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06/18/02 11:37 PM: From the WSJ Best of the Web
From the WSJ’s Best of the Web:
Those Jewish Kids Can Be Such Terrors
The CNN founder tells Britain’s Guardian that the Palestinians are terrorists, but so are the Israelis:
“The Palestinians are fighting with human suicide bombers, that’s all they have. The Israelis . . . they’ve got one of the most powerful military machines in the world. The Palestinians have nothing. So who are the terrorists? I would make a case that both sides are involved in terrorism.”
This morning, as CNN reports, a bunch of Jewish kids in Jerusalem were terrorizing the Palestinians by riding a bus to school. The Palestinians terrorized them right back, in part of what Reuters calls a “Palestinian uprising.” A Hamas terrorist, identified by the Jerusalem Post as the delightfully named Mohammad al Ghoul, uprose onto the bus wearing a suicide bomb—hey, it’s all they have, whaddya expect?-and blew himself up, killing 19 people, among them “several youths.”
“The driver was dead at the wheel of what had become a ghost bus, his hands still in a steering position as an ambulance worker felt for a pulse and shook his head sadly,” Reuters reports. Shalom Sabag, who was driving in front of the bus, describes the scene:
“I stopped the car and ran to the bus. I was the first person to get on the bus and take people off,” Sabag told Reuters.
“The bodies were piled up near the door of the bus on the right side. He didn’t wait to blow up-he blew up straight away. I took off the bodies of a two girls and a man.
“There was one girl I cannot forget. She had a long braid down her back and she lay on her stomach. There was a man with his hand wounded but every time we touched him, he screamed.”
The Jerusalem Post notes that Ghoul was a student at al Najah University in Nablus. Back in September, we noted that al Najah had set up an exhibition celebrating the previous month’s mass murder at a Sbarro pizzeria in Jerusalem. And it isn’t only collegians who are celebrating the mass murder of Jews; the Toronto Star reports that ” ‘martyr’ necklaces” are all the rage among Palestinian teens. “I used to have plenty of Pok
