[Jerusalem Post] Jewish terrorist kills three on bus in Shfaram

More trouble in the ME before the planned Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, while they are still expanding their illegal settlements in West Bank of course...

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Jewish terrorist kills three on bus in Shfaram
By YAAKOV KATZ, MARGOT DUDKEVITCH AND JPOST STAFF

In what police are calling an incident of Jewish terrorism, a Jewish man dressed in Border Police uniform opened fire on a bus in the northern town of Shfaram Thursday evening, killing at least 3 people and wounding nearly a dozen more.

The shooter, Eden Tzuberi, 19, was also killed when he was assaulted by a mob of furied bystanders and witnesses. A crowd of thousands gathered around site of the attack and surrounded the bus, where the attackers body still lay. Hundreds of police headed to the area to rein in the crowds.

The suspect was a resident of the West Bank settlement of Tapuah and was well-known to police for extremist views. He was a member of the outlawed ultra-Right-wing Kach party and has been listed as AWOL from the IDF, with his personal firearm remaining in his hands, for over a year.

Sources in the Shin Bet said that they had received no warning of plans by Jewish extremists to attack Israeli Arabs. Far-right activists told The Jerusalem Post that they had seen the shooter at anti-disengagement events.

The gunman opened fire on bus 165 from Haifa to Shfaram as the vehicle reached the town's Druse neighborhood.

Shfaram is a mixed village made up of roughly 50 percent Muslims as well as Druse and Christians.

Among the victims were two adolescent girls and the driver of the bus. The shooter also directed his fire outside the bus, and the casualties included people outside the bus.

Five victims wounded in the shooting were evacuated to Rambam Hospital in Haifa. All were in moderate to serious condition, ZAKA officials reported.

The six Magen David Adom ambulances that answered the alert had difficulty reaching the scene of the incident to evacuate additional victims because of the crowds that had gathered at the site.

A furied mob of the neighborhood's residents stormed the bus in order to neutralize the shooter, trapping him inside. Police forces gathered inside and near the bus to guard the suspect from the mob, but owing to the crowds, could not evacuate him from the bus.

An enraged witness to the incident said, "If this attack had occurred in a Jewish neighborhood and the attacker was Arab, he would have been killed immediately. The police came and they didn't do anything!" he said. "The police didn't even shoot the attacker – they were holding him alive in the bus."

In the ensuing riots, an additional four people were injured.

Police in the bus were in constant contact with intelligence forces.

 

Is there any truth to the theory that some people just love misery?

 

That whole region is a damn mess, it's like one big reality show full of endless twists and turns.

I pity those who live in Iceland or some other obscure place where you can feel completely disconnected from world events, knowing fully well that no one gives a f*k about you and you don't give a f*k about anyone.

What other places fit the bell? Maybe Greenland? I don't know...New Zealand? May be some Meditarrenean island in the middle of nowhere...actually scratch that, I wouldn't want to be anywhere near the Med Sea

 

I think that's exactly what I was refering to, may be they don't want peace? May be it will force them to actually pay attention to every day life's needs, and that might be too much for them to handle.

 

Umm...What does that have to do with the actual state of ISrael? I am talking about the ongoing expansion of what the UN deems as illegal settlements beyond the pre-1967 border, also called the "green line".

I am talking about settlements inside Palestinian territory in the West Bank and Gaza. Israel is now taking steps to remove the illegal ones in Gaza, but vowed to keep the major settlements in the West Bank and annex them in any peace deal with the Palestinians, which would further eat up more than 25% of the West Bank. Israel is also taking concrete steps to change the demographics in Jerusalem to keep a Jewish majority there and acquire East Jerusalem in any future peace settlement with the Palestinians.

The state of Israel itself is a legal entity recognized by the UN, but land-grabbing has been going on for a while now, it's really nothing new, even the Bush administration has protested it numerous times to the Sharon government, but to no avail.

BTW, relative to all this talk about extremist settlers and their allies in Israel opposing the withdrawal from Gaza, Israeli intelligence have been concerned about possible assassination of PM Sharon, and some extremist Rabbis in fact have reportedly given what equals a "fatwa" to take out Sharon if he went about removing the settlements in Gaza.

I hope we don't have another Rabin incident on our hands, things could get messy during the pullout.

 

Another settler-turn-terrorist -- of course, a Palestinian would say all illegal settlers on Palestinian lands are terrorists.


Three Palestinians shot dead by West Bank settler

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