Mass burial underscores privations of Israeli military occupation

Associated Press ^ | 4-2-02 | LAURA KING, AP Special Correspondent

[Oldeconomybuyer]

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) --

[Oldeconomybuyer]

I'm searching for an article from LAURA KING, AP Special Correspondent, on the pain and suffering innocent Israeli civilians felt as a result of the Passover Massacre....it's gotta be here somewhere.../bs

[Ruth A.]

Agreed. Impartiallity would demand that she report on the burials of both sides right next to each other. Disgusting how they are trying manipulate sentiment.

[dawn53]

If you want to Freep the AP on this one and ask where Laura King's article describing suffering of Jewish suicide bomber victims can be found, here's the phone numbers:

AP HEADQUARTERS MAIN NUMBER: 212-621-1500

International Desk: 212-621-1663

[Freakazoid]

Cremation.

[Argus]

"It is terrible for their lives to have to end in such a way, in such a place," said the hospital's haggard-faced director

So why don't they just strap the corpses with explosives and blow them up? That's considered a glorious end by these idiots.

[william clark]

You beat me to it.

[konijn]

The media got used to reporting like this during the Kosovo war.
It was appriopriate then.
During the Kosovo war, the US showed the muslims that human rights are important, they went to war for them.
It has also thought the muslims how to wage a propaganda campaign based on human rights.

[Egregious Philbin]

The other article has been written numerous times - just a quick look at the Yahoo photo site will reveal dozens of pictures of Israeli funerals with only a few Palestinian ones. This article is necessary to show the Palestinians' humanity, especially after so many here describe them as dogs, pigs, subhuman, anything but human.

[Argus]

The Palestinians are all too human, deformed by hatred and mindless rage, misled by their own fantasies of national glory and deluded by self-serving leaders who don't care how many of them die or persist in misery so long as it enhances their dictatorial power.

[Map Kernow]

There was a time when I would have cared about the events I read about in this article.

But not now. And unless there is a sea-change in the way Arabs and Muslims conduct themselves towards not only Israel and the Jewish people but also towards the entire rest of the civilized world, not ever again.

[Egregious Philbin]

They only have one self-serving leader and that is part of the problem. Actually, a search of the Yahoo photos today shows numerous Palestinians weeping for the dead, they look much like the mourners in the photos of Israeli funerals yesterday. I don't see any hatred on their faces, just sadness.

[alrea]

just strap the corpses with explosives and blow them up BUMP

[Psycho_Bunny]

Sob, sob, sob.

[Argus]

Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the PFLP all have leaders just as self-serving as Arafat and ready to step into his shoes the minute he's blown out of them. Photos of Palestinians weeping for their own dead are not persuasive of anything - they are a demonstrative people, as evidenced by their elation over suicide bombings, and their dancing in the streets on 9/11/01.

[Uncle Miltie]

How many were murdered as collaborators?
How many were suicide bombers?
How many were uniformed combatants?
How many were non-uniformed combatants?
How many were unfortunate collateral deaths as Israel protected itself from terrorists?

After excluding the above categories, I am willing to consider any proof of cold-blooded murder by Israelis as a basis for condemning these deaths. But with such superficial reporting, one can only conclude that the Palis were not innocent.

[It's me]

I'm certainly not pro Muslim. But, why is it that the Isrealis can do no wrong on this forum? Do you think that there is no corruption from the side of Isreal? Of course there is. Just as there is corruption and evil on the sides of both the English and the Irish in the Northern Ireland conflict.

It seems that if one was to say anything negative towards Isreal, they would be labled anti-semetic!

But, that couldn't be possible here on FR, could it?

[Sabramerican]

Palestinians buried 15 of their dead ............suffered during Israel's 5-day-old military

This must be a typo. They mean 150,000, 15,000, at least 150. Five whole days of "genocide" and the evil Zionist's have only managed to kill 15?

It also can't be true because the brave soldiers of Allah would be stapping on their suicide vests to meet the IDF (even if the IDF is not composed of pizza eating toddlers or old folks celebrating a Seder).

[Egregious Philbin]

The leaders of Hamas, etc.. have never been given the kind of legitimacy that has been granted to Arafat for his on again/off again peace missions. With him killed or exiled I can only imagine that the situation will get worse. And I do think the pictures are persuasive - as you seem to have taken the 1/2 dozen pictures of Palestinians celebrating after 9/11 as representative of the whole.

[besieged]

YOU BEAT ME TO IT!!!

On another note... if the Palis are able to produce 11 deaths of their own (SUSPECTED collaborators) in less than an hour and NOT HIDE THEM... I only wonder how many "suspected collaborators" have been butchered in the past 5 days that we just don't know about?

Also, of these 15, how many were killed by their pali friends?

[Map Kernow]

The other article has been written numerous times - just a quick look at the Yahoo photo site will reveal dozens of pictures of Israeli funerals with only a few Palestinian ones.

Yes, the poor Palestinians. Maybe if the Palestinians didn't fire their guns in the air at their blasted funerals, they'd have more pictures of their funerals. [/sarcasm]

But I strongly disagree with you that the news media have shown more Israeli funerals than Palestinian---the Palestinian ones are better theater, with, as I just wrote, guns firing in the air, bearded goons shouting "Kill the Jews!" "Death to America!" "Allahu akbar!" What do you have at the Israeli funerals? Grief, Kaddish, a child victim of a suicide bomber (who blew himself up along with others as a testimony to his "essential humanity") being buried or the pieces of the child. How boring, right?