The Associated Press showcases the suffering of Tunisian civilians as a result of an Israeli strike four decades ago, but it does not elaborate on why Israel struck in the first place. The jihadist Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) was created for the purpose of liquidating the Jewish state. The IDF bombed its headquarters in Tunisia after the PLO attacked Israeli civilians. “Operation Wooden Leg” was in fact a retaliatory operation that Israel launched following a series of terrorist attacks against Israelis, for which the PLO claimed responsibility. The Israeli government decided to “show that the PLO had nowhere to hide” and that “the IDF will always find and punish those responsible.”
The Associated Press chose not to showcase the Israeli victims, but only the Tunisian victims of Israel’s retaliation. The anti-Israel activist media seems to assume that Israel should simply put its weapons down and passively accept being obliterated by jihadis.
The “resistance” against Israel’s very existence is what “binds” these Tunisians that AP showcases to the Palestinians. Muslim civilians who are affected by wars that their own jihadist coreligionists started always blame Israel for defending itself. They also join in the celebrations of “martyrdom.”
“Tunisians remember the Israeli strike that bound their fate with Palestinians 40 years ago,” by Ghaya Ben Mbarek, Associated Press, October 2, 2025:
HAMMAM CHOTT, Tunisia (AP) — Jamel Bahrini remembers the smell of dust and blood that clung to the air when he arrived at the scene of the strike in Tunisia ‘s capital 40 years ago, among hundreds of other first responders.
Israeli warplanes had just struck the Palestine Liberation Organization’s headquarters outside Tunis, killing dozens of people in Israel’s longest-range airstrike at that time.
Neighbors and families rushed into the streets, digging through rubble with their bare hands, searching for survivors.
“On that tree, I found half the body of a martyr, still hanging and his blood still flowing,” Bahrini, now 62, told The Associated Press as he walked through part of the now abandoned bomb site on Wednesday.
Bahrini was among the Tunisians at a recent commemoration ceremony who said the attack looms large in their memories.
Mourners carried posters that read “From the sea of Tunisia to the sea of Gaza” and talked about the 1985 strike in the context of today’s war….
The strike still shapes Tunisian perceptions of Israel and serves as a touchstone connecting them to Palestinians in the two-year war in Gaza….
Donald Breyer says
The AP shared an office with Hamas when they had a bureau in Gaza. And they no longer are in the information business. They announced they are in the business of accountability journalism, i.e., every article should represent the Democrat Party viewpoint. So they are unapologetic Hamas propagandists.
John1 says
Who gives a shit?
MJ Raichyk, PhD says
Since the Tunisians and ‘Palestinians’ are so ‘fused together’ in their ‘future’ THEN TUNISIA SHOULD BE the new HOME of GAZANS…. permanently…. ALL OF THEM….. that’s what AP acknowledged… We should thank the AP for their wisdom about justice….TTYL
࿗Infidel࿘ says
They were the former home of the Palis b/w 1983 to 1991, when Oslo was forced on Israel. Although Pali civilians remained in Lebanon
I’d be in favor of scattering Palestinians throughout the “Arab world” – Qatar, Kuwait, Sudan, Libya, Mauritania, Somalia, Yemen…. and leave them there. Even if those countries refuse to give them full citizenship, Israel should have no more liability for them, just like no Arab country still has any connection w/ their former Jewish citizens who migrated to Israel
JS says
What a bunch of whiney DRAMA QUEENS! 😂
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Time for Israel to expel the Palis to a far-off Arab country. Last time, it was Tunisia, this time, make it something like Mauritania or Somalia