Seized Hamas Video Shows Israeli Commuter Train Targeted

A new train line in Israel may be vulnerable to terrorist rocket fire from the Gaza Strip, Israel Hayom reports. Israeli forces seized a video showing extensive Palestinian surveillance of an Israeli passenger train from the home of a senior Hamas operative in Gaza, suggesting that an attack is being planned.

The train line is only a few months old, connecting Sderot, the town near Gaza which has been bombarded by Palestinian rocket fire for years, to Israel's center. Palestinians were discovered monitoring the train line only a few hundred meters away from the border.

As a result, Israel Railways and the IDF Southern Command are working to implement an expensive plan to protect the vulnerable stretch of track.

Hamas and other terrorists have been able to bring more advanced weaponry in Gaza, including anti-tank missiles, enhancing the risk to transportation and civilian communities in general.

As the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Hamas seek to implement a unity government in the coming week, the video serves as a reminder that Hamas is a terrorist organization committed solely to attacking and trying to destroy Israel.

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Targeting of commuter train

Submitted by Mickey Oberman, May 20, 2014 04:09

Geppetto has taken the wind out of my sails.

He has said what has to be said lucidly, succinctly and fully.

Thank you, Geppetto.

Pinnocch\io (Mickey)

Reminder?

Submitted by Geppetto, May 19, 2014 14:52

"the video serves as a reminder that Hamas is a terrorist organization committed solely to attacking and trying to destroy Israel."

That a "reminder" is still necessary says volumes about the Israeli/Palestinian so called "peace process." That much of the world remains ensnared in the worldwide propaganda bubble that is convinced Israel is and has always been the aggressor, despite mountains of evidence to the contrary, is indicative of the extreme intransigence that still surrounds this issue.

That there are those who have come to, and continue to believe that the defeat or removal of Israel from the Middle East will resolve and end all the Muslim violence perpetrated against the west around the world says volumes about the inherent, human, psychological weakness that makes the violent, brutal, bullying tactics of Jihad so dangerous.

Until the west acknowledges the reality that Islam intends to subdue and control the world under Sharia law, that this political, theological force is enemy number one and begins to respond with overwhelming force, this madness will continue.

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