Can anyone tell me why the Arab types always run around with their faces masked? Reminds one of the Ku Klux Klan.Now it's sort of a Muslim fashion statement....
But the real purpose is to make it much harder for Israel/IDF to get a handle on who is who among them.
Who are these guys????>>>>>>>
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| Palestinian gunmen from Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah fraction parade in the West Bank town of Hebron Tuesday Jan. 15, 2002 during a rally in the memory of Skaker Hassouni, a Palestinian man shot and killed by Israeli forces Jan. 12, 2001. The two largest Palestinian factions, Fatah and Hamas, said Tuesday they will stick to a truce with Israel despite the killing of a West Bank militia leader in a bomb explosion widely attributed to Israel. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi) |
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| Armed Palestinians attend the funeral of a slain comrade in the West Bank city of Hebron December 26, 2001. A member of the military wing of Fatah was killed in an exchange of fire during the Christmas Eve attack in which Palestinian gunmen critically wounded a Jewish settler in the West Bank, eight days after the Palestinian President Arafat ordered a halt to strikes against Israelis. REUTERS/Nayef Hashlamoun |
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| A Palestinian gunman from the militant group Hamas's military wing Izz el-Din el-Qassam fires in the air near the house of one of the dead Palestinian attackers in Rafah south of Gaza Strip, claiming responsibility for the attack on an Israeli post January 9, 2002. The attack in which the two Palestinian attackers and four soldiers were killed broke a relative lull in more than 15 months of Israeli-Palestinian fighting. REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah |
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What is this thing of shooting their weapons into the air?.Don't they know those bullets will come down somewhere?
The only people I know who want to hide their faces are criminals.
''If the state is relinquishing its monopoly by giving arms to the citizens, it becomes less of a state,'' said Yaron Ezrahi, a political science professor at Hebrew University. ''The first function of government is to defend the security of the citizens. When it cannot do that, the contract between the citizens and the government is broken.''
Yaron, your problem is you're looking down the bore, look from the breech, you'll feel a lot safer!