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Tuesday, April 12, 2005

About that widely reported story of Israel shooting three "kids playing soccer" the other day... A PA official has admitted they were probably smugglers. Please don't tell me you actually thought the Israelis would have shot some kids playing soccer too close to a "forbidden zone". On second thought, if you believed that, please don't tell me. Of course the image of kids playing ball near a border and being shot out of hand for straying is the usual concentration camp imagery that Palestinian propaganda loves to propagate and that the press absolutely gobbles up even though they've gone far past the point at which they should know better.

Haaretz: In face of mortars, Israel grits its teeth

...The Gaza command was meanwhile continuing its investigation of the circumstances that led to the shooting of three 14-year-olds from Rafah, on the Philadelphi route. The Israel Defense Forces is almost certain that the youths were somehow involved in smuggling weapons from Egypt. A videotape from the observation post documents them approaching the Egyptian border, far beyond the reach of a kicked football that Palestinian witnesses said they had gone to retrieve.

A squad commander and a sharpshooter from Golani shot them. The members of this division are backing up the soldiers: The rules of engagement in Philadelphi are different because of the weapons-smuggling. In about 40 incidents over the last two months along the Green Line, troops have not fired as Palestinians crossed over. The people who have attempted these crossings, nearly all of them looking for a way to make some money, were arrested on the Israeli side.

The commander of the Palestinian forces inside Gaza, Mussa Arafat, reported - both to Israel and the PA leadership - that the youths were smugglers. But the PA announcements on the subject focused on condemning Israel for shooting youths...


3 Comments

LIKE WE DISCUSSED at the other thread.
Perfect Example!!
Every NPR, Fox News, CNN and everyone else already announced that Israel shot 3 teens.... and then Palestinians returned mortar fire....
So it DOES NOT even matter what the real story is now.....

You think anyone of these places is going to do an "oh yeah for clarification"........ lol... noone cares now anyway and its stored in the subconscious mental memory.
Just telling you what you already know.

Btw, Solomon, you think you can put up a mini post that links to the Massad Daily Scorecard entry?

Yes, I was planning on doing that. Will in a bit.

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