Israel again, reaps what it as sown
Luther Blissett | 02.12.2001 14:03
After weeks of israeli military attacks, with tanks, on palestinian school children, booby traps and and cold blooded murder of alleged terrorist suspects. it's pay back time in Israel, unfortunately instead of Sharon and the band of bigots that run the country being blown to smithereens, it's the ordinary people who have paid the price, just as it will be ordinary, much poorer, palestinian woman and children who will be the targets in the inevitable israeli reprisals.
But let's look on the bright side, more jobs in the yankkke armaments industry ... and errr that about it .. anon
But let's look on the bright side, more jobs in the yankkke armaments industry ... and errr that about it .. anon
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1687000/1687564.stm Sunday, 2 December, 2001, 13:19 GMT
Israel faces deadly onslaught
Forty were injured in the bus explosion in Haifa A series of attacks by suspected Palestinian militants have killed at least 26 Israelis, causing carnage on the
streets of Jerusalem and the northern town of Haifa.
Fifteen people were killed and 40 wounded by a suicide bombing on a bus in Haifa at lunchtime. Witnesses said the force of the blast threw the bus into the air.
Israel has promised to retaliate. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is returning early from the United States and the security cabinet has been meeting in emergency session.
The attacks have wrecked an American peace mission to the region, BBC correspondents say. The violence began on Saturday night at a shopping
centre in the Ben Yehuda precinct of Jerusalem. Ten people were killed and
170 injured, most of them teenage revellers. Israeli Foreign Minister
Shimon Peres described the attack as "one of the worst... ever seen".
He summoned all foreign ambassadors in the country to a meeting to impart the
"extreme gravity of the situation." Israeli officials blamed Palestinian leader Yasser
Arafat, and the United States demanded that he act against those responsible for the attacks. As the violence continued into Sunday, Palestinian gunmen infiltrated a Jewish
settlement in northern Gaza, killing at least one Israeli and wounding five others.
The gunmen were later killed by Israeli forces. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has warned of a "commensurate" response. His talks with President George W Bush have been brought forward by 24 hours to Sunday.
Mr Bush demanded that Mr Arafat "act swiftly and decisively" against the organisations that support those who carried out the attacks.
"Now more than ever, Chairman Arafat and the Palestinian Authority must demonstrate through their actions and not merely their words their commitment to fight terror," he said.
Saturday night's blasts went off in quick succession in a busy Jerusalem neighbourhood packed with restaurants and cafes, shortly after midnight local time.
Twenty minutes later, a car bomb explosion in a nearby side street sent screaming survivors running in all directions. The area was particularly busy, following the end of
the Jewish Sabbath.
A witness, Eli Shetreet, told the Associated Press news agency he had seen bodies
hurled in the air by the blasts. "People were crying, falling, and there was the smell of
burning hair," said Shetreet, 19.
Blood was splattered across shop windows, with pieces of flesh and metal strewn
on the ground.
Blame and denial
An Israeli Government official said Mr Arafat was guilty of a "total lack of action in the domain of fighting terror".
But the Palestinian leadership issued a strongly-worded statement, condemning the attacks and pledging to track down those responsible.
A caller purporting to be from the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad told the BBC Jerusalem bureau that the group had carried out the suicide bombings and promised new attacks imminently. The caller rang off before further details could be asked.
Later, the militant group
Hamas claimed
responsibility for the
Jerusalem and Haifa
attacks on its website.
Hours after the Jerusalem blasts, Israeli forces arrested
several alleged militants in the village of Abu Dis on the
outskirts of the city.
Palestinian police arrested a top member of Islamic
Jihad, Mohammed al-Hindi after a gun battle at his
Gaza home on Saturday.
Islamic Jihad and fellow militants Hamas have
threatened to avenge Israel's killings of prominent
members of militant groups.
Condemnation and messages of sympathy came from
around the world, with Jordan also urging Israel to show
restraint in the interests of peace.
Egypt strongly condemned the attacks, as did France,
Russia and many other countries.
US demand
Senior US envoy Anthony
Zinni - visiting Israel and
Palestinian-controlled areas
to try to secure a ceasefire
- is reported to have been
heckled by angry Israelis as
he laid a wreath to the
victims of the bombings.
"Mind you own business,"
they shouted at him. "Go
home."
Mr Zinni urged Mr Arafat to
hunt down the organisers of
the attacks.
Luther Blissett
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get what they deserve?
02.12.2001 14:38
reactionary bullshit statements like the one above are dangerous and don't help the ongoing plight of palestinians.
Luther Blisset
Who the F*** said they deserved it ????
02.12.2001 16:36
The israeli's have been shooting and killing palestinians
in various ways for the last week or so FACT, that is what they have sown, FACT the palestinians have promised to retaliate, FACT, and they have, so the Israeli's have reaped, as in harvested, gathered, what they had sown.FACT
You can stick f'ing reactionary bullshit statement up your arse, matey
My comment makes it clear I realise the people who died on both sides were innocent, and that when, as they surely will.
the israelis respond, innocent people will again be the victims, I am extremely angry and distressed about this situation, I think that this should be clear to anyone but a complete tosser.... I blame Sharon in my comment , perhaps I am showing some bias against the israeli's,in fact I do blame them and their U.S partners for all the troubles in the region, this is my personal opinion.
I hate to think about what the Iraelis will do next but as I said in my original comment, the only thing that is certain is that it will cause suffering to more innocent people and
help spiral events into a far greater conflict, which is quite possibly what sharon and his NWO mates want..
LB
Luther Blissett
"I never said anyone deserved nothing."
03.12.2001 02:20
Luther Blisset
not up for it
03.12.2001 11:49
Seem to have got into an argument with myself .
The point of adding something to the BBC article was because the media coverage is biased. I would say at about ten to one. If 5 israeli's die, it is front page news, where as if
5 palesitinians die, it will definately not get on the front page and probably only get a very brief mention on the evening news. like one line.
The Israeli's have been bumping off palestinians at a pretty regular rate for the last few weeks. The palestinians promised that revenge attacks would take place. They did what they had threatened. This is exactly what the israeli government wanted,which is what I meant, by reaped what they have sown, they are sowing the seeds of a bigger conflict.
They now have the excuse to escalate the situation.
I am obviously pro palestinian, but not necessarily anti israeli. I feel the same anger and greive for the dead Israeli civilians as I do for the palestinians.
Which is why my previous comment was a bit frisky, I have two children of my own.
The fact is that we become accustomed to these headlines.
This war has been going on for so long people just accept it as part of everyday life. As the death rate is about ten to one, we can expect the israeli's to murder about 350 palestinians in the coming weeks, if bush is bombing some other poor buggers by that time, the palestinians might
even get a mention.
Rather than arguing about wether or not my original comment was reactionary bullshit, I would prefer to do something practical to try and stop this absolute madness, do you have any suggestions ? there doesn't seem to be much in the way of an anti war movement for this one...
LB
Luther Blissett
please respond luther
03.12.2001 21:12
zcat
Aside from all the Luther Blissets
03.12.2001 23:57
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