Israel tests armoured buses »
Posted By jovial 1 year, 8 months ago in Science & TechnologyDrawing on its painful experience, Jerusalem has become a testing ground for four armoured buses designed to protect passengers from suicide bombers, officials said on Wednesday.
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tehranchik1 year, 8 months ago
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Images from google and wiki
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cowboygrandpa1 year, 8 months ago
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I'm so sick of all the terrorism aroud the world today. What nation doesn't get involved with it?
My God!!!! We are turning this world into an armed camp.
What is it going to take for people to understand each other?
You know it makes me want to stand atop a mountain and scream out. Whats wrong with us? Life is precious and we destroy it for what?
Is there no Love left in this world for our fellow human beings anymore?
Thanks jovial. This is just so depressing, no matter what nation has to do it. We've failed to understand the meaning of life and the great gift it truly is.
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zimm1 year, 8 months ago
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Leave it to hyperDOGMA to turn a story about how Israel regrettably needs armored buses to protect them from terrorists who purposely target civilians into another one of his typical anti-Zionist rants.
The day the Arabs decide they want to live in peace with Israel there will be peace. Unfortunately the likes of Hamas and Hezbollah will settle for nothing less than Israel's destruction and driving every Jew into the sea (Many of whom have lived in Israel for many generations, or are the descendants of Jews that have been forced to flee Arab countries where they faced unspeakable persecution).
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hyperbola1 year, 8 months ago
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When the zionists give up their racist campaign of ethnic cleansing of millions of christians and moslems, there will be peace.
As for mideastern jews, they think the east european racists are fools that prevent peace.
Reflections of an Arab Jew
Religion â;; Zionism is destroying much of judaism. For Sephardic (oriental) jews, Israel does not represent aliya (ascent), but rather a yerida (descent). Oriental-Sephardic peace movements not only call for a just peace for Israelis and Palestinians, but also for the cultural, political, and economic integration of Israel/Palestine into the Middle East.
http://religion.propeller.com/story/2008/02/04/...
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pcknowledge1 year, 8 months ago
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"The day the Arabs decide they want to live in peace with Israel there will be peace."
I don't believe that's true. Both sides hate each other immensely, & if ones travels to that part of the world one can feel the hate that comes from both sides. Both sides truly despise each other. Human life is precious & valuable and somehow that concept just seems to elude some people. The IDF is no better then Hamas or Hezbollah. In fact, the IDF has more weapons & is thus more powerful then Hamas is. But, they are both extremly brutal.
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zimm1 year, 8 months ago
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Equating an army like the IDF (that goes out of it's way to warn civilians to evacuate when there is going to be an attack against terrorist rocket building factories etc -- which they purposely put in residential areas to deter Israeli attacks) with a terrorist organization like Hamas that hands out candy and celebrates in the streets every time they kill another Jewish civilian with one of their rockets (like they held similar street celebrations on 9/11) -- just shows how ignorant and biased your comment is...
Arab TV stations run programming that routinely calls Jews "monkeys and pigs", and imams give sermons calling for the killing of every Jew. You simply can't find a single Israeli TV program that ever incites Israelis against the Palestinians with such inflammatory rhetoric. Israeli society is thirsty for peace, sings songs about peace, and has many different organizations working to foster peace -- while the terrorists devise more ways to kill innocent civilians.
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Mutainia1 year, 8 months ago
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Instead of developing buses to shield against some Muslim using the license to deceive thanks to sura 3:28 and 16:106 so the Muslim can dress up like a Rabbi secretly strapped up with bombs (al-taqqiya) as he steps onto a bus crouded with innocent civilians, the leader of Israel needs to tell the Muslims that IF a bus explodes DUE to a Muslim ACTING like a pregnant Jewish woman or a fat Jewish Rabbi, or, IF a bus goes up, or, a rocket is fired from Gaza after it was turned over to the Palestinians to make peace, well, the leader of Israel needs to say, "Go ahead, blow up one of our busses, hurt one of our civilians with your rockets, and, within 24 hours, you will be bowing down to glass and ashes five times a day."
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zimm1 year, 8 months ago
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Israel tried withdrawal, and all they got in return was thousands of rockets lobbed at their civilians.
I don't see how you make peace with such a mentality; and I don't know how long Israel will continue to show restraint and keep taking it and taking it.
Israel certainly has the overwhelming might to take back Gaza again if she wanted to... and unfortunately it looks like that day is coming. Israel has no reason to put up with this nonsense anymore, and it won't!
Hamas can declare "victory" all they want, but Israel will go back into Gaza again and again if needed in order to protect her civilians.
Stay tuned...
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hyperbola1 year, 8 months ago
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Probably has something to do with the fact that the Gazans are simply firing at land and property stolen from them by zionists.
GAZA REFUGEE CAMP PROFILES
The Gaza Strip is unique amongst UNRWA's five fields of operations as the majority of its population is refugees and over half of the refugees live in eight camps. Most of the people who fled to the Gaza Strip as a result of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war were from Jaffa, towns and villages south of Jaffa, and from the Beersheva area in the Negev. In all, some 200,000 refugees came to Gaza, whose original inhabitants numbered only 80,000. Such an influx severely burdened this narrow strip of land; an area of only 360 square kilometers. Over three-quarters of the current estimated population of some 1.4 million are registered refugees; representing 22.42 per cent of all UNRWA registered Palestine refugees....
http://www.un.org/unrwa/refugees/gaza.html
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1-2-Oscar1 year, 8 months ago
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Strange world those Israelis live in.
If you drive people from their homes and keep them in limbo for three generations, if you cut off their ability to make a decent living, if you separate them from the graves of their ancestors, if you deny them the right to visit the holy places of their religion, if you continue, after sixty years, to murder them by the hundreds at any provocation--then you might discover that you NEED armored buses.
Yes, it's a strange world, where both sides are deluded into believing that they are entirely right and the other people are entirely wrong.
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zimm1 year, 8 months ago
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In the words of the Israeli statesman Abba Eban, "The Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity."
They have been offered a state of their own time and time again. And they keep screwing it up by saying no at the last minute and launching insane attacks on civilians as the one today.
After '67, Israel offered the West Bank and Gaza back immediately for peace. In return they got the famous "3 No's" from the Arabs: "No recognition, no negotiation and no peace".
Clinton was completely frustrated when Barak offered Arafat a state on 97% of the West Bank and Gaza, and instead Arafat launched his murderous intifada.
So don't lecture about Israeli conduct...
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pcknowledge1 year, 8 months ago
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"There is no such thing as a Palestinian people... It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn't exist."
-- Golda Meir, statement to The Sunday Times, 15 June, 1969.
"[The Palestinians] are beasts walking on two legs."
-- Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, speech to the Knesset, quoted in Amnon Kapeliouk, "Begin and the 'Beasts,"' New Statesman, June 25, 1982.
"Israel should have exploited the repression of the demonstrations in China, when world attention focused on that country, to carry out mass expulsions among the Arabs of the territories."
-- Benyamin Netanyahu, then Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister, former Prime Minister of Israel, speaking to students at Bar Ilan University, from the Israeli journal Hotam, November 24, 1989.
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zimm1 year, 8 months ago
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Well we could go about this exercise in trading recriminations all day long... and it will get absolutely nowhere.
But here's a real strategy that actually has a chance to bring peace between Israel and the Palestinians (for those who would really like to see peace -- and not just more dead Israelis):
"Forget Annapolis: Nine Steps to Peace"
http://www.propeller.com/viewstory/2008/03/05/n...
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hyperbola1 year, 8 months ago
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Just more zionist malarkey. The thieves want to keep the stolen goods and continue the victimization of millions of christians and moslems.
The real answer is one non-religious, democratic state for all the jews, christians and moslems of palestine. I appended a good plan for achieving this to your article.
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pcknowledge1 year, 8 months ago
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This is my favorite quote. What arrogance.
"Israel may have the right to put others on trial, but certainly no one has the right to put the Jewish people and the State of Israel on trial."
-- Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, 25 March, 2001 quoted in BBC News Online
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zimm1 year, 8 months ago
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I'd like to hear that one for myself... I'm an Israeli news junkie and I never heard any such thing ever said by an Israeli leader. And since we don't know the context, who knows what this quote might have actually been about.
But it still doesn't compare with the never ending barrage of Arab quotes said by Islamic extremists in too many mosques to name, like: "Atbach al Yahud" (kill all the Jews), or Arafat's famous "Jihad, Jihad, Jihad" quote...
Or you can point to any number of broadcasts on Palestinian TV or Egypts airing of the notorious anti-Semitic forgery "Protocols of the Elders of Zion".
Or you can pick your favorite quote by Hassan Nasrallah of Hezbollah or any of the Hamas leaders urging people to kill Jews wherever you can find them, etc., etc.
But none of that stuff would bother a real anti-Semite...
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Isoparm1 year, 8 months ago
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They hate Israel because a bunch of white people from Europe and other parts of the world who share the label "jew", imposed themselves on them! I would sure as hell be p*****ed-off too if someone did this to me. Why do do you ignore these atrocities? Why do you refuse to hold the Israelis accountable for their crimes? They continue to steal Arab land to this day. Because it is jews committing these crimes, it's OK?
But none of that stuff would bother a real bigot.
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hyperbola1 year, 8 months ago
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How about a quote from Moshe Dayan?
Deatroyed Villages and Towns
from 1947-1949, the Zionists demolished 419 Arab villages When the state of Israel was established in 1948 it became apparant that this Zionist policy was a systematic state-sponsored program to replace Palestinians and their land with Jews and Jewish villages.
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zimm1 year, 8 months ago
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hyperbola1 year, 8 months ago
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Actually it is you who are ignorant. Mideastern jews take the forefront in condemning zionist racism.
Reflections of an Arab Jew
Religion â;; Zionism is destroying much of judaism. For Sephardic (oriental) jews, Israel does not represent aliya (ascent), but rather a yerida (descent). Oriental-Sephardic peace movements not only call for a just peace for Israelis and Palestinians, but also for the cultural, political, and economic integration of Israel/Palestine into the Middle East.
http://religion.propeller.com/story/2008/02/04/...
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