Trempiad-2001

The terrorist attack, committed on the morning of February 14 at the Azor intersection several kilometers south of Tel Aviv, is perhaps the largest action of the Palestinian militants for the entire time of the new intifada. Eight dead and 25 wounded, three of which are hard - this was the last time only 5 years ago, in the era of the premiere of transfers and "flying buses."

Seven dead - military personnel of the Israeli Defense Army. Four girls and three guys. So this army is arranged that most military soldiers spend the night at home, and in the morning they return to their bases. Either on regular buses, or on a passage, which in Hebrew from hippies are called "tremes" (and special boards -stations scattered over all the main intersections of the country, - "trempiads").

At one of these stops at the Holon highway, Azor, in the very center of Israel, and soldiers gathered on Wednesday morning. The bus, belonging to the largest cooperative "Eged", controlled by the Palestinian Arab, crashed into a crowd of military personnel standing at the Trempiad, after which he tried to hide in the direction of Gaza. However, the police managed to injure the terrorist, and he, having lost the bus management, drove into a truck, after which he was detained and hospitalized. In the coming days, it can be interrogated, but something has already become known.

Terrorist Alla Khalil Abu Ulba, 35 years old, the father of five children, lives in Sheikh-Raduan, a suburb of Gaza. Over the past five years, he worked in the Cooperative "Eged" and was engaged in the end of Palestinian workers from Gaza within the "green line", that is, to the territory of the state of Israel. It has permission to work in Israel, as evidenced by the certificate issued by representatives of the general security of Israel (Shabak).

It is worth noting that it is not easy to get such a paper: the shabak conducts a thorough check of all Palestinians who seek permission to reliability. Among the main criteria are mature age and the presence of dependents. The more numbers in the corresponding columns, the higher the chances of getting the desired right to work in Israel. Abu Ulba corresponded completely.

The current Prime Minister and Minister of Defense of Israel Ehud Barak, according to the old Israeli habit, ordered the territories to completely close - this is what the authorities do after each attack. The effectiveness of this measure has been tested for years and strives for zero: firstly, the hungry, the more dangerous it is, and secondly, there are dozens of partisan paths, so it is not difficult to penetrate the limits of the green line, unlike simple Palestinians.

True, "ordinary Palestinians" are also a difficult question. According to the initial information, Abu-Ulba was not in any terrorist organizations, but five movements took responsibility for the terrorist attack at once. Hussein Abu Ulba told reporters that his brother’s act is “natural” - after all, he avenged the blood of Palestinian children. Now in Shabak and the Israeli Ministry of Defense, they have been talking about what has long been known: there are no reception against single terrorists.

Of course, the current escalation of violence can be attributed to a coma in which the country's political system is located: there is no new government yet, the old ministers are concerned only to maintain their status in the future office. However, we have to admit that the current terrorist attack exposed a serious crack in a vaunted Israeli security system. In addition to the obvious failure of Shabak, there are serious miscalculations of the political leadership: the day before the attack, one of the leaders of Hizballa was destroyed in Gaza Masud Ayayad, who was part of the “unit 17” - an elite brigade occupied by the personal guard of the Arafat. Instead of introducing the blockade of territories as a preventive step against terrorist attacks, Israel closes the territory after the blood of its soldiers has dried up at the Trempiad.

The word "Tremp" in the Jewish political vocabulary has another meaning. "Take TREMP" - use one or another situation to achieve your goals. Each new terrorist attack is another TREMP for politicians. “The attack will become a catalyst for the speedy formation of the government,” the political observer of the Channel One of Israeli television said on Wednesday.

Yes, most likely it will be. God forbid that this helps someone.

In the photo Reuters: one of the victims with a terrorist attack