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Israeli Border Police Shoot US Student's Laptop
zerothink writes "American student Lily Sussman, 21, upon entry into Israel from Taba (Egypt, Sinai) caught Israeli border police in grumpy mood — after two hours of questions and searching through her belongings they decided to put three bullets through her laptop. Explanation? 'I'm sorry but we had to blow up your laptop.' Haaretz also covered the story." All three bullets missed the hard disk.
who cares? I would rather have terrorists blowing up trains, planes and automobiles than live in a fucking police state.
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On the plus side, that one less Mac-product floating around.. :D
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It always makes sense to shoot a MacBook.
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You too are conveniently forgetting that the Palestinians and the Arab world rejected the UN partition plan, and decided to take the land by force. They failed, and Israel is not obligated to give back the land it acquired in a rightful act of self-defense.
That's ridiculous. And in fact the details the grandparent stated really give the big picture here, since I was also wondering why the heck would the police shoot a laptop ... 3 times. Now I understand what's going on. Fascism has got these kind of attitudes.
Well, at least they didn't shoot the owner of the laptop ... I guess she was the wrong colour and nationality for them to just don't care about the consequences of shooting an innocent ... this time.
Waah waah waah... She is obviously a troublemaker and she was identified as one. Moreover, they are going to send her a cheque.
I defy her, you or anyone to start mouthing off at an Egyptian or Iranian airport and see where you end up. It won't be in a queue filling out paperwork.
Personally, I think getting my laptop blown to shit would be a great story, and luckily I have a backup of its contents. The anti-Israel hysteria here is appalling.
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So, if I collect enough red flags do I get my laptop blown up as well in this so-called Western-civilized state ?
And if I was a real terrorist, would it be in my best interest to collect enough red flags ?
No, the luxury of my place is that freedom of speech and human rights are still respected. Where there is no policing of people's opinions and private pictures. A place where I can be a full citizen regardless of my race. That I can express even unpopular opinions without immediately being seen as a murderous lunatic.
But that's not a luxury, that is a vital component of a free society, which Israel is obviously not.
But hey, very courageous of you to bash the powerless victim. Obviously the "snooty little cunt" had it coming to her, eh? I mean, her opinions *could* be construed as unpopular after all. And she *did* have MacBook, kind of snobby.
But don't worry, I won't be traveling to Israel. You will remain physically safe from my opinions. And I will remain safe both from random explosions and heavily armed police thinking I may actually *want* to cause explosions.
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The gist of your argument is that this woman is a terrorist. You have no proof or basis for saying this except for the fact that she was an Arab. Please grow up.
"generally well applied." They are racist and unevenly applied. Look at this situation. The airport security folk were on the warpath because this woman was Arab and had traveled to an Arab nation. You can justify racial profiling, but don't pretend that it's fair. If the leaflets with all the info at embassies and airlines said: "Don't visit Israel as an Arab" then you'd have a point. Otherwise, it sounds like you have no idea what you're talking about.
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Sounds like a fair response to a country that is founded on a religious (bullshit) principle that they can steal it from their inhabitants because their Big Juju (Allah) has given it to them And it’s even a fairer response that they had waited half a century before proclaiming that death warrant on their invadors
Every once in a while throughout History, people get pissed-off enough at the jews so they try to exterminate them. The common point in there is the jews who get their head inflated by their mindboggingly stupid religion and act like total assholes, pissing-off everyone else in the process.
It’s really time to implement the real final solution: have the jews dump their fucking religion; teaching children that crap should be totally prohibited so in 2 generations, there will be no significant number of jews left.
No one laments the loss of the sumerians, well, no one will lament the loss of the jews, and they, themselves will finally be able to live the lives of normal people without facing the prospect of their extermination.
Can’t be done? Sure it can. The french have ditched their mindboggingly stupid religion when it was clear that it brought them only misery. If the french have done it, surely the jews can do it too.
It does take 2 to tango though...
No it doesn't. It only takes one person to put a gun to the other ones head.
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
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At the time the jewish people had no military, they had no country...they did have a lot of holocaust refugees, and a few groups who fought against the germans.
Ask any israeli if they would want their military removed and to live in peace and they will all say yes. They would prefer their taxes go to the economy not the military. They would prefer to live without fear of getting blown up. THe terrorists are the muslim extremists - get them to behave and people will live happily. The muslims can then continue on their secondary mission - breed out the jews.
I do not support "The Man". I also do not support your irrational stupidity
As a result, Jewish terrorists frequently attached the British authorities in Palestine. When an exhausted Britain pulled out of Palestine
That what some former Etzel members like to claim. The Arabs, who had their own axe to grind with the Brits, of course claim that they drove the British out and that the Jews were British accomplices. In this case, I'm afraid that the Arabs are right. The Jewish resistance against the British was puny in comparison to the Arabs'.
the Jewish terrorists became militias that massacred and expelled Palestinians. These groups then went on to declare the existence of the state of Israel.
And that's what happens if you get all of your information from jewwatch. Actually, what happened is that the UN approved a plan that divided the land between the Jews and Arabs, the Jews agreed, but the Arabs decided to start a war and try and get all of the land to themselves. During that war, there were massacres and attempts of ethnic cleansing on both sides, but the Israelis had the nerve to win.
This is despite the fact that it was founded on racially motivated genocide against Palestinians
When did Israel ever engage in a systematic attempt to kill all Palestinians? And if they did, don't you think they'd be done by now?
You must think that throwing around words like "genocide" and comparing Israelis to the Nazis makes your point stronger, but it just makes you look like a hysterical moron.
I'm just going to quote a previous comment of mine, with only a few minor corrections. Seems it will be sufficient to prevent people from being misled by your selective and short memory:
short historical recap: The land of Israel has been the homeland of the people of Israel (nowadays known as Jews) for about 3300 years. The Israelis had independence in the countery for almost 1000 years. The temple, the worldwide center of God worship, stood on the temple mount for a total of 830 years. There has been Israelis living in the land of Israel for over 3280 years, icluding the past 2 millenia, with only a single break caused by the Babilonian exile that lasted 50 years. Hardly anyone lived there there in the 19th century. Then suddenly there's an increasing movement of Israelis and Arabs into the country, Arabs at higher numbers than Israelis so that by 1948 the Arabs in the country outnumber the Israelis 2 to 1 (in spite of the racist ""White Book" that restricted the Israeli's return to their homeland). The Israelis mainly kept to themselves, but the Arabs attacked Israeli towns during their rebellion against the French in ~1921, and performed pogroms against the Israelis in many areas in the country in 1929, including Jaffe, Hebron, and Jerusalem. The Israelis established a self-defence organization called Hagana (which literally means "defense"). A group broke off called Etzel (which is an acronym for "Nation Military Organization") and a group broke off those called Lechi (acronym for "Warriors of the Liberty of Israel"). The Hagana only did self defence, but the Etzel and Lechi also retaliated and in some cases took the initiative in the hoatilities. in 1936 the Arabs rebelled against the British but have also targeted the Israelis until 1939, when the rebellion was quelched. in 1947 the UN decided to partition the western bank of Israel between the Arabs and the Israelis. Hostilities continued. Months later Israel declared independence, and two days later was attacked by 7 Arab countries, only 4 of which share borders with the state of Israel. Syria, Jordan, and Egypt absorbed the lands the UN allocated to the "Arab Country", a country which has never existed in the first place. The PLO was formed in 1964, and it's foundation was the first time anyone claimed the existence of a Palestinian nation.
And an Ironic historical anecdote: Falastin is an Arab mispronunciation of the Hebrew word Plashet, which in English means "Invader".
But I guess no one cares. Supporting the Invaders, whatever their identity and claims, is alway good when the people they are assaulting are Israeli.
and here i thought they were some kind of westernized democratic nation that we support with billions of dollars and oil drums of our own kids' blood.
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um,, they SHOT her laptop. what f-ing circumstance warrants that? pure spite in any possible scenario. maybe she pissed them off, flaunted their authority, called them names that hit a nerve, but whatever she did, the bullets in the laptop is the signature of a thug. not an isolated instance of thuggery coming from the IDF i might add.
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