This is What Terrorism Means
update It's possible that the "Jewish extremist group" (note the wording) is claiming credit for someone else's actions. Here's Haaretz's very different take:
The only reservation I have at this point is that the terrorists were simply called a "Jewish Group". No qualifiers like "Extremist Jewish Group" or "Jewish Terrorist Group", and that is a distortion. (I'm sure pro-Israel folks will say the implication is that Jews are terrorists; pro-Palestinian ones will say that it's only their side that gets labelled terrorists.)
Of course, no word at all from LGF, which is why I don't have them in the blogroll at right. In their defense, they say they've had hosting problems lately, but they tend to pick-and-choose their stories for a one-sided commentary.
Police doubt claim Jews bombed Palestinian high school
By Yonaton Lis, Haaretz Correspondent, Haaretz Service and Reuters
Israeli police and security figures maintain there is no evidence indicating a Jewish extremist group was responsible for the bombing of a Palestinian school in the northern West Bank Wednesday.
An extreme right-wing Jewish group called "Revenge of the Infants" claimed responsibility for a mystery blast that ripped through a Palestinian high school in the Jenin-area West Bank village of Jaba'a Wednesday, injuring at least 15 Palestinian teenagers, three of them seriously.
However, police are increasingly confident in their belief that one of the students brought the bomb with him to school and accidentally detonated the device.
The Israeli Defense Forces fighting terrorism is not the moral equivalent of Hamas and Islamic Jihad suicide bombers. This heinously evil act is, if suspicions prove correct:
By Yonaton Lis, Haaretz Correspondent, Haaretz Service and Reuters
Israeli police and security figures maintain there is no evidence indicating a Jewish extremist group was responsible for the bombing of a Palestinian school in the northern West Bank Wednesday.
An extreme right-wing Jewish group called "Revenge of the Infants" claimed responsibility for a mystery blast that ripped through a Palestinian high school in the Jenin-area West Bank village of Jaba'a Wednesday, injuring at least 15 Palestinian teenagers, three of them seriously.
However, police are increasingly confident in their belief that one of the students brought the bomb with him to school and accidentally detonated the device.
Jewish Group Probed for Blast at Palestinian School
JENIN, West Bank (Reuters) - An explosion wounded 20 students at a Palestinian high school in the West Bank on Wednesday, and Israeli police said they were investigating whether it was the work of Jewish vigilantes.
Lutfi Abu Oun, mayor of the village of Jaba'a, said two of the teenagers were seriously hurt and all of the wounded were taken to hospitals in the West Bank cities of Jenin and Nablus.
(from Reuters)JENIN, West Bank (Reuters) - An explosion wounded 20 students at a Palestinian high school in the West Bank on Wednesday, and Israeli police said they were investigating whether it was the work of Jewish vigilantes.
Lutfi Abu Oun, mayor of the village of Jaba'a, said two of the teenagers were seriously hurt and all of the wounded were taken to hospitals in the West Bank cities of Jenin and Nablus.
The only reservation I have at this point is that the terrorists were simply called a "Jewish Group". No qualifiers like "Extremist Jewish Group" or "Jewish Terrorist Group", and that is a distortion. (I'm sure pro-Israel folks will say the implication is that Jews are terrorists; pro-Palestinian ones will say that it's only their side that gets labelled terrorists.)
Of course, no word at all from LGF, which is why I don't have them in the blogroll at right. In their defense, they say they've had hosting problems lately, but they tend to pick-and-choose their stories for a one-sided commentary.
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