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Israel-Palestine
Palestinians Fire on Israeli Protesters
2005-08-03
Palestinians fired rockets Tuesday at a gathering of thousands of Israeli settlers protesting the upcoming Gaza withdrawal, but missed, killing instead a 3-year-old Palestinian boy and wounding nine other Palestinians in Gaza. Witnesses said militants fired three rockets at the demonstration in the Israeli town of Sderot. Two of the rockets fell in Palestinian areas and the third fell in an open field near Sderot. Among the wounded were five children, aged 4 to 11, including four children of Hisham Abdel Razek, a senior official in the ruling Fatah party and a former Palestinian Cabinet minister. Abdel Razek's wife was also injured.
That's kind of Paleostain all over, isn't it?
Posted by:Fred

#11  I wonder what the Palies will tell the families of the kids they killed. Probably blame it on the Jews.
Posted by: Jan   2005-08-03 23:26  

#10  Fred: If you want to use the correct figurative label, metaphor is the closest. Webster's 3rd definition for "archetype" fits nicely too: "An inherited idea or mode of thought in the psychology of C. G. Jung that is derived from the experience of the race and is present in the unconscious of the individual."

Nice analysis.
Posted by: mom (mrs james)   2005-08-03 20:12  

#9  cause of the stew? you should go to the thread about Felafel.
Posted by: Liberalhawk   2005-08-03 16:24  

#8  Im hungry now.
Posted by: Shipman   2005-08-03 15:41  

#7  I'd call this single incident a... ummm... metaphor? simile? allegory? Hell, I'm not an English major, so I can't be expected to keep them straight. Maybe it's a thick stew, containing all three, plus onions and carrots and turnips, simmered in a rich gravy of vitriol and incompetence for years.

Here are the Israelis, complaining that their government is going to do something they consider wrong, that's going to hit them square in the pocketbooks, for the sake of Peace in the Middle East®.

Rather than saying "Hoboy! The Zionists are leaving! Now we can take their rich farmland and turn it back into desert and have our own state!" and helping them pack, the Paleos decide to shoot rockets at them.

The Paleos, being Paleos, can't even manage to get the rockets into the right county, instead managing to kill a little kid and injure more.

Has anybody checked to make sure Mac Sennet is really dead? It sounds like something he wrote...
Posted by: Fred   2005-08-03 15:14  

#6  Shit, this is even better then a "work accident".
Posted by: tu3031   2005-08-03 11:55  

#5  ..and threatened to use force if necessary to stop such activity.

Oh, please.

"What took place last night is a national scandal," Dahlan said. "This is unfortunately not the first time that Palestinian victims are being killed.

What I heard: "It's supposed to be JEWS that are to be killed, not one of our own."
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2005-08-03 10:12  

#4  "Palestinian Cabinet minister Mohammed Dahlan said the attack hurt Palestinian interests, and threatened to use force if necessary to stop such activity.

"What took place last night is a national scandal," Dahlan said. "This is unfortunately not the first time that Palestinian victims are being killed. ... We should put an end to this by any means, by force, or by pursuing and convincing"

If you do that again, Im gonna get tough. Yup. THIS time I really mean it. Oops. Oh yeah. I didnt like that. You do it again, and THIS time im gonna get really, really tough. I MEAN it this TIME. .....

Cmon Dahlan. Youre gonna have to get tough soon - YOU'RE running out of time.
Posted by: Liberalhawk   2005-08-03 09:54  

#3  When the PA cops showed up to get the perps to knock it off the Hammas "gunmen" responsible opened fire on the Cops. Hammas is saying it is going to run Gaza when Israel withdraws. Of course the PA's control will crater and a bloody civil free for all will ensue. Just wonderful. Expect more not less provacation and rocket attacks.
Posted by: Sock Puppet 0’ Doom   2005-08-03 01:22  

#2  Steve was kind enough to point out that "Acts of Allan" are not covered incidents in the standard Mutual of Gaza policy. I also believe payment is prohibited by the "crossfire" rider and "collateral damage" waiver. Additionally, the hudna discount has been rescinded and the policy premiums are scheudled to rise at the close of Eid later this year. For further details please call Mahmoud in Customer Service.
Posted by: Seafarious   2005-08-03 01:00  

#1  Call in the friendly fire adjuster and get those multiple accidental martyr checks in the mail pronto.
Posted by: MunkarKat   2005-08-03 00:25  

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