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      1. I agree with you that yesterday’s attack by Sunni terrorists from the Sinai have very little to do with Iran/Hezbullah’s suicide attack on the Israeli tourists bus in Bulgaria.

        But I find your last note, “what goes around comes around, baby”, interesting, as if Israeli citizens are a legitimate targets, like Iran’s military personal.

        Would American toursists also be a legitimate target for an attack as a response to US forces assasinations in the middle east, in your eyes?

        1. Who said Iran or Hezbollah were at all involved in Bulgaria? Nice subtle try. The age of disinformation is over.

        2. No, and blow back doesn’t exist because Iran has never demanded more than an apology when the US downed an entire civilian airliner (Iran Air 655) and actually suggested it wants reconciliation only to be snuffed by the Israeli lobby.

          Blow back is a fake term used to create the impression that people are militarized and crazy like the true terrorists, the ones who even introduced the term to the world, like other ISMs.

        3. I never said Israeli citizens are “legitimate targets.” I said that if Israel engages in terror then it will suffer terror. I never said that I supported this or wished for it. In fact, I said the opposite. I wish for no terrorism from either Israel or Iran or anyone. But once one side chooses to become a terrorist the other will respond in the same fashion.

          1. I understand that you consider that assasinations of Iranian nuclear experts as terror, while I consider it a legitimate military action.
            If Iran assasinated Israelies woking on some weapons program, I would not consider that an act of terrorism.
            Blowing up a bus full of tourists is not the same thing.

  1. The SB new about it, the IAF bombed the APC. Seems like Israel is perfectly safe and the government talking so much about this is merely excuse for offensive action.

    1. Aha Woody, Islamic terrorists kill 16 Egyptian soldiers as an appetizer to an attack against Israeli territory and you blame Israel. How convinient, how tipical, how stupid.

  2. If the SB had at least given the Egyptian police a heads up, they could have stopped the attack themselves, a squad of policemen would still be alive and there would have been less of an incident. To the people who sent the attackers, they’ve got some headlines and enough political ructions to deem the attack worthwhile.

    From Morocco and Algeria to Pakistan, Al Qaeda seems very willing to exploit religious fast, festivals and pilgrimages to murder fellow Muslims, and this incident was no exception. Someone did once make a documentary for one or other of the British TV channels, in which Algerian Al Qaeda supporters were interviewed, and their attitude was that the majority of Muslims were no more deserving of life than infidel. In short, they pretty much seemed to believe they themselves were the only people in North Africa who deserved to be alive.

    The Philosophy that Osama bin Laden taught always resembled Manichaeism more than Islam and the murder of sixteen self-evidently observant Muslims as they break their fast does fuel suspicions as to just how Islamic the leaders of Al Qaeda actually are.

    In the small area of Afghanistan where the Taliban allowed Al Qaeda to actually run things, soldiers from the UAE subsequently found that local Imans and Elders had been fairly thoroughly brainwashed and were teaching a number of notably unislamic concepts, supported by a heavily-edited version of the Koran. The Arab soldiers found that the “Imans” Al Qaeda had put in charge of the local mosques mostly could not read anyway. While the Americans went round kicking in doors and bombing things, the Arabs tried teaching the Imans to read and providing them with recognizably Koranic literature to read from.

    This wasn’t getting distracted by social work, so much as addressing the root problem posed by Al Qaeda, which is that it teaches an equivalence between good and evil. Israel and the USA consistently over-estimate and over-state the extent to which Al Qaeda organizes atrocity directly, because they can’t grasp that all it usually does, and all it needs to do, is teach people that atrocity is okay and offer a technical suggestions about how atrocities can be achieved.

    The 7/7 bombers in London really had very little from Al Qaeda other than a bit of cod theology saying it was okay to kill people and a download from a website about how to make a suitable explosive.

    I suspect that in this case, the attackers had very little except an assurance that it was okay to murder fellow Muslims as they broke their fast and a few instructions on how to drive the APCs. It doesn’t sound as if there were enough attackers, or that they had the skills required to actually fight a battle using the APCs: they were just required to murder, steal and drive into Israel until they became martyrs.

    For this reason, I doubt that the wider Palestinian movements had anything to do with it. The Iranians might be as brutal, but there might have been more point to an attack which they had planned.

  3. There are reports on the Intenet that Iranian TV has broadcast the confessions of the killers of Iranian nuclear scientists, and some of them were trained in Israel.

    The so called “war on terror” is a gigantic hoax. There is a war on the perceived enemies of the US and Israel, and these states have no problem with the most egregious terrorist acts, as long as the “right” people are terrorized.

  4. Ambassador Oren lies. Blame Israel.
    Ambassador Oren tells the truth. Blame Israel.

    Blame Israel.
    Blame Israel.
    Blame Israel.
    Blame Israel…..

    1. I’ll accept that Oren lied. But just because he stopped telling one lie doesn’t mean he was telling the truth. If he would try doing so (telling the truth) more often he’d deserve an easier time of it.

  5. @richard, as an aside, you seem able to write much more “objectively” (i.e., high-school-like both sides of the story) when covering issues that involve Israel as the victim/target, and not the aggressor. it’s kind of funny to read you lately, you’re getting increasingly “fair & balanced”, lol.

  6. BTW. Oren took the tweet off his Twitter feed. No explanation was given although senior IDF officers said later in the day that Iran did not play a role in the attack and was not a known supporter of the known perpetrators.

  7. “open new fronts in the fight against Israeli Occupation” : As far as I recall there is no Israeli occupation of Egypt, Sinai or Gaza. Even if there was no occupation at all other fronts, the forces behind the attack view Israel existence itself as occupation; so the correct sentence is just ‘open new fronts in the fight against Israeli ‘.

    warning to Egyptians: An egyptian general just admiitted Egypt to had prior intel regarding an immenent attack

    What I am curious about is what your take on the ‘automatic’ response by Egypt, Hamas and Hizbullah, to blame Israel for the attack itself?

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