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Bombing in Hebrew University Cafeteria - Atleast 7 dead

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  1. Franchise2001

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    Suicide Bombing in Hebrew University Cafeteria - Atleast 7 dead

    JERUSALEM (CNN) -- At least seven people were killed Wednesday when an explosion went off in a cafeteria at Hebrew University in East Jerusalem, hospital officials said.

    Police called the blast a terrorist act, and Palestinian sources in Gaza said that the Islamic fundamentalist group Hamas was claiming responsibility for the explosion.

    Hamas said the blast was in retaliation for last week's Israeli attack in Gaza that killed the commander of Hamas' military wing and 14 others, including nine children.

    The U.S. State Department has designated Hamas as a terrorist organization.

    The group's military wing, Izzedine al Qassam, previously has admitted responsibility for terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians as well as attacks against the Israeli military.

    The Palestinian Authority condemned the attack. "We have to stop the cycle of violence through a meaningful peace process," said chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat.

    Police said the explosion was most likely a bomb planted in a handbag left in the crowded cafeteria.

    Rescue officials said at least six people died at the scene. Another vicitim died after being taken to the nearby Hadassah Hospital.

    At least 80 people were believed to have been wounded, a number of them with critical injuries.

    Ambulance services had a difficult time traversing the narrow streets on Mount Scopus where the campus is located.

    Classes weren't in session, but students were taking exams at the university.

    The explosion follows a suicide bombing Tuesday that killed a bomber and injured seven Israelis in central Jerusalem.

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    I have some friends studying there.. hope they are OK.

    I swear, whatever little terror faction claims responsibility for this one needs to be taken out right away. Isn't the U.S. being hypocritical when we ask for so much restraint from Israel?

    Take the bastards out. Collateral damage happens.. tough cookies.
     
    #1 Franchise2001, Jul 31, 2002
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    Hamas claimed responsibility. Btw, it was not a suicide bombing and I don't know how to change the names of threads :( . It was a placed bomb, like the article states.
     
    #2 Franchise2001, Jul 31, 2002
  3. DaDakota

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    I am getting numb to all of this, it is pathetic that the cowardly Palastinians continue to bomb civilians.

    Israel has a right to live in peace, if the palastinians want a country (for the first time in history) then they need to negotiate not terrorize.

    All that is going to happen is more Palastinians will die as a result...I just wish Israel would wipe out their leadership.....and get a new one in there.

    DaDakota
     
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    A Jewish buddy of mine is pretty bent out of shape with all of the terrrorism that is going on in Israel......

    :(

    Peace
     
    #4 Drewdog, Jul 31, 2002
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    This one hit way too close to home. A friend of mine spent his junior year abroad at Hebrew U, and I visited him on Mt Scopus several times (I spent a semester in Tel Aviv).
     
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    But it's OK for the israelis to bomb the Palestinians, killing women and children, and say the women and children were "collateral damage"??

    btw...that's a good movie
     
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    Sland,

    Yep, it is perfectly ok if the leaders of Hamas hide behind their wives and children.

    Once you make yourself a target, if you love your kids and family, then you better hide as far away from them as possible.

    If you are going to bomb civilians...take credit for it, and then flaunt it on TV.....you deserve what you get.

    I am sorry for the kids and wife, but that is the fault of the leader that used them as human shields.

    DaDakota
     
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    Cohen,

    A nice start for sure, but until both of the leadership is replaced there will be no peace...IMHO.

    DD
     
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  10. Franchise2001

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    This is freaking sick
    http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=2347307&thesection=news&thesubsection=world
    Thousands in Gaza celebrate Jerusalem attack

    08/01/2002
    11.45am
    GAZA - About 10,000 Palestinians handed out sweets, sang songs and chanted anti-Israeli slogans as they marched through Gaza city on Wednesday to celebrate the bombing that killed seven people at Jerusalem's Hebrew University.

    The rally was organised by the Islamic movement Hamas, which said it carried out the attack to avenge an Israeli air strike on Gaza last week that killed its military commander Salah Shehada and 14 others, including nine children.

    "The price of the Israeli crime to assassinate the leader Salah Shehada is more than 100 Israeli soldiers and that will come in 10 martyrs' operations (suicide attacks)," the military wing of Hamas, the Izz el-Deen al-Qassam brigades, said in a statement read through a loudspeaker.

    "We give this gift to the soul of Sheikh Salah Shehada and we say to the al-Qassam brigades we are waiting for more," a voice shouted through a loudspeaker.

    Hamas regards most Israelis as soldiers because most are conscripted at the age of 18 and serve annually in military reserve units.

    The marchers walked past one of Shehada's family's homes and many knelt and prayed for revenge. They described Wednesday's bombing as "a gift to the soul" of Shehada and "a march of joy".

    The marchers waved Hamas flags and included a large number of children who clapped and laughed. Palestinians often hand out sweets in such celebration marches.

    In the Balata refugee camp near the West Bank city of Nablus, dozens of people staged a rally chanting slogans of support for Wednesday's attack.

    Eight masked men set fire to an effigy of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Another group of men carried a model of a Qassam rocket -- the type used by Hamas.

    Israel accused Shehada of masterminding a series of suicide bombings against Israelis in the 22-month-old Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.

    - REUTERS

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    Before there can be peace, there must be war.
     
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    During these rallies, why aren't the leaders of Hamas being picked off by snipers?

    Israel needs to get tougher, they have been too soft on the leaders of Hamas.

    The only way this stops is to punish anyone involved...and that includes family members of suicide bombers.

    Make it so risky that you turn the tables and have Palastinians WANTING to help the Israelis root them out.

    Offer cash rewards for turning in Hamas information, right now Hamas is like Robin Hood....well time to tighten the knot.

    DaDakota
     
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    Last I checked, the Israelis aren't TARGETING civilians. There's a big difference.
     
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    Collateral damage is acceptable if these PU$$ies are going to hide behind human shields.

    If it gets muddy, you have to be prepared to wallow in some mud.

    DaDakota
     
    #13 DaDakota, Aug 1, 2002
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    Terrorism is simply wrong. But I don't remember Israel negotiated first when they established their nation, or is it my memory doesn't serve me well?
     
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    Mich,

    Israel was given the country by England who was in control of most of the Middle east at that time.

    In fact, most of the borders in the Middle East have been established in the last 100 years.

    Not exactly what they are saying though is it?

    DD
     
    #15 DaDakota, Aug 1, 2002
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    True, Israel is in large part a solution by the western countries of the WWII problem, and there's no real borders at the time of its creation. But the fact remains that Israel took a lot of land from Arab resident without ever consulting them.
     
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    What? you believe that innocent family members should be punished?

    I have no problem punishing those guilty of terrorism, and any who support the planning and executing of terrorist plans.

    But why should an innocent person ever be punished?

    Isn't that what's wrong with terrorism in this case to begin with? It punishes and injures people who are innocent that have little or nothing to do with reasons for attacking Israel to begin with.

    How is punishing innocent people going to help stop the violence?

    I consider myself very peaceful, and I'm rarely in favor of violent sollutions. But if innocent people started being punished I could see myself resorting to violence fairly quickly. I also think I would be justified and fighting against that kind of oppression.

    That's getting dangerously close to a 'Final Sollution' type scenario.
     
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    Actually England turned the whole situation over to the U.N. The U.N. partitioned off both a Palestinian state and an Israeli state.

    One of the reasons England handed the situation over to the U.N. was because of Zionist terrorism against the Civilian British Hotel.

    Some of the terrorists involved in that attack on a civilian hotel went on to become Prime Ministers of Israel.
     
    #18 FranchiseBlade, Aug 1, 2002
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