It's not just sections of the Palestinian community who are celbrating:


Mideast-unrest-Eliezer
Israeli defense minister gloats over world silence at Palestinian deaths

JERUSALEM, Sept 14 (AFP) - Israeli Defense Minister Binyamin Ben Eliezer,
gloated Friday over the fact that the international community has been silent
about the recent Israeli killing of Palestinians in the West Bank.
The hard-line minister, in an interview published in the Yediot Aharonot
daily, said this is a "disaster" for Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
"It is a fact that we have killed 14 Palestinians in Jenin, Kabatyeh and
Tammun, with the world remaining absolutely silent. It's a disaster for
Arafat," Ben Eliezer told the Yediot.
The ministry of defence did not deny Ben Eliezer's comments, but said they
could not be considered as an official declaration.
The Palestinian leadership Friday repeated charges that Israel was using
the tragedy in the United States to step up what Arafat aide Nabil Abu Rudeina
said a day earlier was its "war of attrition" against the Palestinians.
"While the world is preoccupied with the terrorist acts that targeted New
York and Washington, the Israeli government is trying to profit from these
events by accelerating its escalation," said a statement from the Palestinian
leadership.
"The forces of occupation have stiffened their attacks against Palestinian
cities, destroying numerous buildings, while several martyrs have fallen," the
statement added.
On Thursday, Abu Rudeina had said "Israel is exploiting the tragic
circumstances in the United States to continue its escalation, which is
leading the region ever deeper into violence and tensions.
"The Israeli government persists in its policy of aggression ... This is a
war of attrition against the Palestinian people and their leaders," he added.
His words were echoed by Palestinian information minister Yasser Abed
Rabbo, who charged Israel with "exploiting the present situation, during which
the world is preoccupied with the terrorist attack in the United States, in
order to launch terror attacks against the Palestinian people.
"Under the cover of night, Israeli forces reinvaded the cities of Jenin,
Jericho and Qalqilya," he said in a statement.
In another report Friday Yediot reported that Israel forced the
postponement of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's landmark visit to Syria
this week by banning his helicopter from taking off.
The Israeli leaders believed that taken in the context of the terrorist
attacks in the United States, the unprecedented ban would not provoke a
backlash, Yediot said.
The reports were not denied by the defense ministry which refused official
comment, it said.

And there are innocents that some would like to slughter wholesale. A US response needs to be tragetted. It's easy to start generalising, but does the blood of innocents really satisfy a quest for justice and peace?

Just as evil comes in many racial packages, so does good. For some of you posting on this forum the emotive response is natural, but if you're really interested in life over death, justice needs to guide the response and the approach to deeper issues. Violence really will not make you safer or freer - that is the road we are on now. True civilisation is judged by its sense of just compassion rather than its fist. I suggest some of you think about what you're saying.


US-attacks-Iran,lead
Young Tehranis pay homage to terror victims in US
ATTENTION - RECASTS with gathering ///

TEHRAN, Sept 13 (AFP) - Around 200 young Tehranis held a silent, candle-lit
gathering here Thursday to pay homage to the thousands of victims of the
terror attacks in the United States, which known in Iran as the "Great Satan."
Many of the young Iranians wore black shirts in a sign of mourning during
the unprecedented hour-long gathering.
"We wanted to show our solidarity with the American people which is in
pain," one of the demonstrators, 19-year-old Rostam, told AFP. "It's the first
time in my life that I have been able to show such a feeling."
Parissa, another Iranian born after the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran,
said: "We feel close to the victims' families, but there is nothing political
about this, nor is this any form of support for the American government.
"This is a gesture towards the American people."
Iran's main reformist party earlier Thursday condemned the string of deadly
terror attacks in the United States and called for a "global campaign" against
terrorism.
"Tuesday's attacks achieved the greatest disaster that terrorism could
inflict on humanity," the Islamic Iran Participation Front (IIPF) said,
expressing sympathy with the victims' families.
"The Iranian people, themselves victims of terrorist attacks, strongly
share the grief of others," the IIPF said, referring to actions by the Islamic
state's main armed opposition group, the Iraq-based People's Mujahedeen.


Terrible as this attack has been, the response needs to be considered. Terrorism must be stopped, but it cannot be done through violence alone.

actualy some right parlament members suggested that Israel must now act with more force against any islamic/arabic terror cells in the next few days .
but it did not pass the parlament voice.

there is gonna be a meeting next week
peres is gonna meet arafat maybe.