From President Bush’s address to AIPAC (President Speaks to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee), Washington, D.C., Tuesday, May 18, 2004:
The Israeli people have always had enemies at their borders and terrorists close at hand. Again and again, Israel has defended itself with skill and heroism. And as a result of the courage of the Israeli people, Israel has earned the respect of the American people. (Applause.)
The very next day, from “Explosion rips through crowd of Palestinian demonstrators, killing at least 10”, San Francisco Chronicle, Wednesday, May 19, 2004:
An Israeli missile and four tank shells ripped through a large crowd of Palestinians demonstrating Wednesday against the Israeli invasion of a neighboring refugee camp, killing at least 10 Palestinians. Hospital officials said all the victims were children and teenagers.
Israel’s military acknowledged that soldiers fired four tank shells, a missile and machine guns to stop 3,000 Palestinian demonstrators it said were heading toward a battle zone in the Gaza Strip.
“There were armed men in the midst of the demonstration,” Brig. Gen. Ruth Yaron, the army spokeswoman, told Israel TV’s Channel One.
For what it’s worth, there are some additional reports indicating that some of the demonstrators and protesters were throwing rocks, which I guess makes the whole “missiles” and “tank shells” response fair enough.
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Get ready for the endless denials, extenuating circumstances, lies, damn lies, and statistics from the Israeli government and their many friends in the media, etc. By next week opinion makers will be back to praising Israel’s restraint while at the same time wondering why they don’t let their dogs off the leash.
Israel should just go to war, and I mean war and kill all the dirty arabs.
I don’t think/hope that the Israelis should go to war with the Arabs, I think the Arab elite should stop oppressing Arabs, blaming Western Democracies for the oppression and then producing so much dehumanizing violence.
Arabs aren’t dirty. It’s not about dirt, It’s about tribalism, tribal warfare, the struggle for power and generally human nature as noted in all history, fraudulent or not.
Speaking of the struggle for power, the past four of five days my security system has logged more trojan horse attacks than there are anti-coalition attacks in Iraq. Wonder why?