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Egyptian girl shot to death near Israeli border
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Published: 29.02.08, 01:30
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1. Sinai Bedouin fight daily battles with Egyptian police
Jake   (02.29.08)
and then they blame Israel when someone gets killed. This business of blaming Israel is a national pasttime with the Arabs, but if you look for cracks in their stories you will always find them. Already, the widow of Imad Mughniyeh is blaming Syria for the death of her husband.
2. Just the right age for a head shot bet for IDF sniper
Lev Bronstein ,   Moscow, Russia   (02.29.08)
I'm guessing that there were 100's of shekels bet that the IDF sniper could hit the little girl in in the head from that range. ♫♪♫ Party time in town tonight as the winners is buying the rounds.
3. that's just not twue
(02.29.08)
4. YEP... NOONE BUT ISRAEL... THAT'S WHODONDOODIT!
stude ham   (02.29.08)
good reliable non-biased witnesses here... we believe them... right????
5. MURDER
(02.29.08)
MURDER BY THE ISRAELIS. TYPICAL.
6. of course, Israel will cooperate in the investigation?
observer   (02.29.08)
7. KILLING A 12 YEAR OLD GIRL IN EGYPT
CHOSEN WORLD ,   toronto canada   (02.29.08)
Not to worry. Just some kid from Israel via the US or UK practicing his sniper skills. Mubarak won't make a fuss. After all, isn't Egypt shooting down Africans trying to cross into Israel for jobs and getting a big cash bounty from the USI for each "kill".
8. I'm with Lev: There's no proof that IDF didnt do it :-)
RazzPutin ,   In the Gulag Siberia   (02.29.08)
we all know the iDF did it. They must have. There's absolutely no way it could have been anyone else. And besides...the arabs said so. ..and they are never wrong , let alone do they ever lie. Trust me.
9. The Palestinians will not cooperate with any invetigation
Ruth ,   Beer Sheva   (02.29.08)
They never have and never will in such cases. Why should they? The accusation is enough for smearing Israel and chances are high that Israel is not responsible at all. Look at antisemits like "Trotzky" above. Even the Palestinians talk about a stray bullet. He jumps to the conclusion that it was a head shot by a sniper. Why? Because the topos "Jews killing children" is classic antisemitism.
10. I'm with Lev in that is Was an IDF Sniper
Johan Odin ,   Oslo, Norway   (02.29.08)
The IDF has a long and sordid history of shooting children for sport as witnessed by Chris Hedge, currently a senior fellow at The Nation Institute and a Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and the Anschutz Distinguished Fellow at Princeton University, spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans, who wrote about the IDF's hunting of children in his 2001 Gaza Diary piece in Harper's Magazine where he witnessed the IDF hunting of children for sport first hand. In his Gaza Diary piece he wrote about how the IDF's shooting of innocent children. "Children have been shot in other conflicts I have covered—death squads gunned them down in El Salvador and Guatemala, mothers with infants were lined up and massacred in Algeria, and Serb snipers put children in their sights and watched them crumple onto the pavement in Sarajevo—but I have never before watched soldiers entice children like mice into a trap and murder them for sport." - Chris Hedges His Gaza Diary piece in full can be read here: http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:LO5yX0ZZSi0J:www.bintjbeil.com/articles/en/011001_hedges.html+gaza+diary&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us
11. Lev, #5, "observer", "Chosen World", Johan Odin
Tahl ,   Israel   (02.29.08)
I'm glad to see all of you morons have already conducted your own thorough investigation, made your own intelligent judgement, and found the shooter. All this based on a short news piece here in Ynetnews, quoting the girl's cousin. Gotta hand it to you folks, you've got true detective and forensic skills! to arrive at such a speedy conclusion. I have two questions for you: first, had this bedouin girl been in the Israeli side, and shot there, with someone claiming the fire was from the Egyptian side - would you have similary blamed the Egyptian soldiers? Or are the IDF soldiers to blame in ANY situation? Second, where was your scolding criticism when Egyptian soldiers shot to death so many Sudeanese refugees trying to cross into Israel? Or is it only convenient for you when Israel can be blamed? At least "Chosen World" was honest enough to bring this up, but the rest of you are hypocrites. And by the way, Lev - with the way your soldiers brutalized, murdered and tortured the Chechnians, and armed the Syrians who armed Hizbollah with your missiles - you really should shut up! I would add a nice expletive in Russian, but surely it would get censored. Johan Odin, do you seriously expect the British press to report anything honest and accurate about Israel? The only real thing from this whole silly article you brought here, is Yusuf Samir's words. But hey - I'm sure that if you'd look hard enough, you'd find many articles in the British press which are even more anti-Israel, without such "problematic" quotes.
12. KIDS DIE DUE TO HAMAS
petra ,   USA   (02.29.08)
BOTH SIDES NO ONE SCREAMS UNLESS IT'S THEIR SIDE. STOP THE ROCKETS, STOP THE DEATHS! otherwise, it's gonna get really nasty.
13. #2, and Trotsky was killed by a disgruntled follower
Jake   (02.29.08)
not on Stalin's orders. That's what they say, just like the things that you say.
14. 400 meters from the Israeli border
Jake   (02.29.08)
Half a kilometer almost, and Israel gets the blame? Jpost added another detail, not mentioned in this article: "She was shot by a stray bullet from the other side of the border (Israel), due to the ongoing fighting today between the Palestinians and Israelis," the Egyptian security official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media." Anonymity? Not authorized? By whom?
15. #12 kids do wonders
observer   (02.29.08)
they can stand and live within 400 meter radius, allegedly under full control of mighty IDF, so that they can put the blame of their death on Hamas.
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