The IDF foiled what would have been a major terror attack in the heart of Tel Aviv, on the holiest day of the year.
A suicide attack in Tel Aviv was thwarted on Saturday when security forces found an explosives belt in an apartment in the city, designated to be used in an attack over the Yom Kippur holiday.
The belt was found Saturday morning in an apartment near the southern end of Allenby Street by the Shin Bet security service, operating with Yarkon District Police.
The apartment was occupied by Palestinians residing there illegally. It was apparently smuggled in parts from the West Bank City of Nablus.
The reason they foiled the attack is because the IDF has been working overtime to stop the ticking bombs, something that the Palestinian Authority is supposed to do, and yet, keeps failing.
The belt was intended to be used in an attack to be carried out by a suicide bomber who was arrested in Nablus late Thursday, after a three-day operation by the Israel Defense Forces and Shin Bet officers.
The IDF had deployed large forces in the Beit Ilma refugee camp in Nablus, in an effort to capture a cell of militants that included members of Hamas and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
The security services had received intelligence information that the cell was planning to carry out a suicide bombing attack in central Israel during the holidays.
The captured terrorists gave up their safe house. But there was damage: A young Israeli soldier lost his life to stop this attack from happening.
As I said yesterday, this is the time of year that terrorists most want to murder Jews, knowing it is the holiest day of our year, and thinking to catch the IDF napping like they did during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. There is a different name for that war in the Arab and Muslim world. Keep reading to find out.
Now, let’s look how Israel respects Muslims’ holy days.
The release of some 100 Palestinian prisoners is expected to be approved by the government Sunday, as a goodwill gesture for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
Let’s compare: Muslim gestures to Jews for the holiest time of the year: Trying to murder mass amounts of Jews with bombs. Jewish gesture to Muslims during their holiest time of the year: Forgiveness and freedom.
These gestures are wholly ignored the by likes of Jimmy Carter, who insist that Israel is the problem here.
Oh, that other name for the Yom Kippur War? The Ramadan War.
I’ve also heard it referred to as the October War, usually by those who would like to play down the fact that the attack was deliberately planned for Yom Kippur.
Meryl eternal vigilance is required in these dangerous times! Shalom.
I am sure the leftists inside Israel will begin to send human shields to defend the Syrian Nukes soon.
It’s not all that clear, Rahel, that the Arabs knowingly planned the attack for Yom Kippur. It would have been foolish to do so because that is the one day of the year when a mobilization does not need to deal with Israel’s usual heavy traffic, people having to go home before heading out to mustering poins, and so forth.
Anyway, I can recall not a few claims that if we launched the attack on Afghanistan when we did it would fall during Ramadan and that would inflame the Arab street. None of those who asserted that seemed to realize that the Yom Kippur War was hardly the first time Arabs, or Moslems generally for that matter, have launched wars during Ramadan.
Of course, it’s a month that is religiously charged for Arab Moslems and one might argue that they don’t see a problem with killing Jews during that month. Cynics would say that and of course I am credulous and trusting so I reject the idea.
Alex, the reason given as to why the Moslems deliberately launched the attack on Yom Kippur involved a number of religious items.
1. The Israelis would be least likely to expect it, especially since it was during Ramadan.
2. Most of the Israeli military were away from their posts attending services. Even the nonreligious Israelis tend to treat Yom Kippur as special and attend services.
3. The IDF granted leave to most of their people to go home and be with their families.
4. Since most people would be away from home, it would be more difficult to get a quick response. In fact, army people had to go to the many synagogues around the country to round up the reservists.
5. As a religious matter, it was a deliberate insult to Judaism.
Alex, I wasn’t here in 1973, but I think that the traffic problem then was nowhere near what it is now….