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To: DeepInEnemyTerritory
I still have yet to have anyone here on FR explain to me why it was okay for the Israelis to try to knock down this house.

This Dr. Samir is not a terrorist. He didn't do anything wrong, except to build a house where the Israelis told him he could build it after the 1993 Oslo Accords.

Now, they want a "buffer zone" so they're knocking down private homes, and the Israel Sycophants on FR cheer.

I don't get it. Why the hypocrisy?

I don't get it.
17 posted on 04/05/2003 11:11:43 AM PST by Illbay (Don't believe every tagline you read - including this one)
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To: Illbay
I still have yet to have anyone here on FR explain to me why it was okay for the Israelis to try to knock down this house.

Read the article, it mentions the Israelis say they were scouring for explosives buried in the buffer zone and not aiming for the house at all.

As for this violating Oslo, you should agree the many tons of armaments the PA has brought in illegally and the many dozens of suicide bombings attacks etc. have violated and killed the agreement. Oslo is dead.

31 posted on 04/05/2003 11:34:48 AM PST by WOSG (Liberate Iraq! God Bless our Troops!)
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To: Illbay
This Dr. Samir is not a terrorist. He didn't do anything wrong, except to build a house where the Israelis told him he could build it after the 1993 Oslo Accords.

  Two points. First, according to the article (at least, according to the Israelis quoted in the article), they were not there to knock down his house. They were there doing a mine sweep - it was close to his house, but they weren't going to knock it down. I have no idea how credible this is - the pictures do make it appear the bulldozer was heading towards the house. On the other hand, there are no reports of them knocking down any houses at all that day - either Dr. Samir's or others.

  But the other point is that the Oslo agreements no longer apply, sadly. They have been routinely violated. I place most of the blame on the Palestine Authority, who would violate the points that they agreed to - then Israel would not follow through with their promises either. As a result, the agreement is now thoroughly dead. This is, actually, official, since the timetable agreed to has now passed. Dr. Samir may or may not have had any hand in the PA's violations, but he is certainly no longer protected by that agreement either.

  Drew Garrett

46 posted on 04/05/2003 12:11:38 PM PST by agarrett
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To: Illbay
hmmm.. How about this:

Because the Israeli justification for demolishing homes in Rafah is security-related--"Every house that's been taken down, it has been taken down because it's been used to shoot at us," an Israeli army spokesperson says--I ask Dr. Samir if there would be any reason for the Israelis to consider his home a threat. Any shooting from this house? Any underground tunnels from Egypt surfacing here? "You can't ask that," he says. He and his family, he says fiercely, are "normal."

Seems that Dr. Samir doesn't mind harboring violent terrorists (American or Palistinian). Sounds like a good enough reason for me.

49 posted on 04/05/2003 12:25:37 PM PST by antidisestablishment
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To: Illbay
Didn't you finish the article?? They were not knocking down his house!
52 posted on 04/05/2003 1:16:08 PM PST by pitinkie
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