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The Truce; Broken

Yahoo! News – Tel Aviv Suicide Bombing Kills at Least 4

By GAVIN RABINOWITZ, Associated Press Writer

TEL AVIV, Israel – A Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowd of young Israelis waiting outside a nightclub near Tel Aviv’s beachfront promenade just before midnight Friday, killing at least four other people, wounding dozens and shattering an informal Mideast truce.

Oh yeah. This was stunning.

Inisgnificant Thoughts, February 8, 2005:

Pay attention to how this one gets broken. I can guarantee you it won’t be an Israeli suicide bomber in one of the refugee camps the Palestinians keep their brethren in, or one of the many refugee camps Palestinians are kept in in Jordan and Syria.

No, it’ll be a Palestinian bomber. A young male dying for his 72 virgins by killing women and children on a bus for the penalty of going about their lives. And as the death of every one of those people hangs in the air, all the handshakes in the world won’t mean a damned thing, and we’ll be right back where we started.

I just wish for once I’d be wrong about the situation in Israel. It wasn’t a bus, but it was a Palestinian suicide bomber.

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February 25th, 2005 | Category: Sad, The Middle East
  • wow, nice article. complete with the "apartheid wall" and the "final solution" woven in for good measure. a reliable and unbiased source, indeed. oy vey is all I have to say....
  • Pray tell... Why would you assume that?
  • That's the link, take it or leave it. I would assume that if it was a response to something it would have read that the Palestanians were the first to break the truce and this was said response.
  • mad heron
    No amount of writting on a peice of paper will ever stop such violence i mean what do they expect? instant brotherly love? or a dumb woodstock concert in TELEVIVE? these politicians are as redclous as the antiwar pansieswoman who claim we should love bin laden into submission these people must come from another world:razz:
  • Wow... That's, er, fucking useless...

    Is there a story? Or did Israelis just storm into a pizza parlor and shoot? I mean, I don't want to sound callous, but saying that the truce was broken by Israelis "killing Palestinians" is utterly useless. Did the Palestinians pull a gun and threaten a police officer? Did Israeli commandos barge into the guy's house and shoot indiscriminately?

    I mean, I have to be somewhat skeptical of a story with no details. If a crime was committed, if it was in the middle of a firefight, or something similar, I don't think that means anything with regards to the truce.

    Maybe you can find a link with some actual story to it?

    And just so you know, the only reason I ask is because the media has a history (a long and sordid and definitely proveable one) of not telling the whole story with regards to the actions Israel takes. Usually the story takes a form similar to yours, where inflammatory terms are used (Israelis pledged to stop "killing Palestinians," for example) and no details are given (not one detail about the Palestinian; namely what was he doing, why was he shot, what's the actual story...

    I see none of that here, and since this is an Arab news source and they have no ability whatsoever to be unbiased with regards to Israel, barring further evidence, I'd have to say this story is really not anything worthy of discussion.

    At least for now...

    Unless we learn more details...
  • Unfortunately I couldn't find the link again, Mr. Google is on top of things in all respects though so via the Morocco Times I offer this substitute.

    The truce did not stand for more than two days as Israel, which pledged to stop killing Palestinians at the summit, was first to violate the agreement when two Palestinians were killed -- one in Khan Yunis and another in Rafah on Wednesday.

    The incident jeopardized the enthusiasm and hopes for an end to more than four years of fighting between the two sides, which has killed more than 3,000 Palestinians and 1,000 Israelis.
  • SL: You mentioned it, vaguely, with no link to the story whatsoever here or on your site.
  • As long as political gains and world opinion will continue to matter more than human lives this will continue taking place.:twisted:
  • Unless I completely misremember my news reading the first breaking of the truce came within 24 hours of the deal when an Israeli soldier killed a Palestinian youth, as a matter of fact I think I brought that up previosuly in response to another anti-Palestinian post.
  • Truce? What truce? In the real world, it's deeds, not words that matter. For some reason, the MSM and intelligentsia only need words from the Pal side, but hard-core deeds from the Israeli side. This shit isn't getting old, it's beyond old. The only thing Israel can do is get out of Gaza, finish the wall, and move on. In other words, they have to take care of business, cuz nobody else will.
  • pam
    I knew you were right I had just hoped you wouldn't be:sad:
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