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November 27, 2002
The little drummer boy gets himself whacked
Oh, now here's a sad tale for the holiday season. Jewish soldiers in Nablus just whacked the the little drummer boy. Jihad Natour, age 22, was out with his friend playing a-rum-pum-pum-pum for Allah -a traditional Ramadan ritual- when the Israelis jumped up, yelled and immediately started shooting.
At least that's the story if you take his partner Raed Faour at his word. And alright then, for the sake of argument let us assume that this account is something halfway close to true.
Note also, however, that it was 3 am and that there was a curfew. The Israelis did not impose this curfew just to be mean and oppress their religious observance. An Israeli spokesperson said, "It's a very violent city. We've arrested seven [would-be] suicide bombers in the city in the last two weeks."
Look, sorry if it crimps your style, but if your people are constantly trying to kill Jews, then there will be consequences. You think that simply claiming it's a religious observance means you have a right to do it no matter what. This is wrong. If your neighbors are sending out suicide bombers to kill Jews every other day, then they're going to have to curtail your holiday observances.
Now, realistically it's not very likely that Israeli soldiers just started shooting out of the blue. Palestenians have very often pushed Israeli security forces, testing their limits. Israelis, on the other hand, have typically gone WAY out of their way NOT to shoot Palestenians unnecessarily, if only because the world is watching them and they know they will be held accountable. Fine. Most likely, though, the reasonable inference is that Israeli defense forces confronted them, and they kept going, didn't stop right away.
These young men pushed their luck, and it gave way. How would the Israelis know that these guys didn't have Ramadan drums packed full of bombs and nails, looking to take out a couple of Jews in Allah's honor? Seven suicide bombers in this town in two weeks? Any soldier or cop in their right mind would shoot at the first sign of resistance or defiance, and ask questions of the next of kin.
In this same article, Palestenians are bitching that the Israelis wouldn't let their ambulance come treat the wounded guy. Perhaps that has something to do with the fact that they've sent Red Crescent ambulances out in the past loaded with bombs. Arafat himself apparently conspired to send one out intending to blow up Secretary of State Powell when he came to see him in April 2002.
We're on to you, guys. You keep doing things to get yourselves shot. You care so little for your own lives that you think it is worth getting yourselves killed just so your next of kin will have something to whine to CNN about.
It's unfortunate when your unarmed civillians manage to act stupid and get themselves killed, but the Israelis are not going to simply lay down and let your people kill them. Even if a whole bunch of you commit suicide by IDF and get weepy interviews with your next of kin on the TV, even if you and the French and Noam Chomsky have conniption fits- the Jews are not going to dry up and blow away.
posted by Al at 11/27/2002 09:18:00 PM
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