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Donkey® · 05-06-2007, 09:41 PM

Originally Posted by article

Muslim Extremists Attack Gaza Elementary School

Sunday, May 06, 2007

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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Muslim extremists in long white robes attacked a children's festival at a U.N.-run elementary school with guns and homemade bombs Sunday, killing a politician's bodyguard in plain view of terrified youngsters — just the latest incident of lawlessness engulfing the Gaza Strip.

The new Palestinian unity government, formed two months ago, appeared powerless to end growing clan fighting, kidnappings and attacks by shadowy extremist groups on foreigners, music shops and Internet cafes.

Hours after Sunday's attack, which also left seven people wounded, moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah and Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas were meeting in another attempt to put together a security plan.

Interior Minister Hani Kawasmeh, the author of the plan, has threatened to resign because security commanders refuse to cooperate with him, mainly because of rivalries between coalition partners Hamas and Fatah.

In Palestinian-Israeli violence on Sunday, two Israelis were seriously wounded. A security guard for a tanker truck was wounded in a drive-by shooting in the West Bank, and the other was hurt by a rocket fired from Gaza. The rocket exploded near a gas station next to the town of Sderot, a frequent target of rockets from Gaza.

In other violence, a grenade was thrown in the northern Israeli city of Nahariya at sunset Sunday, police said, and one person was wounded. Police said it was apparently a criminal attack.

Nahariya, not far from the Lebanon border, was hit hard by rockets fired from Lebanon during last year's war between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas.

New statistics, meanwhile, illustrated the sharp increase in internal violence in Gaza.

In the first three months of this year, 147 Gazans, including 10 children, were killed by fellow Palestinians, according to the Palestinian human rights group Al-Mezan. By comparison, 57 people died in factional fighting in all of 2004, followed by 101 in 2005 and 252 last year.

If the upward spiral isn't stopped, Gaza could become ungovernable, warned Ibrahim Ibrach, a political scientist at Gaza's al-Azhar University. "The collapse of the Palestinian Authority ... is at stake," he said.

Sunday's attack on the U.N. school in the southern Gaza refugee camp of Rafah began with a protest by Muslim extremists in long robes, who said a sports festival the school was hosting was un-Islamic. The U.N. "is turning schools into nightclubs," read one sign held up by the protesters.

At one point, the group tried to enter the school. Palestinian security fired in the air to keep them away. In the ensuing chaos, at least one bomb was thrown into the school, and a gun battle followed.

A senior Fatah official, Majed Abu Shamaleh, was leaving the school when his bodyguard was killed. Seven people were wounded, most by bomb fragments. Some children hid under their chairs during the fighting.

The top U.N. official in Gaza, John Ging, was in the school at the time of the attack. He was not hurt. The protesters accused him of leading a movement to weaken people's Islamic faith.

In March, Ging escaped an assassination attempt when gunmen fired at his convoy. Ging was saved from harm by bulletproof windows in his vehicle. Later that month, BBC journalist Alan Johnston was kidnapped outside his Gaza City apartment, and is still being held. Gaza is now largely empty of foreigners.

Abu Shamaleh said the shooting appeared to be carried out by the same extremists who have been behind a string of bombings of Internet cafes and pool halls in Gaza.

Police said they arrested two of the gunmen and were interrogating them. Later, the extremists tried to approach the police station where the two suspects were being held, to release the men. Police and gunmen from militant factions surrounded the station to prevent the extremists from entering, witnesses said.

Ghazi Hamad, spokesman for the Hamas-controlled prime minister's office, said the shooting showed the importance of Hamas and Fatah reaching a security deal.

"This is our first priority ... nobody has the right to use guns to deal with their problems," Hamad said.

The Hamas-Fatah coalition had been established, in large part, to halt months of factional fighting in Gaza. However, tensions between the two factions are rising again, fueled by the government's failure to throw off international sanctions.

Samir Zakkout, author of the Al-Mezan report on Gaza deaths, said he wasn't optimistic.

"Until when can this government continue without any justification for its existence? People aren't safe," he said. "The increasing lawlessness is putting this government at a crossroads: to be or not to be?"

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They "attacked an elementary school" huh? Those bad Muslims attacking the peaceful elementary kids? Oh the tragedy.

So they couldn't have worded the title of the story another way? Maybe a little more truthfully? Just asking...

kinggovernor · 05-06-2007, 10:44 PM

Originally Posted by Donkey®

They "attacked an elementary school" huh? Those bad Muslims attacking the peaceful elementary kids? Oh the tragedy. So they couldn't have worded the title of the story another way? Maybe a little more truthfully? Just asking...

then what is the truth? This was a muslim on muslim act

Donkey® · 05-06-2007, 11:07 PM

Originally Posted by kinggovernor

then what is the truth? This was a muslim on muslim act

They did not wake up this morning and say "we are going to attack a school today" nor is that what they actually did.

Nonphixion · 05-06-2007, 11:17 PM

Really the whole article is wrought with bias.

JaJae · 05-06-2007, 11:39 PM

The article claims it was done in front of the youngsters. While the title is sensationalist, it isn't nearly as bad as we see numerous time a day from other sources.

We don't call the VA Tech shootings the shootings that happened to take place on VA Tech property.

They set up an attack at an elementary school in front of all the children. Title isn't that overboard considering what happened.

Kytro · 05-07-2007, 01:28 AM

Originally Posted by JaJae

The article claims it was done in front of the youngsters. While the title is sensationalist, it isn't nearly as bad as we see numerous time a day from other sources.

We don't call the VA Tech shootings the shootings that happened to take place on VA Tech property.

They set up an attack at an elementary school in front of all the children. Title isn't that overboard considering what happened.

The title implies that the school was the target of the attack.

Donkey® · 05-07-2007, 03:17 AM

Originally Posted by JaJae

The article claims it was done in front of the youngsters. While the title is sensationalist, it isn't nearly as bad as we see numerous time a day from other sources.

We don't call the VA Tech shootings the shootings that happened to take place on VA Tech property.

They set up an attack at an elementary school in front of all the children. Title isn't that overboard considering what happened.

Sigh. Read the whole article. Where in it does it show any proof that these so called "muslim extremists" conducted a full-scale military assault on this school? There was a protest. The police fired shots in the air. It got heated and the two sides exchanged fire...more than likely a Fatah vs Hamas skirmish...that we all should be more than used to at this point. In no way, shape or form did they attack the school. Period.

Then they go on to say:

"Muslim extremists in long white robes attacked a children's festival at a U.N.-run elementary school with guns and homemade bombs Sunday"

Attacked the children's festival huh? Those kids must have put up one hell of a fight if none of them died when they were attacked.

I am also trying to figure out why thier long white robes mattered so much?

7960 · 05-07-2007, 03:49 AM

I'll follow your lead and only post like you in this thread.

Originally Posted by Donkey®

They did not wake up this morning and say "we are going to attack a school today" ....

Link to what they thought when they woke up this morning?

Donkey® · 05-07-2007, 04:26 AM

Originally Posted by 7960

I'll follow your lead and only post like you in this thread.

Link to what they thought when they woke up this morning?

Worthless as usual.

7960 · 05-07-2007, 04:28 AM

Originally Posted by Donkey®

Worthless as usual.

having THIS shit to model from what do you expect?

...........still waiting for a link to what they thought when they woke up that morning

Donkey® · 05-07-2007, 04:29 AM

Originally Posted by 7960

having THIS shit to model from what do you expect?

...........still waiting for a link to what they thought when they woke up that morning

Still awaiting a link to show they attacked a school.

7960 · 05-07-2007, 04:33 AM

Originally Posted by Donkey®

Still awaiting a link to show they attacked a school.

you already posted it

....... (it) began with a protest ... At one point, the group tried to enter the school. Palestinian security fired in the air to keep them away. In the ensuing chaos, at least one bomb was thrown into the school, and a gun battle followed.

Sounds to me like they were protesting, weren't getting whatever it was they wanted, tried to force their way in the school and when they couldn't they threw a bomb in.

If that's not an attack what is?

Donkey® · 05-07-2007, 04:39 AM

Originally Posted by 7960

you already posted it

....... (it) began with a protest ... At one point, the group tried to enter the school. Palestinian security fired in the air to keep them away. In the ensuing chaos, at least one bomb was thrown into the school, and a gun battle followed.

Sounds to me like they were protesting, weren't getting whatever it was they wanted, tried to force their way in the school and when they couldn't they threw a bomb in.

If that's not an attack what is?

They did not attack the school. They attacked some people standing outside a school...and they were provoked by the police into doing that much. Who's to say the "bomb" wasn't a police stun grenade while trying to disperse these "extremists?" I'd love to see what this "bomb" looked like? Was it round and black with a fuse on the end of it like some wile e coyote shit? People carrying bombs around sounds retarded in itself.

7960 · 05-07-2007, 04:41 AM

Originally Posted by Donkey®

They did not attack the school.

Yes they did.

They attacked some people standing outside a school...and they were provoked by the police into doing that much. Who's to say the "bomb" wasn't a police stun grenade while trying to disperse these "extremists?" I'd love to see what this "bomb" looked like? Was it round and black with a fuse on the end of it like some wile e coyote shit? People carrying bombs around sounds retarded in itself.

you are incredible...........

hey, but then again whose to say the "police" who shot into the air weren't muslim extremists planted there to make it look like israeli were brutalizing muslims?

Donkey® · 05-07-2007, 04:44 AM

Originally Posted by 7960

Yes they did.

you are incredible...........

hey, but then again whose to say the "police" who shot into the air weren't muslim extremists planted there to make it look like israeli were brutalizing muslims?

These "police" were there to protect the Fatah politician who just so happened to be there and whose bodyguard just so happened to get killed. Sounds to me like he was quite possibly the target. But no...they attacked a school. Trying to kill all those kids. That's how they do.

7960 · 05-07-2007, 04:46 AM

Originally Posted by Donkey®

These "police" were there to protect the Fatah politician who just so happened to be there and whose bodyguard just so happened to get killed. Sounds to me like he was quite possibly the target. But no...they attacked a school. Trying to kill all those kids. That's how they do.

Did they throw a bomb in a school?

Then they attacked a school.

But then again the "police" were probably muslims planted by muslims to make israel look bad...I bet they were originally recruited as suicide bombers and were convinced this was a better way to serve allah.

........hey, making shit up on the fly like you is kind of fun!!

Donkey® · 05-07-2007, 04:48 AM

Originally Posted by 7960

Did they throw a bomb in a school?

Then they attacked a school.

Was the school the target of the attack? No it wasn't. Just like when Israel blows away a UN ambulance...it's "OK" because they weren't targeting the ambulance.

7960 · 05-07-2007, 04:49 AM

Originally Posted by Donkey®

Was the school the target of the attack? No it wasn't. Just like when Israel blows away a UN ambulance...it's "OK" because they weren't targeting the ambulance.

I bet there wasn't even a school!

Donkey® · 05-07-2007, 04:50 AM

Originally Posted by 7960

I bet there wasn't even a school!

Well we already know they went in GUNZ BLAZIN to destroy the Children's Festival. The more dead kids in the attack, the better.

7960 · 05-07-2007, 04:53 AM

Originally Posted by Donkey®

Well we already know they went in GUNZ BLAZIN to destroy the Children's Festival. The more dead kids in the attack, the better.

If you can say there weren't really bombs or police then I can say there wasn't really a school, and I'm also beginning to question whether there is actually any land on the earth beyond our borders!!