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Barry Shaw made Aliyah from England in the 1970s, is manager of Netanya Real Estate, and founder of the Netanya Terror Victims Fund. He is the author of "The View from Here" series of commentaries from Israel.
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By Barry Shaw
February 26, 2005
Fine words and nominal action has appeased a naive world into thinking that the Palestinian people had turned a new leaf.
The shocking homicide attack on a Tel Aviv night club had brought a Middle eastern sense of reality to those who thought the election of Abu Mazen would create a new pragmatic Palestinian society.
This latest murder of innocents is Islamic. Islamic in its theology. Islamic in its planning. Islamic in its operation. Islamic in its operators and bomber.
Investigations are ongoing but the following is apparent within the first 24 hours, thanks to the brilliance of Israeli intelligence work.
The initiator of this action is Hezbollah. Hezbollah is the Lebanese Islamic 'Army of God' headed by Sheikh Nasrallah, bankrolled by Islamic Iran, and supported by Syria.
Hezbollah has been infiltrating West Bank and Gazan Palestinian terror groups for some time. In this weekends operation they worked through the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the Al Aksa Martyrs Brigade to recruit 21 year old radical Muslim, Abdullah Badran, from the village of Deir-el-Assoun north of Tulkarm, which is close to Hadera and Netanya in central Israel.
Both Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad have not reneged on their vows to kill Jews and to destroy the Jewish state.
It was Hezbollah that France's President, Jacques Chirac, last week refused to name as a terrorist organization when pressed to do so by President Bush.
It is not yet known how the terrorist and his operatives entered Israel, but it is known that they had preselected another target.
The bomber and his handlers found this target too quiet and decided to head for Tel Aviv.
The vigilance of the security staff at the popular Tel Aviv night club prevented greater carnage, though four are dead, another is close to death, and over thirty were injured in the blast.
Israeli intelligence has constantly reported between forty and fifty terror attempts each week since the election of the new Palestinian leader.
Yet Abu Mazen still refuses to disarm the terror groups in his society.
Supporters of this Islamic terror attack celebrating this terrorist outrage in Gaza with wild gunfire.
Tomorrow, Israel will bury its Jewish dead, and the number of Israeli terror victims has now increased.
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