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2006-06-15 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Disguised Israeli forces assassinate Fatah activist in Jenin

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Posted by Fred 2006-06-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Damn those Joooooooooooosssssss!!!!

Always disguising themselves as women, or mullahs, or rabbi's, or little children!

Have they no shame?

Oh, wait, Mahmood - wouldn't that be us Paleostinians that do that?

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2006-06-15 03:18|| www.fire-on-the-suns.com]">[www.fire-on-the-suns.com] 2006-06-15 03:18|| Front Page Top

#2 Humph, this really, really, really needs to be confirmed (by Gromgoru, perhaps), but IIRC israeli units specialized in covert infiltration like that are called Mits HaAravim, which supposedly translates as "arab juice".
Note I do not speak hebrew at all, so this might be completely bogus, but this name cracks me up.

Anyway, I vaguely recall many specialized israeli units have weird translated names, like walnut, or others fruits.

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-06-15 05:46|| 2006-06-15 05:46|| Front Page Top

#3 (a) There is nothing on channel-7.
(b) Such units called (as near as I can transliterate) "Mista'arvim", which means disguised as Arabs (Hebrew is a very compact language---that's why G*d used it to write the Bible :-)).
(c) Mista'arvim is job description, not a unit name. And many of Israel's top units bear names of plants & flowers---we likes it that way.

Posted by gromgoru 2006-06-15 10:24|| 2006-06-15 10:24|| Front Page Top

#4 and the activist could not be carried to the nearby Jenin Hospital.

Too many pieces to pick up?

Posted by Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-06-15 12:06|| 2006-06-15 12:06|| Front Page Top

#5 Ok, thanks for the correction.
The translation I got was "jus d'arabes", which doesn't mean much, (except perhaps on an imagery level, IE concentrated arabness or something?), but I thought this was very funny in itself.

As for the IDF vegetal names, well, french army tends to name its african operations as animals/mythological creatures, and both beat the lookat-me-I'm-so-macho stuff of the Martyrs Brigade of the Islamic Lions of The Peninsula and all, I'd say.

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-06-15 12:09|| 2006-06-15 12:09|| Front Page Top

#6 I really don't care whether an "activist" with the Al-Aqsa Brigade is attacked by a "walnut" or a "peach", just so long as they plant him for good.

Posted by Darrell 2006-06-15 13:21|| 2006-06-15 13:21|| Front Page Top

#7 Hi Mohammad Bargheesh, you've just won the Publishers ClearingHouse Sweepstakes!

thawap!

/that's why G*d used it to write the Bible. sheeech!

Posted by Ed petunia McMahon 2006-06-15 13:31|| 2006-06-15 13:31|| Front Page Top

#8 LOL Ed!

Semi OT. TLHs poo poo pumper is named Petunia. Got'em flower decals too.

Posted by 6 2006-06-15 14:36|| 2006-06-15 14:36|| Front Page Top

#9 Or maybe it was those sneaky Hamas 'militants' disguised as Hamas 'activists'.

Posted by DMFD 2006-06-15 21:14|| 2006-06-15 21:14|| Front Page Top

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