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Deadly clashes on Israel's borders with Syria, Lebanon
Hagai Einav
Published: 15.05.11, 18:31
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31. israel lost ASSAD secceeded to kill more
i love IDF   (05.15.11)
he killed more than 1000 and not 4
32. Hypocrisy
Falafelis ,   Montreal, Canada   (05.15.11)
When Israel kills 1 person as an act of self defense, the whole world rushes to criticize it. But when Syria brutally murders hundreds of its own people, no one dares to say a word
33. #10 I'm wrong - you are right
Talula ,   Israel   (05.15.11)
If that makes you happy, then fine. But the facts are, as I said before, there are some amazing Druzim - I am not disputing this for a second - some of them have earned and reached very high positions in the army and are respected highly by others. But that isn't all of them.. What about the Druzim that stole IDF weapons to sell them? Those aren't as patriotic as the rest – What about the fire in the Carmel that raged on for days killing people and destroying thousands of acres of beautiful forest? That was started by Druzim, if you love the land, you take care of it. A majority of them are faithful, but some of them are not. You'd have to be really stupid not to understand that. You still think you're right? I don't.
34. #28, Rachel. From what I understood from
tanya ,   tel aviv israel   (05.15.11)
Israeli TV there were very few soldiers as the event unfolded. Why they did not stop the intruders is not clear to me(they did not report about the reason). The fact remains that intruders penetrated to border Druz village, carring "palestinian" flags and at least for 2 hours held a meeting, nobogy interfere. Israeli TV (channel 11) reported that the locals welcomed them with food and water. This is what I know so far. By, Rachel. Thank you for your support, I always enjoy your TB.
35. What a report!
Moudi ,   MOntreal   (05.15.11)
The report mentioned that those on the Syrian border are "Syrian" and on teh Lebanese border "Lebanese protestors". WRONG! the truth, those are palestinian willing to return back home. STOP!
36. Chills running through my body.
Salma ,   Palestine   (05.15.11)
What is "Israel" without America's Arab Puppet Dictatorship Regimes ? NOOOOOOOOOOOTHING.
37. FIRE ON THEM NOW!
Tomi Weiss ,   Israel   (05.15.11)
Shamefull that hundreds of Islamic warriors entered Israel while IDF was comandent not to shoot at infilatrators.Now they are destroying our Jewish property and indangering the lifes of our sons.IF IDF DO NOT START TO FIRE AT THEM WITHIN ONE HOUR ,WE THE JEWISH PEOPLE SHOULD ORGANIZE OURSELFS AND EXTERMINATE THIS JIHADIST INFILTRATORS
38. A syrian message to Israel
Bilal Baydoun ,   Lebanon   (05.15.11)
39. hateful talk
AD ,   Everywhere   (05.15.11)
there are ways to get the message across without killing, hasnt that been counterproductive all these years... there is a complete bloodbath in syria, people are looking for asylum like Jews who looked for asylum after WWII. I don't think we would have enjoyed being shot at...how do people even get wounded and killed when the article reports, "Israeli forces also fired in the air to repel Palestinians demonstrating at the border and more than 10 people were wounded." great reporting
40. The majority wanted asylum.
noa ,   israel   (05.15.11)
41. 35#, they are returning home, that's true
Mikey   (05.15.11)
To Syria and Lebanon, in a coffin.
42. Round them up and sling them in prison
(05.15.11)
They crossed the border illegally.
43. AND THE WINNER IS:
zionist forever   (05.15.11)
ASSAD He is going to milk this one for everything he can get, turn the peoples anger onto Israel. No more Assad must go now its death to Israel. murderer of innocent palestinian protestors from Syria and Lebanon whose deathe must be avenged etc. If he stops killing his own people for 5 minutes Assad might even pull it off. Maybe its time to issue all soldiers in the IDF with a paintball gun as standard, then we can be sure no arab civilians will be killed. Its what the US Navy Seals should also be given so they don't get accused of wrongfully killing Bin Laden.
44. It must be clear to all: Those eager to violate Israel's
Jehudah Ben-Israel ,   Qatzrin, Israel   (05.15.11)
sovereignty by crossing its borders take their lives in their hands. They may be killed, period!
45. To #39 AD, Everywhere
Gideon Reader ,   USA   (05.15.11)
Er. Actually killing IS a viable answer. Once you have killed the enemy that is trying to kill or seriously harm you is far from counterproductive. It is quite productive and what is currently called a teachable circumstance. Those so taught do not come back to present a threat again. There are NO dead recidivists. This current situation is not a matter of asylum seekers, but rather a situation that is being used as mini casus belli, cum causas celeb for a chance to display directed and specificllly staged unchecked rage for politican advantage. If that media strike at Israel is worth the risk, so be it.
46. Sure
Joav ,   Germany   (05.15.11)
there are some Druzim who deny Israel and do not have loiality to Israel. But to honest the mass of the Druzim who live in Israel are very brave and good people, wich are serve in the army risk their life also for "their" Israel. The Druzim living along the arabs a long time and were allways discrimined by them. In Israel they are FREE and they enjoy to live here, the most part of them. And we JEWS should not forget our own "Heros" from Shalom Ahshaw and others who are day by day try to harm this country. So before we are point with finger in Druzim direction, we better look on our "PEACE/PISS Friends"-Leftist and their activity!
47. ehud barak and syrian border
alexi   (05.15.11)
ehud barak gave an interview bragging that he is still around while many others are gone. And that he should have formed a coalition with sharon 11 years ago. The problem is deeper than he thinks. israelis have to represent their interests and nationhood and not dwell on the arab interests. Typically like in marmora, the idf was caught unprepared on the golan with too few soldiers just like being underequipped with paintball guns on the marmora. Is barak better than peretz and olmert. Yes. By how much? Not much. He is a little better than eli zeira and shmuel gonen but not by much. In every land warfare(not commando) he has failed and idf were killed-chinese farm, yacoub in lebanon, and the training accident. this is the main reason, he rushed out concessions at every turn- he is afraid of failure.
48. May God bless and protect all IDF sodiers
Ariel ,   sao paulo brazil   (05.15.11)
49. deadly clash
Bill ,   Canada   (05.15.11)
"According to later reports, Israeli forces also fired in the air to repel Palestinians demonstrating at the border, wounding dozens." Real credibility in that line!
50. Israel should
John ,   Accra,Ghana   (05.15.11)
never grant them asylum they will later become traitor to Israel is granted asylum.
51. #35 Moudi - what a JOKE!
CK Tan ,   Singapore, Singapore   (05.15.11)
Moudi CLAIMS that those LAW-BREAKING provocateurs "are palestinian willing to return back home." (sic) Hello! Their "HOME" is where they were BORN. And those who BORN in Syria or Lebanon - i.e. anyone who is 62 years old or YOUNGER - are thus CORRECTLY known as Syrians or Lebanese respectively.
52. All Druze are traitors. Their loyalty to Israel is suspect.
Avi ,   Israel   (05.15.11)
53. #25 Benjamin
Yunan Amram ,   Israel   (05.15.11)
There is teeth on the other side of the border up north.
54. zionist forever..You may be right,but it reamains to be seen
James   (05.15.11)
ASSAD ..you say will use it to his convenience..But this i just one very insignificant act...He will rue the day sooner than later. One thing I approve of in your post is: May be that it is time to issue all soldiers in the UDF with paintball guns as standard...Okay by this means the terrorist perpetrators will have a CAIN'S MARK by the colourful paintballs .I assume it is you presume.Plus no killing civilians..How about we inform the military echelons on this novel idea yes?
55. Protestors?
sophie ,   nl   (05.15.11)
Protestors? It looks more like an invasion to me. @ #39 How can we be absolutley sure that these are just normal people and not terrorists dressed up as normal people? Most Syrians hate Israel and now they want to go to Israel? You've made your bed now lie in it.
56. THE DISTRACTION
Mark from Georgia ,   USA   (05.15.11)
It's hard to say what is really going on here. Is Assad trying to distract the world from his massacre, while at the same time redirecting their anger towards Israel?
57. Yossef @ 26, I am not a Druze not I am an Israeli, but
leo ,   usa   (05.15.11)
from what I hear/read/... I appear to be correct. Or at least your statement sounds like reasonable speculation. However let's not forget, Samir Quntar is Druze.
58. Bravo Israel!
Matthew ,   Arnhem, Holland   (05.15.11)
I salute Israel and both the Israeli police and the IDF, these so called Syrian (protestors ) were eager to be killed by Israeli fire. In that way they could die as a martyr and tell the world that Israel kills again. The Israelis however showed restrained, to make sure it wouldn't get out of hand. People they try to lure Israel in killing them, to claim that Israel kills innocent people.
59. Salma # 36
Paul ,   Israel   (05.15.11)
You got chills? Go see a doctor, you have a fever, because all this is just a show. Just listened to an interview with a demonstrator at Marj - Youn. She said with absolutely no shame that the Palestinians were not interested in a part of the land as decided by the Partitiion Plan ( which is what you "refugees" have been squeaking about ever since 1967), but ALL of it. There it goes! The cat's out of the bag. Pre-67 borders is just a slogan for the prequel of wanting to take ALL of Israel and "push all the Jews into the sea". Now you have shown the world who the real racists are. All this crap about "occupation" and "Human Rights abuses" is nothing more than a PR sham. We will never get there, but it would be entertaining to see how you would adhere to "Human Rights" if you were to ever get to that point. But don't worry, we'll never let you get the opportunity to show us.
60. Syrian complaint
Steve Manning ,   Liverpool, UK   (05.15.11)
Israel is shooting at our citizens. How dare they do our job for us! We will have nobody left for target practice!
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