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Hamas Vows Revenge Over Damage at Jerusalem Shrine
2004-02-16
The militant Islamic group Hamas vowed Monday to exact revenge
(REVENGE, REVENGE, Dire REVENGE™)
against Israel over the collapse of a stone embankment abutting Judaism’s Western Wall and leading to Islam’s third holiest shrine. "We warn the leadership of the enemy that the reaction of Palestinian resistance to the continued plans to destroy al-Aqsa mosque will be beyond their imagination and will topple the situation on their heads," Hamas said in a statement.
"Look out! The situation's toppling!"
"Run, Moshe! Run!"
Israeli engineers have not yet determined the cause of the collapse, during a rare snowstorm
(Weather control satelite?)
Saturday, of part of an 800-year-old stone ramp leading to the mosque in a compound that Muslims revere as al-Haram al-Sharif and Jews as Temple Mount. One theory being investigated was whether a small earthquake last week destabilized the Mameluke-era embankment which adjoins the Western Wall, or "Wailing Wall," an outer wall of the biblical Second Temple and one of Judaism’s holiest sites.
I'm going with the signs and portents interpretation, myself. Too many earthquakes, thunder-and-lightning snowstorms, freaks of natures, dogs sleeping with cats... Next week the dead rise...
But Hamas, which has carried out a suicide bombing campaign against Israel for over a decade, accused the Jewish state of trying to destabilize the al-Aqsa compound by carrying out construction in the vicinity. Israeli archaeologists have accused the Muslim Waqf which oversees the shrine of carrying out destructive and unsupervised building at the site, a charge it denies.
seems somewhat more logical
Israel is renovating
unformiliar concept for palestinians
the plaza in front of the Western Wall and has in the past carried out archaeological digs outside the mosque compound. But the Waqf and Hamas have accused it of digging under the compound itself, a charge never substantiated.
Posted by:Evert Visser

#8  I wonder if someone could blow up the mosque and somehow make Hamas resposnsible for it...forged letters etc....That ought to get a real civl war going.
Posted by: dataman1   2004-2-16 10:16:06 PM  

#7  Frank - are you casting aspersions upon the engineering skills of Paleo True Believers? Don't you think Allah will make evertyhing they do copasetic? I mean, what's holding up a little dirt that's been undermined by excavation for a God? The One True God, no less!

dataman1 - was that a Hooters or a Shooters?
Posted by: .com   2004-2-16 9:20:45 PM  

#6  Well Dataman that would make it the 3rd Temple for sure.... :)
Posted by: Shipman   2004-2-16 7:17:21 PM  

#5  Why not just blow up the Mosque and get it over with. Put a Hooters on the site.
Posted by: dataman1   2004-2-16 6:45:21 PM  

#4  Dumbf&*ks have been digging in the mosque compound for several years now. Cause, meet effect....Dire Revenge™ and seething to follow
Posted by: Frank G   2004-2-16 5:26:01 PM  

#3  Question. Just how many "Holy Sites" does the Islamic World need?

Answer. All of them
Posted by: Cheddarhead   2004-2-16 5:23:39 PM  

#2  " Mahmoud, this pillar has a Zionist symbol on it! "
" It must be a Zionist pillar! Destroy it! "
*Crash*
" Abdul, those Zionist pigs have tricked us again! "
Posted by: Charles   2004-2-16 4:10:04 PM  

#1  It's The Zionist Wall Collapse Ray!
Either that, or someone's in deep shit over at Queria Cement...
Posted by: tu3031   2004-2-16 2:42:56 PM  

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