If one nation decides to unilaterally take out another’s citizen what stops the desire for legitimate retribution?
Tag: Israel
On this day in 2002, a Hamas suicide bomber detonated his device on a crowded bus in Jerusalem, killing 11 and wounding 50.
The November 1995 assassination of Israeli PM Rabin by a Jewish extremist is a good reminder that terrorism knows no religious bounds.
On this day in 2019, Israeli forces arrested three members of the terrorist group PFLP for the murder of a 17-year old woman hiking with her father and brother in the West Bank.
On this day in 2016, a Palestinian man lightly injured three Israeli soldiers near an illegal settlement in the West Bank: the culprit was seriously wounded.
On this day in 2001, a suicide bomber claimed by 3 separate Palestinian terrorist groups detonated a device outside a Tel Aviv disco killing 21 people.
On this day in 1974, three PFLP terrorists took over 100 students hostage at a school in Ma’alot and killed 31 when security forces attempted a rescue.
On this day in 2002, a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up in during a seder in an Israeli hotel, killing at least 30, many of them children.
Every nation has a right and a duty to prevent terrorism, but has to do so in a way that does not make the problem worse.
On this day in 2004 dozens of ultra-orthodox Jews attacked Arab taxi drivers with rocks in Jerusalem, wounding two (one went to hospital).