Good article for you. Who are we dealing with by Teddy Weiss Jerusalem Post Aug 19, 01

How does one make peace with a Palestinian people who revel in the death of Jewish children. Who pass out sweets and dance in the streets, when suicide bombers slaughter Jewish civilians and children. I have no room in my heart, no pity and no mercy, for those who scream for Saddam Hussein to send anthrax-tipped missiles raining down on Tel Aviv, who celebrate the butchering of Israeli teenagers at the disco in June as an "act of Arab heroism."
When we hear, 80 percent of the Palestinians support suicide bombings against
Jewish civilians including children. One comes to the question, If we however continue to treat barbaric enemies with compassion and consideration; if we pursue a peace policy" with those who remain unalterably committed to our total annihilation, then we are the ones who need a psychologist.

Another article for you.
Night & day; tears by Binny Freedman Friday, August 10, 2001

Yesterday; Thursday, August 9th the 20th of Av, on my way to work, I found myself walking down Yaffo street. Hungry, I decided to stop and grab a quick bite at Sbarro's Pizza.

In the past 5 years I have frequented this establishment exactly twice. Walking into Sbarro's there is a larger area for sitting in the front, but the back looked a bit cooler and quieter, so I decided to grab a seat in the back. That decision saved my life.

Waiting on line, when they brought me the baked Zitti I asked for, it was cold.
So I asked the woman behind the counter if she'd mind warming it up. "Ein
Ba'ayah", no problem, she said with a smile. I will always wonder if that was her last smile on earth...

At about 2PM, I both felt & heard a tremendous explosion, and day turned into night.
And then the screaming began. An awful, heartrending sound; the sound of people coming to terms with a whole new reality, of people not wanting to comprehend that life has changed forever.

Those of us sitting in the back were spared, but I was afraid of panic, so I started yelling at everyone to quieten down; not to panic. The ceiling looked like it might cave in, but there is always the danger of a second explosion, detonated on purpose shortly after the first.

But then I smelled smoke, and was suddenly afraid the restaurant might be on foire. So we started climbing our way through the wreckage to the front.

Would there be another explosion? Would the roof collapse? Were we making the wrong decision, climbing through? There are momenmts that last a lifetime.

There are no words to describe what the front of Sbarro's Pizza looked like in the immediate aftermath of that explosion.

A woman was lying near the steps to the back. Her eyes were staring straight at me, following me. So full of pain and longing, sadness and despair. I dropped down becide her trying to ellicit a respoonse to see if she could speak. And then I watched the life just drain out of her. I tried to get a pulse, to no availability. She died there, on the steps in front of me. She was lying by the table I had decided not to sit at. Her eyes, I think, will stay with me forever. Imploring, beseeching, full of so much sadness. I think the shock of where and how she was, was sinking in. I can't begin to describe all that was in those eyes.

There were bodies everywhere, and those images are in my mind; they won't let go. A child's body under the wreckage; a baby-carriage; limbs and a torso. A woman holding a motor-cycle helmet and screaming next to a person on the floor who had obviously been someone she was with.

And then the mad rush to help the ambulance and emergency crews get the wounded out. They were obviously afraid of a second bomb, so there was no medical effort inside beyond getting the wounded on to stretchers and out. A religious Jew missing at least two Arms in tears and shock; what do you say? "yehiyeh Be'Seder" it'll be all right? Will it?

I happened to sit a bit to the left as you walk towards the back, and so the wall behind me shielded me from the blast. Another fellow whom we went back in to get wasn't so lucky. Sitting only 5 or 6 feet to my left, he caught the full force of the blast and was thrown in the air. When we got him on the stretcher he was bleeding profusely and was missing a leg. There are no words to describe what that man's hand, clenched around my arm, felt like. He just kept looking from me to his leg and back again. I started saying Tehillim (psalms).

So many mixed emotions fill my head today. I came home last night and gave each of my children a very long hug. But there are so many families today who are waking up to the reality that life will never be the same. 15 funerals with friends and families saying goodbye to those they loved so, whose only crime was a desire for a slice of Pizza on a beautiful Jerusalem afternoon. What shocked me most, was seeing on TV, the Palestinians all over the West Bank, celebrating and dancing when they heard of the massacre. What kind of people, celebrate seeing innocent civilians and children slaughtered.

Another article for you. The Washington Post A War And Then A Wall

By George F. Will

Friday, August 17, 2001; Page A23

Among reasonable people, who are now impervious to the diplomats' anesthetizing
imbecilities about "preserving" the Middle East "peace process," there is a crystallizing consensus: Israel needs a short war and a high wall.
To understand the context of such thinking, consider what USA Today's Jack Kelley saw at the Aug. 9 terrorist bombing that killed 15 at the Jerusalem pizza restaurant. Kelley was 30 yards away when the terrorist detonated a bomb packed with nails:

"The blast sent flesh flying onto second-story balconies a block away. Three men were blown 30 feet; their heads, separated from their bodies by the blast, rolled down the glass-strewn street. One woman had at least six nails embedded in her neck. Another had a nail in her left eye. Two men, one with a six-inch piece of glass in his right temple tried to walk away. A man groaned. His legs were blown off. Blood poured from his torso. A 3-year old girl, her face covered with glass, walked among the bodies calling her mother's name. The mother was dead. One rabbi found a small hand against a white Subaru parked outside the restaurant."

As with the June bombing that killed 21 at a Tel Aviv disco, children were not collateral victims -- they were the targets. Abdallah al-Shami, a senior official of Islamic Jihad, celebrated "this successful operation" against "pigs and monkeys." Abdallhak also said, all Israeli civilians will be targeted.
We want to create fear and terror among every Israeli. That is a familiar rhetorical trope among those whom the calamitous Oslo "peace process" cast in the role of Israel's "partners for peace." In yet another of the constant violations of the Oslo requirement to stop anti-Jewish incitements, this was a recent broadcast from the moral cesspool that is the official television station of Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority: "All weapons must be aimed at the Jews whom the Koran describes as monkeys and pigs. We will enter Jerusalem as conquerors. Blessings to he who shot a bullet into the head of a Jew."

The State Department, that brackish and bottomless lagoon of obtuseness, where Secretary of State Colin Powell has gone native with disgusting speed, will respond with the rhetoric of moral equivalence -- "both sides" must stop "the cycle of violence" -- to whatever Israel does in self-defense. On Tuesday the department sank to self-caricature when it denounced as "provocative" Israel's brief incursion into the West Bank in pursuit of the perpetrators of suicide bombings. Colin Powell see's Oil being more important, that Jewish children being massacred.

Steve, thank you so much for that article. Here's a site dedicated to all the Israeli civilians massacred by Palestinian terrorists. You wonder how the Europeans support these evil Palestinians.
 http://www.walk4israel.com/

This is a very interesting turn of events..... Recently - the pro-Israeli lobby has been exceptionally vocal on this NEWS site - and seem to be as deliberatively provocative as they can. I supose they are trying to reflect how vociferous us Europeans are in support of Palestine etc. It's such a shame that they are embarking on such hard-core dis-information to achieve their aims.......

I can only assume that there are beginnings of panick in the israeli establishment and they are starting to fight back in the mindshare war......remind everyone how much the israeli's are suffering ( which is true, they are suffering too )and you swing public opinion your way.

Good luck on your quest Dov and co. Just keep the deceit in your own realm......

in world war1
they got germany
da naszi got payback
europe helped you out the shithouse that they put you in
like the romans
so the cycle of pay back soonnnnnnnnnn come
dont run nowere ha ha

Why do Americans slaughter women and children?:

Jsut some things which stood out in those two articles. First, you say 'the Palestiniams are killing innocent Israelis' (paraphrased), but they're not, only a handful of evil men in Palestine are, which does not justify mercilessly slaughtering the rest.
Secondly, you say something along the lines of '80% of Palestinians support the suicide bombings'. I assume this is supposed to justify the harsh actions taken by Israel, but this is false logic. Most Israelis support the slaughter of women and children in the West Bank, and most Americans and Europeans suipport the slaughter of women and children (see the link the other guy posted) in Afghanistan. If I were to then use your logic, Bin Laden would be justified and so would the suicide bomber. Viscious circle of violencre insues. Surely you wouldn't say that these people are justified? The only way you could make that arguement work would be to say that it's one rule for Israelis and another for Palestinians. To which I would call you a Nazi (I assume you wouldnt say that, so I will just call you deluded instead)