Another Bombed Bus in Jerusalem

Earshot | Feb 21 | American in Israel

[American in Israel]

Not sure how bad, can just hear hundreds of sirens.

[American in Israel]

Later dudes, gotta run, I am late late late... Blessings to youall, including Sag, he needs double.

[yonif]

As usual, Israel Radio playing sad Israeli songs. This is a given after any terror attack.

[The Westerner]

Any sane moral person looking at the photos that precede this post would have a righteous anger. Any person who would restrain the victims from responding is playing an evil role in history. There is evidence before our eyes. This is not a hidden concentration camp. This is a holocaust in slow motion.

[Slings and Arrows]

AiI, I don't know how I can justify another vote for Bush if he continues to follow the Roadmap and restrain Sharon. What do you think? I realize this is another hard day there. I hope you are right that the anger is simmering in the people. Remember, they were in denial about Hitler and that was suicidal as well.

I share your anger, but the fact is that a Democrat - any Democrat - would be far worse than Pres. Bush. Think of Dean's "even-handed" comment, or Kerry saying he would appoint Jimmy Carter and X42 as special envoys to the Mideast. In the matter of Israel, Pres. Bush may not be the best choice, but he is the best choice available to us.

(Please don't misunderstand me - I love and respect Dubya. I do, though, think he needs stop restraining Israel.)

[yonif]

Personally, it doesn't matter if its a dem or republican in power. US policy has always been the same towards Israel.

[tubavil]

Yes, yes.

[yonif]

The Holocaust never stopped. It was simply passed on to new owners.

[MissAmericanPie]

Ya'll must have nerves of steel.

[tubavil]

The facts don't bear you out. Look at the number of dead Jews during 8 years of Klinton and three years of bush.

The intifada is at its peak NOW and bush wants to reward arab muslim terrorist arafat (the biggest Jew killer since hitler) with his own terror state.

[yonif]

"Life is more important than quality of life."
10:40 Feb 22, '04 / 30 Shevat 5764


So said an eyewitness to the attack this morning - Jeursalem City Councilman Nir Barkat - who said that he had planned to go to The Hague today to protest the "terrible double standard that the world applies to Israel."


"Life is more important than quality of life." So said an eyewitness to the attack this morning - Jeursalem City Councilman Nir Barkat - who said that he had planned to go to The Hague today to protest the "terrible double standard that the world applies to Israel. Our right to live takes precedence over any harm to those who will have more difficulty getting to work as a result of a partition or other measures that we take to protect ourselves. I saw what was inside that bus, and I know that the world doesn't want to know what happened there - but it must know."

Danny Seaman, who heads the Government Press Office, was on his way to work in Jerusalem this morning when the latest attack occurred. He said that his first concern is that Israel must be able to protect itself from the murder of its citizens "merely because they are Israelis," and that in his professional capacity, "I am here to help the international media transmit this story accurately." He noted that while the Mayor of The Hague shows solidarity with the Arabs and against the construction of Israel's counter-terrorism partition fence, "his counterpart in Jerusalem [Uri Lupoliansky] is forced to come several times a year to see how his citizens are murdered."

Arutz-7 reported last week, based on an interview in the Kuwaiti Al-Siyasah newspaper, that 40 representatives of Arab terror groups and Syrian, Lebanese and Iranian intelligence officials convened in Lebanon early this month and decided upon a renewed terrorist offensive against Israelis and Israeli interests abroad.

[Concerned]

SLINGS AND ARROWS WROTE: "Am I the only one who sees the irony of the poster behind that guy?"

Nope. I noticed the same thing.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

US policy has always been the same towards Israel.

That may have been true before 9-11.

Not now.

Bush is cleaning house. But when one in five human beings on the planet is Muslem, it takes a little time.

[Don Joe]

This will not stop until the Arabs fear Israel and the United States, instead of laugh at us.

For Israel, I suspect that day is fast approaching.

For us, though, I fear not. We are sated on bread and circuses. More and more, it looks like our future will resemble the Fall of Rome.

[Iris7]

Well, of course. If you folks think you will "live in peace" without "terror" anytime within many hundreds of years you are mistaken. The "Palestinians" will hate you forever and ever, and if you are all dead your memory will be of dark forces, monsters, the devil's get. Or, Islam will be discredited, and your problems much reduced.

The fence and working on the money will work best of all your options. You will also have to deal with your sentimental humanists.

[The Westerner]

I am sorry for every mother and father in Israel today who will learn that their precious child is dead or wounded. I no longer expect Sharon to respond. Israel is paying a fatal price for relying on American support.

If the leaders would free her economy of socialism, you wouldn't have to take our aid anymore. Then the Powells and Bushes and Rices of the U.S. couldn't "restrain" her any longer.

Good night, Yonif.

[Rt_wingnut]

Anyone who has read much of the bible will know what side of Israel to side on. It p*sses me off to her "them" referred to as "suicide" bombers!!!! They commit MURDER not suicide!!!

[yonif]

Israel's can't wait any longer until the US decides its time to allow Israel to destroy the Palestinian Authority terrorist regime. Only 1% of the world's population is Jewish, and even less of them are in Israel itself.

US policy continues to view the territories as "occupied," US still supports a "two-state solution," US still gives money to the PA, allows its offices to remain open, and refuses to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital.

THe US wants to clean house? Fine. So call the kettle black, while continuing to take them down 1 by 1. Just like we call the Syrians a terror regime and Iran a terrorist regime. And we haven't taken military action against them....yet. Do the same with the Palestinian Authority.

[yonif]

bump

[yonif]

Let's call them genocide bombers.

[yonif]

The roadways around the terror attack are back to normal. The scene has been cleared, and Israelis are going about their daily business as usual now.