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| 2003-11-03 | |||
| FOLLOWUP to the previous story. Adds detail... al-Reuters. Watch for spin. Edited for Digression A Palestinian teenage suicide bomber blew up near Israeli forces in the West Bank on Monday, killing no one but himself, hours after the militant group Hamas ruled out ceasing all attacks on Israelis under any future truce deal. Finally coming clean, in other words Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz said security forces, acting on information about a planned suicide bombing inside Israel, raided the village of Azoun near the town of Qalqilya. "The suicide bomber blew himself up next to an armored army vehicle and we have one slightly wounded soldier," Mofaz said in broadcast remarks.
A road map that didn’t take all the pitfalls into account. Rantissi said the radical Islamic group could discuss halting its suicide bombings inside Israel, while still targeting soldiers and Jewish settlers on occupied land in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Excuse me? How can you be occupiers in your own land? Such a condition would be unacceptable to Israel, which regards attacks on settlers and soldiers as terrorism. For the same reason we regard the sun to be a star. "The issue that will be possible to be addressed (with the Palestinian Authority) is continuing the resistance to the occupation while avoiding civilian casualties," Rantissi told Reuters at a Gaza Strip safe house. just before his lips fell off
"But we’d do that whatever." Hamas, sworn to the destruction of the Jewish state, does not regard the 250,000 settlers living on land Israel occupied in the 1967 Middle East war as non-combatants. International human rights groups consider the settlers to be civilians. For the same reason we consider the Earth to be a planet. | |||
| Posted by:Atrus |
| #13 ;-) |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-11-3 8:25:43 PM |
| #12 Frank, you had me hook line and sinker by the way. I had to check to see if they gave it back eventhough I had seen it with my own eyes. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2003-11-3 7:35:06 PM |
| #11 I don't know, but the wailing wall will go nicely on the cliff walk in Newport. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2003-11-3 7:32:04 PM |
| #10 just wondering: how damaged will the Al-Aqsa site be when they dig up Solomon's Temple/Temple Mount to ship it out....heh heh |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-11-3 7:11:29 PM |
| #9 gotcha |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-11-3 7:09:54 PM |
| #8 Frank, I think the story was that the Turks were going to wreck the thing anyway. link : sample text- The Parthenon sculptures are now one of the greatest treasures of the British Museum and they have been the heart of its classical collections since they were acquired in 1816. The gallery in which they are housed has been described as "one of the central places of earth". They are among a select number of objects in the Museum that are intrinsic to its identity. Inevitably, there are occasional requests to lend some of these objects to exhibitions abroad. The Museum has a very generous loans policy, but the Trustees are determined that such loans should not deprive visitors of the chance to see objects that are famously part of the Museum's collections, which they may reasonably expect to see on display when they come, and which offer the public an overall sense of the past. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2003-11-3 4:59:08 PM |
| #7 er.......Parthenon? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-11-3 4:06:08 PM |
| #6 You dont think Ham-Ass or Arafat gives a flying flick about the palestinian people do you? Ham-Ass Arafat and the IJ only care about killing and murder --- they are addicted to it. Arafish worships power. |
| Posted by: Atrus 2003-11-3 3:57:51 PM |
| #5 Raj, they could bring most of the holy sites with them. Half of the Parthenon is in the British Museum. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2003-11-3 2:15:47 PM |
| #4 Personally I'd rather the US cede Rhode Island to Israel (starting with Pawtucket, please!), bring all Israelis over here, then let Darwinism do the rest. |
| Posted by: Raj 2003-11-3 1:51:16 PM |
| #3 You dont think Ham-Ass or Arafat gives a flying flick about the palestinian people do you? Ham-Ass Arafat and the IJ only care about killing and murder --- they are addicted to it. If they kill Israelies or Palistinians or puppies or baby ducks don't mean a thing to them. Targetting Israelies only tend to lend it some sort of 'credibility' in the eyes of the left and Europe. If they did not have Jews to pick on they would happily kill Palistinians or other Muslims -- they can hardly hold back murdering their own folk as it is. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2003-11-3 12:03:06 PM |
| #2 The would-be-suicide bomber's father, Kamal, said that "he was just a little boy and those who sent him should have left him alone. Nice. The a--holes who sent the boy off to die just cost Kamal his son and, likely, his house. All for the glory of the Palestine state. Yasser must be proud. |
| Posted by: Dar 2003-11-3 11:34:03 AM |
| #1 from the JPost: "The would-be-suicide bomber's father, Kamal, said that "he was just a little boy and those who sent him should have left him alone." |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-11-3 11:11:47 AM |