nicky g
09-28-2004, 07:41 AM
I thought this was an interesting double standard for those who think it's perfectly legitimate to shoot Palestinian stone throwers:
"As dusk fell on the refugee camp yesterday, its residents tended to be concerned less with the demise of Mr Shaer than news that their husbands and wives, mothers and fathers who work in Gaza City might not be home for the night.
The army closed the only road from the north after Jewish settlers lined a bridge and pelted Palestinian cars below in protest at Ariel Sharon's plan to erase the settlements from the Gaza Strip.
When a Palestinian throws a stone at an Israeli, the army defines it as an act of terrorism. It is one reason the Israeli government claims Palestinians are responsible for 23,000 acts of terrorism over the past four years of intifada.
But the handling of the settlers is altogether a different matter. The army left them where they were. It was the Palestinian commuters - who had committed no crime - whom they told to go away. "
'The Israelis got the wrong man - he was just the bodyguard' (http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1314201,00.html)
"As dusk fell on the refugee camp yesterday, its residents tended to be concerned less with the demise of Mr Shaer than news that their husbands and wives, mothers and fathers who work in Gaza City might not be home for the night.
The army closed the only road from the north after Jewish settlers lined a bridge and pelted Palestinian cars below in protest at Ariel Sharon's plan to erase the settlements from the Gaza Strip.
When a Palestinian throws a stone at an Israeli, the army defines it as an act of terrorism. It is one reason the Israeli government claims Palestinians are responsible for 23,000 acts of terrorism over the past four years of intifada.
But the handling of the settlers is altogether a different matter. The army left them where they were. It was the Palestinian commuters - who had committed no crime - whom they told to go away. "
'The Israelis got the wrong man - he was just the bodyguard' (http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1314201,00.html)