Tel Aviv Bomb Targets
Foreign Workers Area
Bulgarian Worker
A Thai Worker
Most Of The Injured Were Foreign Workers
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Why Bomb A Tel Aviv Slum?
Most of the people, killed in the April 17th Tel Aviv bomb, were
Israeli Arabs, Russian Immigrants, and foreign workers. Why does a
suicide bomber attack a slum versus a posh Tel Aviv restaurant, or a
financial office?
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There Were Three Previous Bombs At The Station
2002 --- Old Central Bus Station: "A suicide bomber
kills himself and a woman in an attack on a bus stop near Tel Aviv."
2003 -- Old Central Bus Station: "At least 23
people are killed and 100 wounded."
2004 -- Old Central Bus Station: "One person is killed and 21
are wounded by a bomb packed with metal bolts, which explodes near a bus
stop in Tel Aviv."
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Why Target An Early Morning Bus?
All you are killing are some immigrant laborers off to clean office
buildings.
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The Area Bombed Was A Foreigner Enclave
The lunch-hour bombing outside a Shawarma restaurant popular with
blue-collar Israelis and immigrant workers appeared timed to inflict the
maximum number of injuries.
Nearby is the old
Central
Bus
Station, around which tens of thousands of foreign workers live
in squalor, 12 to an apartment.
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On weekend nights one can see drunken
Romanians sitting everywhere, in outdoor cafes and on sidewalks,
surrounded by piles of empty beer bottles, before or after spending
what’s probably the better part of a week’s pay at one of the
aforementioned “health clubs. One out of every seven people
residing in Tel Aviv is a foreign
worker, from Africa, China, the Philippines, Thailand, South America,
and just about everyplace else.
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About half are in Israel legally; the rest
live “underground” and try to avoid being picked up by the police.
This area, despite being the crime hotbed of the city, is sparsely
patrolled. Except for periodic raids to please those elements in the
Government who consider the foreign workers a “ticking demographic
bomb” and have nightmares of the Jewish state being overrun by aliens,
the police tend to leave that side of town alone.
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Tel
Aviv's Social Affairs Minister said “You
walk around here and you think you’re in Africa, not Israel.” With
Sunday a work day, African laborers, and their families, can be
seen dressed in their best and going to church on Saturdays.
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The
neighborhood around the old
Central
Bus Station is a concentration of ultrafast-food joints
(serving mainly falafel [deep-fried chickpea fritters] and burekas.
Mainly cheap dives where vagrants sit silently
in front of a beer and watched soccer on television.
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Tel Aviv Has Great Targets
Ask yourself:- If you were a human bomb. would you take out a
restaurant of rich Jews, or a hot dog stand in a migrant worker's slum?
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This Was Typical Mossad
The bomb exploded outdoors, and the damage reflects a much larger
bomb than an Arab with a few sticks of dynamite. As usual, the timing is
suspect, coinciding with the pending invasion of Gaza.
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