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| As Israel burns, are we looking at a new form of eco-terrorism? |
| 2016-11-25 |
| With wildfires currently raging across Israel for a third consecutive day, many are concerned that this may be a new form of terrorism. Fires from an estimated 220 points of origin have broken out throughout central and northern Israel since Wednesday and assessments by police have strengthened suspicions that many were deliberately set and were nationalistically motivated. Boaz Ganor, founder and executive director of the International Institute for Counter- Terrorism, told The Jerusalem Post that, "even if a portion are intentional, it is not organized. It’s not that you have a terrorist organization giving orders to their members to carry out fire attacks, though maybe in a few hours you can have groups like Hamas claiming the fires." But "one thing is clear," Ganor said. "It is not a new form of terrorism. Arson attacks and setting fires in populated areas or forests are a well known modus operandi of terrorist groups, and not only in Israel. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #4 nationalistically motivated It's an Israeli PC for "Arab Terrorism", AC. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-11-25 15:05 |
| #3 nationalistically motivated = spinning moral "national identity" equivalence of the Paleos and justifying destruction by arson fires |
| Posted by: Frank G 2016-11-25 09:10 |
| #2 nationalistically motivated. WTF?? This sounds like the new anti-Trump meme. Make everything sound like Naziism. How about religiously motivated? I'm sure if the perps were Christian that's what we would be hearing. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2016-11-25 07:51 |
| #1 ridiculous headline as the body of the article states that "It is not a new form of terrorism" anyway, it has been very dry in Israel lately with dew point in Haifa at 3F and Jerusalem at -6F today with a wind from the desert east rain is possible by Wed 30 Nov which, if it occurs would reduce or end the fires |
| Posted by: lord garth 2016-11-25 07:48 |