Terror - Tel Aviv

[enot06]

JPOST: AT LEAST 9 KILLED, 60 WOUNDED IN TA BLAST

BBC: A Palestinian suicide bomber has killed at least eight people along with himself and injured around 50 at a Tel Aviv falafel restaurant/.../Hamas, which has been keeping a truce with Israel, said the attack was an act of self-defence.
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas condemned the bombing, saying it ran counter to Palestinian interests.

CNN: The Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility/.../A Hamas spokesman, in an interview with Al-Jazeera television, described the attack as an "act of self-defense" against the Israeli occupation.
Hamas, which has maintained a case-fire, refuses to recognize the right of Israel to exist and faces isolation from the international community.
Palestinian legislator Saeb Erakat said the attack has been condemned by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas -- a member of the Fatah party that Hamas defeated in the January 25 elections.

Comments

[lierre.livejournal.com]

ok, sneaking in somewhere with hidden bombs attached to you and blowing up a bunch of totally clueless and uninvolved people is REEEALLY a stretch of the definition of SELF-DEFENSE.

:o(

more of the injured died every time i hear something else about this one today.

[enot.livejournal.com]

Nothing new here - even this spot in Tel Aviv has been used in prior terror acts - except for the fact that newly elected Palestinian government supports the terror act.

[na_pis [lj.rossia.org] (from livejournal.com)]

It is not how I read it. I would not call it "a/the support", the only quote from one of the Hamas officials, who is not even member of the cabinet or Parliament, can barely qualify as an attempt to excuse that violent act. They just do not have guts yet to denounce it, but they already are not so stupid to, officially, approve it.
As a side note, just imagine leaving there as a Palestinian and think how few venues you whould have to fight for rights Israel, as a state, deprives you for almost 40 years (sorry, forgot, you are younger then "occupation"). You should not be shocked by that suggestion - on average, genetically, they are closer to Ashkenazim Jews then to Arabs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian#The_ancestry_of_the_Palestinians). (And it looks like, Ashkenazim Jews have more in common, genetically, with Palestinians, then with European non-jews).

[enot.livejournal.com]

I have no issue with Palestinians as people and I don't care much about genetics. I had a good relationship with Palestinian coworker who was then hit on the head on 9/11 - he was unfortunate enough to be at the client site in NYC with his badge saying "Mohammed Ata[...]" and his middle-eastern look. I thought then and still think that men in the restroom who banged his head into the wall few times from the back are pigs though they are apparently were not Arabs or Palestinians.

But I do have an issue with Hamas government peresented by a spokesman that talks about "self-defence" in case of terror act. There is no indication this terror act will be the last, so unfortunately we are yet to see whether they'll ever have gut to denounce terror. Believe me, I'll be happier even you are right and they are getting there.