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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iranian tourists stone Israeli positions
2004-03-07
Iranian tourists pelted Israeli positions with stones at the Fatima Gate border point during a visit to the Southern region Friday, having arrived in Lebanon on a trip from Syria by way of Western Bekaa.
Why, that was astoundingly brave of them!
On the opposite side of the border, scores of Israelis and foreign tourists were sighted moving around in a park at Metullah settlement, while soldiers manned their fortified positions. The Iranians numbered about 90, among them lawyers and university professors, and included men, women and children. Their first stop over was in the former Khiam detention camp, once run by Israeli occupation forces or their allied militiamen. Those looking after the notorious camp, which has since become an important landmark, explained to the visitors methods of torture once used against detainees, especially resistance fighters. The tourists then moved to a spot facing Metullah and took some snapshots after having disembarked from two buses. A university professor from Teheran, Hamdi Nazeri, said the group had come to Syria and from there to Lebanon on a tourist trip “to have a look at the border and see what happened to the Jews after their defeat in May 2000.”
Posted by:Fred

#11  Tourists, huh? Sure. Looks like they hit all the hot spots. Was Ein Hellhole closed?
Posted by: tu3031   2004-3-7 11:55:55 PM  

#10  I think we should stuff them full of pork sausages first.
Posted by: Phil B   2004-3-7 9:22:08 PM  

#9  As a biomedical physician scientist who uses mice every day, I'll gladly match our dog breeder's contribution to this fine cause. Any chance we can launch a few PETAs into Yasser's compound?
Posted by: Steve White   2004-3-7 5:01:15 PM  

#8  My show Champion girl Rowan, her championship pointed kids and our latest puppy think that's a great idea, PBMcL.

If PETA had their way, these dogs wouldn't get to live in our house, take up the sofa and eat fresh meat every day. Instead they'd starve in the woods or be run over on the roads, but according to PETA that would be more "dignified" -- as if dogs hadn't lived with humans for 10,000 years or more!

Oh, and to make us even worse, besides having show Champion parents our new Whippet puppy is from exploited stock in another way - her mom is also a lure coursing (field) champion as well. And Rowan's dignity is under attack every day when I offer her food treats as we train towards competing for an agility title. Yup, she hates the agility obstacle course so much she goes off to run the obstacles herself to see if I'll come play too.

"False consciousness", no doubt. Marx explained it all.

Animal exploiter that I am, I'll gladly donate to the "round up a PETA bozo today" fund whenever it gets rolling.
Posted by: purebred dog fancier / breeder   2004-3-7 4:15:52 PM  

#7  Charles - forget the pigs, just launch the PETA bozos.
Posted by: PBMcL   2004-3-7 1:42:43 PM  

#6  What would be entertaining is putting pig blood into this fire-fighting machine and hosing them down...
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994738
Posted by: Anonymous   2004-3-7 1:35:42 PM  

#5  I like the idea of giving the Isreali army a safe way to disperse crowds. The pig Cannon! We have contests to launch watermelons out of enormous cannons, so why not use the Technology to launch pigs at Paleostinians? They don't run from bullets unless their human shield runs off, but they will always run from pigs! To add a twist, you can launch live pigs when PETA starts protesting!
Posted by: Charles   2004-3-7 11:31:03 AM  

#4  tater gun.
Posted by: Dead Lawton   2004-3-7 10:00:45 AM  

#3  Not a bad idea,Ed.
You ever make a tennis ball cannon?

One of those would put a serious hurttin on a kid with a slingshot,without killing them.
Posted by: Raptor   2004-3-7 7:59:37 AM  

#2  Send the Israelis some of our baseball pitching machines and load them with rocks. Peace through superior firepower and a 100 mph fastball.
Posted by: ed   2004-3-7 6:19:08 AM  

#1  â€œto have a look at the border and see what happened to the Jews after their defeat in May 2000.” lol
Posted by: Jon Shep U.K   2004-3-7 4:03:05 AM  

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