Pearly, you may want to read the following, it may give you an insight as to how Arafat has turned an Israeli population that was on his side and wanting to give him the benefit of the doubt, to a population that now gets to the point of "Pox on both your houses" (where "both" are the moderate and extreme Palestinians).
Hevron Massacre Survivor Among
Yesterday's Victims
Sarah Hamburger, 79, a resident of downtown
Jerusalem, is one of the two women who were
murdered by the Palestinian terrorist who opened
random fire on downtown Jaffa St. yesterday
afternoon. She will be buried in Jerusalem
tomorrow afternoon. Sarah Hamburger was a
5-year-old girl in Hevron during the Arab pogrom
of 1929; 67 Jews were slaughtered, but she and
her family were saved. The identity of yesterday's
second victim, a 56-year-old Jerusalem woman,
has not yet been cleared for publication. Both died
at around 2 AM after emergency medical
treatment failed. Eight wounded victims remain
hospitalized, including two women in serious
condition.
Arutz-7's Kobi Sela reported from Jerusalem's
Jaffa St. this morning that passersby and
storeowners on the street, which has seen more
than its share of terrorism in the recent past, are
facing the situation with stoicism. While workmen
were busy replacing bullet-ridden display windows,
people talked about the situation. "It simply cannot
go on this way," one young woman told Sela. "We
die, and die, and die - and for what? For nothing!
Just because we wanted to sit in a cafe, or to
celebrate at a Bat Mitzvah, or wait for a bus…"
Another man said, "Total chaos - that's what will
be here, unless they go in and eradicate the
terrorism from the very roots… By warning them
in advance to evacuate their people so that we can
go and bomb empty buildings - that's not the way.
We have to go in with full force... We tried! We
gave them weapons, and sovereignty in their areas
- and it didn't work. They have always wanted
only to kill Jews, and that's what they'll continue to
try to do."
A "particularly large" bomb found in Jerusalem's
Talpiot neighborhood last night was safely
neutralized by a police sapper team - but not
before a nearby wedding hall and other buildings
were evacuated of their celebrants and occupants.
A 19-year old boy recognized the object as
suspicious and alerted the police. The bomb was
dismantled only after several hours. |
