Marlowe's Shade

Tuesday, September 07, 2004

How soon we forget

After what looks like a very successful strike on one of their training camps Hamas is calling for revenge. With so much atrocity last week, I thought I'd post a reminder to parse out the correct sequence of events

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This is from the funeral of one of the victims of the Beer Sheva bombing, that seems to have happened ages ago. If I remember the initial reports correctly, Truainet Takala was a Falasha from Ethiopia. Am I the only one who finds it so sadly ironic that she or her family were rescued from famine and war only to lose her life in Israel?

Update - Here is a quote from the PA's press release on the Gaza strike

Local residents in the area of Qurum, east of Gaza City, said they heard
deafening consecutive explosions in a nearby soccer field, where a group of
Hamas supporters were holding a boy scouts' camp. They then rushed to field to be shocked with the scene of bleeding bodies scattered everywhere. [emphasis mine]


Poor kids. What were their parents thinking, letting the troop meet in a terrorist camp!

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Huh. That kid looks...kinda old. Must be an Eagle Scout

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Apparently this tyke hasn't earned his shaving merit badge yet

papijoe 1:33 PM
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