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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.
In case you haven't yet read the background on this incident:
These guys were wearing regular civilian clothes and in a civilian vehicle and were passing through a Palestinian neighborhood. The locals really didn't take kindly to jews passing through their turf, so they surrounded the vehicle and began throwing everything from stones to molotov cocktails at it. In other words, an unprovoked assault. One of them had a cell phone and called for help. Standard Israeli response to this situation is to overwhelm in order to extract safely so that nobody gets held for ransom.
A bunch of baboons got hurt, and one got killed. Meanwhile you are siding with the baboons.
My family were twice kicked out of their homes because of greedy zionists out of Palestine. The comparison is more like the colonists of early America killing and evicting Native Americans. Luckily there are brave Jewish people like historian Ilan Pape that covered this in detail: http://www.amazon.com/Ethnic-C... Wake up and smell the facts.