Posted on 07/29/2002 4:37:59 AM PDT by E Rocc
Teenage girl killed in Hebron clash July 28, 2002 Posted: 10:46 PM EDT (0246 GMT)
JERUSALEM (CNN) -- A 13-year-old Palestinian girl was killed and 21 other Palestinians and 15 Israeli policemen wounded Sunday when Israeli settlers rioted and clashed with Palestinians in the West Bank town of Hebron, Palestinian and Israeli sources said.
An Israeli police spokesman said the riot erupted during the funeral of an Israeli soldier, one of four settlers killed Friday in an ambush by Palestinian gunmen.
The spokesman said the settlers damaged several police cars. Four settlers were arrested for interrogation, he said.
Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat said the Palestinian teenager who died was shot in the head. Another person was shot, one person was stabbed and the rest were beaten, according to the Palestine Red Crescent Society. Their wounds were described as light to moderate.
The Israeli sources confirmed that shooting and beatings took place and said the Palestinians had thrown rocks and stones at the funeral procession, helping to instigate the violence.
The Israeli police spokesman said the policemen who were wounded were trying to intervene between the Palestinians and the settlers. The Israelis said soldiers also intervened and treated two wounded Palestinians.
Erakat said the Israelis did not do enough to stop the settlers. Erakat, who at the time was in Jericho, about 50 miles away, said he held the Israeli government responsible for the casualties.
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The settlers have shown a lot of tolerance, but they need to be more aggresive,and give the Arabs a taste of their own medicine.Fortunately, even the Israeli government disagrees with you.
-Eric
The Arabs are the interlopers and should be the ones to get the boot.They also manage to (more or less) in Israel proper. Part of the reason for that is the Israeli zealots tend to live in the West Bank.They should learn to live together. We did it over here...why can't they?
IMO this is a reason the Israeli government maintains the settlement at great cost to their international prestige: it helps keep things more peaceful in Israel proper. Zealots can pester new immigrants and Arabs instead of secular Jews.
-Eric
It is self-evident that the Kahanist plan of population transfer is the only reasonable solution.That would eventually lead to atomic war or the destruction of Israel....or both. The US would have to cut off aid to any nation that committed such a crime. Fortunately, most of Israel knows it, which is why Kach is a banned organization.
-Eric
One wonders what those "settlers" are doing in the middle of Palestinian population? They are full of hatred and fanaticism. Their objective is to humilate and provoke Arabs and to prevent any meaningful peaceful solution.
Welcome to the Free Republic Mr. Zhabotinsky. Are you by any chance a grandson of a famous Polish Jewish fascist - of the same name?
If not you still appear to share similar views
It is considered a Holy City to the Jewish faith. Jews should not be allowed to live in what is Judaism's most holy city after Jerusalem? That is like saying Muslims have no right to live in Medina.
Did you know Jews have lived in Israel for over 4000 years? That some of those Israeli's families lived in Hebron 2000 years before Mohammad was ever a nightmare hanging over Persia and the same families stayed there through the destruction of Judea, through the Romans, through the Islam invasion, through ww1 and ww2 and will be there through ww3. Why should those Jews, who have lived there as long as the dang rocks have suddenly have to leave because some Persian invaders say they want that spot in the world to be Jew Free? Who died and made Moslems king of the world? Who are these backwards, sand killers to dictate to the modern world anything?
This whole War on terrorism thing is political stupidity. Remember the scene from the Indiana Jones movie where Harrison Ford is faced by a Moslem swordsman? Lets just whip out the old 44mag and get this stupid part of mans history over with.
Once there's a Palestinian state, I would expect Israel to demand that Jews have the same rights there that Arabs have in Israel.
Are you kidding me?! You really have no clue do you. There ARE NO JEWS in PA AREAS, the are ALL DEAD or GONE. Jews only have the right to be dead. All (ALL) of the ancient Christian Churches are bulldozed in Ephesians, Corinthians etc. Those cultures were wiped out (as in slaughtered) by the Moslem invasion. All the ancient places destroyed. The native people killed and replaced by Arabs. The singing Kumbya and can't we all just get along crap is just that. The answer is NO. You can not live in peace with someone who rapes your daughter, kills you and forces your wife to have sex with him cause allah said he could make captive women his wife, limit four. Only for Mohammad limit 16. Worry not, you can trade in any woman with a fresh captive at will...
The settlers, a bunch as disruptive as any Palestinian mob not packing explosives,
Funny, I have heard of about 3 riots in 3 years with Jews and we get about 3 a day with Palestinians and most of them DO PACK EXPLOSIVES. None of the Jewish riots use explosives because that takes prior intent. Nobody says, hey, I think I will put this grenade in my pocket for self defense. But every stinking day over here grenades get thrown at Jews.
...actually have more privileges than the Arabs.
Of course they do, they live in a democracy and the Arabs now live in a dictatorship that WE set up. What the heck do you expect! If WE had not forced Autonomy on them under the PA they would have just as many rights as the Jews do. In fact they did have just as many rights. But we put them under their own government, the Palestinian Authority who promptly STRIPPED them of their rights. So why the heck are you inferring blame on the Jews? WE are the idiots that enforced OSLO on the ARABS not the JEWS!
Would they be locked in their houses in order to protect an Arab march?
The Jews in Hebron have been locked in their houses for 18 months, not 18 stinking days precisely because of the Arab "marches". But no one complained, because they do not give a s#!t about Jewish rights, just the "poor widdle baby killers". Your stand here is complete and utter BullS#!t. Jews do not get curfew, they get shot, stabbed, beaten, gutted, stomped, dragged behind cars, blown up, burned, mutilated, spit on, reviled, poisoned and burned alive. But they do not get a horrible "curfew". They might wish for just a cerfew, but that is hardly an option. If the Arabs ever got the upper hand their would not be a Jew left alive to curfew. Heck the Koran even says for the Moslems to kill every Jew. It says in the last days the last remaining Jew alive will hide behind a bush and the bush will call out to the Moslem and say Hey, come kill this Jew. Genocide is not an option to the Islamic, it is a RELIGIOUS COMMAND!
You need to get real here! Where have you been the last two years?
Once there's a Palestinian state, I would expect Israel to demand that Jews have the same rights there that Arabs have in Israel.
ROTFLMAO! You have got to be kidding!!! The Arabs NEVER, NEVER give their people freedom, why the heck should they give Jews anything? Israel is one of the few places that Arabs in the Middle East can vote and the ONLY place women can. (Jews demanding rights under an Islamic Dictatorship... *chuckle*)
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