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Israeli Troops Who Relied On Waze Blundered Into Deadly Palestinian Firefight (washingtonpost.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Israeli forces mounted a rescue mission in a Palestinian neighborhood after gun battles erupted when two soldiers mistakenly entered the area because of an error on a satellite navigation app, Israeli authorities said Tuesday.The clashes late Monday in the Qalandiya refugee camp outside Jerusalem left at least one Palestinian dead and 10 injured, one seriously. According to initial Israeli reports, the two soldiers said they had been using Waze, a highly touted Israeli-invented navigation app bought more than two years ago by Google. The smartphone app, which has a settings option to 'avoid dangerous areas,' relies on crowdsourcing to give users the fastest traffic routes.
Maybe 8 people *did* report it as being a hazard..... but then 23 muggers reported it as perfectly safe.
Since we are talking about Israel, you can replace "two soldiers" with "two 18 year old kids".
In most countries, kids graduate high school and start getting drunk and laid in college. In Israel kids finish high school and start their military service. And this is for both genders.
Isn't this like a police officer reporting that waze failed to warn him about his speed trap before he set it up and gave out four tickets?
How exactly was a navigation app supposed to warn the soldiers an area was dangerous when the only thing that made it dangerous was two soldiers walking into a peaceful neighborhood then subsequently shooting it up, killing a person and injuring 10 others. Or are they really suggesting they walked into a pack of heavily armed dangerous Palestinians who unexpectedly opened fire on them, all missing with every surprise shot, with the result of them walking away chuckling and talking about a smartphone app leaving a trail of bodies behind because they are just that damn good.
Have they ever considered the possibility that Google is okay with people of both sides of their holy war using the app and considers an area safe until someone on either side reports a couple murderous militant assholes shooting someone who prays to wrong flavor of the same sky fairy?
Its an excuse. A couple of soldiers went rogue and shot up a Palestinian refugee camp, and the IDF needs a cover story.
You don't know much about the HISTORY behind those occupied territories, do you? They're occupied strictly because of the wanton belligerence of every single arab nation around Israel for the last 70 years. They're occupied because as it stands now, if they were NOT, they would most probably fall into ISIS.
Also, YOU may think Israel has a right to exist, but try to open a book from a palestinian elementary school, and see where THAT gets you, jackass.
Loved that "try coming uninvited into my house" bit, btw. Real redneck stuff right there. You're a great american. Stand Your Ground and all that shit. MURICA!!!