webfusion
3rd March 2005, 09:29 PM
This past week, I have been following the news avidly, watching the reactions and the accusations flying around by Israel and the USA about "direct evidence" of Syrian entanglement in the suicide bombing at The Stage nightclub.
I have come to the conclusion, after looking at various reports, that the "Tel Aviv Operation" (as it was called immediately afterwards by Islamic Jihad in Damascus) was in fact a premeditated carefully-planned attack on an IDF reserve unit.
Evidence? OK, let's go ----
1. In looking at the known facts, we first verify that there were indeed many idf soldiers from elite IDF reserve units (Golani, Givati and Nahal Brigades) gathered that evening at the nightclub. This is easily verified by reports from independent media:
http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Security/5084.htm
Yaron Greyevsky, who was the birthday celebrant and the reason they all came to that club, escaped injury by sheer luck, since he had not yet arrived when the bomb went off. It was his comrades-in-arms that were invited from all over the country to be there at TheStage. Who were the men that died?
Itzik Buzaglo. Ronen Reubenov. Arye Nagar.
(May they rest in peace.)
Buzaglo had a few months earlier foiled a Palestinian attack while on reserve duty in the West Bank.
Rubenov, a sergeant major in the army, was known as the "engine" of the reserve unit.
Nagar was also in the same elite unit.
Many others from that same idf reserve unit were present at TheStage as well and were injured. In fact, twelve others wounded were members of the same battalion (or their partners).
"In five years, none of our troops were wounded in action,'' Eran Cohen, their platoon commander, said.
"It is ironic that we were hit so hard in one explosion on a Friday night in Tel Aviv, just before a party.''
2. Voice of Palestine, the official radio station of the Palestinian Authority, claimed in Arabic hours after the attack the area bombed “may have looked like a nightclub, but it was not innocent. Rather, it was a high-level Israeli military target,” according to a translation provided to World Net Daily (http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43124) by Dr. Michael Widlanski, professor of communications at Hebrew University.
The Palestinian station told its listeners that “an elite unit of the occupation army” was meeting in the nightclub and was the target of the “martyr” operation.
(from an article bylined Aaron Klein, March 3rd, 2005)
Put these two bits of information together and what do I see?
A mere coincidence? A random act against a random target?
No, I think the "Tel Aviv Operation" was directed at specific IDF soldiers, and somehow there was a 'leak' about this party that reached Damascus. Perhaps a Palestinian waiter in the nightclub heard about it and passed along the details?
I wonder if any news organizations are looking at this? What was the "top secret" material referred to this week by Sec'y. Rice that implicates the Syrians?
I am more curious than ever.
I have come to the conclusion, after looking at various reports, that the "Tel Aviv Operation" (as it was called immediately afterwards by Islamic Jihad in Damascus) was in fact a premeditated carefully-planned attack on an IDF reserve unit.
Evidence? OK, let's go ----
1. In looking at the known facts, we first verify that there were indeed many idf soldiers from elite IDF reserve units (Golani, Givati and Nahal Brigades) gathered that evening at the nightclub. This is easily verified by reports from independent media:
http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Security/5084.htm
Yaron Greyevsky, who was the birthday celebrant and the reason they all came to that club, escaped injury by sheer luck, since he had not yet arrived when the bomb went off. It was his comrades-in-arms that were invited from all over the country to be there at TheStage. Who were the men that died?
Itzik Buzaglo. Ronen Reubenov. Arye Nagar.
(May they rest in peace.)
Buzaglo had a few months earlier foiled a Palestinian attack while on reserve duty in the West Bank.
Rubenov, a sergeant major in the army, was known as the "engine" of the reserve unit.
Nagar was also in the same elite unit.
Many others from that same idf reserve unit were present at TheStage as well and were injured. In fact, twelve others wounded were members of the same battalion (or their partners).
"In five years, none of our troops were wounded in action,'' Eran Cohen, their platoon commander, said.
"It is ironic that we were hit so hard in one explosion on a Friday night in Tel Aviv, just before a party.''
2. Voice of Palestine, the official radio station of the Palestinian Authority, claimed in Arabic hours after the attack the area bombed “may have looked like a nightclub, but it was not innocent. Rather, it was a high-level Israeli military target,” according to a translation provided to World Net Daily (http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43124) by Dr. Michael Widlanski, professor of communications at Hebrew University.
The Palestinian station told its listeners that “an elite unit of the occupation army” was meeting in the nightclub and was the target of the “martyr” operation.
(from an article bylined Aaron Klein, March 3rd, 2005)
Put these two bits of information together and what do I see?
A mere coincidence? A random act against a random target?
No, I think the "Tel Aviv Operation" was directed at specific IDF soldiers, and somehow there was a 'leak' about this party that reached Damascus. Perhaps a Palestinian waiter in the nightclub heard about it and passed along the details?
I wonder if any news organizations are looking at this? What was the "top secret" material referred to this week by Sec'y. Rice that implicates the Syrians?
I am more curious than ever.