One young girl ran along a downtown street after hearing of the suicide bombing at the Dizengoff Center mall in the heart of Tel Aviv that killed 14. Outside Dizengoff Center on Tuesday, hundreds of people were jamming the sidewalks, spilling onto the street. Peres should be bombed. Let him explode. A bad brew of feelings hangs in the air.
People are grief-stricken, enraged and tense.
They know Hamas may well strike again, anywhere. On the newsstands the papers are filled with color pictures of the disaster. People may be afraid, but not many are paralyzed by fear. Israelis, even in Tel Aviv, are still walking outdoors, going about their business. Some people were shouting that they had no security, yet they were staring at the blasted-out windows four stories up, in a crowd, making themselves a tempting target if terrorists decided to strike in the same place.