No Cycle Here
Charles Johnson
Thu Jun 12, 2003 at 7:14 pm PDT • Views: 166
Western media insists on portraying the IDF attack on Abdel-Aziz Rantisi and the Jerusalem bus bombing as a “tit-for-tat” cycle of violence/retaliation. But both the IDF and Hamas say the attacks were unrelated.
Both IDF and Hamas spokesmen announced this evening that the suicide bombing in Jerusalem and the IDF elimination of a car full of terrorists were unrelated to the events of the last 24 hours. The Hamas spokesman, while warning that the organization intends to take revenge for yesterday’s IDF helicopter attack on Abdel-Aziz Rantisi, admitted that his organization is incapable of organizing an attack on such short notice and called the timing ‘a fortuitous coincidence.’
The IDF, in turn, said that the attack in Gaza was launched on a purely military basis and was carried out without relation to this evening’s bombing in Jerusalem.
Frank says: