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Middle East
Hamas hollers for Dire Revenge™
2003-08-10
Clamoring for revenge, thousands of Hamas supporters Saturday buried two militants killed in an Israeli raid, and a senior Palestinian official urged the United States to intervene to prevent the unraveling of a six-week-old truce. The militants and an Israeli soldier were killed Friday when troops raided a bomb lab in a West Bank refugee camp, sparking a gunbattle. A Palestinian stone-thrower also was killed by troops.
"Yeah! You Merkins gotta make 'em stop it!"
At their funerals in the West Bank city of Nablus, masked gunmen fired in the air, and mourners waving Hamas flags chanted slogans demanding retribution. The Web site of Hamas' military wing, Izzedine al Qassam, called on militant cells to exact "a quick response to this crime to teach the enemy a deterrent lesson." Mahmoud Zahar, a Hamas spokesman in the Gaza Strip, said the statement "doesn't need any explanation. It means they will retaliate."
"We gotta kill somebody quick!"
The group's leaders, however, stopped short of saying the incident would wreck a cease-fire declared June 29 by Hamas and other militant groups.
"Killing people wouldn't violate any ceasefire agreement. Ever'body knows that."
Palestinian Cabinet minister Yasser Abed Rabbo said Saturday that Hamas "promised it will not respond to the Israeli attacks." He warned, however, that more such raids could endanger the truce. Israel continues to send forces into West Bank towns and refugee camps to arrest Palestinian terror suspects.
Posted by:Fred Pruitt

#2  I have a solution into the "pro-Paleo" attitude of reporters. The next one that shoots off his/her mouth is grabbed by Israel, manacled, and forced to sit in an Israely hospital emergency room, taking down vital information about those being brought in - for three months. After that, if they still shoot off their mouth, pull their visa. They have no credibility, and can't think but in pro-paleo terms. If they come back after their visa's been pulled, whack and stack 'em.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2003-8-10 1:36:43 PM  

#1  The killing and Dire Revenge™ cycle has served up a steady stream of stories like this. I find most of the factual bits could be from any day since September, 2001, when the current lunacy known as the "intefada" began anew.

What's so damned telling, IMHO, is the insistence of the press on pretending there is a truce or cease fire - and that it has been in effect for 6 weeks. This story could have come from almost any day of the last 6 weeks - and it would be just like any other day. Endanger the truce? What truce?

On a side note, it's plain that Rabbo's 'net connection is down - or Zahar strayed from the script.

And, the final bit of irony comes in the closer: the clear implication that it is Israel who is endangering the imaginary truce because it apparently received intelligence of a bomb-making lab and didn't just ignore it - and let them make bombs. Who would have? The "reporter" doesn't say - or even address the bomb lab aspect... I guess that wasn't on the edtorial agenda. Big surprise. The press at its best: mind-bogglingly pro-Pal / pro-Terrorist.
Posted by: ·com   2003-8-10 12:45:22 AM  

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