This is getting ridiculous. The US must stop holding Israel back from defending itself. Screw the 'coalition against terrorism'. It's time to back Israel in disposing of the corrupt Palestinian Authority once and for all.
I know I posted this on the main page as well, but I want to be able to discuss this as well..
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A double Palestinian suicide bombing and a car bomb minutes later killed 10 Israelis and wounded more than 150 on Saturday on a crowded street in the heart of a Jerusalem cafe district, Israeli police said.
The blasts, which hurled victims and severed limbs into the air, were described by an Israeli spokesman as the biggest attack in Jerusalem in years and dealt a fresh blow to a new U.S. mission to end 14 months of Israeli-Palestinian violence.
President Bush demanded that Palestinian President Yasser Arafat bring those responsible for the attacks to justice and "act swiftly and decisively against the organizations that support them."
"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," Bush said in a statement.
Planned talks in the White House between Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon were brought forward to Sunday from Monday to enable the premier to fly home early from the United States to tackle the crisis, U.S. and Israeli officials said.
Israel said it held Arafat directly responsible for the attacks. The Palestinian Authority condemned the bombings, which it said were intended to foil peace efforts, and vowed to investigate who was behind the attacks.
An anonymous telephone caller told Reuters the militant Islamic Jihad movement was responsible but the claim could not be confirmed independently.
TWO SUICIDE BOMBERS
Police said at least 10 people were killed in addition to the two Palestinian suicide bombers who detonated their explosives within moments of each other on a crowded pedestrian mall.
Witnesses said the first blast shook the crowded Ben Yehuda pedestrian street, full of restaurants and cafes and the site of several previous attacks, just before midnight (5:00 p.m. EST). Police said the bombs were packed with nails.
"People flew into the air and there are many people covered in blood," said a woman who gave her name only as Liron.
Minutes later, a bomb exploded in a car about 50 meters (yards) away as about 20 people tried to move it because it was blocking a road needed by ambulances to rush the injured to hospital, the witnesses said.
Another witness, Yossi Mizrahi, said: "I saw people without arms. I saw a person with their stomach hanging open. I saw a 10-year-old-boy breathe his last breath. I can't believe anybody would do anything like this."
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http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=topnews&StoryID=422030
I know I posted this on the main page as well, but I want to be able to discuss this as well..
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A double Palestinian suicide bombing and a car bomb minutes later killed 10 Israelis and wounded more than 150 on Saturday on a crowded street in the heart of a Jerusalem cafe district, Israeli police said.
The blasts, which hurled victims and severed limbs into the air, were described by an Israeli spokesman as the biggest attack in Jerusalem in years and dealt a fresh blow to a new U.S. mission to end 14 months of Israeli-Palestinian violence.
President Bush demanded that Palestinian President Yasser Arafat bring those responsible for the attacks to justice and "act swiftly and decisively against the organizations that support them."
"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," Bush said in a statement.
Planned talks in the White House between Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon were brought forward to Sunday from Monday to enable the premier to fly home early from the United States to tackle the crisis, U.S. and Israeli officials said.
Israel said it held Arafat directly responsible for the attacks. The Palestinian Authority condemned the bombings, which it said were intended to foil peace efforts, and vowed to investigate who was behind the attacks.
An anonymous telephone caller told Reuters the militant Islamic Jihad movement was responsible but the claim could not be confirmed independently.
TWO SUICIDE BOMBERS
Police said at least 10 people were killed in addition to the two Palestinian suicide bombers who detonated their explosives within moments of each other on a crowded pedestrian mall.
Witnesses said the first blast shook the crowded Ben Yehuda pedestrian street, full of restaurants and cafes and the site of several previous attacks, just before midnight (5:00 p.m. EST). Police said the bombs were packed with nails.
"People flew into the air and there are many people covered in blood," said a woman who gave her name only as Liron.
Minutes later, a bomb exploded in a car about 50 meters (yards) away as about 20 people tried to move it because it was blocking a road needed by ambulances to rush the injured to hospital, the witnesses said.
Another witness, Yossi Mizrahi, said: "I saw people without arms. I saw a person with their stomach hanging open. I saw a 10-year-old-boy breathe his last breath. I can't believe anybody would do anything like this."
Want to learn more?
http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=topnews&StoryID=422030