Bus No. 19, and hope, blasted in Jerusalem

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Bus No. 19, and hope, blasted in Jerusalem
Talks between US, Israeli, and Palestinian officials were canceled Thursday after a suicide bombing.

JERUSALEM – Taffy Sassoon was going to get a piece of artwork framed Thursday morning when she felt the boom above her head.

"I heard this enormous blast, and I thought that it was a plane," says Mrs. Sassoon, trying to regain her composure after witnessing Thursday's suicide bombing here that killed 10 Israelis and wounded more than 50.

"Then I realized that the blast was too big and that it didn't come from the sky," she says. "The whole roof of the bus was gone. At first there was a kind of silence, and then an echoing of the blast. And then I could hear whimpering coming from the bus." Sassoon says she leaned the picture, a rare Chagall print, against a pole and rushed over to try to help the wounded. "I couldn't look," she says. "I realized that I didn't have the stomach to help." She is still stunned by the knowledge that, had she been crossing this key intersection of the upscale Rehavia neighborhood just a moment later, she might have lost her life, too.

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Bus No. 19, and hope, blasted in Jerusalem

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1. A close-up witness

Easy to distance oneself from the impact. The more frequent they occur, the more it's normalized. A close view brings it back into reality.