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| Paleos: Israel uses rats against Jerusalem Arabs |
| 2008-07-20 |
| The Palestinian Authority's official news agency Wafa says Israel is using rats to drive Arab families out of their homes in the Old City of Jerusalem. In the past the news agency, which is controlled and funded by PA President Mahmoud Abbas's office, has accused Israel of using wild pigs to drive Palestinians out of their homes and fields in the West Bank. In the reports, Palestinians were quoted by the agency as saying that they had seen Israelis release herds of wild pigs, which later attacked them. "they turned me into a newt!" But this is the first time that Palestinians have spoken of rats being used against them. "I got better" "Rats have become an Israeli weapon to displace and expel Arab residents of the occupied Old City of Jerusalem," Wafa reported under the title, "Settlers flood the Old City of Jerusalem with rats." The report continued: "Over the past two months, dozens of settlers come to the alleyways and streets of the Old City carrying iron cages full of rats. They release the rats, which find shelter in open sewage systems." hmmmm....open sewage system, an Arab tradition, has absolutely nothing to do with the presence of rats... Wafa quoted unnamed Arab residents as saying that they had tried to eliminate the rats with various poisons, but to no avail. "we need a lot of poison....for the rats" Israel's goal was to "increase the suffering of the [Arabs] in Jerusalem by turning their lives into a real tragedy and forcing them to evict their homes and leave the city," Hasan Khater, secretary-general of the Islamic-Christian Front in Jerusalem, was quoted as saying. wonder how many Christians are in the Islamic-Christian Front Jerusalem Municipality spokesman Gidi Schmerling said that the report was "pure fiction," and had no connection to reality. |
| Posted by:Frank G |
| #4 Insert Professional Courtesy Joke Here........ |
| Posted by: .5MT 2008-07-20 18:04 |
| #3 I Thought "The Profit" liked cats? There's your Rat solution right there. Give it a month and see all the fat cats, bellies dragging the ground, and not a rat to be found. I recommend "Maine coon Cats" |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2008-07-20 17:18 |
| #2 Yeah, but did they poison wells, too? |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2008-07-20 13:09 |
| #1 Are they sure they aren't relatives that stopped by? Hard to tell. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2008-07-20 12:10 |