The Omega Letter Intelligence Digest
 

Vol: 34 Issue: 11 - Sunday, July 11, 2004 - Plain Text

Bombing in Tel Aviv, Fencing at UN
by Jack Kinsella

A bomb exploded behind a bus stop in South Tel Aviv just after 7 am Sunday
(local Israel time), killing a female Israeli soldier. The bomb consisted
of five pounds of explosives detonated remotely and was not the result of
a suicide attack.

Sgt. Maayan Naim was just nineteen years old when she was shredded by the
bomb's shrapnel.  More than thirty others were 'wounded'.

I set off the word 'wounded' in semi-quotes because 'wounded' isn't really
the right word to describe the injuries sustained by somebody who survives
a bombing attack. 'Injured' isn't quite the right word, either.

The bomb had been packed with metal bolts and ball bearings.  Here's what
happens when a bomb like this explodes.

In the immediate vicinity of the bomb there is a tremendous fireball
accompanied by the concussion of the force of the explosion.  The
explosion sends out shrapnel, in this case, metal ball bearings and bolts,
in all directions, in case the fireball doesn't do the job.

Jagged pieces of metal and round ball bearings, traveling as fast as
bullets, create a killing zone as everyone in the immediate vicinity is
shredded from the knees up, before the shrapnel passes through them to hit
whoever is behind until somebody's body finally stops the momentum.

To be 'wounded' in a bombing attack can mean anything from a 'minor'
injury like a leg wound, (picture being hit in the shin with a fifty
caliber bullet) to being blinded, burned and limbless.

Israeli hospitals are filled with the 'survivors' of Arab bombings, many
of which are existing on life support systems or in irreversible comas.
These represent 'wounded survivors', but in many cases, they are condemned
to a living death.

Yasser Arafat's Fatah Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades in Nablus claimed
responsibility for the Tel Aviv attack. "This says that we can reach every
place, even when there is a fence," an Al Aqsa spokesman in the West Bank
city of Nablus told the Associated Press.

Assessment:

Satirist Dennis Miller (for the record, Miller is NOT a Jew) recently did
a rant on the Mideast situation in which he delivered a brilliant analogy
to frame the Arab-Israeli conflict as it actually exists:

"Chew this around and spit it out: Five hundred million Arabs; five
million Jews. Think of all the Arab countries as a football field, and
Israel as a pack of matches sitting in the middle of it. And now these
same folks swear that if Israel gives them half of that pack of matches,
everyone will be pals."

"My friend Kevin Rooney made a gorgeous point the other day: Just reverse
the numbers. Imagine five hundred million Jews and five million Arabs. I
was stunned at the simple brilliance of it."

"Can anyone picture the Jews strapping belts of razor blades and dynamite
to themselves? Of course not. Or marshaling every fiber and force at their
disposal for generations to drive a tiny Arab State into the sea?
Nonsense. Or dancing for joy at the murder of innocents? Impossible. Or
spreading and believing horrible lies about the Arabs baking their bread
with the blood of children? Disgusting."

"No, as you know, left to themselves in a world of peace, the worst Jews
would ever do to people is debate them to death."

Miller is right -- the simple brilliance of reversing the numbers
illuminates a truth that every thinking person would know, if they broke
from tradition and thought for themselves, instead of letting CNN do their
thinking for them in thirty-second sound bytes.

Miller went on to point out that in terms of relative size, Israel
suffers, on average, the equivalent of an Oklahoma City bombing almost
every day.

At the same time, the White House, together with the rest of the world, is
telling Jerusalem to show 'restraint' while we hunt our own terrorists.

As Miller put it, "If America were being attacked with an Oklahoma City
every day, we would all very shortly be screaming for the administration
to just be done with it and kill everything south of the Mediterranean and
east of the Jordan."

Miller makes a point.  America suffered one major domestic terror attack
and it resulted in the US invasion and occupation of two Arab countries.

Now the Arabs are planning to take the International Court of Justice
ruling declaring Israel's security fence 'illegal' to the Muslim-dominated
UN General Assembly.

Ambassador Yahya Mahmassani, the Arab League's representative at the
United Nations announced triumphantly, "Israel is in violation of
international law, of international legitimacy, and the General Assembly
now will be called upon to look into this matter."

While the Arabs waxed eloquently about the court's decision, Israeli
Foreign Ministry spokesman Yonatan Peled pointed out something the Court
never evidently considered -- at least they failed to touch on it in their
ruling.

Peled accurately pointed out that the decision "fails to address the
essence of the problem and the very reason for building the fence -
Palestinian terror. If there were no terror, there would be no fence."

Well, duh! It would seem obvious on its face, but only if the court was
even remotely objective in its deliberations.

As far as the effectiveness of the fence to prevent terrorism is
concerned, the Tel Aviv bombing was the first successful bombing in Israel
since last March.  Since the fence construction began, terrorist attacks
against Israel are down by ninety percent.

To the ICJ, that is irrelevant, compared to inconveniencing the
Palestinian population, most of  which is dedicated to Israel's
destruction.

It is significant that the bombing was NOT carried out by a suicide
bomber, but was a remotely detonated device and relatively small at five
pounds.  Clearly, thanks to the fence, this was the best (or worst) they
could do.

If the terrorists COULD have done more, they WOULD have done more. But all
this was lost on the world court, because their decision had already been
made before the hearings had begun.

The ICJ ruling, as we noted yesterday, is in perfect harmony with the
prophecies of the Scriptures for the last days.

The court ruled on Friday, "that the United Nations, and especially the
General Assembly and the Security Council, should consider what further
action is required to bring to an end the illegal situation resulting from
the construction of the wall."

It also said that "states cannot recognize Israel's right to construct the
wall nor can they assist Israel in doing so. All states are obliged to
insure that that Israel complies with international law."  The ICJ
specifically identified East Jerusalem as 'Occupied Palestinian
territory'.

That wording still stuns me!  The ruling, if obeyed by the rest of the
world, makes Israel a pariah state, condemned for seeking a non-lethal
alternative to killing the terrorists trying to kill them.

I can't top Miller's analogy -- a football field compared to a pack of
matches, and the world demanding half the pack of matches in exchange for
NOT demanding the whole pack!

Could this happen to ANY other state besides Israel? It is inconceivable.
Try and imagine it.  I can't. The world wasn't THIS united against the
Berlin Wall. And in that case, it was built to keep Soviet citizens
prisoner. This wall is designed to keep murderers OUT.

The global hypocrisy is staggering. The ICJ ruling is so overtly racist as
to take one's breath away. It denies the Jewish State the right to defend
itself against attack while simultaneously endorsing the creation of a
terrorist state alongside an undefended Israeli border.  It is surreal.
But it is exactly what God predicted for the last days.

"Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people
round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and
against Jerusalem."

"And in that Day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people:
all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the
people of the earth be gathered together against it." (Zechariah 12:2-3)

We are so close to "that Day" that we can almost see it.  If we are that
close to seeing the war of Armageddon taking shape before our eyes, how
much closer is the Rapture?

"So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near,
even at the doors." (Matthew 24:33)

"But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven,
but my Father only. Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye
think not the Son of man cometh." (Matthew  24:43-44)