take over the country. They have been acting like this for over 50 years. Now they have raised an entire generation of suicide bombers. Over 300,000 under the age of 15 claim they wish for death by killing others over life. That is child abuse that cannot be reversed, the only end is death.

The question is simply this, do we want to kill them now wholesale, or wait until they spread world wide taking hundreds of thousands of innocents with them.

[BlackElk]

I am the sort of Roman Catholic who wants long-time Marxist operative Arafat (the counterfeit Palestinian who is actually an Egyptian formerly on the payroll of the Bulgarian KGB to the tune of $250 thousand per month according to the recent WSJ article of his former Bulgarian paymaster) squashed like a bug. I also have little use for Sabbah just as I have little use for some AmChurch prelates like Los Angeles's Roger Cardinal Mahoney. I also favor Israel in its tussles with the despicable criminals who try to besiege Israel and think of Sharon as a moderate who ought to really unleash his forces.

That having been said, you will have to do better than a photo, a time reference and simultaneous innocent Jewish blood flowing in the streets. John Paul II met with soviet bosses on several occasions. That did not make him responsible for the gulag or for the Iron Curtain. In fact, his efforts were a major contribution to bringing both down. If you don't believe me, ask the non-Catholic Mrs. Thatcher. She knows what went on.

More than you apparently recognize, Catholics are your friends and not your enemies. That Archbishop Sabbah is simultaneously a Palestinian, a Catholic prelate and a fool is not without precedent. No religion has been so blessed as to be bereft of idjits. Abe Foxman does not speak for all Jews, as many of his subsidiary leaders in ADL have often publicly reminded him. Nor does Rabbi Hier.

Unless you have better justification or withdraw your ill considered anti-Catholic post, I guess we will have to add you to the bigot list.

[American in Israel]

I wonder if the perceived significance of this number played any part in choosing it as a target.

The bus exploded right at the moment it began to turn away from Sharon's compound. I am pretty sure it was a message to Sharon. Seems every time Sharon tries to make peace, someone or someone's die. Wish Sharon would understand the message someday.

Islam is a religion of death, anybody that reads the Koran or the stories of Mohammad can see that. Nobody can make peace with them, it is against their religion. It is clearly spelled out that treaties are only for rearming for the purpose of slaughtering those you make treaties with.

You want peace with Islam, you must kill them.

[all4one]

Hopefully the 450 terrorist prisoners were sent back home with a tracking chip implanted under their skin. Track them back to their rat holes and send in missiles to kill them and their cohorts.

How many innocents must be murdered by arab terrorists, before the world takes notice and demands consequences? I can't imagine my family and friends living in Israel, and never knowing if a bus ride would end in a loved ones murder. I pray for the innocents and their families.

[DonnerT]

The cream rises to the top, after all

I think you're wrong there.
Its crap that floats.

[American in Israel]

Israel is not dead yet, just very patient. You have seen the track record of Moslems. Soon there will be a slaughter that will surpass the Holocaust, and millions of Arabs will die. I have no doubt that the Arabs will start another war, and I have no doubt that once again, Israel and her God will finish it. Only this time it will be a Nuclear war.

The end result will be tens if not hundreds of millions dead. The Bible speaks very clearly of this war, of Damascus being turned into rubble in one night. There currently are over 4,000,000 Arabs in Damascus alone.

In the end, the world will forgive the Arabs the slaughter of the Jews that they started with, but Hate Israel for the Slaughter of the Arabs that finishes it.

Tough Titties, the Arabs deserve it, don't they? But Justice is not what the world is about, conquest, riches, and Hate is what makes the world go around.

If the world can stand silently as 2,000,000 Sudanese Christians are killed and their wives and children sold into slavery, so the Arabs can have yet more oil, yet bomb Christian Nations because Moslem's complain about "apartheid", the world will do just as the Bible says; The world will attack Israel and surround Jerusalem to destroy it.

I for one believe the Bible when it says God will utterly destroy every nation that takes part in attacking Jerusalem, or "cut asunder" every nation that tries to move Jerusalem's borders. Our President needs to read his Bible, to keep from destroying with Gods hands our Nation.

What God promises, God does, and what is in the Bible is placed there as a warning. Someone needs to read the warning labels on the Book of Life.

[American in Israel]

Also, this jackass does NOT represent Roman Catholics. I resent the attempted implication that he does.

I have learned the bigger the cross, the less the Christian. This "jackass" is a CINO, Christian in Name Only. He is in the presence the worlds most famous Mass Murderer, and he is not troubled, he is not serious, he is smiling and shaking hands while wearing the most gaudy cross he could get his hands on.

My Guess is God is planning to have a long talk with this boy on his way to "The Barbecue". When the Scriptures say that the enemy has sewn tares among the wheat, and God says wait till the harvest, then the tares will be gathered for burning, this boy is a tare, a wolf in sheep's clothing.

In no way is he representative of Catholics, he is a representative of Satan, placed there to tarnish the Church.

[AAABEST]

Black Elk:

I'm terribly sorry that I've pinged everyone and caused confusion.... I've alread apologized to Dio. This a-hole ran a radio program called "Voice of the PLO" or some such insanity. Apparantly he has much authority (from Rome) in Isreal with regard to our Holy shrines.

Yes he is a sicko and very much a part of the problem. I wish to correct my error and apoloigize once again.