NationStates Jolt Archive


Thank Dog for the Israeli security

Shreetolv
21-02-2007, 15:14
CNN says
Meanwhile, undercover Israeli troops killed a wanted terrorist, who was a leader of the Islamic Jihad, in the West Bank city of Jenin on Wednesday. The army said Mahmoud Abu Abait was traveling in his car, pointed a gun at troops and was then shot.

Abait, 24, was responsible for planning what could have been a huge terror attack at the central bus station in Tel Aviv, Israel's commercial center, and giving the would-be bomber his explosives.

Police apprehended the would-be suicide bomber and three others in an apartment in the south Tel Aviv suburb of Bat Yam on Tuesday, narrowly averting the attack.

The bomber identified in reports as Omar Ahmed Abu al-Rob, 24, said he had arrived in Rishon LeZion outside of Tel Aviv with a backpack filled with explosives. For reasons that are as yet unclear, he ditched the backpack in a dumpster there and later led police to it.

Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said that the authorities were still checking how al-Rob managed to cross from a Jenin-area village into Israel on Tuesday.

The suicide bomber left from Jenin, and everyone thinks that's Israel's problem, said Eisen. The Palestinians are doing nothing against terrorism. They have totally absolved themselves of any responsibility in that regard, she said.

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=/ForeignBureaus/archive/200702/INT20070221a.html

And some people think that Israel is being too harsh... Morons.

I have at least one friend that used the Tel Aviv central bus station (which is huge and very fucking used, mainly by civilians) yesterday. Should these measures not have been taken, I may have one friend less right about now. His fault? He's a student and was returning to his hometown after an exam.

Regardless of all the useless arguing we can have on this board, which will never amount to anything but wasted bandwidth, I do think we can all agree that should the palestinians wanted to stop the war, they would have shown it. Camp David II showed that this is not the case. Therefore Israel has the right to defend itself against real terrorism however it sees fit.
Greyenivol Colony
21-02-2007, 17:05
Meh. You can't catch them all. And you wouldn't want to live somewhere where you could.

Anyone could die at any time. Even during the Intifadas you were more likely to die during a car accident than from a terrorist attack in Tel Aviv. Its not worth worrying about.