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Hamas burns drugs, booze in Gaza
Associated Press
Published: 10.08.10, 22:54
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1. Rashid! Are you out there?!?!
Dihsar   (08.10.10)
Did they burn your bottles of alcohol?
2. Stop it, Hamas!
Bozo ,   Tel Aviv   (08.10.10)
Stop it Hamas! You'll lose the support of Israel's left if you keep destroying the drugs!
3. hypocrites: Hizbollah is running big drugs in s lebanon ...
Lemmings Hotline ,   sd usa   (08.10.10)
and your so quiet. Most of the weapons money you get is from drug money. I guess its ok to sell the drugs to the infidels to fund your jihad.
4. Erectile dysfunction ?
Raptor   (08.11.10)
Isn't this a crime in Islam punishable by 100 lashes or stoning or beheading ?
5. Leftist decry the "waste"
Golan ,   Modiin   (08.11.10)
Leftists start candle vigil in Rabin Square for the "waste" of drugs, booze, and painkillers they would have been happy to take off Hamas' hands. "why the inhumanity?" cried Shmulik of Anarchists against Brain Cells. "this is a travesty" said Michal, of Stoners for peace. "What?" was the inebriated word that Gush Dafuk member Uri sort of mouthed as he lifted his saliva drenched face off the pavement.
6. viagra in gaza ?
avram ,   paradise   (08.11.10)
viagra bad for gaza. PINK LADIES and ICE LADIES. you will make a buck or two..
7. Sub-headline: "Amir Peretz, downwind,
Zvi   (08.11.10)
tries to use binoculars."
8. The one thing I agree with Hamas
Elizabethlynne ,   Dallas Texas   (08.11.10)
People do not need drugs and alcohol, and it does create terrible problems for a society. I agree with Hamas about getting rid of them. Don't agree with hanging the drug dealers, just put them in jail and leave them there. Go ahead, Hamas, throw those drugs in a ditch and burn them up.
9. Somebody forgot to give Hamas their kickback
Mark from Georgia ,   USA   (08.11.10)
Whoops! NEXT TIME MAKE THE PAY-OFF. Hamas is about as moral as the devil. Historically the Palestinians resolve their family feuds through politics. They falsely accuse each other of collaboration with the "Zionist Entity" (they are afraid to say the word Israel) or they frame each other for crimes, old story, just a new day. I remember, in the first intifada, a mob rush into a house at 2am-3am dragged a guy out of his house (he was accused of collaboration), and in front of his family, lynched him with chicken wire to a telephone pole. Only to find out it was the wrong house, wrong guy!! So they cut him down and gave him a martyrs funeral. I'm sure that was a great comfort for his family, their Dad died a "Hero". Believe it or not? Side-note: His name was included in the martyrs list alongside of those killed in clashes with the IDF. So just to read the martyrs list without any context, you would think the IDF had killed him. Pretty funny eh! Palestine should be a great country, for maniacs!!
10. Pot calling the kettle.
Spengler ,   US   (08.11.10)
If Hezbollah is running the drugs, which is the word on the street, the othe rumor is that much the yeild is meant for Isreal. So where does that leave you?
11. This exactly how it it started in Tehran 1979.
rahim ,   Tehran   (08.11.10)
12. #2 - Maybe they will Lose The Support of the Left
Doug ,   Rochester, USA   (08.11.10)
But surely they will win support from the Israeli Right. Burning Drugs is much more mild than overturning and damaging and stealing go-carts. And much more mild than arresting women for praying near the Western Wall. And much more mild than attacking women for dressing immodestly, based upon 17th century views of modesty. And much more mild than killing Pals because the Rabbi said killing Pals is demaned by the Torah.
13. Who was standing downwind?!?!?(end)
Brian Cohen ,   Peoples FrontofJudea   (08.11.10)
14. Burn Baby Burn
Ellen ,   Israel/USA   (08.11.10)
Illegal drugs--okay, BUT painkillers. Do any of those pain killers also have legal uses, How many Gazans are within a few days going to be moaning and groaning about how Israel is denying medicine to come into Gaza? The lefties world wide will yell unfair and more flotillas will attempt to bring expired meds to the area!
15. by the picture this isn't much more than PR
ghostq   (08.11.10)
stunt, the lokal liquer near my house got way better variety than that and it's small store, actually drug money support hamas the money they make from it is easy and quick, just to let you know.
16. If I lived in Gaza ....
martin ,   Johannesburg, SA   (08.11.10)
If I lived in Gaza, under Hamas' rule, I would also be smoking marijuana, sniffing coke, and slugging down litres of alcohol in an effort to kill the pain of such an oppressive regime. Lucky for me, I live in Africa, where we are still free to be ourselves.
17. No, Doug, read the relevant article again
Robert Haymond ,   Israel/Canada   (08.11.10)
carefully. It is moral to kill your enemies when defending oneself or one's country. Isn't the same in the country you reside in?
18. lol they burn drugs, I bet they gathered around
ghostq   (08.11.10)
near the merijuana to see it burn slowly from close distance, maybe smell the victory. :P
19. pain killers
diver ,   ^ger   (08.11.10)
those pk's are with high probability made by the same manufacturer, who has already blessed mankind with contergan. they keep claiming, that the pk's are not addictive... of course...y are large percentages of male gazans addicted to just that drug, when it's not addictive ...
20. Gaza just got a whole lot suckier
Tom Lambrusco ,   Jerusalem, Israel   (08.11.10)
21. BURN THEM HAMAS.
ATİLLA KARAGÖZOĞLU   (08.11.10)
JUST BURN. BURN. BURN. BURN. to burn is good. always. burn burn burn
22. Do Not believe Hamas: What's most probably burning are EMPTY
packs, bottles, bags ,   All one BIG SHOW   (08.11.10)
23. Yeah! they're really going to be living it up now
Talula ,   Israel   (08.11.10)
Poor bastards aren't even allowed to have a headache.
24. no 22
hebrew prophet ,   israel   (08.11.10)
The valuable stuff,Johnnie Walker,Bel ls ,Tennesse Borbon etc.is sitting in the warehouse emporium of Chris and John ,the head honchos of the UNRWA whilst the Hamas warlords Haniyeh,Meshaal and Dahlan have first chioce of the good stuff and the rest is sold on the blackmarket ,at hyperinflated UNRWA/Hamas prices ,life is good in Hamastan.
25. no 16
hebrew prophet ,   israel   (08.11.10)
So hows Julius (Malema)and his communist turned capitalist clowns doing Martin now that the world cup circus has left African shores?
26. Gaza -- the Islamic paradise
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (08.11.10)
"Just as the drugs were caught, the drug dealers will be hanged" Really? If you know this before trial, then why not just dispense with the show? And how do you account for all those Hamas officials seen in casinos in Monte Carlo, drinking very fine single malts with a very beautiful woman on each arm? Shouldn't they be hanged, too? Or at least publicly flogged? Some of them are so old and decrepit, I'd bet my bottom dollar that Viagra is part of their lives, too. What a bunch of hypocrites. I bet the first twinge they get, they reach for the vicodin. Reminds me of Orwell's "Animal Farm." Remember Arnold? "All pigs are equal. Some pigs are more equal than others." That would be Hamas' leadership. They are by far and away the more equal pigs. And pigs is precisely what they are. Vile ones.
27. Hamas Troops Stood Downwind of Burn
emanon ,   USA   (08.11.10)
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