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Terrorists Murder Students; Gazans Celebrate

March 6th, 2008
By HOLLY IN CINCINNATI, Copy Editor

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Ynet: Terrorists kill 8 in Jerusalem

Two terrorists infiltrate rabbinical seminary in Kiryat Moshe quarter, open fire at dozens of students. At least eight people reported killed. Police still in pursuit of second gunman. Celebrations already underway in Gaza

This is why Egypt should take over Gaza and Jordan should take over most Arab portions of the West Bank. Neither country needs encouragement to rule with an iron hand.

This is why Israeli Arabs (who are Israeli citizens) should swear a loyalty oath to the State of Israel (and not commit crimes against the sovereignty of the state) or face deportation with revocation of citizenship.

Jerusalem Post:

Eight people were confirmed dead in a terror attack at Merkaz Harav Yeshiva, near the entrance to Jerusalem on Thursday evening. According to Channel 2, the “Galilee Freedom Brigades”, which claimed responsibility for the attack, is a Hizbullah-affiliated organization.

Magen David Adom have confirmed 10 wounded civilians, including three seriously. One terrorist was said to have been killed by a student.

Witnesses said that only one terrorist had entered the building and that he managed to fire 500-600 bullets over the course of 4-10 minutes before he was killed.

Although witnesses said only a single terrorist carried out the attack, police were searching the building for an additional terrorist, preventing the entrance of rescue workers. Later Police Chief David Cohen confirmed that there were no additional attackers.

The terrorist entered the Merkaz Harav Yeshiva in the neighborhood of Kiryat Moshe carrying weapons. He was not wearing a suicide-bomb belt as earlier reported.

The gunman entered the library where about 80 people were gathered, witnesses said, and opened fire.

Statement from Hamas:

We bless the operation. It will not be the last

Haaretz Report: East Jerusalem resident behind attack

Nine Mercaz Harav students hurt, three in serious condition; most students are high school age

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In Gaza City, residents went out into the streets and fired rifles in celebration in the air after hearing news of the attack on the yeshiva.



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    This is tragic news. Unfortunately the US is more interested in fostering violence and instability in the region and crippling any attempts at real peace. I understand 126 civilians were killed by IDF in Gaza in the last week.
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    lurxst,

    tsk, tsk, you've interrupted Holly's neo-con, Likudish rant with facts and reality. She will now hate you forever.
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    Loviatar - are you saying you support the killing of seminary students?
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    Wow Holly, your suggestions are as extreme as those Palestinian terrorists espouse, if completely opposite. In no way would the taking over of Palestinian territory by Arab nations lessen the problems facing Israel, likely they would only aggravate them giving the few criminals in Palestine greater access to weapons. Egypt and Jordan crack down? You have got to be kidding. They would risk an uprising from their own citizens leading to governments with less kind intentions to Israel.

    Palestinians have a right to their own, independent country just as Israel. I also find it disturbing that you are shocked and appalled by the murder of a few Israelis, but don't ever mention the murder of Palestinians, many of them also innocent civilians, by the Israeli military. Is a Palestinian life less valuable than that of an Israeli?
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    Egypt doesn't want Gaza and Jordan doesn't want the West Bank. It's not merely that they enjoy continuing to exploit the Palestinian Arabs as political pawns, as do the other Arab nations. They also don't want to adopt terrorists like you have there. in the Territories (who have sympathy by the moral defectives who hate Israel or blame Israel for terrorism against it).
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    Israel vacated its Gaza settlements. Look at what the Arabs have done to Gaza.
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    I agree with your comment, DLS, especially having lived there for a year in the mid-80s when it was actually somewhat peaceful. Coming back to the states made this concept of how both populations are pawns even more stark a reality to me.
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    There's also inter-Arab (constant inter-Arab) warfare, much of it religious-based. We see it in Iraq and a friend of mine back in the 1980s in LA fled Lebanon after it no longer was the Switzerland of the Mediterranean but had experienced civil war.

    He was pragmatic and fatalistic about Israel and Hizballah, for while there is no moral equivalence between the two (nor with Israel and the Palestinian Arabs, much less Hamas), while Israel doesn't engage in terrorism and other crime, and tries to avoid civilian casualties while attacking criminals, others do get harmed, and this is a constant source of new terrorism recruits (same is true for Iraq now, not only with our latest war there but with the civil warfare that's even more hateful and destructive -- similar to Lebanon's civil war). "Often a terrorist is a young guy, could have little or no education and no job, who has lost the rest of his family [due to violence, by Israeli air strikes, by whatever other means] and sees no future." He also said the obvious thing (but he was emphatic when he said this, unlike anything else he had to say about the Middle East), that if the USA and the West weren't ready to defend, "the Arab nations and Iran would E A T I S R A E L A L I V E like wolves if they ever could."

    It was an interesting group I was in, in LA -- a true rainbow coalition that included not only my Arab friend from Lebanon but two office mates, from Israel and from Iran.
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    And you know what? That is not uncommon, DLS, those affiliations and friendships when communities that support, encourage or otherwise foster mingling on any level between people from a variety of backgrounds. I've never understood, I mean, really understood - beyond a fear of the unknown and a worry about change - why people who seek out the same often also reject embracing what's different. I know - naive - but I've always felt that way. I LIKE feeling that kind of discomfort - there are ways to pursue that so that people feel safe, checking out what they don't know.

    Oh well - now I'm just dreaming I guess.
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    DLS, I was listening to NPR a couple years ago and they were talking to a Jordanian prince that flatly said that the modern Palestinian problem was a cause of Arab politics that Israel happened to get dumped with. He referred to it as the Arab Civil War.

    Anyway, this is very bad news. As far as I've read, for the most part the Israeli Arabs have stood by their Jewish brethren and condemned terrorism (despite some legitimate gripes that they are second class citizens) and I hope this isn't the beginning of an unraveling of that relationship.