http://www.black-iris.com/2006/11/16/this-is-your-midnight-wake-up-call/ A Jordanian Blog Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:49:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 http://www.black-iris.com/2006/11/16/this-is-your-midnight-wake-up-call/#comment-18911 The Black Iris | A Jordanian Blog Sun, 19 Nov 2006 05:35:29 +0000 http://www.black-iris.com/2006/11/16/this-is-your-midnight-wake-up-call/#comment-18911 [...] As Israel’s massacre of 19 civilians last week disappears off the media’s radar, Israel has started taking a more PR-friendly approach to illegal assassinations. Something that would allow them to launch a missile into a refugee camp in the middle of the night without the world getting pissed off. Calling 10 minutes in advance to warn the target has been one solution but that seems to have backfired recently after Mohammed Baroud received such a call and ran to his local mosque to get some support. Hundreds of Palestinians then followed him home and drew a large enough crowd to form a human shield. Israel called off the air strike, telling Reuters: “The attack plan was canceled because of the people there,” he said. “We differentiate between innocent people and terrorists.” If you didn’t laugh hysterically at the last sentence then you’re just not having enough fun in your life. Not only did the Israeli army kill a 24 year old Palestinian police officer and a 16 year old kid in Gaza on the same day but not two weeks ago did the Israeli army open fire on a large crowd of women who had surrounded a mosque in Beit Hanoun to help militants escape. The Israeli army shooting unarmed women in Beit Hanoun briefly made headlines only to be overtaken a while later by the killing of those 19 civilians. [...] […] As Israel’s massacre of 19 civilians last week disappears off the media’s radar, Israel has started taking a more PR-friendly approach to illegal assassinations. Something that would allow them to launch a missile into a refugee camp in the middle of the night without the world getting pissed off. Calling 10 minutes in advance to warn the target has been one solution but that seems to have backfired recently after Mohammed Baroud received such a call and ran to his local mosque to get some support. Hundreds of Palestinians then followed him home and drew a large enough crowd to form a human shield. Israel called off the air strike, telling Reuters: “The attack plan was canceled because of the people there,” he said. “We differentiate between innocent people and terrorists.” If you didn’t laugh hysterically at the last sentence then you’re just not having enough fun in your life. Not only did the Israeli army kill a 24 year old Palestinian police officer and a 16 year old kid in Gaza on the same day but not two weeks ago did the Israeli army open fire on a large crowd of women who had surrounded a mosque in Beit Hanoun to help militants escape. The Israeli army shooting unarmed women in Beit Hanoun briefly made headlines only to be overtaken a while later by the killing of those 19 civilians. […]

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