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"Explosive" Ingredients Found Amidst Humanitarian Aid to Gaza

News Type: Event — Seeded on Tue Jan 15, 2008 5:09 AM EST
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Israel Airports Authority inspectors on Monday discovered two tons of dual-purpose fuel, which can be used to produce Kassam rockets, during a sample check of a humanitarian aid transport vehicle at the Kerem Shalom crossing from Israel into the Gaza Strip.

The Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) launched an investigation to determine the truck's origin and who was behind the transfer. Defense officials said that the incident was alarming and proved that Palestinian terrorists were trying to take advantage of the "humanitarian route" into Gaza for terror purposes.

According to an IAA statement, the vehicle was stopped due to the inspectors' alertness and before it crossed into the Gaza Strip.

The IAA added that this was the second time within a week that its inspectors had discovered a dual-purpose substance on its way to the Palestinian Authority under the cover of humanitarian aid shipments to Gaza.

According to Israel radio, the fertilizer was hidden among bags of flour.

Think twice the next time you read a piece critical of Israel for having the audacity to set up checkpoints around Gaza to check humanitarian aid coming in.

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{"commentId":1364431,"authorDomain":"silkmesh"}
Babel Fish

interesting

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Reply#1 - Tue Jan 15, 2008 5:38 AM EST
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rob from oakland, ca.Deleted
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mareagan

this is crazy, you know i learn something everyday. I read about stuff like this in the history books. smuggling...rockets. This sounds a lot like a war. crazy.

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Reply#3 - Tue Jan 15, 2008 8:29 AM EST
{"commentId":1365556,"authorDomain":"justregularrobert"}
rob from oakland, ca.Deleted
{"commentId":1417196,"authorDomain":"phree"}
phree

Ignorance is much more of a real threat.

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    #3.2 - Wed Jan 30, 2008 10:30 AM EST
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    {"commentId":1364671,"authorDomain":"insert"}
    insert_name_here

    *Gasp* Palestinian terrorists? No! It's gotta be a figment of the ZioNazi World Conspiracy...

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    Reply#4 - Tue Jan 15, 2008 8:32 AM EST
    {"commentId":1417209,"authorDomain":"phree"}
    phree

    Of course there is Palestinian terrorists. There are terrorists in EVERY race and in every country.

    And if somebody attacked YOU and YOU decided to fight back...then you would also be called a terrorist.

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      #4.1 - Wed Jan 30, 2008 10:31 AM EST
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      {"commentId":1365416,"authorDomain":"krishna109"}
      krishna-167929

      Actually there have been instances where the IDF discovered the Palis actuallyusing ambulances to smuggle explosives!

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      Reply#5 - Tue Jan 15, 2008 12:18 PM EST
      {"commentId":1365435,"authorDomain":"krishna109"}
      krishna-167929

      I just remembered that I had seen a video about that-- I just searched for it-- here it is- Palestinian ambulance used to smuggle terrorist bomb belt

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      Reply#6 - Tue Jan 15, 2008 12:23 PM EST
      {"commentId":1365760,"authorDomain":"insert"}
      insert_name_here

      The video's fake. The Radical Racist Republican Zionist (R3Z) media created that video. In total, the Jews have eaten 800 million babies since they killed Christ. We must overturn Israel! The revolution is the message, not the man!

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      • 1 vote
      #6.1 - Tue Jan 15, 2008 1:47 PM EST
      {"commentId":1367850,"authorDomain":"krishna109"}
      krishna-167929
      The video's fake. The Radical Racist Republican Zionist (R3Z) media created that video. In total, the Jews have eaten 800 million babies since they killed Christ. We must overturn Israel! The revolution is the message, not the man!

      You forgot to mention ''Class Whores''... ;-]

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      #6.2 - Wed Jan 16, 2008 12:26 AM EST
      {"commentId":1367877,"authorDomain":"insert"}
      insert_name_here
      You forgot to mention ''Class Whores''... ;-]

      Haha :D

      And I also forgot "Right-wing" (Racist Right-wing Republicans) and Bush-ite.

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      #6.3 - Wed Jan 16, 2008 12:47 AM EST
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      {"commentId":1365789,"authorDomain":"mareagan"}
      mareagan

      both sides kill. definately an unhealthy situation; but which situations aren't unhealthy in such a divided explosive region. taking sides is useless. both sides kill.

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        Reply#7 - Tue Jan 15, 2008 1:54 PM EST
        {"commentId":1366149,"authorDomain":"yaakov"}
        Yaakov
        taking sides is useless. both sides kill.

        So in other words, in your opinion, Hamas firing missiles at civilian areas and homes, hoping to inflict as much damage as possible and kill as many people as possible, including children in kindergarten and elementary schools and public markets, has the same moral equivalence to Israel targeting the people behind these attacks, while the terrorists are deliberately using civilians as shields, and taking care to inflict as little damage as possible on civilians? Since the actions of both sides result in people dying, taking sides is useless?

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        #7.1 - Tue Jan 15, 2008 3:33 PM EST
        {"commentId":1367692,"authorDomain":"justregularrobert"}
        rob from oakland, ca.Deleted
        {"commentId":1367855,"authorDomain":"krishna109"}
        krishna-167929
        both sides kill. definately an unhealthy situation; but which situations aren't unhealthy in such a divided explosive region. taking sides is useless. both sides kill.

        Of course the same could be said about the Nazis and the Allies during WWII . . .

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        #7.3 - Wed Jan 16, 2008 12:29 AM EST
        {"commentId":1368460,"authorDomain":"yaakov"}
        Yaakov

        rob - Talk to the old-timers. They'll vouch for me. (I was a beta user, back from January 2006, I run the Israel Talk group. Not as active now as I used to be, but I drop in a few times a month).

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        • 1 vote
        #7.4 - Wed Jan 16, 2008 9:11 AM EST
        {"commentId":1369376,"authorDomain":"justregularrobert"}
        rob from oakland, ca.Deleted
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        {"commentId":1366977,"authorDomain":"freejason"}
        Free Jason

        Which side has killed more civilians?

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        • 1 vote
        Reply#8 - Tue Jan 15, 2008 7:25 PM EST
        {"commentId":1367698,"authorDomain":"justregularrobert"}
        rob from oakland, ca.Deleted
        {"commentId":1369159,"authorDomain":"mareagan"}
        mareagan

        taking sides is still useless. pairing off in two distinct groups only widens the gap and increases the hate. it does nothing to discuss solutions or diplomacy.

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          Reply#10 - Wed Jan 16, 2008 12:01 PM EST
          {"commentId":1369382,"authorDomain":"justregularrobert"}
          rob from oakland, ca.Deleted
          {"commentId":1369465,"authorDomain":"yaakov"}
          Yaakov

          mareagan - So instead of responding to my comment above (#7.1) you just repeat yourself down here? Anything productive to add or respond?

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          • 2 votes
          #10.2 - Wed Jan 16, 2008 1:07 PM EST
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          {"commentId":1416063,"authorDomain":"phree"}
          phree

          It's terrible that you guys believe Jerusalem Post, the single LARGEST propaganda machine that side of the Pacific.

          (Phree<< Shakes head)

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          • 1 vote
          Reply#11 - Tue Jan 29, 2008 11:48 PM EST
          {"commentId":1416111,"authorDomain":"insert"}
          insert_name_here

          Free press in Israel vs. non-free press in Qatar (Al-Jazeera)

          Which is propaganda?

          (Source: Freedom House. You're gonna have to deal with some frames, but they rate Israel as "free" and Qatar as "non-free.)

          {"commentId":1416111,"threadId":"203154","contentId":"1228148","authorDomain":"insert"}
            #11.1 - Wed Jan 30, 2008 12:07 AM EST
            {"commentId":1416365,"authorDomain":"freejason"}
            Free Jason

            Its all propaganda, because everyone does it. Good journalists and bad, in Israel, Palestine, Qater, Russia, China, and yes, even the United States. No one in the media wants you to see truth. In America for example, we never see the aftermath of US attacks, only suicide attacks. We never see the bodies of fallen soldiers, the coffins coming back in commercial jet luggage storage...

            War will never end until people realize the true cost of war. Then it will be gone, but only until people's memory fades...usually about 20 to 25 years.

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            • 1 vote
            #11.2 - Wed Jan 30, 2008 3:22 AM EST
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