The Palestinians prove their "peaceful" intentions yet again:
Israeli soldiers remove a rope installation used by two Palestinians who climbed over Israel's border fence and were killed by Israeli soldiers, near the village of Netiv Haasara, south of Israel August 25, 2007. The two Palestinian gunmen who climbed over Israel's border fence with the Gaza Strip on Saturday attacked a military base and made their way towards a civilian community before soldiers tracked them down and killed them. (Amir Cohen/Reuters)
The usual crocodile tears follow, of course. After all, it's not like these men's deaths are their own fault or anything... right?
A young Palestinian relative reacts next to the body of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine militant, Mohammed Saker, 22, not seen, during his funeral in his family house at the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahiya, Saturday, Aug. 25, 2007. Two Palestinian militants infiltrated Israel from the Gaza Strip early Saturday, attacking an Israeli military position before soldiers tracked them down and killed them, Israeli officials said. The incident raised the death toll to eight Palestinians in less than 24 hours of Israeli-Palestinian violence. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
(AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
(AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa (GAZA)
REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa (GAZA)
REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa (GAZA)
In case you haven't figured it out already, this is all an act (link pending). Keep that in mind whenever you run into these faux-heartbreaks in your morning paper.
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Why the press of the world can't see through such primitive, mindless peer-pressure tactics is sickening.