• Israeli settlers shoot dead a Palestinian teen for throwing rocks at their car
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[url]http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64D4XW20100514[/url] [release][img]http://www.reuters.com/resources/r/?m=02&d=20100514&t=2&i=107367800&w=460&r=2010-05-14T194004Z_01_BTRE64D1IMW00_RTROPTP_0_PALESTINIAN-ISRAEL-VIOLENCE[/img] [b](Reuters) - The body of a Palestinian teenager was found in the occupied West Bank on Friday, and Palestinian police and witnesses said he had been shot dead by Jewish settlers after he threw rocks at their car. [/b] The body of 16-year-old Aysar Zaben was not found until after midnight, although the incident happened on Thursday on a road near the city of Ramallah, they said. An Israeli police spokesman said the incident was being investigated but it was not clear exactly what took place or who was responsible. Witnesses said a group of Palestinian teenagers threw rocks at a car carrying Jewish settlers as they drove past. The armed settlers then fired at the stone throwers. The death was the first on either side since Israel and the Palestinians began indirect peace talks on Saturday. An Israeli army spokesman said that later on Friday, Palestinians had shot at a car belonging to Israelis traveling in the West Bank and that two people were slightly hurt when bullets shattered the car windows. He said troops were searching the area for suspects. A Palestinian security source told Reuters the shooting may have been prompted by the killing of the teenager, as it happened in the same area. "It appears as if this was a retaliation shooting," said the Palestinian source, who declined to be named. Some 500,000 Jewish settlers and about 2.5 million Palestinians live in the West Bank and areas near Jerusalem annexed by Israel after its victory in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.[/release] Goddamn. Maybe they should, you know, leave the West Bank?
I realize that this is a complicated, bloody, and violent conflict, but I never realized how anti-Israel Facepunch is. Why rate me dumb I'm making an observation
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It's really annoying and scary to have rocks thrown at your car, also fixing the car up will be quite costly. I think they should have thrown rocks back or something, not kill the kid at least, he probably didn't know any better.
Agreed
Jew's get fucked with too much.
[QUOTE=TunnelSnake;21961174]I realize that this is a complicated, bloody, and violent conflict, but I never realized how anti-Israel Facepunch is.[/QUOTE] Glad you say Anti-Israel, and not anti-semitic, since I don't hate the jews. I just don't like Israel for what they are doing.
[QUOTE=Beafman;21961365]Glad you say Anti-Israel, and not anti-semitic, since I don't hate the jews. I just don't like Israel for what they are doing.[/QUOTE] Would you please leave religion out of this.
[QUOTE=mercurius;21961389]Would you please leave religion out of this.[/QUOTE] I don't believe I mentioned religion in what I said. I meant what Israel, as a country, has done toward the palestinians.
I bet the guys who shot him were racist idiots, seeing as they are settlers it's most probably true. Are they going to be put to trial?
[QUOTE=Beafman;21961413]I don't believe I mentioned religion in what I said. I meant what Israel, as a country, has done toward the palestinians.[/QUOTE] It's because you said Jews instead of Israelites, but nevermind.
The word is Israelis, not Israelites, thank you.
[QUOTE=keroba2;21961466]It's because you said Jews instead of Israelites, but nevermind.[/QUOTE] Israel is 75% Jewish. Somehow I doubt the 20% that are Arab are supporting the colonization.
[QUOTE=Omali;21961484]Israel is 75% Jewish. Somehow I doubt the 20% that are Arab are supporting the colonization.[/QUOTE] arab isn't a religion it's an ethnicity aka there are jewish arabs, christian arabs, muslim arabs, etc i happen to know some jewish arabs in fact
Some guy flipped me the bird yesterday so I totally gunned him down in retaliation. Seriously I gave him the finger and sped off. Is human life worth nothing over there?
Prismatex, Jewishness is also an ethnicity. For example I'm an Atheist of Jewish ethnicity. You could also be Jewish in religion while not Jewish in your ethnicity, for example the Jewish Arabs you happen to know.
Teenagers are stupid.
[QUOTE=Grabigel;21961228]Jew's get fucked with too much.[/QUOTE] I think the Jews are doing the fucking here.
[QUOTE=keroba2;21961466]It's because you said Jews instead of Israelites, but nevermind.[/QUOTE] He said "I don't hate Jews". He made it very clear that he [I]didn't[/I] want religion involved in the conversation, I don't get what you all are talking about.
Unless the rocks were grenades and they were driving in a convertible I don't see the reason to shoot someone for doing that. Maybe chase him/beat him up but not gun him down.
[QUOTE=markfu;21961681]Unless the rocks were grenades and they were driving in a convertible I don't see the reason to shoot someone for doing that. Maybe chase him/beat him up but not gun him down.[/QUOTE] Yeah but you don't live in the West Bank. I'm not condoning shooting someone for fucking throwing rocks at you, but I guarantee he probably wasn't the first Palestinian to antagonize them, and those Israelis were probably under a lot of stress as it is, what with all those Arabs pissed at them for living there.
[QUOTE=PrismatexV8;21961519]arab isn't a religion it's an ethnicity aka there are jewish arabs, christian arabs, muslim arabs, etc i happen to know some jewish arabs in fact[/QUOTE] I'll stick with the Central Bureau of Statistics, I get the feeling they're more credible.
[QUOTE=TunnelSnake;21961727]Yeah but you don't live in the West Bank. I'm not condoning shooting someone for fucking throwing rocks at you, but I guarantee he probably wasn't the first Palestinian to antagonize them, and those Israelis were probably under a lot of stress as it is, what with all those Arabs pissed at them for living there.[/QUOTE] solution stop living on the palestinians' land
[QUOTE=PrismatexV8;21961743]solution stop living on the palestinians' land[/QUOTE] wow you are truly a diplomatic genius we should send you to the Middle East to solve all their problems
[QUOTE=TunnelSnake;21961770]wow you are truly a diplomatic genius we should send you to the Middle East to solve all their problems[/QUOTE] gimme the power to redraw borders and i will
Protip: Don't throw rocks at other people's cars.
[QUOTE=Pteradactyl;21961810]Protip: Don't throw rocks at other people's cars.[/QUOTE] He probably wasn't expecting to get shot at for it.
[QUOTE=PrismatexV8;21961796]gimme the power to redraw borders and i will[/QUOTE] As if that will solve anything, the conflicts will still continue. [QUOTE=PrismatexV8;21961816]He probably wasn't expecting to get shot at for it.[/QUOTE] yeah maybe only a beating, a broken leg or two.
Why the fuck does anyone want to live in the Middle East in the first place. Israelis should come to New York. I'll pay for their tickets.
gj Israeli settlers.
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