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West Bank: 2 Palestinians killed by IDF fire
Ynet reporters
Published: 04.04.13, 08:13
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1. sweet headline
courtney ,   usa   (04.03.13)
leaving out the important part of the pali having a gun and firing first
2. #1: Same tactics are used in all anti-israel newspapers..
Beary White ,   Norway   (04.04.13)
..never say the IDF were fired on first.. It is even used in state-controlled media in Norway to make the islamic terrorists look clean and inocent, and make Israel the violent one to be hated.
3. abbas-you are next
marv   (04.04.13)
Abbas and Erekat will be harmed if terror emanates fromj udea and samaria.Don't think you can incite and remain untouched.
4. 3...2...1 The new wave of riots begins!
HaifaGuy   (04.04.13)
How dare we kill a Muslim???? Don't the virgins have enough on their hands (or between their thighs)?
5. #1 thru # 4
al ,   us   (04.04.13)
There is no were in the artical any mention of the rioters being moslems. You are bunch of pathatic haters doing to the Palestinians what most of the world has done to Jews for thousands of years. They could be decent Jews comming to the defence of the Palestinians. Those who do not learn from history are bound to die by it. Keep up your racist cowardly views.
6. Where does it say he had a gun?
Evan ,   USA   (04.04.13)
This is the problem with most people, not reading everything, and even when read, not collecting all the information, and even then, not understanding that the information given can also be false. He through a molotiv cocktail ( fire in a bottle) at a post, and they said it was unclear of how they were allowed to get so close to the post in the first place and investigating why.... Take note there are snipers at every post, and the odds they knew a 17 year old kid was walking up to it are very high.
7. Pity
observer ,   usa   (04.04.13)
All the deaths, injuries, and generally stressful conditions are unfortunate and sad. Nobody should not revel in the death of someone's son or daughter, regardless of what stupid choices may have led them to such a death. Anyone who celebrates a tragedy is declaring and announcing their own inhumanity for all the world to see. The fault here lies clearly and unequivocally with the culture of hatred and violence promoted in and by the inhabitants of these so-called 'occupied territories'. Whatever their supposed agenda, taking pot-shots at civilians in hope of harming as many as possible can never be justified under any circumstances. To those ignorant enough to view Israel through the lens of some sort of false equivalence, it is quite literally true and very well documented that never in the history of our species has any combatant taken such pains to try and avoid civilian casualties on the opposing side as has Israel in each and every conflict in which they've been involved, slanderous claims to the contrary notwithstanding. War has consequences. Sadly, these includes harm and death. The occupants of the territories can put a stop to it any time they chose by taking a good long look in the mirror and deciding to alter their behavior. Absolutely nothing Israel could unilaterally do would resolve the situation. Before the conflict can ever be adjudicated fairly, the actual facts on the ground must be seen and acknowledged by all interested parties. So long as bias and propaganda continue to distort and misrepresent reality, everybody loses. Everybody.
8. to #6 you mean sending a minor for sucide
ghostq   (04.04.13)
mission. shooting molotov on people with guns is actually sucide mission.
9. To: No. 6
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (04.04.13)
Throwing a molotov cocktail is an act of violence. Your dismissal of such an act is, at best, misguided. It is not "fire in a bottle." A molotov cocktail is a lit alcohol-soaked rag stuffed into a bottle of gasoline. They can -- and have -- killed people, and they can -- and have -- started raging fires. The soldiers were quite right to fire at the miscreants. Moreover, age is not a bar to terrorism. Israel has learned that kids can be lethal -- do you have any idea how many suicide bombers were discovered to have been teenagers? The soldiers in question have an affirmative duty to protect Israeli civilians. They were doing their job. The sheer stupidity -- or foolhardy bravado -- of throwing a molotov cocktail at armed soldiers is an issue for another day. Perhaps the soldiers, too, thought that a seventeen year old boy was harmless, which is why he could approach as closely as evidently he did. That is not a mistake that the soldiers are likely to make again. Teenage wannabe "heroic martyrs" had better take heed.
10. culture of hatred killed two Arabs
observer ,   Egypt   (04.04.13)
haredi army shoots in retaliation to Molotov cocktails, alleged the army itself
11. I'm sure the soldiers aimed at legs, being haredi they shoot
tom ,   tel aviv   (04.04.13)
badly.... oops. Sorry!
12. Why only 2?
Moshe ,   Givataim   (04.04.13)
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