Palestinians Kill 4 Jewish Settlers

I suppose everyone has seen this, but I want to comment
on it. Palestinians go door to door, shooting Jews.
They shoot a 5 year old girl in the head point blank.
They shoot a woman. Etc. All civilians.

I suppose we can feel sorry for the Palestitians and we
can feel sorry for the Nazis and we can feel sory for
Pol Pot's gang but at some point we are going to have
to put an end to this sh*t because it is evil. No Jews
have evr gone door to door shooting civilians because
of their race. This latest crime by the Plaestinians is
not justifiable. It is not understandable. It is a
crime against humanity. It is part of the Arabic
genocide campaign against the Jews. It is time to put
an end to it.

- J

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Palestinians Kill 4 Jewish Settlers

Sat Apr 27,10:23 AM ET

By SUSAN SEVAREID, Associated Press Writer

JERUSALEM (AP) - Palestinian gunmen disguised as
soldiers slipped into an Israeli settlement in the West
Bank on Saturday and went from house to house, shooting
residents in their bedrooms and killing four people,
including a 5-year-old girl, the army said.

One or more attackers cut through the defensive
perimeter fence of the Adora settlement, west of
Hebron, entered a house and shot a couple in their
bedroom, killing a woman. In the upstairs bedroom of
the next home, they killed the girl and wounded her
mother and two younger brothers, the army and survivors
said.

At least seven people were wounded in the attack, which
began around 9 a.m. The attackers disappeared, said Lt.
Gen. Amos Ben Avraham.

It was the worst attack on a West Bank settlement since
Israeli forces punched into the area on March 29 in an
operation to hunt down Palestinian militants. The Adora
killings ratcheted up tensions after Israel withdrew
from several main towns last week and negotiations were
progressing to resolve two long standoffs.

Overnight, Israeli troops withdrew from Qalqiliya, a
town in the northern West Bank, after a daylong
incursion. As it withdrew, the army underlined that it
would enter any areas "it feels necessary in order to
thwart terrorist activity."

After the Adora attack, Israeli troops launched a
large-scale manhunt in the Hebron region on Saturday,
searching Taffuh, the closest Palestinian village. In
Hebron, Palestinian security officers abandoned their
buildings, expecting an Israeli reprisal.

Israeli troops conducted a house-to-house search in
Adora, fearing that at least one gunman may be hiding
and holding hostages. But they found no one.

Many of the settlers were attending Sabbath prayers in
the synagogue when the attack began. Some rushed to the
area to confront the infiltrators but were unable to
find them, Avraham said.

Yaakov Shefi, the father of the slain girl, was in the
synagogue and rushed home when he heard the shots.
Shefi, a policeman, said his wife was sitting with
their daughter and two sons, aged 4 and 1, when the
gunmen broke into the room and sprayed them with
gunfire.

"She remembers pushing the children under the bed. She
said, 'Be quiet and don't cry, so that they don't come
back,'" Shefi said.

Anat Harari said the gunman shot at her through the
kitchen window, wounding her in the shoulder. She fled
to the bathroom, where she phoned her parents on her
mobile phone.

"I am on the floor, bleeding in a pool of blood, in the
bathroom. I stay on the phone with my parents. I am
talking to my parents without stopping. I tell them
what is going on. I tell them, it's not the army, it's
terrorists in disguise. And I wait for help," Harari
said later from a hospital bed.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the
attack. It came several days after Israeli forces
killed Marwan Zalloum, the Hebron leader of the Al Aqsa
Martyr's Brigades, a militia linked to Yasser Arafat's
Fatah movement.

Israel said it held Arafat's Palestinian Authority
responsible, as it does for nearly all Palestinian
attacks against Israel or its settlements.

Israeli Cabinet Minister Tzachi Hanegbi, on hearing
about the settlement attack, said, "The war against
terror is not over." Just before Israel launched its
West Bank offensive, a Palestinian attacker killed four
Israelis in a West Bank settlement. In December, gunman
attacked a bus near a settlement in the northern West
Bank, killing 10 people.

In their West Bank offensive, Israeli forces entered
villages in the Hebron area, but there were not the
large-scale occupations seen elsewhere. Israel scaled
back its operation last week, withdrawing from the city
centers of several main towns.

Israel and the Palestinians, meanwhile, tried to find
ways to resolve standoffs in Ramallah and Bethlehem,
where Israel has said it won't completely withdraw its
forces until wanted Palestinians in both surrender.

A Palestinian negotiator, Salah Taameri, consulted with
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat at his besieged
headquarters about Israeli proposals to end the 25-day
standoff at Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity, where
some 200 people, including 30 militiamen, were under
siege. After a nearly three-hour meeting at the
Ramallah compound, Taameri returned to Bethlehem.

The focus of negotiations to resolve the standoff
centered on the fate of six wanted men holed up inside
‹ whether they will be escorted to the Gaza Strip (news
- web sites), as the Palestinians propose, or be sent
into exile, as Israel demands.

Palestinians inside the church said by telephone that
Israeli snipers shot one man walking in the church
courtyard Saturday, wounding him in the abdomen. The
Palestinians were trying to arrange his safe evacuation
through the international Red Cross.

A U.N. fact-finding mission, which had been due to
arrive Saturday to start an investigation into a battle
in Jenin refugee camp, was delayed a day because of the
Sabbath. Palestinian say Israeli forces
indiscriminately killed civilians in the northern West
Bank camp. Israel denies the accusation, saying
casualties were mainly Palestinian militants killed in
fierce gunbattles.

In the second standoff, at Arafat's Ramallah compound,
Israel demands the Palestinians hand over six wanted
men inside. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told
Secretary of State Colin Powell by telephone Friday
that he was willing to release Arafat from confinement
if he agreed to leave for Gaza or anywhere in the West
Bank without the wanted men, an Israeli official said
on condition of anonymity.

It appeared unlikely Arafat would agree since he has
said he would not hand over the men ‹ five of whom
allegedly were involved in the assassination of an
Israeli Cabinet minister and the sixth in arms
smuggling.

President Bush repeatedly has demanded Israel leave the
Palestinian towns. He said Friday he'd had enough of
the Israeli incursions. "It's now time to quit it
altogether," Bush said.

Israeli forces pulled out of Qalqiliya in the northern
West Bank late Friday night.

The army said it had "neutralized" three
explosives-making laboratories in Qalqiliya and
arrested 20 Palestinians, including 11 who remained in
custody after troops left the town.

Raed Nazal, the local leader of a radical PLO faction,
the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, was
killed in a firefight.