7 KILLED, 20 HURT IN BUS ATTACK NEAR SETTLEMENT OF IMMANUEL

Ha'aretz ^ | July 16, 2002 | Amos Harel, Haim Shadmi and Nadav Shragai,

[Clive]

Seven people were killed and at least 20 people were injured when an explosive device was detonated and shots were fired Tuesday afternoon near a bus close to the West Bank settlement of Immanuel.

Magen David Adom officials reported that eight people were in serious condition.

"A roadside device detonated as a bus was passing near the Immanuel settlement, and shooting then followed," said police spokesman Rafi Yaffe.

According to initial reports, the bus was first hit by several roadside devices, and passengers were then fired on as they left the vehicle. The terrorists who fired on the bus were dressed in IDF uniforms.

Channel Two television said that the injured were not only from the bus, but from a vehicle that was driving ahead of it.

The attack took place shortly after 3 P.M., south-west of the West Bank city of Nablus.

The bus attacked was No. 189, and was operating in conjunction with the Dan company. The bus departed from the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Bnei Brak, near Tel Aviv, at around 2.15 P.M.

The injured were taken to Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva, Tel Hashomer in Tel Aviv and Meir in Kfar Sava.

The attack was similar to an ambush on a bus outside Immanuel on December 12 last year in which 10 people were killed.

Emergency Numbers: Beilinson Hospital: 1255134 Meir Hospital: 1255199 Tel Hashomer Hospital: 1255131

[rmlew]

One need only have a Jewish maternal grandmother to immigrate to Israel with your spouse and children. this has led to a situation where there are thousands of non-Jewish immigrants.

[rmlew]

I thought the parallels to the US -- a third world labor force vs. Jewish "Buchananites" (my term) -- was ironic.

Buchanan is an anti-Zionist. Still tbhere are Israeli paloecons. Check out Moledet and National Union.

[Alouette]

I wonder how many Russians pretend to be Jewish to get into the US or Israel?

It is estimated that 60-70% of Russians emigrating to Israel are non-Jewish. They are not even Jewish according to "Hitler" since they claim bogus "Jewish" relatives. Nevertheless they are allowed to come in because Labor and Meretz need more seculars to oppose those Orthodox riffraff who reproduce almost as fast as the Arabs.

[Commie Basher]

Buchanan is an anti-Zionist. Still tbhere are Israeli paloecons. Check out Moledet and National Union.

My point was that Buchanan wants to preserve what he sees as America's original "white Christian" character, and there are Jews who want to preserve Israel's Jewish character. That's why I call them "Jewish Buchananites." Not because they are both paleocons, but because they are both ethnic/religious nationalists.

[Commie Basher]

It is estimated that 60-70% of Russians emigrating to Israel are non-Jewish.

Really? Where do you get those numbers? Two thirds of Russian immigrants claiming to be Jewish have no Jewish relatives? I'd assumed there were a few, but not so many.

In NY, it seems most Russian immigrants are Jews. I've passed many Jewish centers/synagogues with Russian lettering, but have yet to pass a Russian Orthodox church. (Not that I've been everywhere in NY, mainly just parts of Queens and Manhattan).

[Alouette]

Really? Where do you get those numbers?

Jerusalem Post: New demographic time bomb

[TheOtherOne]

Thanks for the photos, here is another.

Tue Jul 16, 1:36 PM ET

An Israeli police officer waves away members of the media from a destroyed bus, at the scene of an attack against Israelis at the entrance to the Jewish settlement of Emmanuel, in the West Bank, Tuesday July 16, 2002. Palestinians dressed as Israeli soldiers detonated a roadside bomb near the bus heading to the settlement Tuesday, and then sprayed the passengers with gunfire as they tried to flee, military sources and witnesses said. Seven people were killed and more than a dozen wounded. (AP Photo/Eitan Hess-Askenazi)

[JAWs]

The issue you described is hardly unique to Israel. In fact Europe has faced precisely the same issues. And I am sure that threre are a number of Filipino guest workers in Israel as well.

[Centurion2000]

Don't reign in the Israeli extremists. Let the Palistinians feel what it's like to be on the recieving end of a car bomb outside a Mosque...

Actually the Israeli extermists will do on better than that. They'll demolish the Dome of the Rock.