Children's Attack

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all 
the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all 
the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD.

And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: 
and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not 
be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.

And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a 
feast to the LORD throughout your generations: ye shall keep it a feast 
by an ordinance for ever.

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Bombing in Israel Called the 'Children's Attack'
By JAMES BENNET

JERUSALEM, Aug. 20 — The unfinished plywood board was about the right 
size for the frame of a go-cart. Resting on it, the small shape bundled 
in a black and white cloth jarringly reminded one mourner, Jeremy Gold, 
of "a little gift."

It was the body of Shmuel Zargari, age 11 months, being borne by 
stricken men up a parched Jerusalem hillside to a small hole in the 
stony ground. Not walking yet and just speaking his first words, Shmuel 
was one of six children killed in a bomb attack on Tuesday that Israelis 
today began calling the "children's attack."

In all, 20 people were killed and more than 100 were wounded — about 40 
of them children — when a Palestinian blew himself apart aboard a city 
bus crowded with devout families returning from Judaism's holiest site, 
the Western Wall.

Only one of Shmuel's five siblings, the one who did not join in the 
family outing to the Western Wall, attended his funeral. Like their 
parents, the others were in the hospital or recovering at home.

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It was a mystery to many how the bomber, a 29-year-old Palestinian from 
Hebron, managed to reach the heart of the bus unsuspected, let alone why 
the bomber — the father of two, the husband of a pregnant woman — would 
choose to strike among so many children.

full: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/21/international/middleeast/21ISRA.html


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