[crystalk]

Come on veronica (vero nica="true icon"=ie photograph)...I love Israel as much as you do, but let's not pretend that the young hotheads in the IDF (as poster below says, too young to respect another culture)...did not shoot at this intentionally.

We have all noticed their vandalism at the Christian sites...it is just adolescent wild oats, I know, but why cannot we have a little humor here in the States and let our own young have a life?

[crystalk]

Let me also amend my statement, to say that whatever obscene jokes they tell about nuns and Christians, the IDF are very helpful and have probably saved my life more than once when I wandered where I ought not.

They are not to be COMPARED in meanness to the Muslim Palestinians, who just kill any stranger in their villages without regard to who it might be, lost tourist, even a Greek monk once in awhile, black robes and hat and all.

I am all for the IDF, wish it would be unleashed, but I am not so blind to human nature as to think the jokes (verbal and otherwise) don't exist.

[dighton]

I love Israel as much as you do, but let's not pretend that the young hotheads in the IDF ... did not shoot at this intentionally.

Again, the statue looks far too intact to have taken a direct hit from artillery. I'm pinging a coupla FReepers who'd know.