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2006-09-02 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

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Posted by Steve White 2006-09-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 More great moments in journalism.

"five homemade rockets"
The devices referred to may be crude or primitive or unsophisticated, but they are almost certainly not homemade. For a thing to be homemade it should be constructed in, well, a home, a place where people are living. Rockets may be made in metal shops or warehouses, but since you're dealing with explosives, industrial metal cutters and rocket fuel, they are unlikely to be cooked up in someone's kitchen. They are also far more likely to be made by organized groups with access to materials than by private individuals, of the sort we associate with things homemade.

There was a time, I want to believe, when journalists actually cared what words meant. Now, as long as the Palestinians are suggested to be plucky and innovative, whipping up rockets like the genuinely homemade Molotov cocktails in the Warsaw ghetto, words are meant mainly to supplement a narrative rather than describe facts.

Posted by Baba Tutu 2006-09-02 02:31|| 2006-09-02 02:31|| Front Page Top

#2 Yep, rockets don't lend themselves much to home ~~peace~~piecework.

Posted by 6 2006-09-02 03:35|| 2006-09-02 03:35|| Front Page Top

#3 Something I'd really like to see is Israel finally saying;

"Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, Islamic Jihad, Hamas, Hezbollah, Palestinian Liberation Front, Fatah, The National Front for the Liberation of Palestine, The Palestinian Authority, Yo Momma or Who The F&ck Ever, it no longer matters."

"If you screw with us, all of you take the hit. We come in and snuff at least one of you from every single one of these assorted groups that we can lay hands on."

There needs to be an end to one faction signing on to some lame-@ss peace agreement or truce only to have their idle weapons shipped across the street to some other terrorist homies who launch from their rooftops instead.

Israel's new motto needs to be, "F&ck with us and you all die."

Posted by Zenster 2006-09-02 04:17|| 2006-09-02 04:17|| Front Page Top

#4 Word, Zenster. Works for me. I'll bet most Israelis would endorse it, too. I hope they find leaders to make it so - with a vengeance.

Posted by flyover 2006-09-02 04:24|| 2006-09-02 04:24|| Front Page Top

#5 Zenster, save the list. Paleos use terroristm to conduct a war to extinsion against Israel. Every Paleo who is not a terrorist her/himself is part of the terrorists' logistics.

Posted by gromgoru 2006-09-02 08:45|| 2006-09-02 08:45|| Front Page Top

#6 Every Paleo who is not a terrorist her/himself is part of the terrorists' logistics.

After the Palestinians knowingly voted into power a listed terrorist organization I, too, gave up all hope and now regard every last man, woman and child of them as part of their terrorist network. The Palestinians are simply amongst some of the most irredeemable human vermin on earth. I look forward to the day that they all drown in their hateful genocidal bile.

Posted by Zenster 2006-09-02 15:22|| 2006-09-02 15:22|| Front Page Top

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