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I've run across a very interesting celebrity sighting on the Palestinian newswires today:



Cue: car crash sound effect. At least I get an "F" for e"F"fort, right?

If you want to see the original that spawned this mess, be sure to click on over here. The original caption was:

A Palestinian man shouts as he hold up his empty cooking gas canister as he waits to fill it from a gas station in Gaza May 6, 2008. Gaza has been in the grips of a fuel shortage for weeks, the result of sharp Israeli cutbacks in supplies to the Hamas-controlled territory as well as a strike by an association of Palestinian petrol owners over Israeli supply limits. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem (GAZA)

Face it - The only way Israel can win is if all Jews would just drop dead.

The Israeli military has released video footage which, it says, clears it of blame for the deaths of a Palestinian woman and her four children in Gaza.

It says the footage shows the family died because a missile attack on a Palestinian militant set off explosives he was carrying, in a secondary blast.

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The Israeli human rights group, B'Tselem, has said that, regardless of whether there was a secondary explosion, it was probably a breach of international law to fire a missile into a densely populated area.

Looks like we're ramping up for yet another Nakba, a pseudo-festival that essentially boils down to another tireless excuse for Muslims to come out and hate Israel some more. In preparations for this year's festivities, which will happen on the 15th of May, we can see the Palestinians are already putting on one heck of a play.

Palestinians take part in a play in commemoration of Nakba Day "The Day of Catastrophe" during a rally in Gaza May 1, 2008. Palestinians will mark Nakba on May 15 as a day of mourning for the establishment of Israel after the 1948 Arab-Israeli war which led to the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem (GAZA)

Seriously, I'm not sure what I find funnier about this picture—The fact that they use midgets to represent the IDF, or the fact that there is almost nobody watching (at least, judging by the background).

Hamas offers ten year truce to Israel:

Just hours after former President Jimmy Carter trumpeted Hamas' agreement to let Israel "live as a neighbor," the same terrorist leader he met with face-to-face vowed not to recognize the Jewish state.

But Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal did offer Israel a 10-year truce if it withdraws from all lands it seized in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.

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It seems Hamas, and the U.N., are a bit upset Israel had the audacity to retaliate to an attack which killed several IDF troops.

Hamas is now vowing revenge. Again.

Gaza City, 17 April (AKI) - The Islamist Palestinian group, Hamas, has vowed to avenge the deaths of 20 Palestinians, including five children, killed during clashes with Israeli troops in the past two days.

According to the Arab network, Al-Jazeera, Hamas issued the warning on Thursday as thousands of people gathered in the Gaza Strip for the funeral of a cameraman killed as he covered the Israeli raids.

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The United Nations condemned the Israeli raids that also killed two leaders from the Islamic Jihad's armed wing the al-Quds Brigades.

The Israeli raids took place after three Israeli soldiers were killed on Wednesday in a clash with Palestinian militants.

Seriously, if you Israelis would just roll over and die, the muslims would be happy and leave the rest of the world alone.

At least that's what they say.

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Final Update on Tank Round: The mystery of the fired round is solved, courtesy "Faux" News?

I'm not sure what my Lightstalking friends are going to think about that little twist, but this is pretty convincing evidence.

I still think the questions regarding what he was doing there and what exactly the IDF was firing at need to be addressed, but this definitely seems to answer any controversy surrounding the circumstances of his death, as the other videos answered the controversy surrounding the "strange" sequence of the wire photos.

As always, I'd love to hear what you think.

Interjection: I think the question that forest asks of our Lightstalkers is important enough to highlight here. He asks, to wit:—

The discussion at Lightstalkers is pretty interesting. I wonder if there could ever be a situation where some of those people would consider that a journalist might have been a bit too chummy with terrorists? Or may actually be a terrorist armed with a camera instead of a gun? I think it's a mindset where advocacy journalism is accepted in place of old fashioned journalistic standards of impartiality.

If they want to advocate, they should get out of professional journalism and start a blog or something.

The highlighted portion is particularly interesting. After all, if professional journalists "embed" themselves with terrorist forces that in the best cases wear no formal uniform—and in the worst, play "dress up"—should we really be surprised if they are eventually mistaken as being a terrorist? Continue reading »

Once again, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine illustrates how to properly dress for a funeral. A topic that we see again and again.

(h/t SoccerDad)