4 August 2005 (Thursday)
bloody hell
Jewish terrorist Eden Natan Zadah kills 4 on Shfaram bus
In what police are calling an incident of Jewish terrorism, a Jewish man dressed in IDF uniform opened fire on a bus in the northern town of Shfaram Thursday evening, killing at least 4 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.
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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 Kahane Chai party. An IDF soldier, Tzuberi had been tried in the past for refusing orders linked to the disengagment plan, and had been reported AWOL from the IDF 77 days ago - still in possession of his army-issued firearm. During his short army career he served time in military prison on two occasions.* * *
Ikutiel Ben Yaacov, the founder of the far-right Jewish Legion group based in the West Bank settlement of Tapuah, shared police suspicions that such an attack might be aimed at derailing Israel's plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip.
"We hope that Eden's death will not have been in vain," said Ben Yaacov, and added that "his murder will derail this sadistic disengagement plan."
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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 pedestrians and bystanders.
Oh, I give up.
BS"D
This is truly a time of mourning for the entire People Israel.
As hideous as this act appears ... it is important to reserve judgement until the police investigation is completed. It's really not clear what happened on the bus ... one account supposedly from an eyewitness (not necessarily credible) states that a passenger tried to get his gun before the shooting and when he tried to flee the bus, the driver refused to open the door.
one account supposedly from an eyewitness (not necessarily credible) states that a passenger tried to get his gun before the shooting and when he tried to flee the bus, the driver refused to open the door.
AT - What was a Kachnik army deserter doing on a bus to an Arab village with his gun in the first place? Were the two teenage girls he killed attacking him? Were the people outside the bus?
Shanna ... I don't know; that's why I'm waiting for the (hoefully impartial) police report. I'd like to remind you that the "what is a ... doing here" reasoning was used to lynch blacks in the south not too long ago. We're not privy to all the facts and thus we can only stereotype and generalize (read "lashon hara") based on what we are told. Though some of the evidence seems damning, I will reserve my judgement.
I urge you to take a look at the following analysis from a self-proclaimed "secular Jew from the left" to see what disturbs me so much about this event. Though arutz sheva should not be taken at face value (any more than any other media outlet), I do think that this provides sufficient reasoning for suspending our judgement for now.
http://www.arutzsheva.com/article.php3?id=5430
Have an easy fast.
