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Commentary;
While the Olmert regime is hard at work selling removal of checkpoints, thus enabling events like Friday’s hiker murders and the 6.5 tons of smuggled potassium nitrate (dressed up like EU sugar) for rockets and explosives found on Shabbos to increase in frequency, Olmert and his friends are also hard at work seeing that the security we’ve known in recent since the bus bombings of the Al Aqsa War diminishes, leaving Egged commuters once again vulnerable to mass-murder by suicide bombing. The arguement of “let Egged pay for its security is lame.”
All of this security-loosening seems spun as either “confidence-building”(sic) with Abbas or so-called human rights, but in REALITY, the regime’s actions seem to speak for themselves — the nation, the governed be damned. More accurately, it appears as the regime’s systematic complicity with Fatah, Hamas, Al Aqsa Brigades, Islamic Jihad, etc. in Heaven-forbid, resumption of injuring, maiming and murdering of Jews. MB
Sign of the Times[??]: No More Bus Security, by Rebecca Anna Stoil (Jerusalem Post)
Excerpts;
A day after Israel Police Chief Insp.-Gen. David Cohen declared that the security situation of 2007-2008 would not return to that of 2001-2002, a unit founded to protect the public during the darkest days of the Second Intifada [sic] closed its doors on Monday.
Following a decision justified by the government as saving tens of millions of shekels, the Magen Unit, established to protect public transportation users, will be discontinued.
The decision to close the unit’s doors – so to speak – was made in a cabinet meeting in August.
MK Yoel Hasson (Kadima) tried to introduce a stopgap measure, convening a committee earlier this month to find a solution to the current situation, which – as of Monday evening – left citizens on buses and waiting at bus stops unprotected. But Hasson’s efforts did not bear fruit, and the unit’s remaining employees stopped work on Monday evening.
Egged has said that it is incapable of funding a unit to take Magen’s place. The unit consisted of some 800 security guards, all post-army with combat certification – and in some areas, including downtown Jerusalem, the unit also utilized K-9 squads with specially-trained bomb-sniffing dogs. The Magen Unit was established in 2001, but its presence became more public in the years of the Second Intifada, in which 267 people were killed in 41 terror attacks targeting public transportation.
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