Global Outcry As Egyptian Troops Open Fire On Palestinian Crowd, Wound 60
by Omri Ceren
Just kidding, obviously. Every country on the planet is allowed to open fire on a mob rushing at its border:
About 60 people were hurt, including one woman who was hit by gunfire, as Egyptian border guards fired in the air and used clubs and water cannons to drive back hundreds of Palestinian women who surged across the border from Gaza Tuesday. The protesting Palestinians were demanding that Egypt back their demands for the border to be opened for shipments of food and essential provisions, in short supply due to Israel’s closure of its borders with the Strip.
Well, every country on the planet except Israel. Just imagine the propaganda that Reuters and AP stringers would produce after Israeli troops dealt similarly with similar mobs of Palestinian women. Actually, you don’t have to imagine.
[Cross-posted to Mere Rhetoric]
Tags: by Omri Ceren
January 26th, 2008 at 1:22 pm
The Egyptians were just talking to the Palestinians in the only language the Palestinians seem to understand.
Saying, “Please, don’t fire Qassam rockets at school children” doesn’t work. Killing a few hundred of the buggers every time they do it, though, just might get through to them.
January 26th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
If any criticism were to be forthcoming, I’m certain that it would be Israel which would be blamed for this and not Egypt.
January 26th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
The average Egyptian makes 5 or 6 hundred dollars per year Everything is subsidized, I was watching those poor starving Palis coming home from a shopping spree to Their version of Walmart. Most had HD Plasma TV’s and other such necessities of life.