Monday, March 23, 2009

Car bomb in Haifa mall

You probably won't read about this car bomb in your newspapers because luckily it did not go off. If it had there would have been mass destruction and huge casualties, since the mall was full of thousands of shoppers on Friday, and the car was filled with 100 kg of explosives mixed with ball bearings to mutilate!. People heard a small explosion in the mall, the police were called and investigated and found that a car parked near the entrance had gone off, but it was a minor explosion, probably only the detonator, but the 4 main bombs did not explode.
The question is why did the outside mall parking lot not have any security. Fortunately, this time noone was hurt, but the terrorists keep trying. Hopefully the crime lab will find finger prints and will be able to identify the perpetrators. All that's been released so far is that the car is owned by a woman in Jerusalem, but was stolen.
Since this attempt was in northern Israel, it certainly came from the West Bank not Gaza, and since Hamas is quite weak now in the West Bank, due to actions of the PA police and the IDF, it is most likely that this terrorist attempt was carried out by Fatah activits, such as the Aksa Martyr's Brigades. Now these are in the same organization as Pres. Abbas, who is supposed to be our partner for peace. So, no wonder many Israelis are sceptical about the "two state solution" or any "peace process." Let them show their desire for peace by simply stopping the terrorism, as required by the Quartet's three condiditons, none of which they have actually embraced, i.e. recognizing Israel, accepting previous agreements and stopping violence and terrorism.
The fact that this car bomb did not go off should not be taken as a sign that peace is at hand. The religious believe, of course, that it was the hand of God, the secular believe that is was the incompetence of the terrorists, and the terrorists believe that Allah works in mysterious ways, but they'll get us next time.

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