**Graphic Content Warning** Photos of Suicide Blast in Israel

Yahoo - Reuters Photos ^ | 3-27-02

[Oldeconomybuyer]

A victim of the Netanya hotel bomb blast, with his face covered in blood, sits in an ambulance arriving at the Kfar Saba hospital Wednesday, March 27, 2002. A suicide bomber blew himself up Wednesday in the hotel dining room in this Israeli resort as guests gathered for a Passover Seder, the ritual evening meal ushering in the Jewish holiday. Police said 15 people were killed and more than 100 wounded in one of the deadliest attacks in 18 months of fighting. (AP Photo/Gadi Kabalo) ***ISRAEL OUT***

A policeman stands near a line of bodies outside a hotel in the Israeli seaside resort of Netanya March 27, 2002 after it was attacked. The Islamic militant group Hamas claimed responsibility on Wednesday for the suicide bombing of an Israeli hotel that killed at least 15 people. REUTERS/Havakuk Levison

Police carry a body after a bomb exploded in Netanya, Israel March 27, 2002. A suicide bomber blew himself up in the dining room of an Israeli coastal hotel on Wednesday evening, killing 15 people and wounding more than 100, police and medical rescue workers said. REUTERS/Laszlo Balogh

Rescue workers look over the damaged hotel in the Israeli seaside resort of Netanya March 27, 2002. The Islamic militant group Hamas claimed responsibility on Wednesday for the suicide bombing of an Israeli hotel that killed at least 15 people. REUTERS/Havakuk Levison

Palestinian militant group claims responsibility for suicide bombing (AP)
The Islamic militant who blew himself up Wednesday in the dining hall of an Israeli hotel in Netanya once worked in hotels in the Mediterranean resort town, Palestinian security sources said.
- Mar 27 3:46 PM ET

U.S. Condemns Suicide Bombing in Israel (Reuters)
The United States condemned the bombing which killed 15 people in the Israeli town of Netanya on Wednesday and said it showed the need for Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to crack down on militants.
- Mar 27 3:26 PM ET

Explosion at Israeli hotel during Passover; 15 killed (AP)
A suicide bomber blew himself up Wednesday evening in a hotel dining room in the Israeli coastal resort of Netanya as guests gathered there for a Passover Seder, the ritual meal ushering in the Jewish holiday. Police said 15 people were killed and more than 100 wounded.
- Mar 27 1:37 PM ET

[besieged]

What is this I hear??? Has the US FINALLY condemned an act of terrorism in Israel!!! AMEN!!! FINALLY WE ARE GETTING SOMEWHERE!!!

Now, all I can hope for to get peace on earth is for someone from State to mention the need to "end the cycle of Violence". What more can we ask for?

My my... when did the US get castrated? I don't remember signing up for the operation. Disgusting.

[MLedeen]

There's moral equivalence for you, "all Israelis into Nazis." It can end lots of different ways. It can end if all Israelis surrender and leave. It can end if Israel drives all the Arabs out of Israel. It can end if the Palestinians get leaders who want to end the war. It can end if the United States puts Arafat on the terror list and attacks him along with all the rest of the terrorists when we go into the region...is that good for a start?

[freeasinbeer]

You are kidding, correct?

It is FACT that the Jews occupied the lands of Israel for a thousand years before Islam even existed.

It is also a fact that while that area has been referred to on a few maps as Palestine, it has never, EVER been a recognized country, not even by their so-called friends, the Saudis, Iranians and Iraqis.

[Logophile]

Even as a boy, when we used to celebrate Passover, I wondered what kind of people would celebrate a holiday that commemerated genocide, the death of every firstborn male Egyptian, and what kind of religion would celebrate such a bloodthirsty God.

Two comments:

1. I thought Passover celebrated the survival of the Israelites (and their freedom), not the destruction of the Eqyptians.

2. Eventually, everyone dies -- does that make God "bloodthirsty"?

The Palestinians have just learned from the Irgun which blew up the King David Hotel, killing almost a hundred people.

Oh, it's OK then -- the Irgun did it first.

How can this possibly end except by turning all Palestinians into terrorists or all Israelis into Nazis?

It could end by the Palestinians deciding to live in peace with their neighbors.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Rescue workers carry a boy injured in a suicide bombing to hospital in the Israeli seaside resort of Netanya March 27, 2002. A Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up in the dining room of the hotel, killing at least 15 people and wounding about 100 as they sat down to a traditional Passover feast, police said. Photo by Stringer/Israel/Reuters

[besieged]

Then why wasn't there a country called Israel there before?

What is this, a JOKE? The Israeli's and the Pali's the SAME????

In case you just came out of your drug induced stupor... the Israeli's BOUGHT the land from the Pali's even before 1948. Don't be absurd.

And as far as a previous country called Israel BEFORE the Palestinians were there... hmm... ever read the Old Testament? How about the New Testament? No? How about history books? ANY history book at all?

[Alouette]

The middle one with the Jewish kids "sticking up" the little arab kid is distrubing.

They are not Jewish kids. They are all Arab kids playing "settler and Palestinian."

[EBUCK]

We have the whole continent. How would you like it if they gave Georgia of Colorado to the Arabs because they were persecuted in Europe? Doesn't sit well does it. Don't you think that if you lost property to this relocation you would have to resort to fighting by any means necc to get it back? That's what happened. Without compensation for lost property. And they've been pissed off ever since.

I'll say it again, I don't actually think either side is right or wrong. I just want everyone to look at it from the PA POV for a while before discounting them as animals, since they didn't start out that way at least.

EBUCK

[Sgt_Schultze]

Thanks for the link. I just sent it to my Jewish friends for Passover. Don't go soft.

[EBUCK]

And the Indians were on our land a thousand years before us. That is fact also. So should we let the UN come to one of our states (or regions since it's been pointed out that there was no panestinian state) and kick us out of our homes and hand the property over to the indians?

EBUCK

[EBUCK]

If the property was purchased as opposed to confiscated and handed over to the Israelis why the bloodshed? Why does the PA feel that their property has been stolen?

EBUCK

[Alouette]

How would you like it if they gave Georgia of Colorado to the Arabs because they were persecuted in Europe?

Israel is hardly the size of Georgia or Colorado, and there have always been Jews living there.

I'll say it again, I don't actually think either side is right or wrong. I just want everyone to look at it from the PA POV for a while before discounting them as animals

After looking at your profile page, I really think you should lay off the weed.

This is your brain on drugs:

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Rescue workers carry a wounded woman to hospital in the Israeli seaside resort of Netanya March 27, 2002. The Islamic militant group Hamas claimed responsibility on Wednesday for the suicide bombing of an Israeli hotel that killed at least 15 people. REUTERS/Baz Ratner

Rescue workers look over the damaged hotel in the Israeli seaside resort of Netanya March 27, 2002. The Islamic militant group Hamas claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing of an Israeli hotel that killed at least 15 people. (Havakuk Levison/Reuters)

Israeli police robot checks a car which exploded in Jerusalem, March 26, 2002. Two Palestinians, one is seen on the right, died in the blast near a security roadblock during what police said was a thwarted bombing attack. Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an offshoot of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement, told Reuters one of the men in the car was Khaled Mohammed, a member of the group, and the other was his driver, Shahdi Hamamreh. Photo by Nir Elias/Reuters

A Palestinian youth uses a sling shot to hurl stones at an Israeli position during clashes in the West Bank City of Ramallah, March 22, 2002. U.S. envoy Anthony Zinni convened Israeli and Palestinian security chiefs to try to salvage a battered truce mission after a Palestinian suicide bombing in Jerusalem that killed three Israelis. Another Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up Friday at an Israeli army roadblock near the West Bank town of Jenin, wounding at least one person, according to Israel Radio. (Laszlo Balogh/Reuters)

Members of the al-Aqsa martyrs Brigade take aim with AK 47 assault rifles and anti-tank grenades during training for attacks on Israeli armed bases in the self-ruled Gaza Strip, March 22, 2002. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, an armed group linked to Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction, shrugged off on Friday a U.S. decision to designate it a "foreign terrorist organization," and vowed to carry out more attacks on Israel. The group earlier claimed responsibility for a Jerusalem suicide bombing on Thursday that killed three Israelis. REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah

Masked members of an al-Aqsa martyrs Brigade are armed with AK 47 assault rifles and anti-tank grenades as they train for attacks on Israeli armed bases in the self-ruled Gaza Strip, March 22, 2002. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, an armed group linked to Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction, shrugged off on Friday a U.S. decision to designate it a "foreign terrorist organization," and vowed to carry out more attacks on Israel. The group earlier claimed responsibility for a Jerusalem suicide bombing on Thursday that killed three Israelis. REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah

Masked members of an al-Aqsa martyrs Brigade are armed with AK 47 assault rifles and anti-tank grenades while in training for attacks on Israeli armed bases in the self-ruled Gaza Strip, March 22, 2002. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, an armed group linked to Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction, shrugged off on Friday a U.S. decision to designate it a "foreign terrorist organization," and vowed to carry out more attacks on Israel. The group earlier claimed responsibility for a Jerusalem suicide bombing on Thursday that killed three Israelis. REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah

A Palestinian kicks a tear gas canister fired by an Israeli soldier during clashes in the West Bank City of Ramallah, March 22, 2002. U.S. envoy Anthony Zinni convened Israeli and Palestinian security chiefs on Friday to try to salvage a battered truce mission after a Palestinian suicide bombing in Jerusalem that killed three Israelis. REUTERS/Mahfouz Abu Turk

Hana, the mother of Palestinian suicide bomber Mohamed Hashaika, holds his picture at his house in the West Bank village of Taloza, near Nablus, March 22, 2002. Hashaika carried out a suicide bombing attack in the center of Jerusalem Thursday, killing himself and three bystanders, and wounding at least 60 people. REUTERS/Abed Omar Qusini

Israeli police detain a Arab man suspected of involvement in a suicide bombing which killed two people and wounded at least 40 others in Jerusalem March 21, 2002. An angry mob of locals tried to attack the suspect, but police fended them off. (Nir Elias/Reuters)

Israeli ambulance workers help a wounded victim of a suicide bombing in Jerusalem, March 21, 2002. The bomber blew himself up on a busy shopping street killing at least two people and wounding scores of others. (Reuters)

EDITORS PLEASE NOTE, GRAPHIC CONTENT: Israeli policemen inspect a head which they later confirmed belonged to a Palestinian suicide bomber after a bomb exploded in Jerusalem March 21, 2002. The suicide bomber blew himself up in a busy shopping street in Jerusalem on Thursday, killing at least two people as the United States tried to broker an Israeli-Palestinian truce, police said. A woman victim died at the scene of the bombing and a second victim died later in hospital REUTERS/Nir Elias

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat reads a statement to the media at his office in the West Bank town of Ramallah Thursday March 21, 2002. The Palestinian leader condemned the suicide bombing in Jerusalem, promising to put an end to such attacks against innocent Israeli civilians and work toward a cease-fire after 18 months of violence with Israel. (AP Photo Nasser Nasser)

[EBUCK]

That the territory wasn't established as a recognized country mean that the inhabitants were squaters just waiting to be relocated a little further East including forfeiture of all property claims?

EBUCK

[Lurker]

That's a pretty good start.

L

[Catspaw]

I'm just saying that the PA terrorists actually have a beef that the world does not care to hear.

Oh really? Well, the EU is tossing about $300 mil a year down that rathole, with a proposed increase to $5.42 BIL over 5 years (it's their "Marshall Plan," you know), and the French consider the Palestinians their extra special friends, with Spain right behind. The Arab League kicks in about $500 mil a year, and, of course, a proposed increase. Saddam has just raised his bonus payment to the family of the suicide bomber/shooter to $25,000. The family also gets money from the Saudis, a monthly stipend from the PA, more from the Red Crescent (as in "International Red Cross and Red Crescent"). We won't even get into how much the leadership of the PA skims off the top and tucks away in some really *special* bank accounts.

So what's their beef? That they want to kill every Jew while driving Israel into the sea? That once they take over Israel & rename it Palestine they might have to ask for billions more from their very good friends because they're incapable of doing anything but kill?

Com'n, tell me what their beef is.

[EBUCK]

LOL. Weed. No real response to my argument. If Georgia is no good lets just give 'em Atlanta. Or how about RI. I never liked that state anyway. Lets give 'em RI. Then let the RI residents fight it out to get their land back if they can.

EBUCK

[Sabramerican]

Palestinians have just learned from the Irgun which blew up the King David Hotel

One wing of the King David Hotel- British Military and Intelligence HQ.

A Passover seder+ + + + + + ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Equal.

A**hole

[Diogenesis]

You have no arguments. You make up facts.

There was an Israel (along with Judah).

Try reading more.